Hi, and welcome to my new grow journal!
After two failed grows, I’m really hoping this one turns out better. I made some changes to my setup—most importantly, I moved my grow tent to a new location. I think the old spot wasn’t ideal, and I’m confident this adjustment will help me get stronger results this time.
This round, I’m running a Pineapple Upside Down Cake from Humboldt Seed Company.
The seed popped after just 48 hours directly in coco coir—super encouraging for what’s ahead.
For the start, I’m using a 1‑liter AirPot adapted to work with an AutoPot system. I’ll see how it performs before moving the plant to its final 15‑liter AutoPot setup.
For nutrients, I started simple: 2 ml/L of Voodoo Juice and brought the EC up to 0.4 using FormuleX, all in 0 EC reverse osmosis water. pH is dialed in at 5.8. Hopefully, this isn’t too much for such a young plant—we’ll find out soon enough.
The seedling is in a 70x70x160 cm Mars Hydro grow tent under an OpticLED GMax 300, currently set to blue spectrum only. I’m also keeping a humidity dome over the sprout to maintain high moisture levels around it.
The substrate is coco with a bit of clay pebbles and some perlite. I plan to increase the perlite ratio when transplanting into the 15‑liter pot later.
That’s it for now—we’ll call germination complete. I’ll post an update in a week once she’s been out of the coco for seven days.