Mysterie
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Hello everyone, totally stumbled onto this site while reading on how to grow, making compost bins etc. Boredom of being unemployed in a do nothing town. And I like to write so I tend to go off when I type. I conveniently bolded the hot points for those who wanna skim through. Thanks!!
SO anyway, the story goes I got a bag
and found a seed. I've always talked about trying to grow with my buddies for fun, experiment and such. So this one little seed I decided to wing it with in the middle of the night. My supplies are EXTREMELY limited. And I do mean EXTREMELY lol. So here is my set up. Hell I'll even include pictures. This is just for fun if my baby dies or not lol.
GOAL: One small, personal, (crosses fingers) female plant.
So my supplies are of this. I took an old pot of soil thats been sitting in my kitchen window for god knows how long and moistened it back up. Jacked some soil from my neighbor a couple nights ago out of his garden. Hes one of those hardcore gardeners. And took a couple of old baby wipe containers for my potting. And some gravel out of my drive way. Been also using Tap Water which i've let sit out for days. And I have a small compost bin started outside for free soil lol.
Anyway, I germinated just fine. Threw the seed in a moist paper towel in a night it was sprouted. let it go an extra night to get a little longer. Once I got there I realized I had no supplies. Took 2 baby wipe containers scrubbed them down to clean them. stabbed countless holes in the bottom of one and placed it inside the other [For Draining purposes]
I ran the gravel under hot water to get whatever may be on them off. and placed them in for the bottom layer, then I literally hand picked through my neighbors soil. Literally from his garden so took out moss, plant pieces, roots etc. And ran it also under hot water and made it my second layer. And yes I know old soil is a BIG no, because of parasites, weeds, etc. But like I said just for fun, im poor and kind of just a hopeful experiment. And also a quick side note, I'm using water in milk jugs from the tap. That I let sit out to kill the chlorine. However when I rinsed the rocks and dampened the soil I spaced it and used pure tap water. Didn't seem to kill my plant nor hurt it.
Then finally after a moist second layer, I took the old soil the kind with the small white stones. which was home to, rest its poor lil soul, a peppermint plant. which nicely still smelled good lol. Picked out all the old pieces, and placed it on as a dry second layer. got it a little moist but it stayed mainly damp and fluffy. And there we have my set up. I dropped my little seedling in and waited a day. Noticed the stem growing and was quite pleased!
Took it out because I thought it died. to my suprise there was a darker stem at the end and it was still growing! Yay! lol.
SO that lil guy sat in my closet in the dark beyond the countless times me pulling it out to, in my eyes pamper it, don't judge me monkey. lol. But it none the less sprouted and I now have my little baby seedling. the casing hung off the leaf I gave it a small tug and pulled a lil residue back. put some water on it and it came off easy.
And now for my final set up on lighting. unfortunately what money I do get goes else where than buying lights. and proper grow station. I have a lamp light, its one of those swirly florescent lights and a basic lamp stand. I have it tilted over and held up with a coolwhip container which I cut the bottom off of. To make a dull white dome that stands safely over my plant.
And thus is where I am currently sitting. My plants stem is basically white, with a hue of pink right before the leaf sprouts and seems small hairs or fuzz around the stem aswell. the leaf sprouts still together, but are a yellowish green. Signs I'm believing are to say my plant is growing fine?
As for my potting situation I don't want a big plant at all, just probably a little maybe one foot including the pot to snip a little off to smoke here and there you know? Anyway I'll get pictures here in a bit to show you what i've done. and where I currently am. Any feed back helps. And those who wanna bash, go ahead. I'm new at this and didn't think I'd get this far with my set up lol. But its goin and im quite pleased
QUESTIONS: (I'LL EDIT THIS AS I COME UP WITH NEW QUESTIONS AND OTHERS ARE ANSWERED! THANKS!)
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Q) DARK SPOTS?? I noticed when the casing was still hanging on to one side of the seedling. after it fell off there is a darkish coating on one of the leafs. They're not seperated yet. but I uploaded some pics.
A) Thanks bongmarley2009: This is normal due to where the casing was attached.
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SO anyway, the story goes I got a bag
and found a seed. I've always talked about trying to grow with my buddies for fun, experiment and such. So this one little seed I decided to wing it with in the middle of the night. My supplies are EXTREMELY limited. And I do mean EXTREMELY lol. So here is my set up. Hell I'll even include pictures. This is just for fun if my baby dies or not lol. GOAL: One small, personal, (crosses fingers) female plant.
So my supplies are of this. I took an old pot of soil thats been sitting in my kitchen window for god knows how long and moistened it back up. Jacked some soil from my neighbor a couple nights ago out of his garden. Hes one of those hardcore gardeners. And took a couple of old baby wipe containers for my potting. And some gravel out of my drive way. Been also using Tap Water which i've let sit out for days. And I have a small compost bin started outside for free soil lol.
Anyway, I germinated just fine. Threw the seed in a moist paper towel in a night it was sprouted. let it go an extra night to get a little longer. Once I got there I realized I had no supplies. Took 2 baby wipe containers scrubbed them down to clean them. stabbed countless holes in the bottom of one and placed it inside the other [For Draining purposes]
I ran the gravel under hot water to get whatever may be on them off. and placed them in for the bottom layer, then I literally hand picked through my neighbors soil. Literally from his garden so took out moss, plant pieces, roots etc. And ran it also under hot water and made it my second layer. And yes I know old soil is a BIG no, because of parasites, weeds, etc. But like I said just for fun, im poor and kind of just a hopeful experiment. And also a quick side note, I'm using water in milk jugs from the tap. That I let sit out to kill the chlorine. However when I rinsed the rocks and dampened the soil I spaced it and used pure tap water. Didn't seem to kill my plant nor hurt it.
Then finally after a moist second layer, I took the old soil the kind with the small white stones. which was home to, rest its poor lil soul, a peppermint plant. which nicely still smelled good lol. Picked out all the old pieces, and placed it on as a dry second layer. got it a little moist but it stayed mainly damp and fluffy. And there we have my set up. I dropped my little seedling in and waited a day. Noticed the stem growing and was quite pleased!
Took it out because I thought it died. to my suprise there was a darker stem at the end and it was still growing! Yay! lol.
SO that lil guy sat in my closet in the dark beyond the countless times me pulling it out to, in my eyes pamper it, don't judge me monkey. lol. But it none the less sprouted and I now have my little baby seedling. the casing hung off the leaf I gave it a small tug and pulled a lil residue back. put some water on it and it came off easy.
And now for my final set up on lighting. unfortunately what money I do get goes else where than buying lights. and proper grow station. I have a lamp light, its one of those swirly florescent lights and a basic lamp stand. I have it tilted over and held up with a coolwhip container which I cut the bottom off of. To make a dull white dome that stands safely over my plant.
And thus is where I am currently sitting. My plants stem is basically white, with a hue of pink right before the leaf sprouts and seems small hairs or fuzz around the stem aswell. the leaf sprouts still together, but are a yellowish green. Signs I'm believing are to say my plant is growing fine?
As for my potting situation I don't want a big plant at all, just probably a little maybe one foot including the pot to snip a little off to smoke here and there you know? Anyway I'll get pictures here in a bit to show you what i've done. and where I currently am. Any feed back helps. And those who wanna bash, go ahead. I'm new at this and didn't think I'd get this far with my set up lol. But its goin and im quite pleased
QUESTIONS: (I'LL EDIT THIS AS I COME UP WITH NEW QUESTIONS AND OTHERS ARE ANSWERED! THANKS!)
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Q)
A)
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Q) DARK SPOTS?? I noticed when the casing was still hanging on to one side of the seedling. after it fell off there is a darkish coating on one of the leafs. They're not seperated yet. but I uploaded some pics.
A) Thanks bongmarley2009: This is normal due to where the casing was attached.
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And I skimmed trough lol
