Today is my day 3. The seedlings are all out now and all have tap roots. At this point, you could technically transplant, but i wait a few more days until there are more Roots showing. That one little root on the bottom is the tap root. It’s the lifeline of the plant until more roots are visible. I always make sure to triple check my strains are labeled properly. If you are taking them out, wear new gloves or wash your hands really good. I still will mist them a few times a day. I try to keep humidity around 70-80% still and temps 75-85F. Either tomorrow or Tuesday I’ll transplant them into solo cups with holes in the bottom. Make sure to stay sanitary. Any rapid rooters that are too saturated i make sure to squeeze out any excess water but still keep them pretty moist. At this point, the seeds have really used all of their energy getting rooted and out of the rapid rooter. They will need very low EC/PPM feedings soon, but i don’t start that until transplant. I’ll cover that when i do.

3 years ago

I mix about a tsp if this great white (beneficial bacteria) in a bowl of tap water and soak my rapid rooters in it for 5-10 mins before putting seeds into it. It promotes root production. I have zero proof that this is effective, but I’ve been doing it for years and it doesn’t hurt the seedlings. You will need something to monitor your humidity and temps inside the cloner. The white one pictured is Connected to my phone via Bluetooth. I also have others that connect to wifi and Bluetooth. I can check remotely from my phone. I’ll go into those more in a bit. If you don’t have that, one of the little black ones pictured work fine. So the pic of the plants and cloner is the day after i put them in the rapid rooters. (Don’t mind the other seeds germinating and clones). The temps are a little colder than i would like, so i put some old hand warmers under the other ones. I like to keep my humidity at this point between 70-80%. Temps around 75-85 F. You can see where some are popping out of the rapid rooter. Don’t mess w them. Just keep the conditions in those parameters and you’re good. I use a little t5 light because i have clones in there and that’s just how I’ve always done it. One of the thug pug seeds i must have missed a rapid rooter because i went to check on it that day and it wasn’t in there lol. Stoner fuck up.

3 years ago

These are just my successful methods that i am sharing. I don’t know everything. No grower does. This is just meant to help people. Germinating seeds - cleanliness is key first off. Wear gloves, disinfect tools you use, etc. This includes the area where your plants go. I clean my cloners with a 10:1 bleach solution (put in a spray bottle) and spray the cloner down well. Let it dry, then wash with regular dish soap and hot water. Air dry and that’s how i sanitize my cloner. Anyways, This is my method of germinating and i have a 100% germination rare with it. I posted some of these pics before but this is more for educational purposes. More in comments.

3 years ago

picked up these monitors from Amazon. They are called Govee and they have monitors that connect to wifi, Bluetooth, or both. Download their app, connect the devices and put them wherever you need them. The ones that connect through bluetooth obviously don’t give you readings if you’re not home. The wifi ones do though. The first 3 pics are Bluetooth enabled only. The 4th is the one that uses wifi too so you can see your readings if you aren’t home. It charts your readings too. Which i love.

3 years ago