Frostette Under the HLG Scorpion RSpec

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I'm a little late starting this diary, just doesn't seem like there's enough hours in the day lol.
Below is updates from germination up until today.
There will be 5 posts following this one, each post being 1 week.
I know it's a lot all at once.
Updates will be made regularly from here on!

@Mikedin & @GoldenDragondnw
Asked to be tagged when I started this diary.

Frostette = Grape Cream Cake x Okie
Okie = wedding cake x thin mint cookies

05/21
Soaked 6 seeds in bottled spring water in a shot glass on a 80 degree surface.
After 16 hours, I folded 2 paper towels into triangles and sprayed with bottled spring water and placed seeds inside. Put paper towels/seeds on a Tupperware lid and placed on warm surface.

Excited for this grow, got a killer deal on a HLG Scorpion RSpec so it will be going in the tent between the 2 Vivosun VS4000.

05/22
Less then 12 hours in paper towel and all are cracked and showing tap root.

05/23
All seed had 3/4"-1" tap roots this morning.
Filled clear solo cups with Happy Frog and planted seeds.
I used clear cups so I can check on root development, I placed them inside red solo cups to keep the soil/roots dark.
05/24
4 of 6 broke surface, 2 showing cotyledons
05/25
All have broke surface, only 1 still has seed on it.
Also hung the HLG Scorpion RSpec today, will be the first grow with this light!
05/29
All are coming along nice
Temp is sitting at 77-79 with 60% humidity
I always water with a spray bottle by misting the surface of the soil. This grow I decided to do less sprays more often rather then more sprays less often.
They have been getting consistently 18 sprays in the morning, 9 in the late afternoon and 9 late evening. Soil seems to be staying at a consistent moisture level doing this.
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06/02
Made a little stand to raise plant 4.5" closer to the light. Light in "seedling chamber" is not Dimmable.
I usually water by spraying the soil until I transplant but soil was getting dry quick so I watered normally. I will go back to spray bottle unless it starts drying out quicker consistently.
Using no nutrients right now, just tap water filtered through a Zero Water Filter.

06/05
Starting to grow a little quicker now, might have to raise the little stand I made so the plants are closer to the light to stop them from stretching.

06/06
Seem to keep stretching still.
I have 2 foam cylinders from packing material from a package so I used them to raise the plant another 4", they've now been raised a total of 8.5 inches this week.
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06/16
Transplanted from Solo Cups to final 3 Gallon containers from The Bucket Company.
Used 2 Parts of Fox Farm Ocean Forest to 1 Part Happy Frog.
Added 2.5 cups of Perlite to each pot, soil already has some in it but thought more couldn't hurt.
Watering with Zero Water and only adding Silica Blast right now.

With the addition of the HLG Scorpion RSpec, I was able to space out my pots more to allow each plant more room to grow! I also cut 5" off the legs to the pots to give the plants a little extra height to grow.
Both Vivosun VS4000 lights are dimmed to 4 of 10 putting out currently 380 ppfd, HLG Scorpion RSpec is dimmed to match the 380 ppfd.

06/20
I noticed bottom leaves were starting to yellow so I started watering with Botanicare lines of nutrients and supplements.
I used 5 ml/gal of each of the following nutrient and supplements:
Silica Blast
CalMag
Pure Blend Pro Grow
Pure Blend Tea
Vitamino
Liquid Karma

I made sure to mix Silica Blast first followed by CalMag and then the rest in no particular order.

I noticed a few plants leaves were praying, I lowered light intensity on the 2 Vivosun VS4000 lights from 4 of 10 to 3 of 10 giving me a ppfd of 325. I lowered the HLG Scorpion RSpec intensity to match the 325 ppfd.

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06/23
x2 Vivosun VS4000 dimmed to 30% putting out 325 ppfd, HLG Scorpion RSpec dimmed to match 325 ppfd.
Topped and Fed.
Split pics show before and after topping.

Last week I seen praying leaves and bottom leaves turning yellow, reducing light intensity and starting nutrient and supplement schedule seemed to of been exactly what the plants needed!

Still using 5 ml/gal of each nutrient and supplement.
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06/30
x2 Vivosun VS4000 dimmed to 30% putting out 325 ppfd, HLG Scorpion RSpec dimmed to match 325 ppfd.
Topped 1 week ago today. The side branches have really shot up since then. Looks like I'll get plenty of opportunity to SCROG and LST.

Last grow in this tent was the first SCROG I've done. I did not like how the net I purchased bowed in at the sides. I purchased some 1/2" pvc pipe and fittings, I made a frame and zip tied the net to it so I can use all of the tent for plant training.

Still using 5 ml/gal of each nutrient and supplement.
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