Seeding Advice Please

[StankyDanky]

What’s up growers,

Newbie here starting my second grow. I’d like opinions on how my seedlings look and any advice on what I need to do if you see problems. All three were planted Sunday 4/3 within 12 hours of each other; Deelite and Blueberry Gusto #1 in the morning and B Gusto #2 that evening. The Deelite and Blueberry Gusto #1 broke through the soil Tuesday 4/5 and the second B Gusto Wednesday 4/6. I also have a Pineapple bean planted Monday 4/4 that hasn’t shown herself yet (should I be concerned?) These are all in 3 gallon pots with Fox Farm Ocean Forest with a solo cup sized plug of Happy Frog. 2x2x4 tent with Vivosun VS1000 LED at 25% power 24/0. RH is 68-70%. Temp 70 degrees. Any and all advice and suggestions appreciated.

 

[Big Sul]

Good rule of thumb is 78 deg daytime, 68 night. Plants looking good.

 

[automan2]

Great start. With 3 plants, it'll be simple to use one as a guinea pig to learn what works and what doesn't. Understanding Proper watering frequency is a must with a hot medium. Good luck.

 

[durbanpoisoner]

Looks good. I like to use a light meter to gauge intensity. I use the photone app on iOS with a paper diffuser. I keep it under 15k lux for seedlings, 45k for veg, 85k for flower. OF tends to be a little hot for autos and you may notice some mild n-tox. You may not see it if you mixed it with happy frog.

 

[StankyDanky]

Good rule of thumb is 78 deg daytime, 68 night. Plants looking good.

Thanks for looking and taking the time to comment. I was thinking Blueberry Gusto #1 was stretching a little.

 

[StankyDanky]

Great start. With 3 plants, it'll be simple to use one as a guinea pig to learn what works and what doesn't. Understanding Proper watering frequency is a must with a hot medium. Good luck.

I was three out of four. The Pineapple seed never showed herself. I just started germinating another one yesterday.

 

[StankyDanky]

Looks good. I like to use a light meter to gauge intensity. I use the photone app on iOS with a paper diffuser. I keep it under 15k lux for seedlings, 45k for veg, 85k for flower. OF tends to be a little hot for autos and you may notice some mild n-tox. You may not see it if you mixed it with happy frog.

I use the same app but I use PPFD. 15k lux would be about 385 umol/s/m2 correct? I’m at about 200. I didn’t have any problems with the Ocean Forest on my first grow but after reading a lot of comments on how hot it is, I left a solo cup size hole in the middle that I filled with Happy Frog. That should give them a little cushion before their roots reach the Ocean Forest.

 

[JoeBogs]

Rookie here who’s been all about experimenting. Best for me has been soaking seeds 24hrs in distilled water then in soil and kept an average of 75 deg 75 humidity. 7 outta 7 sprouted in about 60hours. Also finding it doesn’t matter what my light is doing or where seeds sit in tent as long as my photone app shows anywhere from 200-450 ppfd. I have 2 plants in the middle starting flower at 80% on a 630w about 32” from canopy and sprouts on sides are about 45”. Everybodys happy inside. Put 4 straight outside after soaking and they popped together at about 70 hours. They’ll stay outside entire life in small pots as pure experiments. I use 70/30 HF/OF mix (if I don’t have goldfish or fish heads to put near the bottom I put just OF for bottom few inches) along with pwdered nutes (Down To Earth) layered up and topped with red worms. All I do is water. Hardy freakin plants man, subject each one to slightly diff light and/or nutes and just see what happens.

 

[JoeBogs]

I’d highly recommend a handful of this mixed in to your cup of HF

 

[StankyDanky]

Rookie here who’s been all about experimenting. Best for me has been soaking seeds 24hrs in distilled water then in soil and kept an average of 75 deg 75 humidity. 7 outta 7 sprouted in about 60hours. Also finding it doesn’t matter what my light is doing or where seeds sit in tent as long as my photone app shows anywhere from 200-450 ppfd. I have 2 plants in the middle starting flower at 80% on a 630w about 32” from canopy and sprouts on sides are about 45”. Everybodys happy inside. Put 4 straight outside after soaking and they popped together at about 70 hours. They’ll stay outside entire life in small pots as pure experiments. I use 70/30 HF/OF mix (if I don’t have goldfish or fish heads to put near the bottom I put just OF for bottom few inches) along with pwdered nutes (Down To Earth) layered up and topped with red worms. All I do is water. Hardy freakin plants man, subject each one to slightly diff light and/or nutes and just see what happens.View attachment 1443510View attachment 1443511View attachment 1443512

Thanks for commenting. What you’re doing seems to be working. Beautiful girls you have there.