Fem Autos from Mosca Seeds. Frosted Watermelon and Blue Hindu!
Making sure the ratios are correct! 75/25 coco perlite mix along with a 60/40 ratio mix of Down to Earth All Purpose 4-6-2 fertilizer and Dr Earth Bud and Bloom Booster
All mixed up and ready for seeds!
Fem Autos from Mosca Seeds. Frosted Watermelon and Blue Hindu!
Making sure the ratios are correct! 75/25 coco perlite mix along with a 60/40 ratio mix of Down to Earth All Purpose 4-6-2 fertilizer and Dr Earth Bud and Bloom Booster
Week 1: 10/27 - 11/02
Day 1 - Planted both directly in the coco. Gave each 45mL of room temp tap water which has a natural pH of 6.5 and 175ppm. Sprayed the inside of each dome and placed on top. Both were put under the light around 2:30pm and they be under the same 18/6 light schedule their entire lives due to the two blue dream photo periods I currently have vegging.
Day 2 - Today was transplant day for my Blue Dream photos and I ended up making a little too much coco/perlite mix. I decided to do a little experiment as this is my first autoflower grow and want to see the difference between the yield from a 3 gal pot vs a 1 gal pot along with using only my photoperiod nutrient mix. There's no Bloom Booster mixed into this initial pot of coco. I'll add it in with top dressing down the road, but for now I'm curious to see how this will turn out. I decided to go the paper towel method on this Cheese-Sus Christ autoflower from Mosca Seeds. My plan for this plant is to handle it like a photoperiod. I'm going to be transplanting, LST, and topping as she grows up. I'm very curious to see the difference between this method vs direct in substrate plants. While the seed is germinating in my dark closet, I saturated the 1 gal pot with my cell pot inserted in the middle. I'm doing this to create a mold in order for transplanting to be smoother. The area underneath the two humidity domes are still wet from yesterday. It's been 24h and I'm honestly surprised to see it still damp with each of them only getting 45mL. - PM update - Came back later tonight and it was dry enough for each to get another 15mL.
Day 3 - Cheese-Sus Christ has already germinated! Roughly 18h after placing the seed in the paper towel, I decided to took a peek in the AM and I could see the shell cracked just the tiniest amount with the tip of the root sticking through. 9h later and we have around 3/8" of root sticking out. I'll be planting this first thing tomorrow morning. I can tell she's going to be booming in no time! Gave the other two another 15mL and swapped out the humidity domes for an old clear drip tray. I'm thinking something thinner on top will help the water evaporate a little bit faster.
Day 4 - 9AM went to check the Cheese-Sus Christ seed and the root quadrupled in size overnight! Planted that baby right away. Still no signs from FW or BH but still hopeful. This is my first attempt at germinating directly in the medium vs the paper towel method. So far paper towel has been 100% success rate for me but I keep seeing people go direct and wanted to give it a try. 3PM update - Looks like Frosted Watermelon has germinated and is juuuuuuuuust starting to poke through the coco!! I'll get a picture posted later tonight when I do my picture rounds. Looking at you Blue Hindu >.> 11PM update - FW has her first leaves showin! Still looking at you Blue Hindu >.>
Day 5 - All it took was a little bit of shaming to make BH poke her beautiful head out of the coco. CSC is also in the process of popping and will have her first set of leaves out by tonight! We have 3 for 3 germination rate! Watered FW and BH with 25mL each. Hit CSC with 15mL.
Day 6 - Watered all in the morning - 30mL
Day 7 - They're thirsty! Upped all 3 to 45mL in the morning.