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Douglah Cappy 2010

4.5 hours a day for three weeks. would you harden off the same for faster growing annuums? or just 4.5 for the chinense? Still trying to get my hardneing off process down right:)
btw your plants are growing nice and fast!
 
Nate they are only in the window because I have no more space under my light, not hardening them off yet. Hardening off is getting them used to outside life, they are still inside plants for the next few weeks. Begin hardening off by taking your plants outside for short periods of time and gradually increase a little more everyday for about a week. Thanks guys.
 
Looking good, Cappy! I'm super jealous of you guys that have enough space to grow that many plants! I don't have the space or time to grow that many, but could use the pods from that many.
 
I have decided to pull round 2 plant out from under the halide because I have been too aggressive with the nutes and burned some growing tips of the Douglah trying to rush things. I have decided to go back to the fish emulsion for the time being and just let round 2 grow in the window for the next week. This round 2 is all my main plants for the year and did not want to mess then up as well, so just taking a step back, the Douglah will be fine just need to leave them alone and quit trying so hard with them. I made this decision after reading over my last years seed tray thread and realize I skipped a step and was rushing things with the heavy nutes. I guess it is good that I start at different times in case of stupid fuck ups, lots of good plants just being safe. Started my maters; Black Sea Man, Ingegnoli Gigante Lisco, and Italian Plum.:)
 
I have 1 of 10 so far germed and living happy. I think 6 of them in another grow area might have not made it, I let the soil dry out and I have heard thats bad. still keeping the soil moist now though hoping something comes to life. The other 3 in my tray arent doing anything, but I wont give up on them yet.
 
I also started 3 billyboy from NoVa for back-up when I planted my toms last week Matt, nothing yet. Don't give up on the dried out seeds, if they don't fire the first time I sometimes let them dry out on purpose and then saturate the soil, it works on hard to germ seed that deserves a second chance. My burned Douglah have started growing again after a solid flushing. My second round plants that have been in the window for the last few days are going back under my halide tomorrow. Almost ever year I have back-up plants that perform better than my main ones because they get messed with less.
 
Same thing Nate. Flushing is when you rinse all excess nutrients from the soil because of over fertilization, leeching is when rain slowly removes nutrients from your soil over time.
 
Update time! Douglah plants have recovered nicely after the flush and are just waiting to go outside. The 15 plants in the terra cotta colored cups are my back-up Douglah and were fed only fish emulsion and the lighter green plants are the ones fed hydro nutes. The plants come from the exact same seed tray, also have a few pequins and my cumari in the overhead shot. Other back-ups just sitting in the shelf behind my TV cabinet, and the last pic is new plants under the MH lamp. These will only get 10 days then the last group will get their time under the light. I really like this time of year seeing all the little seedlings grow up and move out of the house.
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man oh man those look good. I have also been using my flora nutes on my seedling lately and the plants seem to really like it good call! oh yeah do you like the results of just emulsion or the flora better?
 
I cannot decide which set of plants I like best. The fish emulsion ones are dark green short internodal length and the hydro ones are lighter green yet have much larger stems and have more spacing between leaf sets and are bigger plants. What I plan on doing with this round is using the fish emulsion mostly, and just one time dose of hydro nutes to kick start growth. So I'm thinking alternating the two is the best solution for my plants Nate.
 
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