First Grow ever RQS Quick One Indoor

After yesterdays germination my new baby unfolded the green leaves. Another set of photos of the end of week 1 have been added later. All in all one of the 36 W Sansi lights does a good job for the moment. Stretching has only occured right after germination.

She is growing pretty compact, not even a füll centimeter stretching im length, but she fills over 14x14cm in wide and shows me new leaves faster and faster. Her watering needs also raise. I soaked earth by day 14 when lights, temperature and ventilation dried the pot. But then I meant it to good and overwatered her a little. Temperature in the room rose due to summerly weather around the house, but can be managed to stay between 22°C and 27°C with the exhaust ventilation

This week brought plenty of new foliage and a slight increase in height. The lady is now 12cm tall and 25cm in diameter. The number of leaves is hard to count accurately. The scent is noticeably increasing and resembles nettles but much more intense. I'm now watering based on my experiences with tomatoes; it's been too tricky to adapt the watering tutorials, but after last week's leaf weakness, things are looking good again. Still haven't fertilized; the Compo soil I'm using seems to have a balanced nutrient mix.

Foliage grows on and on. But I see a little stretch and I think that the preflowering of the headbud is going to start (pic 1). For the brown spots on the leaves I used a little bit of old tomato fertilizer I still had. But I need to buy something better soon.

Been away this weekend and came back to be sure, that my impression of last week was correct. We have a beautiful blooming flower. The lovely lady doubled her length in not more than a week. Impressive, Sadly I now have to deal with fungus gnats, which entered the growbox when I used it to sow and grow some zucchinis prior to the garden culture.

I was on vacation for a week. Before I left, I gave the plant a thorough watering and hoped it would be enough. What can I say: she looks great. The vertical growth has slowed down significantly, but the buds are gaining volume. Upon my return, the pot soaked up almost 3 liters of water when I submerged it to ensure all dry spots were rehydrated.

I cut a few leaves away for better airflow. Strange feeling just throwing them on the compost. A year ago this could have caused a police raid in your appartment and now it's totally fine. The stretch of the blooming came to an end. 40cm (15 ¾") is the final high of the main branch. But now everything get's more juicy and boofy. I pushed one sidebud away and my fingers are sticking from the resin. This will be so delicious in a few weeks. The headbud and the two largest sidebuds standing 10cm(4“) tall wach and another bud sits right below. I'm loving it. Humidity meter shows 50%, but to be on the safe side another ventilator has been placed in the tent.

My Quick One is nearing the end. I'm counting day 62 after 8 weeks and 6 days. Her buds are getting fatter and stickier by the day. Now she's showing some kind of deficiency, but she's overloaded with nitrogen, as you can see from the leaves. With probably only one to one and a half weeks left, I'm not going to start feeding her now, especially since I've avoided it so far. The smell is intense nonetheless. I'm super curious about how the trichomes look, but my phone's zoom and a magnifying glass aren’t enough to check them properly for the best harvest time. As you can see, the space between the branches is pretty tight. For the next grow, I'll definitely use some training techniques and thin out the foliage more aggressively.

The harvest is scheduled, the grow is done. I will cut the tree down on day 69 after germination. 72hrs of darkness before. Trichomes are cloudy by 90% watching through a microscope and the rest turned to amber. Sadly I'm not able to take a photo through the lenses, only with the 10x zoom of the phone, so "Trust me bro!" This will be celebrated with Peperoni Pizza and chilled coke with a good friend of Mine, who supported me through the first and legalized Grow.

Last week ended with 72 hours of darkness to let the plant dismantle the chlorophyll. The plant had no for the eye visual change against week 9 before. But the long last night messed up the appearance, so I decided to not take a sad picture before cutting. The last steps to dry were a little bit of cutting away the largest leaves and then putting them on strings to hang them for drying back in the tent.