GlueBerry OG - Second time 'round

My second grow. Many mistakes first time around so I hope to apply what I learned and come out with a better result this time. These are bag seeds from Hillside Pharms and AKAIK Dutch Passion genetics. They sprout fast and grow strong and were pretty resilient to my stupidity last time around. This time I've decided to mainline two of them as they are supposed to be pretty tall girls and with the sativa dominance I think they make a good candidate to experiment with some training. First week I started in mini plant cells and moistened them with tap water pH'd to 6.5. They were placed in a humidity dome and kept at 28c / 60+ % rh for 5-6 days. Once again they seemed to sprout and take off. Cotyledons died pretty quick on this strain twice now but all other growth seems strong, healthy and green. Now just waiting until they are big enough to top and begin manifold training.

Week two I gave the girls their first true feeding. In the cell pots it probably took about 300ml per seedling to see a bit of runoff. I used a bit of cal-mag from General Hydroponics and a solution pH of 6.5. All seemed well through the week with nice growth, although a bit slow and I attribute that to my inability to maintain a good rh without a veg tent. Good news is by next week the tent will be here. I also decided to transplant the girls to some bigger pots. As mentioned in week 1, I plan to mainline 2 of these ladies so I went straight to a 2 gal pot to give me a bit of training time before another transplant. The other two girls went into 1 gal nursery pots. Also in the picture you'll see my other seedlings and a few clones. These strains are featured in a separate diary as I wanted to keep this one just for GlueBerry OG. Enjoy ! :)

At the beginning of week 3 I transplanted two of the girls into 2 gal nursery pots to give me some training time before transplanting to their final home. I haven't decided whether that will be a 3 gal or 5 gal. The other two ladies were transplanted along with all of my other seedlings into 1 gallon pots. After transplant I moistened the soil in each pot with about 500ml of a 300ppm Cal-mag solution (closer to 200 as my tap water is 90ppm) pH'd to 6.5. I will now let the pots dry completely before watering again and depending on leaf condition and overall health I will decide before then whether it will be a nutrient addition or just pH'd water again. A couple of days after transplanting to new pots I also decided it was time to top each seedling to get it ready for it's chosen training method. Each had 6-7 nodes by this time. I topped two at N3 to form the base for a manifold and I topped two at N2 to produce 4 mains and off shoots of each. Tent should be here for week 4. Looking forward to being able to maintain a decent veg environment and get some growth going!

My veg tent and light hangers have arrived! I'm now able to maintain a proper rh (or closer to it anyway). I've also added a couple of clip fans to get some leaves dancing and air moving. Since putting the girls into the tent growth has been pretty explosive. The mainline training seems to be going well and those girls are putting on some size. The other two girls are a little smaller but both have recovered nicely from topping and are looking very healthy. The girls also got their first full watering this week. I watered with 300ppm (-90 for my tap water) of GH Cali-magic pH'd to 6.5. I like to achieve a small bit of run off during each watering.

This week I just concentrated on some canopy maintenance and maintaining my environment as best as I can. Daytime temps are sitting around 27-29c and humidity is a decent 65-70%. On day 4 of this week I gave the girls a full feeding following GH's week 3 veg schedule for their 3 part. I had a total of about 450ppm in solution and started with tap water that was 80ppm. The girls seem to be doing good.