2/8/22 Day 8. We made it through the first week safely. Claudette is the largest (wonder if it's the fact she sprouted one day ahead of the others?) Her leaves are lighter than her sisters, but she seems perfectly healthy. Audrey is second, her leaves are growing fatter rather than longer like her sister's. Then there is little Betty - who is still hanging in there, but not making much in the way of gains. Another grower assured me all of her LSD plants started out this way, but with an auto I have to wonder if she is just losing a lot of time. Oh well, we will see. Tent at 72 degrees, RH around 60. Today I'm going to give them water with a little silica, Recharge, Root 66, and Magical. They have their Grow Dots so they should be set. Yesterday's DLI was 13, I'll have to see where it is today. It appears to me the plant's growth is keeping them just where they need to be, in regards to DLI. I'll be pushing toward 20 this week.
2/9/22 They are looking good this morning! They all got a drink last night with the supplements listed above, and they all pushed growth overnight. Even poor Betty, who is much smaller than her sisters. Oddly enough, all the plants are roughly the same height, around 2 inches tall. (I had added some extra coco around Audrey's stem.) Will check DLI later - and I upped the RH to 65% after reading over notes about VPD. I scaled out what I need to do throughout the grow - with the knowledge I may have to tweak the "weeks" depending on how they grow. DLI going up to 15 today, or more if they've grown into DLI 15.
2/10/22 Day 10. Took leaf wingspan pics today, Audrey is 1.5 inches across, Betty - .75? Maybe? and Claudette - 3 inches. RH of tent set to 70%, temp at 77 this AM, increased the exhaust a tiny touch. Misted the coco that's outside of the cups lightly.
2/12/22 Day 12 - Claudette is knocking it out of the park! Her leaves are now wider than the cup. Though her leaves have a lighter color, she is doing great and is larger every time I look at her. She will be losing her cup some time early next week. Audrey looks healthy, she's just growing much more slowly. Betty is growing, but she still doesn't look like much. She's got space in the tent as long as she tries, and her 5 gallon pot doesn't get in the way. So long as my 3 gallon experiment in the Lucy tent goes well, I'm sticking with 3 gallon pots for my future autos. So much easier to manage the space. I'll be pushing 20 DLI later today. RH is staying up at 70% during the day, and 65% at night. I'll be switching into my "Veg" VDP next week.
2/13/22 Day 13 - The tent is properly dialed in w/r/t temp and humidity. Currently at 20 DLI and will be slowly increasing over the next week. Claudette is growing like mad. Third leaves are clearly visible this morning. Audrey continues to be small, but well formed and a good color. Betty has made no gains, unfortunately. They will get a few ml of water into the cups today. The coco is being sprayed with plain water twice a day just to keep it from seriously drying out.
2/14/22 - Day 14 - Last day of week 2. Due to heat problems in the tent, I've decided to change my lighting schedule to 6/2. That will give the plants a chance to rest three times over the course of the day, and let the heat dissipate. I will be changing over to the large fan soon, I just wanted to girls to gain some size before I unleashed that whirlwind onto them! Made sure to refill the humidifier - it ran dry yesterday late and the heat came up right away. The girls seem unperturbed by this little problem, and hopefully are just fine. Claudette and Audrey are looking just fine, Betty still looks pretty much the same.