Germinated 2 PPP and 2 Snow White in the starter blocks sold by Nirvana. All cracked in 24 hours, and seedlings were formed in 3 days. Unfortunately, after a few cocktails, I thought it would be a good idea to pull the seed casing from one of my PPP plants. Took the entire top off and now only have 3 seedlings.

After roots showed, I transplanted the plugs into 10" baskets filled with CocoCoir and surrounded by Hydroton. Covered the seedlings with plastic containers, and misted them for two days with pH's water and a few drops of SuperThrive.

Mixed my first batch of nutes (1/4 strength) for the 10 gallon E & F system this morning:

5ml FloraGrow
5ml FloraMicro (Hardwater)
5ml FloraBloom
1 t. SuperThrive
3.5 T. pH down.

Ended up at 5.9pH with 1.0 EC or 500ppm.

I have the pump set on a timer for 15 minute floods every 4 hours.

Seedlings are under a 600w MH air cooled light, 24/0 with average temperature of 80F.

Am I on the right track?

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It's been 5 days since I started to germinate my seeds. As of today, the remaining three seedlings have two sets of leaves on them, and the PPP is popping its 3rd set. Height is still around 1 1/2 inches, with no apparent stretching. I think I've also got the nutes dialed in for my bagseed tester, and it looks pretty good also.

Late last night, I checked my rez and found the PPM stable, with the pH up to 6.4. I added 1 gallon of distilled water, 3 T of Liquid Karma, and 2 T of Pure Blend. I ended up with 600 ppm at a pH of 5.6. Also changed my flood times from 15 minutes every four hours, to 15 minutes every 6 hours. The coir still seems moist just under the surface, and the hydroton is also damp underneath. Temps have been between 75F and 82F with lots of air movement. RH% is around 47% in the tent, so I installed a cool mist humidifier. Unfortunately, I have so much air moving through the tent, it emptied out in one night. Plants are still on a 24/7 cycle and about 16" from the 600w MH.

A couple of questions:

When I pH tested the distilled water, it read in the low 5's. Is that normal?

How do you keep humidity in check when you're sucking almost 300cfm out of your tent?

Once I figure out how this whole hydro thing works, I'll read my camera's manual to see if I can get better pics....









Check out my previous posts to see how far his poor thing has come.....

damn we doin the same grow im a little further along but all the same i have 2 sw and 2 ppp in 4th week flowering now

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well check out my thread. Im doing SW, PPP, and WW from nirvana started with 7 of each. down to 16 plants.

i wanted to try ww but i didnt want too many plants ill go check yours out

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yeah the hardest part is each strain has different needs. At the moment its easy cause there babies but when there older it takes work because one plants perfect nute setup is another ones death. have to learn what each plant wants almost let alone strain.

yeah sw seems to grow a lot faster than ppp for example .although i havent had any major problems as of yet .im growing them all in the same aerogarden except for some training to evenly disperse the light .

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I guess great minds think alike....

I hope I can get these girls to your level.... I had 2 PPP plants, but after I had a few cocktails, I thought it would be a good idea to remove the seed cover from one of them.... Popped the damn top off..... Other than that, I am very happy with the Nirvana seeds, and the germination kit they sent. My first seed popped in under 24 hours....

Thanks for the reply, I'll keep an eye on your thread to help me with my first grow.

I thought about the different needs at the start, but I have 5 fems of each strain. I figured 2 and 2 would be a good test grow, and it was like freaking Christmas morning...I couldn't wait to open my new toys up!!! Going forward, I will do a better job of investigating coexisting strains.

It has been 7 days since I germed my 4 Nirvana PPP and Snow White seeds. And if it weren't for some late night drunk-botany, I'd be 4 for 4. The PPP seems to be a bit ahead of the Snow White, and popped it's third set of leave two days ago. As of this morning all plants had the third leaves to some extent.

Nutes seem to be under control with a brew of 850 ppm and 5.9% ph. Still under 24/7 lighting at an average of 77F. Although they don't seem to be stretching, the stems were looking a bit purple. I changed the feeding schedule to 15 minute floods every 4 hours, in case the coloring was caused but a deficiency.

First week pics.....

PPP


Snow Whites