24 hours in, none of the beans have yet cracked. Perhaps pointless update but noting to myself no germination yet. Looking back at last summers seed popping 2 days seemed to be the timeframe. We shall see tomorrow, Christmas. What a perfect day for the birth of NL and Shiskaberry crosses.
This is the first time I’ve tried to germinate a seed that I deliberately produced myself. So, my curiosity level is much higher than if I were hatching a pack of beans I purchased. I have an intrinsic skepticism of my own work. I think that’s why I post so much.
I haven’t gotten a shipping notification from groindoor.com about my MegaGarden shipping. Had really hoped to have that arrive so I could get it setup this coming week I have off. Guess it’s no big deal, I won’t have plants to shuffle in there for another few weeks at least.
I was looking into getting an RO Buddy 100 GPD 3-Stage RO Buddie Reverse Osmosis System – aquaticlife.com or something similar I could use to keep a few 5 gallon buckets of clean water around. Normally a single one for top-ups and fill 2 at my leisure for res changes. My water looks like this:
The last few, because they are last in the water were intermittent in the picture. I redid 3 tests and just kept score on that image. Fairly confident in pH around 7.8-8.2 according to this test, and carbonate 180-240ppm although leaning toward the former.
From what I’ve read I can just run it the way it is, adjust pH down when I fill the res and offset my ppms by my starting levels. Or I run RO and start from nothing. I don’t seem to have absolutely crazy well water (I’m municipal) or something where it’s almost mandatory I run RO. Any thoughts?