World First F1 Epsilon Auto by RQS [G2]

Hello and welcome to my latest diary in this grow series. I update most of my diaries daily, so please do check back periodically for further updates. This grow is a test of the new Epsilon F1 Auto from Royal Queen Seeds. I was offered the opportunity to choose any of the new F1 strains to grow and diarise. I selected Epsilon, because it is the fastest of the new F1 strains and I wanted to try and squeeze it into this grow series. My gratitude goes out to James for reaching out, and to him and RQS for the complementary box of RQS merch, and of course these highly novel seeds! RQS were kind enough to send five of their specially created hybrid germination pellets, which I thought I would use with these seeds and see how they did. So I have hydrated and added the seeds, and put them in the propagator with the chilli seeds and clones. I will update with photos later today. If you are growing this strain and doing a diary please let me know in the comments and I will certainly follow. So the plan for these is to germinate all five (hopefully), and put them all in the same 40l fabric pot. By the time these ladies reach any sort of size, several of the plants in my tent will be finished and out, so I think I will be able to train the plants away from each other. As I understand it this is a short and narrow strain, that puts out one good main cola, and minimal secondary nodes. On that basis I am also considering forcing the plant to focus only on the main cola by removing everything else and lollipopping. Frankly I am not sure exactly what I will do, but I have various ideas I am mulling. Any thoughts or suggestions you may have would be welcome. Five seeds sown at 12:00 9/2/23. Photo taken at 10:00 10/2/23. Photo taken at 0900 12/2/23. Two ladies sprouting so far. 20:00 12/2/23: Three of five ladies have sprouted so far. 22:00 13/2/23 All five girls have germinated. Very close together germination and they all look very similar. The roots are already pushing way out of the pellets so I have planted them into their final pot. 19:00 14/2/23 4/5 good 1 only has 1 cotyledon. 20:30 14/2/23 Height approx 3cm 21:00 15/2/23 So 4 of these babies are almost identical... the 5th. Well the other cotyledon has appeared.... on an entirely separate stalk!!! Two plants from 1 seed. I've not had this before. At first I thought it was a companion seedling of chamomile. However when I tried to tweeze it out... I quickly realised my mistake! How very interesting! 18:30 16/2/23 still misting with ph/calmag water only. Their names are Ally, Normani, Lauren, Dinah, and Camila. 02:00 18/2/23 ladies coming along nicely. It is becoming increasingly difficult to tell them apart. So far they feel like F1 seedlings. 00:30 19/2/23 fertigated 3l 01:00 22/2/23 ladies coming along nicely. On reflection at this point, a little over a week since germination, Despite these being F1 seeds I am starting to note some pheno differences I believe. 22:00 22/2/23 All righty, ten days since the first broke ground 8 since the last. I'm seeing a sudden rapid uptick in growth from the oldest girl. Over the next three days I expect her to treble in size, and be mostly done with node 3. For her I think the seedling stage is probably over. I think maybe 2 more days and I'll start veg week 1.