gratefulredhead
Well-Known Member
Greetings, friends. I'll be documenting my second grow (first is in progress, but it has been, generally, a "learning experience") and certainly asking for your help and advice along the way.
Starting with four seeds and thinking these would be New Years babies - two White Widow X Crystal Meth and two Lambs Breath, both Autos. I'll start them inside, and when they are more established, likely move them outside in about a month or so to suck up the glorious Sonoran sun before it becomes a hellscape of 120 degrees F in the summer. It is like mars. perhaps worse.
Soaked for 18 hours in spring water. Another 24 or so in paper towels in between plates. Standard operating procedure.
All responded well with good tap root growth. One was sluggish, but I could see it splitting. Thought it would be fine. Planted them on January 2.
Since they are autos, I'm not planning on transplanting this time around. Using 2 gallon cloth containers. Filled mostly with Fox Farms Happy Frog supplemented with a bit more perlite (two or three scoops), but created a center of organic seed starter mix.
Watering with a spray bottle, water at 6.5 ph. A few days under CFLs and they all sprouted happily and searched for those CLFs. Kept them under a canopy for humidity.
Today, 1/7, I felt they were established enough to move to a new location under LEDs (at about 30 inches) without their covers. I do wonder if this is too soon?
Thanks in advance for following along and offering your advice and experience. Even with all the research, I'm sure I'll have a ton of questions. I've appreciated your help and communication quite a bit so far in my first attempt which resulted in more knowledge and community than ounces, but I'm more than cool with that.
Peace.
Starting with four seeds and thinking these would be New Years babies - two White Widow X Crystal Meth and two Lambs Breath, both Autos. I'll start them inside, and when they are more established, likely move them outside in about a month or so to suck up the glorious Sonoran sun before it becomes a hellscape of 120 degrees F in the summer. It is like mars. perhaps worse.
Soaked for 18 hours in spring water. Another 24 or so in paper towels in between plates. Standard operating procedure.
All responded well with good tap root growth. One was sluggish, but I could see it splitting. Thought it would be fine. Planted them on January 2.
Since they are autos, I'm not planning on transplanting this time around. Using 2 gallon cloth containers. Filled mostly with Fox Farms Happy Frog supplemented with a bit more perlite (two or three scoops), but created a center of organic seed starter mix.
Watering with a spray bottle, water at 6.5 ph. A few days under CFLs and they all sprouted happily and searched for those CLFs. Kept them under a canopy for humidity.
Today, 1/7, I felt they were established enough to move to a new location under LEDs (at about 30 inches) without their covers. I do wonder if this is too soon?
Thanks in advance for following along and offering your advice and experience. Even with all the research, I'm sure I'll have a ton of questions. I've appreciated your help and communication quite a bit so far in my first attempt which resulted in more knowledge and community than ounces, but I'm more than cool with that.
Peace.