Are we on day 7, i think so-
Ok so the seedlings that we planted in the first post had germinated and not one to jump the gun but i always seem to be potting up early, abouts the time the tap root starts to show at the bottom of the peat cube. Its only going in seedling soil so is fine to pot up early, if left longer the main tap root would eventually protrude out of the cube and prune itself as it had constant contact with air and no or very little moisture. This would just cause a new root to branch out of the main tap root which is a perfectly normal and natural occurance, just like topping a plant a root too will just shoot out lower growth if the end is inhibited in any way.
So with this potting up i'm gona use my auto fem seedling plus add some benificial bacteria and funghi, mainly mycorrhiza funghi as there the most symbiotic for marijuana growth out of the three main groups of funghi and trichoderma bacteria (Please google these if your unsure what they are and how they work). Of course the 'Vitalink' benificials contains roughly 30 strains of funghi and bacteria but these two are the most widely used and available so the ones i have mentioned here.
Now contrary to popular belief and the back of the product label i find that one small dose in the rootzone of a new seedling should be more than enough for the whole grow. Most of the benificial funghi and bacteria multiply as the root mass increases and where the root goes so do they follow and colonise, of course not all do and i need citification to verify this but in my best knowledge and in my simplified way this is what happens.
So picture one we see the newly germinated seedlings in my powerfull futuristic growroom. Then as always and shown before we prepare our soil mix and pot, make the right sized jiffy shape hole and check the stem will be burried to the depth we want.
Next up is the bottle of Vitalink benificials, hard to think 30 strains of funghi and bacteria all fit in that bottle but they do. After that is a picture showing its horrible colour, believe me it smells worse than it looks.
We then add it to the base of the jiffy sized hole in the pre-prepared soil mix and pot, i prefer one to two teaspoons per seedling but i feel like less would also have the same effect. Now we want the main tap root from the seedling that is shown hanging from the jiffy cube to be planted directly into the soil where are benificials are and simply cover up and lightly water ready to go back to the veg room all happy-
Within a short time the funghi will have colonised the roots and bacteria colonised the soil around the roots giving the roots way more nutrients and enabling them to fight of the bad guys like viruses and pathogens.
Did you remember when watering newly potted seedlings to just water the roots or did we drench the whole pot in water? Seedlings only need a small amount of water and mainly around their root zone, you'll see just how small the seedling root is in a bit, i aim to just make the soil wet to about an inch round the seedling, that way its got a few days till the next watering and not gona sit there in a wet pot for two weeks looking overwatered.
! Be strong in the method that works the best for your situation, if all else fails follow my simple steps in the previous pages and go from there. Really you must be over complicating tempreture and humidity, marijuana will germinate at temps of 5degrees celcius so dont get too hung up on temps.
