1st grow - Stone and CBD

Ha, now I know why I should write three (well two actually) diaries. ML No.1 is now flowering whereas the others are still in their vegetation cycle. Well, we all learn all the time and next grow I do and if there are more than one strains I will write separate diaries 😊 But, let me focus on this one first. So, as I said, ML No.1 is now flowering, its branches are no longer coming out of the main stem symmetrically but alternating. As I read (remember I am a novice and have no idea) this means the plant is officially flowering. She has now reached 60cm in height, still very thin branches (apart from the main stem) allow me to do the LST, bending her down since she is overgrowing the others and I have problems keeping the lights at some kind of equal distance from the plants. I did a bit of a defoliation last week on the girl although her leaves are very thin and didn't actually block too much light from lower laying flowers. There are many branches coming out of her, and my fiming (a few weeks back) resulted in two main branches (and not four as I have hoped for 😒). Thin branches allow me to bend them and spread them around so everyone gets enough light. I have also used 2ml/l of BioBizz Bio-bloom organic fertilizer on her to give her that extra boost during this (at least from my point of view the most important) period of her life. ML No. 2 on the other hand is now 23cm high (just over one third of her sister's), looking quite stocky with less branches and wider leaves. I also performed defoliation on her since her leaves were blocking a lot of light from her inner parts and I was afraid that the air circulation wasn't that good. Apart from that I didn't do anything else with the girl. BL No.1 is the tallest of the three BLs. She is now 25cm high, stocky, with broad leaves so I did the defoliation on her as well. The process revealed that she has a few thick branches which are still springy enough to be bent. So I did LST on her, tying the branches down and opening her up to the light and breeze. BL No.2 and BL No.3 are both 20cm high, with BL No.3 being somewhat tinier. I took some leaves off of both of them to allow for some air circulation but otherwise didn't do anything else. They are getting a bit more thirsty, especially ML No.1 which now drinks about 1l of water a day. The others have increased their consumption just slightly to about 0.8l per day. I guess from now on I will only be watching them and supporting their growth with whatever they want or need (i.e. water and nuts) and I will not do any more defoliation (at least any substantial one). I will be, though, tying branches down and spreading them to allow for better illumination as well as air circulation. If needed I will also add some support for the babies, especially ML No.1 since she looks so thin, and if she develops some serious buds, this could merit such a step. So this is it for now, if something happens during this week I will be of course updating the post, otherwise, see you in week 6. Happy St.Patrick day Ireland 😍😎 and to the rest of us, grab a Guinness so we can all relax and wait for the smoke. OK, update, still week 5, two days after my initial post, some developments need to be put in here. So ML No.1 grew another 10 cm and is now 70cm high. Although in her flowering period she is still stretching, and she is stretching a lot. Love it. I am spreading her branches as much as I can to give them equal light but since the main stems (two after fiming) are so long they need to be tied to their neighbors' pots 😊. Although I find the textile pots very good I see their drawback in that they give when I tie the branches down and whenever I move them around, their shape changes and I have to re-tie. Ohhhh, sweet problems 😇. ML No.2 stretched from 23cm to 28cm, BL No.1 didn't add anything, but BL No.2 4 cm and BL No.3 3cm. And that in the last 48 hours. I hope they keep going. Still no flowering. I am also spreading branches of BL No.1 and 2, and ML No.2. They are all stocky and short and spreading them gives their inner parts some lights and fresh air. BLs again showed N deficiency so yesterday I added a bit of Water Soluble All Purpose Plant Food containing 24%N. They seem to like it. I didn't measure them yesterday but if N caused the stretch (I will again measure tomorrow) then I will keep feeding them with it. I am a bit worried with the drainage where PPM shows very high values (2000) but I will adjust if needed. Another update, today (+2 from the update) I noticed that two more babies, ML No.2 and BL No.1 started developing branches on one side only. So hopefully, if I didn't miss the opposite one on both of my girls, they are entering their flowering stage. That would be day 45 from putting my seeds in the water for germination. I must say, I didn't expect it to take that long, but better late then never 😌. If my observation is true, then only BLs No.2 and 3 remain vegetating. A quick observation on the appearances of my plants. As I stated a few times already, ML No.1 is tall but very thin. After yesterday's watering I think her inner branches grew and she became bushier, I have an impression there is a lot of her around. All the rest are very stocky and bushy and compact but as with the ML No.1 I have an impression there is more of them now. Kind of they are getting more full. Now, that may be the case because of my spreading them a bit, tying their branches down to give more light to their inner parts. If correct, I will have a problem now because I can't spread them more. Their side branches are short and I can only bend them so far and if their inner ones start coming out they will again be very bushy and full, just a bit wider. I probably should do something about it (I don't know, cutting some branches out) but I don't know what. I will have to check other diaries with similar looking plants to get an idea and drink from other people's experiences and knowledge.