Heya Growmies!
I dropped a 6 pound tent fan on her, snapping her stalk clean in half at day 1, so this week you can see her recovering from that event, her leaves look wacky. That said, she's only mildly stunted when it comes to actual growth, normally my seedlings are a bit bigger (and healthier) at day 8, but I assume the fan dropping on her caused her to have some issues developing her first leaves, leading to the weird variegation, that's my guess anyway. but I hope that some tender loving care and a near perfect environment will help this baby overcome and rise above.
Halfway through the week she looked ready to enter the bucket, It's a 19L Growrilla Oxyring DWC kit, which I have modified to also have an airstone, they serve me well, but I'm considering upgrading to 50L totes, it would fit my style of growing more I feel.
as expected, when transplanted to DWC, growth speed really increased, and the damage caused early on is becoming more evident.
the tentative plan is still to reverse her using silver thiosulfate, We'll take off her two lowest branches around week 3, and root them. Those clones will both be reversed to increase my chances of getting feminised pollen in time, success chances of getting viable seeds like this aren't even close to 90%, but I want to try regardless, normally, you would use 2 plants, start the first plant a little early and reverse it, and use its pollen to impregnate the second plant. When using just one plant like I am it all has to happen in a very tight time frame.
that's also why I will use cloning, the act of cloning usually causes the cloned branch to flower right away, we're banking on the mother not flowering for a little longer after taking the cuttings, then if we are lucky, we can use the pollen from the reversed clones on a single branch of the mother.
You also don't want to smoke plants that have been sprayed with STS, it is mobile within the plant and toxic to humans, cloning contains the STS to the clones, the mother will remain safe to smoke.
This is all depending on her pulling through, of course, but I hope you follow along if this project seems interesting to you.
Stay safe and keep growing.
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