My first grow ever - pics. Please comment

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Hi Guys!
One week ago, my first seed germinated and went into a rock wool cube. In total I have two seedlings and in one week I plan on planting 3 more. These are going to serve as mothers from which I will take clones for a SOG grow. My strain is AK-47. They are plantedin rockwool and will be served with a drip system once they grow a bit bigger. I am posting images and I am thankful for any comment and advice.
So far I have kept them on 24 hour lighting under 2 flourescent lighting 32 watt t8 with 6500 K.

The smallest plant had a problem in the beginning. The two leafs that open, opened each on one side of a rogue root that for some reason had grown upwards. I had to damage one of these two leaves for the plant to be able to break free. It is one week and one day since I planted the bigger plant, and the smaller one is two days younger, because it germinated a bit slower. The rockwool cubes are 1 inch ones...just for reference.
What do you guys think? Normal growth rate? I have used a half strenght miracle grow 4-12-4 solution since I could first see green above surface. Not exactly hydro nutes...is this a problem?
 

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Erysichthon

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i guess i didnt read the whole post last time. you should no be using any nutes yet on seedlings. they will do fine with pure water. hitting them with nutes can easily result in burning
 
JeepBeep

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Minnestoner said:
yeah no nutes yet, dont want to burn them this early. just use water man.
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yeah seriously, i accidently waterted one of my new baby clones yesterday with my water for my plants that are in flower... welll needless to say she didnt look to good this morning =( Purple power gone = /
 
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JeepBeep said:
yeah seriously, i accidently waterted one of my new baby clones yesterday with my water for my plants that are in flower... welll needless to say she didnt look to good this morning =( Purple power gone = /
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I see... Will switch to pure water right away. Thanks you guys!
+ rep to all of you for helping
 
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Two more seeds have germinated and gone in rockwool. Will keep everyone updated as soon as they break ground level. Just a quick question... When you guys put seeds in rockwool...do you cover up the hole afterwards ? I have scraped the rockwool together to cover the hole. Is this what you guys do also??
 
nellyatcha

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morgulator said:
Hi Guys!
One week ago, my first seed germinated and went into a rock wool cube. In total I have two seedlings and in one week I plan on planting 3 more. These are going to serve as mothers from which I will take clones for a SOG grow. My strain is AK-47. They are plantedin rockwool and will be served with a drip system once they grow a bit bigger. I am posting images and I am thankful for any comment and advice.
So far I have kept them on 24 hour lighting under 2 flourescent lighting 32 watt t8 with 6500 K.

The smallest plant had a problem in the beginning. The two leafs that open, opened each on one side of a rogue root that for some reason had grown upwards. I had to damage one of these two leaves for the plant to be able to break free. It is one week and one day since I planted the bigger plant, and the smaller one is two days younger, because it germinated a bit slower. The rockwool cubes are 1 inch ones...just for reference.
What do you guys think? Normal growth rate? I have used a half strenght miracle grow 4-12-4 solution since I could first see green above surface. Not exactly hydro nutes...is this a problem?
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sorry but you can mother a ak47 or 48 they are autoflowering plants and you cant clone them so seeds it is for ya
 
nellyatcha

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morgulator said:
Two more seeds have germinated and gone in rockwool. Will keep everyone updated as soon as they break ground level. Just a quick question... When you guys put seeds in rockwool...do you cover up the hole afterwards ? I have scraped the rockwool together to cover the hole. Is this what you guys do also??
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your really supposed to germinate else where and then make the holes for the rockwool and drop the seed in after it germinated and then cover it up in rockwool so the tap root doesnt pretude through the top
 
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nellyatcha said:
sorry but you can mother a ak47 or 48 they are autoflowering plants and you cant clone them so seeds it is for ya
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Are you sure about what you are saying? I have seen a couple of youtube vids where ak 47 are used as mothers and taken clones from, while all the time kept in veg. Also, the seed shop, where I got the seeds are not saying anything about autoflowering. A second opinion....anyone??
 
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nellyatcha said:
your really supposed to germinate else where and then make the holes for the rockwool and drop the seed in after it germinated and then cover it up in rockwool so the tap root doesnt pretude through the top
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This is what I did...I wasn't clear on that. They were germinated in water and then put in the rockwool after they cracked and showed root.
 
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flogger said:
I am a noob but I have AK 48 seed and the package said nothing about auto-flowering.
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Thank you for that! I am starting to freak out...Anyone else that have any experience mothering ak 47 and ak 48. Anyone who really KNOWS that they are not autoflowering?
 
GoldenGanja13

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morgulator said:
Two more seeds have germinated and gone in rockwool. Will keep everyone updated as soon as they break ground level. Just a quick question... When you guys put seeds in rockwool...do you cover up the hole afterwards ? I have scraped the rockwool together to cover the hole. Is this what you guys do also??
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Yep thats what I would of done.
 
medicinal67

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morgulator said:
Hi Guys!
One week ago, my first seed germinated and went into a rock wool cube. In total I have two seedlings and in one week I plan on planting 3 more. These are going to serve as mothers from which I will take clones for a SOG grow. My strain is AK-47. They are plantedin rockwool and will be served with a drip system once they grow a bit bigger. I am posting images and I am thankful for any comment and advice.
So far I have kept them on 24 hour lighting under 2 flourescent lighting 32 watt t8 with 6500 K.

The smallest plant had a problem in the beginning. The two leafs that open, opened each on one side of a rogue root that for some reason had grown upwards. I had to damage one of these two leaves for the plant to be able to break free. It is one week and one day since I planted the bigger plant, and the smaller one is two days younger, because it germinated a bit slower. The rockwool cubes are 1 inch ones...just for reference.
What do you guys think? Normal growth rate? I have used a half strenght miracle grow 4-12-4 solution since I could first see green above surface. Not exactly hydro nutes...is this a problem?
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Looks great! Good Luck!
 
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So it's saturday, and I think I'm going to make it a habit to take new pics every saturday and post them so you guys can follow the progress and hopefully give me some pointers along the way.
These are the pics for this week
As you can see I have moved the biggest plant over to a bigger rockwool cube. The roots were poking out at the bottom of the small one. At the same time the growth of the plant seemed to slow down so I moved it over to a bigger cube. I have also recently started misting once a day with only water.

The small plant with an attitude problem is still acting up. It doesn't grow much...just basically sits there. Yesterday I made one last desperate attempt to make it grow by poking that rougue root downwards into the rock wool cube and the closing the rockwool on top of it. I don't know if it's going to make any difference, but at least I tried before throwing it out.
The three seeds that I planted are still not showing "above ground"...patience is a virtue.

This plant is about a week and a half old. Judging by the size...is everything normal?? Not talking about the small one now..lol
 

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