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Feeding: hydro 10ml (1/4 of recommended dose from Green House Feeding Hybrids). ; Height: 8.5cm. Problem: stretching. Positive: long root at the bottom of the plug is tapping into the brown water which came out of the plug. I am worried about PPM because of osmosis. Need to test PPM of the runoff water at the bottom of the plastic bottle. PS PPM = 500-900. My guess was correct - the PPM was too high! I guess it may have caused serious stress to the plant because all its minerals would have escaped it and ran into the runoff, and it would try to eat but it would be extremely hungry because the minerals would have moved to the high PPM water. Is my logic right? I need help from a person who undertands hydroponics, please, write me some words of help in the comments. I WILL REMOVE THE RUNOFF WATER :open_mouth: because it is 900PPM, and I must do it after every watering if I don't want to see a yellow corpse!!! I have already raised one other plant in this way - using the plug for germination - and it kept alive for about 3 weeks (though it was too stressed and yellow as a seedling, and the harvest was 10 grams of buds outside. I watered the substrate in the trough with 1 liter of 6.1pH plain water at 27C (substrate temp: 25C). I watered because I found out that my sprout of legume has got sick + dying with some kind of rot on its stem, but perhaps it was the lack of water. The upper 3cm of soil are dry like paper. The worms cannot come back to the substrate after getting into this dry crust, and get trapped, though the reason I am so frugal with water is because I don't need fungus gnats which arrive if the upper layer is always wet. I have not seen a fungus gnat for many weeks, and if they come, I simply don't water until the top 3 cm of substrate get dry and dry up the parasites' larvae.

i wonder how the buds are going to survive at this destance from the lamp. Subscribed to your risky endeavour. :astonished:

Evening. First watering.:sob: The leaves are open. First hydroponic feeding: 0.3g + 120ml water - base solution (1/4 of the recommended dosage for young plants). So, I made 120ml of base solution, which has to be used like this (according to chatbot): ''Mix 1 mL of your stored fertilizer base solution + 9 mL water = gives 10 mL for seedlings. This is ratio (1 : 9) ''. I used 10ml for watering, i.e. I diluted the base solution 1:9 with distilled water. Fertilizer: Green House Feeding Hybrid. Air: 26C. Humidity: 63%. Substrate 26C. PS I mulched+tilted the soil 7cm deep. I am worried about my worms because they used to be abundant and visible, and now after 28C of hot temperature for a week they have disappeared, but I hope some are still alive to give offspring. PSS: the distance to the lamp was changed from 40 cm to 30cm. PSSS these electronic scales are terrible. I have doubts I weighed exactly the required weight because they are not sensitive and often the results jump up or down. Can you recommend a quality affordable model to weigh 0.026g with precision because I don't want to burn the babies.

Morning. After a night the leaves are +1 mm more open. Humidity: 65-70%. Air: 26C. Substrate: 27C. Height: 7.5cm. Problem: stretching :frowning: (perhaps caused by trying to get more light when the helmet was blocking the light). I could increase the % of light intensity, but I'm afraid the seed will not like it because it still doesn't have nutrients in the plug, only its own deposits from the seed.

Evening. 7.5 days after the seed was put in the jiffy peat plug. The rest of the helmet was removed because the leaves couldn't open. The problem was not the tight seed cap itself, but the seed membrane which glued itself to the false leaves. It was sitting on the ends of leaves keeping them pressed together. I used a needle and removed the membrane. The leaves have already opened by 2mm. What is the bro/scientific name for that cellophane film which resembles a tip of a sock? Inner seed cap? Inner membrane? I have not watered yet, but I will do it after the leaves open and get green. Chatbot told me the seed has a decent deposit of nutrients until the plant starts photosyhthesizing with its own leaves.PS the soil got watered with horsetail tea for silica (400ml + 1.5L water/pH 6.1). Substrate temperature: 27C. Air: 28C. Humidity: 70%. Good luck, my baby! :ok_hand:

167 hours after putting the seed in the plug. Morning. Yesterday I put a plank of oak on top of the seed's head, in hope to let the seed scrape its helmet off, but in the morning I saw the plant happily free from oak, but still wearing the cap. The seedling got longer by 2 cm from morning till this moment (4 hours!!!). ChatGPT told me this: ''get the helmet off ASAP, keep the plug moist but not soaking wet, and be ready to introduce a very light nutrient solution (pH-adjusted) once the cotyledon leaves are fully exposed and photosynthesizing. The seedling is stretching because it needs light now, but its leaves are blocked.'' I HAD TO REMOVE THE HELMET because it had been sitting on the false leaves (cotyledons) for many days, and ChatGPT screaming ''remove cap ASAP'', and because my other seeds before this run got yellow and lost vigour after some days in a stuck helmet, and later they did not die but also did not grow or produce harvest. My other seeds lost their vigour after some days and I got worried that my seed would get stuck and fail, so I decided not to lose the moment while the seed was still functional. The cap was rather hard to remove even after 1 day of 75% humidity. I did not remove the cap but left it stuck to one side of the seedling in hope that gradual changes are healthier than rapid.

133 hours after the seed was placed into a wet plug. The seed's head is rotating sideways. Every 20 mins it changes the helmet's position from left to right as if trying to find some obstacle which it can use to hook the cap and continue growing up thus unwrapping itself. I put the seed near the edge of that penetrated sheet of plastic cover, but the seed moved its head to another side and did not use the edge to scrap off its helmet. I think this is the 5-th day of stuck helmet/45% humidity :-( I will boil some water in the room to try and raise the humidity... It's going to be alive even if I remove the helmet forcefully (not today, but after a night), but I am simply a bit annoyed that things are a little risky. It is 2 hours before sunset.

why are you watering them with 6.6 pH? Do you prepare your water, or just take it from a tap? What is your substrate's pH?

I can see you have a mechanical humidity meter. is it reliable? Any problems with this device? PS I am just trying to go without batteries cause they always die when you don't expect, and the device dies with them, and becomes useless for a couple weeks until I find that damn battery.

mimimi, so cute :-)

Good morning, k0nz1 . This strain takes 15-22 weeks till harvest, and it is a lot of difference (almost 2 months!!!), and I would cut those bushes, but those people keep growing them in expectation to get more grams, so I would like to see its trichomas through a magnifying class to have an idea if it's getting ready. Take photo and have a good day.