Summer Grow 2026 Started

[Allotrope1000]

Started 3 weeks late, but no big deal - have an 8 month growing season. Seeds had plantable tap roots 48 hours after beginning soak in water.
Here is a pic of my seed starting set up. 100W Viparspectra light. Sprouted self-made 2020 seeds of White Widow (WW), WW x Durban Poison landrace (DP) and DP x Malawi Gold landrace. All fem'd photos. Have three more seeds waiting for taproots to grow out to about 3/8". Will transplant to 4" pots then one gallon pots of 50/50 coco perlite as roots poke through the bottom. Then, it is outside into the garden! Hope this is not too boring.

 

[Bowhunterwoody]

Nice. Is that a lab hood? Spent 30 years in front of one prepping samples for my icpms and then my gcms.

 

[Allotrope1000]

Hi, Bowhunter.
Sort of. I repurposed a 4' Baker BioGard Type 2, Class A biological safety cabinet in my garage lab into a seed starting area. I have a 4' Labconco fume hood to the right of it.

 

[Bowhunterwoody]

Nice. All our hoods were Labconco 5 and 6 ftrs.

 

[ductwizard2]

I'm confused, I thought seeds wanted darkness and moisture to sprout. why the lights?

 

[Allotrope1000]

Hi, Bowhunter.
Yeah. my hood's are small, garage lab I set up 15 years ago when I was DEEP down the rabbit hole of "white powder gold". Makes it handy for making RSO, concentrates, etc.

 

[Allotrope1000]

Hey, Ductwizard.
What you see are sprouted seeds in Jiffy Pellets in the yogurt cups. I soak seeds overnight and transfer them to a moist container using the damp paper towel method, dark at 80° constant temp. As they sprout tap roots (+/- 48 hrs) about 3/8 to 1/2 inch long I put them into the Jiffy Pellets and under the light. I will pot them on as detailed in my original post. This has worked absolutely fine for five years. Produces strong healthy seedlings.

 

[ductwizard2]

Thank you, i thought i was missing something. i germ mine same way so i can keep an eye on them. except i go straight into soil

 

[Allotrope1000]

Hi, Ductwizard.
I found the "potting on" technique on the cocoforcannabis website hosted by a couple of college profs. The concept is by letting the seedling fill the Jiffy Pellet, then the 4" pot, then the gallon pot with roots, it creates a larger rootball for the seedling. Supposedly, direct in ground or in pot planting (nothing wrong with it) tends to have the tap root dominate the rootball structure and upper grow medium areas, in soil or a pot, end up under colonized by the roots.

 

[ductwizard2]

Yeah i think i read something similar but cant remember where. i germ, then go solo cups to 5 gal. pails due to my laziness, poorness and lack of mobility. Easy is the key for me basically. just real black worm filled dirt dug outta my compost/leaf pile and tap water. My germ rate seems to be a little low but I think thats cause the house temp is always low too