UPDATE: Day 7
LIGHTING: ...
2 X 600W
SCHEDULE: ... 24/7
TEMPERATURE: ... ~ 30°C [+/-2°C]
HUMIDITY: ... ~ 45 RH% [+/-5 RH%]
POT/MEDIUM: ... O.5l pot with BioBizz Lite soil
NUTRIENTS:
House & Garden Roots Excelurator 1.5ml/l
Advanced Nutrients Connoisseur Grow A+B 1.0ml/l
WATER pH: ... 6.4
WATER EC: ... 1.2
QUANTITY: ... 250ml
COMMENTS:
I suspect the babies are on the brink of heat stress.
Under light temps are edging up to 32°C at times. Tent temp is around 29°C.
I'd be a lot happier if I could lower those by around 3°C.
It's a fine line I'm walking.
To stop the stretch, I needed to put the lights lower.
Putting the lights lower caused more heat directly from the HPS, and risks heat stress.
So what I have done is turned another light on, now giving 2 x 600W HPS, so that I can raise the lights.
My logic is providing just as many lumens to retard over-stretching, but from a higher, cooler height.
Let's see what happens.
The small 0.5l pots dry out VERY quickly.
Combination of heat and growing root system.
I don't want to overwater, but I don't want them to die of thirst either!
Just need to monitor regularly.
Some of the leaves are looking a bit manky, with the turning up of the leaf edges.
Good news is the edge isn't dry - the leaf is still green and supple, so hopefully with the raising of the lights, and the subsequent reduction of direct heat, the edge rolling will soon be rectified.
Down to 2 x
Mohan Ram Auto.
I needed to remove the lifeless corpses of the two that mysteriously just *stopped* living.
Can't explain it.
Both had tap root, had attempted to shed the shell, and had, what looked to be, healthy cotyledon.
Same soil. Same water, Same everything, but they just didn't kick on.
On with the pics.
4 x Blow Mind Auto - 100% germination
4 x Jack 47 Auto - 100% germination
2 x Mohan Ram Auto - 50% germination