undertow
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Howdy everyone:
I will try to be brief, I'm new to hydro, and will be continuing to add to my ever growing cut-and-paste from RIU collection-slash-instruction-manual -- in the meantime, I'm betting you guys can probably answer a couple of my quick questions just by looking at the attached pictures.
ONE FACTOR that may be contributing is, I didn't soak the Super Starter Plugs that the seeds are in -- they cracked early on me, and I didn't know plugs needed to be soaked -- I doused them regularly with H2O during their first few days, but not since moving them to the bubbler rez. I mist a couple times a day, should I be soaking the plugs continuously with a dropperful of RO water regularly?
My overall questions are:
1) Are these still tiny for 7 days from seed? They grew to this height within 3-4 days, and seem to have stalled (to me) -- 2 are ICE, 2 are WW
2) 2 of my original 6 seeds (germinated in a cup, and sank like all the others, so should be viable) have done NOTHING ("Top44" strain from Nirvana) -- any quick tips to give them a "boost" before I declare them DOA? Is 7 days without sprouting too early to say they're no good?
3) Can someone describe to me how much bubbling my airstones should be doing? The pics below are hard to tell, I worry my airstones are underpowered -- should there be, say 100 bubbles breaking at the surface each second (like what I have), or should it be an absolute roiling, frothy sea of turbulence in there?
If you need specifics of my setup to tell me more, here they are (otherwise jsut common-sense feedback is much appreciated!). Each baby has one 26w (100w equiv) Daylight CFL 6500 K. The clear cups over the plants keep humidity higher, they stay around 75-80 F on a 24-hour light schedule. The water in the bubbler (and what I mist with now, and drenched with earlier) is RO water pH'ed to between 5.5-6.0, with 2 drops of superthrive per gallon. The water level in the tub is about 1/2" ABOVE the bottom of the pots, which have 1 layer of hydroton and then the starter cube (taproots are about 1-1.5" each, but aren't visible). Water temps 63-65 F, plant temps 73-78 F. If you need more info for a response, just say the word.
TIA!
I will try to be brief, I'm new to hydro, and will be continuing to add to my ever growing cut-and-paste from RIU collection-slash-instruction-manual -- in the meantime, I'm betting you guys can probably answer a couple of my quick questions just by looking at the attached pictures.
ONE FACTOR that may be contributing is, I didn't soak the Super Starter Plugs that the seeds are in -- they cracked early on me, and I didn't know plugs needed to be soaked -- I doused them regularly with H2O during their first few days, but not since moving them to the bubbler rez. I mist a couple times a day, should I be soaking the plugs continuously with a dropperful of RO water regularly?
My overall questions are:
1) Are these still tiny for 7 days from seed? They grew to this height within 3-4 days, and seem to have stalled (to me) -- 2 are ICE, 2 are WW
2) 2 of my original 6 seeds (germinated in a cup, and sank like all the others, so should be viable) have done NOTHING ("Top44" strain from Nirvana) -- any quick tips to give them a "boost" before I declare them DOA? Is 7 days without sprouting too early to say they're no good?
3) Can someone describe to me how much bubbling my airstones should be doing? The pics below are hard to tell, I worry my airstones are underpowered -- should there be, say 100 bubbles breaking at the surface each second (like what I have), or should it be an absolute roiling, frothy sea of turbulence in there?
If you need specifics of my setup to tell me more, here they are (otherwise jsut common-sense feedback is much appreciated!). Each baby has one 26w (100w equiv) Daylight CFL 6500 K. The clear cups over the plants keep humidity higher, they stay around 75-80 F on a 24-hour light schedule. The water in the bubbler (and what I mist with now, and drenched with earlier) is RO water pH'ed to between 5.5-6.0, with 2 drops of superthrive per gallon. The water level in the tub is about 1/2" ABOVE the bottom of the pots, which have 1 layer of hydroton and then the starter cube (taproots are about 1-1.5" each, but aren't visible). Water temps 63-65 F, plant temps 73-78 F. If you need more info for a response, just say the word.
TIA!
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