Kingrow1
Well-Known Member
So i have seen enough failed seedlings to warrant a small journal of how to pop and loc a seedling!
First off my small but sweet veg room hidden inside a small wadrobe in my bed room. It has a two foot 'T5 lightwave' unit hanging in there with four 22watt T5 flourescents-
At this point you might marvel at its simplicity and low cost, them t5's give off over 40watts per square foot and that fan keeps temps to below 22 degrees celsius with the door to the cupboard ajar. I can grow a plant up to 12 inches in here with little or no stretch and be ready for the flowering room in 4 weeks from seed with topping, lst'ing and pinching. Do not let its non reflective walls and minimal moving parts fool you as this will yeild me some strong veg plants all year long.
On the left next to the fan is where my seedlings sprout before moving on to bigger pots and a better real estate directly under the lights.
Ok so here is a pre prepared seedling, is a little stretchy and will be repotted two inches lower on the next transplant but please notice the vibrant green leaves and bright pale brown stem with no purpling or yellowing.
So a real nice seedling, this ones gona be a super skunk and get real dirty and smelly when its older but for now its just young and innocent, enjoying the ambient temperature of 21.1 degrees celcius. I bought that nice big white fan because my pc fan just wasnt cutting those temps of the flourescent lights and at over 22 degrees celcius my young plants start to stress, also the pc fan just wasnt giving me good air exchange either, maybe i could push the temps higher but for now i feel comfortable around the 22 mark.
So enough going on already lets start that seed! So im gona plant a 'Royal Dwarf Auto Fem', some freebie the guys and girls down at 'Attitude Seedbank' gave me for ordering some sensi super skunk, very nice of them and since i have never grown an auto fem what better time than straight away to learn and grow one. Also be popping some of my own strain, 'Kingrows Dud Bagseed', which aint that good but we'll germinate this and play about with it, try and see what we can do wrong.
So basically the pics show the two seeds, royal dwarf auto fem and my seeds, we place two jiffy cubes or peat pellets in water until they have expanded fully which may take up to five minutes and pop the seeds in the handy indentation in the middle before covering and setting back in the grow room-
I remember i placed the dwarf auto fem in the middle and the kingrow1 dud to the outside of the tray, next to it are some sensi superskunk and some sweet n neat cherry tomatos, not the smokable type unfortunatly.
So basically thats it for now, i'll update when they need re-watering and when they pop the surface. Were gona give thm their first transplant and do a basic seedling soil mix as well as try out some benificial funghi and bacteria, seaweed drenches, fulvic acid and try to burn a seedling with a hot grow room and lights, overfeed and eventually overwater. Basically most scenarios where we'll end up with a decent size veg plant.
I only soil grow and don't recomend the paper towel method of germination, i prefer just to germinate straight into soil and pots but find jiffy cubes easy to use and a real time saver if i dont wana make up a soil and pot straight away.
Please post pics of seedlings and seedling setups by all means but keep things informative as im just here to learn, i dont wana hear different germination methods as i have tried them all, for the beginner this way is by far the easiest and best in soil.
My next batch of seeds and grow cupboard.Peace
First off my small but sweet veg room hidden inside a small wadrobe in my bed room. It has a two foot 'T5 lightwave' unit hanging in there with four 22watt T5 flourescents-
At this point you might marvel at its simplicity and low cost, them t5's give off over 40watts per square foot and that fan keeps temps to below 22 degrees celsius with the door to the cupboard ajar. I can grow a plant up to 12 inches in here with little or no stretch and be ready for the flowering room in 4 weeks from seed with topping, lst'ing and pinching. Do not let its non reflective walls and minimal moving parts fool you as this will yeild me some strong veg plants all year long.
On the left next to the fan is where my seedlings sprout before moving on to bigger pots and a better real estate directly under the lights.
Ok so here is a pre prepared seedling, is a little stretchy and will be repotted two inches lower on the next transplant but please notice the vibrant green leaves and bright pale brown stem with no purpling or yellowing.
So a real nice seedling, this ones gona be a super skunk and get real dirty and smelly when its older but for now its just young and innocent, enjoying the ambient temperature of 21.1 degrees celcius. I bought that nice big white fan because my pc fan just wasnt cutting those temps of the flourescent lights and at over 22 degrees celcius my young plants start to stress, also the pc fan just wasnt giving me good air exchange either, maybe i could push the temps higher but for now i feel comfortable around the 22 mark.
So enough going on already lets start that seed! So im gona plant a 'Royal Dwarf Auto Fem', some freebie the guys and girls down at 'Attitude Seedbank' gave me for ordering some sensi super skunk, very nice of them and since i have never grown an auto fem what better time than straight away to learn and grow one. Also be popping some of my own strain, 'Kingrows Dud Bagseed', which aint that good but we'll germinate this and play about with it, try and see what we can do wrong.
So basically the pics show the two seeds, royal dwarf auto fem and my seeds, we place two jiffy cubes or peat pellets in water until they have expanded fully which may take up to five minutes and pop the seeds in the handy indentation in the middle before covering and setting back in the grow room-
I remember i placed the dwarf auto fem in the middle and the kingrow1 dud to the outside of the tray, next to it are some sensi superskunk and some sweet n neat cherry tomatos, not the smokable type unfortunatly.
So basically thats it for now, i'll update when they need re-watering and when they pop the surface. Were gona give thm their first transplant and do a basic seedling soil mix as well as try out some benificial funghi and bacteria, seaweed drenches, fulvic acid and try to burn a seedling with a hot grow room and lights, overfeed and eventually overwater. Basically most scenarios where we'll end up with a decent size veg plant.
I only soil grow and don't recomend the paper towel method of germination, i prefer just to germinate straight into soil and pots but find jiffy cubes easy to use and a real time saver if i dont wana make up a soil and pot straight away.
Please post pics of seedlings and seedling setups by all means but keep things informative as im just here to learn, i dont wana hear different germination methods as i have tried them all, for the beginner this way is by far the easiest and best in soil.
My next batch of seeds and grow cupboard.Peace