This is my first time going from seed. I'm pretty sure I haven't screwed anything up yet. I'll get around to that later.
For now, we've got:
Sown circa Feb 16:
- Aji Lemon drop: 0/20 Germinated (Suspected bad seed, gave up. Not even a radicle had popped)
- Orange Hab: 4/4 Germinated (these are the guys in coco coir in beer can bottoms)
- Mariwiri: 7/8 Germinated
- Yellow Fatalii: 4/4 Germinated
- NuMex Centennial: 2/2 Germinated
- Zavory: 3/3 Germinated
- Bulgarian Carrot: 3/6 Germinated
- Jamaican Red: 0/10 Germinated
I have them all under two 42-watt 6500k cfl's with a heat mat set to 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
I had been bottom watering with distilled water, but the air is pretty dry right now, and I need to water every day. Watering with distilled every day was costing some serious money, so I recently switched to filtered (but still pretty hard) water. I'll probably purge from the top with distilled water every couple of weeks or so until I get home and I can use rainwater.
All seedlings are in promix, except for the habs, which are lagging far behind in coco coir (no perlite, it's expensive around here).
They are planted 2-3/cup, and they will be transplanted to individual 3 oz cups when they get their third true leaves.
During this transplant, I'll probably thin out the weaker guys.
After a month or two, I plan to get them under a 150 watt HPS until plantout.
The roots on these guys are intense. I have seedlings with their first true leaves measuring only 1 cm, and they have tap roots 3 inches long!
If anyone has any constructive criticism, I'd love to hear it. I've learned a lot from lurking around here and listening to the community, and I hope to learn more yet.
