showhard2handle
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hey bro.. glad to have you back and hear your close to launch...
so you want to know how i germinate my seeds?? well i break tradition and dont paper towel them.... yea.. im a rouge grower i know..
really i keep it simple.. i soak the seeds in water over night.. i usually use shot glasses because they are small and i usually only have a few seeds.. i use something bigger of course if i have more.. and make sure to keep the seeds seperated by strains... i leave them in a cupboard or wherever over night.. usually i try to hit 15 to 20 hours of soak.. at least 12 hours and no more than 24..
when i am ready to put them into their cubes i soak the cubes (i use rapid rooters also) in water for about a half hour.. sometimes i have some clonex rooting hormones or root 66 or some other root starter ill throw that in when i soak the cubes.. after about a half hour i let the water drain from cubes.. i know when they are good because they stop dripping water.. then i throw the seed in the cube, the cube in the tray, and the tray in my veg room... they are under lights from then on (even before sprouting they are under lights)... the light thing is optional.. they dont NEED light until they sprout.. but i do it mainly for the heat.. i keep the cubes nice and moist over the next few days.. and usually within 4 or 5 days from when i put the seeds in the cubes they are ready to go into their sites..
as far as light i would go either way.. yes, mh is better in the end for vegging.. but the heat that is put off my mh lights is WAY WAY hotter than hps lamps.. me personally, i would try both just to see the difference.. i mean, an mh bulb isnt that expensive.. and you can see first hand how they are.. but.. if you want to avoid to much heat stick with just and hps and the floros for side lighting..
with the exhaust here is the thing.... if you dont exhaust the heat into another room completely it will eventually just get sucked back into the tent.. which means after a while when the entire room is heated the fans are just pulling in warm air.. this is bad of course.. you should really try to get the hot air into another room that isnt near the tent or even outside if you can do it right... if you really cant make modifications to do that you may just need to supply extra co2 to compensate for the lack of it in the higher temps...
temps can pretty much range from mid 50s to mid 90s and be ok depending on the co2 levels... now... you should try to maintain a temp in the mid 70s at all times... this is ideal.. and a RH around 50%.. these are good numbers to run the entire grow.. its not possible typically tho.. so its best to just try to limit the temp shifts to about 15 degrees.. if you have a fan that is pulling air from below on timed intervals it could be enough cool air to counteract the temps of the exhaust if you did just exhaust into the same room basically.. it would take some playing around with... but temp stress early on (as long as its not extremes like 50s at night and 90s during the day) are less important as they are when the plants mature... i wouldnt let temps get below 55, above 95, or have a RH that is less than 30% or higher than 70%...
hopefully that tells ya what ya need bro.. let me know if you have any more questions..
Man you are the shiz.
Thx 4 holdin my hand through. If you * Ed Rosenthal concur that you should start the seed in what you intend to grow in (obviously r rooters are a buffer), but essentially skipping the paper towel routine.
From my newb opinion readin other sites & all the other reading I've down. It seems to hold true that the folks that seem to sound the most like they know what they are talkin bout all say to skip the paper towels.
I can digg it, hopefully countdown & launch begins this weekend.
Waitn on just a few more beans & I wanna (late addition), jus wanna start em all @ once. My patience are about @ their end though. MAN come on postman.
Your a lifesaver as always.
Stay up bro, I really hope to have my own bud porn to share soon!!!
so you want to know how i germinate my seeds?? well i break tradition and dont paper towel them.... yea.. im a rouge grower i know..
really i keep it simple.. i soak the seeds in water over night.. i usually use shot glasses because they are small and i usually only have a few seeds.. i use something bigger of course if i have more.. and make sure to keep the seeds seperated by strains... i leave them in a cupboard or wherever over night.. usually i try to hit 15 to 20 hours of soak.. at least 12 hours and no more than 24..
when i am ready to put them into their cubes i soak the cubes (i use rapid rooters also) in water for about a half hour.. sometimes i have some clonex rooting hormones or root 66 or some other root starter ill throw that in when i soak the cubes.. after about a half hour i let the water drain from cubes.. i know when they are good because they stop dripping water.. then i throw the seed in the cube, the cube in the tray, and the tray in my veg room... they are under lights from then on (even before sprouting they are under lights)... the light thing is optional.. they dont NEED light until they sprout.. but i do it mainly for the heat.. i keep the cubes nice and moist over the next few days.. and usually within 4 or 5 days from when i put the seeds in the cubes they are ready to go into their sites..
as far as light i would go either way.. yes, mh is better in the end for vegging.. but the heat that is put off my mh lights is WAY WAY hotter than hps lamps.. me personally, i would try both just to see the difference.. i mean, an mh bulb isnt that expensive.. and you can see first hand how they are.. but.. if you want to avoid to much heat stick with just and hps and the floros for side lighting..
with the exhaust here is the thing.... if you dont exhaust the heat into another room completely it will eventually just get sucked back into the tent.. which means after a while when the entire room is heated the fans are just pulling in warm air.. this is bad of course.. you should really try to get the hot air into another room that isnt near the tent or even outside if you can do it right... if you really cant make modifications to do that you may just need to supply extra co2 to compensate for the lack of it in the higher temps...
temps can pretty much range from mid 50s to mid 90s and be ok depending on the co2 levels... now... you should try to maintain a temp in the mid 70s at all times... this is ideal.. and a RH around 50%.. these are good numbers to run the entire grow.. its not possible typically tho.. so its best to just try to limit the temp shifts to about 15 degrees.. if you have a fan that is pulling air from below on timed intervals it could be enough cool air to counteract the temps of the exhaust if you did just exhaust into the same room basically.. it would take some playing around with... but temp stress early on (as long as its not extremes like 50s at night and 90s during the day) are less important as they are when the plants mature... i wouldnt let temps get below 55, above 95, or have a RH that is less than 30% or higher than 70%...
hopefully that tells ya what ya need bro.. let me know if you have any more questions..
Man you are the shiz.
Thx 4 holdin my hand through. If you * Ed Rosenthal concur that you should start the seed in what you intend to grow in (obviously r rooters are a buffer), but essentially skipping the paper towel routine.
From my newb opinion readin other sites & all the other reading I've down. It seems to hold true that the folks that seem to sound the most like they know what they are talkin bout all say to skip the paper towels.
I can digg it, hopefully countdown & launch begins this weekend.
Waitn on just a few more beans & I wanna (late addition), jus wanna start em all @ once. My patience are about @ their end though. MAN come on postman.
Your a lifesaver as always.
Stay up bro, I really hope to have my own bud porn to share soon!!!
4 gromets that fit the tubes...