Still Dealing with My Surgery Recovery
This explains the lack of new info: A lot of Failure to Report
Here is from Jan 6.
I’m still lying up in bed, using my voice to text.
Even so, my wife is bringing the magic marker & five storage bags—time to get started on the redo.
This time, I’m gonna go back to keeping it simple. Part of me wants to start the seed in the cup but I want the feel good you get from seeing the little tail first.
As for flipping it two weeks, I had read that quite a few people are successful this way because the plant continues to veg for three weeks into the 12/12 light cycle. I agree with you that it is too early for a maximum harvest.
Having said all of this, if I have 15 weeks that still gives me four weeks of veg and 11 possible weeks of flower If needed.
Plus I’ll have four weeks to the day before I leave for my trip. It would be even better if I could get by with four weeks of veg 9 to 10 weeks of flower, and a week for drying. I’ll keep my fingers crossed for a nine-week flower.
My wife will take care of the humidifier water, and I have a 20-gallon reservoir. Plus, I’ll make up five or so gallons in individual jugs of proper pH nutrients. I have 3 gallons of jugs, but I don’t wanna have her lifting those as high as the top of my reservoir is.
It will actually work out doing it the traditional way.
To add a little safety, I may germinate two of each seed to better my chances that I can do all five now that I’m up against the wall with time. It hurts me to waste two seeds. Just like I hate culling from a few small plants to take the strongest and having to get rid of the others. I guess I’m just emotional that way. LOL
I’m going to germinate the way Ed Rosenthal says to do for the seed soak. His way is simple you use tapwater sprouting solution and half a percent of hydrogen peroxide (3%). I don’t have a rooting solution. But I will compensate by putting a little bit of a kelp water mixture in the area where the seed will sprout, and nothing but water goes into the little solo cup with its coco/pearlite mixture … until it’s time to start giving a low dose of nutrients. I’ll let the cotyledons do their job for the first week.
The odd thing about Ed’s way is he says germinate at 72°. I was always under the impression that they liked the little bit warmer this time.
I’ve done this so many times without any problems. My problem is when I try to shoot from the hip with a (supposedly) better new idea.
My math, for the soaking solution looks like this:
30 ml (H2O) x 0.5%(3% H2O2) = 0.15 ml (H2O2).
I keep one milliliter syringes around, so it’ll be an easy measurement.
Onward and upward.
