Here we go... 1st ever attempt at growing
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newtoit
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you ask and you will receive, just got a new camera yesterday
pics 1 & 4, see what i mean about size, pic 1 was my first seed that germinated, pic 4 are the 5 seeds i planted a day later. all five of the plants are now about twice the size of the other one...
Pic 2, another shot of the runt
pic 3, some of my hollands hope
pic 5 & 6, close up shots of my mystery plants
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newtoit
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had one, damn piece of crap died on me today... going to pick up a new one tomorrow, but the biggest plants are just under 2 inches tall(pic 4), the smaller is about a inch(pic 1) lights are about 1-1 1/2 inches away, 18/6 cycle right nowFrom the looks of pic 4, looks like they might be a bit stretched.
Nice temp gauge...
I got that same one, hell I think 50 percent of the people on here have that gauge.
You got some fans running on those babies?
GrnMan
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Ok, maybe not so bad. Like I said, it's hard to tell from the angle. Yea, they need a fan on them whenever you can get it. They need to get those stems nice and strong.
newtoit
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Day 8
well... not impressed with the purple power seeds... 2 out of 10 germinated in 9 days now... only one bagseed so far... las minute seed order about to go out i think ony 10 plants growing rite now, holland hope 9 out of 10 germinated, but 2 didn't make it, 1broke the taproot
, 5 out of 5 mystery seeds still growing strong tho
well... not impressed with the purple power seeds... 2 out of 10 germinated in 9 days now... only one bagseed so far... las minute seed order about to go out i think ony 10 plants growing rite now, holland hope 9 out of 10 germinated, but 2 didn't make it, 1broke the taproot
, 5 out of 5 mystery seeds still growing strong tho
newtoit
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grnman you never cease to amaze me and make me lmao when u change your avatar... anyway here are some new pics
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newtoit
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Holy Fu@k what a day... it took me 8 hours to get my 4 big ass bags of soil to the sites i selected... with a total travel of about 10-15 miles... on boat and walking thru the bush carrying these bitches(soil).
i am glad you only do this part once... i dropped off a couple of bags of soil on the side of the highway, at a spot that looked really close to the river on the gps... man was i wrong about that!
up and down big ass rocks with a heavy ass bag of soil(well not actually that heavy but every rock you have to climb with it on your back makes it feel a lot heavier!)what looked like a quick pickup 50 meters or so to the road, was actually more like a half mile!
here are some pics...
first 2 are my new kayak loaded to the tits(on the last trip... was beat so i packed a extra bag of soil in the back, didn't want to make another trip)
3-6 are some of my spots(didnt take pics of them all way too tired to go back and get the camera)
7 is my camo job for my soil till i am ready to plant
and the last one is one of the many cliffs i had to climb over and over again...
Man i am gonna sleep well tonite!!! just wish it didn't hurt so much
i am glad you only do this part once... i dropped off a couple of bags of soil on the side of the highway, at a spot that looked really close to the river on the gps... man was i wrong about that!
up and down big ass rocks with a heavy ass bag of soil(well not actually that heavy but every rock you have to climb with it on your back makes it feel a lot heavier!)what looked like a quick pickup 50 meters or so to the road, was actually more like a half mile!
here are some pics...
first 2 are my new kayak loaded to the tits(on the last trip... was beat so i packed a extra bag of soil in the back, didn't want to make another trip)
3-6 are some of my spots(didnt take pics of them all way too tired to go back and get the camera)
7 is my camo job for my soil till i am ready to plant
and the last one is one of the many cliffs i had to climb over and over again...
Man i am gonna sleep well tonite!!! just wish it didn't hurt so much
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bulldog
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Nice looking project you have there newtoit! I work outside a lot with a topo map and gps. Things in real life can definitely be different than they appear on paper and the gps. I think it would be worth your while to spend a couple days scouting, wihtout any materials at all, before you decide on your plant locations.
Good luck,
bd
Good luck,
bd
royalnobody
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congrats on choosing those great sites. are you going to use chicken wire around the plants to keep away critters?
newtoit
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so far i have at (or near) the sites...
2 - 50 foot rolls of chicken wire
1 bag of polymer crystals
500 yards of fishing line
a bunch of burlap bags
a shovel
4 bags of pro-mix potting soil(3 moisture retaining with polymer crystals in them already 1 reg, comes pre-mixed with peat moss, perlite and sand i think)
there is a 5 gallon pail also close by
copper webbing tube 5 feet long that will be cut up to surround the stalk at the ground to prevent snails and slugs(expandable)
I plan on mixing the promix soil with existing soil(no freaking way in hell i am lugging any more soil out there!!!!!!!!) putting the copper around the seedlings, chicken wire in a 2-3 foot radius around each plant camoed with branches and moss, and a fishing line perimeter around each group... other than that the only animals i should have to worry about are the 2 legged kind that have the time to carry a canoe or kayak(no boat launch anywhere on the river) and go up river against a fairly strong current, about a 1/2 to 1 mile, then fight a very strong current right at the bottom of a big set of rapids to get into a little tiny stream that you can barely see on the river... or hike about 3 miles thru very thick bush
I think that should answer your question
royalnobody
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you are totally macgyver, dude. i can't wait to watch them grow.
newtoit
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ya me too... i am just glad the hardest part is done... at least i hope it is...
newtoit
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thanks for dropping by bulldog,
ya i know what you mean... I spent weeks scouring my area with Google maps, trying to find the thickest bush and no houses anywhere around. that was my scouting, I went to look at one place i found and realized that the crappy image on the map didn't show the few dozen houses around there... so i ditched that spot and checked this one, it seems pretty sweet... the only sign of life i saw there was a very old broken beer bottle... and at that there was only 1. I just don't want to be scrambling at the last minute to get shit out there, and definitely don't want to be carrying plants with everything else!
newtoit
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man after that i feel like i got hit by a truck, and had it back up over me again today... not goin to be doing much today!
newtoit
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well forgot to put a update this morning... so here it is, I have another 10 las min seeds coming in on order, mixed outdoor seeds so i don't know what strain they are, but don't really care as long as they grow! 2 out of 10 purple power germinated, 9 out of 10 Hollands Hope( only 4 popped through the surface, i think i broke the taproot on a couple planting them
and don't know what the hell happened to the others) and 5 of 5 mystery seeds that are my biggest of all... hoping it stays warm so i can get these baby's outside soon and watch them take off!
temp/humidity
85.9 deg/55%
to
69.8 deg/31%
and don't know what the hell happened to the others) and 5 of 5 mystery seeds that are my biggest of all... hoping it stays warm so i can get these baby's outside soon and watch them take off!temp/humidity
85.9 deg/55%
to
69.8 deg/31%
newtoit
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did u read the post with the pics of the kayak? it may be awesome to read about, but i can tell you it wasn't awesome to do! lol, man i have muscles that hurt i didn't know existed...
any ideas on how long to wait to give these guys a little bit of nutes? hep get them stronger faster...