Grow #4.2: Autopot Run

FeebleSnane Well, this diary is going to be far less detailed than usual. I was busy and lazy after making this, so we're skipping 10 weeks of diary. This is day 78 since the plants sprouted, and day 22 of flower. (week 3 of flower) This is my first time growing with Autopots and coco coir, so I under watered both plants for the first couple weeks. I was manually watering them while they were seedlings, and the coco appeared to be wet, but I don't think there was as much water in there as I expected. After realizing this and watering more, the plants grew much better, and shortly after that I turned on the Autopot reservoir. I had an autoflower tent starting at the same time as this tent, so I kept these in veg until the autoflowers were well into their flower stage, which gave these plants about 8 weeks of veg. I'm using the General Hydroponics 3-part nutrient kit, and I followed the "light" feeding schedule on their website through the whole veg phase, and the plants seemed perfectly happy with that. I don't remember exactly when, but I topped both plants at the 5th node, and removed the lowest node, so each plant has 8 main branches going through the scrog net. The Papaya Sherbert looks like it wanted slightly more light than the Orange Sherbert because the node spacing is a little larger than I'd like it to be, but it's perfect on the Orange Sherbert. I hope that I some day build the courage to strip everything below my scrog net before switching to flower, but that didn't happen this grow. Hopefully my light is powerful enough to give the lower buds sufficient light. Both plants have loved the Autopot system since I figured out my coco situation, and I'm debating if I want to set up my other tent with it. The main stem/trunk on both plants are very strong since I've used silica in the reservoir this time around. I'm hoping it will make the branches strong enough to hold the buds when they start getting bigger. The node spacing on the Orange Sherbert looks like it will make very nice, long buds on the main branches. The tertiary(?) branches coming off the Papaya Sherbert are coming off the main branches and reaching perfectly straight up, which makes me happy. I've noticed the trichome development on the Papaya Sherbert seems far ahead of the Orange Sherbert, even having a nice covering on the fan leaves I'm trimming off. On the note of fan leaves, I've been assassinating those things all grow, and it never seems like enough. Both plants are producing a ton of leaves, and they get big very fast. Overall I'm super excited about this grow so far, but I'm withholding excitement. My grows have a history of pollinating in week 5 of flower, so I must remain vigilant.