Hi guys, long story short I came across some seeds that I found at a train station when looking for some weed that I dropped, so I rushed home did some quick research and got my seeds germinating in a cup of water right away.
At first I did not know what strain these were or even what autoflowers were OR let alone have I even attempted to grow before :/ but im excited and determined so the next morning (about 18 hours later) I check them and I see the white taproots have started to emerge out the bottom, only just a little though, so I decided to put them between some wet paper towel inbetween two ceramic plates & wait til they are really stretching out looking for that soil.
Almost another day goes by (about 16 hours later) and the taproots are showing true colours (pure white - I only have photos after I planted them), I decide its time to carefully place them in my seedling pots that I found laying around and waited another day and a half before I could just see them emerging from the 55/45 local coco coir/perlite medium I ended up purchasing for $28 a bag (at this point still not knowing what autos are or what strain the seeds are).
As you can see they sprouted properly about 2 days after planting them in my medium (I planted them roughly 1 inch deep and loosely covered it back up w/ coco and perlite, watering with roughly Ph'ed tap water with a PPM of 220 until there was about 20% run off).
At this point I managed to get my hands on 2x used 400w HPS bulbs & ballast except one ballast is not working, a 600w bulb with no ballast, a Ph pen with a broken bulb, a few Ph aqua test kits and a working calibrated EC meter (which I had no idea what any of these really meant or did at first so as I got it all for free of my uncle, I didnt really use them up until about 5 days after planting).
I set everything up in a cupboard in a spare room, at first I just hung the 400w light about a meter from the medium using the power cord as its harness dangling from the clothes rack but I soon put together a DIY reflector for the light so it could shine horizontally and be more stable. Please note I do not work and hussle to get by so I cant always get the best of everything.
DAY 3 [after planting]
Today I was playing with the keychain I found the seeds in and realised it had the strains written on the inside - Candy Kush AU & Trans Siberia AU - a quick google told me that these were autoflowering seeds and that they have a different lifecycle to regular photoperiod strains. Further investigation led me to an early and careful but also newbie transplant into 3 individual 10 gal pots (I think) filled with the same medium although this time I flushed the medium thoroughly before planting.
Edit: Forgot to mention that just before I transplanted them I had gotten my hands on the flora nutrient trio: grow, micro and bloom, also a bottle of cal/mag.
I went ahead and mixed 1/8 tsp grow, 1/8 tsp micro, 1/16 tsp bloom and a tsp of cal/mag into 4L of water and did a quick Ph which came to about 6.5 on the aqua test, poured about a litre into each pot over the morning hours before transplanting and a few hours after.
WARNING: from what happened next and what alot of people on here say it is not good to give autos nutes until about 12 - 24 days into seedling/vegetative stage depending on the strain. Maybe even more with some I believe.
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Thanks for reading, I am looking forward to learning all I can from this great forum & from this grow.
Feel free to ask any questions about the grow and if you have any concerns or tips, I would love for you to share them.
... day 4 - day 12 to be continued in the morning ...
At first I did not know what strain these were or even what autoflowers were OR let alone have I even attempted to grow before :/ but im excited and determined so the next morning (about 18 hours later) I check them and I see the white taproots have started to emerge out the bottom, only just a little though, so I decided to put them between some wet paper towel inbetween two ceramic plates & wait til they are really stretching out looking for that soil.
Almost another day goes by (about 16 hours later) and the taproots are showing true colours (pure white - I only have photos after I planted them), I decide its time to carefully place them in my seedling pots that I found laying around and waited another day and a half before I could just see them emerging from the 55/45 local coco coir/perlite medium I ended up purchasing for $28 a bag (at this point still not knowing what autos are or what strain the seeds are).
As you can see they sprouted properly about 2 days after planting them in my medium (I planted them roughly 1 inch deep and loosely covered it back up w/ coco and perlite, watering with roughly Ph'ed tap water with a PPM of 220 until there was about 20% run off).
At this point I managed to get my hands on 2x used 400w HPS bulbs & ballast except one ballast is not working, a 600w bulb with no ballast, a Ph pen with a broken bulb, a few Ph aqua test kits and a working calibrated EC meter (which I had no idea what any of these really meant or did at first so as I got it all for free of my uncle, I didnt really use them up until about 5 days after planting).
I set everything up in a cupboard in a spare room, at first I just hung the 400w light about a meter from the medium using the power cord as its harness dangling from the clothes rack but I soon put together a DIY reflector for the light so it could shine horizontally and be more stable. Please note I do not work and hussle to get by so I cant always get the best of everything.
DAY 3 [after planting]
Today I was playing with the keychain I found the seeds in and realised it had the strains written on the inside - Candy Kush AU & Trans Siberia AU - a quick google told me that these were autoflowering seeds and that they have a different lifecycle to regular photoperiod strains. Further investigation led me to an early and careful but also newbie transplant into 3 individual 10 gal pots (I think) filled with the same medium although this time I flushed the medium thoroughly before planting.
Edit: Forgot to mention that just before I transplanted them I had gotten my hands on the flora nutrient trio: grow, micro and bloom, also a bottle of cal/mag.
I went ahead and mixed 1/8 tsp grow, 1/8 tsp micro, 1/16 tsp bloom and a tsp of cal/mag into 4L of water and did a quick Ph which came to about 6.5 on the aqua test, poured about a litre into each pot over the morning hours before transplanting and a few hours after.
WARNING: from what happened next and what alot of people on here say it is not good to give autos nutes until about 12 - 24 days into seedling/vegetative stage depending on the strain. Maybe even more with some I believe.
»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»
Thanks for reading, I am looking forward to learning all I can from this great forum & from this grow.
Feel free to ask any questions about the grow and if you have any concerns or tips, I would love for you to share them.
... day 4 - day 12 to be continued in the morning ...
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