RQS Royal Highness - First Grow

12 May 2020 - Day 15 (Picture). Not much to report. She's growing nicely and seems healthy. I transplanted in the 14L pot, let's see how she recovers along the week! I plan to top her as soon as she looks strong again and the 4th node is fully developed. 13 May 2020 - Day 16. Today I just watered my Royal Queen with plain tap water (pH down to 6.5 with lemon juice). She looks fine, leaves are pointing to the light so I hope I didn't stress her too much with the transplant (some root ends were stuck to the smaller pot after transplant so I was a bit concerned). I think she will have plenty of nutrients over the next month, soil is heavily fertilized (ATAMI Kilomix). I'm still figuring out the best schedule for the exhaust fan in order to give her the right levels of RH. Right now I run it for 20 min every 3h but it's connected to the WiFi so it's not totally stable. I detected peaks of RH up to 75% which are probably ok at this stage but I will need to keep an eye on it later on (hopefully). If anyone has any suggestions on this matter, feel free to give me some! 14 May 2020 - Day 17 (Pictures). I watered my plant again with very little plain tap water. She seems well but I think I should wait 1 or two more days before topping. 16 May 2020 - Day 19 from germination (Picture). I topped my plant for the first time above the third node, I removed everything else below as recommended for main-lining. When I look at the remaining plant and all the leaves removed (see picture) it looks scary but one has to experiment and hope for the best 😅 The new side branches are very very tiny so no wiring was put in place. I'll wait hoping they grow soon. Other than that I just watered with plain tap water (pH 6.5). 17 May 2020 - Day 20 (Picture) One day after main-lining I can say if I were to do this again I would either wait until the 6th node to be fully developed or go with topping only and then main-lining after a couple of days. I think the plant might recover faster when it has more leaves. New growth is there but it will take some time, I'm not in a hurry anyways. Today no water, just some neem oil on the leaves and on the soil. 18 May 2020 - Day 21 (Picture) Third week of life soon gone and my lady seems to be recovering from the topping and stuff. I plan to let her grow freely for a couple of days before bending the new branches. Can't wait to see what the next week will bring!