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I started germination before I had the rest of my setup complete, I was still waiting on the lights and venting. Germination began with 15 hours in a glass of Eldorado spring water on Tue, 11, I had planned on it taking a week. After a few days, long tap roots were visible. I had nowhere to plant though so I kept them in the paper towel. after a few more days all the roots were > 3/4 of an inch long. But I the light was arriving the next day so I still held off putting them in soil. Once I finally completed the setup, I went to plant my seeds and found they were now sprouts. They were a little yellow and looked fairly unhealthy, but I got them in the dirt and under the light, and within a few hours were green and looking happy.
After 1 week, Ruth is looking like the biggest of the bunch. However, it looks like she is leaning a lot to the left, I think trying to get all her big beautiful leaves in the light. I adjusted the light (raised a bit) and adjuster their positions to help. Next is Linda, who has a friend growing with her. No idea how the blades of grass got there, but I think it should be fine. Linda overall is looking pretty good. Ophelia was planted outside on thursday. I'm curious to see how she'll do in the wildly different conditions and pretty minimal care. She was already a lot smaller than the other two growing her first few days cramped in the little portable planter thing.
Big issues this week! Ruth's leaves started looking shiny coming into this week. At first, I didn't think anything of it until the leaves started curling up and browning at the edges. I figured it was due to being too close to the LED so I took the bottom out of their drawer and moved them down a level. I think they are both happier being a little farther from the light, but they're also getting a lot less light so we'll see how that affects them going forward. I also waited until the soil was drier before watering again. I think I had overwatered a bit before.
Every now and then I'll take a sniff of 'em and get a good whiff of something earthy and sweet. I started this week by feeding them each a quarter cup of John and Bob's blend. with a watering on June 3. then, on June 4 I started some LST. Linda is getting really big and hitting the sides of the wardrobe. I am worried they will be too cramped, but I gotta just keep going and hope they are okay. On June 6 I did more LST tie-downs to end the week. Overall this week, Linda is huge and maybe too big, and Ruth was definitely stunted and looks like she's struggling a bit, but definitely better after lowering them down.
I started the week (Sun June 6) with more LST tie-downs. Gently spreading and redirecting growth. However, the girls are really starting to get cramped in their wardrobe. I completely underestimated them, and will likely get a grow tent for my next grow. That or seek out seeds for some extra small autos. Two days later on the 8th, I observed how much growth I was seeing from Linda, and how cramped she looked in the space. I also noticed that Ruth definitely looked stunted, and was way less luscious than Linda. But she was starting to look noticeably better than she was just a few days before. I also did a little more LST, and readjusted it the next day (Wed the 9th). On Fri the 11th I Fed them each 1 Tbsp of Down to Earth's Vegetable Garden 4-4-4 Fertilizer, watered them, and did a little more LST, rounding out a good week of lots of ups and downs. Oh, also, towards the end of the week I started turning the lights off during the hottest part of the day for a few hours. Usually from 2-6 pm or so. I did this to start giving them a break from the intense LED, and to start giving them a few dark hours each day for the upcoming flowering stage.
This grow started with 2 indoor and 1 outdoor plants. The indoor plants grew much more, much faster. But then challenges came up with growing, life hit me, and I ended up neglecting the plants and they died. The outdoor grow, however, was left to be mainly on it's own, watered almost every day but that is all the care she got. I did not measure the amount of flower, but seems like a decent amount. And very good quality.
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