In 3 days time, we have a rental inspection, so the tent is down and the place is tidy.... you'd never guess this has been a cannabis farm for the past 2 years!
I finished my last grow about a month ago... a run of Feminised Photoperiods... I'm very happy with the harvest, and I'll certainly run photos again, but I'm back on the Autos cos I wanna be done and dusted in 15 weeks.... the lease on our rental ends, and we wanna move out.
So, I've been planning ahead.....
10 days ago, I filled 4 cups with some Coco, watered them with a simple EC 0.7 feed and sowed 1 each of the following Autoflowering seeds....
- Dutch Passion's 'Glueberry OG'
Dutch Passion's 'Night Queen'
Dinafem's 'Blue Amnesia XXL'
Mephisto's 'Toofless Alien'
Normally, I cover the pots in cling film, cover them with cardboard, and stick them in the tent under a light for some warmth for the seeds to germinate.
No tent up meant no light, meaning no heat. Temps are 20-25°C during the day, but drop to 10-12°C at night so I dug out a heat mat.... unused and bought in the UK 6 years ago.... knew it would come in handy one day.
I put the heat mat under a tray with the pots, and covered it all with a big plastic tub to keep the light out and the humidity in....
This method is 100% reliable, and sure enough 3 days later, all 4 seedlings had popped through.....
Toofless Alien came first, I got these seeds back in Jan 2017 as part of a prize from another site.... these seeds could be 3 years old.... and I still have one more left after this, kept safe in a fridge.
Blue Amnesia was 2nd followed by Glueberry and Night Queen.... but they were all within hours of each other.
As I didn't want the tent up yet, I needed some place to keep the new seedlings going.
I thought about buying a small tent, then I thought about doing a small cabinet conversion.....
then it hit me....
....now don't laugh.....
A cardboard box!!!
It's pretty stiff, double thickness and on it's side, it's roughly 80cm high and 50cm x 50cm wide.
I found a 4" extraction fan and some ducting, so I drilled a hole in the side for the extraction, 3 small holes in the other side for passive intake, and a hole in the top to stick the dome of a Skyline 100 through......
It makes a nice temporary growbox, and it didn't cost a cent!
Here's a close up of them on day 1....
Did you see that???
Is the Glueberry looking different???
One seed planted in clean Coco..... 2 seedlings!
I decided to keep her as she is.... I don't expect the weaker twin to do particularly well, and the 'better' one is likely to be stunted to some degree, but it will be interesting to see what happens.... I could end up with some super strong mutant!
Today they are on day 7, and I gave them their first feed using the same EC 0.7 mix I used for germinating them, adjusted to pH 5.8. I also raised them using another high tech device.....
From above....
Here's a closer look at the Glueberry.....
Only another 3 days of this makeshift madness and I can put the tent up, get a Skyline 400 over them, and get this grow on the go!
I plan to keep this run fairly simple, I'll veg them as I always do.... very little stress for maximum growth, repotting at 2-3 weeks aiming for 25L airpots. I just need to order some Coco.
In Bloom, I plan to give PK13/14 but that's it... no Top Shooter/BAC F1 etc in the final few weeks..... I want to finish quick and I wanna see if there's any difference in the final product.
Thanks for joining me, all the best of growing karma to you!