Doug's Varin - First Grow

01/07/23: There has been a decent amount of growth this week. They are finally looking like plants and each look like they will successfully make it out of the seedling stage. At this point I thing that 1, 4, 5, and 6 are going to be the 4 plants that I keep, but may be a little to early to be sure. As you can seen in the pictures, I made a few mistakes so far. The yellow spots on the first set of leaves of most of them is the result of me having sprayed the leaves with a seaweed extract and water mixture. They really didn't take well to that. Though it was just burning and I noticed no noticeable stunt or stress as a result. The new growth seems to be looking good. This is such a learning process and I am just getting my information from several sources and putting it together. I've learned that at this stage of the plants growth, less is more. I should not have been introducing any additional nutrients to the plants yet, as the Fox Farm soil has everything the plan would have needed thus far. I also know that I should have had the light closer and maybe even a little more intense earlier on, as I got a lot of unnecessary initial stretching that I want to avoid in my next grow. I'm getting better at using my tools to provide an ideal environment, but am still trying to get everything perfect. I'm still having a LOT of fun with everything. 01/11/23: Lots of noticeable growth happening this week. #1 is the first to show a root coming out of the bottom. It will be time to get them out of the nursery pots soon. I've decided to go to 1 gallon pots first and keep all 6 plants for awhile longer to continue to watch their growth before picking the final 4. I think that I will perform the transplant on Sunday the 15th.