Wedding Cheesecake Auto

Greetings grow family! We're happy to be starting our next grow after taking a few months off. It's been a crazy, unprecedented year, for many reasons. Looking to the future, we hope that you'll join us as we work to cultivate a sense of hope... for a happy harvest! 😊 We are growing "Wedding Cheesecake Auto", by FastBuds. These seeds were free from FastBuds as part of our prize package for our "Dark Devil auto" diary taking 6th Place in the March 2020 "Diary of the Month" contest. A shout out to FastBuds for that! Check back soon for more! ✌️🌱💚🌱✌️ Soil Mix: 30% Fox Farms Ocean Forest 30% Fox Farms Happy Frog 15% Black Gold Seedling Mix 15% Coarse Perlite Worm Castings - 3/4 cup per 5 gallon pot NPK RAW Grow Microbes - 1 tsp per 5 gallon pot Germination Day 1: - soaked 3 seeds in distilled water for 12hrs - transferred to damp paper towel on a plate, which was placed on a heat mat set to 28C. Germination Day 2: - One seed cracked, barely showing tap root - Mixed soil. Wet a sample with ph 7.0 water and inserted soil pH probe. Will leave for 12 to 24 hrs to monitor levels. - Cleaned out, vacuumed, wiped down & disinfected our 2x4 grow tent. Checked all supports, hangers & clips, test ran exhaust fan, test ran grow light, checked all power cord connections. Generally just giving the whole system a good once over to ensure everything is functioning as expected after 3 months of inactivity. Germination Day 3: - All three seeds have sprouted in the paper towel. One seed had almost 1" of tap root, while another had barely an 8th of an inch. - We planted each seed into a 5 gallon fabric pot and each hole we made for the seed was sprinkled with "NPK RAW Microbes" before placing each seed and watering lightly with distilled water. We placed plastic humidity domes on each pot. - Soil pH readings from our probe tester leveled out at a pH of about 6.7. - The 3 pots were placed in our 2ft x 4ft x 6ft tent. We've got our two Sunblaster 6400K LED strip lights hanging down low and our HLG "Elite 360" light fixture up high, at about 40". The "Elite 360" fixture is the pre-built fixture which contains two 180w QB96 Elite V2 LED boards. It also has a built-in bluetooth controller, allowing us to control the light intensity via a "Meshtek" app. - For now, we only have 1 of the Sunblaster strips turned on, to help keep the temperature at about 80F inside the humidity domes. - We have our AC Infinity Cloudline T6 exhaust fan set to run on its lowest setting whenever the temp reaches 81F. We have 2 temperature probes in the tent, one just below the Elite 360 light fixture and one just above the soil of one of the pots. Germination Day 4 / (Day 1): - "Seed 1" has popped through the soil! That means we're going to officially call it: Day 1! 🌱 Day 2: - All three seeds are now showing through soil. - Turned on the 2nd Sunblaster LED strip light, raised both strip lights up, to about 18" above plants - RH inside of the humidity domes is between 75% - 82%. Outside of the humidity domes, RH is about 55% - 60%. Day 3: - RH inside the humidity domes dropped to 58%. Lightly misted the top of the soil around each seedling with distilled water, to bring RH back up to 75%-80%. Over the next couple of days, we will reduce the RH and will remove the humidity domes by around Day 6 or Day 7. - Turned on our 6" circulating fan at the top of the tent. The humidity domes currently protect the seedlings from direct breeze but we will start to "harden" them after the first week, by allowing them exposure to a gentle breeze, which helps strengthen the stem. Day 4: - today we removed the humidity domes for 4hrs - with the domes on, the light levels the seedlings were getting was around 6-7k LUX. With the humidity domes off, that jumped to 12k LUX so we'll have to keep a close eye on these tender girls during this first week, when they're not under their dome protection. - added humidifier, set on 'low'. - RH: 68-75% - Temp: 77-82F Day 5: - removed humidity domes for 8hrs - Watered very, very lightly, giving each seedling only about 100ml of distilled water. Today is the last day we'll be using distilled water, moving to tap water instead, which we dechlorinate through the process of aeration, as well as adjusting the pH as needed. No plans to feed until maybe late week 3, possibly week 4, depending on how things shape up. Day 6: - removed humidity domes permanently. - increased light intensity from 6k LUX to 11k LUX for 24hrs Day 7: - We made it through the first week without too many issues. We had a minor issue with heat yesterday, where the exhaust fan settings were accidentally changed and the tent reached 84F for about 4hrs. No harm done, so far as we can tell. - RH: fluctuates between 58%-75% - Temp: normally between 74F-79F - Next week we're going to make a few changes, including changing the layout of our Sunblaster LED's, as well as adding a 3rd 2ft fixture, a Sunblaster 6400K T5HO fluorescent, which we hope will level out our light levels from plant to plant. We'll also be switching from 24/0 light cycle, to 20/4.