Remember that girl in total recall? This little dark spark reminds me of her.
Here is her sister.
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Looks pretty cool, maybe it will be an advantageous trait somehow. Did you do pockets of ground coco for these seedlings? Theyâre really taking off!
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Ran all my coco lightly through a blender lol
I was finding that the chunks by themselves didnât really help the initial tap roots as the air gaps were too large for keeping the roots in contact with the coco for moisture purposes, so they would dry out on sections or dampen off from me trying to keep them wt to counteract that.
So just made the mix actually have some small chunks and fibers apart from the big chunks, saying that some measurement i took at the time, the blended stuff still held the same amount of water as the straight chunk coco did but the blended stuff took up more volume (10-15%), meaning its an airier mix, and the water holding being the same i would attribute to water tension and surface area properties on the new mix.
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Got mine today, and Iâm pretty excited about it. Thank you so much!
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Package arrived safe and sound today! Your generosity is overwhelming! Thank you so much! I am pretty stoked about these as well
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Call this Day 3 but some are just starting.
Gave them all a watering just to make sure they were even. then im leaving them alone, been misting a little but just low humidity right now
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Just received my care package from @Mr.Sparkle woot woot! I couldnât wait much longer for the anticipation of possible presents at my mailbox a nice variety of seeds that Iâll have fun with here in the next month or so! Thanks again @Mr.Sparkle you rock!
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Hopefully it was your backup blender ! If not hopefully ya got it done without the significant other around! Lol
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My blender anyways so she just gave me a raised eyebrow. 
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I just figured with all the âGadgets and Doodadsâ I have seen in your threads that you would already have a âdesignatedâ blender for use in whatever project you are doingâŚ
Peace
DaFozz
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Mr Sparkle my brother thanks you for the autos 2 of each went into water tonight ! Heâs gearing up fo a greenhouse grow with autos !
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very good assumption, but nah im actually sorta minimalist in a sense, and have a hard time keeping around things that are only for one specific purpose well with in reason, but more was like if my blender blades dull, iâll just give them a quick sharpen, cheapish blender anyways.
Actually im on a cleaning binge right now, saying that all my arduino stuff is now gone as of last night as its served its purpose and i learned from it and did what i was looking for at the time but pre build options are available for the minor control i do now and cheap too, so no need to build my own circuits, keeping it simple.
Awesome, being short time frame autos they just need good starts, but tell him not to care if he needs to pull a mutant if they show, they are all for fun and to learn from 
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4 days later and they are pretty much the same size.
Hereâs what i think is going on, this new chunky coco is too dense for initial root growth or is providing obstructions for the tap root. So when its trying to drive down and hits a hard chunk the plant has to work at either growing through or around the object, but also slows down in the process with that challenge.
I pulled a bunch of seedlings to look and in every case whether the better plants or the runts, all of them displayed issues when they hit something. Obviously a lot more to everything than that, but saying that i culled a bunch in the process and iâm gonna be trying one more thing in helping the tap root drive down as fast and nicely as possible for starts. If not my local hydro store opens on tuesday and im just gonna pick up a bag of canna coco.
So started some more seeds and will be working on a next cycle with a few changes, but i kept some of the better seedlings for now.
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Whaddya think about indulging your noisy 
neighbor here and making a comparison⌠use a âdrain layerâ of coco-chunks with looser/finer coco on top?
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Ha I said that to him as wellâŚ
We all know our lovely Sparkle likes the utmost best plantsâŚ
These weak weeklings needs to go!
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really no point in a drain layer when were only talking about 4" of media âlittle potsâ but it is something i may have to do with these square pots as the holes in the bottom are larger than what i have done in the past, so the finer coco would just partially wash out.
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hey Mr. Sparkle itâs been awhile since iâve been around the forums. I use to follow your threads on afn, then i remember you said on ic that you were over here. Well this is the first thread i read through on this site and iâm now a member lol. I can say your work always seems to amaze me. That closet build is bad ass, I remember I tried building a iguana cage once and that was just no good 
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Welcome to the forum, and yeah ive been over here for a bit now, and thanks.
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Welcome to OG @seedlingstarter! I see you have been around some forums and any friend of the amazing @Mr.Sparkle is a friend of ours! Look forward to your input. Light one up, peruse some threads, learn, teach and have some fun! Youâve found the right place.
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