Shumroom Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 DINAFEM SEEDS Deep Sweet Grapefruit Blueberry Cookies Orange Juice All to be grown under LED First things first. Many many thanks to @Dinafem-Mark for providing the seeds gratis. Thanks also to Adam @diyleduk and @Diyleduk Craig for supplying lights and exhaust fan. Tagging in @Intense Nutrients Matt as that's the feed I'll be using. Seeds For any of you who follow my other diary/s, this will be mostly photos and hard details, keeping the word count down if I can. I intended to germinate 2 of each variety, in an ideal world. So on the 26th of August, I began this grow by dropping a couple of seeds of each variety into 3 shot glasses with warm-ish water and a couple of drops of Hydrogen Peroxide 6 percent, for 24hrs then transferred to peat pellets pre soaked with 1ml/l of Great White mycorrhizal liquid in warm(about body temp) water. The peat pellets went into a propagator with a heat mat, to keep them above 22C, in the(new) Homebox propagator tent, currently on the bottom shelf, about 2 feet(60cm) below, but off to the side under a Highlight 220 LED from Diyleduk. To begin with I had the draw on the Highlight 220 set to 60W. I didn't check them for another 24Hrs, when I did I was pleased to see the first signs of life, but I didn't take any photos of them. After a few days, all but one of the Deep Sweet Grapefruit seeds germinated. I had hoped to have at least 6 plants, to fill out the 'Secret Jardin DRW150'. For those of you unfamiliar with the DRW150, it is 150cm x 90cm x 200cm tall, more details about that when we get to that stage On the 30th of August, I put the 3 remaining seeds in to soak for 24hrs as above, then I popped them into some small pots of seed/cutting compost along with some Old Timer PM granules I had lying around. Then stuck them in the propagator with a heat mat controlled by an Inkbird hc wifi version, set to 24C. SEEDLINGS Then I managed to accidentally decapitate one of the OJ seedlings when I was sticking a heat mat under a larger plant in the same space, luckily I had already stuck the remaining seeds into shot glasses with warm-ish water and a couple of drops of Hydrogen Peroxide, in order to make up the numbers. Decapitation shots Steamy windows A couple of days later and still only 1 of the Deep Sweet Grapefruit seeds has shown any signs of life. 2 of the Orange Juice seeds have survived my handling, but all 3 did germinate. All 3 of the Blueberry Cookies seedlings have also germinated, so I will stil have a 6/8 plant grow I'm really excited about this grow, being my first time running Dinafem seeds and the fact that this is all part of my switch from growing under HPS/CMH to LED. And the first time attempting to run 2 separate flowering areas at the same time, one on at night and the other on during the day. Please feel free to comment, like and follow along for the ride Thanks again to Mark for the opportunity to run this diary(the free seeds). Sorry about the font size, like I said, I'm excited 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcjuna Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Will be following along best o luck 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UKsFinest Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Good choices on the strains mate Ive been temped by the blueberry cookies recently, the sweet deep grapefruit is gonna go on my list too. Good luck with these I'll pull up a seat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BodhiGarden Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Exciting indeed, I'm excited for you haha. Shame about the decapitation lol. Great start and I shall be following along! Good luck! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shumroom Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 1 hour ago, marcjuna said: Will be following along best o luck Thanks @marcjuna 56 minutes ago, UKsFinest said: Good choices on the strains mate Ive been temped by the blueberry cookies recently, the sweet deep grapefruit is gonna go on my list too. Good luck with these I'll pull up a seat Yeah thanks @UKsFinest, I nearly went for the Bubba Kush instead of the Blueberry Cookies, but @Dinafem-Markrecommended the Cookies. I do enjoy most of the blueberry crosses I've tried so 16 minutes ago, BodhiGarden said: Exciting indeed, I'm excited for you haha. Shame about the decapitation lol. Great start and I shall be following along! Good luck! Thanks @BodhiGarden, I nearly got really pissed off with myself until I realised I should get another OJ from the remaining seeds that were already in the soil. These things will happen from time to time, especially when medicated 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dov1 Posted September 7, 2020 Share Posted September 7, 2020 Looks like a decent challenge! All the best with the grow, ill be following this 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shumroom Posted September 7, 2020 Author Share Posted September 7, 2020 35 minutes ago, Dov1 said: Looks like a decent challenge! All the best with the grow, ill be following this Nice one @Dov1, the more the merrier 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 5 hours ago, Shumroom said: run 2 separate flowering areas at the same time, one on at night and the other on during the day. Could you expand please mon ami? Will you use different flowering lights for the two areas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
npx2020 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Looking good mate, defo following this one 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ursus1000 Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Wishing you all the best 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BudJ Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Looking forward to this one @Shumroom. Following. All the best! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shumroom Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 9 hours ago, Life_Obsession said: Could you expand please mon ami? Will you use different flowering lights for the two areas? Thanks for asking @Life_Obsession One area of about 1.6*1.2*2.4m illuminated by the Lumatek Zeus 600W Pro. Self contained partitioned room within a room. And a separate tent Secret Jardin dr150w 150*90*200, in the same room as the partitioned space. Illuminated by up to 2x Highlight 220's and a Par+ 275. I will run the tent during the daytime and the partitioned space at night, or the other way around, I'm not sure yet. Both grow spaces are in the same room. But completely separate from each other. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shumroom Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 5 hours ago, npx2020 said: Looking good mate, defo following this one 3 hours ago, ursus1000 said: Wishing you all the best 2 hours ago, BudJ said: Looking forward to this one @Shumroom. Following. All the best! Thanks for the positive vibes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intense Nutrients Matt Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Best of luck with the grow brother have subbed and will keep popping in and having a look how you get on All the best mate Matt 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid the sloth Posted September 8, 2020 Share Posted September 8, 2020 Sounds like some decent strains there @Shumroom, intrigued to see how the grapefruit turns out so ill be stopping by from time to time. Good luck ✌ 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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