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I tried something new (to me) to start her off this time. I placed the seed directly in her final pot, watered her and left it to germinate in the tent. At least 4 days later and no sprout so I dug her out. The seed had cracked open then stopped.
I then used the damp sponge method and 24h later good root progress! This method has been 100% successful since I've adopted it. This test here just confirmed it again.
She was then planted in her 38 litre airpot.
I've been noticing very slow progress over the last 2 weeks. Decided to make 3 changes during the week. The first 4 pictures are 'weekday 2'
Changes made on 'weekday 5'
The final 4 pictures are taken 2 days after changes on weekday 7.
Changes made:
4x blurple LED's added. I discarded these a while back. I'm wondering if my 3500k cobs are just not blue enough for a decent veg.
Temperature increased from 25c to 27c
8x Cree CXB3590 turned down to a little over minimum.
Wow monster growth this week!!! last week 9cm, same time this week 30cm!!! Also I fimmed/topped her earlier in the week too!!
Looks like she started flowering this week too.
Look how much she has stretched! I've tried doing a bit of LST. Truth be told I have no idea what I'm doing, but it seems like a good idea to me to spread out the branches so they all get decent light.
Not much vertical height change this week, 15cm. Flowering stretch slowing down. That's bad news for me after her first 3 weeks being very slow growing. I missed the window for good veg growth by (I think...) low temps in the tent. As a very small plant cold roots stunts growth. Being an auto you cannot extend the veg period so I'm stuck with her being a very small plant.
Nutrients as above added to 10L water along with 5g of 20-20-20 powdered fertiliser.
Still... if we're always learning nothing is lost. Just data in the memory bank.
So this grow was a failure for me...... Or was it? They say you learn more from your failures than successes! And in this case it is true. This plant did not grow much at all. The problems I had have been traced to poor soil. For future grows I will discard this soil and get some fresh.
Dunk_Junk
