Jonny B's Four Strain Bubbleponics Grow

Welcome to my new grow journal. This should be an interesting one folks. I bought my seeds from Greenhouse Seeds through The Attitude. Great company to work with and I look forward to doing business with them again. I received my seeds in 7 days from the night of shipping. Considering it was on a Thursday night, and shipped through the weekend and it still arrived exactly in 7 days. That's pretty impressive.

Anyways, here's the lineup



Minus the Trainwreck - Has a little issue with that one...

Got my Room all cleaned up and ready for a new grow. Vacuumed out, sprayed with pesticide, Ozone treated. Now we're ready to go. Here's some pics of my veg room setup.

So, I put my seeds in shot glasses with about an inch of distilled water in each and let them sit in there for about 2 hours. Then I poured them out onto each of their own 1/2 sheet of paper towel quartered up. I then put them together on a plate. Always make sure you use warm water, and after wet, the seeds are kept warm at all times. Any shock at this point could prove to be lethal for new and expensive seeds. I turn my oven on to 350* and set a plate with a little distilled water on it while I'm working. That way every time i finish a seed packet, it stays warm. After I'm done, downstairs on top of the furnace it goes. on top of a folded up towel. Stays nice and warm there. Stays right around 80* I would assume about 90% humidity.

Now that I'm done with that. I started getting my rockwool ready. So I made a buffer soaking solution of 5.0 I left them in there for about an hour, check it again. Brought it up to 5.8 and added 1 ml of superthrive. and a 1/2 ml of floraliscious plus. Rechecked the pH and brought it back to 5.8 , checked it again two hours later, Still at 5.8

Also While I'm soaking the cubes I throw an extra airline in there to oxygenate the water that will be soaking in the cube. Also this prevents stagnate water and deters algae growth, or detrimental bacteria on the rockwool in the early period of the seedlings life.

Just checked this morning, No cracks yet...

awesome, subscribed.

lookin good my dude! nice strains too i love greenhouse seeds!

Making me nervous. Still haven't cracked yet...

Great thread, Jonny, especially for newbies. I like the details and steps given so far.

Thank you Rose, feel free to add anything.

this is amazing johnny, i've just started some seeds and am gonna be using a bubbleponics system as well. I'll be able to follow your lead =D - you use a 1000w right? I'm hoping to use a 600w, temps provided.

how long do you plan to veg for? and do you do any sort of training?

cheers mate, i am subscribed!

I'm still waiting on my seeds to crack, a couple looked like they started a couple hours ago so we'll see. Yeah I use a 1000 Watt hps. Don't know about training yet because I haven't done any of these strains before.

cool ok mate =) - fingers crossed they crack soon, one of mine just popped =)

I know, I'm used to seeds cracking within 24 hours. Going on 48 hours very soon here. Hope Greenhouse isn't gonna let me down.

End of day three and I'm finally starting to see signs of life. My White Rhino seed has cracked and the tip of the root just barely started to emerge. I'm going to hold off till the morning before moving it into rockwool. Hopefully I don't get a ridiculous growth spurt overnight. But I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Very good job so far! cant wait to watch you grow!

Subbing to this one!


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good thread JONN subbed, def wanna see how this one goes

Alright, the black Rhino popped I put it in rockwool last night. And it's popped out of the rockwool this morning. Only thing is, still has the seed on.Same thing happened when I germed the Trainwreck. It came out with it's helmet on, and stayed there for a day.I got nervous and knocked the helmet off,but then the plant never grew. Just turned yellow and died. Makes me real nervous. But I'm leaving it in it's tupperware on the furnace on a towel It keeps in nice and humid in that, I'm hoping that will help the sprout naturally push it off. Two of the others look like there on the verge of popping, but their shells are also slowly turning black, which makes me nervous.

I don't know what to think. I've germed tons of seeds this same exact way. 95% of them do fine. But I'm having issues with every single one of these. It's frustrating.
As long as I get one female plant I'll be happy. I have absolutely no problem cloning. I still have a cutting from my origanal White Demon Clone that has produced 4 different harvests for me so far. I cut it back hard and will take more cuttings in a couple weeks.

nice! lets see some pics JONN! : )


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