This was my first experience ordering beans from Dr. Chronic and I must say I'm very impressed. I ordered 10 Crimea Blue and 10 Honey B seeds (Barney's) from the doctor on Sunday night and they arrived Friday afternoon! Stealth was adequate and I would definitely do business again.

Set the Honey B on the back burner for the time being and germinated Crimea Blue using the paper towel method. All 10 showed roots at almost exactly the same time, a little less than 2 days. Vigorous little babies! They've been planted in styrofoam cups filled with Fox Farm Light Warrior Planting Mix and watered with spring water and hygrozyme (about 5ml/gal).

So that's day 1. Kids are sitting under one 23W cool white CFL. Will add more CFLs for veg and they'll be flowering under a 250W HPS. Would love to use more light but the landlord pays the electric and I don't need him asking questions. I plan on feeding Pure Blend Pro and homemade worm castings. I've never used Hygrozyme but I've heard so many good things I will be using it thru the entire grow.

So tell me what you think. I like to believe I'm knowledgeable but I'm no expert and any/all comments and advice are greatly appreciated.

Peace

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Take a look at my Crimea Blue:
http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...blue-soil.html

Hey Z...Glad you had a positive experience with the Doc. You'll see on here that there are ALOT of pissed off former customers. Anyways, good luck on the crimeas. This is just my opinion (and maybe just my superstition or bad luck) but I have had the worst results using styrofoam cups. Anyone else 2nd that?? I planted 10 germ'd seeds into 5 solo plastic cups and 5 styro's and I ended up with only 5 plants....none from the styro.

Thanks for the advice. Never used styro before. What do you think caused them to fail? I poked holes in the bottom for drainage. I wanted to plant them in something smaller than my 5" pots. So you'd suggest plastic cups?

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Take a look at my Crimea Blue:
http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...blue-soil.html

Man, I have no clue why the 5 styros failed and the plastic solo's didnt. I had holes in them also just as I did with the plastic. It was no experiment with the cups, I just ran out of plastic and used the styro. If I were you, I would change them immediately....not for any solid evidence against styro, but just from what happened to me. I'm sure there are many success stories out there after using styro, but not from me.

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Kali Mist/Colombian Red Haze journal

Here's my last grow AK47 and PPP in hempy journal

Could be the styrofoam is offgassing chemicals that are poisonous to your plants.

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I'll keep that in mind. I think for now I'm going to stick with the styro since i'm already set up in it. The sprouts are so delicate I'd rather not move them. Hopefully they'll be fine but if not I still have the 10 Honey B's!

Thanks for the advice and I'll post more pics as soon as they start poking out. (hopefully LOL)

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Take a look at my Crimea Blue:
http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...blue-soil.html

Makes sense. What kind of chemicals?

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Take a look at my Crimea Blue:
http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...blue-soil.html

Well, polystyrene can contain one or more of the following: HCFC, CFC 11, CFC 12 (all ozone destroying chlorofluorocarbons) and/or pentane (C5H12).

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Well, so far so good. Still 10 for 10 even in the styrofoam. Time will tell. As soon as we establish a root system we'll transplant into the 5" pots.

I'm really impressed with the speed these plants are growing. The crimeas are supposed to be fast but I just started germinating 3 days ago! I suppose it could be genetics or the hygrozyme. This is my first time with both.

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Take a look at my Crimea Blue:
http://www.rollitup.org/grow-journal...blue-soil.html

Sweet! It's so exciting to see your plants growing.

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