48 hours from the time I placed into a wet paper towel, the shoots were ready to be transplanted.
I am using peat pucks as they are an easy to use medium that provides the shoot with everything it needs during the first few days.
I planted each seed all the way into the puck with the cotyledon just covered with peat.
Within 72 hours of the paper towel, these little ladies had pushed up well from the peat pucks and began showing roots out the bottom.
By 4 days from germ the seedling were ready for there first pot.
I used 100% pro mix soil for this step. I have used a coco mix at this stage before and find it makes it very hard on the young plant to get calcium.
Since the plants are only in these small pots for a week or two I now use straight up soil.
I made a soil conditioner mix of 1 ml per gall Molasses, 2 ml per gal Enzymes, and 2.5ml per gal Cal Mag.
I adjusted the ph to 6.7 and drenched the pots after I transplanted the peat pucks, until I had a small amount of runoff out the bottom.
My goal here is to try and activate the soil around the plant as soon as possible.
When I transplant into larger pots I will do the same thing in larger doses.
Since I began using simple Black Strap Molasses I have noticed a huge increase in the terpene and resin productions, as well as a much stronger odor from the plant.
I will be growing these plants using entirely under Led lighting which will be a first for me as I have been using HID.
For veg they are under a Spider Farmer SF-1000, for flower they will be going under a HLG 600r spec.
I got a new Flowering tent for these guys, a Mars Hydro 4x8. Boy is there a big difference in the quality of this new tent and the Vivosun tent I am using for Veg. The vivo sun does the trick but out of the box the Mars hydro is just so much beefier. The zippers are always a worry on tents and these seem to be pretty nice.
Awesome stuff but you still write veg when it's flowering (and damn good flowering) change the diary entry. Good luck I love this strain growing it as well.
Yeah exactly :)
Sometimes I like to throw it into flower right away when hunting for new phenos as it express its genes quicker than waiting for a long veg. I usually take a clone before I do this so that if it is what I am looking for I have a copy. This one is very dark purple in flower which I like. But hasn't had much smell yet. Hopefully that improves :)
Thanks for your interest @timbarin,
Hi there. If you read the entry for this week you will see I placed one of the red hots into flower as a seed to see if the red pheno would express. The rest of the plants and specifically the ones I am focusing on are all still in veg. @timbarin,
@DrDuhboto, most of the red phenos I have seen yield seems to be low but yours looks real good. Think I might have to buy a few seeds myself and try this strain. Good work palπ
Thanks so much ! It is by far the nicest plant I have ever grown. I germinated 6 seeds of which I chose the strongest 4 to grow. Only 1 turned completely red, the other had hints of red in the buds but nothing like the superstar one. I am re-vegging that plant and It will be in my garden for a long time I think. @Esoteric_growing,
Thanks !
With scrog I am finding it more and more important to make sure to clean up the scruffy branches early on. More air flow and energy going into the bigger buds on top.
It makes for some beautiful bonsai :)
@OrganicCannabisConnoisseur,