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Day 1: Not sure if posting this right after I did my germination section is the way its done or not, but this is veg stage so here we go. I wanted to do a day by day so cant really skip day 1 can we. There is an overview of my setup in the germination week section if you care to take a look. Day 3: I let the humidifier go ape in the veg enclosure overnight, and it rained. Effectively drip fed a couple containers. Luckily the moisture level seems right. No one seems overwatered. Maybe I will stick with the controller even if I am looking for 90% RH. IDK why I did that. I went through all the trouble of making things stable in here, only to try something new while I had newborns in big pots. Wasnt the smartest thing. But they are still trucking. As much as a seedling can truck, anyways. Day 7: So far, so good. no signs of overwatering. Looks a little dry up top but underneath is right where I want it. I am pretty happy with the soil aeration. Starting a new week tomorrow. See you there.

Day 8: Well its been a solid week. Seedlings dont even have any imperfections. Specimen 1 that got over-watered from the runaway humidifier is about a day ahead of the others by the looks of it. Maybe I could up the water. Gave them a nice dose today and the top dried out quick. I can see its nice and moist deep in the pots, but not too wet. The XS3000 PRO has been adjusted to 100% intensity, and put at a distance of 24 inches, casting 550 PPFD +/-10 on all specimens. I would appreciate a little more heat while still in the seedling stage. Temperature and RH holding steady at 81F and 85% respectively. I ordered an additional 2.5x5 Vivosun tent to dry in. A strange tent dimension, to be sure. It has enough room to accomodate a couple of those 24-inch hanging racks and a fan with a bit of wiggle room. Going to pair it with an exhaust on a controller for that sweet 60/60 action (I barely know how to cure and this is the one thing people seem to agree on). Some sweet pics of that incoming. Thanks for stopping by! Stay tuned! Day 11. The pace is picking up. I havent had to water much at all I premoistened with PH water, and its really holding on in there. When I probe it, its still nice and moist just under the surface despite looking so dry up top. The probe goes in very easy and you can tell theres plenty of air in there. There was an ever so slight bit of upward leaf curl on the outer edges of a fan leaf or two, so I turned the light down to 85% at current distance. It seemed to remedy it rather quickly. Day 14. All good under the hood. They didnt look thirsty but I gave them .5 liters each just to keep the top from being too dry. They did not seem to notice it. The top is already looking a bit dry in some spots after a few hours, but the middle and bottom are still nicely moist. Will see how the water dispersed tomorrow and decide. Watering in veg is kinda weird sometimes. I just dont want to go over. They always stunt on me. What a drag. Not this time though. Thanks for checking out week 2. Check back later for a week 3 update.

Day 15: I gave them that additional .25 liters I was talking about. Things arent drying out as fast, and they all look good. Bumped the water up to 6.0ph. No nutes yet. No reason to mess with a good thing. The pace is quick. Girls are praying. The single XS3000 PRO is still set where it was, which is now about 21 inches from canopy. The plants are getting just over 550 PPFD each at the apical. I plan to leave it where it is for now. I did have to pluck some extraneous branches that emerged from the cotyledon on specimens 3 and 4. Also, my drying tent is here. A Vivosun 2.7x5 (weird). I have an additional exhaust/smart controller combo on the way as well. If you remember from the germination week entry, the flowering tent has a scrog in it. It's on week 6 and is nearly ready. I should have that all up and running well before then. Bonus pics of that harvest when it happens. I dont want to post too much about plants that arent in the diary. Thanks for stopping by. ---- Day 16: A tiny bit of upward curling along the leaf edges across specimens. Its probably time to start backing down the heat. I back the light down 15% to bring the temps down a bit without adjusting exhaust. I have a nice climate going in there and a constant negative pressure and its stable. Specimen 4 experienced a small crack in a fan leaf. But its minor. Not even visible at 4 feet away. The drying tent has been put up. I am impressed at the quality improvements Vivosun made in their basic tent series compared to just 2 years ago. The fit was quite nice. There were no flaws or hangs in the zipper. The floor tray is now oversized instead of barely latching on. The seams and stitching are improved and there is reinforcement in the corners. I am sure it needs a light leak test, but it seems fit for purpose. ---- Day 17: Water uptake has exploded. It drank all the water I gave it over the last 2 days as well as some of the baseline moisture I was maintaining in the bottom 2/3 of the pots. I gave them all 1 full liter of water today. We will see what the situation is there tomorrow. I just dont want to stunt them with overwatering. They are growing nice and fast. Will probably start in on some training soon. ---- Day 20: LST today. The lower branches were long enough that they would quickly orient themselves into little mini canopies if I did some LST on the main branch. So I did. And with a little help from me they all had space. I just made them as even as I could and called it. Pretty satisfied with it so I dont foresee any fiddling for at least a few days. I only defoliated the one fan leaf on each plant that managed to make unavoidable contact with the soil. I did manage the rest of the fan leaves out of the way of the main branch so the new nodes have the best chance. Everyone got a solid liter of water today. Bumped Ph up to 6.1. It felt like a lite watering this time around. I may do another round of 1L each tomorrow. Better under than over. Can always add a little more.

Day 22: LST looking good. With the branch tops getting big, the water uptake shot up. I doubled the amount per feeding to 2 liters each. The soil was nearly bone dry. I suspect 2 liters might have been too much. Everyone recoiled a bit, aside from specimen 2 which took it like a champ. They also might not like the contorting I put them through, and this was also most minimal on specimen 2. Everything else in the configuration remains relatively unchanged. Things are a little crowded for my tastes, but all the branches are moving fast and I should be able to clear some stuff out in a day or two. I want to avoid trimming the main stem fan leaves for a while, as when I do it, new node growth along the main stem basically comes to a halt, and I do need them to be a bit longer first. Will see how it goes. ---- Day 25: Specimen 1 top snapped in the night. Trained too tight. Thats OK I was a couple days from topping anyways. Everyone looking good. Did some defoliation on first leaf set that came from the branches. When the tops clear these big fans leaves I will feel a lot better about it though. ---- Day 27: Everyone is topped now. Not all in the same spot. I went with what felt good. Everyone also lost at least 1 fan leaf each which was crowding the joint. Everyone has at least 8 branches and there are no stragglers to cut. Going to wait a bit to cut the rest of those main stem fan leaves. Its not totally obvious from this bird's eye view, but it is getting much taller.

Day 29: Week 5 here already. Nothing much has changed as far as the parameters for the diary. They are taller. Thats about it. I have been retraining and selectively taking leaves from the middle every other day. I think these specimens will form a nice scrog. I am considering backing the light levels down a bit to encourage a little more internodal spacing. Harvest day for half of the prior grow came today. Theres still 2 plants in there, but I included some bonus pics of that. I wont harp on it too much as that grow is not part of the diary. I just wanted to include something that gives a scope of the grow. The drying tent is finished with exhaust, circulation fans, and a dehumidifier. I suspect the last two plants from the previous grow will be out in a week or two. Now that I have bigger grows going, I will need a better harvesting protocol. I completely destroyed the room I used for trim jail. I might just do it all IN the drying tent next time to contain the material and use it as a hood for drawing air. The entire house smelled like Huckleberry. ---- Day 34: They really didnt like being retrained, heavily defoliated, and overwatered all in one day.

Day 36: Back in action after overwatering. They are competing for space. So I am going to move them into the flowering tent tomorrow. They still need to be scrogged before a flip to flower. I did do some defoliation on the fan leaves around the outside that were pointing down due to the training, and some of the more interior ones to open up the secondary branches. Thats looking pretty good so far. I will try to keep as many as I can growing upward. Will see how node spacing goes. All parameter in the diary are the same as last week, though they are somewhat taller and the water ph has been bumped up to 6.2. Still no fertilizers or other inputs unless you wanna count the ph-down solution which is fair. The scrogged Huckleberry I harvested last week is done drying and is moved into jars. It all weighed up to 9.9 oz before it got lidded up. Will keep uploading a fresh pic daily. Thanks for stopping by. ---- Day 37: Got them into the flowering tent.

Day 43: Retraining it every couple days or so. A lot of these new tops look great, but they were fighting for space being too short to push away from each other, so i took some of their leaves underneath. Finally gave it a bit of fertilizer. I have to get in there to pick which tops will win and which will get cut out, I will give it some more time though. ---- Day 45: Raised the plants up some so it will be easier to work on. Brought the net down and let the trainers loose.

Day 50: Canopy is spreading out nicely. Things are still a bit cramped. I am conservative about cutting. So many of them are reaching and may yet find a good spot.

Day 57: Things moving along fine. Little bit of nutrient issues, so I started feeding. Just going to keep tucking and training for now. Theres some light defoliation when I train, but not much.

Day 65: Just took about 100 clones from these. Doesnt even look like I did anything (day 64 for reference). I hopefully I get a little more reach from some of these before i do a big defoliation and flip them.

Back after a reporting gap. In that 20 days or so I just let things stretch as it moves into flower, taking branches to make room, and defoliating. Things got a little taller than I wanted but overall I am happy with the spacing. There was a slight molybdenum deficiency that went away when I started using my flower booster. But other than that, nothing all that interesting.

Day 19 of flower. Just defoliated. Wondering if I shouldnt cut out more branches. We will see how it looks tomorrow and decide. I am getting good light penetration even lower down. So we will see.

Heading into week 4 of flower. The smell is ungodly good. Climate is holding optimal conditions for weeks now. Harvest day is sneaking up oh man my neck hurts already.

Things are trucking along nice and fast. Buds visibly bigger by the day. Nice trichome development going on. Not much smell unless you agitate them and they go crazy.

Moving into the last half of flower now. Things mostly ok but that tall one in the back is recovering from uptake issues. The green is on the way back in. Hope yalls grows are going ok. see you next time.

Well I am coming up onto the end of week 6. Despite the ugly yellow gong on on one plant back there it seems to be doing ok. Not much saving those leaves but her trichomes are progressing all the same. Everyone else seems to be trucking right along as well. Added TPS Billions to the mix. Its kind of like Recharge but with trichoderma. Probably a little late in flower to be trialing that but it probably wont hurt.

The start of this week marks 8 weeks since flower. That tall one in the back has spent the entire grow being a lighter color, then losing much of it, and now any green that comes back gets immediately swapped out for red. Not sure what I did to this one early on but its been lighter colored and stretchier the entire time.

Well thats my grow diary. I hope it ends up being informative of helpful to someone somewhere along the line. I have more grows going, but I am going to skip on diaries for now. See you next time.