Day 86 - October 20, 2023
Hey there, welcome to week 4 of flower. We're starting to see a small glimpse of the reason I was excited to find a seed in this fire.
Day 89 - October 23, 2023
I decided I am ending this diary here. Let me explain.
This plant is the only plant that is left from a round of plants I was growing that used an extremely bad soil mix due to a mistake on my part: the soil had no aeration (no perlite, etc). All other plants got root rot. This is the only plant I had in a larger 4-gallon pot, so it wasn't moved, just let it dry out and not watered often since. That was a mistake, and I should have just started over sooner.
This plant definitely has root rot. I am also seeing patches of mildew on lower leaves, in an environment that is lower than 50% RH. This is because the stem itself is now rotten on the inside. See what happened to my Matanuska Thunder plant yesterday when I broke a stem in training the day before: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/180565-grow-journal-by-resimax
As you can see, this plant got a severe fungal infection literally overnight, due to the spores inside the broken stem being released. I don't even want to chance using this end product, even if it looks fine.
So, that is the reason I'm ending this diary here. Sorry folks. I will try not to make such stupid mistakes in the future.
This is a fascinating specimen! I would take some cuttings before moving on to flower-phase if I were you. By preserving this one, you can keep experimenting and get the grow dialed in. Even if the first run doesn't finish flawlessly you can keep it running as a side-project ππ