I will be trying my first hydro shallow water culture grow with Stress killer automatic CBD.
I've made my own DIY hydro bucket using a 10L paint bucket, a net pot and an air pump I got from Amazon.
For nutrients I will be using Terra Aquatica Tri-part with some additional Bio Bizz CalMag.
I've already put the seed in a RQS coco pellet that was soaked in plain tap water with a 5.9 PH.
Hoping for it to sprout in a few days. 👌
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4 days later now and she has popped up 👀
It was a difficult birth however. I noticed earlier that she was entangled in her own taproot and couldn't get up further, so I performed a c-section and helped her get out. Still keeping her in the humidity box for now and see if she will recover from all that stress, if she does, she'll move to the hydro bucket tomorrow.
Day 5 - She made it through the night and is standing taller now. Guess I'll prepare the hydro bucket for her arrival, later today 😁
- Prepped the bucket with 5.5L of water, the bottom of the net pot is just touching the water surface. Added very light doses of TA tri-part, some CalMag and Hydrogen peroxide and PH'ed the water to 5.7.
I dunked the coco pellet with the seedling in the water as well the hydrate the pellet one last time, but I guess the pellet will now be kept moist by the water bubbling below it?
I added just a small layer of clay pebbles in the bottom of the net pot, put the pellet on there and surrounded it with more pebbles as you can see in the pictures. I will add some more pebbles as she grows up to block the light some more from getting into the bucket itself, but right now the seedling is too small still to add more.
There's no sign of any true leaves yet, so I'm trying to keep light gentle for now, she is not directly under any light, but she's getting about 270 PPFD from the SF2000 light that is above my other plants in the tent.