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- Soaked seed in a cup of water: 13 Feb 2025
After soaking for a bit the seed dropped to the bottom and then after a day and still no sign of the taproot. The seed seems fine though!
- Planted the seed in a small pot: 15 Feb 2025
Since there wasn’t any sign of a taproot, decided to plant the seed in a small paper pot for easier upgrade later.
- Germinated 18 Feb 2025
Dear reader,
As you can see, she is doing fantastic!
This week will be the end of her seedling phase and the start of her vegetative phase. Since she is an autoflower, I will consider her officially in 'veg' when her first pair of multi-fan leaves start growing.
She sprouted in a small paper pot and will be transplanted to her final pot very soon. In the meantime I gave her a crystal companion so she can have a close confidant next to her lovely neughbours in the tent.
After she didn’t show major growth on days 6 till 8 I thought this might be because of the paper pot being too small. So she was transplanted on day 8. Because of the use of the BioTabs plant perfect pack, and the consideration that the mycorrhiza need good connection to the tooth’s I decided to peel the paper pot off before transplanting. This might have caused unnecessary stress but maybe worth the trade off.
Dear reader,
She is doing very well after the transplantation. BioTabs seem to be helping her greatly too!
I’ve been feeding her water by hand with a syringe until now. Grok revelead that 70 mL of water a day was too little, so I’ve brought it up to 200 mL a day.
She endured under-watering, a lamp hung up too far and a transplanting. She is doing well despite all these challenges!
I will of course continue to do my best to give her the best conditions possible.
Dear reader,
I’m happy to note that this Runtz Lady is happy in her small home. Despite the limited size of her tent, she greatly enjoys her 20 liter fabric root holder.
Recently she has had her watering droppers installed. Two drip-heads, delivering her 30ml of H2O in 30 seconds every 2 hours.
She specifically enjoys the fact that she shares the tent with other beautiful plants.
We are looking forward to install the fan later this week.
What is fascinating is that the CO2 measures as 1200 during my real night, even though I sometimes do a 24 hour light cycle. I am grateful for all the answers about the 24 hour lighting method and will not try it again. Blessings to other growers.
I am thinking about giving her 24h lights a few days a week and then go back to 18h. Just to give her a boost. Will this irregular light schedule harm her?
My first thought is that it doesn’t matter much since she is an auto, however I know that plants love balanced environments.
18/6 is optimal........you will not achieve anything by going to 24/0.........except a bigger electricity bill and a freaked out plant.
All cannabis plants, autos included, NEED "sleep" during every 24 hour cycle for a correctly functioning metabolism.
A plant with a messed up metabolism will never grow to its full potential.
It will not finish faster at 24/0..........a plant can only grow so much during any 24 hour period and this growth tops out at about yhe 18 hour mark......this is a scientific fact, not ghetto science!
People who run 20/4 or 22/2 or 19/5 are kidding themselves, all they are doing is wasting electricity and paying higher bills for no benefit.
Don't do it!
Dear reader,
She is enjoying her new fan a lot! I have decided to place the fan outside of the tent since I have very limited space inside. It is quite noisy unfortunately but nothing too loud.
Also, I can definitely smell her every time I open the tent! I found out I was overwatering. I am confident we will find the ideal setting.
She is starting to give 7 finger leaves! Amazing, great sign of her happiness. I decided not to top her but go for LST instead.
you can't just fertigate as much as you want, regardless of whether it is some sort of magical coco or anything else.
The plant must drink fast enough to allow for it. The substrate must be constituted properly. If your plant isn't drinking down roughly 1/3rd of the water weight between fertigations, you are probably overwatering or increasing risk of problems. If the plants are at all droopy after fully saturating the substrate, that is indicative of a poorly constituted substrate, and double for any multi-fertigation per day method.
you don't choose the volume. you give enough to get the job done. If soilless, which i would expect/assume, the last fertigation should get at least a 10% runoff to avoid buildup. Simply time how long the slowest pot takes to accomplish the task, and that's your run-time. If consistent about repeating after an appropriate dryback, it'll requier a nearly equivalent volume each time.
Also from what i've read, no reason to push beyond 3 fertigations per day. There was no benefit by comparison from an initial study. initial studies are not to be trusted, but in this case... there's definitely a ceiling for the effect and it probably won't vary too much by genotype in this case. Context makes it a bit more trustworthy conclusion
So, with the correct pot size and a plant drinking fast enogh to allow it, it's a great way to do things. Just don't try to force a square peg through a round hole. Definitely don't pick a volume to give based on what your gut tells you. Use a volume that accomplishes the task correctly.
Dear reader,
After a month in the vegetative state, she still seems determined to grow further. After her first set of 7 fingers, you can now see her 9 fingers coming up!
She responded well to the LST which I supplemented with some defoliation of the lower growth sites. I also cleared up the lowest node hoping it can become a long branch growing towards the other side.
Unfortunately, the fan stopped working this week, so I have placed a temporary tabletop fan in the tent until I find a new fan for her. I also did some extra LST on the lower branches. No sign of pre flower yet!?
Dear grower,
I am having an issue with slightly yellow leaf tip. I only used BioTabs Plant Perfect Package. I am suspecting she needs some extra food, but I don’t want to over feed her. Considering giving her BioBizz Grow (little by litttle). Do you recommend this technique?
This is a sign of overfeeding not under. Give her some time and just water it should be ok.
Biobuzz is a nice feed but don't use it below 6.2PH as its not recommended by them.
Dear reader,
She is doing very well! Finally started to show some signs of pre-flower. I expect her to start flowering by the end of this week.
I started giving her some extra Bio Bizz Bio Grow so she has extra energy for this prolonged vegetative state.
Martian
