FastBuds StrawberryPie

ihatemycat Since I use the atami pre-buffered coco, this week i need only to water with RO water, no other nutrients needed. 2d - With only 1 watt of light I felt it was getting a bit leggy, so I raised the power to 2w. 3d - 2nd set of leaves 5d - started to with 0.5 ec of nutrients (megacrop+SiO2) because I noticed she was starting to turn light green, and in addition, I raised the power of the light to 4w. Apart this all is going very smoothly, actually we are on the usual grow timings

ihatemycat d8 - the second internode leaves are entirely visible d9 - third level leaf is visible but worried 'cos usually @ d12 i have 5 sets of leaves and I don't know if I can achieve this result at this grow. Anyway can be the plant looks healthy, I've changed the setup and it could be that I gave them too little light in the first few days (I didn't want to exaggerate) but it could also be the variety, the cold weather etc... d11 - showing first koalas - 0.8ec ph 5.9 -> sio2 0.05 / megacrop B 0.1 / megacrop A 0.05 / Ascophyllum Nodosum seaweed 0.05 mixed to calmag water 0.4 ec d12 - out from the seedling phase but slightly behind the usual... Anyhow the fourth set of leaves has sprouted and 4 koalas are already visible from the internodes. I've probably been a bit conservative with fertilisation, but in order not to overfertilize (prebuffered coco + nutes = burn), it's probably better to stay light. d13 - I have to revise the seedling feeding schedule because I was a bit light... for next time: 0.3ec at the third leaf d14 - I'll wait a few more leaves and then make the topping for the mainlining... let's say until the first koalas at the bottom are big enough to take cuttings from.

ihatemycat d15 - the baby is now much bigger than the cylinder used to grow in, but it is still very well lit and the koalas are growing very fast, I just have to wait a little bit for topping it, because based on my personal experience, the plant recovers faster when she has 5-6 internodes. d16 - Maybe I was wrong and it's not as backward as I thought... it just grew differently, with very large leaves and developing side shoots very fast, the first 2 levels are already quite formed with one internode. I think I will change the trimming schedule and use these two for the main lining. d17 - Since with the autos you have about a month to train (in total) I want to try to do the mainlining starting from 4 branches instead of 2, in this way I save 1 topping to have 8 buds. yesterday I removed two leaves on the top to promote the illumination of lateral shoots. d18 - topped to the 3rd node leaving 4 branches, so i need only 1 more topping to get 8 buds. Not 100% sure it was a good idea, but with the uniform lighting she has while growing inside a tube hope she can grow 4 branches at once. The only thing I regret is I would have preferred to use one nodes above if she had grown faster, but at this time she already had the first 2 nodes well formed I preferred to do so! Is already a some days that I feed with 0.5EC / 5.8ph - megacrop + kemp + sio2 seems fine! d20 - Today I'm going to move the seedling inside my small tent and under another DIY light built with cheap led taken from china, it's fine except that it is energy inefficient. The only advantage is that mounting 14x cob bridgelux of 3 different type (5x3500k,2x6000k,7xblurple) so can change the spectrum by changing leds. d21 - today it's the first day under a 40w of light and the leaves were a bit weak after 18 hours, better to move the light away a little...

ihatemycat d22 - today is the day of the last topping! d27 - This week the StrawberryPie has grown very fast and I absolutely have to transfer it into the final pot. The good news is that she reacted well to the second topping and now I just have to let she grow as it is to get 8 nice buds. But in this way isn't perfect because the buds should all be "equidistant" from the roots and now the ones below seem to be more lame than the ones above. Of course I didn't want to reinvent the wheel, it was just an experiment!

ihatemycat I finally defeat the procrastination and re-potted it. I'm an asshole! Anyway the StrawberryPie really looks like a tank girl it has continued to grow as if nothing had happened, the 8 buds that I should have are already forming, well they are already at the second node. Luckily the nature compensates for my mistakes!

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ihatemycat OK. my bad! ok i overdosed nitrogen when she was starting to bloom and the cat brought red spider mites from the garden. i'll tell more about the sad story of this strawberry pie that, after all, is holding up great to our torture.