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I setup my tent and have been letting it get climatized to the temp/humidity that I'm looking for when in flower.
This is my first grow, and I'm attempting to do (4) total plants.
All (4) seeds were placed in water in a shot-glass to start. (2) seeds stayed in the water until I saw their radicles. (1) seed "Ariana" went straight into my soil mixture after 4+ hours in the shot-glass. (1) seed "Calista" went straight into a Root Riot plug after 4+ hours in the shot-glass. (1) seed "Demi" soaked in the shot-glass until the racile popped out a few mm's and was then placed directly into a Root Riot plug. (1) seed "Bernice" soaked in the shot-glass until the racile popped out a few mm's and was then placed directly into my soil mixture.
I'm using PREMIER HORTICULTURE 713445 PRO-Mix HP Biofungicide + Mycorrhizae as medium and mixed 1/2 of a 15gal bag of earthworm castings to a 2.8cu ft bag of PRO-Mix.
I started to lightly feed on 02/10/2021. My nute mix is currently General Hydroponics RapidStart and Fox Farms Big Bloom. I mixed 2.5 gals of nute mix at half-strength of recommended EC/PPM, which reads in my mix at 0.7 EC/470 PPM *700 scale* and have the PH set at 6.0. I'm going to use a small dropper to place a few ml of nute mix around 1/2" from the base of each seedling. I'll likely continue this regimen for a few days and monitor the progress/changes.
So I had (x2) seeds that failed on me: (#1) didn't ever "pop" in water and no germination occurred and the other (#2) that was directly sewn into soil as a seed.... I ended up popping (x2) more seeds on 02/11/21 so that I could keep my grow as (4) plants. These 2 additional seeds will be a few days behind the others but I'm going to be doing some LST training on a plant or two (smallest ones) and I'll find out which those are in the coming weeks.
Started a light feeding at 1/2 strength. I've noticed that the seeds that I ended up popping 5 days later for 2 plants (Ariana & Calista) have caught up with the plant that was germinated in a rooting cube (Demi)... those 2 plants were put directly into my soil mixture just as my largest had been done. I'm doing to stick with this method for germination/seedlings from here out as it seems to work better with my environment and will be cheaper w/o purchasing extra cubes. Demi also seems to have slight yellowing on the tip of the first 2 "true leaves" whereas none that were directly put into soil have this issue. All have been given the same light, water, nutes on the same exact dates/times.
Bernice (my largest at 6" tall) got topped today after the 4th node. All 3 others will wait a few more days till they reach the same height and node spacing/growth. Will start foliar feeding of (1 gal water/2ml - liquid seaweed/2ml - gold shield silica/2ml boomerang) tonight on 03/06/21. Plants seem to be drinking water a bit more this week, meaning their root systems are growing and getting stronger. Will likely feed plain RO water tomorrow and check runoff PPM & PH. All in all they're growing much better, at the start of this week they were showing signs of deficiencies, due to me not giving them a good feeding early enough (I was afraid of over-feeding and instead under-fed!). Due to under-feeding some of my fan leaves on the early growth have gotten some brown spots, which I'm unconcerned with as these will eventually either fall off or be trimmed off by myself before sending to flower.
repotted all 4 plants into 5 gal pots and fed RO water initially. My 2nd watering 4 days later was at 3000ml, giving me 20% runoff, and was a nute solution at 2230 PPM700. I defoliated and trained plants with plastic 90º LST clips.
Fed slightly heavy on this week and found some clawing and nute burn on new leaves. I went ahead and flushed after 2 days and got the PPMs back down to an acceptable level. Plants have recovered and are fine. I have also been defoliating now almost every 3 days, keeping fan leaves cleared from covering the tops of the smaller bud sights that need to catch up on their height. I've taken off all the plastic LST clips and am now using a plant wire that is covered in soft rubber to train the branches down. All canopies are much more even in growth and height at this point and I have currently 10-12 colas on each plant. I'm going to keep them at these many colas for the remainder of their growth, so I won't be doing any more topping/FIMing at all. Now I will keep them in this same current cycle for at least another week and feed them 1 more time with nutes and twice with RO water, the 2nd time at a good flush prior to putting them into their flowering cycle. If they do not have enough height growth after this 5th week's end I might keep them in flower for 6 weeks. I really want to make sure that I have at minimum 10 healthy colas that will have plenty of room for light/air and get them around 16" tall prior to flipping to flower so that I can hopefully get their height around 5' tall at the end.
Defoliated at the start of the week and trained down more... trying to push main colas to get further out to help maximize the inside light penetration/air flow. They're really trying to grow tall so there is a lot of forced training down to keep the canopy even on their height as well as to try and grow/maximize bud sites and their spacing.
First week of flower at 12/12. Setting light height and PPFD to get right where I want them. They were seeing slight light burn on the tips in the last week of veg as I was pushing them as hard as they would allow.
Built a new small veg setup for my clones that I took off my Blue Dream... likely running other strains next time but I wanted to test my cloning setup, and ended up with 100% success rate on them. Every plant is happy and growing well! I'll be pushing my nutes to the top of the recommended feeding chart to try and get as much out of the plants as I can.
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