First Grow (full cycle plants)

This week saw a lot of action. The plants burned through the nutrients in their soil and started to be deficient. I started a feeding regiment with Nature's Pride VEG fertilizer. It is a dry organic fertilizer, the plants are still in 3 gallon pots at the stage, so they are top fed 3 tablespoons to start and then more as needed. I started with more since they were nutrient deficient I had to replenish the nutrients in the soil so I loaded the top soil with a hefty top dress and let it soak down into the roots. I gradually increased the fertilizer level until all of the leaves started filling out with green again instead of yellowing. I also spotted a magnesium deficiency in the Blueberry plant, to avoid a nutrient lockout I immediately addressed this deficiency with a top dress of bath salts which I then watered in. You can see the results by the end of the week the plants started turning around. On day 5 of week 6 I did the FIM technique to try and get two top colas on both plants. Hopefully this will result in bushier shorter shaped plants as I am worried about outgrowing our space. I cut 3/4 of each plants top leaf bud. This is the Fuck I Missed technique discovered when topping a plant and missing. Over the next week this should result in new dense branching at the top of the plant.