Purples!

This week saw some great growth on Plant #1. The leaves are broad, the stalks are thick and the nodes are tightly spaced and evenly paired. It's shaping up to be a sturdy, stocky plant. The main stalk is leaning but I planted is off to the side of the pot a little with the intent to draw it into the center with some LST. Plant #2 (the middle child) is not as symmetrical or pretty. One side of the first pair did not develop properly but it seems to be catching up. Should even out before too long. Plant #3 remains a mutant and its not doing well. It's only developing on one side of the stalk and the growth is really slow. I'm not super optimistic about this one. We'll see. In general I think things are going ok. First run of autos so it's a bit of an experiment. My last run of photos I topped to even out the canopy and removed the lowers before the stretch. Not sure how that works with autos particularly when there is uneven growth like I'm getting with plants 2 and 3. The fungus gnats have come back in the last three days and I found a good sized spider in one of the pots and left it to see what will happen. The soil I used had been stored outside over the summer. I guess some critters got in. Think I'll hit 2 and 3 with some nutes in week 4 and see what happens.