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Started 2 seeds in glass of water - popped fine and I put them in a wet paper towel.
Then I had to go on a short business trip and came home to a dry paper towel - the 1 seed has grown a little but the other has not moved noticeably since.
So almost a week later I added 2 more seeds (#3 and #4) - directly in the wet paper towel that I put into a slightly open little pill box.
Right now - the only probable survivor is growing in the currently remaining sunlight only...
I forgot about the 2 last seeds for a couple of days... work...
1 didn't pop - the other dried up and died having most likely looked beautiful... sorry about that.
So... 4 out of 5 popped - and I killed 3.
=|
After more than a week my new 50l bag of soil finally arrived so I put the coco pad with my 1 surviving GSC into a little blue pot.
I added some TNC MycorrMax ("Premium Mycorrhiza Powder")
This is the only seed that I did not kill and that popped really fast!
Now however... she is taking her sweet time to grow...
I am keeping her outside or on the window sill... so she might want more light. Unfortunately - my 40x4x120 tent is full with my Hawaiian Maui Waui (FEM).
The stem is weak but I am hopeful she will grow.
The "girl scout cookie" is continuing as before... she is still way too small for her age and taking her sweet time growing up.
Day 2 of Week 1 - she grew 1cm! =)
Day 3 of Week 1 - she is starting to take on speed... =)
I continued my artistic twirling with low stress training of the still very flexible stem.
She certainly does not seem to be in week 3 but it has gotten colder so she might simply need more time.
After topping her in week #2, she is now starting to show her new 2 main colas.
Due to my current grow (late stage flowering of Nirvana Hawaiian Maui Waui) - my very small tent is occupied and the girl scout cookie needs to wait. So her taking her sweet time is actually a blessing... for now. ;)
After harvesting my Maui Waui (https://growdiaries.com/diaries/149289-grow-journal-by-fejg87fb2skvf) - it is time to get this girl in the big pot & (small) tent.
=)
Today's transplant revealed too little roots for her age.
She has gotten only a little light until now.
I believe she will speed up now that I am concentrating on her.
I did try a "semi-mainlining" approach - because I initially wanted to do a spiral but in a (sativa) haze... I topped her and so now I am doing a artistic semi-mainlined low-stress-trainy thingy. 😆
Up until now - she never got "enough" light, meaning only very little PPFD from sitting in my window with a little "toy-LED" to keep her company.
I am wondering if I should clean up some more of the new small lower branches on all 4 "main" stems.
After the first few weeks (now that she is getting enough light) she is finally growing as well as I believe she should. =)
Cut off 1 node from the 2 lower branches.
I am trying a (wrong) "semi"-mainlining...
TL;DR (my Diary)
1. Trained plant into a spiral
2. Got high, topped it
3. Cleaned 2 grows/nodes per branch
4. Bent main stem to grow horizontal = 2 lower & 2 upper branches
Should I clean 1-2 more nodes before flipping to 12/12
I noticed I had my lamp on "sunrise until sunset +2h", which was actually only 12 hours the last few weeks due to this thing called "autumn".
My setup was still on "summertime" 😅 - having fixed that to "sunrise until sunrise+12h" I will officially call this week the start of flowering.
I am watering sporadically and only every 2nd watering I add nutrients... haven't checked PH in a while but is usually around 6.5
The top leaves have no burnt tips - so am I (finally) having a nutrient deficiency?
What you've got is a vastly underwatered, probably under-fed plant whose lights are far too close to them. If you're only watering "sporadically" you've probably got a lockout of several nutes (I can see both magnesium and probably calcium for two - there may be more) - Plants at this age are usually requiring a lot more water than you report in your diary... so you're not rinsing the salts and excess nutes out which has caused a lockout. When you water, you need to give it enough so that there's at least a 10-20% runoff. And if you only assume your pH is 6.5, that's like filling your car up with gas 3 weeks ago and assuming your car still has enough gas in it for a 200 mile trip today without looking at the gas gauge.
Get the lights up at least 18 inches from your plants and then do a flush. For your grow in 3 gallon pots, that means running 9 gallons of water pH'd to 6.2 through each pot.... or at least enough (and more if need be) to get the pH of the runoff to 6.2 which is the "sweet spot" for plants at their age. When they dry out, you can give them nutes but only 1/2 strength for the first feed. Going forward, keep the grow nutes at 1/2 strength as you take your bloom nutes to full strength - in flower, nitrogen is still needed but not at the levels required for veg. And always measure the pH of whatever you're giving her and measure the pH of the runoff - that will tell you what's going on in the soil.
Good luck.
I really should have kept an eye on my water PH levels...
Since I only have 1 very small tent - the GirlScoutCooky was kept outside the tent in low light intensity and a small container for far too long.
After the flush at the end of last week - I am hopeful she forgives me for mistreating her.
I feel for this plant...
1. she had to wait until my last grow (Maui Waui) was done to be moved into the tent under the high efficiency LED
2. she was not given PH controlled water - so the PH was around 7,x+
3. she was not given enough time in vegetation
The flush around 2.5 weeks ago helped a lot - the brown dots and yellowing of the leaves has not continued and the buts have been growing a bit and turned nicely glittery... matches the snowy outside.
Let's blame it on the stress before xmas. 😇
Today I started giving her melted (and warmed up) snow-water.
The ppm numbers of my tab water are too f...ing high.
I was way too lazy with this girl. Hopefully she will be forgiving and last another 3-4 weeks.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
So today I noticed, that I "miscalculated" my weeks...
In the vegetative phase, I just took pictures and created a "new diary week" here with an accuracy of +/- 2-5 days... 😅
It didn't really show in the beginning, as the plant grew too slow (I did not give her enough light - at all).
For the flowering phase - I have now fixed the timeline (i.e. made sure every week was counted). 😃
As far as nutes go - I really think the Humic Acid from GreenBuzz helped my plant to deal with my erratic feeding and greedy watering.
The buds are fattening up... I think a couple more days should do the trick. =)
It is easy to tell that I did not give her the attention, that she clearly required during her early formative weeks.
Will do some defoliation near the end to make her look nice for the big day! 😇
Have been giving her collected rain water out of the old wine barrel for a few days now. =)
Still too many clear trichomes for my taste... I have lowered the light intensity a bit as well after having already moved to 13/11 light schedule.
Sunday: defoliation and although I wanted to harvest today - I will wait another day or 2. Just so the lower buds have some time to ripen up a little more and maybe we get a few more ambers.
HARVEST TIME!
MicroNighthawk
