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And I never do solo cups I use the peat pods keeps your ph balanced while your seedling is getting strength and it’s gonna blend in perfectly with your organic soil so all you have to do is drop the pod directly in your soil and water around the roots so they will reach out stretch and grow looking for moisture basically watering on the borders of the potLooks like we're off to an okay start.
Temps and humidity have been pretty easy to manage so far, though I can already tell I'm going to need to pick up a dehumidifier for the room down the road. We've had a couple of days here where its hovered around 60%.
The window vent arrived and it looks great! Unfortunately I'm a jackass and ordered a 4" instead of a 6", so the 4" is being returned and the 6" is already on its way. For the time being I'll just continue venting back into the grow room. That's still not a big deal and won't be until I crank up the lights.
As for these little guys, I probably should have just started them out in the Solo cups as they're just about to outgrow their little dome anyway. Maybe I'll carefully move them into cups today or tomorrow.
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Let me say I easily water properly in scrog and I do multiple tops as well and you have until pre flower before stems and branches harden to do scrog the whole achievement is upside down pyramid growth instead of traditional pyramid style of growing
And I never do solo cups I use the peat pods keeps your ph balanced while your seedling is getting strength and it’s gonna blend in perfectly with your organic soil so all you have to do is drop the pod directly in your soil and water around the roots so they will reach out stretch and grow looking for moisture basically watering on the borders of the pot
I plant my seeds out of the paper towel bag into solo cups with the slits at the bottom. The shape is really good for seed roots to develop deep, and you can stamp an imprint of the cup into your bigger pot and fill around it before transplant to make it super easy to insert the seedling into the molded space without disturbing the root. Drops in the hole for a quick tamp down.Fair enough, and thanks for the replies, man. I do have a scrog net in case I decide to give it a try as the grow progresses. I plan to do some LST, topping and whatever else I feel comfortable with along the way. I have a tendency to go too far so I'm trying to fight that urge and keep things extra simple until I get my sea legs. This grow is really just for me, so no need to go over the top anyway except for the fun of seeing those yields.
So you skip the solo cups and just put the peat pods seedlings directly into their first/last pot? How long could I really let them go in those tiny peat pods before transferring? I ask because I figured the Stoneington's might be a bit much right now. I was just going to use a basic seed starting mix with a some EWC and extra vermiculite for the Solo cups.
Also, I already went to all the effort of cutting holes in both clear plastic and opaque solo cups so I could plastic out of the opaque and check root progression.
Yeah, that's what I was planning so I'll stop second guessing myself and just carefully replant those seedlings into the Solo cups.I plant my seeds out of the paper towel bag into solo cups with the slits at the bottom. The shape is really good for seed roots to develop deep, and you can stamp an imprint of the cup into your bigger pot and fill around it before transplant to make it super easy to insert the seedling into the molded space without disturbing the root. Drops in the hole for a quick tamp down.
Yeah but not in the final pots unless they’re autos and When the roots start pushing pushing out is usually when I transferFair enough, and thanks for the replies, man. I do have a scrog net in case I decide to give it a try as the grow progresses. I plan to do some LST, topping and whatever else I feel comfortable with along the way. I have a tendency to go too far so I'm trying to fight that urge and keep things extra simple until I get my sea legs. This grow is really just for me, so no need to go over the top anyway except for the fun of seeing those yields.
So you skip the solo cups and just put the peat pods seedlings directly into their first/last pot? How long could I really let them go in those tiny peat pods before transferring? I ask because I figured the Stoneington's might be a bit much right now. I was just going to use a basic seed starting mix with a some EWC and extra vermiculite for the Solo cups.
Also, I already went to all the effort of cutting holes in both clear plastic and opaque solo cups so I could plastic out of the opaque and check root progression.
I do cracked seed to solo cup. When they are about 8” or so tall I put them into 1 gallon fabric pots by forming a solo cup mold in the soil like I said above. Saw that on the farm here, but can’t remember what thread it was.
After 2-4 weeks in the 1 gallon pots, I cut the fabric pot all the way off with scissors and transplant the undisturbed rootball into a 3 gallon, sometimes over again same later to a 5 gallon. If you don’t wait long enough, the rootball falls apart when you try to move it, from my experience. And if you pot up to a hug pot with a tiny plant, it’s much harder to control moisture in the soil in a stable way.
IMO, I cannot easily transplant out of fabric pots without opening them up with scissors, so I sacrifice them. I think they make Velcro ones for that.
As for the fmk, I think you got a month+ before they are big enough to know about gender. Are they regs or fem seeds?
I think that's a pretty fair plan. I go from shot glasses into solo's, then from solo's into gallons, from gallons into whatever. But I wouldn't go over say 5-7 gallons between the next step. The more you pot up, the overall denser your root base should be, all things considered.They are fem seeds, and the plan that you laid out is pretty much what I was originally going to go with with the exception of the 3gal step. I'm going to try going right from 1 gal to the 5 gal after this stage. Good stuff! Oh, and I did get the velcro setup on my 1 gal pots so there is that.
As for my seedlings, I put them in their Solo homes last night.
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I think that's a pretty fair plan. I go from shot glasses into solo's, then from solo's into gallons, from gallons into whatever. But I wouldn't go over say 5-7 gallons between the next step. The more you pot up, the overall denser your root base should be, all things considered.
Personally. I didn't read all though the thread here, but if your doing this inside, I think 3 gallon pots are more than sufficient for almost any indoor organic grow.
Saying hello and keeping and eye on your grow. Fellow Virginian and first time grower
put them all in 3 gallon pots and you can have them all in your tent.
i put one in a 7 gallon pot just to see, took over half the tent!
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