Apple Fritter Auto by RQS - Comm. grow!

ChubbyBudBros - Day 9 She seems to be doing great for now, she's a bit tall but the stretching has definitely stopped now after adjusting the light. Her soil was completely dry so I watered about 200ml's using: root-juice, bio-heaven, acti-vera & alg-a-mic. Day 10 I moved up the PPFD yesterday to 400 without realizing, but I caught her leaves praying to the light, so figure I will leave it for now as she seems to enjoy it. She still seems to be doing pretty wel for now. Day 12 She seems to be growing pretty well! Watered her again today with quite a bit more water, 600ml's (silica Force, calmag, bio-grow, root-juice, acti-vera & bio-heaven) Day 13 Looking at how the lower 4 nodes on the stem are developing, I am thinking that I will top her tomorrow. I wanna give the branch a little bit more length so that when I top there's enough trunk left so that it won't separate and crack easily. Day 14 Very happy with the width and strength of the stem and the 4 subnodes on the stem developed very nicely, so today was topping day!

ChubbyBudBros - Day 16 Watered again today using 1L @ 6.4ph containing silica force, calmag, bio-grow, root-juice, alg-a-mic, acti-vera & bio-heaven. Those 4 nodes are growing really well. I should be able to start using the LST stakes on them in a day or two hopefully. Day 17 Those nodes are developing fast! Was already able to apply some LST to the highest nodes 😍 Day 18 Gonna have to keep an eye on her to keep those LST stakes fitting nicely, she had quite the vigorous growth! I do see that there already is a white pistil on the main stem, showing her sex. Looks like she is already transitioning to preflower. that's very early. I assume it's probably due to the intense lighting I've had her under. Day 19 She is definitely got preflower pistils going on there. Hope this isn't gonna impact yield too much 😢. Also had to water again today. Gave 900ml's @ 6.4ph containing root-juice, bio-grow, bio-bloom, bio-heaven & alg-a-mic. Day 20 Increased the PPFD today to 550. Day 21 Able to start adding some more LST stakes in there now to get those branches flat

ChubbyBudBros - Day 22 Some new nodes are developing at the ends of each branches. Decided to defoliate some of the big fan leaves as it was starting to get way too bushy and smushed on to each other. Now it's a bit easier to put in some extra LST stakes and get direct light on all those nodes. I'm expecting the preflower stretch to happen at any time now so trying to get the LST optimal right now. Day 23 Watering day for her! Gave her 1.1L's of water (6.4 ph) with root-juice. bio-grow, bio-bloom, bio-heaven & alg-a-mic. Day 24 I placed the last LST stakes today, and will now let the stretch do it' thing with minimal corrections! Day 25 She recovered very nicely from the LST yesterday and I can definitely tell the stretch has begun now with how much longer some of the branches got. Day 26 Letting the stretch do it's thing and increased PPFD to 700. The first pistils on the flowering sites are really starting to show now. Day 27 Might've been a bad too late with the watering, pot was really dry but the leaves still looked good. Gave her 1.5L (6.4ph) containing silica force, cal-mag, bio-grow, bio-bloom, top-max, bio-heaven & acti-vera.

ChubbyBudBros - Day 29 Gave her another water a day earlier as the leaves were droopy, showing signs of underwatering. Figure the previous waterings might have not been enough for her. Gave her 1.8L of water (6.4ph), containing bio-grow, bio-bloom, top-max, bio-heaven, alg-a-mic & acti-vera. Day 30 Not much to report, stretch is going nicely and I try to minimally adjust the biggest branches a bit downwards to keep that canopy as even as possible. Day 32 The pot still feels pretty heavy even though the top op the soil seems pretty dry, so still gonna wait a day or two before I give water again, think I might have been overwatering her a bit as the leaves are rather droopy for a week now. Also added some LST clips today, stretch is really hitting hard on the main side branches, so I wanna let those offshoots catch up a bit. Day 33 Pot was completely bone dry today. So did a watering. I wanted to make sure she was completely dry dry because the leaves have been droopy for over a week now. First thought it was underwatering, but they never perked back up after the last bigger watering, which leads me to believe she is overwatered. I gave her 1.4L now with some root-juice, which hopefully helps the roots recover a bit if they were overwatered. Gonna have to keep an eye on what those leaves do now. Day 34 Not any improvement yet in the droopiness from the leaves :/ I've been thinking what else might have been the problem, and I realized that it's getting quit a bit colder now in the grow tent because we're going into fall now, temps can drop to 18°C with lights off, and the air intake vent was right next to this plant. I am wondering if the cold air going directly around the pot might have messed with the rootzone. I've closed the window of the room the tent is in to try and get temperature a bit up again. Day 35 Still not any improvements today in terms of droopy leaves. I've been trying to keep the temps in the tent higher again but nothing changed. The pot however was dry again already, Decided to give her a good watering today to see if maybe she is just very thirsty and the droopy leaves are actually a sign of underwatering? I gave her 2L's containing bio-grow, bio-bloom, top-max, alg-a-mic, acti-vera & bio-heaven. Let's see what the leaves look like by tomorrow.

ChubbyBudBros - Day 36 Today after lights came on, and I checked the timelapse compared to last night, the leaves are starting to perk up a bit more finally! They still look pretty droopy, but let's hope she keeps recovering as I keep temps up again. Day 37 Sadly the perking back up of the leaves was short lived, as they started drooping again. Odd, I figured she was just underwatered as she perked back up a bit after the watering, and I checked with a moisture meter just now and the soil in the top half is dry but the bottom half is still very moist in the lower half of the pot. Think the root zone got really messed up to the point that the lower root zone has big issues absorbing water. Gonna let her fullly dry back again now before I give the next watering. Day 38 I let the pot get fully dry again now, still very droopy, so decided to water with a smaller amount today 1L with some root-juice, alg-a-mic & bio-heaven, just trying to only give it nutrients that can help repair the root zone for now. Not sure if a plant can even recover from this, at this point??? Day 39 Not seeing any improvement yet for now...just waiting and giving that root zone the chance to recover. Day 40 Not getting too hopeful just yet, but it seems like the top leaves at the tallest branches are starting to slowly stand up more and more. Day 42 Pot was Sahara desert dry today. I pray to the gods of growing that the roots were able to recover a bit. The bottom leaves were all dying off and becoming yellow as the pot stayed dry; As a certain diva would say: "some of you may die...but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make". Hopefully this play pays off and the new roots can get to work again. I "flushed" the pot with 6L of water trying to get a good run off for whatever dried up down there. First gave 3 liters with just plain ph'd 6.2 water. runoff started to drip out around 2.5L liters given. Checked the PH of that run off, which was 6.7. Then another 3 liters with a small portion of Silica Force, Bio-Grow, Bio-heaven & Acti-Vera at 6.3 ph. Got a total runoff of 1.5Liter and the ph was 6.9, which is normal I guess after having the whole pot dried up. Will now let the pot get a really good dry back again, and hopefully we see the leaves perking up again in a day or 2-3. Send thoughts and prayers to my plant please, lmao.

ChubbyBudBros - Day 43 Seems like that flush yesterday did her well! the leaves perked up a lot compared to yesterday, when I check my timelapse I can see them clearly stand up again and the size of the buds have almost doubled over 24 hours. I just hope the pot dries quickly enough now because it's suuuuper heavy still right now.