Germed 10 BBXNL seeds Thursday midnight for a first grow attempt. I really thought I would kill the first few attempts so while I was putting forth an honest effort I expected these seeds would be little more than a germination “what not to do". But, Today I have 10 little babies - 3 of them have their 1st set of serrated leaves appearing. Cool (and terribly exciting) but I also thought I would have more time in the rockwool cubes before roots started showing outside. I lifted the individual cubes this morning and 6 of them have 3 to 4 inches of root wrapping around the outside of the RW or growing through the bottom of the germination tray into the propagation tray below.
I freaked out a bit because I wasn't expecting this to happen so fast. lol Apparently I didn't read as well as I thought I did. My solution was to fill the propagation try with 2 inches of shredded pH'd rockwool and "plant" the cubes in there to keep the roots covered. I divided the plants with plastic to try to keep the roots from mingling but I don't think this will actually work because they can easily grow through to the other plants via the reservoir grooves in the tray. They are under 2 4 foot (daylight/5000k) fluros at 10 inches right now. Temp is 77 and humidity is 65 (I took the humidome off).
Here's the dilemma: The next move is to ebb/grow and 1000w MH. Should I leave them as they are and make the move in about 10 days like I had planned? Should I go get larger 4-6 inch RW cubes and move them into those? Should I move the fluro over to the ebb/grow and go ahead and put them in and switch to MH when they get stronger?.....
Is it okay that after many months of reading I still don't know my ass from a hole in the ground?
They are pretty little things though... I'm already feeling all maternal and shit.
