Strawberry Haze For Daze

🙌 A great first week! A pretty straight forward germination of our regular (call us old school) Strawberry Haze Freak by Connoisseur Genetics. 👌We popped four seeds (along with four Neville the G by Connoisseur Genetics, see our other diary) in 25° (77f) tap water. 👉We used a small vodka bottle snugged into a heating blanket with the temp probe attached to germinate over 24 hours. 💩Twice the heating blanket lost power for up to several hours; luckily ambient temperatures kept them growing. 👉We're doing everything we can to not shock the seeds with temperature fluctuations. This is true of the whole indoor grow. 👉Once most of the seeds show growth breaking through, hand pop the rest by squeezing gently on either side of the seam until it starts to come open just a little. Be careful not to squish the seed. 👉The seeds go into sterilised seedling punnets filled with Canna Coco. Sterilisation is extremely important with an indoor environment that's damp. Keep it clean and they'll grow mean. 👉We're keeping the environment between 21-25° with 100% humidity until the first two true leaves come up. Humidity can then drop to around 90%. 👉Indoor grows are expensive! We control costs by minimising the space that needs heating and cooling as much as possible; using an old propagation cover is one way. 👉Transplanting happens when all the babies are up and just starting to stretch. Re-potting with the stems slightly buried helps prevent over-stretching. 👉The new pots bring the seedlings 36" away from the GrowMax 600 HID, sitting pretty in it's XXXXX 👉So far no nutes have been added to the tap water, we're just ph-ing it to 6.0 and testing every time with a basic home dye kit. 🙌Well that's week one - not bad at all. Everything works, nothing died, no cats got in the grow room and the power bill is still manageable. Bring on week 2!