Learning to grow, at home!

Day 24 - 11/4/2021 - Still not much to report here. Her soil finally dried out after the last watering during transplant. I suspect this took nine days for a few reasons. The first that she was still very small. The second is that the humidity in the tent had jumped about 10-15% as the weather around here has been pretty wet. But I've noticed that as she has grown a bit more, the soil has started to dry out much faster. On Monday, the top half inch was dry but beyond that, moist. Tuesday, it was almost an inch and a half. Yesterday, even more. So over the last few days, the top soil has gotten much drier progressively faster. The humidity also dropped back down to 40-45% in the tent as well on Monday. Instead of doing a full 64 ounces of watering today, I only did around 32 ounces. probably more like 36-40 because my watering jug is a 64 ounce jug and I did not measure specifically. Anyways, start of week 4. She's growing like a weed! 11/5 - Day 25 - Still looking good. Soil still damp from watering yesterday. Trucking along just fine still. Started investigating what I need for a nute mix and have some ideas. So far, no additional nutes have been added to the water or soil. Probably in about two more weeks I will start adding nutes. More details to come once that is decided upon. I have also been trying to keep at least one picture angle the same to show growth between days. Now that she is getting bigger, I am also going to take some side shots when possible to show height. Once she gets larger, I may not be able to remove her from the tent as easily, so the quality of those shots might drop since they will be taken inside the tent with the light on. Also, I noticed between yesterday and today, she has blown TF up! Lot of new growth by comparison. So excited! 11/6 - Day 26 - I added a better runoff system yesterday afternoon. Put in a slightly larger drip pan as well as adding an inch tall cooking cooling rack to set the fabric pots on. This should keep the pots out of the runoff when watering next time. I noticed when I watered previously that after about 10 minutes, the runoff would get reabsorbed back into the pot and as I understand it, that is a no-no. That should help with aeration of the pot a bit as well along with the runoff. Hoping that the soil will be dry enough by tomorrow or Monday to water again. I am trying to get to a 3-day watering cycle. 11/7 - Day 27 - Nothing to report. Based on soil moisture and weight of the fabric pot, I will be watering again with 32 ounces tomorrow most likely. 11/8 - Day 28 - Soil is bone dry about two inches down at this point. Gave her 32 ounces again today and since she is not sitting in runoff now, I am expecting her to dry out much faster this next time around. Trying to get to a three day watering cycle and I think this will do it for me for the immediate (until she starts drinking more). I also turned on the Bloom switch on my light today as well. She is well into veg and probably starting towards flowering in the next two to three weeks. Up until today I only had the Veg switch turned on which is a blurple light. The documentation on my light indicates to turn on the bloom and veg light once into veg stage. I am kind of nervous about this change because I also have a seedling in the same tent, but she is moved well off to the side and not getting full brunt of the light. Will have to wait and see. 11/9 - Day 29 - She is still looking happy. I got nervous when I checked on her before bed (around 10 pm) and her leaves were dropping heavily. Since I had just watered her, I probably gave her too much. This morning she is looking much better and happier. I think I will keep going with the 32 ounces for the time being if it can get me three days before the top soil is bone dry. But will play this by ear. Growing steadily. 11/10 - Day 30 - She is still looking good. I have noticed a few small brown spots showing up on her leaves. But it is specifically two leaves and I believe those two leaves had water droplets on them after the last watering ands turning the flower light on. Monitoring those to see if things get worse or not. The spots are very difficult to see in any light outside of the tent. Will try to get a pic of them in case they do change. Checking around in various places in the soil, the outer soil that gets exposed to light was dry but the soil right under her was still damp. After the drooping last time, I think I am going to let this run a little longer before I water her again. I suspect that since I am now pulling her to side for the LST, This may help with drying things out. Picture posted of one of the leaves with brown spots. Just looking around, I suspect it might be the start of a calcium deficiency based on what I am seeing around the interwebz.