Nov 20, 2019
The plants are doing well. Gave them and the soil in the entire 5 gallon pots a good drenching with a compost tea, kelp, alfalfa, fish hydrysolate, and molasses blend.
I'm also realizing I could be watering these girls a bit more. Being a newby I'm over cautious of over watering. But I'm finding the light airy soil mix I made combined with fabric pots.... the soil dries rather quickly. No signs of under watering, but I think I can water them more.
This week I'll start watering a couple of cups daily and once a week give the whole pot a good drenching to keep the rest of the soil (where the plants haven't grown into yet) damp.✌️
Nov. 22, 2019
Well I think the girls are starting to give off a little accent. Opened the doors to the room and noticed a slight aroma of dank. Put my nose right up to the plant.... and yup, they starting to smell.
Nov. 23, 2019
I started to LST Zkittlez #1 and #3 today. They were a bit taller than #2... Zkittlez 1&2 weren't in the same row. I have other strains along with these mixed together. Front row matured faster than the back. BACK TO ZKITTLEZ.
I performed I think what you'd call traditional LST'ing. Bent the stem over to tre side of the pot. #3 took to it pretty well, no visual signs of stress.
#1... well, I had to squeeze the stem to soften it so it would bend. The stem is now discolored a little and the growth is really behind compared to the other plants. Also I noticed the leaf edges are turning up a little.... the fingers of the fan leaves are turning up... look like teeth on a saw blade. You may be able to see this in the latest pics.
#3 Who's stern I didn't need to squeeze and LST'd the same looks great
Nov. 24, 2019
I LST'd #2 the next day, Sunday Nov. 24.
I did a different technique with this one. I learned of it on GrassCity forums forums from avn autoflower grower Organic Since. I simply let the fan leaves grow where they naturally want to grow, use wire as a stake to hold the fan leaves down out of the way, then as the new bud sites get exposed I will stake those down to the fan leaves.
I really like this way better than what I did to #1 & #3. Less disturbing and intrusive to the plant. And with autoflowers... keeping the stress down is a positive.
Stay tuned. As these babies grow it will be interesting to see how the difference in LST'ing these effects the outcome.
I'm currently keeping another diary here... link below.. with Zkittkez and another auto by FastBuds 420.
I've decided to keep separate dairies of each strain so I can focus and share the details of each strain independently.
I'll still update the original grow diary with both stains along with updating two strain specific diaries.
growdiaries.com/diaries/43286-zkittlez-auto-californian-snow-grow-journal-by-weedwacker-growdiaries/week/205771