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Batch#01 - 11 Dec 20 - Day 02

Woke up and to my joy, the first baby has appeared... And it's a BLH Grand Rapids (GR) unpelleted seed sprout!

Spotted another possible sprout (a Yash GR) but can't be sure this early in the morning, and to a large extend aging eyesight! 

Removed the DW system to check underneath and another surprise greeted me! Another little sprout, this one from Yash Butterhead (BH) seeds. Yesh! 

No further signs from the other pots.

Will check in again in the afternoon. 

EC 920
- Good! 
pH 7.3
- Interesting to observe that pH has increased from 5.3 just about 1.5 days ago to slightly alkaline. Since its not necessary for sprouting to have slightly acidic water, will leave it be. 
Speculating if the pH change is caused by the wet leca balls.

5.15pm
A lot more GR are sprouting! 

And the one in the morning has shot up by 4mm easily! 
Two tiny Red Oak (RO) sprouts spotted too. 

So are two tiny Cos or Romaine (CR) lettuce sprouts! 
And the BH decided not to be left behind! About 4 sprouts spotted. 
Yash advised to keep the lights low. I had thought that seed does not need no light for germination. A little bit of research suggests that some seeds actually need light to break its dormancy state, on top of water. Lettuce is one of them! So Yash is correct. 

The big ASK right now is how intense is this sunlight? Must it be direct or as long as there is some light available? 

Grow lights are placed about 5cm above the leca surface. Didn't want the heat to dry up the leca balls too quickly. 

Hence my setup looks like this right now.

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