Day 39:
Well, it's been a while since the last update, and a lot has changed. I'll admit, I just sort of slacked off for a couple days after being sick for about 5 days, so my plants basically went without food or water for a whole week.
This plant survived, with a lot of yellowing and interveinal chlorosis from using up stored energy. That was remedied 3 days ago, by transplating her (gasp) into a 5 gallon pot of coco coir and frequent fertigation of the nutrients she needs. She looks very green now, and you can hardly tell there was ever a problem. I pruned off some leaves and branches on bottom growth that I would have otherwise pruned too.
Of course there is a small problem resulting from that fix though. The only grow space large enough for my 5gal pots is my tent, currently in the middle of flowering a couple photoperiods under 12/12. So, this plant has now been blooming under 12/12. That, along with her week without food or water, has slowed down her flowering, but she still seems to be kicking. It's okay to flower autos under 12/12. You may not get the densest, well-developed mounds of calyxes you may have experienced another way, but I don't see any harm in it otherwise -- it beats the alternative of killing off another plant of mine.
She is 15 inches tall now, which is absolutely amazing. She shot right up after being transplanted. This plant was a mere 5 inches tall a week ago. Now, she is the same height as her neighbor autoflower started at the same time, that at one point was close to 3x taller!
That's it for this week. As always, thanks for stopping by, and don't be afraid to reach out if you have any questions!
@Hydro_Hiebs, Yes, I do think she is very pretty myself! She still has about 2-3 more weeks left. I made 2 mistakes that both cost her a week in time. 1) Early in flower she was neglected without food or water for a week, and then it took another week to get her back on her feet. 2) Due to space concerns, she was veg'd under 18h, and until last week was flowered under 12h. Since there are no longer any photoperiods blooming with her, last week I began incrementing her daylight hours, and paying attention to PPFD and tip burn. As of today, she is back up to 18h of light per day. In the last few days I have seen a noticeable improvement when she found the missing energy she was looking for.
Basically she lost at least a week from lack of food, and lost at least a week from not reaching her expected DLI for a while.