Well, my intent was to begin my first grow right after I completed purchasing “all the right stuff”. However, I didn’t. Time went by and so on and so forth and I’ve forgotten what type of seeds I have (fem, auto, reg) and I’m chomping at the bit to get started.
My question is, is there a “one size fits all” germination and growing technique I can use to get the best results possible after my screw up?
I plan on germinating between two fairly thick make-up removing pads vs paper towels and using a soil medium. I’ll take any advice I can get as I really don’t want to dump these seeds and eat the loss.
So, continuing my my potential journey into hell (at least for the moment) and figuring that I would get a fairly lousy germination rate I stupidly threw down all of my Zkittles (9) seeds between some makeup removal pads and kept them moist for ~3 days. In the middle of the third day I took a quick peek to see if anything popped. Imagine my surprise when I saw this:
All female volunteer (Zkittles) army!
I was completely unprepared for this and am scrambling to get ready. Very poor planning on my part but I’ll figure it out. Some may be destined for the back yard as my 4x4’ tent can’t accommodate all of these, besides, I want my first grow to be at least 3 different strains.
One quick question for those of you who have battled your way to this point. It is whether or not I can use styrofoam pea outs as drainage in my pots without fear of any detrimental effect to the soil or kids?
My thanks to those who have offered advice so far, I very much appreciate it!
Styrofoam? I thought peat pods (like below the napkins in ur pics, were Peat lol. Those are usable. Just pull a @UGrowGIRL and forget to remove the screen before transplant LOL.
They are supposed to be able to grow thru it but her definitely didnt
Sorry for my less than informative post. I had not meant to use the peat pods for this purpose, at least for now. I was planning on transplanting to a lager pot before they move to 5 gal. buckets as their final home. If I get that far!
Oh, that’s easy UGrowGirl! I don’t! Therein lies my biggest problem. When I began to plot out this venture last year I wasn’t having memory issues. I do now. It truly sucks.