day 1
May 11 I soaked 3 Northern Lights auto beans for 18 hours.
May 12 I poured them on a folded up paper towel in a dish. I put it on a shelf in the office, under my fedora to keep it dark(78°F).
May 13 the beans busted tails:
I mixed up some dirt: 3GL of last year's slightly used compost, 3GL of new compost made from leaves collected last Fall, 3GL peat moss, 2 GL perlite, and 3GL rainwater.
(mistake #1: i didn't have a good pH meter, so my soil pH is a little high at 7 or 7.2).
I put 3 gallons in each container: 2 milk crates lined with burlap and a 3GL fabric bucket:
420Forever saved my sprouts from certain destruction when he reminded me to lift one edge of my domes for air circulation. A wooden mousetrap, a piece of wood, a chunk of tree bark, and a fan did the trick.
(mistake #2)
I only buried the tails and left the helmet at ground level on advice of some old video somewhere, so the next day the helmets were already 1/2" high.
I finally got a decent pH meter (Thanks, Mark). My soil is 7.2, but i don't want to drown my sprouts so just sprinkled some rainwater with a smidgen of pH-lower around the domes. When it's time to water, I'll lower the pH of the rainwater to 6 or so I suppose?
On day 4 I noticed one sprout keeled over and separated from her root. I buried her remaining 3/4" of stem up to her neck just in case she can muster a new root. If she survives I'll call her Greta, for the 2nd person inside an old love of mine who has multiple personalities.
On day 5 I noticed that Plant #2 (Hilda?) is missing 1/2 a cotyledon. A couple hours later 1/2 a tiny leaf was also bitten off.
(mistake #3: I didn't sterilize my homemade compost). One out of the 3, Heidi, is whole. RH is a lot higher with the dome on:
That's it so far. If any of these girls miraculously survives, I'll post weekly porn. Else I have some backup seeds to soak.
May 12 I poured them on a folded up paper towel in a dish. I put it on a shelf in the office, under my fedora to keep it dark(78°F).
May 13 the beans busted tails:
I mixed up some dirt: 3GL of last year's slightly used compost, 3GL of new compost made from leaves collected last Fall, 3GL peat moss, 2 GL perlite, and 3GL rainwater.
(mistake #1: i didn't have a good pH meter, so my soil pH is a little high at 7 or 7.2).
I put 3 gallons in each container: 2 milk crates lined with burlap and a 3GL fabric bucket:
420Forever saved my sprouts from certain destruction when he reminded me to lift one edge of my domes for air circulation. A wooden mousetrap, a piece of wood, a chunk of tree bark, and a fan did the trick.
(mistake #2)
I only buried the tails and left the helmet at ground level on advice of some old video somewhere, so the next day the helmets were already 1/2" high.
I finally got a decent pH meter (Thanks, Mark). My soil is 7.2, but i don't want to drown my sprouts so just sprinkled some rainwater with a smidgen of pH-lower around the domes. When it's time to water, I'll lower the pH of the rainwater to 6 or so I suppose?
On day 4 I noticed one sprout keeled over and separated from her root. I buried her remaining 3/4" of stem up to her neck just in case she can muster a new root. If she survives I'll call her Greta, for the 2nd person inside an old love of mine who has multiple personalities.
On day 5 I noticed that Plant #2 (Hilda?) is missing 1/2 a cotyledon. A couple hours later 1/2 a tiny leaf was also bitten off.
(mistake #3: I didn't sterilize my homemade compost). One out of the 3, Heidi, is whole. RH is a lot higher with the dome on:
That's it so far. If any of these girls miraculously survives, I'll post weekly porn. Else I have some backup seeds to soak.
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