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So I will be Journaling all my future grows on this thread. Its too much work to keep starting new threads.

With that said this grow will be from In-House genetics. I will be growing 1 Slurricane #7 S1 and 1 Forbidden Jelly. Both are sativa leaning strains that are suppose to have some very strong terpene profiles and potency too. I have grown out Forbidden Jelly in the past and even with my limited experience had an amazing candy, berry jelly flavor.

Set up

Tent: ac infinity 3x3

Light and exhaust: Ionboard S44 full spectrum light with far red and IR and ac infinity 6" exhaust kit w/refillable filter

Soil: Fox Farm Happy Frog

Pots: Rain Science 5 gallon mesh bags

Nutrients: Down to Earth Veggie Garden 4-4-4 for veg, and Down to Earth Flower Garden 2-6-5

Prep

I charged my last 2 cubic foot bag of soil with 15 tablespoons of the veggie garden about 6 days ago. I wanted the microbes to have a chance to break some down before throwing the beans down. The pots were sitting in my mixing bin sealed with the remainder of my soil till today. Soil is still nice and moist so beans will be going down later today. Pics to come later. Running light at 20% 24/0 till they break ground. The IR helps keep the heat up.

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Alright beans down!

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This is my first go at 100% organic and over the next few grows will be trying to work out the kinks to get as close as possible to a water only regimen. Will be looking for help on the way through this one so whoever stops by please keep that in mind. If anyone notices Im doing anything that seems counter productive feel free to speak up.
 
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So I was a little anxious because the beans I dropped were the 2 worst looking beans, basically straight tan, no marbling or anything.

Brushed away the soil to see 2 sprouts just about to break the surface. Should be up and out and standing up by tomorrow. The Slurricane might take another half day. Its a tad deeper than the Forbidden Jelly, but glad to see both germinated. If they have broken ground in the morning I will upload pics. Can't believe they germinated as fast as they did. Its been a couple grows since I've had a germ within 72 hours.

Process:

Prepped pots and gave each .75 gallons of water 2-3 hours before dropping beans. Pushed a divet in soil up to first knuckle on pinky dropped and covered. Then sprayed generously when soil was just about to completely dry out. As soon as the edges of the pot were starting to become dry to the touch. Probably going to keep doing this. The last couple grows I just dropped the beans in and gave it a splash of water. My germ times went from 24-72 hours to about 5-8 days. Now that I know the method I used here is more efficient it will be my germ method from here on out.
 
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The seedlings are up but both still have helmets, and the husks are TOUGH. Tried prying them off with a tweezers but they seem to still be fuzed to the cotyledon or the cotyledon haven't finished developing yet. Gave them a heavy spray down to soften them up and hopefully they crack open a bit more

Slurricane #7 S1
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Forbidden Jelly
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Helmets off. 45 minutes after giving them a heavy spray the Forbidden Jelly had thrown its helmet, and with a little tlc and a tweezers I got the Slurricane #7 S1. Though I think the Slurricane is premature. Looks like the cotyledon are hugging something. Hopefully thats not a bad thing. 🤷🏼‍♂️ with all that I made a humidity dome to keep them in a more humidity stable environment amd will be taking them off as soon as the cotyledon open up and face the light.

Slurricane #7 S1
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Very healthy looking seedlings, compared to my last grow

I know Im beating a dead horse editing again but the girls are up cotyledon open and sucking up light. First true leaves are poking through. Looking great.
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Day 1 Veg New
I forgot to tag the sprouts popping out as day 1 so I guess we'll make it today. About a 2 day discrepancy. Appearently the photo size got an update and I can upload my 200mp pics. This grow should be fun to journal now.

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Pots were starting to get a little light when heating plus I wanted to take some pictures and adjust stuff in the tent.

Watered each with a 1/4 gallon of plain spring water, no ph or anything. One thing Im going to do is rough up the first inch and a half of soil and leave about 2 inches around the seedlings. Before as I veg went on roots held the surface together like velcro. So when top dressing time arrives I wanna be able to mix in with relative ease and Im hoping constantly agitating the surface soil will keep the roots at bay.

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Forbidden Jelly
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Both pics are lights off, wanted accurate color.

The other thing I did was take the clip on and reposition it so every once and a while the get a little jiggle when a breeze is strong enough.

Edit:

Forgot to add adjusted the height of the light, still at 20 percent. Don't know the exact height but with photone, set to full spectrum plus red, and a paper defuse on my galaxy s24 ultra Im getting a ppfd of around 250-255 directly on top of both plants and am running an 18/6 cycle.

And here his environmentals
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Maybe to minimize roots growing near the surface mix in more or use straight perlite for better drainage, faster drying, etc. You can remove it later if needed; or let it be the medium for watering in your top dressings.

Regarding, "Watered each with a 1/4 gallon of plain spring water:" Seems too much water for just sprouted seedlings. You start with saturated medium. Let the plants grow roots down looking for moisture. At this young age as you experienced, keep the top of the medium saturated and the roots will simply concentrate there.

Starting sprouts in 5 gallon bags using coco with >25% perlite pre-treated (drain-to-waste) with 1/2-dose nutes I often go several weeks before first watering and then I use full dose grow nutes. Even then, the pot/bag is often still fairly heavy (not really needing watering).
 
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Maybe to minimize roots growing near the surface mix in more or use straight perlite for better drainage, faster drying, etc. You can remove it later if needed; or let it be the medium for watering in your top dressings.

Regarding, "Watered each with a 1/4 gallon of plain spring water:" Seems too much water for just sprouted seedlings. You start with saturated medium. Let the plants grow roots down looking for moisture. At this young age as you experienced, keep the top of the medium saturated and the roots will simply concentrate there.

Starting sprouts in 5 gallon bags using coco with >25% perlite pre-treated (drain-to-waste) with 1/2-dose nutes I often go several weeks before first watering and then I use full dose grow nutes. Even then, the pot/bag is often still fairly heavy (not really needing watering).
Im just trying to combat the dryness in my basement. Not 100% sure why but the humidity outside the tent is in the mid 40% range and it seems like after a couple days. I didn't start with completely saturated soil. I mixed in my dry amendments and gave a whole 2 cu.ft. bag 1 gallon of water and like a cup and a half of extra perlite I had leftover. Let that cook for like a week and even in my big tote with the lid clipped on it still dried out quite a bit. When I sowed the seeds I added some more water. Like it said almost .75 gallons. After 3 days the pots had some weight but I could stick my finger down about 2inches and it was dry to the touch, so I added a little more.

Seemed like 90 percent of the weight was at the bottom of the pot for sure, but I didn't water the seedlings, just around the edges of the pot and I let the water work its way to the center using capillary action. It was mostly a choice to raise the humidity. After that first inch of soil dried up my humidity went from 70% to 50% which no isnt life or death for a seedling I just wanted a little boost. Surface is already completely dried out, well the first half inch or so. It evaporates quick at the beginning of a grow for me for some reason.
 
Regarding "Seemed like 90 percent of the weight was at the bottom of the pot for sure:" Water seeping to lowest point is normal and what roots expect; it's normal for the surface to be rather dry.

I'd just ignore the surface layer drying out; it's not where you want roots to grow; and find another way to raise humidity. A cheap small humidifier, hanging wet towels, etc. could be options.
 
Regarding "Seemed like 90 percent of the weight was at the bottom of the pot for sure:" Water seeping to lowest point is normal and what roots expect; it's normal for the surface to be rather dry.

I'd just ignore the surface layer drying out; it's not where you want roots to grow; and find another way to raise humidity. A cheap small humidifier, hanging wet towels, etc. could be options.
I had a humidifier but I ruined it by putting spring water in it instead of distilled (let it sit for months and there was corrosionon everything). Brain fart on my end. Been putting it off but its on the supply list for the winter months. The minerals in the water killed the ultrasonic vaporizer.
 
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