My 1st Grow

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Day 14 from seed - Small one is 7 days behind. First seed was not salvageable, 4/5 not bad first try.

The droopy one I blame on it sprouting with the shell still attached, had to be picked off, but I think it will catch up and be barely noticeable difference.. we'll see. The 4th is about 8 days from seed behind but seems a bit farther than that probably because I planted the seed a little deeper, to give it more time beneath soil to shed its shell, which actually worked. Nutes stayed consistent but I think its time I double them for week 4. Finally, took an hour off my light schedule so I could stop being a non conformist.

Day 28 from first seed-fall and this is really getting exciting. These girls are getting super bushy. Debating on whether I should try lst for my first ever run, or just let them keep going from here naturally, since they are known to be a fast finisher. I added an oscillating fan to the setup this week, held up by a tablet holder for a microphone stand, works like a charm. Was initially afraid the wind would harm them but it seemed to make them perk up immediately. Doubled the nutrients, but only for 1 feeding, as I also started doing waterings in between feedings with just a smidge of ph down. The result was fine on 2/4 plants, but I can see some minor nute burn on plants 3 and 4. Plant 3 was the strongest grower from last week, so surprised she couldn't handle it, but plant 4 is behind all the others, and I just gave her the same amount of nutes as an experiment, to see if I waited too long to up the intake of the other 3. So, overall not surprised from the nute burn from that one, I will probably have to mix their nutes separately in the future.

I think this is what first week of flower looks like. Finally tried a simple LST on all 4 at the same time, probably should have started earlier. Been going back every day to tighten and do some leaf tucking.

3 plants look good, but worried about the yellowing and dark spots in plant number 2. Diagnosed the issue on the internet as manganese deficiency. Although I only see it bad on 1 plant right now, after looking at pictures, I can see some early signs on the other plants of this starting to form. Assuming my ph is just getting too high, I dropped the latest feeding down to 6.0, and gave them a gallon each. Hopefully that's all it takes, gonna have to wait and see. Didnt touch lst anymore really, the 3 I lsted kinda bushed out so not bad for a little training, the fourth 1 was done a little earlier in its life, and kinda started to christmas tree, but since the height matches the rest, ill leave it.

Day 50 From seed for plants 1-3, Day 42 for plant 4. Update from last week, whatever that deficiency was, dropping the PH fixed it. There is still a little yellowish tinge on some of the leafs of plant 2, but overall it has improved a lot, and the dark spots stopped spreading immediately after the feed. I was going off the assumption i should be at 6.4 - 6.7, but maybe that should be lower because its soil-less with salt based nutrients, 5.8-6.3. Going to stick to the lower ph ranges and try to fluctuate every feed. Girls are packing on buds fast, and starting to smell fruity. Out of the 3 plants, the 4th one that was started a little more than a week late has a very different structure than the rest. Around week 3 - 4, I was curious why the first 3 had such a close inter nodal distance. I know stretch can sometimes indicate not enough light, but after looking at some other sour crack photos, I felt the light being so close was causing the small bushiness. So, while the 4th plant was right in the middle of its big growth phase I pulled the light up a foot and a half. As you can see from the first picture, the result is the plant is now double the height of the others, however, no where near as dense. I'm not sure what structure is more preferred here, but the small dense plants were hard to manipulate, so I guess I'll just have to compare yields at the end.