Virgin Minigrow

10/02: I moved them to 4L growbags, since the roots started coming out of the Jiffy and i felt like they wanted a new home. :) At the time all 3 had developed their first pair of true leaves. I carefully watered them with pH corrected water (around pH=7). Didn't want to overwater them so i started out with 250mL per pot. I spotted 2 gnats, really hope they are not going to be a problem :( I killed them and put up some sticky thingys, might take more precautions if i spot more of them... So far it seems i am free of pests. :)

15/02: First feeding with BioBizz Grow ( 2mL/1,5L ). They really seemed to like it, since the growth has exploded since then. I always correct with pH- because my tap water is very alkaline. 22/02: Second feeding. A faint smell is starting to blow in my face whenever i open the tent. Smells good. :) The lamp is now hanging at around 35cm from the plants tops, giving them around 500-600 PPFD (at 80%)

The Trinity continues to grow happily! 😊 At this point they have developed nice and thick stems. The Skunk XL displayed a growth spurt over the last week and ist now the largest plant. 💪 Honestly didn't expect them to fill the space so quickly 😅 27/02 - I decided this would be the day i top them just above the 5th node. (Originally i wanted to wait a few more days, but they had already grown so big i believe they can handle it). Lets see if that was a good call 😅 The humidity here is quite high currently, trying my best to get it down for next week where i plan to change the lifecycle to flower (if they have recovered from the topping by that point). 👌 Wondering if i should also start defoliating a bit, some of the leaves are quite huge. ^^

Been kinda busy, so haven't had time to update here. ^^ In this week i prepared them for flowering, added a (flimsy) net for support and did some very light defoliating on the bottom, since some of the leaves were browning anyway and i had a hard time watering them through all the green. So far they seem mostly healthy (as far as i can tell). They recovered from the topping after 3-4 days and continued to grow quickly after that, developing a fair amount of future bud sites. As expected, it's getting kinda crowded in the small space, but they don't really seem to care. :)

09/03: Switched light from 18/6 to 12/12 The first fine hairs started to show after a few days. :) Smell is also getting more noticable, but it's still just faint. This week they i also started feeding them Bloom, Top-Max and Alg-A-Mic. Things seem to go well so far, they are stretching quite a bit.. There will probably be juust enough space when they finish. Next time i will probably initiate flowering earlier.. 4 weeks of veg seems to be pushing it for the small grow space. But that's how you learn, right? ;) Will be updating dates on images when i have the time.

Hadn't had the time to update the last weeks. At the end of week 6 had stretched quite a bit and continued to grow pistils. Getting ready for Lollipopping.

Week 7: The plants were lollipopped by removing leaves on the lower third as well as small branches that sadly didn't reach the canopy. The stretch had almost come to a halt at this point, which is a good thing since i was slowly running out of vertical space which also resulted in the Skunk getting too close to the sun for some time.. hencewhy is dub her Ikaros ;) This week the first trichomes started to become visible to the eye, especially on the Mother Gorilla, as well as the smell getting increasingly stronger. It's a wild cocktail coming from these 3 strains :D

Since Ikaros (Skunk) stretched more than the other two and started to cover the others i put the other two on a pedestal to get a bit more even canopy. Sadly Ikaros seems quite sickly, with yellow leaves at burned (curling) leaves. Also losing some leaves on the bottom. Not sure what caused it, but i suspect she got too much light? I am only feeding a fraction of the recommended nutrients, but they are not showing nutrient deficiencies as far as i can tell with my beginner eye. But maybe some of you know it better? Humidity has been suboptimal as well, especially after watering its rising up to almost 70%, although i don't trust my humidity meter 100%.. it's showing some weird numbers sometimes. Well.. all in all i am happy with the growth so far. I hope Ikaros will recover. On a sidenote, the plants are starting to become super stinky, and especially the white widow is covered in a nice mist of trichomes already.. definitely living up to the name. I smell some piney scents, which i really like. But also a very stinky, cheesy smell which is suspect is the skunk.. also living up to it's name. ^^ For the Gorilla, i feel like it's somewhat of a sour chocolate smell. Also very nice, but again hard to differentiate with the mix of smells coming from the tent. ^^

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Week 10: Buds are developing nicely. Really nice trichomes :) The Skunk has the largest buds, the Gorilla has the prettiest and the Widow is the stickiest. Noice.

Week 11 is where things got quite stinky - in a good way 😏👌 All three are starting to show varying degrees of purple. Cold temps or genetics? Not sure but it's pretty to look at😅

Week 12 i stopped adding any more nutrients. Only pH corrected water.. Maybe a bit late, since flower progresses quickly. 😅 Time went so fast now they are almost ready for harvest. 😲 Really pretty flowers imo. 😊 Enjoy some Bud/trichome porn! 😋 Will harvest once i start seeing amber trichomes, aiming for mostly milky ones. 👌