MagicNative
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So I finally got in the first 2 strains I'm going to be starting back with in a few days ago.. For starters im just going to do these 2. & 2 more. One is coming in with my nutes whenever that is. The other is just going to be some Reggie. Good old bag seed..
For now though I started getting some things ready. I measured out 3 gallons of water some where around 32 hrs ago. I just let it sit for the first day so I could start the chlorine/ chlorimine separation and evaporation. Earlier tonight I put in my aerator and im just letting the bubbles kinda churn things around to keep some constant movement..
My soils mix:
3 scoops of Just Natural "Organic" garden soil.
And 1 scoop Miricale Grow sphagnum peat moss it was actually a slightly fertilized peat which I didn't know I got till I got home opened it to check it out and then realized I got the wrong one all together because I was in a hurry.
And 2 Black Magic seed starter plugs
So here's what I did
I took the Organic and put 2 of the 3 scoops in a bowl.. And by the way when I say scoops I mean your average every day solo cup sized cups. Turned on the faucet to hot let it get hot to the touch.. Not boiling water from the stove..
(Ive heard this may kill any bacteria or bugs that you may have in the soil that you dont want or may not know are there but you kill the beneficial ones as well & nutrients get screwed. If your starting g from seed immediate nutrients may not be that big of a deal you dont want to burn you new baby right out of the gate. But the freshly killed good and bad bacteria leaves and open play ground for new bacteria infesting. So ya you may be at a 0% bacteria but what's to stop new bacteria, most likely bad ones, to set in and quickly..)
Anyway I filled my container with the 2 scoops to where it was basically drowned. Probably close to 2/3 times more than the soil level.
I let this set for an hour this way both to drench the new soil but to also hopefully drown any bugs or at best to have them clinging for life to the small floating debris. This Just natural has a good 35%-40% bark portion of the soil. Idk just taking a blown out guess at amounts but..
So now that it has set for an hour chances are everything is either stuck and drowned or made it to the top and is floating either dead or alive.. Sift that floating stuff out. This is just just for 2 seed starter cups so either bugs or nutrient loss due to this isnt necessarily to much I hope , but im about to put in more any way. One of them being a slightly fertilized peat..
Drained after sifting I let that soil sit for maybe 3 hours.. Mixing 2 times an hour.. This wont obviously dry it out that much but it can also help break chunks down or reseparate what was already.. Plus ya it dried a little..
Add the 3rd cup of Just Natural and a cup of the sphagnum peat.. What want dry will almost immediately get soaked up by this peat leaving a very freshly open bag of new potting soil look to it.. Not to overly moist and not to dried out.
Thing was i did let this set openly in the house with lots of open air for 24 hrs and kept mixing. So if anyone tries my newbie back to growing method and its still wetter than you'd like after mixing cups 3 and 4 it dries out alot more in this time so don't cuss or talk to much mess plz.. Lol
My 2 strains I already started germination on are:
Amnesia BIlbo
And good Ol' AK 47
When I prepared these it was a process as well i didn't just throw them in a wet paper towel and a ziplock and call it good. Though I still have a few seeds from the purchase im only starting with 1 of each and im hoping that I can crack these and get this thing a rolling as soon as possible.
I took sand paper roled a tube taped it off and then took another ziplock baggy and just laid it over one side then taped it onto the tube. Individually putting one of the seeds in at i time I shook them around to get alot of tiny scratching and nick's on the shell casing for about a min or so. Then laid them, again individually, on a fingernail buffer board thingy.. You know those girly thing things.. Placed them between 2 fingers and applied very little pressure and roled it back and forth to get hopefully slightly deeper scratching.
This is where I started my attempts at germination
° fill another solo with hot water and place your seeds in for about an hour to soak adding a cap full of hydrogen peroxide to the cup
° empty the water carefully so not to loose your seed if it hasn't already fallen to the bottom or in case the peroxide bubbles have carried or do carry back to the top while trying dump it out.. Fill the cup back up with hot water and a cap of hydrogen peroxide. Let this sit over night, while at work or just for about 10 hrs.
° then do the old wet paper towel or toilet paper thing in a ziplock or between plates till you have about 1/8th of an inch sprout.
My other 2 strains on their way. Just some every day bag seed and I have some nutes coming that im wanting to try out at a muchater point that have a white widow 20 pack with them..
Im hoping within the time it takes to get the rest of my nutes and soils the Bilbo and AK are going to be just about ready to get out of these solo cups and transfer into a new media and pot.
My first transfer for the AK and the Bilbo will be into a 10"×8" pot. I also have a plastic 50 gallon drum that was cut into maybe a quarter of its original size for the last transfer..
My sol mix for after the solo cups
Black Magic potting soil
Regular non fertilized peat
Magma SI02
YaraMila 16-16-16
My nutrients and fertilizers for later on will be from
Flower Power and ill have their Flower Power Plant Protectors. I probably wont use anything at all until right around the flowering stage but I want them on hand in case i need them through my veg.. These will be soil plants so im hoping with my soil set up i can make it almost the entire veg without using anything much..
Im kinda excited about the Amnesia Bilbo from what ive read this girl can get to about 8 to 10 feet.. Would it be nice ya but ive got a little experience im wanting fort my first Bilbo strain seed. I want to Mainline her and try to get up to a 32 split.. Will she end up being a 8-10ft giant.. I doubt it but I do have the smaller portable lights and my Mars light plus another ones on the way.. Over all im wanting to try to get about 750 Watts on this baby and see where she goes.. Of coarse im also wanting to try and keep as many clones for smaller mainline 4 splits and will be only mainlining the AK to a 4 way as well.. I dont want these to get as big for room sake.. And ill need to be making sure to flower with these so I can get to drying curing and the end product alot faster.. With the 32 split Bilbo I am definitely going to veg 8 weeks or longer.. And if I just want get her to push that far then what I get is what I can get..
My hydroponics set up is going to have to wait till I get all my pots soil and rooted.
But ive got a little DIY set up their as well. Nothing special its exactly the same as every other DWC set up pretty much but im going to go from my seed starter hydro set up to a 10×8 pot that ive fitted with holes and will place so that I hopefully wont have to transfer again period. And cab leave the system alone all together beside when I change out my water in which ill just have another tote ready with prepaid and Phd water so I can just switch it over and be done for another week or 2.
Anyway that's where im at.. I dont know how to really do this havent ever used this site till not long ago and definitely havent done any journals. But id like to be able to look back at this at some point and have it somewhere if possible to use.. So if you can MSG me and let me know how to come back to it and add to it or we can all just consider this log one of week 1.. And im no PHD on weed Science Or an English major so my typing at times might get all screwy because im on this small azz crap phone and the mobile site for this has a little bitty square box on this little bitty phone making it hard to type and see at the same time..
Anyway
Piece out yall have a great one .
For now though I started getting some things ready. I measured out 3 gallons of water some where around 32 hrs ago. I just let it sit for the first day so I could start the chlorine/ chlorimine separation and evaporation. Earlier tonight I put in my aerator and im just letting the bubbles kinda churn things around to keep some constant movement..
My soils mix:
3 scoops of Just Natural "Organic" garden soil.
And 1 scoop Miricale Grow sphagnum peat moss it was actually a slightly fertilized peat which I didn't know I got till I got home opened it to check it out and then realized I got the wrong one all together because I was in a hurry.
And 2 Black Magic seed starter plugs
So here's what I did
I took the Organic and put 2 of the 3 scoops in a bowl.. And by the way when I say scoops I mean your average every day solo cup sized cups. Turned on the faucet to hot let it get hot to the touch.. Not boiling water from the stove..
(Ive heard this may kill any bacteria or bugs that you may have in the soil that you dont want or may not know are there but you kill the beneficial ones as well & nutrients get screwed. If your starting g from seed immediate nutrients may not be that big of a deal you dont want to burn you new baby right out of the gate. But the freshly killed good and bad bacteria leaves and open play ground for new bacteria infesting. So ya you may be at a 0% bacteria but what's to stop new bacteria, most likely bad ones, to set in and quickly..)
Anyway I filled my container with the 2 scoops to where it was basically drowned. Probably close to 2/3 times more than the soil level.
I let this set for an hour this way both to drench the new soil but to also hopefully drown any bugs or at best to have them clinging for life to the small floating debris. This Just natural has a good 35%-40% bark portion of the soil. Idk just taking a blown out guess at amounts but..
So now that it has set for an hour chances are everything is either stuck and drowned or made it to the top and is floating either dead or alive.. Sift that floating stuff out. This is just just for 2 seed starter cups so either bugs or nutrient loss due to this isnt necessarily to much I hope , but im about to put in more any way. One of them being a slightly fertilized peat..
Drained after sifting I let that soil sit for maybe 3 hours.. Mixing 2 times an hour.. This wont obviously dry it out that much but it can also help break chunks down or reseparate what was already.. Plus ya it dried a little..
Add the 3rd cup of Just Natural and a cup of the sphagnum peat.. What want dry will almost immediately get soaked up by this peat leaving a very freshly open bag of new potting soil look to it.. Not to overly moist and not to dried out.
Thing was i did let this set openly in the house with lots of open air for 24 hrs and kept mixing. So if anyone tries my newbie back to growing method and its still wetter than you'd like after mixing cups 3 and 4 it dries out alot more in this time so don't cuss or talk to much mess plz.. Lol
My 2 strains I already started germination on are:
Amnesia BIlbo
And good Ol' AK 47
When I prepared these it was a process as well i didn't just throw them in a wet paper towel and a ziplock and call it good. Though I still have a few seeds from the purchase im only starting with 1 of each and im hoping that I can crack these and get this thing a rolling as soon as possible.
I took sand paper roled a tube taped it off and then took another ziplock baggy and just laid it over one side then taped it onto the tube. Individually putting one of the seeds in at i time I shook them around to get alot of tiny scratching and nick's on the shell casing for about a min or so. Then laid them, again individually, on a fingernail buffer board thingy.. You know those girly thing things.. Placed them between 2 fingers and applied very little pressure and roled it back and forth to get hopefully slightly deeper scratching.
This is where I started my attempts at germination
° fill another solo with hot water and place your seeds in for about an hour to soak adding a cap full of hydrogen peroxide to the cup
° empty the water carefully so not to loose your seed if it hasn't already fallen to the bottom or in case the peroxide bubbles have carried or do carry back to the top while trying dump it out.. Fill the cup back up with hot water and a cap of hydrogen peroxide. Let this sit over night, while at work or just for about 10 hrs.
° then do the old wet paper towel or toilet paper thing in a ziplock or between plates till you have about 1/8th of an inch sprout.
My other 2 strains on their way. Just some every day bag seed and I have some nutes coming that im wanting to try out at a muchater point that have a white widow 20 pack with them..
Im hoping within the time it takes to get the rest of my nutes and soils the Bilbo and AK are going to be just about ready to get out of these solo cups and transfer into a new media and pot.
My first transfer for the AK and the Bilbo will be into a 10"×8" pot. I also have a plastic 50 gallon drum that was cut into maybe a quarter of its original size for the last transfer..
My sol mix for after the solo cups
Black Magic potting soil
Regular non fertilized peat
Magma SI02
YaraMila 16-16-16
My nutrients and fertilizers for later on will be from
Flower Power and ill have their Flower Power Plant Protectors. I probably wont use anything at all until right around the flowering stage but I want them on hand in case i need them through my veg.. These will be soil plants so im hoping with my soil set up i can make it almost the entire veg without using anything much..
Im kinda excited about the Amnesia Bilbo from what ive read this girl can get to about 8 to 10 feet.. Would it be nice ya but ive got a little experience im wanting fort my first Bilbo strain seed. I want to Mainline her and try to get up to a 32 split.. Will she end up being a 8-10ft giant.. I doubt it but I do have the smaller portable lights and my Mars light plus another ones on the way.. Over all im wanting to try to get about 750 Watts on this baby and see where she goes.. Of coarse im also wanting to try and keep as many clones for smaller mainline 4 splits and will be only mainlining the AK to a 4 way as well.. I dont want these to get as big for room sake.. And ill need to be making sure to flower with these so I can get to drying curing and the end product alot faster.. With the 32 split Bilbo I am definitely going to veg 8 weeks or longer.. And if I just want get her to push that far then what I get is what I can get..
My hydroponics set up is going to have to wait till I get all my pots soil and rooted.
But ive got a little DIY set up their as well. Nothing special its exactly the same as every other DWC set up pretty much but im going to go from my seed starter hydro set up to a 10×8 pot that ive fitted with holes and will place so that I hopefully wont have to transfer again period. And cab leave the system alone all together beside when I change out my water in which ill just have another tote ready with prepaid and Phd water so I can just switch it over and be done for another week or 2.
Anyway that's where im at.. I dont know how to really do this havent ever used this site till not long ago and definitely havent done any journals. But id like to be able to look back at this at some point and have it somewhere if possible to use.. So if you can MSG me and let me know how to come back to it and add to it or we can all just consider this log one of week 1.. And im no PHD on weed Science Or an English major so my typing at times might get all screwy because im on this small azz crap phone and the mobile site for this has a little bitty square box on this little bitty phone making it hard to type and see at the same time..
Anyway
Piece out yall have a great one .
