500+ Seeds, limited space. -Journal-

Starting a small crop, around 500 seeds of various types, ranging from some good skunk, to average schwag. Started off today by gathering some paper plates, layin' some napkins in the plates, moistened the napkins, layed the seeds as evenly as possible in the plates and covered the seeds with a few layers of napkins ending with some more warm water on the top layer of napkins. A medium amount of napkins ensures that the water concentration is more spread out, rather then concentrating around the seeds, possibly giving them too much water. Cover the plate with the same type of paper plate, to ensure the seeds stay in a dark environment during the sprouting process. Tomorrow we will uncover the plates to see how well the germinating process is proceeding. We will take pictures and post as we progress throughout the germinating and flowering process. Please post questions and comments only in this thread.

Our operation will include germinating the seeds, and the first few weeks of the plants life inside. After we condition the plants by bringing them outside during nice parts of the day, we will finally transplant to an outdoor growing area. Total plants anticipated after germination will be around 200 - 250. We are growing in a humid, tropical area in southern louisiana, we've had some upper 80's during january, so i think it is a good time to start, allowing the plants to mature a little before we place them in the colder soil environment will help with the transplanting process. We're not using any special lights, ventillation systems or special fertilizers, just some straight up mary jane growing, because i know alot of people out there just dont have the money for the extra stuff, either that, or they just dont have the resources or availability of the advanced growing techniques. So here's a raw, uncut and pictured Journal documenting our growing adventure.

Go too see mary go round.

Is this crop going to made up of 200-250 plants, that is wild man good luck.

Are you going to have any pictures?

Yes, pictures will be taken. I was gonna wait until tomorrow, but I'll take some right now, of the plate setup and the seeds. Gimme a few and i'll have some to upload.

Here are a few of the seeds and my setup.

what a sweet sight :) good luck! ;)

sweeeet mary!!! you gonna use 500 pots????.lol

No, i will hand select only the best looking sprouts from my seed bank and plant them in egg cartons with prepared soil. I will poke a little hole in the bottoms for drainage, and i'll let them grow in that for the first two weeks. After the plants are about 1" sprouts, i'll keep a lamp on in my growing area, i'll also have a small space heater running to keep the temp around 85, that way the plant gets all the light it needs during its beginning stage. After the plants get to be around 5 - 6 inches tall, i'll already have many many plastic 'Solo' cups prepared with soil, and i'll transplant them to the solo cups. By then, i'll be able to seperate male from females, and i'll get rid of all males. I think the plants will be able to stay in the solo cups for a couple months, as long as i crop and trim the plant correctly. After the solo cup stage (sounds like a race event) i will have an outdoor environment prepared.. nothing fancy, just several several 5 gallon buckets halfway burried, prepared with soil. I'm setting the buckets in the ground about 6 - 8 inches, mainly for stability, as a nice heavy bush, already 2 feet off the ground in a 5 gallon bucket, seems to have a high chance of tipping. The soil line in the bucket will be well above the ground line on the outside, preventing puddling of water.

sorry for the lack of punctuation and sentence structure, i just keep typin' and typin.

Checked the plates, napkins seem to be a little dry, gonna sprinkle some water on them. If any seeds are sprouting, i'll take a picture, if not, then it still looks like the first pics i took.

Nope, no sprouts. Check back tomorrow.