Germination results, Seedling progress
So far, I have germinated six seeds as described in the overview, five as described earlier, and one more since then. All were day one above ground in a peat plug within 72 hours of the initial soak.
Although the peat plug approach worked perfectly, I am still not completely satisfied with it. I do not trust the synthetic mesh that holds the plug together to not distort or constrict roots, and cutting the bottom off as suggested on Cocoforcannabis.com is a pain in the butt. The thinking cap is on for the next round...
November 24 update.
All girls are progressing, including the recently transplanted Northern Lights.
Here they are as a group:
And here they are individually:
Dinamed Auto Kush CBD - this one will be a stud plant after CS reversal. Now on day 17, topped two days ago. She will be staying in the small pot to speed things up and keep her size under control. Good theory that.
Seedsman Auto Strawberry Cheesecake - Also day 17, in her final pot. Also topped two days ago, and soon to be on the reservoir.
Mephisto Auto Creme de la Chem x 3 Bears OG - Day 15, also in its final pot. Not sure about topping yet, but possible. Soon to be on reservoir. Its slightly smaller sister was binned earlier. This one is becoming quite the stinker already.
Seedsman Auto Northern Lights - This at Day 9 is the plant I germinated to replace the stunted and distorted sister germinated earlier. She is from the third and last of the three freebie NL seeds I received with my Seedsman order. All were slow, although this one and the first one seemed healthy. I could have kept the first one, but it was in soil with gnats, so I got rid of the entire plant and pot.
And that, peeps, is all for this update. Happy growing all.
December 3 update
Time for an update. Here are the all current girls in a group portrait:
Seedsman Northern Lights Auto, Day 18:
Her first day on the reservoir is today.
Seedsman Strawberry Cheesecake Auto, Day 26:
This is the lady that had what I figured was a Calcium issue earlier. She seems happy now that she has been on nutes for a while. I cut off the three leaves that were buggered some time ago.
Mephisto Genetics CDLCx3Bog, Day 26:
She seems reasonably happy for now.
Dinamed CBD Kush Auto, Day 26:
This is my stud plant that I am reversing for pollen. She has had issues for some time now that I have had a hell of a time sorting out. She was a happy camper until I removed the panty hose that was on her earlier to avoid gnats (all gone, not a single one around in weeks). Turns out that she had lots of roots embedded in the nylon, and removing it ripped all of them off. After that, she showed symptoms of overwatering, underwatering, plus some sort of nute mischief with the lower fans, (either deficiency or lockout pH is good). I suspect that all problems were precipitated by the root damage, but maybe I just screwed up the watering. At any rate, I am now watering to ~10% or so runoff, and she seems to need it close to daily given the small pot. In this photo, she was starting to sag again, and I had just watered her again. She was on ~700EC or so for the last couple fertigations, but I dialed that back to ~550EC for this and a few more to see whether there is any lockout going on. I may just have to get her on higher EC later, but figured I should dial her back first. She is on about day five of CS spraying. I spray the entire plant from above and below just before lights out.
Anyway, she is alive, and I will likely get pollen, so ugly or not, maybe she will do the job.
Dinamed CBD Kush Auto, Day 2
This will be the mother plant for seed and some bud if I get pollen off her sister. So far, so good.
Happy growing peeps.
Although the peat plug approach worked perfectly, I am still not completely satisfied with it. I do not trust the synthetic mesh that holds the plug together to not distort or constrict roots, and cutting the bottom off as suggested on Cocoforcannabis.com is a pain in the butt. The thinking cap is on for the next round...
November 24 update.
All girls are progressing, including the recently transplanted Northern Lights.
Here they are as a group:
And here they are individually:
Dinamed Auto Kush CBD - this one will be a stud plant after CS reversal. Now on day 17, topped two days ago. She will be staying in the small pot to speed things up and keep her size under control. Good theory that.
Seedsman Auto Strawberry Cheesecake - Also day 17, in her final pot. Also topped two days ago, and soon to be on the reservoir.
Mephisto Auto Creme de la Chem x 3 Bears OG - Day 15, also in its final pot. Not sure about topping yet, but possible. Soon to be on reservoir. Its slightly smaller sister was binned earlier. This one is becoming quite the stinker already.
Seedsman Auto Northern Lights - This at Day 9 is the plant I germinated to replace the stunted and distorted sister germinated earlier. She is from the third and last of the three freebie NL seeds I received with my Seedsman order. All were slow, although this one and the first one seemed healthy. I could have kept the first one, but it was in soil with gnats, so I got rid of the entire plant and pot.
And that, peeps, is all for this update. Happy growing all.
December 3 update
Time for an update. Here are the all current girls in a group portrait:
Seedsman Northern Lights Auto, Day 18:
Her first day on the reservoir is today.
Seedsman Strawberry Cheesecake Auto, Day 26:
This is the lady that had what I figured was a Calcium issue earlier. She seems happy now that she has been on nutes for a while. I cut off the three leaves that were buggered some time ago.
Mephisto Genetics CDLCx3Bog, Day 26:
She seems reasonably happy for now.
Dinamed CBD Kush Auto, Day 26:
This is my stud plant that I am reversing for pollen. She has had issues for some time now that I have had a hell of a time sorting out. She was a happy camper until I removed the panty hose that was on her earlier to avoid gnats (all gone, not a single one around in weeks). Turns out that she had lots of roots embedded in the nylon, and removing it ripped all of them off. After that, she showed symptoms of overwatering, underwatering, plus some sort of nute mischief with the lower fans, (either deficiency or lockout pH is good). I suspect that all problems were precipitated by the root damage, but maybe I just screwed up the watering. At any rate, I am now watering to ~10% or so runoff, and she seems to need it close to daily given the small pot. In this photo, she was starting to sag again, and I had just watered her again. She was on ~700EC or so for the last couple fertigations, but I dialed that back to ~550EC for this and a few more to see whether there is any lockout going on. I may just have to get her on higher EC later, but figured I should dial her back first. She is on about day five of CS spraying. I spray the entire plant from above and below just before lights out.
Anyway, she is alive, and I will likely get pollen, so ugly or not, maybe she will do the job.
Dinamed CBD Kush Auto, Day 2
This will be the mother plant for seed and some bud if I get pollen off her sister. So far, so good.
Happy growing peeps.
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