First Grow: Barney's Purple Punch Auto

Plan for week 3 is a bit more of the 5-1-1 on day 17, but again pretty light. I think the water needs are going to start to increase quick now that the foliage is starting to plume. Will be back to update comment later this week. Alrighty then, update: Day 17 here, so I went ahead and added some of the 5-1-1 fertilizer. I went with approximately 1.5 Tsp/L of the Alaska brand fertilizer which is half of the recommended flowering dose (3 Tsp per L). The plant got about .1-.2 L of the solution. We'll see. I'm not too concerned about overfeeding, but I'm going to try to be a LITTLE more scientific on this record. I would like to be able to replicate successes and improve failures. There are 3 carrots and two plants that I think are flowers in my other pots which leaves me with another issue. I still have a few whiteflies flitting about in there, so everything got doused with Neem Oil before watering. Thats why today's pictures have droopy leaves -- they'd been sprayed kind of heavily with neem oil. Her leaves were straight as an arrow moments earlier. The base/trunk seems to move fairly freely in the dirt...felt like something that should worry me, so I firmed that area by pressing on the soil. She's up to 6", so I moved the light up to 20" away again. More pics and updates later in the week. Day 18 Update: I turned the LED off this morning to snap a good picture. I forgot to turn it back on apparently before I left for work. Fucking pothead. Anyways, she lost 10 hours of light that she'll never get back, but she looks great still. Basically no growth since yesterday. Pics from today will go up later in the week. Day 19 Update: Well, I decided all other vegetation in the tent needed to go. So it's all gone. But then I had three big cloth pots full of dirt...so, we'll see if there aren't a few seedlings in a few days. But that'll be another diary. My first plant still looks pretty awesome, but to be fair, I couldn't really recognize issues yet if there were any as this is truly my first cannabis plant. There's a slight aroma from a few inches away. Just water today, spritzed the leaves and such. The soil is still a little damp. The stem/root/trunk/base is filling out and feels much less flimsy as it did a few days ago; the base didn't move with several water bottle spritzes directly to the plant. I'm going to keep both of my lights on for a few days of 20/4 while the new seeds sprout - want to keep it a little warmer. Otherwise, I dropped a couple pictures of my tent setup after cleaning out the other plants today. BTW carrots in a peat moss rapid rooter needs to transplanted so the mesh doesn't totally frak up the root aka the carrot. One other thing: well before I planted a cannabis seed, I did a number of PH tests on my tap water as well as the soil. As best as I could tell, the colors seemed to match in a low 6.something, so I went with 6.2 until I deem it necessary for a more precise measure. And any water used on the plants has been left out to let trace chemicals evaporate off. So maybe I've been a bit more scientific about it than I realized. Also, appreciate the first comment Rusticbuds! Day 21 Update: Approximately 2 Tsp of the 5-1-1 to approx 1 L of water. Almost all of that went in the soil around the plant last night. Still well under recommended dosage. Leaves still look perfectly green and healthy so I'll do about that every third day until I go out of town, so maybe 2x more this week and then Tiger Bloom (2-8-4 I believe) in low doses when I'm back. Haven't seen any whiteflies in the past 48 hours since plucking and cleaning and none under the Purple Punch leaves that I saw. Since I'm sticking to the original plan to just let this one grow, there isn't much to do with it, but I'm starting to research LST for future plants. Other pots are staying damp and warm with plastic domes over the seeds. First one sprouted in 4 days, tomorrow will be 3.