Hi Arborholic. I had zero trouble cracking seeds on this grow.
For my second plant, i’ve tried those jiffy pots. After having not much luck with my first attempt there, I read that seeds like dark and warm, so I set up a spare bathroom with one of those “heat mats” that I bought from ebay. I tried two seeds that time. Pretty sure those seeds got too hot, because I got no action at all from them and that was at least 10 days wasted. I did drop a white widow seed in a glass of water on Feb 11th. Got a small sprout coming from it within less than two days, so I transplanted the seed into a small cottage cheese container that had about an inch of FFOF in the bottom and sterilized potting soil mix at the top. Nothing from that one yet, but it’s only been 3 days. I’m pretty sure that one is going to pop out of the soil sometime in the next day or two…
She’s been showing phosphorus deficiency signs again. Nothing major, just purple leaves and the really old fan leaves are getting purple, then yellow. This morning I watered her with a tea that I started brewing yesterday. It was 1 gallon of R.O. water juiced up with 1 tablespoon of “terp tea bloom” by roots organic. Also added a few tablespoons of earthworm castings and 1/2 a teaspoon of epsom salt and a little bit of molasses. Before I watered her I sprinkled almost a full tablespoon of seabird guano on the top of the soil then scratched it in. The seabird guano is mainly for the phosphorus. If there’s no progression of the leaves turning purple I’ll probably just give something minor with phosphorus in her next watering. (teaspoon of terp tea bloom??)
She did take almost a whole gallon of water today, even though I watered her last two days ago. I had been watering every 3 days, but the phosphorus def had been getting quite a bit worse the past day or so, so I watered a day early. She took a gallon and only had about a pint of runoff. I ran that runoff through again and she took it all except maybe half a cup.
These white widow autos seem to really like the phosphorus.
Looking Beautiful!!, man that sounds like the perfect cocktail for her! I may have to try that sometime, ive been cheap and still doing the old sample water ph level lol , also a TDS . Saving some $ for ones that were suggested. Ill post a picture in a little, just about to upload some! Love being tagged in that picture amazingness!
Watered her today with strait RO water + 1 teaspoon of Epsom salt. I’m starting her end-of-life 2 week flush because her trichomes are about 30% cloudy from the best I can guess.
She’s been a champ. Figure 10-14 more days to go unless something odd happens.
After I brought her in from the sun today,realized she’s changing really quickly. I last fed her over a week ago, and I think she’s hurrying to finish since she’s hungry. Decided to start her 2 days of dark tonight. Removed all her ties, trimmed a bunch of fan leaves that were crowding bud sites:
I think if I was going to change something for next time, I’d:
-use extra perlite in my soil
-fill the pot to within 1/2" to the top,
-Don’t use Jiffy Peat pellets. I think they stunted my root growth.
-Give fewer nutes in veg and don’t spend the first two weeks of flower on pure R.O. water then wonder why she shows phosphorus defs.
3oz + 5grams! From a single auto plant first grow. Not bad at all. Pretty happy with those results. Thanks for those that followed along it’s been a fun journey!