Guerilla Grow 2023

D15. The start of the third week of veg. Not much to report as the girls are doing their thing, and with the blumat system, I haven't even needed to worry about watering. The banana girl is still bigger (9 cm tall, 25 cm across), but the Cheese lady has picked up speed and is getting bigger as well (7 cm tall, 18 cm across). They grew quite a bit in the last week :) At the end of this week, I'm going away on vacation, so the plants will then move out into the forest. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to harden them off properly before they move outside permanently, so I do what I can in the tent to strengthen them: UV, increased DLI to 30 and turned on a second fan to really beat them around in the tent. That's all I can do to strengthen them before they go outside. ------------------------------ D18. I'm pushing the plants much harder with light than I usually do at this age, but the girls are absolutely loving it. Their leaves pray until light out, soaking up every photon they can get. It's making me reconsider how much light I give my seedlings, and it will require more tests in future grows—I increased the DLI to 40 to push them even harder in these last few days in the tent. It's been the easiest grow ever so far. The Blumat system has done its job perfectly, and I haven't hand watered a single time. It's all been running on auto. Again, something to consider for future grows. I'm a lazy bugger, so if I can get great results with little/no work, then I'm all for it! ;D I biked out to the growing spot with the last pieces of equipment: wire fencing and water for transplanting. Now everything is set for the girls. ------------------------------ D21. The end of the third week of flower, but also the end of growing in the tent. The girls have grown a lot in this last week. The banana girl doubled her size and the cheese lady even more as she was a bit smaller at the start of the week but now is the same size. They both look awesome: healthy, vibrant, and larger than my plants normally are at this age. With these results, I will definitely experiment more with high DLI during the seedlings/early veg phase. I think the banana girl is about to start to flower. The tent has had a faint smell these last couple of days, and it looks like she is heading into flower. I would have liked to veg them a week longer before moving them out in the forest, but I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow morning, so they got evicted early. I packed the girls into my backpack and biked out to their new home. In the end, I decided to plant them in the ground instead of in fabric pots. I added mycorrhiza as usual during the transplant, covered the soil with a thick layer of lava rock mulch, and built a fence around each plant to deter wandering deer. I had luck with the weather as it is overcast today, more gentle on the girls to ease them into the great outdoors than if we had blue sky and full-on sun. Now the girls are on their own, although I'll probably check in on them every few weeks, just because I'm too curious to leave them fully alone, and I will need to update the diary from time to time ;) ------------------------------