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for journal, is Official Day One 'germination' or 'appearance of sprout in soil'?

My counting goes like this :

1st phase : Seeds in rooters place in humidity dome - until cotyledons appear. (germination)
2nd phase : 5-7 days after the seed is in the rooter (sprout)
3rd phase : Move the rooters to final pot (Plant is now growing so it would initiate Veg cycle)

I count the total of the above phases as the Veg cycle but keep them brackets in the back of my head..

4th phase : Training - Manifolding - Arranging Stems/Tops (Weeks 2-4)
5th phase : Witnessing - Defoliation - Arranging/Removing Growth ( Last week of Veg "When the plant is 50% the desired height - flip the switch" )
6th phase : Initiating Flowering ( 72hours of total darkness to induce flowering)
7th phase : 12/12 is on - Deal with whatever comes and enjoy witnessing a girl become a lady

Im up to this phase until now so thats all i can share!!Hope it helps bobby boy ;)
 
you rock, man, as usual.... so for you day one is the day they go into germination, correct?

and to be clear, i'm just tryna find out "what most people do" so i can fill in my journal that i really REALLY need to get caught up on...finally got some life happenin' over here Nartak , and i wanna share it....;) :) :)
 
In my experience day 1 is the day the sprout got hold of the ground and the cotyledons open. First few days is a seedling. And within the first week the seedling is busy doin roots and enters the vegetative phase with accelerated growth. Then when you changes the light schedule is flowering day 1. Autos are the exception you start counting from day one till harvest.
 
9fingerleafs , thank you for this!

everything else seems pretty standardized, i.e., flowering stage is always when one flips, no matter what, etc.,

but what day is OFFICIALLY day one? not so much, at least in what i've read...

thanks again!
 
You will probably get different answers based on flowering type and medium used to grow. Personally, I count day one as the day i put my germinated seed in the soil.
 
My take on day one in veg: once the plant starts using the very first - single blade leaf- to begin photosynthesis.

As mentioned above, there are many ways to document day 1 in veg- all the way until the cotyledons die off.
 
thanks, Weed Pharma yep, it's looking as if it is merely personal preference...

that's kinda unfort tho cuz makes it hard to compare apples to apples across grows....oh well.
 
Hi Bob, good to find your thread, though a bit late. I count from the day the newly germinated seed pushes out from medium to reveal itself as alive and growing...as Green said...when the cotlyedons emerge and open. 🌱 Looking forward to your journal! 🌻
 
thanks Green75 and rockman 'preciate the feedback....

and also to everyone else who replied, tried to thank each of you individually but if i missed anyone, sorry...

i think i've decided since the consensus *seems* to be purely personal preference, ima choose whichever one makes me look better as a newbie grower ;) ...LOL
 
Not really a personal preference...just makes sense...it can take days for a seed to germ....first breath of life is when cotyledons are exposed...photosynthesis starts...
 
Do you consider human babies day one to be at birth or conception....big difference...

Same thing...Day one is first breath of life..if not I'm 41 plus 9 mo.

Not to argue...really..or disrespect...but I'm right on this one ...think about it...
 
dude, i wasn't saying you were right or wrong, i was asking what people DO....here, on this forum, when they do their journals....that is all...
 
I think this is a great question and we get it all the time! It's a personal preference but I agree with the others, I count first cotyledon leaves as day 1 :) However, I have heard the occasional grower start their count at the day seeds are started.

I know you didn't ask about this but when it comes to clones it gets even more complicated! In that case I personally would count day 1 as the day you first see roots, but if you get a clone from someone else there's no way to know how old it is!
 
thank you, NebulaHaze !! i sure wish there was some way to define it sufficiently so that we could better compare apples to apples, but hey, i guess those are exactly the nice things you don't get to have when the thing your interested in is illegal to research....

but thank you for the info on clones, very helpful...AND...AND...you beat me to having to ax about it later, you know, when i start cloning for the first time... ;) :big-smile:
 
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