TokyWartooth
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Starting my first grow would love advice.
Before starting I did lots of research to try and prepare to grow well in a climate where the humidity would most likely be sitting around 25% outside.
That in consideration I had to make a setup that would allow for humidity to build much higher than that in my grow room.
My setup now looks like this. I have a standard bedroom closet with two sliding doors. I have lined the walls with aluminum foil (planning on switching to Mylar or a pure white wall soon). For lighting I have a T8 dual bulb for the vegetative stage I am using one 5500k fluorescent tube and one 3400k fluorescent tube assumed to be pumping out about 4500 lumens.. I also am running a LED construction floodlight. It's producing a white spectrum of light and pumping out about 14500 lumens. The Fluorescent Ballast is hanging about 4"-12" away from the plants whereas the LED ballast is hanging from the ceiling.
For airflow I currently have have a large room fan pointing at the grow closet creating a flow through the closet to where I have a 6" HVAC pipe with a HVAC fan pumping air outside.
Inside the closet I am currently running one large hot humidifier which alone helps me rise humidity levels to about 45%. Plus I am also running a small desk humidifier which pushes out a cool mist. I have that facing on all the small plants right now.
I am going to be starting out with potting soil with some nutrients in it. Which goes against some experts. But many others disagree as well as many people I know with growing experience claim it makes no difference or probably helps.
So enough about the setup. I started out by purchasing a 10 pack of non-femenized seeds from a local headshop. I put all 10 seeds in a cup of water. They all sunk within 4-8 hours which was a really good sign to me. As its my first time I wanted to experiment a bit so I put 5 seeds directly in dirt after sinking them. Then I put 5 in damp paper towel in between two plates in the warm cupboard on top of my fridge. Checking on them every 8-12 hours I waited till 4 showed signs of popping and letting the taproots out a 1/4" This took about three days. I decided to plant all 5 seeds into Solo cups on the third day.
First signs of life! So Dec 21 I noticed the first seedling popped up and within hours 2 others had popped. these were the first three plants to pop and they were three seeds from the {cup to dirt} method. I called the first plant Charizard the second Omnastar and the third Wheezing. Charizard notably was the first seed to pop. Then 2 days later I had three other seeds from the {cup to paper towel to dirt} method named Bayleaf, Vileplume and SlowBro.
Dec 23 I had noticed Charizard to be growing about twice as fast as the other two plants Omnastar and Wheezing. It was already measuring 2 inches. The other two plants much smaller at 1 inch each. The leaves were also maturing at about 3x the rate.
Dec 28 is now here. So of the other plants that did not sprout I went back in and found none of the seeds to ever have tried sprouted underground. So I have tried a desperate method of revival by making a small incision on the spine of the seed and then putting back in soil under a reptile heat lamp with lots of moisture in soil to allow for possible life.
Going back to the plants the first three sprouts are all looking very healthy. I used clear solo cups from the start so when roots started touching the edges I would transplant to a larger pot to avoid root lock. So on Dec 27 that is what I did. I know this feels premature but from the signs I feel it was time although not completely necessary. Later I will post photos to show why I transplanted early.
As for the other three plants that sprouted second. 2 of them are looking very healthy maturing rapidly. the other "Bayleaf" grew from the soil with the shell clamped quite solidly around the embryo leaves blocking any light. I left the plant this way for two days while its sibling plants grew there first real leaves. At that point the Stem was starting to droop and look very unhealthy I decided it was time for action. I went in with 2 pairs of fine tip tweezers and carefully extracted the seed off the embyonic leaves and the tip of the stem. The leaves underneath were not good looking brown shrivelled and dying. So I put them under a less intense light and misted the plant finely let it go for a day or so. The plant kept dying. So looking very carefully I saw two "Real" jagged leaves hiding under the two curled up dead embryo leaves. so I carefully snipped off the embryo leaves and now the real leaves are starting to grow healthier the stem has straightened and gained height and all its colour has returned. I now have good hopes for this plant to continue on healthy again. Growing slowly at first but possibly still turning out ok.
Anyway I hope t be keeping this thread very up to date as I continue this grow I believe I have done a lot of research and have a good starting knowledge to growing but would love if other people could pitch in information and let me know any improvements I could make!
Ps stay tuned for some pictures of the plants. Lighting schedule, fertilizer plan and more on the growth of the plants
-TokyWoky
Before starting I did lots of research to try and prepare to grow well in a climate where the humidity would most likely be sitting around 25% outside.
That in consideration I had to make a setup that would allow for humidity to build much higher than that in my grow room.
My setup now looks like this. I have a standard bedroom closet with two sliding doors. I have lined the walls with aluminum foil (planning on switching to Mylar or a pure white wall soon). For lighting I have a T8 dual bulb for the vegetative stage I am using one 5500k fluorescent tube and one 3400k fluorescent tube assumed to be pumping out about 4500 lumens.. I also am running a LED construction floodlight. It's producing a white spectrum of light and pumping out about 14500 lumens. The Fluorescent Ballast is hanging about 4"-12" away from the plants whereas the LED ballast is hanging from the ceiling.
For airflow I currently have have a large room fan pointing at the grow closet creating a flow through the closet to where I have a 6" HVAC pipe with a HVAC fan pumping air outside.
Inside the closet I am currently running one large hot humidifier which alone helps me rise humidity levels to about 45%. Plus I am also running a small desk humidifier which pushes out a cool mist. I have that facing on all the small plants right now.
I am going to be starting out with potting soil with some nutrients in it. Which goes against some experts. But many others disagree as well as many people I know with growing experience claim it makes no difference or probably helps.
So enough about the setup. I started out by purchasing a 10 pack of non-femenized seeds from a local headshop. I put all 10 seeds in a cup of water. They all sunk within 4-8 hours which was a really good sign to me. As its my first time I wanted to experiment a bit so I put 5 seeds directly in dirt after sinking them. Then I put 5 in damp paper towel in between two plates in the warm cupboard on top of my fridge. Checking on them every 8-12 hours I waited till 4 showed signs of popping and letting the taproots out a 1/4" This took about three days. I decided to plant all 5 seeds into Solo cups on the third day.
First signs of life! So Dec 21 I noticed the first seedling popped up and within hours 2 others had popped. these were the first three plants to pop and they were three seeds from the {cup to dirt} method. I called the first plant Charizard the second Omnastar and the third Wheezing. Charizard notably was the first seed to pop. Then 2 days later I had three other seeds from the {cup to paper towel to dirt} method named Bayleaf, Vileplume and SlowBro.
Dec 23 I had noticed Charizard to be growing about twice as fast as the other two plants Omnastar and Wheezing. It was already measuring 2 inches. The other two plants much smaller at 1 inch each. The leaves were also maturing at about 3x the rate.
Dec 28 is now here. So of the other plants that did not sprout I went back in and found none of the seeds to ever have tried sprouted underground. So I have tried a desperate method of revival by making a small incision on the spine of the seed and then putting back in soil under a reptile heat lamp with lots of moisture in soil to allow for possible life.
Going back to the plants the first three sprouts are all looking very healthy. I used clear solo cups from the start so when roots started touching the edges I would transplant to a larger pot to avoid root lock. So on Dec 27 that is what I did. I know this feels premature but from the signs I feel it was time although not completely necessary. Later I will post photos to show why I transplanted early.
As for the other three plants that sprouted second. 2 of them are looking very healthy maturing rapidly. the other "Bayleaf" grew from the soil with the shell clamped quite solidly around the embryo leaves blocking any light. I left the plant this way for two days while its sibling plants grew there first real leaves. At that point the Stem was starting to droop and look very unhealthy I decided it was time for action. I went in with 2 pairs of fine tip tweezers and carefully extracted the seed off the embyonic leaves and the tip of the stem. The leaves underneath were not good looking brown shrivelled and dying. So I put them under a less intense light and misted the plant finely let it go for a day or so. The plant kept dying. So looking very carefully I saw two "Real" jagged leaves hiding under the two curled up dead embryo leaves. so I carefully snipped off the embryo leaves and now the real leaves are starting to grow healthier the stem has straightened and gained height and all its colour has returned. I now have good hopes for this plant to continue on healthy again. Growing slowly at first but possibly still turning out ok.
Anyway I hope t be keeping this thread very up to date as I continue this grow I believe I have done a lot of research and have a good starting knowledge to growing but would love if other people could pitch in information and let me know any improvements I could make!
Ps stay tuned for some pictures of the plants. Lighting schedule, fertilizer plan and more on the growth of the plants
-TokyWoky
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