Sweet Cheese XL Auto at home

This is my first "grow diary" and actually my first grow. The first week: once the seeds germinated (72h, tupperware method) and after spending 3 days growing fast in jiffys (made from pressed peat), the plants were moved to an 11L pot and look good an healthy. I will be growing the plants in two different ways: - Plant no1. will be the "vitamined" one. Nutrients that I will be using: Atami - ATA Rootfast, Top Crop - Top Candy, Top Crop - Big One and Top Crop - Top Bud. - Plant no2. will be the "natural" one. Nutrients that I will be using: homemade root stimulator (made with lentil sprouts) and organic stuff like coffee grounds, orange peels, etc.

Update end of week: plants growing a little bit faster (sunny days finally came!) and look healthy. Added a little bit of coffee in plant 2 a couple of days ago. Continued with ATA Rootfast in plant 1 (1ml/l). __ Plants are growing a little bit slow due to weather conditions (not as sunny and hot as expected) but look healthy. I will update by end of this week with the progress. Plant 1: growing with ATA Rootfast (0,7 ml/l) Plant 2: growing with natural root stimulator made from lentil sprouts (100 ml/l) I have to say that plant 2 did not look as strong as plant 1 when the seed germinated.

Update end of week: sunny week, both plants look small, but happy. Reading some forums and watching some videos, I realised that during the first 2 weeks I could have been watering them too often... so, this (plus the fact that first weeks were not as sunny as desired) could be the reason of the small size of both plants. ___ Both plants look healthy and are growing a little bit faster than last week. This week plant no.2 won't have any extra nutrients and plant no.1 I is being foliar fertilized with Big One from Top Crop. Will update by the end of the week.

Update end of week 4: Both plants look super healthy. The main problem is the small size caused by the lack of sun during the first 2 weeks of vegetative growth, plus an excessive watering (caused by my lack of experience). I'm pretty sure that the roots became a little bit lazy during that weeks... and that won't be a problem if I were growing a photosensitive strain (in that case I will just extend a little bit more the vegetative growth stage) but taking into account that flowering will start in around 1 week, I suppose that the harvest will be limited. –––– Starting week 4 with both plants looking happy but small. Nice weather btw, so I hope they could go into hard veg during this week before start flowering.

Update end of week: plants started flowering during the week and grew around 10 cm this week. ––– Plants did well last week, growing 1.5cm per day aprox. Now in the beginning of week 5 they are around 22cm tall and look healthy. They are starting to show some signs of pre-flowering as well. Despite the lack of sun and excessive watering during the first weeks, I hope they could continue growing and end up around 60cm. I will update by end of week.

Plants are growing incredibly fast this week (around 2-3 cm per day; they are 35cm now that we are starting week 6), while first flowers appeared on both by the end of last week. Weather is nice and I expect great progress during the following days.

Plants continue flowering and smell really nice. Super hot end of last week, and it seems that the temperature will continue high. Some of the down leaves of both plants turned yellow in the past two days, but the flowers and the leaves on the top of both plants look good and healthy.

Not really good news for this week: 1. Excess of nutrients at the beginning of last week. No major damages... some leaves burned, but now it seems that the plants are recovering well. 2. General stop in growth due to an aphid plague that suddenly (and literally) exploded at the end of last week, specially on the plant on the black pot. The plague is located specially in the buds. 3. The cure was worse than the desease: I applied an excess of pesticide that resulted in burned leaves (the ones near to the buds). The worse part is that the plague is still active in one plant (the pesticide I used was this one: https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B07NZXJK95/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)... and now I am afraid of using more pesticide and damage again the buds. Will update next week, but I am not so optimistic on the quality of the harvest (if any...).