Candy Bezels

love_2_grow The first week has passed without much fuss. Normally, I transplant the plug into a pot as soon as I see germination, but I've been so busy lately that I took a few days. I transplanted her into a one-liter pot, adding mycorrhiza to both the pot and to the plug. I kept a humidity dome (fancy talk for a clear plastic cup) over her for a couple of days before putting in my tiny humidifier in the tent. It is ridiculously small but gets the job done, considering how small the tent is. It has a timer, though, so I must remember to turn it on now and then. It’s a bit wonky, but whatever.

love_2_grow The second week of veg was even more uneventful than the first. All I did was install a couple of small fans and replace the tiny humidifier since it broke down, even though it's less than two months old. I guess it wasn't meant to run constantly. No matter, Amazon gave me a full refund. I installed another humidifier controlled by an Inkbird controller. It's a bit large for the space, but I need something to increase the humidity. The plants are still too small to transpire significantly, and the ambient humidity is relatively low in winter. The tent is a bit cramped, but it'll work until I can move the plants into my big tent in a week or so.

love_2_grow Another week has passed without much fuss. The plants sure are low maintenance when they are young. However, I found the telltale silver spots on a couple of leaves on another plant, and sure enough, I found a few thrips, although it's not a massive infestation. Yet. It's been a couple of years since I last had thrips, so I have no clue where they came from. I suspect some coriander I brought home from and am now trying to grow hydroponically. In any case, I sprayed down all plants several times with neem oil and ordered predatory mites, which should arrive today. She should get transplanted in a few days as she slowly outgrows her tiny pot. I'm fighting with the humidifier and Inkbird to maintain a reasonable humidity, but that will improve as I move the plants into my big tent after the transplant.

love_2_grow It was time to transplant and move into the big tent this week. I sprinkled the roots with myco during the transplant and placed the plant in a double pot inside the big final pot. The flexibility of using double pots is great, as I can easily take out the plant or move it around when I need it. I haven't seen any signs of thrips damage on her leaves. However, I'm still adding predatory mites and nematodes to ensure all critters are dealt with. I started sprouting some alfalfa, barley, and corn seeds, which I will turn into a sprouted seed tea in a few days. Plant - Height: 18 cm, Width: 26 cm Environment: DLI: 25, Temp: 27C, RH: 75%

love_2_grow She's been having a good week. The new soil and the sprouted seed tea I gave to her early in the week had her raging with growth It was clear that she had outgrown her pot and I had to transplant her again, only a week after the last time, but hey, having your plant love life is a good problem. The transplant went according to the regular drill of adding myco to the hole in the pot and the root ball. One new thing is that I'm trying out using coco coir mats for soil cover. It's a wee bit small for the pot but seems to work reasonably well so far. Only a couple of days after the transplant, I cut off her head! It's all a bit stressed with the second transplant and then topping, but some future travel plans have changed, so I'm aligning the grow to them.

love_2_grow I left her alone for most of this week, considering all the trauma she endured the previous week with transplanting and topping. However, I worked on the tent, adding another circulation fan, a 3D-printed camera mount, and an additional power strip. Finally, I rewired half of the tent. Towards the end of the week, it was time to start training her to even out the canopy in preparation for the flip. She is actually ready to be flipped, but another girl in the tent needs more veg, so we'll wait for now. Before the training, I installed a drip watering system, as it would have been a hassle to do it afterward. I haven't turned it on yet, but I will in the next few days to give myself enough time to dial it in before my travels. I stretched her out using binder clips and wire. Typically, I use soil anchors as well, but I couldn't this time due to the coco coir discs. This girl has thin, spindly branches. Perfect for training, but I am concerned that she will need support in flower. I saw some light interveinal chlorosis earlier in the week, which looked like a Magnesium deficiency, so I gave her an epsom salt drench, and she looked much perkier the next day.

love_2_grow This week has been a week of brutality, as I managed to break a branch on every plant in the tent. I plan to flip the girls next week, so I was a bit too overzealous in my eagerness to spread out and flat the canopy in this final week of veg. Fortunately, I was able to patch her up. A few years ago, I had a serious break on one of the plants and used regular electrical tape to fix her. After that episode, I learned that tape with glue can be a problem for some plants, so I bought tape/wrap specially meant for the task. It's been unused until now, but it sure came in handy this week. It has been two days, and most of the branch looks healthy and normal, although one fan leaf wilted. I think she will be fine, but I can't bend down the branch until she has healed, so the canopy isn't quite as flat as I'd like. I also started changing the light schedule to transition the girls from veg to flower. I changed from 24/0 to 20/4 for a couple of days, and for the last couple of days, I changed it to 16/8. Tomorrow, I will change it to 12/12 to finish the flip.

love_2_grow This first week of flower was entirely uneventful.

love_2_grow This week was only marginally more exciting than last week. I brewed compost tea with worm castings, insect frass, alfalfa meal, basalt, rock dust, kelp meal, malted barley, and molasses. To make feeding her easier, I took some cuts and defoliated her lower canopy very lightly before applying the tea. The tea solids were applied as a top dressing. Later in the week, she got an epsom salt foliar feed. Not because she needed it but simply because I sprayed another plant in the tent. One of her branches was sticking up above the rest of her canopy - the branch I had previously almost broken off, so I didn't dare to train it for a while. Now, I figured it had been long enough, so I trained it with a bit of wire and used binder clips as a weight. I'm delighted with the performance of my latest soil recipe. The plant is incredibly healthy and vibrant. There isn't a single discolored leaf on the entire plant :)

love_2_grow I was planning to clean up the lower canopy this week, but I hurt my back while biking, so that didn't happen. Hopefully, next week.

love_2_grow This week was a bit of a disaster as one of the plants in the tent hermed. I wet it down, cut it, and got it out of the tent, but some pollen was already visible, so let's see if the other girls have been seeded. Sigh :/ I finally got around to cleaning up the lower canopy, but will probably tweak it further.

love_2_grow After the herm incident last week, I moved the Runtz from my small tent into this tent to better use the space. That's pretty much it. Mid-End flower is always just a waiting game. She smells unique—nothing like anything I've grown in the past. She smells exactly like a freshly cut lawn, with touch of rosemary. It has a very herbal terp profile, with a slight hint of citrus, way, way in the back.

love_2_grow Zzzzzzzzzz. This week was entirely uneventful, as late flower usually is. It’s only a waiting game at this point. A few more weeks to go.

love_2_grow There's not much to report this week, as I ignored the plants most of the week due to travel and having guests. The only thing I did was rearrange the tent to fit a dehumidifier.

love_2_grow Another week has passed without much to report. She is slowly bulking up. We're on the homestretch now.

love_2_grow There's not long to go now, and we're getting really close to chop day. She is putting on some serious bulk lately. Her buds are thick and heavy, and I used stakes to keep some branches up. I should look at her trichomes, but I have been too busy/lazy to take out the microscope. I'm starting to see the first signs of senescence so not too much longer to go.

love_2_grow She is putting on some serious weight. Fingers crossed that I can avoid budrot, considering how chunky her buds are, but I've installed plenty of fans to provide airflow and a dehumidifier to help keep the humidity down. I'm starting to see some foxtailing, but it isn't too bad (yet?) Other than that, we're simply cruising towards the finishing line. One, maybe two weeks more.

love_2_grow We are getting really close now. I scouted the trichomes, and almost all have gone milky, with a few amber. I'll let her ride for another week, but I plan to chop her at the end of next week. Her buds are SO heavy that the branches were flopping over left and right. Fortunately, I had some plant yoyos lying around from a grow a few years ago, so I used some of them to hold up the main branches. Then, I used LST wire to anchor the smaller branches to the main ones. Considering how heavy and compact her buds are, I'm concerned about budrot, so I installed yet another fan in the tent to up the circulation even more. As for her terps, they have been evolving as the grow went on but have now settled on a straight-up mint chocolate scent. I've never grown any plant with a similar terp profile so I'm excited to see how she will end up after the dry and cure.