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Here we are! Starting our first growing diary with 5 seeds of Orange Groovy (2019 IC Cannabis Cup - Breeders Cup - Best Indica Winner), 2 of Golden Pussy and 2 of Strawnana x 26mm (unreleased strains). We used a glass of water for each seed, and positioned them inside the box with no light and maybe a bit low humidity. We solved this issue with condensation at first, and then by buying a 4L humidifier. Seeds germinated in about 36-48 hours. At that point we put the seeds in cups with some 'Mills' Light Mix and wrapping them with alluminium foil so the light can't reach the roots, because of the transparency of plastic cups. We turned on the light on 40-60% power, the carbon-filtered extractor and the fans. We fed them with osmosis water and a couple drops of 'Plant Revolution' Orca.
After 9 days from germination we decided to transplant most of them from the cups to 3.6L pots (Orange Groovy F1 has had some issues and is a bit late compared to the other ones). First of all we mixed together about 30 liters of soil, 3 liters of humus and 250 grams of S.W.A.. The plants showed amazing roots from the top to the bottom of the cups, it wasn't hard to switch them to the pots due to the compactness given by them. In these days we are using about 1L of osmosis water and still a couple drops of the Orca solution (1ml/gal). Each day they grow disproportionally more, we are just waiting a couple days to top some of them.
We started the week by transplanting the Orange Groovy F1 into the 3.6L pots filled with our SWA super-soil: we waited a bit more compared to the first 8 transplants just to make sure the roots were strong enough. At the same time we realized that the Orange Groovy F2 was the first plant ready for topping. This week we continued using our Lumatek dimming it at 60%. We are watering them with 1L divided by all 9 of them of osmosis water. On days 16 and 17 we topped every plant (except for Golden Pussies which still need a couple days and the Orange groovy F1 which we will not top because of her smaller size). We noticed that most of our plants presented lightly yellowed tips. We think that this is due to the deficiency of some immobile elements such as Ca, Fe, S. To solve this problem, we will put some decanted water (because it doesn't contain Chlorine which kills our bacterial substrate life) to give them the correct nutrients. We failed topping Orange Groovy F2 because the central apical started to grow even after cutting it but we kept it just to see what is going to happen. Golden Pussy F2 has been topped too and it went perfectly as you can see in the pictures. The plants continue to grow out of all proportion!
This week has been normal... after trying to solve our Potassium and micro-elements deficiency numerous times without managing to actually succeed we decided to transplant them into their final pots: 12L ones! After mixing for hours 100 liters of soil, 10 liters of humus and the rest of our super-soil. We carefully rolled the plants one at the time and put them in their new houses with just some mixture on the bottom and then filled the gaps. 2 of them haven't been transplanted because we didn't have enough soil but we will solve this in a couple days. Hoping that this transplant will make them healthy again, we are waiting the arrival of what is needed to make compost tea.
This week has been stressful for the plants, however the transplanting has been healthy for them by solving our deficiency. We wanted to strengthen them so on day 37 we decided to defoliate and train them with super-cropping and chiropractic method (by Kyle Kushman). This is clearly visible in the pictures: we twisted the stems and the main branches and eliminated every useless leaf that received no light. After a couple of days the spots where supercropping was applied are becoming of a darker shade of brown, harder and are forming nots.
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