Seedling phase week 4

5/13 (day# 17) Amy finally started drinking more water, so I prepared the SIP pot for her. I’m using GroBucket SIP inserts in a 5 gallon bucket. I pre-amend the soil with ½ cup Geoflora veg and 1TBS Dynomyco. There is a ‘dummy’ pot in place of where I’ll be placing Amy. 5/15 (day# 19) Amy was uppotted to her SIP bucket. She was really dry, to the point of wilting a little. I like to uppot when they are dry, because the rootball holds together better and I like to water them fully in the new pot. She had nice roots. I coated them with more Dynomyco and then put her in the SIP in place of the ‘dummy’ pot. Then I watered her thoroughly, so that some of it ran through to the reservoir. This way I know the link is established all the way to the bottom. 5/17 (day# 21) At the end of three weeks, Amy is looking happy in her SIP. Vivosun 3x3 scrog with AeroLight A200SE - Amnesia fem photo week#3 veg It was an eventful week for Amy. At the beginning of the week on day# 19 Amy was uppotted to her SIP bucket. She was really dry at the time, to the point of wilting a little. I like to uppot when they are dry because the rootball holds together better and I like to water them fully in the new pot. She had built a nice rootball in her 4” pot. I coated them with more Dynomyco and then put her in the SIP in place of the ‘dummy’ pot. Then I watered her thoroughly, so that some of it ran through to the reservoir. This way I know the link is established all the way to the bottom. Then on day# 23, it was time to top Amy. I usually top above the fourth node. A node is a set of branches that are opposite each other. Nodes will alternate between north-south and east-west, which makes it easier to count. For a seedling, don’t count the seedling leaves (cotyledons). The first node will be 1-fingered leaves, the second will be 3-fingered, the third will be five-fingered. For clones, the nodes may not be opposite each other. This is where using the north-south growing vs. east-west growing makes it easier to count the nodes. I top just below the 5th node, leaving as much stem sticking up as possible. The remaining stem will help keep the plant from splitting. When topping, the goal is to cut the stem above the 4th node without touching anything else. To FIM, I could go a bit higher and cut the stem and the nodes on the side. I find topping easier to maintain as fimming tend to create more in the middle. At the end of her 3rd week of flower, Amy has been transplanted and topped and her SIP res is full. She’s really moving now.