Green Troll
Active Member
Greetings to all.
I have decided to write a journal so you can all see my progress and my methods, and hopefully warn me if i am doing anything wrong or if there is a better way of doing it.
Currently i have 1 tent set up, a 4'x4'x6' Secret Jardin with a 400W MH and a 5" fan/filter. I am going to use this as a veg tent for the time being, but it will get used for flowering later on and clones will be taken and grown in a 3'x3'x6' tent which shall be the veg tent from there on. When the plants are ready to flower i plan on upgrading the light to a 600W-1000W Sodium and putting the 400W in the smaller veg tent.
So where am i right now?
I have decided to write a journal so you can all see my progress and my methods, and hopefully warn me if i am doing anything wrong or if there is a better way of doing it.
Currently i have 1 tent set up, a 4'x4'x6' Secret Jardin with a 400W MH and a 5" fan/filter. I am going to use this as a veg tent for the time being, but it will get used for flowering later on and clones will be taken and grown in a 3'x3'x6' tent which shall be the veg tent from there on. When the plants are ready to flower i plan on upgrading the light to a 600W-1000W Sodium and putting the 400W in the smaller veg tent.
So where am i right now?
Well, i have the large tent set up, just need to buy some oscillating fans. I have 5 pots ready for 5 plants (i am being hopeful here, as i only bought 5 seeds) and I shall be using coco professional (of which i have 50 litres) and a litre each of 2 part Plant Magic vegging neuts. I bought a Tropf Blumat irrigation system for automatic watering, as i shall be away from my plants a lot, and i have a heated propagator and seeding pellets to start my 5 seeds.
So last friday (3 nights ago) i set my heated propagator up, put some water in the base, popped in my pellets and watched them expand to full size. I left these for 4 hours to get to a tepid temperature and then i popped in my 5 magic beans. Then i left them for the weekend.
Today (monday) i checked on them, they have retained the moisture almost too well, so i have soaked up the excess water in the tray where 2 of the pellets were still sitting in about 1mm of water. I also noticed these 2 pellets were more moist than the others, so i just squeezed a few drops of water out of these two, hoping i have not drowned/rotted the seeds. In the images below, it is the two on the left that were a little over watered.
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So now i am patiently waiting for (hopefully) little babies to break the surface and let me know i have not completely failed right from the start.
The seeds are Super Iced Grapefruit (feminized) and i am trying to be realistic in hoping for 1 or 2 of the 5 to sprout. Any more than that and i shall be very happy. Do you think this is a realistic hope? Should i expect more or less? Please feel free to leave your feedback.
Rep to anyone who comments with constructive advice =)
Green Troll
So last friday (3 nights ago) i set my heated propagator up, put some water in the base, popped in my pellets and watched them expand to full size. I left these for 4 hours to get to a tepid temperature and then i popped in my 5 magic beans. Then i left them for the weekend.
Today (monday) i checked on them, they have retained the moisture almost too well, so i have soaked up the excess water in the tray where 2 of the pellets were still sitting in about 1mm of water. I also noticed these 2 pellets were more moist than the others, so i just squeezed a few drops of water out of these two, hoping i have not drowned/rotted the seeds. In the images below, it is the two on the left that were a little over watered.
View attachment 2177682View attachment 2177683View attachment 2177684
So now i am patiently waiting for (hopefully) little babies to break the surface and let me know i have not completely failed right from the start.
The seeds are Super Iced Grapefruit (feminized) and i am trying to be realistic in hoping for 1 or 2 of the 5 to sprout. Any more than that and i shall be very happy. Do you think this is a realistic hope? Should i expect more or less? Please feel free to leave your feedback.
Rep to anyone who comments with constructive advice =)
Green Troll