An Epsilon Adventure

Hello growmies! Welcome to the first week proper of An Epsilon Adventure! These nine ladies were each planted into their final 30l pots today, and fertigated for the first time. Yes I know it's early, but according to the nutrient schedule from Shogun, cuttings and seedlings get Start & Katana Roots for the first two weeks. Let us see what happens. On a side note the Katana Roots stuff smells amazing, like I had a strong urge to taste it, though I resisted that urge. Nine you say? Wait a minute weren't there ten? Good question! Yes, there were and are ten... however the tenth has not yet broken ground... moreover I can only fit nine pots in my tent... so I am sort of hoping she doesn't make it. What shall I do with her if she does? Stick her in with one of the others? I mean, we saw that 5 in one pot worked, so 2 in 1 pot should work even better. On the other hand I quite like the balance of one plant per pot and having the nine makes everything easy. Maybe I will put it to a vote. Until she breaks ground it's moot anyway. Massive thanks to both Shogun and Royal Queen Seeds for sponsoring this grow. Daily Updates: ### Week 1 Day 1 06:00 25/6 4m/l Start + 5ml/l Katana Roots - fertigated ~0.5l each & photographed. ### Week 1 Day 2 18:00 26/6 4m/l Start + 5ml/l Katana Roots - fertigated ~1.1l each & photographed. I am struggling with the temperatures at the moment, and there is little I can do about it. Plant 9 has some problem, either heat stroke or dampening off. Time will tell but the prognosis is poor. Happily plant 10 has finally popped, and so if number 9 dies at least there is a plant for the pot! ### Week 1 Day 4 23:00 28/6 4m/l Start + 5ml/l Katana Roots - fertigated ~1.1l each & photographed. So the seedling that had wilted is clearly not suffering from damping off or it'd be dead by now. In fact it has recovered enough to stand up straight, however there does not appear to have been any foliage growth or progress. Case in point plant 10 has already exceeded her in size as you can see. I am not sure what to do here, I am inclined to pull the weakling and replace with the latecomer. Right now six ladies are storming ahead, while four are lagging behind. I am quite tempted to pull the four, and focus on the six that are most impressive. Adding to this temptation is the fact that if I pull these weakest 4 seedlings, I have space for 3 more pots and so I could start another diary or three... I think I will wait a few more days and see what happens before making a decision. ### Week 1 Day 6 06:30 30/6 Photographed. Six of the ladies, as you can see, are way ahead and all very close to each other. The other four are lagging behind. Two of them have started growing and I expect them to push on from here, and the last two are still very small and weak. The tent rose to almost 40 degrees for a few hours on day 1 or 2, it seems that the six that are doing well must be the most heat tolerant phenos, at least one of the other 4 wilted due to the heat. So I have made my decision. I am going to pull the 4 and focus on the 6. Quality over quantity. I haven't yet fertigated today but I plan to get to it later. ### Week 1 Day 6 19:00 30/6 4m/l Start + 5ml/l Katana Roots - fertigated ~1.2l each I have pulled the 4 weakest - three were damaged, I guess I was too rough with them, I have decided not to use peat pellets again I don't like how they fall over so easily. Anyway of the 4 weakest 1 was dead, 2 had re-rooted above the damage, and the 4th was just late - roots looked fine. So it seems it was my fault that 3 of these ladies got off to a bad start. Lessons learned! So from now on this diary consists of 6 x Epsilon F1. However don't be disappointed, these six are really growing rapidly. They are about as advanced as they could be for 6 days old. WAY ahead of the 1st run of Epsilons I did, which is mega exciting. ### Week 1 Day 7 06:00 1/7 Photographed. So here we are already at the end of week 1, almost to the minute. The ten ladies have become 6, the six strongest girls are motoring ahead, as you can see from the photos. Next week is going to be massive, and by the end of it these ladies will start to show their potential. The two little ladies in the pot are the two weaker seedlings that I decided to let live for another project that I am not diarising. So say goodbye to those two girls who are, let us say, "off to live on a farm". I have fertigated with Shogun Katana Roots and Start since day 1, and here at the end of the first full week proper I am so far satisfied with the very early results. The ladies are alive and well, growing happily, and do not appear to have been overfed. So far so good. We have one more full week to go with just Katana Roots and Start, the rest of the collection starts to come into play in week three. This is very exciting for me, being able to grow the same genetics as before with the same light and methods, but with a whole suite of a different fertiliser than my first grow with them. I am really excited to see what the combination of space and feeding is going to do. Please do join me tomorrow for the beginning of week 2. Thanks for reading growmies! 👊 --- ========== Tent: 120cm x 120cm x 180cm Light: 600w HID Elite Dual Spectrum HPS + Angel Wing Reflector Air: 5" duct fan system with carbon filter ~300 m3/hour + RAM 9" floor fan + 4" intake fan Pots: Air Pruner Fabric Pots 30l - UGro XL Coco + horticultural grade perlite (~20%) Seeds supplied by Royal Queen Seeds https://www.royalqueenseeds.com Nutrients supplied by Shogun Fertilisers https://www.shogunfertilisers.com/en ==========