Jack Herer : Photoperiod : Green House Seed Co : Indoors : Grow 02

Seeds soaked for 8 hours then placed into seed starting cubes. I won't use those again though because it feels like they hugged the seeds too tightly and prevented one of them from getting the taproot down and out quickly. Two of three seeds popped. 30 gallon fabric pots with Build-A-Soil 3.0 Mix living soil. During the seedling week I top dressed / watered in with Build-A-Soil's "Build-A-Flower", Build-A-Soil's "Nutrient Mix", Organics Alive "V-Micro 7", Organics Alive "V-Cal 15", and Roots Organics "Rain" wetting agent. Added about a dozen Red Wiggler worms to each pot, sowed Build-A-Soil's cover crop seeds, and added straw mulch layer on the top. The pots are setup on tray-and-wick irrigation bases, but I plan to mostly water over the top so I can add various nutrient solutions appropriate for living soils. One plant, "Plant A", sprouted on Sep 22 and is doing much better than the other, even though Plant B sprouted a week earlier on Sep 15. I believe this had to do with the cubes I started the seeds in. Essentially I think the seed was planted "upside down" so the taproot had to correct itself and make a turn downward, and because the cubes were a dense, tight material the taproot had a hard time getting out into the actual soil where the nutrients are. I believe this stunted the growth of Plant B. Because Plant A is so healthy, and seems to be developmentally a couple weeks ahead of Plant B, I went ahead and topped Plant A on Oct 09 (17 days since sprout) and began LST for mainlining. Now all that remains is the material at the third node - everything above and below has been removed. I figured even if this action stunts Plant A a little bit, it will just serve to bring them back into line developmentally. Hopefully the decision to do this to such a small plant wasn't a mistake...