Jerry Garcia's Blue Widow, Blue Apollo, and Mystery Seed From Start to Finish

Well the seeds are in towels now and under my cable box, I did throw in an extra seed of BCBB just for female saftey reasons.

Looking back on it what happened was my last germination I felt I put the seeds in to deep and it took forever for the sprouts to emerge. So this time around I made the hole shallower and didn't pack the covering dirt down for fear of harming the seed and assuming during the addition of water the dirt would flow down the hole with the water and cover the seed.

OBVIOUSELY this does not happen. The seed floats out of the hole.

Well chalk this up to lesson learned,

like anything else, man. There's "the touch" <G>

Shov

I never thought of the seran wrap, I think I will implament that idea now!! or at least until they break the soil. I am puting a fan on them as soon as they emerg to get the stem stength up and keep them as short & compact as possiable.

JG

outdoors we often use black poly to warm up the soil,especially squash, pumpkin hills, eggplant and pepper plant beds. ya know?

It also keeps the soil moisture more even. Can be a habitat for some bad shtt, I guess. But I've not had that prob. Sometimes hay mulch is great for keepin your shoes clean and the soil stays beautiful. But slugs, snails and crawly creatures can suck. Then you remove the mulch and the pests go byby.

So, indoors we can control the soil a bit.

Thanks.

Shov

We germinate some of those seeds under that black polly and keep a very close eye on it. This is early Sring in a Ccccccold climate, I don't think it would work averywhere.

This morning I went to check on my little babies and i now have 6 sprouts. Another Blue widow popped up overnight so now 4 BW's

Well I am a real bind now!!!!

I painiced to early, this morning I checked my little babies and I now have 10 healthy sprouts. My problem is I also have 11 more seeds germinating.

Well I know I am going to toss the BCBB. I have 5 more seeds left of them, and it is an unknown source. I am going to have to grow out the other 5 BA's and 2 BWso that will bring my total to 17 plants under current conditions. I may be alright if my ratio is 50/50 or less. But going by my past experiance and luck, I will end up with 12 females. If so I will have to put a coulple outside some how.

I will have another update soon on the other germinating seeds.

JG

The first pic is of the 2 BW seeds that have cracked and ready to go in the soil.

The rest are random shots of some sprouts.

Healthy looking seedlings....these are some really nice strains Jerry, i hope you get many girls....
Could you give some short info on what lights, nutes you gonna use this time??

Edit.: Don't mind the nutes....

Zeb, here is a list of the things I have running.

Lighting is currently a 175 watt MH about 6'' above the pots, I have a 12'' desk fan blowing on them constant with a fairly good breeze hitting them. The fan is also keeping the sprouts cool from the light.

I will switch to my 400watt mh at the start of veg the stage for a coulple weeks then go to my 600 watt MH. I am trying to save energy with the a/c running alot this time of year.

Oh yah light schedule is 24/0.

JG

the little ladies look good. patience is everything my friend. it's a shame to waste the bcbb but hey, ya got 17 more lol. good luck, i'll be sure to check back and view your progress soon.

-morning