Royal Gorilla Automatic

D22. Starting the fourth week of veg, and everything is just trucking along in the tent. All I did today was tighten the LST wire. ------------------------------ D23. Another day, more LST, but nothing major; I only tightened the wires a bit, as it will still be a while until I can start spreading her out. I brewed some compost tea for my other plants and decided to give her some as well. My old set-up had gunked up, so today, I replaced it with a much more powerful system I built. The good news is that it is plenty powerful, and the bad news is that the pump is too noisy to leave running overnight. Not a massive deal as I can start brewing in the morning and then use the tea before bedtime. I mixed worm castings, rock dust, biochar, lime, bentonite, kelp, and neem meal, put that mixture in large tea bags, and let them steep for 10 hours in water with a bit of molasses as food for the microbes. Finally, I added a bit of humic acid and adjusted the pH to 6.3 before giving her 1 liter of tea, which works out to around 5% of the container volume. I also diluted some of the tea and used it as a foliar spray just before lights out. ------------------------------ D25. She is a slow grower and very compact without much internodal spacing. Structure-wise, she reminds me of the Chocodope I grew. That one turned out stunted, and I hope that isn't the case here. She looks very healthy, though, with a rich green color. We'll see what happens. I moved up the light to increase the spread and also increased it to a DLI of 36. Hopefully, some more photons will get her going. Increasing the light means a hotter tent, so I installed the old fan controller I built. More exhaust should bring the temp a bit. ------------------------------ D26. Additional LST to spread her out and a fulvic foliar spray just before lights out. ------------------------------ D28. We're at the end of week four of veg, and she looks great. Small but great. I suspect she may be stunted (for some reason), but I hope she is only slow and will veg for another week as the White Widows did, before going into flower. (The Purplematic CBD Auto in the same tent started flowering today.) I've been adding and tightening LST wires, trying to open her up a bit since she is so compact. It's working, but it is slow. So yeah, another week of veg would be great (fingers crossed). ------------------------------