New Grower Starting my outdoor plants

[Talonxracer]

I am slightly behind getting some plants started for my outdoor raised bed garden. It isn't for a lack of trying, I had soaked 6 seeds of gorilla glue#4 auto and only 2 of them developed tap roots but neither of them did anything once they were in soil. While the white widow seeds(2 seeds) both took root but one crimped and lost its leaves and died when the temps dropped to 40* f the past few days outside.

So I tried another round of 4 gg#4's which again did nothing, another white widow and 2 Early Miss autos which are doing great. They are currently residing in solo cups waiting for temps and growth to increase. The three survivors of this past attempt are sitting under 48 lm301H(6500k) and 42 lm301H ONE(3500k) leds at 70% for a PAR of 208.

 

[Talonxracer]

 

[blue_ridge_bandit]

I am slightly behind getting some plants started for my outdoor raised bed garden. It isn't for a lack of trying, I had soaked 6 seeds of gorilla glue#4 auto and only 2 of them developed tap roots but neither of them did anything once they were in soil. While the white widow seeds(2 seeds) both took root but one crimped and lost its leaves and died when the temps dropped to 40* f the past few days outside.

So I tried another round of 4 gg#4's which again did nothing, another white widow and 2 Early Miss autos which are doing great. They are currently residing in solo cups waiting for temps and growth to increase. The three survivors of this past attempt are sitting under 48 lm301H(6500k) and 42 lm301H ONE(3500k) leds at 70% for a PAR of 208.
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Hopefully these hold out and give you a nice return. The temps here swing like a pendulum as well. We'll have near 80° daytime temps, and then a 30° dip overnight. I almost regretted putting auto seeds outside last month, but they've powered through.

 

[Talonxracer]

The new girls really seem to like this new lighting setup/scheme. I didn't have my s--t together and only had a 3500k strip when the WW first popped above the surface and it stretched like crazy. As soon as the new Early Miss beans popped I replaced the 3500k with the 6500k and later that day added the lm301h ONE strips. The leaves look nice and flat, no praying or drooping and the growth is accelerating very nicely.

 

[Talonxracer]

I found these spectrograph's for the 3500k, 6500k, and the ONE's. You can see the ONE's are very heavy into the green/cyan spectrum that Samsung found really helps vegging.
3500k

ONE

6500k

 

[Talonxracer]

Here is the newest pic, the WW is 2 weeks old and the Early Miss are 10 days. At what stage should I consider transplanting them to their outside location?, I have never started my plants in solo cups before!

 

[Talonxracer]

The White Widow found a new home outside yesterday. She has the 5th node coming out, substantially larger than the WW that was started in the garden on the first of june!

 

[Talonxracer]

The Early Miss are 18 days old, 5th node starting, I went ahead and FIM'd the one with the higher 5th, just to see what happens. They really like this lighting setup! I will give them a few more days inside to recover a bit and seeing there are rain storms forecasted for the next few days, it's safer.

 

[Talonxracer]

Ok everything is in the garden, no big rain storms, they fizzled out!

Here is a pic showing the inside started WW next to the first WW planted in the garden during the first week of june, the cold weather stunted her significantly, while the inside started WW has grown/stretched quite a bit in 4days.

And here are the two EarlyMiss...

 

[Talonxracer]

As I mentioned above I FIM'd one of the EarlyMiss plants. It did slow down total plant growth just a bit in comparison to the plant I left un-molested. But you can see the mass starting from the FIM.