1st Grow Diary

Hi everyone! Hope y'all had a great week. We had a busy one, with lots of changes and improvements to the grow. We'd like to start off by telling you that all four seeds that we planted sprouted up into saplings (yay🙌) and we let them grow in the coco-coir plugs for a few days after which we transplanted them onto the bigger fabric pots that you see in the photos. The pots were a little bigger than we expected so we had to cut off the top of the pots a little as they were a hindrance to the light reaching the plants at their current height. We made sure to make the soil mix before transplant a couple days back so we could let it aerate for a bit in the sunlight. Also, something we forgot to do the last time around was add the mycorrhizae to the coco-perlite mixture, but we didn't miss out on it this time! A major change we made after some extensive 🙀 research was the switch to the one part nutrient namely Megacrop (the grow and the candy) as we found these had all the needed basic nutrients at a higher concentration and additional ones like Humic acid, Fulvic acid, Kelp extract, Organic chelated Amino acids without EDTA and Vitamin B Complex . They also offered a more economical nutrient option in the long run. We're hoping these will last us the full length of this grow so we'll see about that. Coming to the Big Sisters on the other half of the grow cabinet, we did some LST for the branches after the topping, which we did for the main cola only and they seem to have kept to the structure we intended for them quite well! About two days after the LST, we did some defoliation on them as well to free up space for the Light to reach the lower branches and also did some Lollipopping to make sure all those nutrients reached the right places. This way, we're hoping to avoid too much Larf come harvest time :) We watered these with 1 teaspoon/ gallon Megacrop grow and 1 teaspoon/gallon Candy at 2l/pot/two days as they were drinking up quite a lot. We are seeing some good thickness on the main stem as well as the side branches and now have a rough count of 8-10 main colas on our Big Ones. We did break one of the lower colas on one of these while training them accidentally (one of us seems to have made this a tradition every grow) but no biggie😅 We're happy with how things are looking as of now and we're looking to continue this for the week with the same 20x4 light cycle, but looking forward to an update on the LED Light, which should arrive in about a couple of weeks from now {fingers crossed}, hopefully before/ just as flowering sets in😇 This was a fun week! 👽 Well, That's it for our updates... See you around a week from now! 😻💪👋