First Grow | Sundae Driver

PDanklin Week 1 of Veg! She's looking good so far and starting to pick up momentum. I just ordered the Advanced Nutrients Starter Pack and some ProMix HP so hopefully by the time it gets here she will be ready for a bigger pot and some nutrients. Transplanting at the end of the week. 8/2/2025- Just transplanted her into a one gallon and started her on nutrients. I got the starter kit from Advanced Nutrients so I am following their feeding chart. Also topped her, hopefully the transplant plus the topping won't be too much at once but we will find out.

PDanklin 8/4/2025- It's week 2 of Veg baby! I'm really enjoying taking photos and documenting everything for this grow diary, almost as much as growing the plants! I'm looking forward to future grow diaries and maybe some contests!! On to the star of the show, the Sundae Driver is pluggin along nicely 💪 or so I think 😅This is my first grow and don't have much to compare to besides looking at other grow diaries but environment/setup can change so much so who knows really. Bumped up the PPFD to ~578. I put her in a bigger pot and a mix of ProMix HP, EWC, Perlite and Gypsum. After thinking it through, I'm not sure if I really needed to put any extra amendments in the ProMix HP because it already has perlite in it and the whole point in using the ProMix was because it was inert and then I went and pretty much undid that... I don't think it will cause any issues and I haven't seen any burn on the leaf tips yet. These little mistakes are good though! This is how I learn and now I know for next time! I put the Gypsum in there as kind of an experiment. I don't think it was necessary but I think it should help with calcium right? I started the seed in FF OF because I was planning on using that as my base soil until I decided on using Advanced Nutrients and they recommend starting with an inert medium so I pivoted to using ProMix HP instead. Next grow I will start with ProMix HP mix so I don't have to worry about transplanting so soon. I definitely could've left her in the solo cup for a couple of weeks but I was excited to use the nutrients 😁 8/07/25- It's about half way through week 2 of Veg and she is looking beautiful and happy!! Internodal growth and spacing is looking good. It appears that there is some new growth coming out of where I topped the plant... I'm not sure if I accidently FIMed it? I'm just going to let it do it's thing for now, more tops/bud sites can't be that bad right? 😅 8/08/2025- I fed/watered her today with the same Week 1 solution I mixed up last Saturday so it had almost been a week since last feeding. I've been lifting the pot everyday and keeping a close eye on her water intake. 💪 8/09/2025- I noticed a some tacoing starting to begin on the top fan leaves, at least that's what I think is happening. It would make sense since I put her in a bigger pot(which lifted her up a bit) and increased the light intensity. So I took her off the box I had her on and the light is lifted as high as it can go so that should solve the problem I believe/hope. 🙌

PDanklin 8/11/2025- It's day one of Week 3 of Veg and she is coming along quite nicely. She is short and squat, which I like but I feel like she might a be a little slow in the growing department? It honestly could be just me being impatient 😅 also I'm used to growing outdoors in the sun and they just explode with growth out there! I do feel like she is picking up speed though which makes sense. Not worried or anything, could be genetics or just a slow down from the transplant and top. Probably the latter lol Next time I will definitely be popping more seeds and then take the one that grows the best. I had some growth coming back from where I topped her so I snipped that off. It was growing really slow and coming in abnormal so I figured it would just be a waste of plant resources keeping it alive.