Update #2
@Trichome farmer
Well I'll be dipped. Day 1 occurred pretty much simultaneously for all 8 seeds.
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This is amazing, I never get 100% germ rate. Is it the genetics or the 120-grit sand-paper shake?
Whatever, I take it gladly.
So I rolled each plug in some mycos and put then in a solo cup with BigRootz soil mix. Here they are on day 4:
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Two days later (Day 6) and not much has happened. If anything, the leaves have paled some and seem stressed.
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Is the medium too moist, or maybe the light too intense? I worried about the light; they are about 24+ inches below the mono-cob portion of my Amare SolarSpec 450. Perhaps I was too hasty moving them away from the little fluorescent lights over the germination tray.
In anticipation for doing some testing with the new Medic Grow Fold-8 LED, I have installed and upgraded the Photone app on my iPhone. I gave it a try and realized that the Amare light, even in its scaled down mode, was hitting the baby girls with 850-880 PPFD or a DLI of approximately 60. I'm a neophyte when it comes to grow light metrics, measurements, etc. But I'm pretty sure that this is WAY TOO MUCH for their tender age. So I moved the tray back under a single 20 watt fluorescent tube. We'll see how they respond. I'm going to be learning a lot about LED light metrics over the next few weeks.