Veg. Week 2
Day 8 - No.1 is looking well and showing good growth. I can see her first set of three fingered leaves, I think. No.2 is not faring so well compared to her sisters. My initial abuse of this poor girl may have something to do with that. No.3 on the other hand has larger first leaves than No.1 but seems determined to grow diagonally? I gave all 3 a watering of 30ml Root-Juice solution today when the light came on, that will be all they get until they dry out a little.
Day 9 - Not much change for the girls today. All 3 have been given a drink of 20ml Root-Juice solution as the pots felt quite dry already.
Day 10 - I am thinking it might be about time to transfer No.1 into a larger pot as she is ahead of her sisters by nearly a week and is looking like she wants more room. All 3 were given a 20ml drink of Root-Juice solution today at lights on.
Day 11 - Today I made up a feed and gave all 3 a foliar feed at lights out. I noticed No.3 flopped over when I sprayed her so maybe her stem is not as good as I thought. After a little worrying about No.3 flopping over I decided to re-pot her and her sisters into 1.5l pots. I dropped No.1 a little deeper in her new home as she was taller than her sisters. I will do the same again next time I re-pot into bigger pots to try and bring their overall heights in line with each other. After potting-up I used the remaining feed I had made up to give the girls a decent drink. They received approx. 250ml each. I also changed the bulb to the HPS dual spectrum and set it at 400 watts rather than 600. I do not plan to increase the power and hope to run the bulb at 400 watts for the duration of veg.
Day 12 - The girls all look happy this morning and do not seem to be bothered about the light or pot change. I gave them all a slight damp down with plain old tap water and left them be.
Day 13 - The girls have settled well under the new light and I can now see new growth. No.3 looks more stable since potting up. I gave all 3 a good drink today of 200ml tap water just to be sure I had thoroughly wet all the soil in the new pots. This will be their last drink until they dry out a bit now.
Day 14 - End of week 2 veg. and all 3 appear to be doing well. No.1 is now about 7.5cm tall and showing the most growth, she was buried a little deeper when potted-up so about 1cm could be added to that height. No.2 is now the baby of the group and currently about 3.5 cm tall. No.3 is about 4.5cm tall with bigger leaves than her little sister, so she has already overtaken No.2.
Thanks for stopping by or returning if you are following my progress with my first grow. I hope everyone is keeping safe and well in these crazy COVID-19 times. World became a little messy but on the plus side it has allowed me the time to finally attempt growing my own medicine. Roll on week 3, I am looking forward to seeing how my girls continue to grow.