6 strains, 1 4x4 scrog

[Squeezebox74]

This is my first diary/upload experience, so try to bear with me folks. I started 6 beans of 6 different strains today with my usual method:

27ml of pure local spring water, ph to 6.5 with citric acid
3ml of 3% hydrogen peroxide added to improve germination success ( it's worked for me in the past so I don't try to fix what's not broken)

18 hr soak in small ketchup cups.

Strains are: Bubblegum Sherbet, Strawberry Blonde, Purple Sunset x Lilac Diesel #22, Grape Diamonds S1, Blue Dream, and White Widow. If I achieve 100% germination I'm going to have my hands full in a 4x4. The plan is a mainline up to a scrog net. I will post regular updates on the grow. Wish me luck growmies.

 

[Happy Leaf]

I wish you the best my friend

 

[Squeezebox74]

I wish you the best my friend

Thanks!

 

[MissinThe90’sStrains]

Good luck bud, grow journals are always fun to watch. Where did you get the seeds from?

 

[Squeezebox74]

North Atlantic. Some from blimburn, some from ethos, barney's farm, and nirvana. I've got 5 of the six emerged. Will probably post tomorrow just so I can record a seed to harvest, yield, smoke report, and of course whatever goes wrong lol. Main concern is keeping the canopy flat, lots of training. Thanks for the kind words bud

 

[Squeezebox74]

So 1 of the 5 seeds that popped got knocked over by my clumsiness, so I'm down to 4, which will fit perfectly in my 4x4 in 10 gallon fabric pots. Mix is 70% ocean forest, 20% worm castings, and 10% perlite. No nutes as of yet, but will be using castings, gaia green 4-4-4 for veg and 2-8-4 during transition, and 2-8-4 through flower, along with added bone meal as a top dress. Mykos will handle the transplant, along with 2 tbsp molasses per gallon of water for carbs to help the microbes. Lactic acid bacteria, or "labs" will help break down organic material to release carbs and nutes that are made more soluble to the plants. Here's hoping.Fingers crossed

 

[Squeezebox74]

So after 8 days thinking I was only gonna have 4, the bubblegum sherbet finally germinated. I had to adjust the height of the light, it's new and I'm just getting a feel for it. Ppfd has ran from 200 to 300, they're using 300 now and doing well. Just plain local spring water so far, next post they will be transplanted into gaia green amended ocean forest mix with castings and additional perlite. Fingers crossed for no major setbacks. Stay lifted ✌

 

[420 Garden]

Once your past the 2 week seedling stage, how long are you planning to veg before you flip the light?

 

[Squeezebox74]

Once your past the 2 week seedling stage, how long are you planning to veg before you flip the light?

I'm doing a mainline on these, shooting for 16 tops so I don't overload the canopy. I've made that mistake and lost an entire crop to bud rot. There's really no set veg time when I mainline, it's whenever the canopy is just over half full. That's when I bring down the net and train until about 2/3 covered. By the the mid stretch the entire net is covered and anything that doesn't reach the net gets removed. I defoliate when the stretch is finished. Some people have a set day to do this, usually day 21, but I just watch the stretch. Some cultivars stretch more than others and I try to take that into consideration. Usually it's around an 8 week veg. I've gone as far as 10 weeks depending on the plants.

 

[FmSwayze]

This should be interesting, subbed

 

[Squeezebox74]

This should be interesting, subbed

Thanks! Good or bad it's all getting documented.

 

[Squeezebox74]

Locally sourced spring water