Hello All!
First off thanks so much to all that helped with my germination questions. We took off confident and they all sprouted. Went with soak in water for roughly 18hrs then into rooters on Mar30th, Was a little panicky and tempted to do the hot dog bun cut to peak but I kept my cool and by end of next day I thought I saw a taproot coming out, but verified with some GWE pics and she was just turning and burrowing and sure enough she popped out next day. She was out for two days by herself and then the rest except two joined her.(3 White Widow, 3 Northern Lights, 3 Candy Cane - all autos).
While I was waiting for the last two I made my coco, mixed with perlite (70/30 - give or take, I used 1 cup of perlite to every three cups of coco), rinsed - but after I had filled the pots, that was super annoying and super freaking heavy while it drained. I didn't manage to get the water completely clear but was just a hint of brown. Threw the pots in the tent to dry a bit and played with lights/heat/rh to see if I could get tent to where I needed it.
During all this, we had about 80cm of snow over two days to contend with and then after I made the coco we noticed our carport was sagging where it connects to the house. This created a bit of a mess as we had to get up and clean snow off so it wouldn't totally collapse and then find somewhere to put the snow as we already had 7 foot high snowbanks in the yard...I digress, so in the middle of this I checked on the rooters and holy shit balls there's roots coming out of the bottom of the everywhere, so I panic and transplant. All were up except two and looking like this pic (hope the upload works). pots were still fairly wet from the rinse so I only lightly watered around the rooters when I initially transplanted. After about for days then got a bit dry to gave them their first does of water and calimagic, ph'd to 6.
Over the next few days they grew more serrated leaves and the other two came up more. One has shed it's shell and is curly weird looking but I'll go with it. The other is still hanging on to it's shell. Put a few drops of water on it to try and help it along.
Since the initial watering with calimagic, they've dried up a touch again (dry one knuckle down) so I gave the two that are still sprouts the calimagic water and the other seven got their first dose of nute water ph'd to 6 (following the coco cute schedule on GWE). Here is what they look like today. (second pic if it works)
LED light is on 24/7, it was up higher when I initially put them in but moved it down Thursday night to 18" as I wanted more heat in the plant area and I figured these babies need more light now that the leaves are coming in.
Have a fan circulating air. Temps are ranging 25-29C and RH is 70-85. one vent open at top to let out some of the humidity, bit higher at top of tent. Light isn't providing as much heat as I need so have a heater assisting atm.
Okay, the ultimate question.... does she look okay? The seven that are up all look relatively the same as the one in the pic, a slight tint of yellow on the leaves more in the center, is that normal? Should they be growing faster?
Hit me with the comments, petrified I'm going to eff this up. Oh and should I be watering with 20% runoff now or just lightly water around the plant at this stage until they are a bit bigger?
Let me know if I need more pics, kind of a pain in the ass to take pics but I'll give it a whirl if you need them!!!
Thanks in advance,
Nervous New Mom here..... I think I did better with my children!!!
First off thanks so much to all that helped with my germination questions. We took off confident and they all sprouted. Went with soak in water for roughly 18hrs then into rooters on Mar30th, Was a little panicky and tempted to do the hot dog bun cut to peak but I kept my cool and by end of next day I thought I saw a taproot coming out, but verified with some GWE pics and she was just turning and burrowing and sure enough she popped out next day. She was out for two days by herself and then the rest except two joined her.(3 White Widow, 3 Northern Lights, 3 Candy Cane - all autos).
While I was waiting for the last two I made my coco, mixed with perlite (70/30 - give or take, I used 1 cup of perlite to every three cups of coco), rinsed - but after I had filled the pots, that was super annoying and super freaking heavy while it drained. I didn't manage to get the water completely clear but was just a hint of brown. Threw the pots in the tent to dry a bit and played with lights/heat/rh to see if I could get tent to where I needed it.
During all this, we had about 80cm of snow over two days to contend with and then after I made the coco we noticed our carport was sagging where it connects to the house. This created a bit of a mess as we had to get up and clean snow off so it wouldn't totally collapse and then find somewhere to put the snow as we already had 7 foot high snowbanks in the yard...I digress, so in the middle of this I checked on the rooters and holy shit balls there's roots coming out of the bottom of the everywhere, so I panic and transplant. All were up except two and looking like this pic (hope the upload works). pots were still fairly wet from the rinse so I only lightly watered around the rooters when I initially transplanted. After about for days then got a bit dry to gave them their first does of water and calimagic, ph'd to 6.
Over the next few days they grew more serrated leaves and the other two came up more. One has shed it's shell and is curly weird looking but I'll go with it. The other is still hanging on to it's shell. Put a few drops of water on it to try and help it along.
Since the initial watering with calimagic, they've dried up a touch again (dry one knuckle down) so I gave the two that are still sprouts the calimagic water and the other seven got their first dose of nute water ph'd to 6 (following the coco cute schedule on GWE). Here is what they look like today. (second pic if it works)
LED light is on 24/7, it was up higher when I initially put them in but moved it down Thursday night to 18" as I wanted more heat in the plant area and I figured these babies need more light now that the leaves are coming in.
Have a fan circulating air. Temps are ranging 25-29C and RH is 70-85. one vent open at top to let out some of the humidity, bit higher at top of tent. Light isn't providing as much heat as I need so have a heater assisting atm.
Okay, the ultimate question.... does she look okay? The seven that are up all look relatively the same as the one in the pic, a slight tint of yellow on the leaves more in the center, is that normal? Should they be growing faster?
Hit me with the comments, petrified I'm going to eff this up. Oh and should I be watering with 20% runoff now or just lightly water around the plant at this stage until they are a bit bigger?
Let me know if I need more pics, kind of a pain in the ass to take pics but I'll give it a whirl if you need them!!!
Thanks in advance,
Nervous New Mom here..... I think I did better with my children!!!
Like OZ said water close to the seedlings and work you way out as time goes. You won't notice much growth on top for a spell as the roots get established. You'll know when it's time to give them a good watering as you'll begin to see much faster growth on top again - Stay warm!
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