This grow is all about early returns while waiting for my photos to finish in the fall. I'm starting these girls a bit early for a Mid-Western outdoor grow and will really be putting Nirvana's claim of this being a resistant strain that can handle hot/cold swings to the test.
The plan is to start them inside for their first few weeks and finish them off outdoors. I'm also staggering my grow by starting with one seed, starting 2 more 2 weeks later and starting the last 2 two weeks after that. That way I can still get early returns and the ones I start later will get at least a little longer days.
This is also going to be my first grow using Nature's Living Soil. I've always used the General Hydroponics Flora Trio in the past but if I like how this performs I might try composting my own living/supersoils for my outdoor grows in the future. The bottom 1/3 of my pots is a mixture of the living soil and regular potting soil with the rest topped off with potting mix, no extra amendments in the soil.
Starting in my final pot, 5gal fabric. After soaking the seed overnight I popped her in a Rapid Rooters plug and planted it. Topped it off with a classy soda bottle humidity dome and we're off to the races.
Temps might have been a bit low even inside, might have slowed germination a little. 6 days to show first serrated leaves. Will use a heating pad for the others if temps haven't improved.
**Critical failure on batch two. Forgot to add my insulating layer between my heat mat and propagation tray and "cooked" this batch. Oops lol started batch 3
***Glad to report that I didn't murder batch 3. Torn if I want to call these GSC 2 & 3 or GSC 4 & 5 in remembrance of the fallen.