Unpopular opinion

[CannabisMingus]

bodies all over the floor under mine

Fry. Them. All.
No mercy.

 

[Goud S!]

I do mine in a separate seedling container made out of styrofoam sheet insulation. Works a treat from seed soaking until the second or third node:

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The tray the babes are sitting in is a standard germination tray with a seedling mat underneath it. The styrofoam containment allows the heat mat to keep the entire inside of the box nice and warm. The mat is controlled by an Inkbird, otherwise it would over heat the plants. For seed soaking and paper towel stages, I use a solid top without the clear window. To control RH inside the box, I adjust the position of the top (it just sits loose on the sides) to increase or lower the amount of ventilation. Bigger opening, lower RH. Of course, you need a thermo-hygrometer in there to know what is up.

This setup works very well for me.

Here are the same solo girls a few weeks later:
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The box is glued together with some silcone caulking, noting fancier is needed. The seedlings have suffered a bit while I sorted the automatic irrigation for the first time, but they seem to be on track as of yesterday. Solos, I have learned, dry out quickly, and when they do, trouble is not far away.

Good luck with your grows, if you have any questions about my mischief, just ask away.

Seedlings can take fairly intense light after the first few days. I generally run mine at about 35-40 dli until day 6 or 7 and then 50-53 dli for the remainder of the grow.

Ok...so not to seem lazy but what or how would your lighting (35-40dii) compare to a K5 XL1000 set on the 20 hour Autoflower preset which runs Red, Blue, and the invisibles at 100%.(I will research the dii)
Obviously the best choice would be a separate area and all the fixings...unfortunately I'm outta space and don't wanna cheat the in progress ladies of light so not to sound stubborn...but do you know of an option to shade them if one exists or am I chasing a dream?

 

[Goud S!]

I do mine in a separate seedling container made out of styrofoam sheet insulation. Works a treat from seed soaking until the second or third node:

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The tray the babes are sitting in is a standard germination tray with a seedling mat underneath it. The styrofoam containment allows the heat mat to keep the entire inside of the box nice and warm. The mat is controlled by an Inkbird, otherwise it would over heat the plants. For seed soaking and paper towel stages, I use a solid top without the clear window. To control RH inside the box, I adjust the position of the top (it just sits loose on the sides) to increase or lower the amount of ventilation. Bigger opening, lower RH. Of course, you need a thermo-hygrometer in there to know what is up.

This setup works very well for me.

Here are the same solo girls a few weeks later:
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The box is glued together with some silcone caulking, noting fancier is needed. The seedlings have suffered a bit while I sorted the automatic irrigation for the first time, but they seem to be on track as of yesterday. Solos, I have learned, dry out quickly, and when they do, trouble is not far away.

Good luck with your grows, if you have any questions about my mischief, just ask away.

Hey wow that is an awesome setup with obvious results. I appreciate the feedback and will definitely take your offer as I go along. I'm new to the auto flower stuff and the tent. I used to have 2 full rooms where I grew photos, one was for cloning and vegging and the other was my flower room so it wasn't a problem. Now I'm tight for space and I'm looking for any option possible. My current grow area has a very cold floor so I am using my seedling mats underneath my autopots to keep the solution in the valve chamber warm. The mats are cheap enough so getting more wouldn't be a problem...its just the floor space in the 4x4 tent.

 

[Olderfart]

Hey wow that is an awesome setup with obvious results. I appreciate the feedback and will definitely take your offer as I go along. I'm new to the auto flower stuff and the tent. I used to have 2 full rooms where I grew photos, one was for cloning and vegging and the other was my flower room so it wasn't a problem. Now I'm tight for space and I'm looking for any option possible. My current grow area has a very cold floor so I am using my seedling mats underneath my autopots to keep the solution in the valve chamber warm. The mats are cheap enough so getting more wouldn't be a problem...its just the floor space in the 4x4 tent.

for a cold floor, styrofoam insulation is a really good bet, even if you continue with the mats. Another thing that can help lots is getting the floor of your grow elevated a bit to leave an air space beneath it.

If you have lots of experience with photos, you should find moving to autos pretty simple.

As to the light intensity issue, if you can't do anything else, lift the big girls closer to the light, and put the seedlings further away. Perhaps milk crates under the big girls, and the babes on the floor - that's the idea anyway. Just a thought.

 

[420autoflower]

Hey just curious...do you have a separate area to start your new add seedlings? I want to start staggering my grows to be continuous but worry about burning them to death...or cheating the others by lowering the light intensity to accommodate the news? Thanks

I just put a second story in one of my 4x2x6 tents. Very crude but simple upgrade. I have some new autos starting upstairs, and clones growing downstairs.

 

[MonteVerde]

Listen to this man's take on autoflowers:

Jeff Lowenfels talks about auto-flowering cannabis.

Link: The AutoFlowering Revolution (12:31)

About the speaker (from his website): Author of the Award-winning author of the following:
(1) "Teaming With Microbes: The Organic Gardener’Guide To The Soil Food Web,"
(2) "Teaming With Nutrients: The Organic Gardener’s Guide to Optimizing Plant Nutrition"
(3) "Teaming With Fungi: The Organic Grower’s Guide to Mycorrhizae,"
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He is also a lawyer who writes the longest-running garden column in North America, having never missed a week in 41 years. The combination of garden writing and law earned him the moniker of “America’s Dirtiest Lawyer,” though with the publication of his third book, a trilogy, he will morph into “Lord of The Roots.”

Jeff is a highly respected and popular garden writer. He is the former President of the Garden Writers of America, a GWA Fellow and in 2005 was inducted into the GWA Hall of Fame, the highest honor a garden writer can achieve.

Good listen, thanks.

 

[Cerebral Goo]

Fry. Them. All.
No mercy.

A little diddy for the fungus gnats. The band had to quit playing it. "The agro" would hang in the air like thick humidity on a breezeless southern night...Dripping...then BOOOM!!!

 

[Cerebral Goo]

Fry. Them. All.
No mercy.

Would help if I attached the song! Wake n bake.....stoners....

 

[420autoflower]

Thanks Blue!!!

 

[420autoflower]

I just put a second story in one of my 4x2x6 tents. Very crude but simple upgrade. I have some new autos starting upstairs, and clones growing downstairs.


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Thanks Olderfart!