My spur of the moment grow

420GScookies said:

I did not try just soaking the seed before putting in soil, I did the paper towel method first. I did put each seed in individual pots and wrapped them with saran wrap. Didn't work for me. I dont know if it's the paper towel, been reading that paper towels are treated with chemicals. Or that I missed my window and leave them germinating too long. I also wonder if they're being exposed to the light too long when I'm transferring the seeds from the paper towel to the soil. I dug the seeds up after almost two weeks and they looked exactly the same as when I planted them. Squeezed the seed and the tap root squished out, it just looked like goop.

The neat thing about the rapid rooter plugs is you can throw them right on top of the soil. So I'm really hoping this works because it was simple. But because ot was simple I have my doubts

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I used to germinate seeds in paper towels as well, the problem with this is that they are disturbed when you move them from the towels the medium or root substrate. Mechanical disturbance of something so delicate and small that is alive is a bad thing and lowers your success rate. Try soaking them in water for twelve hours and then transferring them directly to 18oz solo cups.. Make sure the medium has ample aeration, water it until theres a good runoff and it's completely saturated, then take a pen or pencil and poke a hole an eight to a quarter inch in depth but no deeper! Cover the seed if you wish and place it under your light and don't water unless the soil dries out and crusts over, over watering can cause damping off. Water again once they emerge.

DesertGrow89 said:

I used to germinate seeds in paper towels as well, the problem with this is that they are disturbed when you move them from the towels the medium or root substrate. Mechanical disturbance of something so delicate and small that is alive is a bad thing and lowers your success rate. Try soaking them in water for twelve hours and then transferring them directly to 18oz solo cups.. Make sure the medium has ample aeration, water it until theres a good runoff and it's completely saturated, then take a pen or pencil and poke a hole an eight to a quarter inch in depth but no deeper! Cover the seed if you wish and place it under your light and don't water unless the soil dries out and crusts over, over watering can cause damping off. Water again once they emerge.

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Thanks for the advice... I'm in flower now and took clones so I'm not really stressing over seeds and germination ATM.

sunandsky said:

wish I could say the same. I have a hard time using it recreationally, high thc strains really take a number on me. I have read some studies though that cbd can help a lot for mental illness, on top of which i've got a really messed up stomach, and so this is kind of the last straw I'm grasping at here. I've spent the last three years in bed and it sucks!

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That sucks. Well I hope it works out for you. My stomach has been crazy lately just randomly vomiting and I pretty much stick to eating the same foods I'm used to and I'm not pregnant. I'm in the medical field so I know every medication has a side effect, I take like 4 diff meds cuz the first med I needed caused all these other side effects. I just want to cut out all the BS and smoke or make brownies or something. Worse side effect I ever got from weed was killling 2 boxes of girl scout cookies and some ice cream in 10 minutes.

420GScookies said:

Thanks for the advice... I'm in flower now and took clones so I'm not really stressing over seeds and germination ATM.

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Anytime...

420GScookies said:

That sucks. Well I hope it works out for you. My stomach has been crazy lately just randomly vomiting and I pretty much stick to eating the same foods I'm used to and I'm not pregnant. I'm in the medical field so I know every medication has a side effect, I take like 4 diff meds cuz the first med I needed caused all these other side effects. I just want to cut out all the BS and smoke or make brownies or something. Worse side effect I ever got from weed was killling 2 boxes of girl scout cookies and some ice cream in 10 minutes.

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they put a camera into my stomach and took a biopsy, came back as inflamed stomach lining. been three years of sitting in bed all day. I'm on nexium and I watch my diet like a hawk. I've healed some but have to be very vigilant with what i eat. I dropped down to 115 pounds (I'm a guy, who weighed 165 before) but now have gotten back to 135. I eat nothing with salt or flavor, and eat only boiled chicken, plain oatmeal, bananas, cottage cheese and boiled eggs. once in a while i get away with eating a bit of chocolate. The nexium has a number of bad side effects. You have any advice since you work in the medical field?

Pre-Flowers!

So it's been 8 days since I flipped to 12/12 and I checked my babies today and saw some already have pre-flowers. I did find 2 boys which I carefully removed from the tent and room and immediately wrapped up in a garbage bag. I have 2 more reg Afghani plants that haven't shown sex yet. My clones also rooted and I'm starting to see roots coming through the rapid rooter. I have to trash the clones that I pulled from a male plant but the other reg Afghani that I cloned turned out to be female. I'm getting more and more excited I can't wait!

sunandsky said:

they put a camera into my stomach and took a biopsy, came back as inflamed stomach lining. been three years of sitting in bed all day. I'm on nexium and I watch my diet like a hawk. I've healed some but have to be very vigilant with what i eat. I dropped down to 115 pounds (I'm a guy, who weighed 165 before) but now have gotten back to 135. I eat nothing with salt or flavor, and eat only boiled chicken, plain oatmeal, bananas, cottage cheese and boiled eggs. once in a while i get away with eating a bit of chocolate. The nexium has a number of bad side effects. You have any advice since you work in the medical field?

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Yea all those PPI's (Proton Pump Inhibitors) have bad side effects I'm afraid. The only thing a doctor will do is put you on something for the side effects. Hopefully some medical bud will help you because you pretty much just have to deal with the side effects or stop taking the medication.

Yep. it sucks. Three or four doctors have now literally told me there is nothing they can do. My dr says he needs a special license to perscribe mmj. Guy at the dispensery in the city told me that's b.s. So I guess I gotta see him again and tell him whats what

Not much has changed with the plants. My Pure Kush is progressing the fastest of all my girls, most of them still just have 2 white hairs but my Pure Kush looks like it's ready to start budding



I've had to make a lot of changes in my grow room. Most of my plants show heat stress because temps were 98 degrees 3 days in a row. I got someone to install an AC for me, hopefully it will help. My next problem is keeping the cool air in while I also have the window open for the ducting to remove the hot air from the tent. I will be adding CO2 to my grow room since I hear plants can tolerate a higher temp with it, 98 is still too damn high, but hopefully the CO2 will help.

So I was at work while my BF was trying to figure out our heat issue. This is a picture of his setup. Would actually be pretty good... only problem is he didn't listen and put in the A/C that would fit instead of opting for one that actually works (why don't guys listen?). I shut the lights off 3 hours early because temps were still 98*F in the tent. So he ran an A/C blowing warm air all day smh. Hopefully by tomorrow my heat issues will be resolved. I absolutely don't want to run my lights at nite since I sleep in the same room, and our night time temps haven't been much lower than the day time temps so I don't think that will help but maybe 5 degrees.

Temps have been much better since I added the AC, still a bit high about 88 degrees when you get closer to the light and 80 degrees down at floor level by the vents, because that's ofcourse where I'm pulling cooler air in at. Much better than 98 degrees tho! My plants were showing signs of heat stress, some of the leaves are still miniature and curled under but I dealt with the heat as quickly as possible so it's not that many. They have more and more white hairs every day, 18 days since I flipped them to 12/12

Fed my ladies today and took some pics under a regular light. These are my two BOG LifeStar (TDT) and 1 Pure Kush (Herbies) these are my three that have the most hairs.


I started giving my girls molasses today so I'm curious to see if that will help. Friday they will be 21 days into flower. My 2 medic plants look so bad I don't even want to take a picture. They got too close to the light, enough said. They're still growing but definitely not photogenic. Thankfully, the other plants were not in the tent, they were being watered. And when I came back and saw how close the other two were I raised the light but the damage had already been done.

My clones are doing good, they were transplanted into 1 gallon pots. Two of them flopped over. One was my only Pure Kush clone so I was considering trying to clone my Pure Kush while it's in flower but decided not to. Even the lower branches have hairs all over the tops. I still have 10 clones that survived so more than enough plants for the space I have. I have my clones in a closet for now, hoping to get another tent for vegging, but don't really have a lot of space.

(Will update with more pics later)

Took a pic today when I noticed the leaves getting sticky


21 days from 12/12 flip and my plants have shot up in height again. Had to raise the light again today. I might have to finally call it quits on one of my Royal Medics. A fan fell and broke off several branches and it was already stressed and broken to begin with. I'll have to see how it looks tomorrow but half of the plant looks like it was broken off. Both my Royal Medic plants look the most underdeveloped. Hardly no white hairs and looking very stressed. I'm going to have to do some research and see if anyone else has experienced the problems I've had. I started giving CalMag with every watering and feeding and the other plants are doing fine, bounced right back from their deficiency, but the Royal Medic plants don't seem to want to bounce back. The purple stems did finally go away but the leaves still have tiger stripes then die.

Hmm that's not good news! I really hope this is just bad luck and my royal medic doesn't have issues as well! Mine just sprouted and it already seems..difficult. The seed shell wouldn't come off for the longest time, It was above ground but stuck inside the shell. I finally took it off myself, and the baby leaves opened right up but the first set of leaves are folded like a taco still. My cbd therapy seed though is doing great with no problems, they went into germination at the same time

sunandsky said:

Hmm that's not good news! I really hope this is just bad luck and my royal medic doesn't have issues as well! Mine just sprouted and it already seems..difficult. The seed shell wouldn't come off for the longest time, It was above ground but stuck inside the shell. I finally took it off myself, and the baby leaves opened right up but the first set of leaves are folded like a taco still. My cbd therapy seed though is doing great with no problems, they went into germination at the same time

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Had the same issue with my Royal Medics. Had to pull the seed casing off after 3 days. One of the plants died unfortunately, the other one doesn't look far from death. The rest of my plants look fine tho. I had problems with the Royal Medics from the start and never could dial in on what they needed. If you figure it out let me know. Even the clones I took all died while the rest of my clones are doing just fine.

Hmm, must be that strain then. Mine is growing fast now but the way its growing is weird. I have the first set of leaves shooting up like they do, but one is way smaller than the other. My Therapy is growing wonderfully though. I was really looking forward to the royal because of the critical genes it's got. nice fat buds. the first pair of leaves (the three fingered ones) came out purple when they just started growing, did you get any purple in your medics?

I battled purple stems with my medics. I kept giving more supplements but it never made a difference. I finally have to call it quits on the royal medic. Problem plants from the start and they're dying more and more everyday. I already threw the first one out and tried to pump life into the 2nd one but all the leaves are shrinking then dying and the roots aren't taking up water because the pot is heavy and I watered over a week ago.

How did that ugly plant came out of the same tent as these.....

A little nutrient burn on the tips. I did raise the nutrients a bit since my royal medics seemed to be deficient in everything, but this is an acceptable amount of burn I can live with. And I'm only giving my girls water for the next two waterings.



This one on the other hand looks like this at the top, and all the lower leaves are fading. It's odd to burn one girl but another have a deficiency... Scratching my head on that one



Other than the couple problems my girls are looking good. Really impressed with their progress. My Pure Kush is starting to smell. I get more and more excited everyday! Tomorrow my girls will be 28 days since I flipped them to 12/12.

This is one of the tops on my BOG LifeStar. I touched it while moving it and my have got sticky and smells like weed (totally not complaining). Loving how my tent looks everyday.



I haven't been showing love to my clones. But they just aren't as exciting as my flowering girls. The clones are doing well. I thought all my Royal Medic clones had died but there are 3 hanging on, I originally had 8 tho. I have 4 BOG LifeStar Clones and 2 Jack Cookies Clones. Hopefully my royal medic clones wont die since the mothers did but I don't have much faith in them, I think it's the genetics


This is the best looking royal medic clone, the other two aren't horrible just are developing slowly.


This is one of the BOG LifeStar clones. The LifeStars are doing well just like the overachiever mother plants. The BOG LifeStars really were my least problematic plants.

~14 days since I planted them into soil from the humidity dome. Gave them their first dose of nutes today.
1/5tsp Fox Farms Grow Big
1TBSP Big Bloom
.5tsp CalMag Plus
1tbsp Fish Fertilizer

I know! I know! Not as exciting but soon it'll be their time to shine lol

first of all, forgive me if my over posting gets annoying..i'm in bed literally all day with nothing to do. your clones are looking alright. You know there is a nice royal medic grow on youtube. His plant looks downright succulent. let me see if i can find it...
Maybe your plant caught a disease? or something..you never know.

You're good, I welcome the responses. His plant does look good! Well I have 3 clones, hopefully they'll do better than the mothers. Not really sure what happened, but as soon as I watered with the molasses the other plants had a growth spurt and startrd getting sticky while both my royal medics died. I always planted with Mykos to try and keep the roots healthy. I was using old seeds tho that had not been stored properly so I think that had something to do with it.