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Kopper1013
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Hey y’all so the Title says it all!
I’m totally new to the game. Growing up we had a vegetable garden and last year me and my wife had our very first vegetable garden, but let’s face it buying a plant thats already established is a lot easier than raising something from a seed and I killed some of those anyways hahaha.
My buddy talked me into trying this out this year and I’m such a nervous partner lol.
I started keeping a diary when I started, then had a question and couldn’t find answers and stumbled across this website. A couple guys where very helpful which led me to starting this post.
My thought is I’m already keeping a diary so might as well make it public and maybe some of y’all would get a kick out of sharing advice and watching someone new be successful through your guidance.
So enough about that, here’s what I got, my plan and where we are at.
My seeds are from growers choice
I have (2) Train Wrecks (1) Green Crack and (1) Grandaddy Purple
I followed their procedure for germination
4/23/22 soaked seeds for 17hrs in distilled water
4/24/22 used seedling water to soak paper towels (3 layers under 3 on top) cover in foil placed on fridge
4/26/22 checked on seeds
tap roots and some leaves sprouted took down stairs
soaked fox farms potting soil
used pencil to poke hole and planted seed
4/28/22 couple seedlings poking through dirt
Turned on light 75% 24” above the top of pots
Light is a yehsence YE2000 LED light
Started fan
18hr on 6 off
Started rotating plants front to back
1/4 turn everyday
5/1/22
5/2/22 lowered light to 18” above top of plants
95% power
5/5/22 lowered light to 14” above plants
5/7/22 first feeding of fox farm grow big 1tsp per gallon
5/10/22 second feeding of above grow mix
Moved them to the garage window for some natural light plus warmth
5/15/22 came home noticed two plants with small brown spots and yellow rings around them, could be nutrient burn, cal-mag deficiency or maybe light was to close and water burned the leaves. Raised lights to 16” above foliage.
5/16/22 collected 4 gallons of rain water and switching over to that NO MORE DISTILLED WATER!!!!!
Info I got from my other post.
5/19/22 first feeding of Cal-Mag 1tsp per gallon
My watering isn’t really on here as I water almost daily….
My plan is to keep them in these 6” pots unless y’all say pot up until Father’s Day weekend. Then we’ll have almost 16hrs of day light here. At that point I’ll pot up to 25gal fabric pots with a mix of fox farm ocean forest, happy from and coco-loco and move outside (I will start hardening them of beginning of June).
Question: why aren’t they getting taller??
Look forward to sharing my journey with y’all.
Thanks for any and all advice!!
I’m totally new to the game. Growing up we had a vegetable garden and last year me and my wife had our very first vegetable garden, but let’s face it buying a plant thats already established is a lot easier than raising something from a seed and I killed some of those anyways hahaha.
My buddy talked me into trying this out this year and I’m such a nervous partner lol.
I started keeping a diary when I started, then had a question and couldn’t find answers and stumbled across this website. A couple guys where very helpful which led me to starting this post.
My thought is I’m already keeping a diary so might as well make it public and maybe some of y’all would get a kick out of sharing advice and watching someone new be successful through your guidance.
So enough about that, here’s what I got, my plan and where we are at.
My seeds are from growers choice
I have (2) Train Wrecks (1) Green Crack and (1) Grandaddy Purple
I followed their procedure for germination
4/23/22 soaked seeds for 17hrs in distilled water
4/24/22 used seedling water to soak paper towels (3 layers under 3 on top) cover in foil placed on fridge
4/26/22 checked on seeds
tap roots and some leaves sprouted took down stairs
soaked fox farms potting soil
used pencil to poke hole and planted seed
4/28/22 couple seedlings poking through dirt
Turned on light 75% 24” above the top of pots
Light is a yehsence YE2000 LED light
Started fan
18hr on 6 off
Started rotating plants front to back
1/4 turn everyday
5/1/22
5/2/22 lowered light to 18” above top of plants
95% power
5/5/22 lowered light to 14” above plants
5/7/22 first feeding of fox farm grow big 1tsp per gallon
5/10/22 second feeding of above grow mix
Moved them to the garage window for some natural light plus warmth
5/15/22 came home noticed two plants with small brown spots and yellow rings around them, could be nutrient burn, cal-mag deficiency or maybe light was to close and water burned the leaves. Raised lights to 16” above foliage.
5/16/22 collected 4 gallons of rain water and switching over to that NO MORE DISTILLED WATER!!!!!
Info I got from my other post.
5/19/22 first feeding of Cal-Mag 1tsp per gallon
My watering isn’t really on here as I water almost daily….
My plan is to keep them in these 6” pots unless y’all say pot up until Father’s Day weekend. Then we’ll have almost 16hrs of day light here. At that point I’ll pot up to 25gal fabric pots with a mix of fox farm ocean forest, happy from and coco-loco and move outside (I will start hardening them of beginning of June).
Question: why aren’t they getting taller??
Look forward to sharing my journey with y’all.
Thanks for any and all advice!!