From Inauspicious Beginnings...

[everest_dope]

I'm new here and this is my 2nd post. I have learned so much from reading this forum. I am ready to give growing my own medicine a go. (I played around and harvested 2 plants years ago, but I am not counting that since I had no idea wtf I was doing.) I had ordered a grow cabinet but after reading on this forum, I decided to cancel the order. I have learned enough from this forum where I don't feel like I need something that is that turn key. So, in short, thanks all for giving so much knowledge to the world for free. I welcome any advice that the sage bud farmers here have to offer.

I recently soaked, scored and germinated some bag seeds and every one of them (10 so far, I have more seeds soaking) has sprouted. I just used a heat mat and humidity dome and a shop light with cool white CFL over some netpots with rapidrooters soaked in distilled water. These seeds were probably 5+ years old and were just sitting in a drawer. I hope to add to this post and chronicle this, my first real grow.

I will be going with StinkBud's https://www.rollitup.org/t/harvest-a-pound-every-three-weeks.116859 NFT/Aero system. I can build the whole thing with lights and all and have money left over for seeds for about half what I was going to pay for the grow cabinet.

Pics to come later. Wish me luck!

PS - I am dumb at this, so feel free to impart any basic knowledge you feel might help me. There is no advice too simple or widely known!

 

[Beachwalker]

Good luck!

 

[Herb & Suds]

Good luck

 

[Kingrow1]

Dont use humidity domes after germination for seedlings, it will stress them no end. For cut clones yes but stuff with roots no

 

[everest_dope]

So last night, I dug out a couple more lights. Here's my ghetto lighting setup. 2 CFL shop lights and a fleabay 50w LED. All the seeds have cracked and there are sprouts emerging, hoping to see more green here soon. The dome will go away once I see plants in all the plugs. C'mon, babies, grow for me!!

 

[everest_dope]

No pics today but I managed to get my seedling mat and cloner into a cabinet with power for the lights. I added another 10 rapid cloners with seeds in them and I have 4 little seedlings ready to go into the cloner from the first batch. Probably 5 more seeds have cracked and should be sprouting soon. Temps get pretty warm in there with the door closed and lights on (about 85 F after 8 hours) so I will likely get a grow tent more specifically designed for this kind of thing that has room for fans. For the time being, I am leaving one of the cabinet doors open to prevent heat buildup. It's pretty nice not to have all this stuff just sitting on the floor. Wife is happier at least.

 

[Beachwalker]

No pics today but I managed to get my seedling mat and cloner into a cabinet with power for the lights. I added another 10 rapid cloners with seeds in them and I have 4 little seedlings ready to go into the cloner from the first batch. Probably 5 more seeds have cracked and should be sprouting soon. Temps get pretty warm in there with the door closed and lights on (about 85 F after 8 hours) so I will likely get a grow tent more specifically designed for this kind of thing that has room for fans. For the time being, I am leaving one of the cabinet doors open to prevent heat buildup. It's pretty nice not to have all this stuff just sitting on the floor. Wife is happier at least.

Greetings, for best results you should listen to Kinggrow and take the Dome off within 24 hours after seeing a plant pop up, if not sooner, no bueno!

 

[everest_dope]

Brother for best results you should listen to Kinggrow and take the Dome off within 24 hours after seeing a plant pop up, if not sooner, no bueno!

So, about that, I plan to take the babies out as soon as they stand up and put them in the cloner (which does not have a dome). I have a few that are just sprouting, will it hurt them to leave them in there until after some of the others pop? I have the dome propped open a crack to prevent too much build up but I am curious how hurtful the humidity can be and how soon.

 

[everest_dope]

So, it was recently recommended to me that I RAISE the RH in my grow cabinet. It is very dry where I live, typically about 25% outside. Seems that I want it ~40% or so for various stages of growth, no?

PS - Here's a pic of my babies. Not as many sprouted as I had hoped. I have a couple in the cloner and a couple almost ready to move over from the seedling nursery. Some of the seeds appear to be ready to sprout, but there has been no action from most of them.

 

[Kingrow1]

So, it was recently recommended to me that I RAISE the RH in my grow cabinet. It is very dry where I live, typically about 25% outside. Seems that I want it ~40% or so fore various stages of growth, no?

PS - Here's a pic of my babies. Not as many sprouted as I had hoped. I have a couple in the cloner and a couple almost ready to move over from the seedling nursery. Some of the seeds appear to be ready to sprout, but there has been no action from most of them.

Humidity is not as important as air exchange and heat exchange and your growing a plant highly adapted to it anyway.

Dismiss all humidity claims - whatever it is is fine as long as it dosent vector mold formation.

Humidity domes will make the leaf have to work a lot harder, try putting a bag on your head for the same effect - although this suits clones with zero roots seedlings will morphologically try to compensate by increasing stomata density or even worse produce mutant stoma that stay constantly open. Upon removing the dome these leaves will now struggle as those stoma are loosing it too much water and will take the plant time to revert back to normal morphology.

We just remove domes as soon as the first seddling breaks the soil as a rule - the explanation why is a bit too complex but there too

 

[everest_dope]

Humidity is not as important as air exchange and heat exchange and your growing a plant highly adapted to it anyway.

Dismiss all humidity claims - whatever it is is fine as long as it dosent vector mold formation.

Humidity domes will make the leaf have to work a lot harder, try putting a bag on your head for the same effect - although this suits clones with zero roots seedlings will morphologically try to compensate by increasing stomata density or even worse produce mutant stoma that stay constantly open. Upon removing the dome these leaves will now struggle as those stoma are loosing it too much water and will take the plant time to revert back to normal morphology.

We just remove domes as soon as the first seddling breaks the soil as a rule - the explanation why is a bit too complex but there too

Dome's coming off when I get home. There are 2 seedlings in there now and probably 10 more seeds that I haven't given up on. These are bag seeds so I have no real idea of their genetics. Just a test really to get back in the swing of things. I have some good seeds on the way and some really nice strain crosses in storage in a tin in my fridge. Some of these I can't buy anymore. Those are going to be the crown jewels of my quiver. Someday... But not today.