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I should be moving the seeds to their final pots within 24 hours!
Update 1: 3 of my 4 seeds made it safely into their new pots. Lost 1 seed due to "damage" - proper rookie mistake. But a replacement is already in the Aurora+
Update 2: All caught up with 4th and final seed going into its pot 48 hours after the rest. It along with another of the 4 have yet to sprout loud & proud!
After some time under humidity domes, they were now able to stand on their own with some plants still looking a little weary. This is when I started with proper feedings and the different thereafter was night & day. And since that rhythm has been established, I expect the plants to go from strength to strength. It is at this point I also introduced the Blumats to my plants having been patient and wanting them to first develop a root system. Think I mostly got the timing right.
feedings are taking effect. Still only using one 240W at this stage, low enough to get a good max DLI but not to burn/curl them leaves. At this stage not all my babies are on the same page growth-wise but I having written these entries in backward sequence, that size of the smallest one was temporary as its almost caught up to the others.
This was the last week feeding at "Growing" before the "Preflowering" nutes schedule. Also the Blumats providing that good water on time. Not much to report but that all was looking good and strong.
This week brought explosive growth and height and I used the latter part of it to start the LST process with a bit of tucking, which I would zen (no typo!) find out its a great daily activity/puzzle.
Hi guys! Thanks for all the well wishes.
Its been a crazy past few weeks with electrical instability running amok here in my homeland. I hope to be more consistent as I've taken measures to mitigate any more issues. The plants are doing well. I had to toy with the light schedule with our enforced outages also making up my dark cycle and a generator to supplement that schedule jic. Due to all the adapting to those new factors, I decided to just LST and tuck, instead of topping and FIMing. Don't want to run the risk of stunting them - my first Auto run, can you tell? :P Feeding as per the GHE instructions with incremental changes in the feeds EC - up by 0.3 each week - looking to help them bulk up in sites before flower kicks in. Blumats are playing their part with each top feeding an opportunity to dial em in.
The plants started filling out really nicely getting them closer to a defoliation session. I was still just tucking leaves under each other at this point to allow for more sites to get light. Nutrients-wise its the Pre-flowering stage of the GHE leaflet, edging on the higher end of the PPM at 2.
Defoliation week! Also got some LST clips to really get bendy with the stalks and stems, and to level out the canopy. The plants all reacted well and bounced back shortly after the feeding. I tend to do all and any work on my plants on the same day. Wednesdays are my feed and general maintenance day, provided nothing crazy goes wrong in the tent.
Some defoliation as I started having to contend with high humidity from the inclement weather as well. Use a dehumidifier to get me through the rainy days and did a spot of IPM to prevent any PM or mould.
I went into my preflowering phase after doing a reset of my Blumats to make sure the lines are clean of algae and that the working pressure for the water is maintained. I also introduced a net to be able to tuck any errant leaves.
This is where the stunting for 3 of the 4 plants became evident as my 1 OG Zkittlez plant started its stretch en route to becoming my biggest plant in the tent. Having done nothing different in its feeding and care, it's been a pleasant surprise to see this plant thriving. Whilst on the smaller side, I now had to make sure the compact heads on my other plants didn't develop any fungi.
Strangest thing is that my biggest plant (the tall OG Zkittlez) has the lightest green leaves. I was stressed that this might be a bad omen but she's remained healthy. I provided just that one plant with extra top feeds and watering. Growth has remained steady and leaves remain light. The other trees have remained short & bushy but healthy, no PM or any other pests around.
This is the week that I changed to my Ripen feed having done a reset with some Flashclean, which would set a clean slate for the next few rounds of feeding. The plan is to do 2 full weeks of Ripen before I chop them down.
UncleKlutch
