McToker Grows Again ~ CFL/HPS Hempy Bucket ~ Bag Seed

Well y'all. It doesn't look good.:(

The first two sprouts turned yellow and fell over. They're dead.:(

A couple of the others broke ground yesterday.......... and just stopped. None of the rest broke ground.

I'm thinking maybe the beans were too old. Perhaps 1/2 strength were still too strong. Who knows, though?

Plan B

We decided not to try the remaining few bagseeds or the seeds we got from the hermie from the last grow.

We'll be ordering some beans later today. I'm thinking Beanho's AK-47 and Joey Weed's Blue Apollo if they're both still available.

Order placed late yesterday. We opted for the AK-47 and Blue Apollo.

I guess it was just meant to be. The new beans will arrive after our houseguest is gone. It's been tough to spend enough time on preparations and such with him here.

We'll germinate the new beans like we did them on the first grow, starting the seeds in the Jiffy pellets under a cool white flouro lamp.

Jakezking ~ In the meantime, I'll try to get you some detailed pics of our setup.

Can't wait to see you get them under way will stay tuned good luck:thumbsup:



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Originally Posted by McToker

Well y'all. It doesn't look good.:(

The first two sprouts turned yellow and fell over. They're dead.:(

A couple of the others broke ground yesterday.......... and just stopped. None of the rest broke ground.

I'm thinking maybe the beans were too old. Perhaps 1/2 strength were still too strong. Who knows, though?

Plan B

We decided not to try the remaining few bagseeds or the seeds we got from the hermie from the last grow.

We'll be ordering some beans later today. I'm thinking Beanho's AK-47 and Joey Weed's Blue Apollo if they're both still available.

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thats a bummer about them dying :( i'm thinking you were right with 1/2 str being too much... i've never used jiffy cubes, are you suppose to give them nutes right away? gorwing in soil your suppose to wait about a month before nutes... kinda seems ot me like you just instantly over-nuted them and they burned up :\

sorry about the losses.....the perlite and vermiculite can be found at home depot in LARGE bags....usually found at Large garden center home depots...i have to travel past about 30 to get to one that stocks 4 cu ft bags of this stuff! But once you find it, trust me you will be back....ALso Walmart sells a brand without nutes like the MG.....i have a bag of mg and i just use it for my outdoor flowers...lol good luck....call around some store stock it other dont...sometimes its even high on the racks so you cant even see it! Its there!

Killa ~ I've tried the nearest Wal-Mart with no luck. I'll try one of their other stores next week.

Jakezking ~ Here are the setup pics you requested. Frankenlight is in there but not in use. Went back to a flouro, to start. When we fire up the Frankenlight, we'll start off with about 8 bulbs and add more as the plants get bigger.

One lonely sprout is up and GREEN. Kinda tiny though. Another one has barely broken the surface. We'll see what happens.

nice! hope these seeds work out for ya this time :rastasmoke:

McT - I'm really sorry to hear about the seedling sorrows. I don't know about readying the seedlings for the hempy buckets, so I won't question the application of 50% nute solution to them; however, I start my seedlings out in jiffy pellets too, and I don't add any nutes whatsoever while they are in them. It sounds like you may have had some other issues with lack of humidity and old bagbeans? I'm glad to see you still have a viable seedling though.

I just threw all of my old bagbeans into the wet paper towel on a plate on my cable box this last go 'round, and only about 8 out of 30 popped; some of the beans were not mature, but the remainder that didn't pop - who knows? Maybe they just were not stored well enough? But, those that did pop and those that did survive the first dog attack and those that have survived an unfortunate over-concentrated Neem Oil spraying incident are really showing how hardy they are!

I'm looking forward to your ordered beans arriving. I've got some nice new ordered beans sprouting outside right now. I'm really impressed with the sheer viability of them over bagbeans - the taproots on my new beans "feathered" with what seemed like thousands of lil' roots fanning out from the taproot itself. I'd never seen anything like it - almost like a rooting agent had been applied, but nothing but tap water and paper towel had touched them.

Your setup looks clean, and I'm all about that Frankenlight, my friend! Is that a serious carbon scrubber up top that exhausts back into the tent? I've been talking about moving indoors since last year, but I haven't got the guts just yet. I know watching your grow will help me figure things out.

Keep on keepin' on - hopefully those new beans will be there soon!

Jakezking ~ On the scrubber; the exhaust tubing runs out of the top of the tent, through the fan and into the carbon filter. It just takes the hot air from the top of the tent. We decided to have the fan pull rather than push the air. The filter is just sitting on top of the tent. Placing the filter inside the tent, at the top, would just take up way too much room and seriously limit the height available for plants and lighting.

We tried a homemade carbon filter and even supplimented it with fabric softener sheets with limited success. With the new, storebought scrubber, trust me, odor is NOT an issue.;)

When we add a HPS light for flowering, our plan is to use an enclosed, air cooled, light fixture, probably the Arctic Sun. Most models, including some of the Cooltubes are just too long to fit inside the tent once you figure how much the exhaust tubing will add to the length. We'll leave one end of the fixture open (for intake) and connect the other end to the exhaust tubing.

We're looking forward to the storebought beans, too.

syde00 ~ welcome aboard.

heya McT.:D With the Beanho's F4 AK47 and Joey's Blue Apollo, I was curious to know if you are going to be selecting any favorites at the end and consider a re-veg. Because the pheno's vary with hybrids. Some may be leggier, some stinkier, some with higher calyx to leaf ratio. Also, beanho's Ak is consistent with scandalwood and cherry flavored pheno's. A cherry AK mom and a blueberry apollo mom. Jeeze, makes me wish the 'stork' would drop a baby carriage full of gourmet genetics on my front step.:hippy:

be good McT. :jointsmile:
You and the Mrs. have a wonderful day.:)