Week 3: 11/17 - 11/23
Day 22 - FW & BH got 180mL each. CSC got 120mL. CSC has some droopy leaves from the transplant which is why add she didn't get as much. I'm sure she'll bounce back tomorrow. BH is getting huge! I ended up tieing her down today. Bent her over all the way and 2 hours later, came back to her top node already responding and perking up. Gave her a 2nd tie down later in the day to direct the new growth around the outer edge of the pot. At this point, I'll be happy with whatever FW and CSC give me. All attention is on BH!
Day 23 - I noticed the first signs of pistils showing on FW already -.-
I found out sometime last week that my light timer was broken and my light wasn't turning off. FW was the front runner for best grower until that stunted her. Now she's an itty bitty girl.. BH on the other hand is growing like crazy!! I tied her down in the morning and almost decided to tie her down again at night after all the additional growth throughout the day. I'm starting to work her around the edge of the pot to maximize my footprint within the tent. CSC looks to be bouncing back from the transplant. Leaves are around 50% less droopy than they were yesterday. FW and BH got 180mL and CSC got 90mL.
Day 24 - I gave BH and FW each 1 L of water this morning to help saturate the pot. I'm going to keep giving them 1 L each day until I get runoff and then I'll back off to .75 L. I noticed CSC is starting to take hold in her new home with even less droopy leaves today than before. CSC got 150mL and I can tell she liked the water. The growth from her today is great! I'm 50/50 right now on if I should top her. I don't want to stress her too much and stunt her any more than I may have already.
Day 25 - I rotated BH to allow the lower nodes access to the higher PAR areas from my light. The lowest node exploded with growth and she's almost the same height as the canopy. I've been retieing her down each day and I think it'll do her good to go tomorrow completely untouched. I'll re-adjust the LST ties on Day 27. Continued the same watering schedule.
Day 26 - FW & BH watered 2 L to continue saturating the pot fully. Once I start getting heavy runoff, I'll back off. Did some LST on FW and CSC now that they're big enough. I didn't want to shock CSC too quickly after the transplant but her leaves kicked back so it was time.
Day 27 - Saturated the pots in the morning. Did some additional LST on CSC and BH... I had the BH stem level with the rest of the growth and I guess sometime when I was tightening the tie down.. the stem went a little too far and started to split. I made sure the tie down was secure enough not to budge at all and put her back in the tent to recover. I guess I won't be touching her for a day or two. I was planning on tying down the lower offshoots today as they're now starting to reach the same canopy height.. Guess that goes on the back burner for now. Yay for new grower mistakes! Learning a ton on what to do differently from this auto grow.
Day 28 - Saturated the pots in the morning. Decided to tie down the lower growth nodes on BH anyways. If the main node is donezo (yet to be determined) then I might as well make sure the rest of the plan is trained correctly. I snapped a closer pic of the split while I was training. It's much worse than I thought but at the same time, none of the growth above the split is showing any signs of stress. Very odd.. If it recovers, I'm going to love watching her repair herself from this huge split.