Autoflower Soup #1

SpaceCadet3000 Veg started 23/09. Light power is at ~75%. Less stretching than the photo grow, but I won't know if that's cos the light is closer until I grow sundae driver again. The centre of the soil was still moist, but its been a few days, so I watered 200ml of plain water around the outside of each pot. I'll let the whole top of the soil get dry before I water again, but I'll keep using the spray bottle. They'll get a weak aloe foliar once this week, before they go to bed, as soon as all the leaves are straightened out and growing steadily.

SpaceCadet3000 Day 1: Plain water. A little around the base of the plant, mostly in the middle of the pot. Stems are still a bit spindly so I've raised the light to 80% power. Day 2: Foliar drench of 0.1g/L aloe powder, 0.2g/L soap nut powder, 0.1g/L licorice powder plus 6 drops of essential oils (peppermint and rosemary), dispensed in a fine mist with a garden sprayer. Soil looked quite dry but I have lots of feed to add this week and don't want to flood them, so I'm going to leave it another day. Day 3: Very dry this morning. Each pot got 500ml of water. The Royal Queen #1 at the back was much dryer than the rest, so it got an extra 400ml, mostly close to the outside of the pot. Started sprouting a batch of seeds this morning for Saturday's feed. Day 4: Mixed a solution of 0.3g/L soapnut powder, 0.25g/L RQS seaweed powder and 5ml/L corn steep liquor and fed roughly 600ml to each pot - two quick passes over the top of the soil. Seeds were sprouted tonight so I blended them in 500ml of water and left the mixture in the fridge overnight. Day 5: Strained my sprouted seed mixture and fed to each plant in equal parts - I don't want to water them today so all they are getting is a 100ml dose of sprouted seeds. Lots more fungus gnats than last time, and much earlier. It could be because I mixed the soil on my balcony, but I'm guessing they came from the added worm castings I got from indoor organics. Still got a little castings left, so I'm going to pot it and keep it watered, to see if it's obviously the source. Day 6: I want to encourage feeder roots today, maybe watered too much earlier in the week. Mixed roughly 0.2g/L epsom salt, 0.1g/L shilajit resin and 0.5g/L beetroot powder and gave each pot a light watering - around 400ml each. Day 7: one of the plants that germinated fastest has quite a woody stem. I wanted to wait until the soil was dryer to start training, but I've bent over 3 of them using tent pegs and will bend the remaining two once the 3rd node is more established. Applied a foliar in the evening of 0.1g/L aloe powder, 0.05g/L licorice powder and 0.1g/L soapnut powder with 2 drops/L of peppermint oil (mix dry ingredients with 100ml warm water and they'll act as emulsifiers when mixing the oil).

SpaceCadet3000 Day 1: Pinned down the other 2 plants. Top dressed with Epsom salt, shilajit resin and beetroot powder in about 200ml water per pot. Day 2: top dressed with toasted sprouted seeds, about 1 Tbsp per pot. Also gave them a foliar later in the evening with the following ingredients: 0.3 g Epsom salt 0.25 g beetroot powder 0.05 g shilajit resin 0.1 g soapnut powder 0.05 g aloe powder 0.05 g licorice powder 500 mL filtered water Increased light to ~85% power. Day 3: top layer of soil is dry, but still damp right under the surface so they won't get any water today. Forgot I was supposed to be lowering the light so I dropped it to 18" today and raised the power to 90%. Day 4: Fed plants with 0.25g/L seaweed powder, 10ml/L corn steep liquor and 0.2g/L soapnut powder. Lighter green new growth now looks dark and healthy. Assuming they needed more light to uptake something, so I've turned up the light to 100%. Will lower it in the morning if they don't look happier than today. Loads of fungus gnats on the yellow stickys just in one pot, a few in each of the others. Maybe an initial rush, instead of an infestation. I haven't seen more than 2 or 3 flying at once, so I'm not worried yet. Hopefully there are beneficials in the castings to make up for it.