Welcome to week 6.
Day 36: Took off a few fan leaves today and gave water only.
Day 37: Height 28cm
Day 39: Fertigated with an extra strong mix, I'm going to up the nutes now until I find her maximal tolerance, she is starving.
Day 40: Still starving. I'm keeping her constantly topped up with quite high strength nutes but it's not enough. I think 200ml may have been an overly generous estimation of her root space volume.
Day 41: I knew this would be a challenge but it is proving more difficult than I expected. I hope the effort is worth it! At least so far I have learned more about autoflower flowering triggers with this grow.
Day 42: in trying to get enough food in to her I have nute shocked. Need to somehow flush and hope for the best. I may have dealt her a fatal blow.
Alright so to end up this week I have flushed the ever loving crap out of this lady. I've burned her with too much nutes, I didn't think it was possible but I went really over the top. So I have used a combination of a straw and 2l of PH corrected water and a lot of time and patience to repeatedly saturate and then upend and allow to drip out (with the aid of blowing bubbles in there with the straw). Eventually the run off stopped being dark brown. Then much later it became clear. I do not know if I can save this plant now I have really hurt her she looks in BAAAAD shape. Let us see what happens over the next week.
I have adjusted the timer such that the main tent is now getting 20/4 upped from 18/6. After monitoring DLI at 18/6 for a week I am unhappy with the overall level but because of the varying heights of the plants I am limited in what I can do in adjusting the light height. Some areas were only getting 20 DLI. So I have rearranged to have the taller plants on the edges and the lowest in the middle and doing it this way all plants are getting between 35 and 50 DLI at 20/4 - although one or two cola tips here and there are getting 55. Will monitor for a week.
@UnorthadoxDude, you know the substrate is the magic. only coco is good but you have too feed very balanced, supersoil you have to feed a little when babygirl need
@UnorthadoxDude,It is a beautiful question certainly helps you a perfectly composed soil, they call it supersoil is a mixture of gentle and stuff humus that enriches the classic soils, the quality of the earth if there is little space I think it is fundamental
@MedicineMaker, oh right! Yeah thank you! Hah I had quite a few options and I almost did a trio of little jugs... but in the end I thought, no this is meant to be a "rarest" and "tiniest". This pot is a little over 100 years old, genuinely rare, and really fkin smol.
I love the pot!
And I love the way this one has grown for you!
Its artistic, it’s got a really attractive composition, so cool.
I hope she produces a hefty top bud for you.
I love your watching your diaries; you always have some happy, healthy plants and some really cool entries to view ✨
@UnorthadoxDude,
I think it has a great chance in the competition!
Good luck to you in that, the pot is gorgeous, so is the plant; even with the problems you may have had with it.
I wish you the best of luck in the competition, may you win first place 🥇
@Themythicalchristine, Aww what a lovely comment, thank you so much! I think this has a good chance in the competition just because of the rarity of the pot. She has had many problems but certainly has been an interesting experiment and a difficult challenge. I do not think she will yield more than a gram or two honestly, but it's a fun thing to do!
@UnorthadoxDude, well, tent is 3x3 and I have 3 autos, og kush, gorilla Glue & purple Chill. I think ? these grow big?. I bought a small fabric pot and a friend gave me a nice ceramic for Christmas.