Happy belated 4/20 anyone who may read this 
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Couple of updates from my neck of the woods, day 7:
1. Everyone but I was sick most of the week in my house, until Friday morning. Luckily, I normally mend quite quickly, so I got out and did yard work to help sweat the nasty out of me today. Not 100% sure it helped as much as I had hoped, but I feel somewhat better and my new fruit trees needed some water as it's supposed to be dry and warm here for a week, so it was worth it no matter what.
2. I shuffled my grow around again. The Jack Herer is coming along nicely in the fourth planter and seems quite happy in it's home. One of the Quick One's (the smaller/slower growing one) didn't make it. So I sprouted another freebie Seedsman Kush and it is growing quickly and nicely. I believe I finally have some harmony in this grow, let's see where it goes. The second Quick One is growing beautifully so far and seems very strong and healthy. The original Northern Light's is the furthest along for growth and very happy looking, second leaves are almost as big as first (not coty's).
3. I took all the LST ties off as the plants are too young. A friend of mine showed me years ago how his stalks looked from early bending, when I asked him how little they were when he does that he told me just babies. I text him yesterday for clarification and he said at like 3-4 weeks "babies". Guess I should not have taken him so literally. But, my real point is that I learned something first hand from my aggressiveness. Aside from the Quick One that didn't make it, I do not believe I did any serious harm to the seedlings from this early manipulation. Needless to say, won't do it again quite so early lol
4. I removed the solo cup sleeves from around the seedlings as their roots were all coming out the bottom of the cups. I have been watering with a squirt bottle, keeping my solution at 6.2 to help bring my soil PH down some more (it's still at 6.8ish). Turn the fans off and sprinkle the surface gently with a mix of water and half strength
Kangaroots. Also, I have used a very mild solution (1ml to 2L) of Primordial Solutions Sea Green and Microbe Brew at quarter the bottle strength, PH'ed at 6.2, as a misted foliar spray. This was used on Wednesday evening, then again this morning. I did so to help the seedlings grow better of course, but also to help introduce extra beneficial's to the plants.
5. I have been using 2.5 gallons (between a 1G jug and several 1/2G mason jar) of hot tap water, sealed to help keep the tent warm. My average has been 81F, that's 4F warmer than prior to the indoor floodlight bulb to help with warmth and the hot water. I do this trick right before bed and again in the morning. My humidity has been between 60 and 70%, but I have lots of fans for circulation and all plants are gently jiggling in the breeze. Of course I have complete control of that humidity by not misting the surface of the pots it would be down between 50 and 60%, then turn the light on both switches and it drops 5-10% more. I think I might just be somewhat lucky, but my humidity and environmental factors have been pretty easy to control where I want. Keeping the temp up had me thinking for a couple days though. The "micro climate" bucket would have worked better in the tent, but I wasn't utilizing the squirt bottle to the soil surface trick to keep the RH up yet, so maybe I should have given the bucket a couple more days. I will mess with it with the tomato starts and such for the "other" garden! Luckily, I already got permission from the wife to buy a second tent, probably go with a 2x2x4 and put a T5 HO fixture in there and just do veg in that tent with a mini greenhouse and not have to do so much McGyvering with buckets and micro fans. Of course, that might take a little fun from it! Then I can just relocate plants to the bigger tent for flower.
I think that's all. I will add some pics next time, they are so small now nobody would be impressed anyway Of course, this journal is more for me to keep notes and such, you just got suckered into reading it somehow. Happy growing!
pass it along!Couple of updates from my neck of the woods, day 7:
1. Everyone but I was sick most of the week in my house, until Friday morning. Luckily, I normally mend quite quickly, so I got out and did yard work to help sweat the nasty out of me today. Not 100% sure it helped as much as I had hoped, but I feel somewhat better and my new fruit trees needed some water as it's supposed to be dry and warm here for a week, so it was worth it no matter what.
2. I shuffled my grow around again. The Jack Herer is coming along nicely in the fourth planter and seems quite happy in it's home. One of the Quick One's (the smaller/slower growing one) didn't make it. So I sprouted another freebie Seedsman Kush and it is growing quickly and nicely. I believe I finally have some harmony in this grow, let's see where it goes. The second Quick One is growing beautifully so far and seems very strong and healthy. The original Northern Light's is the furthest along for growth and very happy looking, second leaves are almost as big as first (not coty's).
3. I took all the LST ties off as the plants are too young. A friend of mine showed me years ago how his stalks looked from early bending, when I asked him how little they were when he does that he told me just babies. I text him yesterday for clarification and he said at like 3-4 weeks "babies". Guess I should not have taken him so literally. But, my real point is that I learned something first hand from my aggressiveness. Aside from the Quick One that didn't make it, I do not believe I did any serious harm to the seedlings from this early manipulation. Needless to say, won't do it again quite so early lol
4. I removed the solo cup sleeves from around the seedlings as their roots were all coming out the bottom of the cups. I have been watering with a squirt bottle, keeping my solution at 6.2 to help bring my soil PH down some more (it's still at 6.8ish). Turn the fans off and sprinkle the surface gently with a mix of water and half strength
Kangaroots. Also, I have used a very mild solution (1ml to 2L) of Primordial Solutions Sea Green and Microbe Brew at quarter the bottle strength, PH'ed at 6.2, as a misted foliar spray. This was used on Wednesday evening, then again this morning. I did so to help the seedlings grow better of course, but also to help introduce extra beneficial's to the plants.5. I have been using 2.5 gallons (between a 1G jug and several 1/2G mason jar) of hot tap water, sealed to help keep the tent warm. My average has been 81F, that's 4F warmer than prior to the indoor floodlight bulb to help with warmth and the hot water. I do this trick right before bed and again in the morning. My humidity has been between 60 and 70%, but I have lots of fans for circulation and all plants are gently jiggling in the breeze. Of course I have complete control of that humidity by not misting the surface of the pots it would be down between 50 and 60%, then turn the light on both switches and it drops 5-10% more. I think I might just be somewhat lucky, but my humidity and environmental factors have been pretty easy to control where I want. Keeping the temp up had me thinking for a couple days though. The "micro climate" bucket would have worked better in the tent, but I wasn't utilizing the squirt bottle to the soil surface trick to keep the RH up yet, so maybe I should have given the bucket a couple more days. I will mess with it with the tomato starts and such for the "other" garden! Luckily, I already got permission from the wife to buy a second tent, probably go with a 2x2x4 and put a T5 HO fixture in there and just do veg in that tent with a mini greenhouse and not have to do so much McGyvering with buckets and micro fans. Of course, that might take a little fun from it! Then I can just relocate plants to the bigger tent for flower.
I think that's all. I will add some pics next time, they are so small now nobody would be impressed anyway
Of course, this journal is more for me to keep notes and such, you just got suckered into reading it somehow. Happy growing!
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