so finally an update
i've lost a raft, the soil dried out, but i replaced the bean and it popped up three days later, woo! and yeah, one of the seedlings that was having a hard time getting its shell off ended up a bit deformed, but i think it'll be fine once it's second set of true leaves come in... i've also had the trouble of two or three dghaze seedlings drying out on me too... i don't have the best of conditions for these things... the room can get up to 89 degrees for a good while... ugh... but mostly they're surviving, quite well too... all beans i've planted have popped, even though a couple of the dgh looked a little immature when i've planted them... but i dunno, i can't be too mad with 100 % germ rate (too bad i had to kill a few seedlings along the way... oh well, improvements must and will be made when i can do so)
i have three dghaze seedlings right now... it would have been four but a couple days ago one dried out on me.. boo... but i'm sure the new bean will show itself any day now... thats about it for plant news
but, i am happy to say that a friend has hooked me up with a spare 400 hps ballast and cords and lamp to flower with for this grow (i might even use it in veg just to speed things up a bit to get things started... i dunno yet...) all i need to do is buy the mogul socket for the lamp from home depot to get it working, but then i'll wait until i make one of the "Bake-a-Round" DIY cooltubes before i use it... i'm having too many problems with heat as it is... but hopefully by the end of the month i'll have that up and runing and have my flower room built...
here are the pics, first, the raft
you can see the deformed one in the third pick, with the stark white leaves... i think they're just lacking chlorophyll, so i'm not too concerned... and the first true leaves are growing but doing a gnarly curl under... i'm sure it will correct itselft
and here are the dghaze that have popped... one was a replaced bean that just came up yesterday... i love seeing the spurts of growth...
any input is welcome as always
take care friends and good growin!