watchxyouxburn
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This is my second grow, my first one was a great teacher. I managed to bring 2 plants to harvest in a CFL/soil grow without fucking them up, so at least I know that much. I'm definitely the type to do my homework, so now that I've been studying, I want to try hydro. I know I can read all day, but nothing teaches like doing, so that's the point I'm at.
I have a feminized Aurora Indica (Nirvana) seedling that's a few days old, but seems to have suffered some nute burn on its first set of leaves (not the cotyledons), as I accidentally soaked the rock wool in a stronger nutrient solution than I had meant to, thought I rinsed it out well enough, but I guess not. At first I thought the plant was just growing more slowly than I'm used to, but upon better inspection, I noticed the tips were burnt and hindering growth, but now a second node is growing and looking good, so I'm not going to worry at this point. I also have a seed from a bag of what I was told was Purple Urkel, that is currently in rock wool, but not sprouted yet. As far as I know the PU is a clone only strain, but who knows, the grower may have just screwed his crop up and caused it to self seed, or it wasn't authentic PU. Either way it's going to be called PU for the purposes of this journal, and I know it is a tasty purple strain either way, since I've smoked the bud the seed came from. They were germinated with the paper towel method, and put into rock wool plugs with taproots about 1/2 inch long each. The PU was germinated 4 days after the AI as the first PU seed was a dud and showed signs of rot. I also have a seedling that is roughly 3 weeks old, but at this point I am going to use it to help me get some cloning practice. It is a mystery seed from a bag of some decent weed, that was definitely indica dominant. It was about a week old when the area I live in got hit by hurricane Irene. We didn't get much damage, but we were without power for almost 6 days. Those days were cool and wet outside, definitely not good conditions to put a tender seedling out, so with no power, my only option was to put it by a window in the house that gets the most sun, because I don't have anyone that could 'babysit' for me. The week it spent in that window didn't do it much good, the stem stretched like crazy, leaving about 1 1/2 inches between the cotyledons, the first node, and second node. The center growth shriveled and withered, essentially topping the plant above the second node at such an early age. There is some deformed growth there, but I don't think it will recover. Instead the plant has pushed its energy into growing 2 branches, 1 at each node. Since then, I've decided to use this plant essentially as an experimental mom. So, to promote clonable branches, and to counteract the stretch, I planted the rockwool plug that was just starting to peek through with roots into soil, and started doing LST. It's in a mixture of Miracle Grow Organic, MG moisture control, some extra pearlite, and some pulverized lime. I know this isn't the ideal soil, but in this case it doesn't matter to me much, and I was able to harvest off two plants grown in MG last grow, so it can't be all bad, haha.
Once the AI and PU seed(ling)s have grown a little bigger and are showing roots through their cubes, I have a small 2 site home made ebb and flow unit to put them in for the first few weeks of the veg stage, then I have DWC buckets waiting for them from that point on. In the mean time, while I finish work on my grow space, the plants are in an open Sterilite container under 2 x 26w 6500k CFL bulbs, with temps 75-85 F, 45-50% humidity, 24 hours of light, with a small fan blowing. When I'm done working on it, I will have room for flowering up to 4 plants, more if I go SOG eventually, space for veg, space for clones, and a completely seperate space for a mom.
Pics will come as soon as I can, I'm currently having some camera issues. Thanks for reading!
I have a feminized Aurora Indica (Nirvana) seedling that's a few days old, but seems to have suffered some nute burn on its first set of leaves (not the cotyledons), as I accidentally soaked the rock wool in a stronger nutrient solution than I had meant to, thought I rinsed it out well enough, but I guess not. At first I thought the plant was just growing more slowly than I'm used to, but upon better inspection, I noticed the tips were burnt and hindering growth, but now a second node is growing and looking good, so I'm not going to worry at this point. I also have a seed from a bag of what I was told was Purple Urkel, that is currently in rock wool, but not sprouted yet. As far as I know the PU is a clone only strain, but who knows, the grower may have just screwed his crop up and caused it to self seed, or it wasn't authentic PU. Either way it's going to be called PU for the purposes of this journal, and I know it is a tasty purple strain either way, since I've smoked the bud the seed came from. They were germinated with the paper towel method, and put into rock wool plugs with taproots about 1/2 inch long each. The PU was germinated 4 days after the AI as the first PU seed was a dud and showed signs of rot. I also have a seedling that is roughly 3 weeks old, but at this point I am going to use it to help me get some cloning practice. It is a mystery seed from a bag of some decent weed, that was definitely indica dominant. It was about a week old when the area I live in got hit by hurricane Irene. We didn't get much damage, but we were without power for almost 6 days. Those days were cool and wet outside, definitely not good conditions to put a tender seedling out, so with no power, my only option was to put it by a window in the house that gets the most sun, because I don't have anyone that could 'babysit' for me. The week it spent in that window didn't do it much good, the stem stretched like crazy, leaving about 1 1/2 inches between the cotyledons, the first node, and second node. The center growth shriveled and withered, essentially topping the plant above the second node at such an early age. There is some deformed growth there, but I don't think it will recover. Instead the plant has pushed its energy into growing 2 branches, 1 at each node. Since then, I've decided to use this plant essentially as an experimental mom. So, to promote clonable branches, and to counteract the stretch, I planted the rockwool plug that was just starting to peek through with roots into soil, and started doing LST. It's in a mixture of Miracle Grow Organic, MG moisture control, some extra pearlite, and some pulverized lime. I know this isn't the ideal soil, but in this case it doesn't matter to me much, and I was able to harvest off two plants grown in MG last grow, so it can't be all bad, haha.
Once the AI and PU seed(ling)s have grown a little bigger and are showing roots through their cubes, I have a small 2 site home made ebb and flow unit to put them in for the first few weeks of the veg stage, then I have DWC buckets waiting for them from that point on. In the mean time, while I finish work on my grow space, the plants are in an open Sterilite container under 2 x 26w 6500k CFL bulbs, with temps 75-85 F, 45-50% humidity, 24 hours of light, with a small fan blowing. When I'm done working on it, I will have room for flowering up to 4 plants, more if I go SOG eventually, space for veg, space for clones, and a completely seperate space for a mom.
Pics will come as soon as I can, I'm currently having some camera issues. Thanks for reading!