6 of the best? Under LEDs

[Notorious B.U.D]

Atb with this one @Shumroom nice to see your giving coco a try I reckon you’ll get along with it just fine mate...I love the stuff  

[Shumroom]

Update to 18th January 2021

 

The next group of seeds were removed from cold storage  

 

I've germinated 9 seeds in total I forget how many of each just now but I'll let you know in the next update.

 

 

Here's some getting pre soaked in water at 24C with a couple of drops of Hydrogen Peroxide 

 

 

Here's the first group of seeds before being potted up in some Ecothrive coco with Charge

Still no no sign of the Red Hot Cookies from the Rootit

 

 

And here they are in their new shoes

 

 

 

Here's the second group of seedlings this time I just used Jiffy pellets

 

Group 1 watered in using 2ml/l of IN KickStart 1ml/l of MagCal

 

Group 2

 

 

The weather report  

 

 

Thanks for looking in 

 

Thats all for now.

 

 

[Punta Roja]

Congratulations on your new arrivals mate... I'm toying with germing the Sweet Tai next.

 

ATVB

 

PR

 

 

[growinggold]

Good to puts some names to leaves. I especially like the shot where the seed shell has fallen perfectly at the base stem and look like a pac man munching. 

 

Take it easy brutha. 

[jadenugs]

Lovely set up and start mate, great attention to detail. 

All the best with the grow and the comp  

[Văru']

Sweeet selection mate,good luck with the comp

[Shumroom]

Cheers @Punta Roja go for it,

i've germinated 2 of them  

 

@growinggold yeah I noticed when I was taking them,

i used to absolutely love that game  

 

@jadenugs thanks very much and the very best to you too 

 

@Văru' I do like a bit of variety in life good luck to you too  loving the new cane setup btw.

 

 

Mini update to 20th January 2021

 

 

I had a look at them yesterday and I checked them out,

I have germinated:

1 x BigFoot 

2 x Sweet Tai

3 x SAD s1

3 x Sweet Zkittlez 

 

Oh and the final Red Hot Cookies seedling in has finally started to emerge from the Rootit plug which was in the propagator beside some cuttings I have been rooting out,

I have put her beside her sisters in group 2 for now,

although she's going to be flowered with group 1 so hopefully she catches up with them.

 

 

 

 

 

Expect some more photos soon...

 

Atb to everyone reading this.

 

 

[Shumroom]

Photo drop

From 19th and 20th of January

 

Inside the Homebox tent.

 

The Highlight 220 on the left and to the right is the 75W quantum board from the fantastic guys @diyleduk

the seedlings are on the heat mat under the quantum board

The lights are currently running at around 75W combined(45W/30W)

 

 

Here we have the Red Hot Cookies from Group 1 that was running late

 

 

The next day she's up and looking for the sun

 

 

Here she is making shadow puppets using the camera flash(I think she might be a bit of a joker) 

 

 

 

Moving on to Group 2

 

Left row(going down from top to bottom) are the SAD s1 x3 and on the right are the 2x Sweet Tai above and below the late Red Hot cookies

 

 

Left row are 3x Sweet Zkittlez and the little Bigfoot is on the right

 

 

 

Here they are after a brief shower with seaweed extract at 2ml plus a little sprinkle of Yucca extract as a wetting agent in 1 litre of water

 

 

 

Time for some close-ups

 

SAD s1 x3

 

 

 

 

 

The seed casing is still trying to do it's best Pac-Man impression to the Sweet Tai below

 

 

 

Here are the 2 x Sweet Tai up close'n personal

 

 

 

 

Lastly it's the 3 x Sweet Zkittlez

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for looking in again  

 

Atb

 

 

[Amo]

Gonna be a proper forest in here in a few week’s. 
Looking good dude 

[Shumroom]

Thanks mate

 

Atb 

 

 

[AustrianToker]

Some beautiful pictures - the new camera is paying off!    I found the RHC and the Zkittles to be a bit stretchy compared to the others, but not overwhelming.  Hopefully you will be finding a descent sweet tai.  I wasn't fortunate in the past, but that doesn't mean that sweet tai can't be good. Good luck!

[Punta Roja]

Fantastic images mate... following the Sweet Tai with interest.

 

ATVB

 

PR

[Shumroom]

Thanks @AustrianToker and @Punta Roja

I'm really enjoying learning what the new camera is capable of 

 

In close-up the germination stage is as enjoyable to watch as the crystal formation during flowering. Imo

 

Cheers for the stretch info AT 

 

With regards to the Sweet Tai,

I've got my fingers cr ossed for a keeper but if not at least I've got plenty of variety with this grow.

 

I'll most likely be making a batch of ISO with the leftovers(popcorn and trim) anyway,

so any plants which don't make the grade flavour wise will get added to the trim bags(delicates wash bag) so that I can make the best of them for the management of my chronic pain 

 

 

Thanks for the kind words,

and the very best of luck to both of you and others all in this years competition.

 

Atb

 

 

[Shumroom]

A few photos ahead of the next update. 

 

Red Hot Cookies 

 

Mohan Ram 

 

Sweet Zkittlez 

 

Sweet Tai 

 

SAD s1

 

Oops I can't seem to find BigFoot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

BigFoot 

 

Until tomorrow, 

when I'll update the essentials. 

 

Atb 

 

 

[Shumroom]

Update to 28th Jan 2021

 

 

I hope you're all keeping well in these unpredictable times.

It's been a busy time for me in the Homebox nursery tent as things are starting to take hold  

so make sure you've got a spliff in your hand/vape stuffed/cuppa tea/coffee/walked the dog and been to the loo and I'll explain what's been happening for the last week.

Up first we check in with the Aircomfort data logger to see what the weather has been like for the last week in the garden 

 

 

It's been fairly cosy considering just how cold it's been outside(bloody freezing),

the massive humidity peak 25th/26th was me trying out an idea to increase it,

but it kinda went too far and turned things into a bit of a jungle(which would be great for clones)  

 

To begin the week the lights were at about 80W combined,

with roughly 35W on the qb and about 45W on the Highlight 220.

 

Group 1: The Mohan Ram and 2 Red Hot Cookies.

 

Some of the stems were becoming a bit too long and flexible,

they had stretched up just a little(a lot) too much in the beginning because I've been wary of having my new super intense LED lights turned up too high,
especially while the next group of seeds were germinating in the same space.

 

Anyhow...

 

 

a medicated idea popped into my mind,

I decided that in order to stop them flopping over and lying horizontally,

I added a "bends" training clip just below the cotyledons of each plant to encourage some strengthening of the stem and it seems to have done the trick.

 

That was a couple of days before I potted them up into these 7.5"(I think) pots.

 

Oh and please excuse some of the photos,

I forgot to switch of the clip on fan before snapping away.

 

Mohan Ram

 

Red Hot Cookies (runt)

 

Mohan Ram in the background and the Red Hot Cookies in front

 

Red Hot Cookies from above

 

I'll bury them a little deeper again on the next pot up,

but in the meantime when I sometimes spray them at lights out,

with either just tap water or seaweed solution 2ml/l they don't just flop over.

 

These girls(above) have had just a couple of drinks since being potted up last week into these pots,

as I want to try to encourage root growth as much as possible,
they got one feed on Monday and then another today(yesterday now)  

 

I will increase the regularity/frequency of drinks for them over the next few days until they're being watered daily,
by which I'll start to check the run-off ph and EC,

and then keep an eye on the roots to see when it's time for a larger pot.

The feed/water temp I made up to 24C and it's very soft water (background EC 0.0),
they got Intense Nutrients: MagCal to 0.4EC with Foundation 1.5ml/l and some KickStart to bring it up to 0.8EC

 

Oops I forgot to pH the feed on Monday because I'm not used to this coco malarkey  

but I remembered to bring it down with some "Down 'n Dirty" from @Intense Nutrients

Iirc I brought it down to 5.8(I'm now going to go away and check what pH I should be aiming for).

 

The lights have been getting turned up bit by bit,

they're now up to around 50W for the qb and 65W for the Highlight 220,

This is only the second time I've started off plants in this new tent,

so I'm still kinda feeling my way around with lighting levels but I'm totally loving the adjustability of these LEDs from @diyleduk

 

 

Next up are the second batch of seedlings I'm affectionately referring to as...

 

Group 2: The BigFoot the RHC runt the SAD s1 the Sweet Tai and Sweet Zenzation(try saying that 3 times fast) 

These girls got new homes as well now,
but I didn't have enough pots of the same size so this was the best I could find for now.

Again I've potted them up into Ecothrive pure coco with Charge.

I part filled each pot and gently pressed the coco into the pots using a smaller pot,

and then I sprinkled over the hole and surrounding area with some Plant Magic granules,
I then added some Mykos powder into each hole and directly on the exposed roots for good measure.

 

 

Placed each seedling into their prepared hole and covered with more coco again gently pressing down to make sure I wasn't compressing the coco too much(and transfer the label onto each new pot).

Then I watered them in using the same solution as I had just given to group 1.

 

BigFoot

 

Sweet Tai

 

 

SAD s1

 

Sweet Zenzation

This one on the left above was dropped and some of the coco fell out,

oops.

 

Red Hot Cookies (I think)

I use a metal wrack on an XXLarge saucer to water,

and allow time for the pots to stop dripping before I place them back on the heat mats(currently set at 26.5 cause it's been freezing outside) beside the nice warm tube heater which is just on its own thermostat.

 

 

Sweet Tai from above

 

Thanks for looking

 

Atb