Well I thought it would be cool to document this, and I'll inevitably be asking for help so I might as well have a journal.

I built the aeroponics unit from here: Grow 2 lbs. on a 2’ x 4’ 32 Site DIY Aeroponic Unit

I have it set up in a 2x4x7 tent (perfect size, woot). All I have at the moment is around 400 watts of T-5 (veg bulbs at the moment). In the end I'll either switch bulbs to flower, or maybe upgrade to the HPS. Depends how much I can afford. :-p

There are 32 sites on the unit (4x and I'm starting with the following as far as seeds:

11x Big Bud
10x Northern Lights
10x Bubblegum
5x Unknown (from marijuana-seeds.nl)
1x Dank Bag Seed (pretty sure it's OG Kush?)

No telling how many I'll actually end up with.

Right now I'm on I guess day 3 after having put the seeds into rapid rooters. Nothing popping at the moment, but I'll still upload pics soon. The fact that nothing has popped actually kind of worries me, but I'm sure I'm just being paranoid. After all, I have no idea how long they're supposed to take.

Hi,

I use rapid rooter cubes. keep them moist and not too cold and they should pop in a week. I break a piece off the bottom and fill the little hole.

Cool,
I have a 2 x 4 cabinet and was thinking of going 12/12 from seed so I will stick around.

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Okay so here are from last night (day 3). I started by soaking the seeds for 8-10 hours in RO water, then when 80% of them had sunk I transferred to rapid rooters.

I put the rapid rooters upside down, cut a slice in the "bottom" about 1/4 to 1/2'' deep and put the seeds in there, then closed them up with rubber bands. This way the rapid rooters stand on their own (on what used to be the top), and it's much easier to access the seed if I have to make adjustments (which I already did, one was upside-down).

As of last night there was only that one showing any signs of popping.

At this point I've already got the lights on 12/12, just because it helps keep the heat at the right place. I think it was too cold in the beginning.

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Day 4, and there are now 3 beginning to pop. All of them are bubblegum, which was kind of surprising. I guess I didn't know what to expect but for some reason I was expecting the NL to go first. A NL seed was the only one to show a taproot at the time I put them into the rapid rooters, but oh well...

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Looks like your off to a great start.

I have found by using a remote temp probe on my hygrometer I put it in an empty rooter plug, water it like the rest and I can measure the temp of the seed.

You want between 75 and 84° over 84° will tweak it and under 75° will slow it down.

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Update! So they're starting to pop all over the place. I've got more from day 4 here:

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And day 5 here. I'm having some issues with heat control and water flow. The manifold isn't really putting out as much as it should, I'm guessing because I'm using a separate reservoir underneath the main thing, so the water has to go up a couple of feet. This is causing me to have to put the manifold really close to the net pots. We'll see how that goes. Might just get a stronger pump. We'll see.

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More pictures! Day 6, I think everything's looking pretty good. Not that I know how things are supposed to look, haha. Not as many seeds have popped as I would have liked/expected, but there's still time so I can wait.

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Btw, cruzer, I would have loved to take your advice, cuz it sounds awesome, but I don't have a thermometer, nor can I probably afford one at this point. :-p I'll probably just get one of those really cheap ones when I get the chance.

[Edit] I did end up getting a thermometer with a little humidity meter.

Sure man, I understand. I started on a tight budget too.

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