Light Saber Bag Seed Grow

Week 4 LS Notes 10/21 Light Saber seems like she’s doing really okay actually. The weird twisting on the leaves seems to have stopped, and the discoloration hasn’t spread to the newest growth (which has been coming in nice and strongly). Five tipped leaves are coming in and the stalk is getting nice and thicc. I gave the soil a watering today since it’s gotten fairly dry outside of the immediate area around the plant and roots, and hopefully we’ll continue to see her move past what I think may have just been a case of root/transplant shock after all. 10/22 Light Saber’s resilience is impressing the patootie out of me. The issues that popped up during those initial days after my accidental assault on her hasn’t spread anymore, and cute little leaves are popping up on branches while fast, healthy af leafy greens are continuing to come through up top. I noticed that the stem seemed a bit thicker from the cotyledons on up, but the stem seemed to even out and get uniformly thicker all the way through overnight. (For anyone who doesn’t know or forgot, the cotyledons are those first, round little set of leaves that appear when your seed’s germinated and sprouted). Seems like we’ve managed to leave troubled waters for now and at least until my next error comes up I hope it’s not naïve to think it might be smooth sailing now. 10/23 Light Saber has three nodes and is working on the 4th right now – which I intentionally used the fimming technique on. It was a clean one cut process, and I watered after before putting her back in the tent. She’s just barely tall enough for me to start training, but I’m going to wait for her to get just a few more nodes and a little more recovered from the repotting before low stress training. Probably next week? I really debated on whether to fim or top, but ultimately with Light Saber I thought the ironically less stressful fim would be better after her recent tumble. 10/26 I went ahead and set up Light Saber for low stress training using some gardening wire, just on the stem. To help increase the amount of light exposure, I also tucked some of the bigger fan leaves. 10/27 Light Saber’s growth is looking really awesome, the sites exposed to sun have gotten fuller and are coming in really quickly. She’s not quite as pristine looking as my other plants in the leaf department due to the shock to the roots after knocking her out of the pot and having to do a transfer, but this latest batch of new growth looks gorgeous with no spotting or warping of the leaves, so I think she's finally had a chance to properly recover. I’m honestly not sure yet if the FIM was successful – I’m worried I clipped a bit too high up. There’s new growth coming in from the area I clipped, but I’m not sure if that means I was successful in creating new main colas. Guess it’s back to sitting and waiting for her to let me know lol. Another note – I went ahead and got a few gender tests to use on Light Saber and Mango Sherbet (another journal). This morning I cut off one of the cotyledons, crushed it on the test pad to get the plant’s DNA in there, and put the sample in an envelope. Super easy lmao, I’m pretty pleased. I’ll mail the tests to the lab for testing, and when they have the results they’ll email me back. (For reference, the company’s name is Delta Leaf Labratories, and they can test for all the other stuff like strain genetics, THC, terpines, etc. I just wanted the gender testing and bought a pack of ten because the more tests you buy at a time, the cheaper each test is. In my caseI got each test for ten USD each. If I’d gotten a greater number the price would have been cheaper, but I only need this test for bag seed or reg photos so it wasn’t worth it to do more at this stage. It’s also totally possible to just get one or two tests, but I think the price is 12 USD for each test if you buy less than nine). I’m honestly not sure if I hope Light Saber is male or female anymore. I live in an area where weed is not only legal but there’s a surplus, so I can get it pretty cheap too. Light Saber is showing some dope genetic strength, so if it’s actually a male then it could be really interesting to test the little dude’s pollen on the cola tip of another fem strain or two. It’s a little mad scientist to just randomly start a breeding project like that, but I have the benefit of having the room and freedom to play a little and still get my weed if things go sideways so I kinda of want to take advantage of that. If Light Saber is male, then I might keep him in veg and stop with the training to keep him smaller while I figure out how I want to make use of the pollen. If female, then I’ll just keep on working to get Light Saber big and full before switching to flower so I can at least enjoy a decent crop.