First Try - iGrowcan Green Gelato Auto

onioncheese Conclusion / tldr - week 1 (for more details read the posts below) ---------- After sprouting I put the plant on the windowsill of a west facing window for a couple of days, but after noticing that it grows rather upwards than sideways I decided to place it on my south facing balcony during daylight hours. I stopped watering it on day 4, since I had the feeling I had given it too much water in the first days. So far the soil still seems fairly humid, that's why I didn't water it any further in this week. As far as I can tell the plant stopped growing upwards, but the leafs still seem to be stretching slowly. Is my plant behaving normal so far? Or... - did it get to much water? - didn't it get enough light (mainly in the first days on the windowsill) - does it get to much light now outside on my balcony in the sun? This are the things I'm quite confused about. But I guess the following week will tell. A 14W 4000K LED will arrive today on day 7, so I might try skipping sunlight for the next week and set it on a controlled 18 / 6 light schedule inside. ########## Detailed reports ---------- So this is the first week of vegetation. Day 1 to 3 were spent on the windowsill facing westwards. I watered the plant daily with about 50ml of water. Since the weather got better I decided to put the plant outside on my south facing balcony on Day 4. I also gave the plant another 100-150ml of water. After checking back with it one hour later I noticed that almost all the new water was down in my little drainage plate. Day 5 was spent on the balcony aswell. I took it back in overnight and placed it on my windowsill since it still gets very cold during nighttime here. The first picture above is taken on day 6. I'm not quite sure if the plant didn't get enough sunlight or too much water, but I have a feeling that it rather grows upwards than developing the leafs. I ordered a 14W 4000K LED which should arrive in the next couple of days to give it some more light during the morning and evening hours. I didn't water the plant since day 4 now. The soil still seems to be quite damp in a depth of around 1 - 1.5cm. I'm curious to see if the sunlight and less water will change anything. It's day 7 and the last day of veg week 1 now. Today is gonna be a sunny day here, so I put the plant back out on the balcony for the day. I'm not sure if the leafs actually changed in size since yesterday, but I'll make sure to take better pictures in the upcoming days for comparison.

onioncheese So this is vegetation week 2! After mixed feelings after week 1 according to the size and growth rate, let's see how this weeks turns out. Day 1: Today is a sunny day aswell, so I put the plant outside on my balcony. Comparing the leafs to yesterday (last day of week 1) I have a feeling that the leafs got quite a bit bigger, let's see how things turn out this week! The soil seems to be getting quite dry after not watering the plant for 4 days straight while being outside in direct sunlight, so I will give it aroung 200ml of water later on. According to the forecast the next two days will be fairly warm (~25°C) and sunny, so I'll let it stay out for a couple of more days. Day 2: It seems that the plant really enjoys the sunlight. Even if it doesn't seem much if you look at the pictures, if I had to guess the two leafs almost doubled in size since yesterday. Furthermore it's height is still around 6.5cm, so it didn't stretch upwards any further since it's out in the sun on my balcony for the last 5 days. Everything seems to be going great right now. I'll check the humidity of the soil later this evening and eventually water the plant again since it has been outside in direct sunlight the whole day. Day 3: Another sunny day, so the plant is staying outside again. It seems like two new leafs start to appear in the middle. Unfortunately the next 4 or 5 days seem to be cloudy and rainy according to the weather forecast. We'll see how that'll affect the growth or if my 14W LED is actually enough for this little plant to keep on growing. Day 4: It wasn't that cloudy as predicted today, so the plant spent most of the day outside on my balcony. I just recently took it in at around 18:00 and placed her under my 14W 4000K LED. I don't know if that little light is even sufficient, but it's worth a try at least. Comparing to day 3 the two new leafs did increase in size in the last 24 hours as can be seen on the pictures. I'm just not quite sure if the growth is enough to get a reasonable sized plant in the vegetation time. Especially since light will be much more sparse in the next couple of days due to clouds an rain. The soil still seems to be humid enough, so no watering today. Day 5: The forecast said that it's gonna be cloudy and rainy today. So far the day has been okay. Unfortunately I kept my plant inside because of the forecast and put her under my 14W LED. I just put her out for the rest of the day at like 15:30. So it'll definiately get some fresh air and real sunlight. The plant grew about 1cm in height again. Not sure if this was due to bad lighting or if it's just normal stretching. At least it seems that the first two seed leafs are seperating more and more from the second pair of leafs. Day 6: As forecast the weather was fairly bad today. Lots if clouds and colder than the last several days. So I kept my plant inside. Beside the daylight coming through the window I used my LED to give her some light during the whole day. As mentioned yesterday the plant got two new leafs which keep on developing. I'm curious if they had developed faster if the weather was as nice as during the start of the week with lots of sunshine. At least the temperature and humidity seems to be alright inside under the lamp as can be seen on the little hygrometer. Since I didn't water the plant since day 1 of this week, I gave it ~60ml of water. Day7: Another rather uneventful day. After spending the morning outside in the sun I put the plant back inside for the rest of the day since it was rather cloudy and temperatures stayed below 20°C. I noticed that the smaller of the two new leafs has some yellow spots on the tips. I might have put the LED a little bit to low the last few days and it got burned.

onioncheese Day 1: Another week just started. Today is a cold and cloudy day, so another day inside for my plant. As already suspected yesterday, the smaller of the two leafs definiately seems to be burned a little bit. Maybe that's the reason why it's underdeveloped compared to the second leaf. I'm curious if this'll impact the growth of the plant in any way since it doesn't have to many leafs developed right now. Day 2: Besides the one leaf that obviously got a little light burned I noticed that one of the other leafs (the one on the right on the day 2 picture) starts to get yellow tips aswell. Maybe that's another sign of light stress. I'll move the lamp a little bit higher for now and see if it gets better. Right it's at about 20cm, but I'll adjust it to 30cm instead. Day 3: Today was another day inside for the plant. Growth is still visible comparing the pictures day by day. I still have a feeling that the plant is still quite small. Putting the light a little bit higher seems to have helped. The leafs, which were slightly hanging down at the end of the day, still look strong at the end of the day now. While testing for humidity in the soil I also found a few little white larvae hidden underneath the soil. Might be fungus gnats from the looks of it. That's why I ordererd some nematods to see if I can get rid of them. Day 4: Nothing special happend today. The plant still grows nicely even if it's still relatively small. I guess 1 LED with 1520 Lumen is just not enough to sustain proper growth. After putting the light higher the leaves started to point upwards. I take it as a good sign, since no new yellowing occured on the tips of the leafs. Day 5 + Day 6: Nothing exciting to tell, the first pair of leafs started to wilt a little bit, but the 3 fingered leafs still look alright (besides from the little lightburn). Day 7: Today my nematodes arrived. Since the plant didn't get any water the whole week I give it about 250ml of water with the nematodes mixed in. Even if it's cloudy I decided to put the plant outside again since temperatures are about 20°C. I'll continue to do the from now on since growth has been kinda slow under the LED. Maybe real light (even if it's just light trough the clouds) will have a bigger impact then my little LED.

onioncheese Week 4 has officially ended. Despite the weather being mixed I kept the plant outside most of the day. I only took it in during the night and put it under my small LED. The growth has been amazing so far. Only one of the new leafs looks a bit crooked. I don't know what went wrong there, but that's just nature I guess! :D Furthermore I have the feeling that it might be starting to turn into preflowering phase because these little white strands are forming in the very center and all around the plant where little new leafs emerged and the node seperate from the main stem. (It's best seen in the very center on the image of day 7) Since I gave it a good amount of water with the nematodes last week and the soil still seemed to be very humid, I ony just gave it ~150ml of water on day 5.