Doc’s first grow

Let’s tie these babies down! It is hard to believe only 3 weeks has gone by because these gals are growing fast. Going to start tying them down right away to increase light to lower parts of the plant. I’m currently working with 1 light and space underneath is cramped. Trying to maximize the available light until the second light arrives. 1 light seems ideal for 4-5 plants given you have relatively small pots (12”). Plastic pots have shown their first big advantage to clay pots - I was able to drill holes along the outside of the plastic pots to anchor the twist ties and wire that I’m using to tie down the gals. In the clay pots, I couldn’t drill without cracking the pot and now I need to tie it down to a surrounding pot or anchor it to something else - not a huge deal, but plastics make it possible y’all... The gals have made their way into my greenhouse (will attach some pics). They’re under a LED light and seeming to do really well. The greenhouse has an exhaust fan and as much ventilation as possible, but even so it gets hot. Temperature probe (near ceiling of greenhouse) indicated 112F at the hottest part of the day. Temperature at plant level will be considerably cooler, but it was not very comfortable to work inside for long. Will likely add at least a powerful fan to help keep the gals happy. Gave a full dose of nutrients this week and added a 1/2 dose of Ca-Mg. No real rationale for dosing with Ca-Mg besides curiosity and needing to water with filtered water due to lack of rain. CalMg made it suuupppeeerrr acidic - much more than Grow alone, adjusted pH to ~6.4 White dots at base of stem A1_5.21.20 - these are apparently common, especially in high humidity areas. They are places where it is possible for additional roots to grow. I decided to add a little more soil to the base below the bottom set of leaves to give the opportunity for more roots to grow - if that’s true, I want to take advantage of it. Plants continued to do well and several of them developed similar spots and I added more soil.