COCO COIR Frankie Goes To Hollywood

[Bluey]

Indoor grow number 3, seeds dropped in 0.5% H²O² for 16 hours 2 days ago, transferred to paper towels. All popped in H²O² except the Sweet Mango. Transferred to coco yesterday.



Rear 4 Franklin's AK47 x Red CBD Autos Franklin

Then 2 Sweet Mango Auto, Green House Seeds, Amsterdam (struggling to pop still in paper towel, could be damaged in the mail)

Front 2 in large pots, Franklin's Orange Zkittles x Sour Diesel Photoperiod.

Only spraying with H²O² at this stage.

24⁰C day 21⁰C night
18/6 150PPFD and rising
H²O² 0.5% only at this time
First true leaf appearing on autos

[SoOrbudgal]

Imma gonna be watching you and them thar Franklin beans

[Bluey]

I'm feeling the weight building on my shoulders already.

Lucky I have big shoulders.

[dirtymike]

Franklin does well with the crosses with sour diesel. Got 2 making buds now.

[Bluey]

The Sweet Mangoes were gently opened just now. Rotten. White mush.

So two Franklin Red CBD x Red CBD into H²O² to replace the Mangoes.

[dirtymike]

I germmed 1 out of 3 Sweet Mango from green House a year ago, femmed not auto and it was decent. Franklins beans popped and germmed 6 out ot 6 so o far. That's with a stoned arse hippie cultivating.

[Bluey]

6 out of 6 here thanks Franklin . Hopefully 8 out of 8.

[Bluey]

Red CBD x Red CBD out of H²O² 0.5% into paper towel with H²O²

First nute spray EC 0.8 pH 6.0 to all others



The 'S' reticle photo has stopped developing. I think she may be gone. Doing toothpick surgery, anyway I'll check tomorrow and start another if needed. Have a little H²O² spray in the bottle so will give it a rest for a few days. I soaked the coco with it.

The 4 autos and the good photo are now showing first leaf. That's 3 days from the commencement of germination to first leaf. I put that down to good seeds, good temps and H²O². First time I've used it.

[Bluey]

I have dropped the two Red CBD x Red CBD autos into their pots. After 12hrs immersed in H²O² and 2 days in paper towel still not showing a reticle so fingers crossed on those ones. The other autos and 1 of the photos were showing true first leaf at this stage which must be a record for first true leaf for me...good seed Franklin

The photo with the 'S' or 'W' reticle has rooted it appears as she straightened out yesterday and now first true leaf showing. I did pop another photo because I thought she was toast...so will prep a 3rd pot for a 3rd photo to veg alongside the rest, or perhaps toss the least advanced Red CBD that I just potted and replace it with the newly popped photo..


All going well.

[Bluey]

Have removed the domes, probably a couple of days too late. Growth seems to have stalled.

The Red CBD x Red CBD have not germinated so the last pot I'll need to put another photo in. 4 photo vegged throughout the auto grow will mean I need more light later on for the photos.

Temps 24/25⁰C day. 21⁰C night
Humidity 65% +/- 5% RH
EC 1
PPFD 270ish
DLI 14 to 15

Still only 1 true leaf growing slow.

I hate this stage of growing.

[SoOrbudgal]

Yep you got challanged but it won't be boring in a month. You'll be training those photos perhaps and have those autos well on their way.

[Bluey]

Last nute feed was a bit hot so flushed it with EC 0.05 pH 5.85

All 4 autos doing well with 2nd true leaf showing

Red CBD x Red CBD no germination

3 photos. 2 doing well 'W' shaped reticle won't make it.

Edit. Next nute mix will be 0.4...started too hot but they are still going.

[SoOrbudgal]

Do you use a syringe to water little seedlings? I really like using it cause of the disturbed soil when you pour around the main stalk.

[Bluey]

Watering I use a litre sprayer. The flush I took off the lid and gently poured. I've got plenty of syringes and should use a big one to water hey.

[Franklin]

Such a bummer those red CBDs aren't germinating, I haven't had that problem before. The good news is that all my seeds come with a money back guarantee. The bad news is that I give them away for free. If you need more let me know!

[Bluey]

All 4 autos doing well and are showing no signs of nute burn. 1 photo of the OZ x SD is still going but suffering badly. It was treated identically to the autos but clearly far more susceptible to nute burn. It might make it, it might not.

I have just popped two white widow x Sour D fem photos, 1 to replace the W reticle Orange Zkittles x SD that didnt make it the other to fill the pot that the Red CBD x Red CBD didn't germinate.

The autos were amazingly fast to germinate and clearly far more resilient than the photos...these 2 photos a bit slower to germinate than the autos but 3 days is still really good in my book.

[Bluey]

A: 4 x Auto Red CBD x AK47 in 7gal pots 5gal 50/50 coco/perlite planted 23 Jan
B: 1 Dying or dead Orange zkittles x Sour Diesel photo 13gal 70/30 coco/perlite back under half dome 23 Jan
C: 1 Oz x SD photo 7 gal 50/50 C. 01 Feb
D: 2 x White Widow x SD photo 13gal 70/30 planted germed seed today under domes

Light around 325 PPFD 40% at 38" and 36" on autos. 18/6

[SoOrbudgal]

Good luck with the new batch. I don't know if i overwatered my WW x purple kush photo sprout and drowned the roots from the getgo but she's super small at nearly a month old.

[Bluey]

My first two indoor grows I never lost one and massively overwatered. Had to laugh at all the mushrooms growing out of the coco and the fungus gnats farm I had going on.

2 grows smarter and I started off worse. That dying one is my fault.

I figure it must be the 35oz less in my stash since last harvest causing memory loss.

[Bluey]

4 autos below feeding 50ml 0.5 EC daily...a fraction light green but looks worse in the pics Red CBD x AK47 350PPFD

OZ x SD photo below same feed & light as above

2 X WW x SD photos water only...day 2 since breaking soil PPFD 280

1x OZ x SD refusing to die..still trying to save it but growth is really slow.flushed again water only 100%RH

[Bluey]

I appear to have an auto topped mutant

No new apial growth on left. It stopped. It also only has 2 leaves on the last node at last growth instead of 3 like the rest.One on right normal and same as other autos. EC now 0.8 with light around 350 PPFD Temp 25⁰C 70%RH

[Bluey]

Below the 4 autos with one mutated. Likely stress. The other 3 had identical conditions and are doing well.

Photo OZ below. Doing fine.

Leaf color looks much lighter green in the photos than what they are. I think it's the grow light spectrum making them look lighter in color in the pics than what they are.. they are healthy and doing well.

The two photo WW x seedlings are not doing well. One is losing pigment on the edges of first leaf and stopped growing the other looks fine but is slow, 2nd leaf very slowly appearing. The only thing this could be is either a problem with the way I did the H²O² germination, very unlikely, or a bit much light in the first few days very likely. I'm going to give them there 1st nute mix shortly of around 0 2 pH 5.9. They are still under ventilated domes.



I planted another OZ x photo this morning to replace the one that stopped growing a week ago.

Lessons for me below.

I have made a few changes since my last grow which hasn't worked great for me.

H²O² germination. This seemed to go really well.

More light during sprout. Last grow I was in the 150-200 PPFD range and no issue. This grow 250-300 PPFD. Mistake number 1. It not only stressed them but I think it killed one.

I maintained temps at 24/25⁰C whilst sprouting as I was still germinating. This did not work well for the sprouting plants but it worked great for germinating. Last grow 21⁰C to sprout and slowly raised over first couple of weeks. That worked well.

Nutes I maintained the same time schedule and marginally stronger. Big mistake. All I can say is the other changes slowed root development so I should have pushed out the nute schedule and maybe reduced the nute strength. By the time I realised this it was too late...that's the problem with sprouting seedlings....when you see a problem it's likely too late. This is the stage I mentally struggle with most and I made it worse by making changes in the hope I could get a great start from the autos I have never grown before.

I also didn't plant the popped seeds as deep. Another mistake that again slowed root development and then adding nutes as normal was too early relative to root growth.

I was stoned more often the start of this grow than I was the previous grow. I forget how this effected things.


.EDIT: I also added perlite to the coco. Coco/perlite 50/50 in the smaller auto grow pots and a bout 70/30 in the larger photo grow pots.

Oh. I forgot to mention. The last two grows I started under a few hi-bay and flood lights with about 150w of violet light, not these grow lights.