Should I plant them yet???
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grapefruitmarmalade
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plant em; put light over em when they break ground. btw, from my personal experience I find last stages of germing in rockwool to be a lot faster and I can pack em in closer under a smaller light (cfl perhaps?) for a couple of days. saves a little energy and space 
As they are autoflowering I keep reading that they should be planted straight into main pot with no transplanting at all.... I have no Rockwool currently. So you suggest plant them but only add light once they break ground. So can I ask... Plant them but keep temps higher for now, then when they break ground, add light and bring temps down to mid 70's?
grapefruitmarmalade
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You can ignore the second part of my reply. It's only if you have a lot of plants. Burying hardly rooted rockwool in soil isn't exactly transplanting. Anyway.. yeah... you can turn on the lights on now if you don't check em often. I only suggested that just to save a little electricity but if you have a heater and problem with keeping temps up then sure go ahead turn that light on
I have a heater in the grow room so can push temps up to 120 degrees if I wanted so no problems with temps exactly. It's currently about 85 degrees in there for germination. I'd Planned on turning the heat down once the light was switched on as I'd heard best temps for flowering were mid 70's? I'll be checking twice a day except for this wed and thurs as I'll be away with work so can only check wed morn and thurs eve... Typical.
grapefruitmarmalade
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Yeah def turn the lights on. Don't worry too much over it lol
burner89
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So what are the seeds in right now? If the answer is paper towel, shot glass or something similar then you need to plant those asap. The longer that tail gets the higher the chances are that you will damage it when planting. Don't over think things, they are seeds which in nature sprout directly from the ground, just saying. I do follow a germination routine but have never had tails longer than a 1/2 inch before they hit the dirt. Mid 70's is fine for germing/sprouting and growing lol. I threw some seeds I made directly in the ground and had 40-50* nights and a week later had sprouts. Prolly about 80% success. We did have some warm days to though. I am not reconmending this but I wanted to see if it would work and it did. I planted them mid May and people here don't plant their gardens till the first week of june.
Good luck!!! What kinda of Autos are they?
Good luck!!! What kinda of Autos are they?
Seeds are planted in soil now which is a high hydrogen soil mixed with 25% perlite and 25% vermiculite... holds nutrients in the soil and previously I've never had to use additional nutes. They were in paper towel but have since planted them and added light. One of them has already sprouted just above the soil and can see 2 tiny small leaves so will post pics later. Since seeing those leaves I've switched air circulation on so fresh air is now being drawn into the room to lightly breeze the stems. Things seem to be working. I think cos I'm a newb with auto flowering, i was perhaps being a little over cautious. Sounds as though like me, you may be in the UK? They are White Widow feminised....
harris hawk
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Yes - next time plant seed in container you are going to use - so no transplating
burner89
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[QUOTE="shiva, post: 11660130, member: 2643" Sounds as though like me, you may be in the UK? They are White Widow feminised....[/QUOTE]
I am just a hop, skip and jump across the Atlantic in New Brunswick, Canada! I've grown a few WWA from Pyramid the last two summers outside. Trying some new autos and 3 photos outside this year.
I am just a hop, skip and jump across the Atlantic in New Brunswick, Canada! I've grown a few WWA from Pyramid the last two summers outside. Trying some new autos and 3 photos outside this year.
I am just a hop, skip and jump across the Atlantic in New Brunswick, Canada! I've grown a few WWA from Pyramid the last two summers outside. Trying some new autos and 3 photos outside this year.[/QUOTE]
Ah right, cool, wish I lived there... Canada is beautiful! Best I luck! Will keep this grow up to date so take a look of interested!
burner89
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Ah right, cool, wish I lived there... Canada is beautiful! Best I luck! Will keep this grow up to date so take a look of interested![/QUOTE]
Yup i will be watchin. What breeder are the autos from? I have a thread going in this forum for my outdoor autos.