AlabamaJack
eXtreme
Just got back from Christmas holidays down in Pensacola and am ready to prepare for my first seed starting for 2011...
This is going to be my 2011 grow thread...all comments/criticism/suggestions welcome and is encouraged...if you follow this thread, you will be able to see how I do things...not saying it is right, but it is just how I do them...
on to the subject at hand....
Cleaned out the germinator, checked the lights, the remote bulb thermostat, heating sources...all A.O.K.
before lights turned on...
ready for business...the germinator will take eight 72 cell seed starting trays...4 in each chamber...germinator temperature will be controlled at as close to 83F (~28C) constant as the thermostat will allow...usually +/- 3F...
Seed Starting checklist...
Seeds...duh
Hoffmans Seed Starting Mix...got about 40 quarts...good for about 4 or 5 trays if I remember right...got another 180 quarts that will be here today...
Watering solution...note, if you do use Hoffmans you will find that it is relatively hard to get the mix wet...I bottom water my trays until the top of the mix in the tray is wet...
Trays - all sanitized and ready for use...no domes...I don't use domes because of the bad experinece I had with damping off and mold/fungus on top of my soil...
seems I am almost ready to start 2011...
one thing I am going to do before planting the first seed is completely sanitize the germinator with a good strong insecticide of some sort...still TBD at this moment...got to go do homus depos in a couple of hours to get what I need...
more pics and prose later today...
It's gonna be a good year...I can feel it in my bones...
This is going to be my 2011 grow thread...all comments/criticism/suggestions welcome and is encouraged...if you follow this thread, you will be able to see how I do things...not saying it is right, but it is just how I do them...
on to the subject at hand....
Cleaned out the germinator, checked the lights, the remote bulb thermostat, heating sources...all A.O.K.
before lights turned on...
ready for business...the germinator will take eight 72 cell seed starting trays...4 in each chamber...germinator temperature will be controlled at as close to 83F (~28C) constant as the thermostat will allow...usually +/- 3F...
Seed Starting checklist...
Seeds...duh
Hoffmans Seed Starting Mix...got about 40 quarts...good for about 4 or 5 trays if I remember right...got another 180 quarts that will be here today...
Watering solution...note, if you do use Hoffmans you will find that it is relatively hard to get the mix wet...I bottom water my trays until the top of the mix in the tray is wet...
Trays - all sanitized and ready for use...no domes...I don't use domes because of the bad experinece I had with damping off and mold/fungus on top of my soil...
seems I am almost ready to start 2011...
one thing I am going to do before planting the first seed is completely sanitize the germinator with a good strong insecticide of some sort...still TBD at this moment...got to go do homus depos in a couple of hours to get what I need...
more pics and prose later today...
It's gonna be a good year...I can feel it in my bones...