Another good week overall, other than over-watering the largest one. Thought she was ready for a full soak but damn does that peat hold a lot of water, it took around 6 litres to even see a dribble of runoff and it took all week to dry out with an extra fan pointed on the pot 😔, hope shes alright. There's a lot of mis-information on the net. In more than one forum i read to water to 10% runoff and that you cannot give too much water at once and that over-watering was the frequency of watering which is total bs. Peat holds way too much water for that so i'm going to be measuring out how much i give from now on. I believe for their current size that 2.5-3.5 litres ( 3+ for the larger plants ) every 3 or so days should be enough to saturate most of the medium and adjusting week by week as they get larger and drink faster as id like to get those roots working into the rest of the container. No nutrients yet, i've been encountering a bit of nitrogen toxicity from the FFOF but nothing i will lose sleep over as they are all still growing at a decent pace.
In other news i decided today was the day to top them, I did this just above the 5th node on all of them. Will let those new stems grow out a bit before LSTing them horizontally. Under the fan leaves on the larger 2 things appear to be getting congested with growth of new branches from pre-existing nodes however i plan to let everything grow naturally until i begin training them. See you next week.
