CritiCalling

Hey guys! I am totally new here and so enthusiast to have joined 😁 In this diary I will follow and post the progresses of my Critical, which I'm growing for the first time. I will also post about the two autoflowers growing on my balcony and I'd be grateful to receive comments if you spot mistakes or anything that could help me improve! 🙏 Have a tasty one and keep it growing 💪 Planted 5/8 4 days from seed First sight of leaves

Planted 5/8 10 days from germination It looks healty

Day 23 from germination It's growing slowly, staying compact and short which it's fine since I would like to top in a while. Started to add a little of fertilizer to promote vegetation growing.

Day 30 from germination It's growing a little faster, at least I think so. Keeping the same level of fertilizer for now, adding just a little bit of CalMag. Transplanted to the final textile flower pot (56 Litres). UPDATE I can see some difference even just after 24 hours 😉 👊

In these pics from the next days it's visible how faster she's growing since transplanted. Check out the difference in only two days (same level of nutrients) 😉👊

Hey guys!! What's up? Sun is shining on our garden and the plants love it 😃 IThis week I moved the Critical to a temporary spot outside, since in a few days I will finally place her in my brand new greenhouse, which took me a lot of work, especially in these hot days! But it was worthed 👊 I'm looking forward to giving a comfy growing place to this lady!! So..the plant is growing definitely faster and she looks healty, at least according to the leaves look. I topped (for the very first time) and increased just a tiny bit the levels of nutrients from 0.1 to 0.2/l. She showed no signs of stress or suffering from it whatsoever. 💪 Please, if anyone should find ANYTHING wrong or looking weird or whatever else that could make me improve just comment and let me know! I'm very new to growing and even though I read a lot online I'm always looking for feedback! Thanks to anyone who read this and enjoy your growing 🙏😎

DAY 38 After three days of life in the wildness of our garden, this lady was still showing nothing but health. 😎 The leaves were nicely green and shiny, she was growing faster than the short period on the balcony and everything looked just fine, also under the leaves, where I wanted to check the presence of insects. DAY 39 So, the day after I checked the plant in the evening and I found some holes in the leaves (Pic Day 39.detail).😐 I looked for it online and found a possible solution in Neem oil, which I had so I tried to spray it around and under the leaves (I made a solution with an organic liquid soap) and patiently dry off the exceeding drops on them to protect them from sun burning. DAY 41 This time I did find some aphids (just a few) under the leaves but I promptly remove them. Now, just two days later, the situation wasn't better. No aphids, that's right, but all the leaves had some damage (Pic day 41.detail)😨 Unfortunately it's not getting better 😢 Guys, PLEASE, LET ME KNOW from any of your experiences if you know what could have caused it and some possible remedy.. Beside that, the plant is still growing!! I didn't give up and I kept bending, helping out all the branches from the bottom to come towards to the sunlight and directed horizontally the two main branches developed after topping..with good results so far, if it wasn't for these hungry mfckrs 💩👺 Many many thanks to anyone who had the patience to read this and especially to anyone will be so kind to write something about this issue, it would be thruly appreciated 🙏 Enjoy your growing everyone!! 😉

Day 53 It's been a while since the last update. That is because I've been on holiday, but of course I didn't forget about the plants and I was wondering how would they survive all those without my daily attentions. However, I found with my great happiness that (you guessed it!)they kept growing and they look alright..well, at least they are not brown and dying or anything of the sort. The weather wasn't so terrible as expected, 30° - 32°of average temperature during the day and a little fresher in the night(16° -18°). It rained twice and one of them I was told being kind of a longer storm, but no nutrients added whatsoever; anyway ,everything is ok so I started to have some fun Bending!!! For the Critical I'm using a 56L textil pot, which doesn't make it so easy, so to solve the problem I simply made little holes with a needle and use them to anchor the ties. Check the setting in the pics at different angles and please let me know what do you think about it (just following some geometric sense and freestyling around so I could use some tips)🙏 Started to give nutrients every second day and increased the level of GO Grow; not adding CalMag anymore. UPDATE ON THE INVASION: all the damaged leaves from the pic of the last week are still there, and even though it looks like some little insect is still present, I am not as worried as at the beginning. I mean, damaged leaves will not definitely help the photosynthesis, so I will keep an eye on it (I'm trying to clean the leaves and spray some Neem Oil) but the plant is growing anyway and I believe she is healthy. UPDATE: The GREENHOUSE became her new home :) It feels like it's 10° warmer there inside! I will try to measure the temperature in the next days As always thanks for reading and keep it green!! 😎