RQS - Royal Highness

The plant appears to have developed enough by this point, despite being a little behind the others, to give it a chop. Hopefully it isn't too early, but I'd like to keep everything on a similar schedule. There's no need to feed it right now, as the soil mix in the pot will have enough to keep it going for a while longer yet. The plant will let me know when it needs more fodder. I might water it with a bit of cal-mag and the Terra Aquatic Tri-nutrients mixed in... I'm thinking that Royal Highness needs a little higher temperature than the other plants in this mix, but seems to be responding well to the TS-600 (100w) bathing it for a little over 18hrs a day at the moment. After the chop, it will be transferred to the TS-1000, which is a slightly more powerful light (150w), to give it an extra boost. This light will be the one used for flowering, but currently has a few autos I am trying out - the space is limited right now, but I think that it will fit in ok. It was a bit of a shame to lose the top, but it's preferable to have it split a few times for a regular growth pattern. The top will hopefully produce a nice clone for someone else to look after. A good gift to give away..! :D The fan leaves have been left on the new shoots, as they seem a little small. It is really lifting the leaves to the light - so I think that it is a little stressed out. The chop was probably a little early, and perhaps it ought not to have been taken back so far... Whoops :/ // Another whoops..! I saw today that one of the new spurs had dropped off..! It may be that I knocked it off when adjusting the branches for the manifold D: D: D: Hopefully it will be ok, as it was so little before anyway... I don't mind if it is little - I just want it to live..! Please live, little guy - I'm so sorry I broke you in your adolescence! I'm such a bad father! :( I've added some feed in the water for these guys today. Next time, it will be diluted, then next week - only the flowering plants get food - these guys can have good, clean, healthy water! I'm going to increase the light to give them a boost - another 2 hours. Back to 20. // Emergency..! Don't panic!!! D: The gnats are driving me fucking ballistic today, but the soil feels dry up top - so I thought, since Painkiller is showing some leaf issues without cause - I'll check the pH. I check the pH, ok about 6.7-6.8, not too bad - so I switch the meter to moisture and it says it's soaking! I've barely watered these guys, so I think, wtf is wrong? These gnats are here, the pH is fine, there's a little burn on a leaf, not been overwatered, surely..? Turns out - the reason Royal Highness is Royal Lowness (and MM being small) is because there were no drainage holes in the pot! So they have been sitting in their own juices all this time! No wonder there were gnats and the plants aren't getting their ready brek! So, rather than use newspaper and a bigger pot to soak it all up, I took off the top soil (about 3cm) after drying it under a high fan. Taking the plant out of the pot, the bottom soil (quite wet) is spread out on a tray and also fan dried, before being mixed with the top soil. The top soil is mixed with the bottom, to soak it up even more, and put back into the bottom of the pot. The plant is then reseated inside and tamped down on a hard surface - knocking everything into place without compacting it, but not leaving big air holes. These guys are all under a high fan and there's no sign of the gnats, for now..! No drainage holes..! How did I forget to poke them in the bottom?! Glad the gnats and the leaf showed me this now, before things became worse..! All roots appear healthy and the plants still seem OK. Crisis, averted! :D