It is a real pleasure to be growing these testers out.. big thanks to GR420 and to @smileys_garden
Having been sent an extra pack, i decided to pop 7 of each, so we may get to see as much as possible from these testers...
Brief plan overview:
1. pop some beans and treat em right
2. short veg time of 2-3 weeks max under migro array in 2L then 10L
3. flip in 10L fabric pots (homemixed soil) and leave au-natrel (un-topped)
4. remove males when revealed
5. grow in SOG style
Will use full organic care package of some knf and a little help from @Greenhand organics along the way. Also have some bottled organic feed as 10L of soil wont go far enough (even with knf etc)
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Week 1:
seeds soaked in homemade SSS (knf seed soak sollution) overnight then sowed into light mix soil in 3" pots and placed in propogator (unheated) or invidual bubblewrap propogator (my fave tech for germimg)
nearly all germed inside 2 days, with 2 slacxkers poppin up on day 3
potted up straight into 2L (half gal) pots of slightly stronger but still 'light' soil mix (allows a bigger initial first set of leaves)
Seedlings have recieved some aloe, lactobascillus and aminos foliar.
Soil has been prepped with mychorrizal, em1, broadspec microbiome from greenhand and jms for a broad range and good amount of microbial life. Hopefully a fungal-bacterial balance with be achieved once theyve all settled down ;)
Here are the girls after 10 days. Will look to pot up in the next couple days to their final 10L fabric pots...
Happy with all so far, maybe one looking a touch smaller than rest, but pretty uniform and of good size for age so signs of good progress so far... happy plants = happy gardener :)
Bit of a long one to start.. any / all questions / comments welcomed .. looking forward to catching everyone elses smileys test grows .. lots of fire coming im sure!!
happy gardening all, thanks for stopping by