Papaya/Lemon Cherry Cookies

Prilyfe13 09/23/2025 Day 2 and I already screwed up. 2 nights ago I popped my seeds in their cups of water for an overnight soak. Unfortunately I didn't know the grow light would turn on in the middle of the night as I hadn't set anything up yet. So they got 7 hours of full on light while in their cups. So I might have some dead seeds. But they sank and are now in their plugs waiting to show themselves. We'll see. I have 1 more of each seed, so if these don't work, I'll try the last 2 out. 09/26/2025 Alright everyone who actually reads this. Lol. I'm back after a full year of no growing. It was torture. Anyway, what matters is that I'm back and have my babies ready to go! Honestly, I've gone through a few things and I might not be as detailed as previously. I will do my best, but it might be a bit less than before. I'll still keep up with the readings. And now I have the AC Infinity Ai controller. So I can get precise readings for CO2 and DLI or PPFD. I really hope you enjoy my diary. Thanks for reading. And on with the plants! So this run will be 2 plants in a DWC 2 bucket system by Spider Farmer. 7 gallon buckets. I'll be using clay pellets as a medium and Lotus Nutrients for my mix. As these are autoflowers, I'll be cutting the dose down to a quarter to start. I don't think I'll go over half the dose in the end unless they need it. 🤩. Currently I have these babies in the Germination System by AC Infinity with a heat mat, full dome and tray system, Ionbeam 11" grow lights for the seedlings, set to 20% power and an AC Infinity 4" fan. We'll be using the 3x3 AC Infinity Grow Tent grow system from last time. I do plan on getting a 4x4 in the next year or so. Probably sooner, but for now, we are in this one. We get to look forward to a time lapse video in this run as well. Woohoo! Just got a Vivosun Grow Tent Camera. Temp: 75° right where I want it. RH: 77% VPD: 0.66 kPa Note: It's been days and I have 3 flourishing seedlings. One Papaya Cookies popped but didn't make it. Oh well. You can certainly tell the difference between the two strains. The Papaya Cookies shot right up. Lemon Cherry Cookies is a bit more stout, but both of them are identical in height. One of them only has one cotyledon. Interesting. We'll see how she does in the race to the final pot. 09/27/2025 Today we start with 3 extremely healthy plants. The Papaya Cookies is taking off and looks like she may end up pretty big. The Lemon Cherry Cookies are showing their stout and more compact feature. You can tell they are doing quite well and are also extremely healthy. Probably the most healthy seedlings I've had the pleasure of growing. I'm very impressed so far. So I had to learn how to read my 4 in 1 meter. Lol. pH I get totally, it was the EC I was having trouble with. Next is how to understand ppm with the TDS part of the meter. Wish me luck. I don't understand the percentage part of the light meter reading for the AC Infinity AI controller. Is it DLI? PPFD? Or some other unit of measurement I don't know about yet. Anyone know what I'm talking about about? Anyway, we are looking at some fantastic readings today. The Germination System environment is ideal and basically spot on. The light is still set to 2. I might set it to 3 in a couple days when they start showing their first set true leaves. Germination System: Temp: 74.2° (could be higher IMO) RH: 78.7% perfect! VPD: 0.61 kPa great! Lung Room (Living room) Temp: 72.1° RH: 47.3% (could be a tiny bit higher) VPD: 1.40 kPa Note: I'm having a bit of trouble understanding how to feed a 7 gallon bucket everyday for my DWC system. Like, don't I just wait to top it off and add the appropriate nutrition solution based on the single gallon, let's say. What am I supposed to do here? Lol surely I'm not dumping in an entire dose for a 7 gallon setup am I? Won't that increase the solutions potency causing nutrient burn? I really don't understand. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Anyway, it's a beautiful day. Toodles! Update: She survived! The other Papaya Cookies somehow survived. I ripped the top of the plug apart and found a baby seed with a small tap root, so I put the whole plug back together and put it back in the Germination System. Somehow she survived and is breaking through the plug. That picture was taken this morning. I'll get another picture tomorrow, but her stem is almost already out. Insane! How resilient is that?! I mean, really! Wow! We'll have to see what happens tomorrow. Too bad she's not being kept. I wish I could, but I only have 2 buckets. Sad. 😢 Same thing with the other Lemon Cherry Cookies. I think I know which one I'm keeping, but I'd rather keep the other one too. Hell, I'd rather have kept all 4. I should have bought the 4 bucket system. But I'm in a 3x3, so 4 would be overkill. Lol. Ok I'm done. 09/28/2025 The other Papaya Cookies sprouted completely. Wow! I definitely thought she wouldn't make it. So late to the race. Unless she somehow magically catches up before the first true leaves, she's not a keeper. Definitely wish I had a couple more buckets. But I've learned my lesson. 4 plants will not fit in a 3x3. Well they will if they're all the same size. My plants however are never the same size. Anyway, the other 3 plants look amazing. Still super healthy and have slowed their stretch. Time to stretch them roots. So I was having a debate with myself. Why wait for the seedlings to have all the roots showing before transplanting to clay pebbles. Wouldn't it make more sense for the seedlings to grow into the pellets and grow down? Anyway, I digress. I'll have to listen to the experts, but I still can't shake the fact that when the roots grow out of the plug, they will have direct contact with the pellets, causing them to naturally grow into the pebbles without any stress. Obviously not using nutrients yet, just the drip thing to keep the pebbles wet. Why would I want to wait to transplant with roots showing already? Isn't sooner better? Especially with a DWC system? The amount of moisture they put off alone would keep the tent at a high humidity and the heat from the light should keep the temp up. But then they wouldn't have the cozy heat mat in the Germination System. I digress. I'll figure it out. Anyway, back to the plants. Haha As I said, all the babies are super healthy. They get 5 mistings a day of spring water. Don't know if there's much difference. Clean water is clean water at the moment. The environment is the Germination System looks awesome! The temp is hovering around 76° while the humidity is ranging from 74% to 77% I'm trying to dial it in to 75%. Almost there. Temp: 76.2° RH: 77.6% VPD: 0.69 kPa Once the probe is in the actual tent, I can give CO2 readings and PPFD or DLI. Speaking of light measurements, anyone know how to use the light probe in the AC Infinity AI controller? I can't figure it out. That's all for now. We'll be getting more in depth as the weeks go by. I'll try to keep it from turning into a novel, but no guarantees. Lol. Quick update: I decided to add just the hydroton now no nutrients just the drip ring and the bubblies. I figure when it's time to transplant, the pellets will be wet and the seedlings should take better to it I think. 09/29/2025 Big day today. I moved my two best babies to their final containers. Plain spring water until I see the first set of true leaves. Then I'm doing 1/4 dose of nutrients. Unfortunately the nutrient kit that I've had for 3 years has gone bad, so I had to order new stuff. Still lotus. Anyway the Lemon Cherry Cookies started reaching almost immediately with the light up top. I increased the power to 2, but I'm pretty sure I'll need to change it to 3 in the next day or 2. Maybe sooner. Papaya Cookies still looks great. She has some slight yellowing on one of the leaves, but nothing huge. I think she's getting hungry. We'll see over the next day or 2 as well. I'll keep a close eye on the yellowing. If it continues, I'm adding nutrients early. At least to this one. I have the light and exhaust all the way at the top of the tent. I think I'm going to leave it there for this grow and just increase the power as needed. I might drop it when the babies get to full height. Just to save on electric. Lol. Although, if everything goes right, I won't need to drop the light at all and the plants will grow towards it exponentially. I'm having a bit of trouble getting the environment in the tent in order. But it's starting to shape up. Kinda wish my Germination System was outside of the tent. Then I could have had it set up all along. Oh well. I work with what I have. Lol. Temp: 69.7° RH: 71.6% VPD: 0.70 It'll adjust eventually. The AI is supposed to do that. We'll see how things go. I'll probably have to change some things around. 09/30/2025 No pictures today. The babies look the same. However, our super fast growing Papaya Cookies seems to be sad. Still has the yellow leaf tip and now she's droopy. Granted the lights are off, but the Lemon Cherry Cookies is like growing. Super fast babe already has her first true leaves coming in. One thing I forgot to do is ph the water before I put the babies in their homes. That could be a reason. Either way, I phed the water to 5.8 hopefully she perks back up. Personally, I think she's hungry. So my plan is to add a quarter teaspoon of nutrients to her water and see what happens. A quarter teaspoon is less than 25% of the total dose. So she should be fine. I'll be doing that today when the nutrients get here. Hopefully I'm right. It definitely looks like she's hungry. We'll find out. Now as for the Lemon Cherry Cookies. She's like super weed. As I said, she already has her true leaves coming in. I'm probably going add half a teaspoon of nutrients as well. If she's reaching as she is and growing so fast, a little boost won't hurt. Especially at such a low dose. Oh! The buckets hold 4.5 gallons of water. I never mentioned that in my setup. Oh well. I honestly didn't know. To be frank. I wasn't going to add them to the final containers until they had the first set of true leaves. But I jumped the gun. Oh well. One of them is super happy anyway. Lol. The other will be happy again. So I'm using the Dynamic environment with my AI controller. So lights out from 11:30 in the morning until 5:30 in the evening. That's when it's most warm, BUT and a huge BUT. The temp and humidity are all messed up. For seedlings, you want 70 to 80° and 70 to 75% humidity. At least until those true leaves show up. Then we can drop it. Unfortunately my tent wont go above up and the humidity is bouncing all over the place. So I bought an AC Infinity heater to go with the controller. It should fix my problem in a jiffy. Jiffy. Ha! Current temp is 68.6° Humidity is 67.1% VPD: 0.78 kPa As I said, the heater will make a world of difference.