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Her leaves are still kinda whacked. I hope she starts growing out of this soon. I'm not super concerned, but I'd also like to know that she's on the right path. At some point this week, I'm planning on adding a topdress and then putting my plastic "mulch" on. I'm trying to be super careful about the amount of water I give. I'm going in with pH around neutral (7 ish), but mostly letting the biology do it's thing. 12/11/22 Watered with some Rootwise Enzyme stuff and Aloe. Lowered the light so that I'm looking at 325 PPFD at the "canopy". She is for sure, my "ugly duckling" this run, but I love her anyways. For a while I was beginning to wonder if she was going to end up looking like "freakshow", but I think I see her growing out of whatever that weird leaf twisting is. 12/13/22 Lowered the light again to get to 450 PPFD at the "canopy". It looks like she's growing out of whatever that weird deformation thing was that she had going on with she sprouted. I'm pleased about that, but she's not seeming to be very vigrorous.

12/16/22 Lowered the light to 22.5" to give 525 PPFD. She got her top dress to day. I have NO idea how to deal with dry amendments in the nutrient chart, so I'm putting the info here (the 1 tsp/gal measurement specified above is just to keep the stupid chard happy.) 1/3 C Craft blend. 2 TBSP Kashi Blend 0.5 tsp Big 5 Micronutrients All that got mixed together and spread on top of the pot and light scratched in, I then spread 1.5 C Build-A- Flower Top Dress over the other stuff. That all then got watered in with a solution containing everything listed above EXCEPT FOR the dry amendments. I'm also going to improvise plastic "mulch" from a trash bag (my shower caps haven't arrived and I really can't wait). 12/17/22 Le sigh. She's definitely the smallest in the tent right now. I'm OK with her color, but she's just not "taking off". She has started to make leaves with 5 leaflets, but they're small. I love her anyways, and am looking forward to the balance I find in her kind of plant, but man, I was hoping she'd be more vigorous. 12/19/22 Lifted the pot covers and misted the top of the soil to keep it moist.

12/23/22 She's definitely the smallest in the tent, but she's not as runty as I though she was, the other plants are just bigger than I realized. I need to get her out and have a better look, she's going to need LST too, but I don't see any good opportunities yet as as she's so squat. 12/27/22 I put water in the self-watering trays for the first time. I'm going to have get some mosquito dunks. I seem to be cultivating gnats on the bottoms of the pots. I had to move her pot to sort out the wick lines and she'd clearly already grown roots through the bottom of the pot. I hope I didn't damage her, but she has me wondering if I've been over watering in my zeal to keep the top of the soil moist. 12/28/22 She got top watered with a some of solution containing all the goodies.

12/30/22 She's looking really good. At some point last week she flipped into flower, so I'm that's how I'm logging this week. She's still the runt in the tent. She's going to need a defoliation next week I think, she's very squat and bushy and I have NO desire for mold... At this point she's just getting plain water (ok, it's got a mosquito dunk in it) from the self watering tray she's sitting on. I'm very happy with her, but sorta bummed that I missed the chance to do LST on her. This will be interesting, as I've never grown a plant without LST. The nutrient grid is totally JENKY in that it barks at me if I take all the amendments off. There is no point at this point, what's in there is in there. I may add a little tea later next week (I'm considering a banana one for extra potassium, but the self watering trays are keeping the medium nice and moist, so I'm not sure how that will work.) 12/31/22 Raised the light up some. I didn't have my phone handy so I just put it back at the 22" hanging height, I'll have to check the PAR next week, but I know she's going to have to go on some sort of riser so she can keep up with other two girls in the tent. 1/3/23 This girl is going to need a stool. Her tentmates are much taller, but she's staying short. I'm also feeling that I'm going to need to get in there and defoliate her as well, she's just too bushy.

1/6/23 Well, the last week was a bit of train wreck with power outages, terrible weather, and etc. But all is well that ends well. She's still small and very dense. I'm going to have thin out some leaves me thinks. 1/7/23 So everyone came out of the tent today. I cleaned some of the dense leaves, and everyone got top watered with about a quart of the solution with all the nutrients in it (above.) Also refilled the self-watering trays for the first time. I'm seriously liking those things. This girl got her stool today, so she's on par with the rest of the plants height wise. She also got moved to the front where it's easier for me to get to her for future thinning (there's still going to need to be some. I'm' going to have to keep an eye on the foliage density. I'm wondering if I didn't overfeed her as she's VERY dark green. 1/9/23 In an abundance of caution, I added another 1/8 cup of Craft Blend today along with a couple of tablespoons of Bokashi grain. This is likely over kill, but I think I'm seeing Ca deficiencies on Sour Stomper again, and maybe I'm imaging it, but I'm seeing the spaces between the veins being slightly lighter on PAE as well. I probably didn't need to do this here, but didn't think about it at the time and just went for it..

1/13/23 Well, she is what she is. She for whatever reason just never took off. She'll be interesting to harvest. She looks overall pretty healthy, but small. I do see some minor yellowing at the tips, so when my Langbeinite gets here, she'll get some too. I've not adjusted the nutrients yet. I'm pretty sure she won't be getting all the top dress stuff again, but I'll probably do the liquid stuff to water said Langbeinite in. 1/14/22 Top dressed 2 tsp of langbeinite in a quarter cup of BuildAFlower as a carrier. I then watered that in with rest of the goodies in water. Today was also the day to refill the self-watering bases.

1/21/23 I think I'm beginning to see a little frosting on her. This morning the self-watering base got filled and she got top watered with 0.5 gal of a tea with the following recipe: 1 C Build-a-flower top dress 2 tsp Build-a-bloom 2 tsp Big 6 micronutrients 2 tsp Organic AG Products Pure Dry Protein Hydrolysate 1 tsp Langbeinite 1.5 gal water That brewed for 18 hours with an air stone.

1/28/23 She's actually getting a little fade going on, and I'm starting to see some frostiness on some of the bud sites. I'm guessing she'll also come down sometime this week. Her trichomes are almost all cloudy.

2/4/23 I think she may be the first done in the tent. She's feeling the most ready of any of them. I have no idea how much I'll get, she's very small, but we'll see.

2/11/23 So when I chopped her I realized how dense she is. I broke the branches off and hung them separately so as to avoid any mold issues. We'll see how she does. I divided the grow space by three as she was one of three plants in the tent, so it's important to divide the light wattage by 3 as well. So she use 68.8 W of the light. I know I am NOT getting that much dry weight off her, she's just too small.