Hey everyone, welcome to my journal for my first autoflower grow. I have grown photos many moons ago with varying successes and I am an experienced vegetable gardener. This is the first grow that I have bought specific soil and nutrients. Two plants will live in the garden and one is going guerilla style. I live in south east England and we are having some amazing weather at the moment and my girls are off to a nice start. Here we grow...
I started with 3 Think Different seeds and used the paper towel germination technique. I put damp paper towels in a small pot with a lid and placed it on top of an old freeview TV box for a gentle heat source. They all germinated within 24 hours! I swear this method works faster than anything else.
For planting I put an inch of stones on the bottom of 14 litre buckets then filled them with all mix. I cut the bottom off two small plant pots and dug them (empty) into the all mix. I then filled the small pots with un-fertilised soil. The theory behind this is that by the time the seedling is established enough the roots would have reached the well fertilised all mix and I won't have to risk transplant shock. I sprayed the soil with water to evenly wet it and planted the seeds tap root down about 1/4 inch deep. This was on the 15th, it's now the 20th and they are doing great.
I have been putting the girls in sunlight in the greenhouse until it gets too hot and the in partial shade and moving them about throughout the day so they have light but not its not scorching. It's supposed to rain and be cloudy for most of the next week so fingers crossed I won't end up with just one set of leaves and a foot tall plant!
That's it for now,
Peace
I started with 3 Think Different seeds and used the paper towel germination technique. I put damp paper towels in a small pot with a lid and placed it on top of an old freeview TV box for a gentle heat source. They all germinated within 24 hours! I swear this method works faster than anything else.
For planting I put an inch of stones on the bottom of 14 litre buckets then filled them with all mix. I cut the bottom off two small plant pots and dug them (empty) into the all mix. I then filled the small pots with un-fertilised soil. The theory behind this is that by the time the seedling is established enough the roots would have reached the well fertilised all mix and I won't have to risk transplant shock. I sprayed the soil with water to evenly wet it and planted the seeds tap root down about 1/4 inch deep. This was on the 15th, it's now the 20th and they are doing great.
I have been putting the girls in sunlight in the greenhouse until it gets too hot and the in partial shade and moving them about throughout the day so they have light but not its not scorching. It's supposed to rain and be cloudy for most of the next week so fingers crossed I won't end up with just one set of leaves and a foot tall plant!
That's it for now,
Peace
my girls are about half the size they should be and are growing very slowly. I wish I had lights to start them off but I can't swing it. I'm getting a little worried that they won't be very big at all by the time flowering stage comes 
