Goodbye seedling, hello veg - Week 3 -
Beginning of week - replanted to their 5gallon home - soil roughly 70% OF, 10% HF, and 20% perlite.
(The HF primarily because I had some left).
pH tested the mix and it tests right at 7.0.
Girls moved into the tent now as well.
They are still recovering from being dropped (week 1) and cooked (Week 2) (sigh), but new growth looking good, healthy, praying up nicely.
The one plant (that got her stem completely broken in week 1) is still struggling.
Sorry forgot to get a picture of her (and a bit embarrassed of her, anyways).
Seems to be OK, just going to grow slower and need more attention than the other.
I'll cut off those damaged leaves next week, but given I just transplanted and plan to top tonight, will wait a few days to make sure all is OK. Node spacing looks good.
I'm topping above the 3rd node - removed the 1st node, and haven't decided yet if I'll remove the 2nd node.
Mycorrhizae added to the soil during transplant.
Starting nutes at 1/4 strength (Big Bloom, Cal-Mag) yesterday.
Water at 6.5 pH, TDS 300.
Things seem back on track....
All previous grows were Auto's, so learning with my current photo plants.... Question on flipping to flower... I'm at 18/6 now. Do I just make the change in one swoop to 12/12, or is it better to progress there (taking 30:minutes of light out of each day until 12/12?).
Great advice all; That why I love this place - tons of experience and perspective.
So my take is that I can do either, just jump to 12/12, or progress.
Different perspectives but knowing that either is OK is what I needed.
I'll probably split the difference (progress over like 3 days)..
Thanks all.
@DoDrugs420,
Thank you!
Ended up being a pretty intense smoke.
Sativa heavy supposedly, but damn it hits hard. Not one for the workday for sure.!
Peace!
I'm growing some gelato using leds for first time.I have different genetics,and my girls look nothing at all like these ones..I'm also growing Jack Herer.They're 19 days old from seedlings and so far the led light has made a ton of difference and my girls had to be put in 8 litre pots already as their roots we're getting tangled in the bottom of the 1litre pots I use for babies.I'm using sensi grow a&b @ 1ml per litre of cool,not cold, water.Slight nute burn but will half food to 0.5ml per litre water (pH 6.5), til burns gone..Mine take 8-9 weeks flowering too,not 14..It's so weird how the same strains are so different from different seed banks.I used seedsman seeds this time,as recommended on ILGM forum..Happy Growing!Hoping mine will look just as nice as yours!!
@pompeysalz29,
Thanks for the kind words, friend!
For sure - even my two girls seem totally different (one 44", the other 32") - and I treated them the same, rotated them around the lights, etc.
Crazy!
Sounds like you off to a good start!
Post them so we can see too!
