I can see this grow going disastrously wrong, due to a couple of main factors;

1. My inexperience (although i am confident i know a heck of alot now thanks to this website and other research).

2. My timeline, im on holiday for three weeks commencing 28th June. So i have to harvest before then, so i know my yield etc if i get that far will b poor.

3. Equipment, im a bit skint so not everything is perfect.

Anyway on to the journal.

Equipment is your standard reflective surface (Not Al foil).

Lighting, currently i use 240W fluorescent aswell as another 30 W cool white fluro. But these are for my Salvia plants primarily, but will have to do currently to get my seedlings going. In the post is a 400w HPS.

Began germination on 14th March, with nothing untill two days ago. Finaly one of my two seeds cracked and planted it straight away. The following day the other cracked at a much faster pace than the first.

Transported both into Rockwool cubes once they showed root of about 1cm in length.

Now they are both under 240w Fluro with PH water.

One hasnt shown at all yet through the rock wool where as the other is poking out, but is completely white, which is worrying me.. Anyway this is day three in total. Photos below.

Oh and this is Not the grow area i will be using. This is my Salvia Divinorum grow area and am only using at the moment due to available light.

I have taken two photos of the one sprout. and a general shot of my grow area im currently using.

great set up. enjoy your grow. good luck, my friend.

cheers i have my fingers crossed that i manage to get something out of this. Bit worried about the white seedling, hoping by tomorrow it'll show some better signs, could be me being paranoid.

Update: day four now in total. will add a photo to this post later when i take one.

Im a bit worried about speed of growth. The sprout that i have shown in previous photos is longer now and beginning to turn green at the tips and brown ish on the stem so that seems good. How ever the other seed still hasnt emerged, which is surprising as it was the first one to crack.

Update: Day 5.

Sorry i didnt get back with photos yesterday ended up spending the day setting up my new grow area. Bought a cheap indoor green house. So i've been adapting it with lights, when my HPS arrives it will fit perfectly. Just need to install some computer fans etc now to keep climate under control.

Anyway the second seedling has shown its self now although still arced. I cant help but feel these are growing rather slowly in comparison to other grows i've seen on here but that may be me being paranoid. Anyway photos below.

Oh and by the way theres a slit down a leaf on the larger of the two, this must have been when the seed split or something? Anyway heres the photos:









And there you have it. I've had the light about an inch or so away from the tops of them now, with 21/3 light schedule. Any tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.

A quick question. I have a slight problem which is that i am going on holiday for three weeks on June the 28th. Do you think it would be possible to harvest by then? The photos above are exactly what stage they are at now. The strain is "Arjan Strawberry haze" and states 10 weeks flowering, 11 for extra taste. I will be using a 400w hps.

I'm getting a bit worried that im pushed for time. For it to be a eleven weeks flowering i'd have to put them into a 12/12 cycle on the 17th of April. Thats 23 days away.. Im fucked arent i. Im not fussed about a huge yield.

Day 6: The second seedling has perked up quite alot now compared to yesterday. She seems to be facing upwards more. How ever theres big colour contrast between the two. The second seedling seems alot darker and one of her leaves is smaller than the other.... As if it was a different strain. Any ideas why this is?

The first seedling seems to be doing great despite the hole in one of her leaves.








Above is the comparison between the two. As you can see there is a major difference between the two. Whats going on? any idea as to why one of the leaves is under developed? Help would be gladly appreciated.

Where did you get the seeds? If there just bag seeds ive found alot of those seeds are abused and miss handled and it creates deformations in the leaves. Get a few more sets of nods on the plant with the weird leaf and see if the deformations continue. if they you can keep growing it as long as it wants to grow. but anytime i had a seed sprout like that it never got bigger then 6-10in so I pulled all of them before any bloom. hope i helped

Are you giving them any nutes right now? or is it just fresh water still?

i got them from greenhouse seeds, Theyre "Arjan Strawberry haze feminized"

Not Nutes at the moment just water. Apart from possibly a bit of spray from my other plants possibly reaching them but i doubt it and even then itd be hardly anything. Thanks for the reply. i hope they manage to sort themselves out!