Orange Sherbet Fast

Jan 31 2024 Popped up nicely with the humidity dome on this past week. Soil has gotten a little green so I think it's time to remove the dome now.

Feb 5 2024 Things went real stagnant after I took off the humidity tent for a couple days. After putting it back on, the plant started to grow again. However I'm wondering if the excess moisture droplets that constantly fall in the humidity tent have burnt my leaves with the lights. I normally wouldn't expect to see nutrient issues this early, so that is what I'm leaning towards. I'm going to water with distilled water and then try taking off the tent once more to let the soil really dry up and get the roots growing and searching for water. Feb 8 I've noticed that because I used clear-sided cups that there was A LOT of green algae on all sides of the soil. To the point where the runoff water was turning green when watering. That makes me wonder if the algae had been stealing the nutrients that is making the leaves brown. To combat this, I instantly transported to a lovely beetlejuice planter that belongs to a great friend of mine. This should prevent any side algae, and give more room for the roots to grow.

Feb 14 Sherbet has just about outgrown it's pot, time to transplant into the 3 gallon bucket: it's final home. The process could have gone easier, as it took a bit to get it out of the planter and the soil wound up filling in a bit of the hole so it's planted a little higher than I wanted. I've turned the light up to 75% to get the plant used to it. Feb 17 Having another light on the other plant in the tent bumped up the temps to low 80s.

Feb 22 This guy really is FAST. I guess FastBuds was right. I'll need to attach a timelapse to show just how fast it's taken off.

Feb 27 I changed the light cycle to 18/6 a few days ago and surprisingly have seen the plants perking during sleep. Orange Sherbet is growing really quickly, I'm going to start Low Stress Training here soon to get these other stems some light.

Mar 5 Watered fully for the first time last Friday. The plant is feeling light again today, Tuesday, so I'm going to water less than a gallon. I'm starting to LST to try and keep an even canopy. Looking good so far.

Mar 14 Looking good. Fed 3/4 gallon of RAW GROW 6 days ago. Seems to have taken it well. Getting close to needing another drink.

March 18 Sherbet has the tent to themselves now. I've flipped to a 12/12 flowering light schedule for Sherbet. You're supposed to imagine what the current plant looks like doubled in size, and flip to flowering according to what you think your tent could handle. The other tent is larger than this one, but it's in a much colder room, so having 12 hours without the heat from the lights could have been harsh for the plant. This room can hover around 50-60F on cold nights, so Sherbet will just stay in this tent to grow. Temps have lowered 5+ degrees by removing the other plant and it's light.

Mar 26 Fed a gallon of RAW GROW: about 15ml worth of nutrients. Continuing the LST. Mar 27 Going to have to look back into defoliation techniques here soon. She's like a forest under that canopy!

April 2 Fully into flowering now. I think the tape that I put over the LED on the humidifier was more translucent than I expected, delaying flowering a week. I fed a half gallon of RAW BLOOM on April 1, and a full gallon 2 days prior. I'll need to dedoliate soon, cuz the bottom is a jungle.

April 11 Just got done with some serious defoliation. Removing all kinds of nodes that would have wound up as less than popcorn bud while taking up valuable space in the light. Some of the tips of the leaves up top got sacrificed as I waited to feed for a bit too long while I wanted for a calmag solution to be delivered. Little ugly, but no worse for the wear.