Okay. So I decided to start with my first step today, I decided to go out and get a decent CFL bulb and some soil, because those were the only necessities I need to start.

I'll post pics of what I am currently working with and some for viewing pleasure. I will 'not' post pics of my germinating seeds until ready to be covered in dirt.

So, I'm starting with bagseed, unknown strain. I have 10 total, so 1 is being germinated. Also from the same strain as 9 of those seeds[1 seed is from some other strain, that seed is still bagged so to say] I have 4 white seeds, now I've read somewhere [cant remember] that white seeds are not mature seeds and won't grow? Can anyone assure me of this? [btw I put a white seed in with the other one in the wet paper towel just for shits and giggles]

I will be low stress training any plants I grow.

I don't have nearly everything I'd like to have. In fact I can't even start taking apart my grow dresser and rebuilding it without the shit.. lol.. yea I'm strapped for cash.

When my seed sprouts, or if I have to start another one, then I will plant it in a 2L ice cream container and it'll be grown in my closet starting with the lamp I have, using a Single, 42 watt cfl, 6500k, 2600 lumens.

I will be getting more bulbs and some outlet to socket converters and putting some cfl's on a power strip.

My pics should be obvious as to what they are/will be used for.

R

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lol, Some pics for viewing pleasure.. any ? just ask.

I have some pics of small pieces of some White Widow and some BC Blueberry... and in the bowl pic I believe is just WW or WW + Blueberry.. either way, awesome smoke.

R

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hey bro looks like your beginning a setup. Get a basic potting soil to mix with your miracle grow as it is usually fertilized and /or high acidic PH. just grab a basic potting mix about the same size bag and mix em'. The light bulb you have looks good, get like 5 of em for 8 plants through veg, use Fast Food restaurant cups as a vegging pot, they are basically free! lol! After that transplant to 2 gallon pots using a guana soil/ miracle grow mix along with 3x 2700k 42 watt cfl for every FEMALE plant. lol thats what id' do good luck man

Colol thanks for the input man. Yeah I do plan on using a mix of soil/peat moss + perlite and vermiculite as my medium.. but until I have the funds to purchase the preferred components of my grow, I'll do with what I have. And really, this 1 single plant (the 1st seed to germ, btw no tap root yet on the seed germ-ing) but it'll stay in the ice cream bucket because until my cabinet is built, I dont want anything too big that I cant conceal. YES I will be diluting the MG soil with some other reg soil.

R

Okay, so today I picked up a quad of Cali/Kali Mist.
Buddy told me it was a creeper, so, cool.

I've read now that it's mostly Sativa, and it's smell is, kind of like a sweet but sour, like a candy sour, but a fruity clear sour that is a sweet/sour.. idk, I can't describe the sweet-sourness of it. Looks nice too. Gonna be amazing compared to the shit I've had since monday.. I'll post pics.

BTW I'll be talking about other Weed related things on here too. It's my thread, so.. lol jk jk

R

**Germination Process**

I'll be starting another seed in the paper towel method sometime tomorrow to be with the 2 that are currently germinating.. btw the white seed has turned darker to resemble the other one, I believe I can still tell them apart though. Tomorrow total seeds = 3 in.

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Okay, omg omg omg I got a taproot. I followed my instinct and checked the seeds anyway this morning [told myself last night i wouldnt until this evening today] and my seed has a taproot!! w00t!! [wake'n'bake b4 work btw lmao]
The taproot is, about an 1/8" at most in length, I know I can leave it in the paper towel longer. I do have to leave for work quite soon, and I will try looking this up later.. BUT ..

*Question*

What length of a taproot would you guys recommend to have before I drop my seed into the soil??

That's my question for today. Any comments and help are much appreciated.

R

Well I drop the seed as soon as it cracks and I see a tiny piece of the taproot.
I do this because I'm too scared of the taproot growing and then the paper towel getting dry which will cause stress and damage to the taproot.
I would suggest you plant it as soon as you get home.

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yeaq okay.. i walked in the door literally.. less than 10 minutes ago.. im still in my wet work clothes.. the taproot doubled in length from this morning, filling my ice cream jug now, gonna put in the seedling, and make it a bit damp. i will be leaving in less than an hour, and i wont be able to see her til tomorrow evening,, this time but most likely an hour or 2 later.. so 26 hours or so..

so i put the seedling in, snapped a pic, took one of the white seed too.. will post them tomorrow as im in quite the hurry ATM.

okay, so when i put my seed in the dirt .. yesterday, i sprayed it 7x with distilled water, covered it with seran wrap, but not 100% tight, as it wont stick to my container so i taped it shut. today i got home and opened it up, was curious to see the seed, it grew a little, so i reburied it [i wont do this again] and i lost it lol,, sprayed like 12x with water, covered very tight with seran wrap to keep moisture. I know it is inevitable that I won't know the exact position of my seed in the soil until it breaks through.. I have a slight worried feeling, though I'm quite sure I have nothing to worry about.

i need to soon make drainage holes though...

Do any of you think I'll need to water my seedling any more until it breaks ground?? I'm hoping that it's tight enough to keep in moisture.. cuz when i got home today there was no condensation on the seran wrap, so obviously [even though i knew it] it wasn't tight enough,, but it is now.

3 pics: 1 pic is of my seed in the dirt before getting covered, another is of my white seed, that is darker now because of moisture, unrooted, and a pic of the last bits of the blunt i rolled with the pruned bud leaves from my Cali Mist, and the remaining 2 or 3 dots of the shit i bought last monday. i was blazzzed.

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