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Week 4 Day 22 (04/09/2020): Not that many updates today, still waiting on the neem oil, it should be arriving on Saturday but I did see another 2 flies today when I was watering. I gave all the girls a standard watering of 1.5L with 1ml of BioGrow, it seems like they are happy with it and all the leaves look really green and healthy so I will be keeping it at this dosage for a while and maybe even until the end of veg if they don’t start showing signs of nutrient deficiency. But the girls are becoming really nice bushes now and both of them are pretty much the same size now. Day 23 (05/09/2020): The neem oil was supposed to arrive today but it has been delayed until Monday unfortunately for us. Although I think that because of the AirPots and the developed roots the flies shouldn’t do too much damage even with the delay and the additional time it will take for them to die after applying the oil. Hopefully the girls will be fine! Day 24 (06/09/2020): Not that many updates today but I did remove the humidifier from the tent as even on the lowest setting it was making the humidity above 70% which is too high for this stage of vegetation. Without the humidifier the tent remains at around 60% which is sufficient considering the temperature is around 24C. Day 25 (07/09/2020): We finally got the neem oil today, we purchased organic neem oil from PinkSun and their horticultural gentle liquid soap as the emulsifier. But I did read that the neem oil should not be applied in direct light so I will spray the girls tomorrow just before lights off and turn off the small fan for an hour so the oil has time to absorb. I also noticed in the past few days that the tips new leaves of girl #2 are burnt a bit, but the light is still at ~75% intensity and it’s not that close so I am not sure if it’s the light or something else. Day 26 (08/09/2020): Today just before lights off (at 11:45am) I sprayed the girls all over with the neem oil and emulsifier. I think the water I used was not warm enough because the oil did get a bit stuck inside the bottle but I did try to shake it often. I sprayed the tops and bottoms of leaves, stems, the top of the soil and also into the sides of the AirPot where there are holes. We also watered all the girls today with 1.5 litres of water and I increased the BioGrow to the recommended 1.5ml so I will see if they are happy with that. We also defoliated a little bit of the most bottom leaves. For girl #1 we took off the lowest 6 fan leaves including the very first leaves. For girl #2 we wanted to test if there will be any difference in growth if we took off a bit more so we cut off 8 fan leaves to focus the energy on bud sites. They have both been really healthy throughout the grow so I think this shouldn’t phase them. We also did some training adjustments and exposed more of the future bud sites to the light. Day 27 (09/09/2020): Today both of the girls have grown bigger because we readjusted the training yesterday and exposed them to the light more. It doesn’t seem like the defoliating affected either of them as they are both still growing healthy. I think they must have also liked the increase in BioGrow because they are using a lot of energy to grow at the moment so I will keep the increased dosage. Day 28 (10/09/2020): I have still seen some flies in the tent but it does say that neem oil is not a contact pesticide which means it might take a few weeks to show results. But as I’ve said before I think the girls will not be affected by this too much since they have such robust root systems because of the AirPots. Really great end of the 4th week and definitely crazy progress since the end of last week.