IZI AK47 Fem Indoor

HoneyBlunt42 The first pair of leaves has appeared - the first week of vegetation!

HoneyBlunt42 Yesterday, I returned the 250W HPS. The sprout stopped abruptly in the light from the LED spotlight. Using that on the Vega is definitely a mistake. I'll run a second cycle with supplementary lighting, and then I'll have a rough idea if it's suitable or if it's better to light the path near the house. Three days of delays at the end of the experiment. I added another liter of coco coir and carefully placed it in a 1.5-liter AquaPot basket. I placed it in the AquaPot with osmotic water with CalMag additive and adjusted the pH to 5.7. 2 cm from the basket, the water bubbles off the stone and moistens it. Under the HPS 250 W, the coco dries faster; I hope this solution will help. I also put the greenhouse back on. In the insulated box with the HPS, it stays at 23-25 ​​degrees Celsius if I leave the door ajar. 23 degrees Celsius is the threshold for hydroponics. After that, the water starts to bloom. I'm hoping for a cool inflow from the balcony, which a 100mm duct fan blows onto a bucket of water. The DWC has a standard Hailea 2-liter/hour compressor and a 2x4 cm barrel aeration stone.

HoneyBlunt42 The sprout is growing slowly but surely. It's tiny for its third week. I'm glad it's the Fem version. I'll keep it on the Vega for a little while longer. A new light for the Vega will arrive soon, and the growth will be more stable. I'm also planning on repotting it into 5 liters of coco coir with mycorrhiza. I hope this will give the roots a boost and accelerate growth. It's in the sun for six hours, then under an LED in a 12/12 box for 12 hours. Then it's in the dark for four hours, and then back in the sun. I don't have a propagator and lamp for it yet, so I'm making do with this. I hope to get all stuff within a week.

HoneyBlunt42 Day 1 of Week 4. It looks perkier; the stem has started to take on a lilac hue. I gave it a foliar feed using Simplex Start Up (3 ml/L). I prepared a separate solution of CalMag adjusted to a pH of 5. Into a one-liter container of this solution, I added 1 gram of Power Feeding Bio Enhancer (it barely covered the bottom of the measuring scoop). After 3–5 minutes—once the "tea" has brewed—I use it for watering every two weeks. Early on, the seedling experienced stunted growth due to a nutrient solution with a pH below 5.5; however, over the last two weeks, I’ve seen it growing and gaining strength. For the first time, I’m experimenting with a lighting regimen combining 6 hours of bright spring sunlight with 12 hours under a 40W Rootster LED. The seedling is clearly responding positively to the sunlight. Starting today, the light cycle will be set to 18/6.

HoneyBlunt42 The plant has grown stronger. Upper and middle leaves are 10 cm long. The plant itself is 20 cm tall. I'll wait another week and then top it, leaving only 2 branches with leaves. When growing a single plant, this technique gives 2 to 4 main colas. I used to cut to 8 branches before – that takes too long and isn't worth it in my opinion. Mixed into the soil: GreenHouse Power Feeding Bio Grow at 3 ml/g. I water once a day for a couple of seconds with a sprayer using Simplex StartUp (organic nitrogen, on leaves and roots). Also Simplex Vega and VitaS. The plant is standing next to other very young ones, so I also use a pipette to give Rafifarm at 4 ml/l. Over the next couple of weeks, root growth is my main focus. Then the tent will become free for flowering. Pre‑flower will start around week 6. It's taken a couple or three weeks longer than expected. Mistakes with temperature and overwatering sometimes lead to this. Good that the plant forgave me and keeps growing. Green foliage, zero signs of necrosis. Humidity stays at 55–60 almost by itself. Sometimes the sensor shows a drop – then I spray water next to a 15 L grow bag with spare coconut until it drains. This helps keep humidity stable without a humidifier.

HoneyBlunt42 Yesterday I moved the plant to a 10L grow bag for pre-flowering in a 12/12 box. I think it will stretch out 2-3 times and start flowering in a couple of weeks. I decided to avoid stress and pruning and see the plant's potential without them. I mixed 2 spoons of PowerFeeding Bio Bloom on top of the substrate. I also poured 4-5 liters of coconut around and on top. Before transplanting, it is important to water the coconut heavily, then the root ball will hardly crumble. I only had 2 cm of coconut left at the bottom. The roots slightly held the rest. I watered the bag with a solution from a spray bottle - 3 liters up to drainage. The solution contained: Simplex CalMag - 1 ml/l; Simplex Coco A - 1.5 ml/l; Coco B - 1.5 ml/l; BioBizz RootJuice - 3 ml/l; Simplex pH Down - 0.2 ml/l. The resulting solution pH was 6.1. The plan is to water only with water containing CalMag and pH Down. I'll also use Simplex Mass and Power foliar stimulants. I'll also apply HB-101 and VitaS once a week to each leaf. I'll be doing this grow with a charged system. Someday I'd like to grow one plant using only bio feeders, without anything else. I'll just add a root stimulant to the mix. I'll be interested to see if the complete absence of stimulants and additives will be critical, and how it will turn out using only biobase.

HoneyBlunt42 It's been actively growing and stretching upwards since the 12/12 change. I installed a tank with an automatic watering pump. The pump waters about 0.5 liters every four hours for this and two other plants. I use reverse osmosis water (50 ppm) in the AquaPot, plus SilliX 0.25 ml/l, CalMag 1 ml/l, and Simplex pH Down 2 0.2 ml/l. I like GHS Powder Feeding as a fertilizer base because it needs to be mixed in. After that, I can just use water and water with BioEnchancer every two weeks . I'll try using them outdoors if I get the chance.

HoneyBlunt42 The plant has grown significantly in height, approximately 2-3 times in the two weeks since I switched to 12/12. It looks healthy and green, with large burdocks the size of a palm and larger on the central cola. I didn't top or trim this shoot. I started bending it this week, using plastic clips from AliExpress that I stole from Milya. They're even more convenient than rubber bands—no need to tie a ring around the pot and tie to it. I simply form the main cola parallel to the floor, and the side colas as far away from the main one as possible. This way, I can fill the entire space of the box, and air circulation between the branches will be better. Yesterday, I watered it with 0.2 liters of BioEnchancer solution.

HoneyBlunt42 The plant has already filled 70% of the 60 x 90 cm box. Small flowers are starting to appear. I'm bending the branches with plastic clips—the maximum height of the space is 100 cm. I sprayed stimulants on the leaves.

HoneyBlunt42 Watering with CalMag and Simplex PK Boost (1 ml/L), then lowering pH to around 6.0–6.3. Adding 5 drops of Simplex pH Down – I transferred it into a 10 ml dropper bottle (from VitaS stimulator) for easier dosing without a pipette. Three days ago, there was a heatwave, and I left for the mountains for a few days. The plant got dried out – leaves drooped. Realized I need to upgrade the 3L auto‑watering tank – it only lasts two days max. Switched to a 5L tank, but a 15L canister with a drainage tray would be better. That would easily last 3–4 days. At +29°C, the plant drinks and evaporates at least a liter per day. Other than that, leaves look healthy, buds are beautiful. IZI is delightfully low‑maintenance :) Watering is done with an auto‑watering pump (1 L/min flow rate) – 5 seconds every hour. There’s also an airstone in the solution for mixing and oxygen saturation. The plant has slowed down in vertical growth and is now bulking up the buds. I’ll continue feeding PK Boost for another 3 weeks, then a flush – and then wait for harvest.

HoneyBlunt42 It's blooming beautifully. It's been on automatic watering all week. A 5mm tube is attached to the roots. Currently, a 5-liter bottle lasts 2-3 days per plant. I'm thinking of installing a 15-liter canister so I can go at least a week without having to look at it. Currently, the 5-liter tank with the solution is pumped with oxygen by an aquarium aeration stone and a 2.5-watt Hailea pump (a powerful one, but that's the only one I had in stock).