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[GanjaLion]

Those are springtails, the mites that you introduced to your soil are long gone though im sure.

 

[PCBuds]

My seed is definitely alive !!

She sure is taking her time though. lol

 

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It's lights out and she is a little droopy.
She did have the lights really close to her yesterday.

 

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My window plant was down to a ½ inch of water so I measured it...

I made new solution using RO water to get a low PH.

I poured it through the plant at the stalk and the PH only dropped to this...

So I drained the solution off, PHed it down to 5.5 and poured it through again.
Then I got this...

She needs about a liter of water a day now and I guess that I have to PH it down at every watering.

 

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I put this seed into a solo cup with seedling starting mix and perlite then put it in the closet to see what happens...

 

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The closet plant looks good.
She is 15 days old now.

She has been on 24 hours lights on and I just set the lights to 18/6.

 

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I redid the light fixture on my window sill.

I centered and leveled the shelf holding the planter.

I took some pictures...

 

[aliceklar]

I put this seed into a solo cup with seedling starting mix and perlite then put it in the closet to see what happens...

Looks like she's a survivor.

 

[PCBuds]

Looks like she's a survivor.

Yeah, she did go through a lot of crap. lol

That seed in the solo cup got it even worse. lol
I wonder if she'll end up growing?

I'll give it a week or so then start a new seed.
I want to try the agar again.


I'm going to focus on the closet plant and do everything right for her.
No experiments or Tom Foolery. lol

 

[PCBuds]

My seed is definitely alive !!

She sure is taking her time though. lol


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Looking at this seed now, she kinda looks like she's covered in goo?,..

Maybe that's why she is so slow?

She could be having a hard time breathing?

She's in the coco now so maybe that will absorb some of the slop and
let her get some oxygen??




Now I wanna dig her up and find out.
Maybe she needs a wash?,..

I'll wait a week...

 

[PCBuds]

I found this about germinating in agar...
This was for germinating poppy seeds, but I think it might apply to Cannibis seeds?,..

I'm going to try it,..

Just set the seed on top of the agar.
Let it germinate and grow in to the jell.

That way the leafy part can breathe, and the rooty part can dig into the jell.

 

[exploziv]

Now that sound more like a more normal way to use agar!

 

[PCBuds]

There isn't much information that I could find about growing a plant in agar, except for propagating cuttings in a sterile grow media.

I watched a YouTube video where a guy tried to grow in grow gell, which is similar to agar and it was a fail.

The lettuce seeds he tried didn't really grow and then everything turned green with algae, then he tried a couple established seedlings and they too died.

He figures that it is the lack of oxygen getting to the roots that was causing everything to die.


I did find this though...

So there might be a way to get the agar to aerate better?

I'm going to wait a while before I try it again.
Maybe I'll try with some different seeds from Walmart?

I don't want to waste a bunch of Reiko's seeds.

 

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The window plant looks good.
She is 17 inches tall now.

There are a few roots growing, but I'm not going to worry about them much anymore.

The plant needs water every day and the water turns brown when it washes through the plant, making the roots hard to see, and I have to stir in PH down after watering to bring the reservoir down to a proper PH which breaks off a lot of the roots.

 

[aliceklar]

There isn't much information that I could find about growing a plant in agar, except for propagating cuttings in a sterile grow media.

I watched a YouTube video where a guy tried to grow in grow gell, which is similar to agar and it was a fail.

The lettuce seeds he tried didn't really grow and then everything turned green with algae, then he tried a couple established seedlings and they too died.

He figures that it is the lack of oxygen getting to the roots that was causing everything to die


So there might be a way to get the agar to aerate better?

I'm going to wait a while before I try it again.
Maybe I'll try with some different seeds from Walmart?

I don't want to waste a bunch of Reiko's seeds.

Yeah, dont waste the good stuff. I have a shitload of expendable seeds, but no time or energy or space to do more experiments... so it goes

 

[PCBuds]

My closet plant is doing OK, but she is looking a little washed out and pale.

I'm figuring a deficiency as opposed to an excess, so I increased her to full strength nutes.
Maxigro, Calmag and Potassium Silicate.