Hey there, I am back finally with some news! Yesterday at 17:00 I planted my seeds! I decided to plant the seeds directly in the final pot, looked to me the easiest way.
This is what I did, step by step and day by day, until now!
9/05/2020
24 hours, didn't sprout. I continue moisting the soil and checking rH and temperature. I would like to know if you guys have any hint for me, otherwise I keep crossing my fingers!
Hygrometer inside the dome.
Today I finally received my humidifier but I am still waiting for the InkBird Controller. Meanwhile I found out that using those industrial kitchen aluminium pots and filling them with small stones and water did a very good job keeping the general humidity level inside of the grow box at around 70% to 75%, this way I got rid of those antiaesthetic paper towels!
NOTES:
Turning on the Air Extractor (connected to the Carbon filter) will lower my temperatures of 5 to 10 degrees and will also lower the humidity inside the grow box in a scale range of 30% to 40%.
Coming soon for more infos!
This is what I did, step by step and day by day, until now!
9/05/2020
- I prepared my soil mixture: 70% soil (BioBizz Light Mix), 30% Perlite. It was about 5,6Kg of soil and 2,4Kg of perlite.
- I gave the pots a very good soak using water settling since 24hrs, I gave about 3 liters of water each pot and added 2ml per litre of BioBizz Root Juice (instead of 4ml oer litre as suggested by the company) followed by some drops of Ph- solution from Advanced Hydroponics of Holland in order to lower Ph from 8+ to around 6/7. I stopped watering the pots until I had a decent run out from the bottom, not that much of run out.
- I moved my pots into my grow box and let them rest 24 hours with lights on in order to let the soil absorb humidity and not being wet, from now on also my clipfan is always operating inside the grow box.
- At 17:00 I decided it was the right time to plant my seeds directly in soil and I did it. I made a 1cm hole, put the seed inside and covered it with soil, without pressing it. Soil looked humid, not wet, so I suppose presoaking worked as expected!
- At this very stage I also used a dome to cover the top of the pot. I hope it was the right decision to start using a dome just after seeding, you will tell me. From time to time now I use to spray water over the soil to keep it moist.
- Since I planted lights are set on a daily cicle of 20/04 hrs, I use an hygrometer to check the conditions inside the dome, it's about 75% to 90% Rh and a temperature between 23/29 degrees. From time to time I open the dome to let some fresh air in and lower Rh and temperatures if they get too high. I also had to move the Spider Farmer SF-2000 about 80cm far away from the pots in order to lower the temperatures!
24 hours, didn't sprout. I continue moisting the soil and checking rH and temperature. I would like to know if you guys have any hint for me, otherwise I keep crossing my fingers!
Hygrometer inside the dome.
NOTES:
Turning on the Air Extractor (connected to the Carbon filter) will lower my temperatures of 5 to 10 degrees and will also lower the humidity inside the grow box in a scale range of 30% to 40%.
Coming soon for more infos!
