Cinderellas and a ( TRICOT ! ) Lemon Kix

DomForester Cindy#1 proved to be the strongest and is starting up just fine. Elke turned out to be a tricot - three instead of two cotyledons grew from one seed, now developing into two separate stems. Never seen this before and absolutely loving it! Should make for a broad lady once I'm starting LST.

DomForester I'm getting more and more excited about Elke's secondary stem. Cindy #1 is looking like a nice young salad. Both getting wider and wider without much vertical stretch yet. They currently live right next to a few West-African Landrace Sativas of the same age and the difference in expression is striking. Drinking very well and I have to hold back not to water every day. Plain pH adjusted water only, No nutes yet. FC1500EVO currently at 45% and 35cm - should be a bit more dimmed but I need the light power to keep temps in check until my heater arrives.

DomForester Both grew mostly horizontally this past week and once the 4th or 5th node was there I started LST. On Cindy (Cinderella Jack) I anchored the stem first with a u-shaped peg, then bent the top at about a 45deg angle first, later adjusted to close to 90deg. On the tricot (Lemon Kix "Elke") I just bent both stems in opposite directions without anchoring anything. I had a little moth larva munching on a few of Elke's leaves. Found it and gave it a new home outside of the tent. No more chewed up leaves since then. Also had to add a bunch of nematodes (?) with the last watering to try and combat an annoying fungus gnats infestation. Happened in a few of my previous grows too but never did anything about it (and it didn't seem to have caused any real issues with the plants then) but I figured I'll try and get rid of them this time around. Does anyone have experience with those buggers?

DomForester While Elke (Lemon Kix) is minding her business vegging along, Cindy (Cinderella Jack) decided to show pistils 21 days after germination 🤯 I’ve had autos before that went early but this one takes the cake! LST started just a week ago - I hope that bit of structure she developed up to now is enough of a base… Skipped BB Grow on Cindy and went straight to BB Bloom.