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Growing with Hydroponics
Start by placing your seeds in the middle of a paper towel. Fold the towel around your seeds, sealing it. Spray down both sides of the paper towel so that it is very moist. Take your wet paper towel and place it inside of a zip loc bag. Seal the bag and place somewhere dark for 2 days. It’s very important to keep the bag sealed the entire time because those seeds will only pop if it is nice and moist.
So a couple of days have gone by and it’s time to check out the seeds. Don’t be surprised if they haven't popped just yet. It may take up to five days total to sprout, and it’s almost inevitable that a few won’t pop. Once your seeds have a little white chute sticking out of them, wash your hand sand then take the seed out of the paper towel and put the seed into your grow medium with the chute facing down because this turns into the root.
For the first 2 weeks of life be very gentle with your nutrients. Use either an 18hr on / 6hr off, or 24hrs of light during the vegetative phase. Follow the nutrient package’s instructions carefully because you can easily end your plant’s life with heavy nutrients. Try not to let the ppm exceed 300 in the two weeks. It is common practice to keep plants in this vegetative stage anywhere from one month to two. In this time the plant is building up and maturing and it needs a good amount of nitrogen to flourish.
It is always a good idea to take a few clones before you are ready to flower your plants. This ensures that if you grow a second crop, it will be at least equivalent if not better than the original grow. It also ensures you only female plants. Cloning is a slightly advanced technique but don’t be intimidated. It is easy to pick up and virtually a necessity for any green thumb.
It’s been a month and a half and you are finally ready to flower! The first thing to understand is that some of your plants may be male plants. The female plants flower, yielding herb to smoke. The male plants grow pollen sacks which impregnate the female plants, creating seeds. Unless you want seeds for future grows it is important to pick out the male plants as soon as they show signs. The first step to flowering is changing the light pattern. Your plants are used to either 18 or 24hrs of light a day. In the wild, plants flower when the light of day shortens, so to stimulate flowering, change your lighting to 12hours on and 12hours off everyday. Also flush your nutrients and switch to flowering measurements. In the first week you have to keep a very close eye on the sex of your plants. Male plants grow little balls that eventually open up with pollen. Female plants grow flowers. You can detect a female plant early because it will have hairs growing out of the calyx located on flowering branches.
So a couple of days have gone by and it’s time to check out the seeds. Don’t be surprised if they haven't popped just yet. It may take up to five days total to sprout, and it’s almost inevitable that a few won’t pop. Once your seeds have a little white chute sticking out of them, wash your hand sand then take the seed out of the paper towel and put the seed into your grow medium with the chute facing down because this turns into the root.
For the first 2 weeks of life be very gentle with your nutrients. Use either an 18hr on / 6hr off, or 24hrs of light during the vegetative phase. Follow the nutrient package’s instructions carefully because you can easily end your plant’s life with heavy nutrients. Try not to let the ppm exceed 300 in the two weeks. It is common practice to keep plants in this vegetative stage anywhere from one month to two. In this time the plant is building up and maturing and it needs a good amount of nitrogen to flourish.
It is always a good idea to take a few clones before you are ready to flower your plants. This ensures that if you grow a second crop, it will be at least equivalent if not better than the original grow. It also ensures you only female plants. Cloning is a slightly advanced technique but don’t be intimidated. It is easy to pick up and virtually a necessity for any green thumb.
It’s been a month and a half and you are finally ready to flower! The first thing to understand is that some of your plants may be male plants. The female plants flower, yielding herb to smoke. The male plants grow pollen sacks which impregnate the female plants, creating seeds. Unless you want seeds for future grows it is important to pick out the male plants as soon as they show signs. The first step to flowering is changing the light pattern. Your plants are used to either 18 or 24hrs of light a day. In the wild, plants flower when the light of day shortens, so to stimulate flowering, change your lighting to 12hours on and 12hours off everyday. Also flush your nutrients and switch to flowering measurements. In the first week you have to keep a very close eye on the sex of your plants. Male plants grow little balls that eventually open up with pollen. Female plants grow flowers. You can detect a female plant early because it will have hairs growing out of the calyx located on flowering branches.