Nuclear Forest

storymodegrow Counting 9/13 as Veg day 1. Had issues battling pH issues most of first week in veg, took 6 days to slowly go from 7.0 to 6.0 with small doses of pH down daily. Dome came off Day 2 and the plant took a noticeable trunk tilt. Started bouncing back by Day 4. Roots dropped to the reservoir by Day 2. Days 3-6 saw the first 5 pronged leaves appear. It was around here the pH stabilized to 6.0. Following 24hrs of consistent pH, first nutrients were added to the reservoir (raised EC to 0.8). By Day 8 the 3 pronged leaves span 8 inches and the 2nd pair of 5 pronged are beginning to emerge. Bud sites at the 1st and 2nd leaves are starting to push out. As the plant has moved closer to the light every couple of days the light is adjusted to maintain a 16 inch gap between it and the top most leaves.

storymodegrow Everything progressing well, on Day 11 and 12 saw the cotyledon and 1st serrated leaves and nodes snipped off heading into the plants nighttime and morning respectively. Light Schedule begins moving up as well, Day 11 saw 4% increase to maintain 250-300ppfd. LST also began with gentle bending with wire to push the main stem over. The following day the stem was pliable enough to add a modified clip to begin push it down further. Day 12 also had a light increase 3% to 50% overall with a canopy reading 260ppfd. Day 13 saw an early morning topping of the plant, counting the now since removed single serrated leaves, at node 6. With serrated leaves and nodes removed and top now gone, there are 4 pairs of branches with a chance the down-facing bottom most node will turn upwards. Heading into Day 14, 1.5 gallons of the reservoir were removed and replaced with 2 gallons of 5.9-6.1 pH balanced water and an additional .5fl oz of base a and base b nutrients.