Scotty2toes
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New guy here, figured I'd finally start a grow diary for my Afghan beans.
So long story short I started my first seedling which was a bag seed of Berry White on 3/30 and made it 28 days.
Until the kid's pet rabbit ate the plant to the base........
A couple days later I germed 3 bag seeds of Afghan Kush on 4/28.
2 folded up wet paper towels with the beans in a coffee filter between them. Hung it up in the furnace closet. 2 popped, waited a few more days for the 3rd and no dice.
72 hours later I potted the 2 into peat pellets soaked in distilled water with Rapidstart.
24 hours later, they both broke the surface.
Side note, Berry White took 3 days longer then these 2 to shoot through.
Day 5, 1 bean took the Rapidstart like a champ. The other ended up with a little burn.
Today is Day 9. 2 days ago I noticed a little white furry growth on the top layer of the soil from misting/foliar spraying and freaked out (still pissed at the damn rabbit as well) and re-potted the seedlings into these boujee solo cups and cored holes into them for some air flow.
I've been intermittently watering and got the small sprout to catch up to the other.
They seem to be doing great, and have good color.
I'm doing trial runs for now to get a better understanding of how to properly care for plants until I have the coin to get my indoor gear setup.
Currently growing under a Sun Blaze single T5, potted in Roots Organic 707 and watering with only distilled water and feeding with Rapidstart every other day, directly to the stem.
Trying not to over water and giving each seedling 9-15 ML per watering depending on how moist the stem area is. I fed the smaller seedling more Rapidstart the past 2 times and it seemed to have worked with catching up to the bigger one.
I will keep the schedule to water/wait a day/then water/feed and so on. I mainly want to focus on the root development for the first few weeks. Then I will re-pot into elevated 1 gallon fabric pots under the same light. Low and slow, I've got all the time in the world.
My main goal is to have a mother plant by the time I get my setup procured.
I will keep concentrating on my trials, but once I'm comfortable enough with all of this, I want to try my hand at crossing a couple strains. I have some Green Alien regs and fem Amnesia Ganja Haze beans on the way for that.
Anywho, I'm glad I found a place with a ton of information and guidance and look forward to the feedback.
So long story short I started my first seedling which was a bag seed of Berry White on 3/30 and made it 28 days.
Until the kid's pet rabbit ate the plant to the base........
A couple days later I germed 3 bag seeds of Afghan Kush on 4/28.
2 folded up wet paper towels with the beans in a coffee filter between them. Hung it up in the furnace closet. 2 popped, waited a few more days for the 3rd and no dice.
72 hours later I potted the 2 into peat pellets soaked in distilled water with Rapidstart.
24 hours later, they both broke the surface.
Side note, Berry White took 3 days longer then these 2 to shoot through.
Day 5, 1 bean took the Rapidstart like a champ. The other ended up with a little burn.
Today is Day 9. 2 days ago I noticed a little white furry growth on the top layer of the soil from misting/foliar spraying and freaked out (still pissed at the damn rabbit as well) and re-potted the seedlings into these boujee solo cups and cored holes into them for some air flow.
I've been intermittently watering and got the small sprout to catch up to the other.
They seem to be doing great, and have good color.
I'm doing trial runs for now to get a better understanding of how to properly care for plants until I have the coin to get my indoor gear setup.
Currently growing under a Sun Blaze single T5, potted in Roots Organic 707 and watering with only distilled water and feeding with Rapidstart every other day, directly to the stem.
Trying not to over water and giving each seedling 9-15 ML per watering depending on how moist the stem area is. I fed the smaller seedling more Rapidstart the past 2 times and it seemed to have worked with catching up to the bigger one.
I will keep the schedule to water/wait a day/then water/feed and so on. I mainly want to focus on the root development for the first few weeks. Then I will re-pot into elevated 1 gallon fabric pots under the same light. Low and slow, I've got all the time in the world.
My main goal is to have a mother plant by the time I get my setup procured.
I will keep concentrating on my trials, but once I'm comfortable enough with all of this, I want to try my hand at crossing a couple strains. I have some Green Alien regs and fem Amnesia Ganja Haze beans on the way for that.
Anywho, I'm glad I found a place with a ton of information and guidance and look forward to the feedback.
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