Lighting Grow Diary. Three Afghan Kush Ryder and one Critical Cheese.

[steelrat]

Have reordered the seeds, the freebie has changed from Delicious seeds Critical Jack Herer to Dinafem seeds Critical Cheese Auto.

Is there any way i can edit the thread title or is that a job for a mod ?

They should arrive by Monday latest.


steelrat

 

[steelrat]

The new seeds arrived :



I've put them in tumblers of water and will wait until the taproot has grown before putting them in damp kitchen towel wrapped in clingfilm :



The tumblers are in a warm, dark place (the growbox) :



Now wait for the gorgeous little things to pop


steely

 

[steelrat]

The new growbox is a foot igher than the old one so i have ordered 3L pots instead of using the old 2L pots.

May as well maximise the plant size/yield, matching the increased box size.


steely

 

[steelrat]

Hi

So the critical cheese had a weird little bump on it when it was dry, something i've not seen before.

Now that it's been 36 hours germing, looks like the bump has detached from the seed :



Maybe some kind of husk like you get with organic rice ? I dunno ...

The AKR's now have tiny little tails, so by the 48 hour mark it'll be time for planting :



You can't see the taproots so it's a boring photo !

So they should befully germed by tomorrow, which is when the 3L pots should arrive.

Can't wait to do the 'day 1' post


steely

 

[steelrat]

Just looking at the ciritcal cheese photo and thinking, i hope it hadn't started germing before it arrived and that's what the bump was, because that detached bit looks suspiciously like a taproot ?

Every grow brings new mysteries !


steely

 

[steelrat]

Have transferred the seeds to damp kitchen towel wrapped in clingfilm :



Should be around midday tomorrow they get planted.


steely

 

[steelrat]

Today is a good day

So the 3L pots arrived :



Here is how they compare to the 2L pots :



Plant Magic compost, nice and airy mix, low nutrient level :



I filled the pots with compost :



Poured half as much water as the pots total volume (so 1.5L of water) :



Allow the excess water to runoff and see the soil level drop :



Fill to the top with more soil then add more water until that runs off :



Final wet soil level :



The AKR seeds have all cracked :



The Critical Cheese isn't quite there yet but maybe later on today.

I made a half-inch hole with a scredriver tip and, using tweezers, placed the AKR seeds in the hole so that the seed casing is level with topsoil :



Then i dropped a dollop of soil on top of that, no pressing down just covering.

My first vapouriser arrived yesterday, a £20 cheapy from ebay that has great reviews all over the net, i tried it and it is L O V E L Y i must say



And more good news, got a phone call from attitude seedbank, the person who was incorrectly delivered my first seed order returned them to the seedbank !

So i have 3 more AKR plus a Critical Jack Herer on the way

Will post an update when the Cheese cracks.

eddit add - Thanks to the mod who changed my thread name


steely

 

[steelrat]

The Critical Cheese had a weird bump on it when it arrived, then the bump detached itself when i had it in the first stage of germination in a glass of water. I think this was it's taproot

It hasn't improved in the kitchen towel/clingfilm :



I think she's a gonner

Luckily i have a spare in my freebie box :



So that will go into a glass of water now, unfortunately it'll be 2 or 3 days behind the AKR's but such is life ...


steely

 

[steelrat]

Yes, definitely a bad seed so waiting for the backup to germinate.


steely

 

[steelrat]

I've cut the shelf to go on the bracketing system, nice and easy to change plant heights with this :



This is the bulb i will be using for vegging (6400k) :



The bulb is 23,400 Lumens and the 'economic lifetime' is 8,000 hours.

I have only done one grow with this bulb so it has plenty left in it yet.

The flowering bulb is 250 watts @ 19,500 Lumens with the same lifespan, i have done 5 grows with it totalling :

18 (hours per day) x 80 (days per grow) x 5 (grows) = 7,200 hours

Plus one grow where i used the veg light at first so :

18 (hours per day) x 50 (days this grow) = 900 hours

Which is (7,100 + 900) = 8,100 hours.

So this will be the last grow with this flowering bulb then i will switch to LED.


steely