Grow Diaries Flying High With Hawk - 2024 Grow Journal

Best wishes on your grow! I wish I was in a place where I could manage an outdoor or stealth grow. I'm looking forward to yours.

3/22/24
The Short Nepali and 4Kingdom seeds have tap roots big enough to plant in the rockwool cubes. The other two are still on the heating mat at 72 degrees. The CBD Critical Mass is just starting to crack open. Still nothing from the Blueberry Glue auto. Will plant at least the SN and 4K in the cubes tomorrow morning.

Q: Once the autos have established roots in the rockwool cubes, should they get planted in a 7 or 10 gallon fabric grow pot? They’ll start out in a tent before being moved outside.

The 1st picture is the CBD Critical Mass seed.

3/23/24

Broke off 4 rockwool cubes and soaked them in distilled water.  Three of the seeds have decent sized taproots.  The Blueberry Glue auto still hasn’t cracked open.  Planted the 4 seeds in the rockwool cubes and placed them in a humidity dome tray.  Added more distilled water to the tray.  Placed the seedling tray on a heating mat set to 78 degrees.  Is 78 a good temp or should I be making it warmer?  Misted the humidity dome top and covered the seeds.  Put my temporary LED lights just above the seeds and set it to an 18/6 light cycle.  Will transfer the heating mat and humidity dome into a 4x4 tent w. a real LED light on Tuesday when my new equipment arrives.

Have I forgotten anything else that I need to do?  At what point do I give up on the seed that hasn’t popped and start up a new one?  Luckily, I have a couple more seeds of the Blueberry Glue auto strain that I could try...

3/24/24

Seeds planted in rockwool cubes for less than 24 hours and already two of the seedlings have broken thru the surface.  Wow – didn’t expect it so quickly!  I’m beginning to think that I’m going to have to start germinating another Blueberry Glue seed.  If this doesn’t pop, it will be the first time I’ve had a dud seed.  I’m still hoping, but it isn’t looking promising…

3/26/24
Nothing new to report. Still have two seedlings that haven’t broken the surface yet. If the Blueberry Glue doesn’t show something by tomorrow, I’m starting up another seed.

The Vivosun 4x4 grow tent and the 400W Vivosun LED light arrived today.

3/27/24

The 4Kingdoms seedling has broken the surface. Still nothing from the Blueberry Glue, so dropped another seed into a shot glass of water.

3/28/24

Watered the rockwool cubes.  Still nothing from the Blueberry Glue seed.

Placed Blueberry Glue seed #2 on a wet paper towel.  Really hope this one pops!

3/30/24

Blueberry Glue seed #2 has finally popped and has a small taproot. Will keep it in the damp paper towels til taproot is longer and then plant it in one of the rockwool cubes.

Had hoped to set up the tent / light today, but tweaked my back.  If I still can't move tomorrow, I'm going to ask my wife to set it up for me.

3/31/24

Blueberry Glue seed #2 has a taproot long enough to plant in the rockwool cube.

Opened the slots a little on the humidity dome. Not sure when to remove the humidity dome.

Tried to help my wife set up the grow tent – but who am I kidding, she did 90% of the work. Added a bit of growth hormone to the rockwool cube and planted BBG#2. Examined BBG#1 – still not popped. Tried making a tiny cut to the seed to crack the shell so that the tap root might start up. May have killed it, but nothing was happening otherwise. Noticed that the seed shell was stuck on the CBD Critical Mass, so removed it. Placed the heating matt and the humidity dome in the tent. Set the light at 24” above the dome and at 50%. The light is on an 18/6 hour schedule. No air filtration in the tent at the moment. No need since seedlings are in the dome.

Debating trying to sell my new Spider Farmer 6” fan / carbon filter and buying the same thing from Vivosun. That way I can put the entire system on a smart controller which would then run the light, fan, filter and whatever else I might buy. Crazy??

Some newbie questions since this is the first time I’m using a tent and a real LED light.  I’ve got seedlings in a humidity dome.  Started germinating on 3/18.  My 400w LED light is 24 inches above and dimmed to 50%.  What temp / humidity is best for seedlings?  When I checked online, I’ve seen quite a range.  Also, at what point do you take the humidity dome off?

Posted by: @hawk518

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What temp / humidity is best for seedlings?

I use the standard temperature of 70f (21c) lights off and 80f (27c) lights on and humidity above 60% if possible.

Posted by: @hawk518

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Also, at what point do you take the humidity dome off?

When the first true leaves start to grow, I lift one edge of the dome to slowly let the seedlings to acclimate to the true tent environment, increasing the opening a little more each day, and then removing it. It usually takes 2-3 days for me to completely eliminate the humidity dome without shocking the seedlings. By the time the second sets of leaves are growing, the dome is typically gone

4/1/24

Was extremely surprised to find that the inside of the humidity dome was WAY too hot (about 90 degrees), even though the heating mat was set at 78. Removed the heating mat and will check again to see if the temp has dropped to a proper temp.

Checked a couple hours later – Temp at 87 and RH at 77%. Dimmed the light a bit more.

4/2/24

Added some water to the propagation tray.  Temp and RH seemed to be ok.  Turned the light from 25% back to 50%.  Looks like the BBG#2 seed has broken the surface.

Still nothing from BBG#1…

4/4/24
Still trying to get temperature / humidity set. Right now it's all over the place!

Turned LED back from 25% to 50%. Took off the humidity dome. Watered the rockwool cubes.

When checked it again a few hours later, the humidity had dropped quite a bit and the temp had risen quite a bit!

Will have to set up the humidifier in the tent. And a fan.