Week two Amnesia is growing fast as expected, and cherry cheesecake is also looking squat, also expected. Because I know that the first set of branches will not be happy in a compact plant I have already removed them. However because the amnesia has good internal spacing, and I know it's a bit producer I have let the the first set of branches to continue, for the time being. Both of these plants are going to be topped. But when exactly will be a decision I can leave for a while. Possibly the Cherry might get a late topping at node 6, but the Amnesia is probably going to get topped at the fourth node but I may do it later depending on how they look over the next week.
I mixed up a bucket to 1200ppm but I've only used a couple of litres over the past two weeks. As the plug begins to dry on the outside at this early stage I'll give them some plain tap water, because they don't use much anyway, otherwise it seems there could be a build up of nutes. I sort of play it by ear. Not really that important, at this stage it better to simply pay attention to not over watering, plug weighs about 150g and they hold about 500g of water, with the seedling not weight much at this stage, I like to keep the total weight under 500g.
@Seedsman, Hi, this was a freebie from an old order. Seedsman was my go to supplier but then a package did not arrive and it did not indicate that it had even left Langley. I had numerous email correspondence with Ruth, who just stuck to her line that basically I needed to read the fine print and she politely but firmly advised me to go fuck myself. I'm paraphrasing of course. So now I use someone else and I let anyone who is interested know my experience at Seedsman. I know this is nothing to do with you but seeing as you asked! But this is all over for me. As you can see from my diaries I've even promoted seedsman in some of the titles of my diaries. Hopefully this information will be useful to your company in the future.