Pheno hunt is rolling along smoothly. Gave the plants their first feeding.
Top dressed with coast of Maine lobster compost cut with Stonington blend to give a little aeration. 3:1 ratio
coast of Maine plant food 5:2:4. Roughly 1 tbsp per pot. Mixed in with compost and soil and scratched into top 4 inches
Watered in with a blend of Neptune harvest liquid fertilizer in ratio 1:2:1 (npk) watered down to 1tsp/gal in this order:
Fish: Crab: Kelp
The ZB is definitely a shorter stockier plant with short internodal spacing. Originated from very tiny seeds which might explain the smaller plant form at the start. Once it puts in some biomass it might pick up the speed.
HP seems to like to stretch a little more. Growing like crazy
Rainbow belts looking like the model freak of nature that it is. Near perfect.
18hrs post feed/ top dress and the plants are recovering beautifully.
Liquid fertilizer is not ideal as it's expensive and you're paying a lot for water. But for my grow it's very necessary to lower solution pH into something acceptable. Next week I'm hoping to harvest some young plants in a nearby forest to create a brown sugar fermented plant juice in order to get away from the high nutrition of emulsions.
Update day 19
Seems that ZB HATES having it's roots dry. Really needs to be watered almost daily to keep it happy. Strange