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?