Day 1 in the soil, 12/9/23:
Since I just popped her in the dirt and I buried her deep, I don't expect her to be up for 24-48 hours. I'm fine with that, feeling very zen and even a full 48 hours would only put us at a 4 day sprout and surface time.
Veg Day 1: 12/12/23:
The first true leaves are visible so I'm calling this the first first day of veg.
I'm trying to keep the maximum amount of light directly above her to keep her from stretching at all in the early days.
Veg Day 3:
It's easy to feel like she's growing slowly, but when I compare her pictures I can easily see the changes.
This strain takes its time developing large serrated leaves before putting out the next set. Some strains I've grown have popped out with their true leaves and fan leaves almost at the same time, creating a tiny 'rose' formation. This lady does not do that.
Veg Day 7:
The first week is over and I'm decently impressed.
I think she could grow faster under stronger lights, but given this is a long operation, I've opted for weaker lights that I can put directly over the plant to avoid stretching, which seems to be working well so far.
She is planted in 100% natural compost from my garden and yard waste. The compost is full of beneficial microbes continuing to break down the nutrients into bio-available forms. I will continually repot her into new compost. The old dirt goes to the bottom of the pile so it's no waste.
The current plan based off previous grows under these not particularly strong lights, is to repot her into a larger pot at about 21 days. Realistically I have large enough pots on hand that I could repot get into a giant one and then not worry until she's transplanted outside.
However, repotting twice would refresh the nutrients and allow me to monitor root growth. No decision has been made yet. If she stretches a lot despite my best efforts, then I'll probably pop her straight in the big pot and bury her up to her seed leaves.
My cat knocked over my grow light onto my plant, since then, she has developed discoloration on almost all the outer edges of her leaves. Is this stress? Will it go away or get worse?
It's been about 12 hours since I righted the light. There was no discoloration 24hrs ago.
Basically "scar tissue" from physical damage. It won't go away and it won't effect growth rates, yields or potency or anything else. Nothing to worry about, your plant will be just fine.
I'm doing a super long grow, starting indoors and planting out in May.
My lady is now over a foot tall, and her side branches are not very strong. The main stem is very thick and firm.
My question is what support can I start inside and then transplant outdoors with the plant?
i would do week with pot, you take out to sun daily for 4 hours first day, and add an hour each time, let her get use to outdoors, then transplant, straight could be huge shock if sun strong or air cold...
Get the other growth in the pot out of there. Cultivate the top layer of the soil and uproot that shit. They only compete for nutrients with your girl and serve no other purpose.
I wouldn't trellis. I would just let her go naturally and when you bring her outside then you can re-pot into a large 7 gallon pot and start to train by tieing her branches down using the edge of the pot as your tie down point.
@Hempface86, I'll look into it! I'm trying to do an all natural veg so I'm not adding any nutrients just topping with compost, but I think silica is a natural mineral so I'll check it out and see if it's right for me!
@Sachimira, yes any hydroponic store will have it and it's in Amazon..I'm using Bloom city Silica boost and my girls are strong πͺ..just always remember to try to use it only when watering..if you have to use it with other nutrients make sure Silica is the very first nutrient you add to your water, mix, and I wait 30 seconds before adding in any other nutrients..I won't grow without Silica.. atleast during veg
Potassium silicate as a foliar spray will toughen up the floppy stems. You have lots of time still so you can manifold it into a nice 16 cola outdoor plant no problem. Tomato cage is good too but Iβve found just manifolding them is usually good enough.
@Northern_Ent, thank you! I'm definitely looking into this! I was trying to do a natural shape, but if she doesn't toughen up I think you're right that training is the way to go.
Thanks for the info!
Luckily I am not a novice smoker.
Interesting concept on the indoor outdoor thing. I'll consider keeping a clone indoors for comparison!
@Sachimira, If i remember right it mostly had some sweet and pungent skunk smell and taste. Potency was more relaxing and body stone and not maybe for novice smokers. All what i can remember but it was that good i still remember smoking and enjoying that strain. All photoperiods here are indoor so maybe it acts different outdoors and phenotype difference etc little things. π
@HippyHemulen, that's actually really good to hear because I couldn't find much about the smoke report!
I am definitely into growing for the trying and learning of things π