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Looks good. Need to prepare the transplanting pots. Other plants need a bit longer, especially the peppers. The Cannabis babies are coming out super strong so it seems. Watered 'm with ph-corrected tap-water.

Transplanted plants into small pots. Prepared a small Light Algae feeding in anticipation of the seedling-soil becoming depleted. Other plants also seem to have fully germinated.

Transplanted to bigger fabric pots with soil. Used "old" soil which contained Perlite. Rinsed the earth with cold water. Upgraded it with Calcium Kick, Mega Worm and Bat Guano. Had a few worms in 'm, so that should be good. Plants looked really good when transplanting, the roots on 1 got a tiny bit damaged. Nested easiily, hardly any sign of shock, only during that same morning.

The growth is really starting to take off. Kinda surprised to be honest. it's funny how much this light seems to make a difference. I've been steadily lowering the lamp while checking for plant damage, but it just seems to thrive more the more light I give. The other plants are coming along fine too, except a bit of basil that's looking a bit bleak. Started daily spraying with a 1ml Neem Oil : 500ml water mix, since tiny flies started popping up. I've had problems with spider mites in the past, which I desperately want to prevent.

keeps growing steadily. moved the other smaller plants out of the big pot and lowered the lights again, but at a bit lighter intenstity (70%). Think I might have given too much nutes or more likely lightstress. I'm thinking the latter, since it's only on one plant and it's starting at the top. Considering defoliation, but need to look up a bit more about that. Starting to s how small white hairs, guessing that's preflowering stage.

Lamp a bit higher again with higer power, since I want to cover a slightly larger area with the pepper seedlings in front. Things are really growing like hotcakes. Caught a couple of slugs on my peppers: saw a few slime trails on the babies too, but never managed to catch 'm. Eventually stalked out at night and saw 'm eating on the pepper babies. Got some weird brown spots, need to investigate. Other then that, looks like it's time to start getting them used to stronger food. Have been only feeding them once a week the last two weeks, due to slightly increasing the volume. I however overestimated the amount of water they drink - there is a lot less condensation compared to my old HPS, these LEDS run really cold.

Definitely flowering, haven't given them as much attention as they needed. removed another couple of slugs. Was a bit more careful with nutes since they showed both light stress and burned tips.

Definitely was late with defoliation. I trimmed one more then the other, mainly because I want to observe the difference in between both. It seems as if the untrimmed plant has grown more, as the baby buds seem a bit thicker. However, the non-defoliated plant seemed to lack in nutrients which it started leeching of its own big fan leaves, which were fallen off. I've removed those. This time plants both got about 1.5 liter of water each, which seemed to be ok for at least 3 days. Next feeding will be only water again, ph corrected to ~5.6

Pictures aren't super usefull this time, except to show the effect of the scrogging. Had to crudely tie my babies down, since their sudden stretching made it so that they were nearly touching the LED board. I could see different signs of heat stress. I hope a more level canopy will somewhat offset this. I really had to kinda twist up the main cola/stems, since the difference in height was causing the lower buds to hardly catch light. Now it's a lot better use of the available surface. Caused a small tear on one of the bigger side stalks, but since it didn't completely tear I just bandaged it with some rope and I'm praying it will re-attach. -- update Buds looking better and better. Keep getting slugs among my plants, but they mainly seem to go for the peppers and sunflowers. Been noticing they are really starting to drink more. This week they got 1 feeding of 2.3 EC 5.8 pH, and one with ph-corrected water at 5.8. Started to see leafs curling up (foxtailing?) so I turned down the lights. Looked at the daily light integral and realized they were getting stressed. Tuned down the lightschedule a bit, this ViparSpectra P2000 produces more then enough.

They're really starting to fatten up! So happy to see this with the crystals coming in too. Gave 'm a bit more nutrients this time around, since they seem to responding well. Same as last week, feed once and ph corrected water once. I've had a habit of only using cooked water that has been giving 24hr to air out, seems to cut back on the disease enormously. I think they still are missing something, since they are both heavily mining the older leafs for minerals. Caught another slug, otherwise going pretty damn well.

They stretched a tiny bit more, so I had to move my lamp up a bit higher. Combined with the rope bondage I subjected them too, I managed to keep the light schedule @ 10 hours, at maximum power. I had to lower the power the previous weeks, but I didn't catch any signs of light stress. I feel like they might be missing something in their nutrition, since they are heavily mining their older leaves. I try to keep the pots clean and pick those out, in anticipation of molds etc. The crystals are starting to show! As the buds keep fattening up, I saw the first pistils turning brown. Over the next few days, I saw the crystal layer (trichomes) slowly getting bigger. The smell has definitely started to come in. Not hard, but it's noticeable when I turn my air purifier off. I wonder what effect it will have on it's lifecycle, but I'm guessing the carbon filter gets used more with the exotic cooking I do. I'm very seriously considering to start topping these weeks off with just water, pH corrected to 5.8ish. I'm expecting it will take another week - or two - for these before I go chopping.

One plant has started to show amber (plant 1 on the pics) so she's getting the chop today! Ideally I would have deprived 'm a bit from water the last few days. Was a bit surprised, since I checked everyday with a microscope and there was still a bit of non-cloudy see through trichomes, which aided in my decision to water them both once more. The other plant is still not all cloudy so giving her a few more days at the very least.