Rab's 3 girls one cup sweet seeds competition diary

[rabthegrower]

Thanks for running such a great competition Jayyp,Tommy and all the sweet seeds family.

Hello and welcome to my Sweet seeds competition diary. I thought I would kick things off with a drawing (since i’m an artist) as a way of introduction.

As you can see I went for Psicodelicia, Wild Rose and Sweet Afgani Delicious. My choices were easy as i’ve wanted to grow wild rose for years, Psicodelicia is in a book i’ve got and Sweet Afgani Delicious just sounds excellent

I love growing in water so whatever system I use it will be water based, nft,dwc, r-dwc or waterfarm. I’ve got a few options maybe try 3 girls one cup again... ... This is the setup for this grow. No1 a mop of course ; )

Small veg tent 60x60x80cm

Light: 300w CFL euro shade

Heated propagator

Small Desk fan for air movment

Flower Tent 1.2m (GreenQube)

Environmental Controller G SE set at 25c, 70% humidity lowering to 50% late in grow

600w Hps with a 5” air-cool shade

2 5” inline fans (one for filter, one for shade)

2 6” desk fans (one high, one low)

1m scrog net

Nutrients are simple GHE 3 part formula

Grow, Micro, Bloom

Cal-mag

Superthrive

Silicon (ph up)

Lemon juice (ph down)

I’ve got H2O2 for if I see any root rot and TaNiLin for if I see any fungus gnats. I will be using EC truncheon and PH meter to keep everything in happy zone for hydroponics

Lets get growing, the seeds and lovely catalogue got here really fast (within two days) Fantastic!

I put them straight in some room temperature water over night

then transfer directly into Jiffy pots and put them in the heated propagator with the lid on just to stop the coco pots drying out.

Keeping a close eye on how heavy the coco pots are and keep them wet but not soaking. You get a feeling for it

I used the paper towel method for years, then tried this way and its just as good so far

Within one day the seedlings are starting to show

Over the next few days all the seedlings made it the to surface

This was the 1^st seed to show S.A.D S1 won that round

I’ll see how much they stretch and decide if they are going into grodan block or into clay pebbles

Sorry this is such a big first post I just wanted to cover how I start out in detail

I got six weeks to wait until the flower tent is empty , then the fun will really start. I’ll do another update soon as anything is happening. Bye for now : )

Edited December 19, 2016 by rabthegrower

[KayDog]

Wow. That's an amazing start! All the best! I do hope it goes fantastically for you!

[Teeth]

All the best with them Rab,

Nice start too with lovely photos and nice and easy to read. I was a bit scared of the title tho

[Hiphip]

Nice labels rab but a distinct lack of visible moppage

All the best with the rest mucker, get that mop pic up though

Cheers

[vince noir rock n roll star]

a beautiful start rab ..and as far as ive seen the only diary for wild rose on here ..but dont quote me on that ..be good to see a wild rose to completion ..all the best chap

[Guest morten arthursson]

Thanks Rab i will perch in the corner quietly

ATB with these

Edited December 19, 2016 by morten arthursson

[Badbadger]

@@rabthegrower looking good mate hope it goes well and you enjoy a rather baked Spring as many of us are next year thanks to Sweet Seeds

Will be following.

[tom68]

I'll pull up a chair man. Atb with it dude.

[bigbadbillybob]

looks good so far Rab,

best of luck with your latest adventure

[MrGreens]

@@rabthegrower

Lovely start mate

Quick question Why prefer it over paper towel ?

[rabthegrower]

Thanks for the kind works and warm welcome to the competition, thanks guys

@@MrGreens

I just started using jiffy coco pots this year and it just seems the right way to do it with them. it also means I don't damage the tap root when transfer into whatever medium I'm growing in

Edited December 19, 2016 by rabthegrower

[Geordiejames420]

i think we've got the winner here

[botanics]

@@rabthegrower

Cracking opener Rab, really good mate and that artwork man You're a talented fella, really like that touch and the work you've put into it is fantastic, i'm in for this and looking forward to the show mate

Edited December 19, 2016 by botanics

[Green-trialist]

Good work mate!!

looking forward to this one.. will be with you every step of the way.

[sweet-4-my-sweets]

Hi mate first of welcome to the comp an good luck

Looks like your off to a great start sounds like a nice setup you have should be a good one to watch if I may