Kick Off-Super Bowel for the Superbowl!

This is my, i think, 6th grow. Using a NFT cobbled up and worked good a couple of times.
My objective is to grow Durban Poison (Auto) between now and the play offs. A Couple of weeks to cure and then Sativa Splendor for the kick off.

I just dropped two seeds in ~6.7 pH, 222 PPM tap water to soak over night then in the morning if they have split or not into a paper towel above the refrigerator.

I hoping that I can get it all in. Growers Choice says 65-70 days flowering, which means probable another 28-30 days for seed to flowering. I figure a minimum of 95-100 days. I calculate 126 days before the playoff start from kickoff tomorrow.

But Sativa, who's to tell? I'll probably update this on Tuesday to fit in the scores for the week, At least the 49ers!

I'm looking forward to this season of Sativa!

I'm running GH Nutes, starting low and probably not running too hot. My tap water pH's at 6.6 today and 200-220 ppM.
I put two of my three seeds in water to germ at 12:45hrs and now at 17:06 Hrs:
Both seeds have sank, so in the morning I'll do the paper towel thing.I'm working a very small space and two plants should fill a 2X3 scrog. did pretty close to it last time and had good yield, of poorly cured dope.

But Hey, I'm smoking it as we text, and I wouldn't drive if I didn't have to.

I’m a former GH nute user, and I’ve got a Durban Poison photoperiod going now too. You might finish a bit early using NFT.
Good luck.

Thanks. Yeah I'm counting on the Auto & the NFT to come in inside my window and give me some cure time. I'm gonna use the humidity stabilizing pouches to cure.

I should say that I'm using a Bestva 105 Watt lamp with some cheapo 50 W burpils to fill in the holes.

Went and checked my seeds. The paper towel dried out last night so I added water and set them aside to crack. Maybe tomorrow?

Getting ready for curing and looked up cheap hydrometers, found a 12 pack of digital temp/hydromenters for $17 will work good in jars. That works out to ~$1.41 each. I'm not real sure how accurate they are but cheap enough to pitch the ones that are inaccurate, compared with my lab one.

This afternoon I checked the seeds and the little one has a tail! Into the rapid rooter tomorrow! Hopefully the big one will have cracked.

Well Tommy boy won the first game and we'll see what happens come Sunday when the 49ers play the Lions. We'll see if Kyle runs both QB's now that the season has started.

Just checked on the seeds, both have tails now. Rapid Rooters tomorrow and a little light.

I moved seeds to rapid rooters I trimmed 3/4" offf the bottom to make them fit in 2" net pots.
I was testing my rig and found that my rez will top out at 10 gals. But my pump seems to trip my GFI! oH WHERE IS MY extra pump!

Found the pump and still had the GFI! reset it and now it works??? Tested my spray rig and let it run for a while to aerate the 10 gals of water before pH and ppm checks. I'll run a time vs flow check to see how much water I can spray in the root chamber for 1-5 min. I think I'll run 5 on 15 min off to start out if I can get at least one gal per 5 min.

Time to puff some Haze! 49ers 41- Lions 33.
Jimmy had an inauspicious start fumbling the first hike of the game! Lions made it interesting the last five minutes by coming back on 49ers drops and fumbles.

Great news today! I check on the seeds when I got up and Hoooray! The Little one lifted it's head out of the rooter and later the Big one cracked it's helmet and looks like it's going to come out to play. I'm going the have to get my lights up soon. I've got my rez measured and it is 10 gal, so that makes figuring nutes easy. Tap water is a high of 7.7 pH and ppm is 225. I checked with a ppm/EC meter but at this low ppm I can't see the decimal place, however both my ppm meters say 205-225 ppm. Don't think I'll need Cal/Mag.
Ordered some Down/Up as I found I was almost out and what I had left didn't shift the pH at all in the rez. It should be here Friday-Monday?

Well it was a good night for Washington and their new QB, won in the last second on a field goal! And Week one of the grow is over.
The littlest seed is up and had true leaves, the biggist seed is having trouble lifting its seed pod up and I have high hopes I won't have to start the reserve seed.
I was amazed how easy it was to post a picture here.

I thought I would just pH the water in the rez when the Down get here and then see how much the nutes will shift the pH? Probably not much if I limit the ppm to 200 above native tap ppm (~220). I don't want to shock the seedlings.

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Well it was a good night for Washington and their new QB, won in the last second on a field goal! And Week one of the grow is over.
The littlest seed is up and had true leaves, the biggist seed is having trouble lifting its seed pod up and I have high hopes I won't have to start the reserve seed.
I was amazed how easy it was to post a picture here.

I thought I would just pH the water in the rez when the Down get here and then see how much the nutes will shift the pH? Probably not much if I limit the ppm to 200 above native tap ppm (~220). I don't want to shock the seedlings.

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I have gently assisted with shell removal using a wood toothpick. Lil drop of h2o on the shell for a few minutes , then give it a shot . BE GENTLE !

I tried removing it, but was afraid of damaging the tender seedling. This morning it's still stuck. The big seed has to lift it's own if it is too weak to shed it's helmet, I'll use my standby seed and harvest in stages.
I was looking at my pix of past grows and realized that they weren't a bad as the dope turned out. I was poorly cureing and this time I'm gonna use the bovid pouches and a drying chamber. But I've got 10-12 weeks to deal with getting the Durbans up out of the hydro.

My exhaust fan crapped out so, I need a new fan or need to fix the old one.

Well the big seed oficially crapped out. I'll have to break out the reserve seed. So I'll have one plant a week behind which will allow a staggered harvest, so making Lemon Aid! If had left them alone and hadn't fooled around, they'd have been fine.

Niners are loosing their shit early in the First. Joey can't hit anyone!.

Soaked the reserve seed for 18 hrs and then put it in a wet paper towel on top of the fridge. This morning it had a tail. I'm going to transfer it to a rapid rooter, but having trouble with the "Little Seed" that can not seem to drive its tap root down in the rooter???

Today is the 13th day since germination and only two small true leaves. I thought that the prob may be the RR was too wet so I wrung it out and returned to bottom feeding it with water. I had just been pouring a little pH'd water on the top. I'm going to mix up 500 mL of a Nute solution ~200 ppm above the 220 of my natural pH'd tap water. Then I'll feed the Little one. I'm worried that it will run out of fuel if I don't start feeding a little. The reserve will go into a RR this afternoon

Had a bit of a scare when I was prepping the rez. I checked the PH (and adjust it to 6.5) and ppm's then turned on the pump to aerate the water. I wanted to see how just aeration might change the pH/ppms. After running the pump for a couple of hours I rechecked the Ph/ppms and the pH was up to 6.7 and the ppms were ( gasp) 550! No way was that right. Were both my ppm meters broken?

I walked away, for a while and then realized that I had been using my shot glass to check ph/ppm and hadn't cleaned it, with tap water at all. So I cleaned out the shot glass, even used soap. ppm's are back to 225 now. Meters semi-agree a small delta between them of about 2-15 ppm. I'll check the calibration of my new pH meter and see if it is on the money. I have 7.1 and 4.1 test solution and that will tell me if it's "close enough".


Here is a pix of my SCROG from a couple of years ago.
some tops .
This shows only one plant in the tote, I've run two in a tote and it worked out fine. had almost the same number of tops though. I have a new light this time and will get a pix of it when I get it up. I'm just running my berples for the seedlings.

Well the reserve seed is in the rapid rooter and pushing it's helmet up. I put a scrap of RR in to cover the root. I did the same for the Little Seed as well. it's root was in the light and turning green! Glad that the reserve seed is doing so well. It's 12 days behind the Little One but the little one is struggling to get past it first true leaves. I'm hoping that covering the root will get it back on track.

If I can get this Durban Poison in the jar by the Superbowl, I'll germ a couple of White Widow Auto seeds and keep growing into next Summer with some Northern Lights Autos. That should get me into the heat of Summer and then I can lay off until Autumn.

Well the Reserve seed was still stuck under a half seed shell, so it could not get any light on the tops of the sprout. the side of the leaves was turning purple and so I thought that I should help it escape. I was a gentle as I could be and got the seed pod off.
The Small Seed is still trying to get it's root down but has second node starting. Is this awfully slow or??? It's not even a half inch high??? Since germ, 19 days after germination and not a half inch, These Durban's are the toughest seedlings I've ever started!

After third week of the season, Niners are 2-1 after being kicked in the ass by a Cheesehead! Tommy boy got scorched by the Rams. and the sports writters are going nuts spinning the results.

If you have super bowels I hope you flush.

Well that didn't turn out well. After four weeks the little seed is still under a quarter inch and dying. The reserve seed germed and put up it's sprout and stalled. I don't know if it was the Grower's Choice seeds or??? What? But I've lost four weeks and I need something to get moving.
I tried putting a touch of Floragrow in the seed's water (~100 ppm) but no change.

I wanted to grow a 100% sativa but I'll have to fall back and get my Auto White Widow seeds germed and see if they will actually grow. I had such high hopes. The WW seeds are about two years old so I hope they grow. Play offs are about 100days from now and the WW needs at least 70-77 days to mature so maybe I can still get the grow finished by playoff time.