ok ok ok, I has a Seedling!!!!!
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IndooorGardnerOhio
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Sounds a bit above my skill level at this point lol
IndooorGardnerOhio
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No nutes yet, she hasnt turned 14 yet lol. I read that the seedling has enough food for the first 14 days of life and that it does need nutes until then, is this wrong?
MickFoster
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They are photos.......although my autos grow just as fast.
For the first couple of weeks they are under a t5 fixture.
I'm in coco, so I feed daily to run off starting around the 3rd day from sprout.
MickFoster
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It doesn't require a special skill level to grow in coco.........just feed daily to run off and never let it get dry.......pretty simple.
IndooorGardnerOhio
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Everything I have read and watched has said that a seedling has enough food for the first 10 to 14 days of its life and that you should not start nutes before then. Is this wrong information?
Also I am in Peat,Vermuclite, and coco blending, and if I water daily with the amount of water my blend holds ill drown the plant by day 2 lol.
MickFoster
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That applies to soil, not coco.
You can't water daily with peat and vermiculite in it.
Your mix doesn't promote fast growth..........you would have been better off using perlite for aeration to the roots instead of vermiculite.
IndooorGardnerOhio
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I picked Vermuclite because it adds Silica to the soil without needing a seperate bottle for it.
MickFoster
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Plants grow just fine without silica.
IndooorGardnerOhio
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Maybe, but they grow better with it lol I try to do thoughtful growing on everything I grow, I tend to not add anything to my mix that doesnt bring something to the table. Perlite, while ya provides drainage, it adds nothing else. Vermuclite provides drainage AND adds silica. Been using it for years on tomatoes and peppers.
MickFoster
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Good luck.
DeadHeadX
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Lots of good advice here worth listening to. Lots of bad advice randomly out there on the internet. The sprout is quite small for 10 days, for whatever reasons. I’m a big fan of soil and keeping it simple. Here’s another shot of some autos at about two weeks. Three of these have had recent low stress training, so harder to see full growth, but this is pretty normal growth in my experience. Good luck. Trust the advice of experienced growers here.
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IndooorGardnerOhio
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Its not that I dont trust the advice here, its that I am already commited to what I have to work with as I have already bought all my stuff, Peat, Vermulite, etc. Based Off a video by Dr Bruce Bugbee and His Lab soil Mix. I cant really afford to go buy more things or extra things. I thought I had it pretty well thought out and that my plant was doing fairly well. But now im not so sure.
DeadHeadX
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Keep at it, bro. I’ve watched and found interesting several of Dr. Bugbee’s videos. Of course, it’s all theoretical until you find out what works for you. Experience is almost always a better teacher than a lecture, of course.
IndooorGardnerOhio
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True that, I just figured, a PhD should know what hes doing and decided copy him. Might work for me, might not, we shall see.
In his field, I'm sure he does.
Oh and here's his CV. After I said that I got curious on exactly where his lane was LOL:
IndooorGardnerOhio
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Well, he is a Medical Hemp Researcher. So close enough ?
DeadHeadX
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He also has a foot in the commercial grow industry, producing measurement tools. I saw him promoting these in one of his lectures from UofU I believe.
Dr. Bruce Bugbee - Curriculum Vitae | Apogee Instruments Founder
www.apogeeinstruments.com
greenmobster440
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I'd say your right on track. Here's a auto just 8 days old. Compared to yours it's pretty similar. I'm in promix...plain nothing added.
In a few days I'd throw at least a little food her way. She's in a medium not supported by organics.
Good to see your reading and absorbing all this. Your experience with food crops is going to pay off big time. Sticking to what you believe will work is half the battle. Because as you see there will be plenty to try and sway, criticize, critique, or push what they do. Take all that info and use what applies to your plan.
She looks great for ten days. Keep doing what your doing.
In a few days I'd throw at least a little food her way. She's in a medium not supported by organics.
Good to see your reading and absorbing all this. Your experience with food crops is going to pay off big time. Sticking to what you believe will work is half the battle. Because as you see there will be plenty to try and sway, criticize, critique, or push what they do. Take all that info and use what applies to your plan.
She looks great for ten days. Keep doing what your doing.
Close enough for what though depends on your intended use of his research. Always good to check their CVs for publications especially when they have grad students. Professors will be on all their grad student's published research so it might be more a line of his student then his. Based on his focus I trust him more for engineering of sensors than the actual horticulture. It looks like he really shines in the physics of optics and plant light measurement. So the growing is a bit of the necessary evil side of the job so you can have something to measure.