I have been at my mothers a lot longer than I planned, she had problems with her banking app and backup email adresses not existing anymore etc.
In the train I was impatiernt to see my plant but when I saw her I was flabbergasted!! It is only 17 days ago that I planted the seed! She had had two completely sunny days in t
he beginning and then behind the window in combination with 5 lightbulbs some 2700K and one of 4000 k, and I am changing to whiter light, but the fact that this plant is growing like crazy under normal household leds is fantastic, and that it is only about 30 watts and that when I am home and heating my home with gas the energy of the lamps heat my house and save the same amount of gas means that I will start growing things in my living room next autumn! Tomatoes Peppers, will certainly improve my mood during the gloomy dark dutch winter!
Besides that, I think because of the first two days being cloudless and electric light afterwards, I have never seen the first pair of pointy leafs so big, and the plant so big with only 3 pairs of leaves. Its wingspan is bigger than she is tall! Directly after planting the seed I prepared the place where I want to plant her, dug a hole of about a meter deep and wider at the bottom thaqn the top, filling it up with at the bottom some cat litter to hold more moisture during summer and some weeds and grass clippings and I mixed in a couple of hands full of cow and chicken dry manure. Around the place I drilled some holes and put some dung and catlitter. I allso found a big transparent box which I picked up for using as a makeshift greenhouse, and put it over the planting place, where I dug in a bucket the size of the bucket I sowed my plant in, so when my plant is ready I only have to lift out that bucket and pull my plant out of its bucket and that will fit neatly and I wont have to disturb the structure of the soil when planting. Worms take a while tunneling and I want them to eat shit and
Growi8ng season in the countryside has not even started yet, because frost in mid april is still a possibility, but the plant is happy inside. The royal dutch weather service forecasts sunnier weather so with the first nice and sunny days I will allready have a fully fotosynthesizing plant, I want to see how high I can get her, because in autumn the sun is lower, and to get autumn sun the plant must be high so I am planning to let her grow without branching for more than a meter. I have tried that before, all the energy is going to the top creating enourmous leaves.
Directly after planting the seed I have dug a hole where I want to plant my plant, as deep as I have soil in my garden, I hava about a meter soil, and below that there is some kind of cloth and clay pellets. In order to make the soil hold more water I dumped some used cat litter at hte bottom and some weeds and grass clippings on top as wormfood and mixed in a generous amount of cow- and chicken shit.
I allso bought some other fertiliser after the advice of the man in the garden center near my mother who said that the dried shit only improves the structure of the soil
Plant is growing very well under lamps and when available, the sun. The shape of the leaves is different from previous Frisian Dew, the fingers are broader. Does this mean that this one is more Indica?
@DutchPassion_Official,Thanks for your reaction, you do care for your babies 😉 Don't worry, when I had to leave the seedling alone, I covered the soil with a layer of sand, to reduce evaporation. I have a poking hole just above the bottom of the bucket to check moisture.
@Grow4Releaf,The top leaves are still green, the lower leaves are becoming yellow. Would it mean that the cuttings are sacrificing those leaves for the nutrients necessary for making roots?
@WatercanWampa,Thanks! That is allso a bit of perspective, because my shoes are further away from the phone than the leaves, but still, they are bigger than my hands. Because I want my plant to grow high, I pruned all sidebranches this morning, (I am trying to make clones) now all the nutrients and water go to one single growing tip, so she will probably make even bigger ones. She is allso standing in the ground for a week spreading her roots.