Chuckeye
Well-Known Member
Greetings,
Details first
Only one seed was of a nice size with black lines/speckles But they all germinated !
Three floaters and one sinker.....
Two days in water and they had all cracked and started to show a tap root. Good enough, into solo cups !
Two days later they were all above ground.
One hiccup, long story short, two seeds ended up in the same cup...
Later that evening I popped the ProMix HP out and gently separated them. The tap roots were roughly as long as the stems and hadn't started to intertwine. The only sign of trauma in the next few days was a slight crinkle in the first set of leaves.
I'm using a 600w MH/HPS light in a 42" parabolic reflector. My grow "room" is a series of light weight panels 4' high than can expand from a 4'x4' to a 5'x5'. Plywood frame, 1/8" hollow core plastic faced with tin foil. Inside a 10'x10'x8' high room. Inside a 26'x36'x10' high room
Two Honeywell 7" fans inside the enclosure and another for room exhaust.
Light is @44" and 75%.
Five gallon fabric bags with Air Domes. They will be turned on around day 30 and will only run at light on hours.
Pot elevators, saucers, 1/2" plywood base and double wheel castors with a single post. They replace the single wheel/bearing type.
One pot is a layer of clay pebbles and a root control disc. Pot #2 has a 3" air stone instead of the supplied lines.
Pot #3 and #4 have the Air Domes simply covered with cheese cloth.
Nutrients are Mega Crop one part. I start my seedlings on .7g/4L right away.
Yesterday I prewet my ProMix HP with 1.5g/4L of MC so they would be moist today at transplant.
Relative humidity is less than 20% right now. I performed a test with 4L each per pot and they were almost dry in three days without plants !
My lights off temps have been as low as 64F so today I purchased an oil filled heater. Back to square one balancing fans, light power/height and temps
I also noticed the manufacture date on my bale of ProMix HP was 2020 so I sprinkled the root ball with Dynomyco at transplant, just to be safe !
Fast forward to Day 14, transplant day !
Before...
Apple Betty roots..
Golden Tiger roots....
Malawi roots....
Wild Thailand roots....
After transplant...
If I missed anything, please feel free to ask !
Cheers
Details first
Only one seed was of a nice size with black lines/speckles But they all germinated !
Three floaters and one sinker.....
Two days in water and they had all cracked and started to show a tap root. Good enough, into solo cups !
Two days later they were all above ground.
One hiccup, long story short, two seeds ended up in the same cup...
Later that evening I popped the ProMix HP out and gently separated them. The tap roots were roughly as long as the stems and hadn't started to intertwine. The only sign of trauma in the next few days was a slight crinkle in the first set of leaves.
I'm using a 600w MH/HPS light in a 42" parabolic reflector. My grow "room" is a series of light weight panels 4' high than can expand from a 4'x4' to a 5'x5'. Plywood frame, 1/8" hollow core plastic faced with tin foil. Inside a 10'x10'x8' high room. Inside a 26'x36'x10' high room
Two Honeywell 7" fans inside the enclosure and another for room exhaust.
Light is @44" and 75%.
Five gallon fabric bags with Air Domes. They will be turned on around day 30 and will only run at light on hours.
Pot elevators, saucers, 1/2" plywood base and double wheel castors with a single post. They replace the single wheel/bearing type.
One pot is a layer of clay pebbles and a root control disc. Pot #2 has a 3" air stone instead of the supplied lines.
Pot #3 and #4 have the Air Domes simply covered with cheese cloth.
Nutrients are Mega Crop one part. I start my seedlings on .7g/4L right away.
Yesterday I prewet my ProMix HP with 1.5g/4L of MC so they would be moist today at transplant.
Relative humidity is less than 20% right now. I performed a test with 4L each per pot and they were almost dry in three days without plants !
My lights off temps have been as low as 64F so today I purchased an oil filled heater. Back to square one balancing fans, light power/height and temps
I also noticed the manufacture date on my bale of ProMix HP was 2020 so I sprinkled the root ball with Dynomyco at transplant, just to be safe !
Fast forward to Day 14, transplant day !
Before...
Apple Betty roots..
Golden Tiger roots....
Malawi roots....
Wild Thailand roots....
After transplant...
If I missed anything, please feel free to ask !
Cheers
quadruplets
happy n healthy by the way 
. CL