Winter Weedy Wonderland - Auto Grow - Royal Queen Seeds

[Lady Cannafan]

Happy Tuesday All.

Looks like late this afternoon I will have some appearances of the kids. The first one coming up is actually the slower cracking Goat'lato. Guess it's got something to prove. LOL

I have a time lapse camera set on them, but last time I tried that it just wasn't close enough to be watchable. We'll see how this one goes. The video cam is limited on the close up function.

 

[Lady Cannafan]

First sprout is Goat'lato #1 The shell is as stubborn to fall as it was to open up.
At first glance I thought this was two sets of coty's there. It's weird looking.

Goat'lato sprout 1.jpg

• Lady Cannafan
• Tuesday at 11:25 AM

First Goat'lato sprout 10/29/24

Goat'lato sprout 1.jpg

• Lady Cannafan
• Tuesday at 11:25 AM

First Goat'lato sprout 10/29/24

 

[Carmen Ray]

Congrats on the sprout!

 

[Granny420]

First sprout is Goat'lato #1 The shell is as stubborn to fall as it was to open up.
At first glance I thought this was two sets of coty's there. It's weird looking.

Goat'lato sprout 1.jpg

• Lady Cannafan
• Tuesday at 11:25 AM

First Goat'lato sprout 10/29/24

Goat'lato sprout 1.jpg

• Lady Cannafan
• Tuesday at 11:25 AM

First Goat'lato sprout 10/29/24

Great job Goat’lato#1! Oh, and dear Lady too!

Gosh I hope the video will turn out! I remember your two coty seed. That was awesome and you got two plants, which was so frickin cool! This one may have cannibalised its sistah on the way out! EEK!
Now don’t you go gettin any ideas, sistah!

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Great job Goat’lato#1! Oh, and dear Lady too!

Gosh I hope the video will turn out! I remember your two coty seed. That was awesome and you got two plants, which was so frickin cool! This one may have cannibalised its sistah on the way out! EEK!
Now don’t you go gettin any ideas, sistah!

Thanks Sistah! The video sucks. Really can't see things clearly enough to be worthwhile. I miss my old video cam, I could get some serious close up on a time lapse with that. Many years ago though.

The seed finally released it's hold. That thing had some serious membrane in it. Very thick stuff.
She's opening wide now and has three sisters almost out. Things are looking great.

 

[StoneOtter]

No, I'm not familiar with that. I'm going to look into it for sure. Bro says the batteries on them only last a couple years.
Was looking at the remote starts, wow...they get some money for those models!

Mine's 19 years old now and the battery I got for it was a gel type and costed over 200.00 then. On the good side, it's still on the same tender and starts the gen every time so far! That's an incredibly long life! I need that because I don't check it as often as I should. A tender extends the life of a battery as well as holding a charge.

YAY! new babies!

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Good Morning all of you Weed fans!

Overnight there was quite a bit of action. The Royal Creamatic is lagging behind getting out of the cube. I will keep the faith.
I have a swing lamp with a 5000K Led bulb over the tray. It's currently about 9" above the kids. I will adjust that as needed to keep stretch to a minimum. I'll probably get them in Solo cups over the weekend, if not earlier.

RQS Sprouts 10-30-24.jpg

• Lady Cannafan
• Yesterday at 4:19 AM

Royal Queen Seeds Sprouts in rockwool

 

[Lady Cannafan]

My Royal Creamatic is looking pretty messy. Not sure about this one, she hasn't moved at all over the past few hours. If she doesn't get out of that mess and get some cody's spread by tomorrow morning, I'm going to drop another seed. It isn't dead, but I think she flunked her beauty classes.

Royal Creamatic looking messy.jpg

• Lady Cannafan
• Yesterday at 8:55 AM

Royal Creamatic looking messy.jpg

• Lady Cannafan
• Yesterday at 8:55 AM

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Good Morning all of you Weed fans!

Overnight there was quite a bit of action. The Royal Creamatic is lagging behind getting out of the cube. I will keep the faith.
I have a swing lamp with a 5000K Led bulb over the tray. It's currently about 9" above the kids. I will adjust that as needed to keep stretch to a minimum. I'll probably get them in Solo cups over the weekend, if not earlier.

RQS Sprouts 10-30-24.jpg

• Lady Cannafan
• Yesterday at 4:19 AM

Royal Queen Seeds Sprouts in rockwool

I need to correct the light distance on the post. It's about 19" away, not 9. Oops

 

[Granny420]

Lady

Your kids are looking great! That Royal Creamatic does look a bit messy, but it may still come out of it. It looks like it’s stuck in its own amniotic fluid! Oh, guess that’s not how seeds work! Haha

Top of the day to you me Lady!

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Royal Creamatic is probably not going to make it. I had to help the seed off yesterday, and the tiny little coty's never opened up. Just sat there with no growth or movement at all. The other plants are moving around and the first set of leaves growing a little, when I view the time lapse, this one is just nuttin'

I opened up the rockwool cube and the root is only about 3/4" long. Should be way beyond that. The other three were already sticking out of the cubes.

So, I dropped another seed this afternoon.
The rest of them are in the solo cups and under the ViparSpectra at 28 1/2" away, 50% power per Vipar's guidelines.
I'll try to get some pics tomorrow.

Every now and then, I get a problem child. She's still in the cube, but I don't have any high hopes.

 

[MedScientist]

Years ago I learned a trick with Rockwool to get enough Oxygen into the cube. Rockwood can retain alot of water and works Best when moist not wet.

I would 1st soak the cube in relevant ph water/solution. Then grab the cube in your fingertips and give it 3 firm flicks. As the water is thrown out, it pulls O2 into the cube.

Personally, I switched to Root Riot Cubes made from Bark? They can sit in a shallow puddle of water, and maintain O2, where Rockwool with soak it up and push O2 out.

That has been my observation, anyways...

 

[Lady Cannafan]

Years ago I learned a trick with Rockwool to get enough Oxygen into the cube. Rockwood can retain alot of water and works Best when moist not wet.

I would 1st soak the cube in relevant ph water/solution. Then grab the cube in your fingertips and give it 3 firm flicks. As the water is thrown out, it pulls O2 into the cube.

Personally, I switched to Root Riot Cubes made from Bark? They can sit in a shallow puddle of water, and maintain O2, where Rockwool with soak it up and push O2 out.

That has been my observation, anyways...

It's rare that I have any issues. I do have some root riot cubes around here somewhere, so I'll be using those for future grows. I'm down to the last rockwool cube. It's amazing how much water they can soak up, I have to squeeze them pretty good to get them just damp.
Interesting on the oxygen and the cube. I've not heard of that before. Thanks!