Four Feminized LSD Under 600 Watt HID - Organic

Four LSD (Barney's Farm) seedlings are nine days old, sprouted them with the paper towel method and they all popped roots in 2-3 days, quite viable. Started them under fluorescent "cool blue", which probably insn't the best spectrum for growth. They are roughly 2 inches tall, I moved them under a 400 watt HPS (upgrading to a Gavita 1000DE, which is here in town I just need to pick it up from UPS, because they try to deliver things that need signatures when people work.) Soil is a mix of happy frog and perlite, just added some composted douglas fir mulch as a top dressing to their 1 gallon pots. Planning on transplanting to 3 gallon smart pots in 1-2 weeks. Keeping this grow mostly organic and will feed almost exclusively with compost tea depending on how it goes. Harvest weight goal is ~ 600g/plant.

Looking forward to this grow and appreciate any constructive comments/tips that anyone can contribute! Will update every weeks or so.

Day 16

Fed the plants with a couple rounds of low strength seedling tea last week, finishing up a 48hr AACT to feed with now. Just topped all four plants above the second true node, they are sitting about 20 inches away from a 400 watt HPS. Growth is vigorous and they all look healthy . Will transplant sometime next week.

Sorry didn't want to bother turning off my light for the pics..

Day 19

Just wanted to show a few photos of the foliar response for the LSD and "Bubba Kush", or whatever that freebie was they threw in. When sowing the seeds, I accidentally dropped/flicked one with these big, clumsy fingers. Oops. Also transplanted to 3 gallon air pots this evening, which is the final transfer.

On a side note I decided to not go with the Gavita 1000, one reason is heat and another is efficiency. Instead, I bought a Sun System LEC 315 watt cermaic MH fixture, which should arrive tomorrow if I can manage to get delivery. Will update again on Sunday, hopefully with the new light.