Hello everyone,
I am new to the forum but I have been reading ALOT and I must say some of you are very talented in this hobby. I would like to first start off my Grow Journal by pointing out that
I AM 100% NEW TO THIS HOBBY. I do plan on doing more harvests as the time comes but as for now this will be a "Trial" run if you may. I will be growing inside of a Super Closet Deluxe 3.0! This Closet comes with most of everything one will need to get started but even though I am a beginning hobbyist I notice that it lacks room in the Vegetative room and it does not allow for you to maneuver the light so it can get proper lighting.
Another thing that I found bothersome with this Closet is that it has 1 small fan that is "Supposed" to do all the cooling down; From what I can feel and see, it seems like I will need to incorporate a new fan sooner or later.
I started my grow on June 4th
Today I received my Super Lemon Haze seeds (10x non feminized - AKA SLH) with a bonus of Haze G-13 seeds (5x non feminized - AKA H-G13). I put 5x SLH and 5x H-G13 seeds in damp separate paper towels and placed them inside of a sandwich bags. (1x paper towel and 1x sandwich bag
EACH). I placed them both inside of a towel and put them under a pillow on one of my beds that no one uses. I planned to check up on the seeds every few hours throughout the day in variables of 7 hours.
Today I checked up on my seeds and I have not seen any changes with them. The paper towels felt a-lot dryer than they were the day before, I took the paper towels out of their bags and put them onto a plate. I poured very little amounts of bottled drinking water onto the paper towels to get the
MOIST again. I placed them back inside their sandwich bags and placed them back inside the towel and under the pillow.
Today I awake and find that some of my seeds have cracked; I waited until I got off of work that day to see if any of the other seeds would have cracked. (9 hour period) When I got home I checked my seeds and all have cracked and sprung little "Tails"! Time to move them over to some Rock Wool! I presoaked the Rock Wool in some bottled drinking water. Once the Rock Wool was nice and damp with a little more weight than they started I soaked a pair of new tweezers in some Rubbing Alcohol. After a minute or so I used those tweezers to plant my cracked seeds inside of the Rock Wool. I put the "Tail" end down and seed up and closed the Rock Wool.
Take not here that I did not measure correctly how far down inside the Rock Wool. After I was done I placed the Rock Wool inside of the Super Closet Deluxe 3.0 "Vegetation" room with the lights off. I turned on the Carbon Filter and the small fan in the top "Flowering" room for ventilation and fresh air to be distributed throughout the Super Closet Deluxe.
I awake to find that none of my seedlings have spouted yet; I was aware it didn't happen overnight so I picked up the Rock Wool to see how heavy they were. I poured a small amount of bottled drinking water on each of the Rock Wool to get them damp again so they could feed the seedlings. After doing so I was off to work. (9 hour period) Once I arrived home I checked on my plants. To my surprise a few of them have sprouted a small like tiny stem. Again, I did not expect much from them yet. I checked to see how heavy they were and watered which ones felt as if they needed a bit more water.
- June 8, 2012 (The day were I messed up
)
I awake to find that a majority of my plants have sprouted! Oh Boy! Oh Boy! I watered which plants that needed be and turned on my lights in the vegetation room. After I was done with the watering and such I advised my Uncle to watch over them for me because I
HAD to go out of the city for the weekend and I would not be back until Sunday night. (10th of June)
Attached are a few pictures of my seedlings.
I rushed home so I could see what had become of my babies! When I got home I was devastated to see that all of my plants were completely wilting/wilted. I quickly watered the plants and placed them up top in the "Flowering" room under the 400w HPS light with the dome covering the sprouts (misted with bottled water). I placed the 400w HPS light about 12 inches above the tops of my sprouts and went to bed calling it a BAD day in all. (When I arrived home it was about 12 am; the sprouts were under the 400w HPS light at around 1:10 am.)
On June 11 2012 I was still looking for any updates on whether or not my plants would recover from their mishap on June 8 through the 10 - I noticed that some of the sprouts that were bent over were now at "Full Salute" if you will. I hope that my SLH seeds recover because at the moment I have 5x of them in my garden and only one is in good condition. I have 2 that are sprouted but are withered and I am trying to recover them. I also have 2x that have not even sprouted yet. As for my H-G13 side I have 4 perfectly good sprouts and 1 never sprouted so I removed that from the equation. Also, I have pictures of everything and I will upload them as soon as I can inside this Journal.
Recovery still in affect; last few days I have been monitoring my plants as much as possible. I feed it on the same schedule I've been doing. Not many changes have taken part. Today I have ordered parts to make a drip system for my cloner, now I will be able to feed my plants automatically. I will be feeding my seedlings just regular bottled drinking water.
