Greetings everyone!

Earlier today I started germinating my seeds by dampening paper towels with drinking water from the grocery store. The towels where folded over a few times and placed instead zip-lock bags without sealing the ends closed. They are resting in between two plates with a heating pad set to medium underneath them. Five Northern Lights, Five Bubblegum, Five Thai Stick, and Seven Big Bud. All from marijuana-seeds.nl

My Equipment:
Lumatek 600W Digital Ballast
600W GE HPS Bulb
EconoWing Reflector
(2) 4' 40w Tubes
(4) 23w 4500K CFL

I will be making a run to the hydro store tomorrow evening to pick up a bag of Fox Farm Light Warrior to use as my medium for seedlings. I may add a little perlite to the mix. I intend to later transplant them into Fox Farm Ocean Forrest and will also be using Fox Farm Liquid Nutrients.

The operation will be started at a temporary location because I am in the process of finding a new apartment. I will be selecting one based on how it will suite my grow needs.

Questions and Comments are more then welcome in this thread!

I will be continuously updating and adding photos when the action begins, so stay tuned and stay focused!

Ended up picking up a bag of Light Warrior which is what is placed in 22 16oz party cups. Soaked them with distilled water that was pH'd between 6-6.4. I also picked up a bottle of SuperThrive. I put one little drop in a bowl of water and soaked the paper towels again to hopefully improve germination. I am going to mix 1/4 tsp per 1 gallon of h2o and water the cups right before putting the tap roots in. A small update, but I only found limited documentation on SuperThrive so hopefully this helps some one down the road.

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I wouldn't add any perlite to the light warrior, cause if it's anything like I think it is it's already super light (I use the botanicare equivelant in a drip hydro setup). Why not wait till you get your new place? Moving 22 seedlings sounds like a hassle.

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how big of a grow area are you working with using the 600 watt?

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ghengiskhan: The light warrior was extremely light like you said and already had enough prelite in it so i left it alone. Moving 22 (Assuming 100% germination, a few are poking through already!) seedlings is no big deal.

As far as the grow area I tested the 600W in a 2x4x6.5 foot closet and it was very hot in there! I'm going to be looking for an at least 5x5 foot area and will still be using some sort of ducting to remedy the heat.

-focus-

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Your right. Light Warrior is already super light and it had plenty of visible perlite already. Moving them is no big deal

I have the benefit now of being able to select a location that has what I need! I won't go with anything less then 5x5 ft. I tested the 600W out in a 2x4x6.5 foot closet already and it got above 90F+ and this is when it is 50F outside. Going to have to do some ducting to ventilate.

So the seeds have been germinating for about 36 hours now and a few are poking out. Here are the results so far.

4/5 Bubble Gum
0/5 Northern Lights (Tiny Seeds!)
3/7 Big Bud (Huge Seeds)
0/5 Tai Stick

The BB seeds are seriously three to four times the size of the NL. I hope the tiny ones don't give me any troubles.

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Man, You Got Some Nice Strains

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Thanks! I've been most excited for Northern Lights, but they haven't cracked open or anything yet!

5/5 Bubble Gum
0/5 Northern Lights
5/7 Big Bud
1/5 Tai Stick

The TS and NL seeds are so tiny! If they don't show tap root in the next day and a half I think I'm going to try the cup method with a drop of SuperThrive. I've read that some seeds need a higher temperature to germinated at. I purchased one of them two dollar "magnetic" strip looking thermometers that go on the outside of a fish tank and it was topped out at 86F even when the heating pad was placed on low. So, I put a few pencils between the bottom plate and pad to cool things down to about 76-80. The ones that have tap root are going in soil this evening so I should have some sprout pics comming over the weekend!

-focus-

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I musta been smoking too much because I just noticed now that I had replied twice to the same things lol

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Nice man, no digital camera? some pictures would really pull it all together. But still nice setup, I'm subscribed

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