Green Troll's first grow from seed

Subbed up & ready sir!

Originally Posted by Green Troll

So now i am patiently waiting for (hopefully) little babies to break the surface and let me know i have not completely failed right from the start.

The seeds are Super Iced Grapefruit (feminized) and i am trying to be realistic in hoping for 1 or 2 of the 5 to sprout. Any more than that and i shall be very happy. Do you think this is a realistic hope? Should i expect more or less? Please feel free to leave your feedback.

Green Troll

Glad to see you went with a tent in the end mate Ive got mine & should be getting the rest of the equipment this Friday. Hopefully mate you will get all 5 sprouting! cant see why not

Good luck with this. I will be watching & learning all the way

Well, they have sprouted. 3 of the 5 are clearly visible, the other 2 are just about visible pushing through the soil, so it looks like i have 5 out of 5!

Number 2 seems to be winning the grow race, but he has a helmet on. I am going to leave it a couple of days, putting a single droplet of water on the seed shell to soften it every few hours. I hope the leaves will push this off naturally, however if not, i am going to have to try and help it along.

I am very happy these magic beans have all sprouted, so many thanks to Rhino seeds and Feminized seeds for a good product.

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I shall keep you all posted on how things go.

BTW that 6th pellet is empty, i just water it like the others so i can stick my finger in it to see how its drying without damaging the plants =)

The shell was clamping the stem of number 2, so i popped it off with a paperclip. It was stopping the first two leaves from facing upwards, so i didnt want it to stunt the growth of the plant. Not sure if i should get a CFL just to give them a little boost at this stage before they get stuck under the 400w MH on saturday.

i cant believe it. 10 hours later and all 5 are up and looking around! the largest is 2 inches tall at least, all 5 look to have 2 healthy pre-leaves, some have started to face upwards. I have put them under a pair of 20w CFL bulbs (1250 lumens each) hoping to keep them happy. They look a little lanky and i dont want them getting any taller just yet, not until the stems get a little fatter, so i have put the lights as close as i can.

For some reason i cant upload images right now, so i will try tomorrow.

I am so happy. Happy all 5 popped and happy they seem to have a lust for growing.

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These pics are from last night. They seem a little perky now i have given them some light, nice and straight, starting to develop a nice red/purple tint on the stems, and the leaves are a good strong even green colour. A few have started to curl back their starter leaves while the true leaves are still very tiny, i am not sure if this is normal but i am guessing it isn't a worry.

I am unsure as to whether i should leave the propagators lid on or leave it off for more direct light. The bulbs are very cool, even putting my finger 10mm from the bulb is warm rather than hot, but i just want to give my babies the best chance, so some advice here would be great. Thanks =)

I left the lid off the propagator and have gotten great results. All 5 plants are healthy, have the first pair of spiked leaves now as big as the starting leaves, and the roots have just popped out the bottom (one has gone quite mad with the root and is 3 inches out of the pellet!) so time to pot these babies up tonight. They are all about the same height now, all lush looking, and i cant wait to get them into veg mode. Tomorrow i will update with pics when they are in the tent, in larger pots and hooked up with my automatic watering system (lets hope that works).