Some light mania has me itching for projects. I have tiny pots, a bunch of free seeds and no space. Could I grow them by the window under a desk lamp? I might be able to tuck them into the tent if they actually grow for me. I want to try out some LST for cute bonsai-style trees. I鈥檓 not confident that I will have much success but this is purely a learning experiment. Let鈥檚 see how much I can abuse these autos 馃槄
- Sept 22 AM: Popped 3 Cookie Dog autoflower seeds into a glass of bottled spring water for a pre-soak of 14 hours.
- Sept 22 PM: Put the seeds into folded paper towel, ceramic plate, more bottled spring water, uncovered in warm room.
- Sept 23 AM: One seed has started to pop after only 10 hours!
- Sept 23 PM: The seeds have all cracked but haven鈥檛 grown tap roots yet. I planted the 3 seeds into various small pots to finish germinating in seeding mix instead so I would stop checking on them in the paper 馃檭
- Sept 24: nothing happening above ground. They are in the tent with lights 24/0 so I covered them with larger pots to give some darkness. Placed pots on a heating mat.
- Sept 25 AM: the 2 seeds in the smallest pots have emerged! The were touching the plastic wrap when I checked on them so I hope they are ok.
- Sept 27 PM: 1st seedling doing good, 2nd seedling still has her seed leaves closed so I鈥檓 misting her, and 3rd.. I accidentally flipped her pot over. She鈥檚 gone.
First Impressions:
Seeds germinated in soil after 36 hours, 72 hours from when I first left them to pre-soak and let the seeds crack in paper towel 24 hours.. that was 24-48 hours faster than the other test groups that used paper towel method until tap root formed and waiting for the germinated seed to emerge.. I might skip waiting for a tap root in paper towel going forward but I do like knowing the seed is viable before putting in soil so I know if it doesn鈥檛 grow it was something I did wrong.
End of week thoughts..
Well.. I fucked around with these seeds too much, exposed the roots to light, let them almost dry out, dropped them, had the temps too low, the heating mat too hot, kicked out over.. 馃槄馃槄 I didn鈥檛 really give them a chance and yet still somehow I got 2 contenders in pint sized pots 馃し鈥嶁檧锔弔he experiment continues..