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72 hours in and she's starting to pop this morning. Usually I germinate with the paper towel method but I've decided to try this directly in soil. The pot contains mostly new Purple Cow IndiCanja organic soil but the top layer where the bean is starting is some of the same soil but from a previous run so it shouldn't be as "hot". In my limited experience, I find that re-using the media from old runs works great for seedlings and young clones. I'm running Orange Sherbet as my first experiment in heavily training an autoflower. I want to try mainlining her and growing her in a pretty small pot (I believe around 7 liters in size). I figure I'll mainline her out to 8 colas and see what see does. I've only ever done defoliation and LST on autoflowers before so this is definitely new territory for me.
She's still just a baby right now. First picture this week starts at Day 8 since she popped. At this stage, I had just been spritzing her with my mister to keep the topsoil from drying out too much. On day 13, I went ahead and fed her along with my other autoflowers but just enough to soak the medium once over. My local grow store was giving out samples of King Crab and Myco Chum so those were added as well.
This girl seems like she's growing incredibly slow compared to Royal Queen autoflowers that I've grown in the past and is still incredibly small... Continuing to baby her...
Just watering at this point... Lights and environment don't really seem to have any impact one way or another on vertical growth of this girl... So small... I've been keeping the temperature a touch higher to see if that helps and have her in a tent with a CO2 bag as well to see if that helps her in vertical growth and done a little bit of bottom watering to make sure the roots stretch... Waiting and watching...
Near the end of the week, I finally got a BlueLab pH tester as I feel as if my water has changed recently and I haven't tested it for a looong time. After testing I found the pH was INCREDIBLY high (8.8-8.9). This could explain the stunted growth. As I've just found out about this, I'm going to get some pH down in the next day or two so I can correct this moving forward. In the past my pH was always around 6.5-6.6 right from the tap so I hadn't ever needed my own pH meter in the past... Live and learn.
Defoliated some bottom growth this week as well as some large leaves that were shading the bud sites... Once I did that, growth increased but I noticed at the same time that she was starting to flower so probably just the normal stretch... Noticed a few leaves had what I thought was a possible magnesium deficiency so I went ahead and top-dressed with a tablespoon of Elemental (Cal/Mag) and watered thoroughly with a little bit of Fish Sh!t in the water too...
Late in the week (no pictures yet), I got a little pissed off with this girl. She's tiny, she's all bunched up, she doesn't feel like she's stretching properly... This is literally the smallest cannabis plant that I've ever seen and she's flowering at 5 damn inches tall... I went ahead and did some snipping on her and some LST. I'll get pictures up for next week of the progress...
She's still tiny... Been adding Buddha Bloom and just started a regiment of Cultured Biologix Bloom to the mix to give her the best possible chance to at least at bulk at this stage. If I get a little bit of good quality medicine, I'll be content. I'll probably try this strain again at some point in some 5 gallon fabric pots as this 2 gallon plastic pot didn't do a thing for me and I want to see if the entire hold up with growth was simply bad pot size on my part. She still has another 3 weeks so we'll see what happens...
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