Ganja Patiwan

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.

big bud man

put them in bigger pots and put them under your mh,their telling you they want more light,you dont want them stretching too much.good luck with the grow

Ganja Patiwan

Thanks BBM. I will move them over tonight. Wow! Here we go....

mayan

Good luck!!! Have a safe grow!

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Ganja Patiwan

Just an update.....
The move went well. I started the light at 4 feet and moved down to 2 feet over 3 days. I was really scared I was going to fry them. I was worried for nothing. You were right, they love the light. Everybody faired well except one little baby. I broke it's tap root and while it didn't die, it did stop growing. I decided to just take it out and move on. I got a little stretching with the light up so high - but not much and we now have the second set of leaves coming in. Thanks again for the advice!