Ok, all four beans cracked, so I'm good to go.
Here's my initial post, with details on my grow.
I'm starting with 4 entrants; 3 are of the homebrew cross I made of Atomic Love X Hash Plant, and the last 1 is Hash Plant.
For the sake of the comp, I'm re-naming them, winner winner chicken dinner 1-4 (4 is the HP, 1,2,3 are the others).
For lighting, I've got them riding shotgun between my XGS190 and 2 x 46W T5HO. There's a little run-off from the Apollo8 on the other side of the tent, but its quite minimal, as its on the other side of a 4x4 tent.
For medium, I'm trying out an Organic Hydroponic hybrid system I built recently, which has a side ebb & flow tray for the party cups, that partially floods the cups every 4 hours with plain H2O. I'll be hand feeding the upper soil area with base nutes, molasses, ca/mg, as needed. I've mixed some "pro-mix" soil from local greenhouse, amended with EWC, bone meal, coco, perlite, and a teeny bit of guano, as my mix.
Since this is the first time I've run this system, I've taken some pictures of the process of preparing the party cups for the system.
I ferkin hope not!!!
First, I layered the bottom of the cups with black garden bed fabric, despite its ominous name.
Next I filled the cups about 1/3 way up with hydroton. The water line on the flood tray will go to the top of the hydroton when it floods the tray.
After that, I put down a bed of coco coir. This acts as a medium separator between the lower hydroponic and upper organic areas, and also wicks H2O upwards towards the soil.
Last, fill to the top with amended soil mix, pop bean a few cm down, mist with H2O and wait for heads to pop up.
Happy growing, lads and lassies.