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Seedling is in a 5 gallon spacebucket, single 8w bulb currently (about 5k lux)
seedling was born with half its first leaves burned out, so only half made it ok
It had a very slow start, but now it started taking off, so I start the diary
V1
watered rainwater
V3
Switched the 8w 6500k bulb with a 23w blue led light, added 2 more spacers
V5
Plant seems to be dying. I transplanted to a bigger pot hoping that was the issue.
My other guess would be the switch from 8w 6500k bulb to 23w blue led light, light might have been too strong.
Switching back to the 8w bulb
V6
leaves are perking back up :) probably roots were too big for the pot.
V10
watered rainwater with small amount of kelp + fulvic acid
V11
Switched back to the 23W blue LED, the seedling seems to be loving it!
V13
Leaves are drooping, maybe its time for a transplant
V14
Watered rainwater, transplanted to a 1L pot, scattered 2g of myco fungi
Soil in new pot is my usual mix of : 33% peat, 33% perlite, 20% humus, 14% compost
but this time I added more humus, peat and perlite beacuse I think i had nute toxicity from too much compost
V17
Growth is MUCH faster under the blue LED
It's day 17 and I already have a 6th node growing, while in my previous grows (with a 6500K bulb led) my seedlings only started growing their 4th node in day 17.
V18
Topped
V19
Watered
V21
Switched the blue led with my 4000K CREE COB @ 30W
lux: 35,000 - 40,000
Day 30
She responded amazingly to the LST, done further LST to correct height for all colas
Day 32
Watered
Day 35
Tonight we will start with 12 hours of darkness
V40
Watered
Plant is stretching way too much, I dont know why. Temps are basically the same day and night.
The spacing between fan leaves on stems is large.
The plant has stretched so much that it is getting now 40k-50k lux during veg!! This is a lot of light almost 3 times the intensity of what I used for vegging my previous plant.
V46
The plant is growing so so fast. It outgrew the bucket, I'm gonna go through hell when switching to 12/12 lol
Sadly I have to wait another week for the flowering bucket the be available, its currently in use by my first plant.
Trying to combat the stretch with supercropping, supercropped the entire canopy (10 colas)
I dont mind if I will stress it, if anything that'll be good for me.
V47
The supercropping didn't stop her one bit, all colas are pointing up already
V48 - 9/7/19
Supercropped & defoilated.
Supercropped a couple colas that were a bit higher than the canopy
Accidentally broke a stalk (very stetchy one from the bottom of the plant, very thin) so I guess that's more supercropping
V50
watered
starting 12 hours of darkness tonight
F1
Finally moved her out of the closet, she has 9 spacers now
F3
Watered
The stretch is taking off already, she's growing way too fast, I'm afraid I'm going to have big troubles in late flowernig
Pruned 2-3 bottom, very thing branches, will do it again in a couple days to clear out the rest
F4,F5
Supercropped, took 7 clones (this is the fastest growing plant i've ever had, gonna keep it), and defoilated abit
She keeps stretching so I have to keep supercropping her, it seems to be working and not slowing her even one bit
F6
Watered with bio-fish
ph was 4.5 (probably lower, 4.5 is the lowest on my test kit)
Gonna water with water ph'd @ 7 from now on
F9
Watered
I continued pinching the entire canopy almost every day (just pinching, no bending)
Canopy looks pretty much completely even, very happy with the results so far, learned so much from my first grow
Also defoilated like 9 fans leaves from the middle of the plant, leaves that were blocking bud sites from the sidelights
F10
Amped the lights from 39w to 42w
F12
Watered
Lollipopped almost the entire bottom third
F14
Watered