I'll be leading the group here and I can't wait to see everyone's great grows.

I'll be germinating my seeds in a dome which sits on a heat mat.

I will be vegging in a Mars Hydro 2x4 tent with a Mars Hydro TSL2000 light.

My flower tent will be an AC Infinity 4x4 tent with a Medicgrow Fold 8 light.

Both are equipped with AC Infinity fans for intake and exhaust fans.

My media is a 50/50 mix of peat and vermiculite and is amended with dolomitic lime and gypsum.

I'll be growing MacnJack, hopefully. 😆

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I don't know why I'm getting double posts but I'll try to get it fixed. By the way Jordan is our technical problems guru, if you have problems of that sort.

So, the reason I named my journal is because my son will be helping me. Don't worry, he's not a minor, as a matter of fact he is a Papaw x3 with one on the way. 😆 He's always done all the heavy bucket lifting, etc. for me anyway. Free labor. 😉 And I grow mostly for him. Since my name is Old Woman he will be known as Baby Boy, but I'll call him Bob for short.

Now, to the grow. I didn't think I was gonna make my self imposed deadline but as you can see I finally got them tucked nicely into their snug little beds.

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No picture yet, they haven't popped. But it's only been 24 hours. Soon, waiting, waiting...

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They are officially 72 hours old, I can hardly believe how quickly they popped and started their first serrated leaves.

I dropped them directly into Root Riot under a dome on a heat mat with a T5 light. I cut the pod about one half to one third down and placed the seed. I also put an extra pod next to it because I think when I see the difference in change of color when the pods begin to dry out I first notice it in the extra pod.

I spray the floor and dome with distilled water to keep the moisture high and if it looks like the pods are drying out, I give them a light mist with distilled water.

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They are officially 72 hours old, I can hardly believe how quickly they popped and started their first serrated leaves.

I dropped them directly into Root Riot under a dome on a heat mat with a T5 light. I cut the pod about one half to one third down and placed the seed. I also put an extra pod next to it because I think when I see the difference in change of color when the pods begin to dry out I first notice it in the extra pod.

I spray the floor and dome with distilled water to keep the moisture high and if it looks like the pods are drying out, I give them a light mist with distilled water.

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Forgot the picture. 😆

Good germination Old Woman! They're as cute as a button! 

The tap root was out yesterday and by this evening had about another 6 roots with it. Yesterday they were getting a little stretchy so I put a prop under them to get them closer to the light.

I potted them into small nursery bags tonight. EC inflow 336, outflow 357. Put them back in the dome. Hopefully I won't need to spray the dome as much since a little more moisture has been introduced via water in plant bags.

By the way, I name my plants and these are Mary and Jane.

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I can just barely see a teeny tiny second serrated leaf coming in, if I squint really hard.

Opened the vents on the dome part way. Still giving fertilizer nutrients @ 25% because I thought Mary's EC was a little high, so she got a little more volume.

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I now have the vents fully opened. I increased the EC to about 50%. They're chugging right along.

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Houston, we have a problem.

After oversleeping this am and missing the flower tent watering before lights off I awoke to this.

Don't know why, if it got too humid or if it tried to get away from the light, it was at the top of the tent, or what.

Bob stopped by for lunch so I got him to crutch it. Arthritic fingers so he's a real help. I broke the last one I tried to crutch.😳

Then I cygoggled the dome for good measure due to the high RH.

I hope this helps and it wasn't dampening off that caused it to flop over but it looks like it's searching for the light so maybe not too bad.

When I watered Mary's EC out was only 7 above inflow and Jane's was even lower than inflow EC. I guess they're begging for more food. They are on 50% fertilizer and I can't decide to go all the way to 100% or just 75% next fertigation. But, as in Scarlett's last words, tomorrow is another day, I'll think about it then.

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Mary is doing better but I think I'll leave the brace on a couple more days.

Third node coming in but I don't have any room in the veg tent right now. By Friday all the accoutrements I need for my new veg tent should be here so I can move them. Fingers crossed, Amazon keeps getting slower.

They are anxious to get out of the dome, but I don't have their tent set up. YET! Bob has been working long hours so his help has been minimal this week, but he is off Sunday so I'll for sure be able to get some wind and light on them then.

The short one seems to be very hungry as her EC outflow has been lower than inflow for a couple days but I'm not sure about increasing it since it's already at full strength.

Once again, I'll think about that tomorrow.

They are anxious to get out of the dome, but I don't have their tent set up. YET! Bob has been working long hours so his help has been minimal this week, but he is off Sunday so I'll for sure be able to get some wind and light on them then.

The short one seems to be very hungry as her EC outflow has been lower than inflow for a couple days but I'm not sure about increasing it since it's already at full strength.

Once again, I'll think about that tomorrow.

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