RQS: Easy Bud. Beginner‘s first grow.

Mjswooper Within 4 days the seedlings emerged and …stretched. This is when I realised I needed a grow light. Even so, I planted them -11 litre pots, biobizz light mix with 15% additional perlite.

Mjswooper New tent, which goes on the balcony.

Mjswooper Tent was a good idea, seedlings reacted very well to the light. One of the plants remains outside as an experiment. Both tent and 3rd plant are on the balcony, which is a challenge in this years Berlin summer. I started using Biobizz starter pack plus algnmic. I heard good things about seaweed and it turns out the algnmic is great to deal with the summer balcony environment.

Mjswooper I added worm castings as a top dress, about ~50g per plant (1cm high).

Mjswooper Plants transition from late veg to pre-flower/early flower. Very big nutrient spread, phasing out Grow and putting in Top and Bloom. A little nutrient burn on the new bud site tips, which I think was from the Grow, or combination of Grow the castings. Also I: broke my foot, found and repaired a smart humidifier, got a light sensor app and 4 clip fans in total now. Clip fans and duct are my only defense against berlin humidity. Easy bud is growing very quickly at this stage. Watering every other day, nutrients every other water.

Mjswooper Major issues in my tent with the plant height, as the plants got too close to the light in my small tent. Before moving the fan and filter outside, I gambled and supercropped - bent the main tall stem over 90 degrees. They both recovered easy the next day. So much so I had to tie them down and now the canopy is even. Risky this late I guess, but no issues with this resilient strain. I also defoliated a lot of larf/buds and shaded leaves under the canopy. I added the second and final top dressing of worm castings, roughly 100g-200g (6 handfuls) — End of week update — Plants stretched with the latest water and nutrients, so i’ve now moved the filter and fan outside. Was pretty easy. I‘m on holiday for 2 weeks, so I‘ve put in flexfeed bases. A week of rain ahead, hoping the latest set up helps prevent.

Mjswooper I went on a holiday for 2 weeks… but it all ended up okay! When I left Berlin it was stormy and super humid, but now it’s hot and dry (so that should help late flower). I bough the vivosun flexfeed self watering trays and a 60L water canister so that my neighbour could easily water my plants ph6.5 water. One of the problems I had with the flexfeed bases was that they added 10cm to the plants height, that they hit the light. I moved the fan and filter outside, which seems completely fine. So for the last two weeks, no nutrients. Curious to know they are fine because there was enough in the soil already, or the strain genetics, or just the fact it’s an Autoflower.