Day 11:
We skipped updating week 1 entirely, because, well...this seedling, as well as its backup sister (off camera in a solo cup), were not growing, and didn't have true leaves until about 2 days ago -- just cotyledon. This one finally formed some true leaves, although it is incredibly short and hugging the ground. The backup plant in a solo cup is not any better: in fact, it's worse, looking pretty damn deformed. These seeds were a year old, and not from the best source, so I am not upset.
I actually transplanted this one into my 45-gallon raised bed last week to try to get it in a better environment with better soil to try to help it along. I think that helped, but, I made a mistake. The bed was originally intended for 2 cultivars, and one never germinated, so we replaced it with this one. The mistake was, that other cultivar was an autoflower, so, our 45-galon bed now has 1 autoflowering and one photoperiodic CBD strain growing in it.
To combat this situation, I intend to mainline and train this one low for as long as the autoflowering cultivar is flowering, only then letting it grow upwards, where we will ScrOG it for flowering. So, in the end, this tiny little runt may indeed become the monster nature intended it to become. Time will tell.
Day 12:
I made a LAB serum and performed a drench and foliar spray of the bed today. It's a first time making LABs, and we had a lot of cheese. We'll see how it goes. I preserved about a gallon of it split between being refrigerated and stored with molasses.
Day 14:
It's easier for me to end the week at the end of the week, so the plant is a little older than 14 days, but it's a pain to update several plants throughout the week, so I'm calling this the end of the week to align it with actual weeks.
She's doing slightly better now, and the pictures you see today are after giving her a drought for 3 days to get the roots stretching, and then right before taking the pictures, I watered her with a mycorrhizal fungi solution to strengthen that process. We're trying a new myco solution that includes some other amendments such as biochar, EWC, and more. I look forward to seeing the progress she makes by next weekend.
Good luck with this grow., growbro🙏
i have one 'deformed (have no pix of that yet) as well but she is starting to flower real nice...glad i did not terminate her
those freaks can really surprise you👍