Third Go: Royal Gorilla Automatic by RQS

On February 8th, I harvested my first ever cannabis plant. Late January I began to plan out my third grow, aka this one. Those seeds arrived on February 7th. Impulsively, I prepped and potted those new seeds without hesitation. So here’s how it went down, I had 4 seven gallon pots with Barney’s Farm Purple Punch Auto. Three plants were about three weeks younger than my first harvest. So after dropping down to three pots, I could sense there would be enough room to start up my new seeds. Hindsight being what it is, I should have waited a week but writing this in April, I'm glad they got that extra week. So the half of a plan I concocted involved jiffy seed starter and peat starter pots. The plan included starting all the seeds straight into aforementioned peat starters filled with also previously mentioned seed starter mix. This would be a mistake, but that’s for later. All pots got put in a smallish box that could hold five. Three days later, six seedlings emerged under their clear plastic cup domes. The other four showed up within 24 hours so I officially declared the 11th Day Zero. All seedlings seemed to be in good shape and humming along. Minimal water. I placed the boxes on top of vertically standing cinder blacks so the seedlings were elevated to about the height of the smaller two remaining plants. By Valentine’s Day a problem emerged. The peat starters were getting moldy! I had some neem oil so I pulled all the peat starts and sprayed them down to buy some time to trouble shoot. The next day I went to a local garden supply store and got three bags of Foxfarm Ocean Forrest which I’d been planning on filling up new 3 gallon fabric pots with anyway. The first harvest had some solid left in the 7 gallon pot and I had another unused. I mixed what was left in the one pot with OF and filled the other with only OF. All the moldy growth was dead but they couldn’t stay out of dirt, so they all got put in two 7 gallon pots late after midnight on February 16th. So the half concocted plan ended up with 5 seven gallon pots in my tent. There they would stay until... Grow notes: No nutrients, just light water. Domes came off by day 3. Seed starter was great for germination as 10 of 10 grew. Initial transplant had taproots growing out of the bottom hole of most plants, all kept intact on first transplant. Temps and humidity of tent rarely checked as hygrometer broke but tent stayed consistently in the 72-76 range all of January with RH varying from 40 to 60.