RQS Royal Highness - First Grow

20 May 2020 - Day 23 (Picture) A new exciting week has started and my Royal Highness is looking good 😊 I watered two days ago and will wait until tomorrow to water her again. She's not very tall because I topped her but I think she has the potential to grow quite high being a sativa dominant. I plan to let the new side branches grow until I see a new node and then bend them down and top again. This topping schedule is harsh but hopefully I will be done in 2-3 weeks to focus mostly on the feeding needs. She only had pH 6.5 water so far, the soil is heavily fertilized and she seems to have all she needs up to this point. 21 May 2020 - Day 24 (Picture) - The new tops are growing so I decided to bend them down in order for them to get used to their permanent orientation.. We will see how it goes. I also watered a little. Fingers crossed!! 23 May 2020 Day 26 (Picture) - So yesterday night I came home and got very eager to perform my second topping right away. I know I'm probably rushing things here but I'm taking this first grow as an experiment. Before that I watered with plain water. I promise I will leave her alone for few days now :)) 24 May 2020 Day 27 - Sad story, very sad, one of my two main branches was probably damaged during LST and when I went back to look at my plant it looked nothing but dead. It was really impossible to foresee any type or recovery. So now it's a bit frustrating because the whole point of main-lining is simmetry and I lost it at the very beginning. I will take some time to figure out the best way to move forward but I'm really pissed. I haven't posted any picture of this disaster but I'm trying to learn from it. Never push to hard on branches when the are still tiny, and never do that before the night hours because it's important to check on the plant right away to prevent it from dying. I might just go for the 4 colas on the other branch, in any case I will wait for frustration to go away and for my plant to get stronger before anything else. Cheers