Small lil update on my first M-S.nl seeds grow.....
I received 7 different strains, so it will take me a lil time to get to all of them..... Most the strains looked alike in appearance, with the exception of the White Widow and the Big Bud..... White Widow seeds were a bit smaller than the rest, and the Big BUD were HUGE!!!!!..... all the seeds were a bit light in appearance and did not show the dark green marbled exterior that is indicative of a good seed in my past experience..... HOWEVER,
I have started 6 crystal seeds.... all 6 germinated within a couple days... and I put them in rockwool cube for a few days and then plugged them into 4-5 in cubes after that once I started seeing a lil bit of growth. I hand watered for almost a week or so witht he cubes layed out on dinner plates. When I started to get the first set of real leaves I transferred the plants to their current DWC home.....
I sorta changed up my setup, I am no longer using small pots in the top of my buckets, I went to use the full insert pots that fit right on top of the buckets.... uses a LOT more hydroton, but the plant is a LOT more stable and less prone to tipping once it gets big...
So I got 6 Crystal growing atm..... out of the 6, I got one that is going Tripod ( hoping for the offchance it is a female), 3 that are VERY healthy looking plants, and 2 that I think I might have to cull, one of them definitely is on borrowed time... looking bad.
As for the strain, I have to say that I will have to agree with Andy52, Crystal seems to be a slow starter, but has started to take off in the last week or so........ The healthier plantrs are taking nute updates readily... the one really sick one I think is not gonna make it heh, the other one I might cull I think is just a stem strength thing...... grew the top end too fast before the stalk could support, plus I think I got the bucket too full on the last water change and floated the cube, thus screwing up the plants base... so it might have to reset and be alright.
still have several strains to try, but so far the crystal seems to be fine...