First grow Heavyweight Fruit Punch

Starting my first grow. Just wanted to start this journal, and get any feedback I can over the next few months. Any help is appreciated. I'll be posting on here hopefully a couple times a week, and maybe just updating once a week. As for my grow:

4 Heavyweight Fruit Punch feminized seeds from Herbies
Roots Organic Soil + EWC, perlite, and garden lime
Nutes: Earth Juice lineup - Grow, Bloom, Microblast, Meta-K, Catalyst, Hi-Brix, Cal/Mag, pH up and down. Also have some Hygrozyme.
3x3 Gorilla grow tent
6" Hydrofarm 400cfm fan (exhaust)
3 amp variac for the fan control
6" 225cfm inline duct fan (induction)
6"x16" Phresh filter
Yieldmaster II AC hood
Solis Tek 600w ballast
Ushio 600w HiLux Gro MH and HPS bulbs

Dropped the seeds into water on 3/12. Placed them in the soil mix in solo cups on 3/13. Today they all popped through the soil. Currently have a 100w cfl on top of them until they strengthen some. Just some misting a couple times a day to keep the soil moist. I'll give a decent water in a couple days. I'll be transplanting into 1 gallon pots, and finishing off in 5 gallon smart pots (generic).

Some pics of the setup (sorry for the head tilt requirement) and new girls! Enjoy.

Update:
Everything is good so far. One girl is in the lead and has been since germination. Two are doing just fine, and there is a runt. The runt has been slow at everything so far. Still misting the top soil a couple times a day. I'm not sure when to give a solid watering, but I'll just keep an eye on them. I'm also not sure the average time of transplanting. I know at least a few weeks, and I'm debating from going solo cup-1gallon-5 gallon smart pot, or solo cup-5 gallon smart pot. Been reading both sides of that debate with no conclusion to what I will do. Any comments or tips are appreciated. Thanks for stopping by.

Hey i am about 4 weeks into my grow w 4 fruit punch and auto skunk auto ak and flower power fruit punch so far has held up well. Curious how yours does since this is my first grow ever. Good luck

One a note about the pots i put , mine in cups to 3 gal to 5 gal eventually they ae loving life in the 3 gal right now.

PS im very new to this so i hope you and i can trade ideas on this grow

Sounds good! Do you have a journal started? Right now I'm just a little worried about my runt. She sprouted Monday, but has stalled out at about 1.5". She still has the shell. I just did a nice watering since the soil was bone dry an inch down. First grow so I know I'm going to get worried at times. At least the other 3 are doing great. And now I'm wondering when I can start up the MH lamp. I'm currently running it at night to keep the temps above 70. Hope all goes well with your grow!

Mine actually had the seed shell stuck too, but i took some dental picks and plucked the shell off carefuly and within a few hours it was huge difference. Lol about getting worried i find myself waking up throughout the night and checking on them. No journal working off my phone so maybe next time. Its been about 20 days since germination and the tallest of mine is 6" and the shortest is aboit 4" but that ones the biggest about 12" wide very short and leafy. Ill try to find a way to post a pic

Just did some reading on stuck shells. I sprayed some water on it to soften it. I'll continue that until it falls off or I do it myself as a last resort. Nice to hear yours are doing well. What medium and lighting are you using? Definitely throw some pics up here. I now find myself looking at journals to see progress so I know I'm on track. Just more of the excitement/worrying I guess.

Yeah but not much out there on this strain that i could find. I have at least 3 different phenos easy to distiguish ill try to find a way to upload pics once i get my laptop from work. I am using 40% foxfarm of 40% foxfarm hf and 20% extra perlite, have a 400 watt mh with 2 130 watt cfls and a 2 foot 4 lamp t5 but i have a total of 10 plants going right now. 20/4 cycle and just gave it flora nova grow nutes today 1ml per gallon ph water at 6.5 before adding nutes and a organic tea from thelocal shop here, all in 3 gallon pots already. And inside a 4' x 4' x 6' grow tent. Temps aroind 79 -82 woth fan on all time waiting for my 4" inline venech carbon charcoal fan filter combo be here next week. But i read 3 gallons should be big enough but im seeing that it will need at least 5 gallon just by initial growth.

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Tahoma, Calibri, Geneva, sans-serif]https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/795381-heavyweights-fruit-punch-my-first-6.html
That's a link to the only journal I have found on the strain. Not a soil grow, but it's impressive. [/FONT]

Update: 7 days since germination

3 of the 4 are healthy and moving along. The one that had trouble with releasing the seed does not look all that good. I was able to remove half the shell yesterday and the other half just a few minutes ago. I'm hoping she can pull through, but there's a little brown /black on the first two leaves in there. Everything is still curled up, but maybe she'll open up overnight. If anyone has an idea of helping things along with it please let me know. The good watering I did 2 days ago is still holding up. I'll probable have to water again tomorrow. Here's some updated pics, and y'all have a good one.

Looks really good i like your room setup Sadly mine is cluttered cause i have limited space to put things and very little room to climb in so i cant exatly put walls up or anything. Keep updates I'd like to see them from now to harvest.

I was originally thinking of weekly updates, but 2 might be good since there's no real journal from seed to harvest in soil on this strain. I'm giving the sickly one a few more days before I remove her. She's made zero progress in 5 days, and even though I removed the rest of the seed shell last night it still looks bad. I love the setup. Perfect for the guest room closet, but the wife didn't like the price tag! I'm not the one to dip my toe in the water. I just cannonball straight in . And if anyone has tips for saving a seedling that is really struggling from not dropping the shell let me know . Her death clock has started.

Hey bud sucks about the sick plant. When i had to pluck the seed off mine the seedling was pale with a brown spot went to my local hydro shop and they have me a organic tea to give my lil guy and within a few hours complete 180. Other than that good luck.

Aznasasn, that's exactly what this one looks like. I'm curious as to what was in the tea. Thanks for the tip. Hopefully the google will come up with something.

Twice, I've had seeds do this and they were really puny, once, it grew up and was fine, the other, took off and kicked ass, was my best plant. Sometimes, these weeds surprise you

^ had the same experience w mine its doing awesome now, huge ill be at a tournament all day for my son but ill tell you whats in the tea when i get back.

Alright tea ingredients are vague to say the least since the local hydro shop bottles this themselves but here goes, natural soil bacteria and fungi (impregnated and encapsulated) sea and earth plants, botanicals and nutracueticals, sugar cane molasses, a proprietary chelating delivery system, proteins, amino acids, and coral calcium. I gave them 1 tsp per gal and few hours later she was turning green and strong and bountiful right now

Update: 8 days since germination

The second set of leaves came through today on the 3 healthy ones. Had to do another good watering on them as well. Just playing the waiting game on the one that had the stuck shell. I'll post some pics tomorrow.

Thanks aznasasn. I'm currently brewing up some Earth Juice grow, catalyst, and microblast. I'm going to give a light feeding tomorrow if I see no improvement or any regression. Hopefully she'll pull through.