VictorFlorez
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So I guess I'll start a journal for this. First time indoors and first time with coco. Please feel free to chime in, as I'm new to this and willing to soak up as much guidance and constructive criticism as possible.
I'm running 5 different strains from Seedsman. I didn't want to buy anything too fancy or exotic considering it's my first time. If this goes well, I'll be more adventurous next time. I like the look of Zamaldelica X Kali China by Ace Seeds, it's on my wish list.
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On the 10th of June, I took the seed packets out of the freezer and chose 10 to soak in some shot glasses:
2x Afghan Kush, 2x White Widow, 2x Alaskan Purple, 2x Blueberry, 2x Jack Herer.
Seeds were soaked in tepid spring water for 3 hours until most sank, then placed in hydrated jiffy pellets. The pellets went in a mini greenhouse that sat on a warming mat under a couple of 23w CFL's 24/0.
The next day I could already see action, medium shifting and some tails pushing up. By the third day, 9/10 had germinated and most cotyledons were open. Solo cups were made up with pre-buffered and EC 0.6 fertigated coco + a pinch of perlite, and seeds tranplanted. CFL's switched to 18/6.
It's been a bumpy start with a few issues, but fast forward to today, and most of the seedlings are alive and starting to grow their 3rd set of leaves. I have a possible mold issue, a few white fuzzy growths on a couple of the jiffy pellets, I was hoping it could be the Great white inoculates I added to the first fertigation as the molded pellets happen to be some of the healthiest looking seedlings, but I don't like the look of it and will be using some hydrogen peroxide to get rid of it asap, as per some advice from @Roger A. Shrubber. Once the mold is gone and the seedlings treated with a few waterings of H2O2, I'll try to go back to using the Great White mycorrhizae when I do transplants, and in the occasional feed.
There's also other issues, but I'm still seeing what advice I can get about dealing with those. Mainly wavy / curled leaves, and yellowing. I'm unsure about whether it could be due to overfeeding as they are currently getting 0.8 EC, or underfeeding as a tiny bit of extra N and a foliar spray a few days ago seemed to help momentarily, but the issues remain and seem to be getting worse on a few of them. I'm leaning towards either a cal or N deficiency, or maybe overfeeding. For now I'll keep looking for answers and keep the EC as it is, trying a foliar spray for extra N and cal, to see if it makes things better or worse. If they look better, I'll up the amounts of N and cal slightly in the feeds. If all else fails, I'll drop the EC and hope I don't make it worse.
The nutes I'm using are the Hydroponic Generations (Hygen) 2 part Coco nutrients, with their other additives, and a few of my own.
I will keep this thread updated. Thanks for swinging by!
I'm running 5 different strains from Seedsman. I didn't want to buy anything too fancy or exotic considering it's my first time. If this goes well, I'll be more adventurous next time. I like the look of Zamaldelica X Kali China by Ace Seeds, it's on my wish list.
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On the 10th of June, I took the seed packets out of the freezer and chose 10 to soak in some shot glasses:
2x Afghan Kush, 2x White Widow, 2x Alaskan Purple, 2x Blueberry, 2x Jack Herer.
Seeds were soaked in tepid spring water for 3 hours until most sank, then placed in hydrated jiffy pellets. The pellets went in a mini greenhouse that sat on a warming mat under a couple of 23w CFL's 24/0.
The next day I could already see action, medium shifting and some tails pushing up. By the third day, 9/10 had germinated and most cotyledons were open. Solo cups were made up with pre-buffered and EC 0.6 fertigated coco + a pinch of perlite, and seeds tranplanted. CFL's switched to 18/6.
It's been a bumpy start with a few issues, but fast forward to today, and most of the seedlings are alive and starting to grow their 3rd set of leaves. I have a possible mold issue, a few white fuzzy growths on a couple of the jiffy pellets, I was hoping it could be the Great white inoculates I added to the first fertigation as the molded pellets happen to be some of the healthiest looking seedlings, but I don't like the look of it and will be using some hydrogen peroxide to get rid of it asap, as per some advice from @Roger A. Shrubber. Once the mold is gone and the seedlings treated with a few waterings of H2O2, I'll try to go back to using the Great White mycorrhizae when I do transplants, and in the occasional feed.
There's also other issues, but I'm still seeing what advice I can get about dealing with those. Mainly wavy / curled leaves, and yellowing. I'm unsure about whether it could be due to overfeeding as they are currently getting 0.8 EC, or underfeeding as a tiny bit of extra N and a foliar spray a few days ago seemed to help momentarily, but the issues remain and seem to be getting worse on a few of them. I'm leaning towards either a cal or N deficiency, or maybe overfeeding. For now I'll keep looking for answers and keep the EC as it is, trying a foliar spray for extra N and cal, to see if it makes things better or worse. If they look better, I'll up the amounts of N and cal slightly in the feeds. If all else fails, I'll drop the EC and hope I don't make it worse.
The nutes I'm using are the Hydroponic Generations (Hygen) 2 part Coco nutrients, with their other additives, and a few of my own.
I will keep this thread updated. Thanks for swinging by!
