Hello everyone. New grow:
Strain: MK-Ultra, THseeds.
Genetics: G13xOG Kush.
10 femmed seeds put into water tonite.
Medium: 10litre "Hempy" buckets. Passive hydro.
Nutes: not sure yet. I have FF and Advanced.
Germination method: Long commentary after the pics......
Soak in H2O for 12 hours. Plant in soil/perlite mix in mini-hempy bucket.
Veg: till 7 sets of leaves. Why seven? 'Cuz 8's too many and 6 ain't enough. No, seriously These plants get big and wide, so I'm going to flower sooner.
I would really like to hit 2 pounds on this grow....that would be a touchdown return on the opening kick-off. However, I'll be happy with 24 ounces dried.
Mini-hempy buckets
Seeds in water.....lot's of action! Well, not that much.
So, next pics when they sprout. Hopefully I get all 10.
Commentary on my germination method below
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OK, this is my first time growing MJ from seed, and it's my second grow ever.
I've sprouted hundreds of vegetables in my garden, and I've never had any problem. So, I decided to sprout in some soil, even though I'm going to be growing in Perlite/Vermiculite. Here's what I'm doing and why....we'll all see how well it works/doesn't work.
I've been careful to read about seeds from a few different elite growers. I've also done a bit of reading about growing other plants from seed and have distilled all that information into what I think is a sensible method of germination to maximize females and minimize hermies from femmed seeds.
Everything I have done is to minimize stress to the plant in the first few days of it's life which Cee's of No Mercy says determines whether it reaches its genetic potential. Germination is the most critical time in a plants life.
The bottom half of my hempy cups is pure perlite. The top half is 50.50 FFOF and perlite. The top 1/4 inch is pure FFOF.
Here's what stresses roots: Light and being handled. So, after soaking the seeds, their going to into the darkness of being under dirt, pointy side up. The dirt will block the light better than pure perlite.
This way, the roots never see light, and I don't have to move them. All the energy in that seed can go to sending that radicle down to the happy, water rich resevoir. This means the plant will start it's life with minimal stress.
I will have T5 lights about 2 inches above the soil on 18/6. I'm going to hit them with bright light from the get go.
After a couple sets of leaves, I'll put them under MH.
I'm hoping my method:
1.)works
2.)results in a high rate of germination
3.)results in a higher ratio of females (my NEXT grow I'll have to sex.)
Since the plants will already be in hempy's, when I transplant into the big buckets, I'm hoping the roots have healthy mycorhyzial cutures, due to the soil, which could be lacking in a perlite/vermiculite environment. I will also avoid transplant shock, because the roots will be right at the level of the resevoir when I transplant. I lost a good week of growth on my last grow from this.
So, last grow I learned how to control my environment. This grow I'm going to concentrate on minimizing all sorts of shock to the plants.
Then, next grow, I should have some really good stuff!
Strain: MK-Ultra, THseeds.
Genetics: G13xOG Kush.
10 femmed seeds put into water tonite.
Medium: 10litre "Hempy" buckets. Passive hydro.
Nutes: not sure yet. I have FF and Advanced.
Germination method: Long commentary after the pics......
Soak in H2O for 12 hours. Plant in soil/perlite mix in mini-hempy bucket.
Veg: till 7 sets of leaves. Why seven? 'Cuz 8's too many and 6 ain't enough. No, seriously These plants get big and wide, so I'm going to flower sooner.
I would really like to hit 2 pounds on this grow....that would be a touchdown return on the opening kick-off. However, I'll be happy with 24 ounces dried.
Mini-hempy buckets
Seeds in water.....lot's of action! Well, not that much.
So, next pics when they sprout. Hopefully I get all 10.
Commentary on my germination method below
-------------------------------------------------
OK, this is my first time growing MJ from seed, and it's my second grow ever.
I've sprouted hundreds of vegetables in my garden, and I've never had any problem. So, I decided to sprout in some soil, even though I'm going to be growing in Perlite/Vermiculite. Here's what I'm doing and why....we'll all see how well it works/doesn't work.
I've been careful to read about seeds from a few different elite growers. I've also done a bit of reading about growing other plants from seed and have distilled all that information into what I think is a sensible method of germination to maximize females and minimize hermies from femmed seeds.
Everything I have done is to minimize stress to the plant in the first few days of it's life which Cee's of No Mercy says determines whether it reaches its genetic potential. Germination is the most critical time in a plants life.
The bottom half of my hempy cups is pure perlite. The top half is 50.50 FFOF and perlite. The top 1/4 inch is pure FFOF.
Here's what stresses roots: Light and being handled. So, after soaking the seeds, their going to into the darkness of being under dirt, pointy side up. The dirt will block the light better than pure perlite.
This way, the roots never see light, and I don't have to move them. All the energy in that seed can go to sending that radicle down to the happy, water rich resevoir. This means the plant will start it's life with minimal stress.
I will have T5 lights about 2 inches above the soil on 18/6. I'm going to hit them with bright light from the get go.
After a couple sets of leaves, I'll put them under MH.
I'm hoping my method:
1.)works
2.)results in a high rate of germination
3.)results in a higher ratio of females (my NEXT grow I'll have to sex.)
Since the plants will already be in hempy's, when I transplant into the big buckets, I'm hoping the roots have healthy mycorhyzial cutures, due to the soil, which could be lacking in a perlite/vermiculite environment. I will also avoid transplant shock, because the roots will be right at the level of the resevoir when I transplant. I lost a good week of growth on my last grow from this.
So, last grow I learned how to control my environment. This grow I'm going to concentrate on minimizing all sorts of shock to the plants.
Then, next grow, I should have some really good stuff!
.