Brian420pm
Well-Known Member
Fits And Starts!
3 weeks gone by, 2 batches of 5 seeds each never made it past an inch tall. The cause was me trying to reuse old media WITHOUT rinsing it out properly after the last grow.
UGH, beware of shortcuts, they often lead to dead-ends!
This was a good time to make the switch from perlite to pumice. There was one, eye-opening scene a couple grows back where I dumped some used coco/perlite in the garden. I was thinking mulch, something to build up around a tree where I feed corn, seed, etc. to local critters. It was a defining moment witnessing waves of plastic perlite pieces blowing around the yard!
I found Mother Earth Pumice at my local grow shop, rinsed and mixed with new and rinsed coco at one part perlite to two parts coco. The relevant difference between perlite and pumice is the former is buoyant which I think is a positive environment inside a grow pot, providing an upward pressure against gravity each feeding. With a non-buoyant media I assume the settling at the bottom will cause uneven density between the upper and lower areas of the pot. How much that affects a grow is an unanswered curiosity!
Since I now ruined my stock of Girl Scout Cookies (Nirvana Seeds) and Grand Daddy Purple (Capt. Red Beard Seeds), I went back to Super Silver Haze (Nirvana Seeds). SSH was my best yielding grow to date, looking to repeat!
SEEDLING (Day 3 from seed):
I think Nirvana has a secret sauce! They are already poking the tap root out the bottom and ready to transplant into solo, wow. So far I've used only distilled water, ph 7.0. I'll start using nutrients within a week.
Environment (temp/rh) is queen when it comes to growing variables. My goals are ~100% RH at germination, ~90% in the peat pods and ~80% in the solos, controlled by the cut holes in clear solo cups that cover each plant. 
All this leading to eventual 60% RH and 80F top leaf temp in the grow tent.
Back on track, off to the races, all that
3 weeks gone by, 2 batches of 5 seeds each never made it past an inch tall. The cause was me trying to reuse old media WITHOUT rinsing it out properly after the last grow.
UGH, beware of shortcuts, they often lead to dead-ends!
This was a good time to make the switch from perlite to pumice. There was one, eye-opening scene a couple grows back where I dumped some used coco/perlite in the garden. I was thinking mulch, something to build up around a tree where I feed corn, seed, etc. to local critters. It was a defining moment witnessing waves of plastic perlite pieces blowing around the yard!
I found Mother Earth Pumice at my local grow shop, rinsed and mixed with new and rinsed coco at one part perlite to two parts coco. The relevant difference between perlite and pumice is the former is buoyant which I think is a positive environment inside a grow pot, providing an upward pressure against gravity each feeding. With a non-buoyant media I assume the settling at the bottom will cause uneven density between the upper and lower areas of the pot. How much that affects a grow is an unanswered curiosity!
Since I now ruined my stock of Girl Scout Cookies (Nirvana Seeds) and Grand Daddy Purple (Capt. Red Beard Seeds), I went back to Super Silver Haze (Nirvana Seeds). SSH was my best yielding grow to date, looking to repeat!
SEEDLING (Day 3 from seed):
I think Nirvana has a secret sauce! They are already poking the tap root out the bottom and ready to transplant into solo, wow. So far I've used only distilled water, ph 7.0. I'll start using nutrients within a week.
All this leading to eventual 60% RH and 80F top leaf temp in the grow tent.Back on track, off to the races, all that
