Day 9 17/04
Critical Lemon is past the cotyledons has true leaves we have reached Veg.
Aside from a slightly stuck seed case all was well until it started showing signs of stress yesterday evening.
Some research suggests it's a bit of over watering and too much light.
So switched back from 24hr light (I went to 24hr to counter a really cold spell where I am that was dropping the temps in my tent a lot more than I had expected) to 18hr to try and reduce stress and while I had been giving a bit more water to try and up the humidity, I have switched to watering around the edges of the pot more and am going to try placing a separate try of water in the tent.
Zamaldelica still a no show.
if it doesn't show up by the end of this week I will see if I can reclaim the seed and give it a last chance in a bag with a wet paper towel.
Kinda down to have a no show so early on, but that's part of the game and why I started with two.
Day 11 19/04
Critical Lemon
Chlorosis has spread but shes putting out new leaves and her current ones are still growing, slight curling up at the edges, hasn't been watered yet and to try and help the process along I dug a small channel about 4 cm out from the base to try and improve drying speed through increased surface area.
Zamaldelica
I got frustrated figured maybe I'd over watered that too so I gently moved the top layers of earth until I found the seed, un-popped. She has gone into a bag with a damp paper towel as a last chance
Could be the temp drop that came in, Could be me giving too much water. I don't have much hope but we will see. As it is 420 I can atleast pick up some more seeds to learn with :)
Day 13 21/04
Critical Lemon
So Chlorosis at the base of the leaf is still there but the ends look healthy. While deeper in the pot is still damp its more than finger depth down so last night at the start of the light cycle I gave it a light watering to get things going, dont want to end up absolutely drying out swapping one stress for another as I thought that might of been the reason for the new leaves growing a little odd.
symptoms seem to be - light clawing up at leaf margins, chlorosis at base of leaves and new growth. Can't find a match to symptoms, so going to try a very light dose of nutes (200ml of 1ml/L BioBizz Grow) to see if things pick up tonight at the start of the light cycle.
Zamaldelica
no signs of life.
I think I will call it on this one (sorry little one)
Day 14 22/04
Critical Lemon
I figured out the issue, the timer wasn't set to 18-6 L-D but to 22-2 L-D (I know I was careful to set it so fiik how it went wrong) I dropped it right down to 16-8 to try and give it time to not stress.
Probably fucked things shes a little short and has burn marks on one of her first true leaves and the margins of a new growth look singed.
Checked the soil. under the surface it is damp but not wet so she will be ok for another day.
As the Chlorosis looks reduced hopefully this change to light will fix it all and this girl who is fighting hard will get to put on some real heavy growth.
Zamaldelica
She is gone, but I want to order some of these seeds again to try out. (though it'll be a few grow cycles later as I picked up some interesting seeds from the 420 sales)
Lessons Learnt
When the plant tells you what is wrong, listen to it ffs!
Had I done that and double checked my hardware set up I could of improved things five days ago.
(if it looks like light stress, walks like light stress and quacks like light stress, guess what it probably is!)
looks good, I'm currently growing this also. is it a slow flowering strain? im at day 40 and not even a single white hair. its like its just frozen in time.
@Boogie_Grows, Hey man, aye I've been keeping an eye on yours to see how its going as not many seem to grow it.
This grow has felt a lot like it gives little signals while slowly building up in the background before it takes its next step. I had a lot of the grow sites getting really light but no flowers, till it flipped and all sites had plenty in under a week. (either that or my out of practice arse missed things 😅)