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(Soil is 2/3 generic soil from store, 1/3 perlite. I flushed them a few days before planting them into soil.)
My initial intention was to grow one plant.
#1 was germinated by peat pellet - paper towel - soil (I had no idea what I was doing). Putting it to soil was a last ditch attempt, I was ready for it to not sprout. The root had barely broken the seed after a week in a combination of peat pellet and paper towel, so I started #2 the same day I planted #1.
#2 was germinated by 3-4 days in glass of water.
Shoutouts to Lauterbach for his part in making this happen.
I had worries about potential drainage issues and indeed it seems like I have them. I ended up having signs of overwatering on #1. Nothing much to show on #2. No nutrients yet.
Experimented a bit with 24 hour light schedule but decided against it to encourage root growth so that I can transplant it to a fabric pot.
Already got some smells beginning to take over the room, this is definitely not a strain light on smells. Installed the carbon filter, moved to a fabric pot. Watered once since moving to the fabric pot on day 11, which seemed to help. Now considering switching to a 3-4 day watering schedule.
From what I've seen my plants have grown a lot faster than many others get to in 13 days. I hope I'm not jinxing it by saying this.
Moved light further away to encourage more vertical growth. Amsterdam Genetics calls this strain more indica, which may explain why it's so bushy. With a 40x40 tent I don't want to have too much bushiness.
I'm not very happy with the temperatures inside the tent and I have ordered another fan to use as an air intake.
Tough week all around tbh, but both are in pre-flowering now.
#2 was looking a bit unhappy with drainage issues and whatnot in the plastic pot, so early on also I moved it to a 5L fabric pot.
Started having some issues looking like calcium and potassium deficiencies. I was afraid of giving them too many nutrients so I had gone several waterings without any feedings. Fed both with bio-grow (which has potassium) and calmag late into the week, which over few days didn't seem to help with the dying leaves (which looked sadder by the day) but at least kept the rest going strong enough. Perhaps being a bit too careful, I cut off the leaves that were looking bad and were getting worse, so if they had some form of infection or whatever they'd minimally harm the rest of the leaves. This is giving some smaller leaves near the bottom of #1 a chance to stretch and grow, which is good to see.
Even after the defoliation #1 seems to be doing fine, still growing, doing its pre-flowering stretch, and #2 (which needed less leaf removal) is doing even better, it reached almost the height of #1.
I upgraded my carbon filter and added an intake fan, but just the tiny bit of smell that leaks overnight can be rather intense. Thankfully opening the window for a bit is sufficient.
Posting this on day 24, updated diary til day 22. In the pictures I haven't yet added (for week 4) the plants have done fine. I'll feed them again tomorrow.
Wish me luck with the next weeks!
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