First ever wardrobe grow.

Still waiting for that seed to pop... that rockwool is getting me stressed out.

Wee update, the seed has shown itself at the top of the rockwool and I can just slightly see that the sheel is cracked open making way for the cotyledons. This took longer then expected, but my experience with rockwool is null.

Also, my Goddess Kali has been flowering for nearly a months time. Bloody hell that went by so fast, what the hell am I doing with my life? haha.
The breeder informs that the flowering phase is over in 55/65 days, so fingers crossed next month she'll be ready to chop, although I hope it takes a bit shorter. I'm aiming for a clear head high.

Gregor Eisenhorn said:

Wee update, the seed has shown itself at the top of the rockwool and I can just slightly see that the sheel is cracked open making way for the cotyledons. This took longer then expected, but my experience with rockwool is null.

Also, my Goddess Kali has been flowering for nearly a months time. Bloody hell that went by so fast, what the hell am I doing with my life? haha.
The breeder informs that the flowering phase is over in 55/65 days, so fingers crossed next month she'll be ready to chop, although I hope it takes a bit shorter. I'm aiming for a clear head high.

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Yea, I think I took mine a tad early too, fantastic head buzz, laugh a lot, good to do work, etc.
Also makes for some great lovin !!!

fishdeth said:

Yea, I think I took mine a tad early too, fantastic head buzz, laugh a lot, good to do work, etc.
Also makes for some great lovin !!!

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Haha some good points there fish, I'll make sure to chop them earlier then.

And I've also been having a rather peculiar problem... my taproot has done a u turn in the rockwool! Bloody hell, it went down and then straight back up! I have no idea what to do now, so I just covered the hole with rockwool and I'm hoping that she will get her geotropizm right this time.

I also put the cube into the DWC system. I know I'm supposed to wait until I see roots growing out of the rockwool, but what the hell, people do it all the time. I put a dome over her to keep that humidity high, so I hope I don't fry her.

Man this is a wierd beggining for my DWC adventure.

Can you split the rockwool open and carefully turn the taproot around?

Well, I just noticed that the taproot broke its tip off.. so basically it goes like this: leaves that are still stuck together-> stem ->taproot that grows down and has a little hook at the end. It looks just like a fishing hook now. I just made a deeper hole and put it inside... I don't know maybe she'll pull through.

Gregor Eisenhorn said:

Hey hey hey ladies and gentlemen check it out!

My long awaited DWC setup is finally complete! I had a lot of fun building it yesterday and tweaking a few things here and there. I also shortened the scrog net a little bit so that I can manage the reservoir a little easier. Lots of changes.

The pump has been running for two days and the temperature is stable at 17C/62F (not bad I think). After the temperature readings somehow broke(?) in my TDS meter I went and bought an aquarium thermometer. Looks like older methods are the most reliable.

I soaked a rockwool cube in 5.5 pH water for the night and popped the already slightly cracked seed in. I placed the medium in a DIY humidity dome (two plastic trays on top of eachother) buuut nothing has been happening so far. I've read that it's best to wait until roots start showing at the bottom before putting it into the net pot.

That pump splashes like a motherfucker. I also added mylar to the lid of the reservoir, just to be sure that it isn't overheating.

Apart from that everything is looking swell, the only thing that's bothering me is that I don't have the pH meter yet... it's still being shipped, and by the looks of it I won't be having it for the next two weeks... bloody shame, but what can you do. Everyone needs a rest during Christmas. So for the time being I'll be using a pH tester from General Hydroponics. Not exactly what I'll call convienient or trustworthy, but it's better than nothing.

I was also rumagging through the internet in search of a GH Flora Series feeding chart. I came across one on Grow Weed Easy and after doing some converting and calculating I think I'll stick with it.

So there's nothing much to do really haha, I can't wait until those roots start showing so I can move the cube to the DWC system.

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omg looking amazing - love your use of space too!
Pulling up a chair hehe

Gregor Eisenhorn said:

Well, I just noticed that the taproot broke its tip off.. so basically it goes like this: leaves that are still stuck together-> stem ->taproot that grows down and has a little hook at the end. It looks just like a fishing hook now. I just made a deeper hole and put it inside... I don't know maybe she'll pull through.

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sounds rough, but keeping my fingers crossed

calliandra said:

omg looking amazing - love your use of space too!
Pulling up a chair hehe

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Thanks Calliandra for stopping by! The whole thread is basically my mucking up and writing it down.

Seedling looks like it's going to live. It opened up and exposed it's teeny weeny frst set of true leaves, but things are going real slow. I just hope that bloody oot is starting to grow down. I'll give it time untill monday.

And here are some random pictures. I took a sneak peak in the rockwool today and I was astonished by the roots shape! It looks like it's recovering (sigh of relief) AND the roots structure is now resembling... a fork... amazing, I've never seen a root take a shape like this. It looks like a snakes tounge to be honest. Now I hope she starts growing down and not up again, that would be really fustrating..

But as the clock ticks I've noticed that the cotyledons are slowely turning yellow... this probably means that there is a lack of nutrients starting, although I have no idea how to feed a seedling in rockwool. I hope those bloody roots start growing out of the cube soon. The first set of true leaves are growing at a very slow pace too.

I decided to revive my old PC case and put the seedling in a DIY humidity dome under blue spectrum lights to assist root production. The lights are on 24/7, which signals the failed 12/12 from seed experiment. Oh well.

Anyway, todays New Years Eve so... happy new year everyone!

Happy New Year! May all your grows be greeeen and buds fat!

I've been thinking about cutting half of the rockwool away with scissors allowing the roots to be suspended from the medium. The half of the rockwool will be used to actually anchor the plant in the netpot and the water splashing from the popping bubbles will encourage the root to start growing down. I just don't think that the RW is sutible enough for the root to push through.

Also I'll have to add nutrients, she's been starved for a loong time.

Gregor Eisenhorn said:

And here are some random pictures. I took a sneak peak in the rockwool today and I was astonished by the roots shape! It looks like it's recovering (sigh of relief) AND the roots structure is now resembling... a fork... amazing, I've never seen a root take a shape like this. It looks like a snakes tounge to be honest. Now I hope she starts growing down and not up again, that would be really fustrating..

But as the clock ticks I've noticed that the cotyledons are slowely turning yellow... this probably means that there is a lack of nutrients starting, although I have no idea how to feed a seedling in rockwool. I hope those bloody roots start growing out of the cube soon. The first set of true leaves are growing at a very slow pace too.

I decided to revive my old PC case and put the seedling in a DIY humidity dome under blue spectrum lights to assist root production. The lights are on 24/7, which signals the failed 12/12 from seed experiment. Oh well.

Anyway, todays New Years Eve so... happy new year everyone!

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Go girl go, you can do it!!!
Ah so hard to say whether assistance or just leaving her alone for a few days is the better road to go -- it's great she's pulled through so far though and is starting to develop her roots!
My 2c for what they're worth, those cotyledons can still feed her for a few days. I think essential is that she develop those roots now, so maybe messing with the cube would disturb that process? I know One Does Not Do This, but I have watered lightly with root stimulator - seedlings as well as cuttings - when I had the feeling they were slow underground, has helped every time...

Happy New Year!

Gregor Eisenhorn said:

Happy New Year! May all your grows be greeeen and buds fat!

I've been thinking about cutting half of the rockwool away with scissors allowing the roots to be suspended from the medium. The half of the rockwool will be used to actually anchor the plant in the netpot and the water splashing from the popping bubbles will encourage the root to start growing down. I just don't think that the RW is sutible enough for the root to push through.

Also I'll have to add nutrients, she's been starved for a loong time.

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Yea, I would try to get the roots exposed, but keep them moist..
Also when the plant is ready to t-plant into the net pots, you will probably want to pull off all of the RW, your medium of choice will hold the plant..
It gets nasty after a while, moldy, algae... etc, you should cover as much of it as possible with foil NOW to help keep the light off it.
I like to rinse it all off when I transplant so there is no foreign organic matter in my soup, live or dead.

^ Some very sound advice, depending on which route you go. I've done both and no harm has come (knock on wool). I know... I'm terrible.

The root simulator, from my experience, growing 2 plants at the same time (same exact strain pulled from the same mother), the one I fed root simulator to stretched out way quicker than the one I didn't. I also cut the concentration of the usual early veg phase dose by half when I do this (less is always more with me and feeding).

At the same time when I got my aquaponics system up and running (same deal as above; same genetics), and felt that they needed to be fiddled with and freed up a bit, I did it to only one of them and the same thing as above happened. Freeing up those roots for her helped a lot, the one I did it to got a leg up on the one I didn't touch. Both plants made it to harvest, same smoke, about similar yields (can't remember, I was being bad and cherrypicking )

Definitely listen to fishdeth about the foil, I had crazy algae growing in mine and had to run a couple of hydrogen peroxide flushes. Made me cry inside...

I'm a bit late to the party mate but well done, looking good! I like your cab, always wanted to build my own, but laziness got the better of me so I got the tent! I'd recommend lining it with Orca instead of Mylar.
And loving the DWC bucket, theres a lot of bubbles in there!

calliandra said:

Go girl go, you can do it!!!
Ah so hard to say whether assistance or just leaving her alone for a few days is the better road to go -- it's great she's pulled through so far though and is starting to develop her roots!
My 2c for what they're worth, those cotyledons can still feed her for a few days. I think essential is that she develop those roots now, so maybe messing with the cube would disturb that process? I know One Does Not Do This, but I have watered lightly with root stimulator - seedlings as well as cuttings - when I had the feeling they were slow underground, has helped every time...

Happy New Year!

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fishdeth said:

Yea, I would try to get the roots exposed, but keep them moist..
Also when the plant is ready to t-plant into the net pots, you will probably want to pull off all of the RW, your medium of choice will hold the plant..
It gets nasty after a while, moldy, algae... etc, you should cover as much of it as possible with foil NOW to help keep the light off it.
I like to rinse it all off when I transplant so there is no foreign organic matter in my soup, live or dead.

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^ Some very sound advice, depending on which route you go. I've done both and no harm has come (knock on wool). I know... I'm terrible.

The root simulator, from my experience, growing 2 plants at the same time (same exact strain pulled from the same mother), the one I fed root simulator to stretched out way quicker than the one I didn't. I also cut the concentration of the usual early veg phase dose by half when I do this (less is always more with me and feeding).

At the same time when I got my aquaponics system up and running (same deal as above; same genetics), and felt that they needed to be fiddled with and freed up a bit, I did it to only one of them and the same thing as above happened. Freeing up those roots for her helped a lot, the one I did it to got a leg up on the one I didn't touch. Both plants made it to harvest, same smoke, about similar yields (can't remember, I was being bad and cherrypicking )

Definitely listen to fishdeth about the foil, I had crazy algae growing in mine and had to run a couple of hydrogen peroxide flushes. Made me cry inside...

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Bloody hell, I am so sorry I didn't write back after all this time. Haven't had the time lately for anything lately, good thing soil doesn't require much attention. Didn't check up on my girl in five days straight and nothing happened. Won't be able to pull that one off with my DWC.

Thank you so much for all your comments, the advice all of you gave me is fantastic, I took notes and I'll remember to keep them all in mind on next grows to come. Hope all is well with you.

TheStickMan said:

I'm a bit late to the party mate but well done, looking good! I like your cab, always wanted to build my own, but laziness got the better of me so I got the tent! I'd recommend lining it with Orca instead of Mylar.
And loving the DWC bucket, theres a lot of bubbles in there!

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Thanks a lot Stick, good that you joined. Things have been really fast paced here so I had little to no time to catch up on RIU, but everythings back to normal. Glad to have you along!

So, a long overdue update is at hand. The last grow didn't turn out to be successful at all. I've taken notes so if I ever try germinating with rockwool again, I'll be ready. I started over using the same strain (won't be giving up on it) and made quite a few changes to me setup.

The bin I bought from Ikea came with this lid that in the center wasn't entirely flat. That didn't allow me to fit the netpot snug in the hole and caused a lot of light leaks. I had to tape mylar all over the lid, but that started to really annoy me (and my eyes). I hated cutting corners so I just ordered the biggest netpot I could find online in Poland and after a lot of cutting and sweating (I had no idea plastic from Ikea was THAT durable) I managed to make a perfect 15cm wide hole. The new netpot, while bigger, fits snugly in and the best part is that no light is present in the reservoir.

I also got a some expanded clay pellets from aqua canna as I didn't want to trust those previous gardening store bought ones.

Lastly I was fed up of having to remove the tubing through the holes I drilled in the reservoir, making everything wet around me and having to re-weave the tubing back after I was done with cleaning. So I bought these handy little hose connectors and after a bit of measuring and cutting I now have a much more enjoyable time dismantling the whole setup when I need to clean out the res.

Of course I forgot to mention the seed. As mentioned before I order the same strain and also got a good idea of buying starter plugs. I've read a lot of good about them, so I decided to give them a try. I popped the seed in, placed the moistened plug into a fish tank, covered with cling-film and placed the whole "propagator" on my heated bathroom floor. Keeps the temperature inside the tank at a steady 27C/80F. I hope that this time everything will go well, because apparently you can't go wrong with these rapid rooter plugs.
It's been two days since so I REALLY hope that tomorrow or the day after tomorrow I'll wake up to a nice surprise.

Fingers crossed for this times approach, I really want to try some hydroponics.
P.S. sorry for the long absence.

The new tubing connection.

Looks like you are getting things perfected over here as well !
Every run, you will find something you can do to make things better/easier.
Good luck with that seed !