~ 1st week ~
Zen1 acclimatized nicely to the conditions in the grow room (i try to make them as good as possible).
She has already developed her first true leaves this week.
Zen2, however, is a bit strange - looks like a bird has pecked her. And that's probably what happened, because right after germination, before they were repotted, they were outside in the sun for a few hours. I guarded them, but it turns out not very well. (Since i live in the forest, this kind of thing happens to me often, unfortunately.) And i noticed this only in the photos at high magnification - after replanting. The plant lives and grows, but poorly - i don't see her recovering soon, if at all. We'll see.
Either way, she'll grow outside if she gets better - i don't want to get in trouble with all the rest here because of her. For now, she's still a tasty morsel for birds, so she'll stay in the grow room for some time.
I sowed another Sweet Zenzation seed as soon as i noticed the thing (just sprouted yesterday) and today was transplanted in place of the sick one. And she seems to be fine here. So she is Zen2 from now.
But wait - there's a strange thing with her too - she has only one cotyledon, the second is bright yellow and completely undeveloped. But she grows and develops better than the previous one - pecked by a bird. Although now i don't know if it was the bird or bad seed genetics - i didn't catch the bird in the act, it was just the prime suspect. Anyway the fact is that the next Zenzation seed has a problem with germination. Two by three. Not so good. But we'll see how things develop.
Starting from seedlings, throughout the vegetative phase, the plants will be well nourished with HESI nutrients two times a week :
· Root Complex - 5 ml / 1 l of water
· TNT Complex - 5 ml / 1 l of water
· SuperVit - 1 drop / 5 l of water
The substrate in the pots is a half and half mixture of peat soil and coconut fiber with a small addition of perlite.
This time i also added a bit of grind hemp fiber into the substrate (about 10%).
The room temperature is set at 28°C in light and 20°C in darkness.
Lamps hung at a height of 40 cm above the plants and set to 20% power for now - according to the manufacturer's recommendations and my own previous positive experience.
Also due to my previous experiences i am NOT going to use any stressing 'techniques' nor 'train' plants - unless necessary.
Hope, that will not be necessary. All i'm going to do is feed the plants and please them, not torment them.
Besides - the plants are auto-flowers, so even for this reason no 'techniques' are likely to come into play.
And very well - harvest will be earlier.
