09/02/24 - Week 3
Plants seem to have recovered from Topping, but growth has slowed quite a bit which is to be expected. I repotted and moved a bunch of my house plants today, so I made a new batch of soil to fix the soil level of my two girls, as once their soil settled from watering, it was far too low in the grow bags. I don't like that I had to retransplant them and add more stress, but I think it is needed to make sure I have enough space for strong root growth. I carefully filled 2 new 5 gallon bags with some FFOF and my own soil mix (Coco Coir, light worm castings and bone meal, lots of perlite, and some Mycorrhizae fungus. My larger plant's new growth from the topping sight looks nute burned, and so I wanted to dilute the soil they were already in, and I watered with pure distilled water PH'd to 6. However, the other plant seems to be doing fine and has had all the same nutes and treatments done to it, so I am not sure why the larger one seems to be struggling right now. I am hoping that it won't be a big deal down the road and that I can get it corrected. I don't expect much growth this week while they recover from the second transplant and the rough week 2 I put them through.
I still have the runt of the tent growing under a light on my kitchen counter. It has been doing very well for what it is. The newest leaves seem to be more normal than the first couple sets, but it is still very slow growing (despite still being under 400ppfd and 18/6 light schedule). I transplanted it to a larger ceramic container today as it was filling out the starting cup. Always good to have her as a back up for the tent if I manage to kill one of the others, but at this rate she will need 4 months of veg before being big enough to flower 😂
09/03/24 - update - Plants seem happy. Signs of growth again, so the re-transplant doesn't seem to have negatively effected them. Wish the bigger plant didn't look so sad, but once it's big enough to lollypop it won't have those scars, so it is what it is. Nothing new done to them, just letting them drink the watering I gave yesterday and soak in the light.
09/06/24 - update - Both plants are doing very well. The transplant seems to have helped a lot more than it hindered them. I pruned the burned leaves on the larger plant as they were covering the lower leaves. After doing that, the plant has exploded with growth in last 48 hours. I also topped the second node branches of the smaller plant to encourage another branch split and widen her out a bit more. I probably should have waited for a couple more nodes, but this will keep the plant more symetrical, and it seems to be doing fine post topping. Finally starting to look like real plants now, which is exciting.
Hey growmie, your babies look great, don't worry they gonna develop into strong beautiful ladies! I guess if it's been 10 days since planting the seeds, then they must be around 5-6 days old. Also it doesn't really matter because I had plants that looked underdeveloped during first couple of weeks but they grew to become biggest yielders ;) Enjoy your grow!
Damn dude looking good!! Taken some notes already since my LSSH's seem to lack behind a lot, but I made big mistakes in the beginning so its nice to see what they could already look like if i'd taken more care :D
good job at controlling the pest dude.
Happy Growing!