Day 7 since germination = 1st day in soil.
Looks like they all survived their relocation. Climate inside the box was a bit tropical on Day 8’s morning – time for the second fan to arrive …
Sometimes I feel tempted to open the tent and just watch them grow for an hour or so. I am sure you can see it. Biggest Pineapple is 8 cm tall by day 9, alll unfolding their second pair of (more or less) mature leaves and showing tips of the third one. No reason to give them water yet.
Inside fans and second outside fan arrived on day 11. Yet no rope holders for the lights. I wonder if the supplier smokes weed … He sent me extra pots after me telling him he already sent me more than I paid for on first, incomplete delivery. Fans do their job nicely; it’s easy to limit the temperature now to about 26°C during the days.
Activated a bag of 14 day CO2 air enricher on day 11.
Found some curled up leaf sides on the tallest plants on day 11’s evening, so I lifted the lights 10 cm. Wish I had the rope holders … Anyway, enormous growth on day 12.
On the end of their first week in final soil, plants are between 7 and 13 cm tall, with their broadest leaves spanning between 16 and 24 cm from tip to tip. First root tips appear on the bottom holes of their pots, looking bright and healthy. Each plant is spreading out its third mature leaf pair currently, and each has started to develop at least two side nodes into branches.
Plus they emight a very light, yet authentic smell.
Each drank about 1/3 – 1/4 l this week. I check soil humidity with a simple multi measurement instrument, trying to go slightly below the "moist" mark before watering again to a slight "wet" level in stem proximity.
I see no visible difference between both strains. Left row and middle on the right: Pineapple. The two others on the right top and bottom: Sunset Sherbet.
Both ladies on the lower right are the smallest. Rearranged the lighting a bit; I cannot imagine that’s already due to their smaller pots.
On to week two we go, with preparing their next drink: half a day of imprinting water with DNA integrity frequencies, and this time adding a full starter package of Hesi nutritients, but below recommended dosage as I think the substrate will not have run out of initial nutritients yet.
@Philhsy, Thank you!
Patience is not a strength of mine, so it’s a lot of fun seeing the plants grow that fast.
And, admittedly, I am very curious to see how Pineapple develops. It’s one of my absolute favourites, but the quality of it from my usual ready-to-consume supplier has dwindled. What a nice chance now –
Germany is in an awful state, but at least we can have our own panem et circensis now. Which might be connected … 😶
@Apfelsaft94, das beruhigt, vielen Dank!
Ja, sieht auch einen halben Tag nach dem Umtopfen gut aus.
Dir ebenso viel Glück! Sind ja eigentlich recht robuste Pflanzen, und ich wünschte, das ganze Wissen wäre schon in meiner Jugend zugänglich gewesen, als mein Zimmer voller *legaler* Pflanzen war.
Aber ist ja auch nix verkehrt daran, alte Leidenschaften wiederzuentdecken. Auch wenn der Klabauterbach niemals meine volle Zustimmung erhalten wird: Das ist schon eine positive Entwicklung.