Barneys Farm Wedding Cake Auto

Well here we go into Week One of Veg! 👏😎With a week of initial growth behind her now, the Barneys Farm Wedding Cake is doing waaay better and sprouting her 2nd set of leaves which is such a beautiful sight to see! Thank you for following along this journey with me! Growing these beautiful cultivars is always better with someone to share the experience with....come along and enjoy! 😎🙏 ~Grown 100% organic in a 10g fabric pot with Mother Earth 70/30 Coco/Perlite medium amended with 2tbs/g Down To Earth 4-4-4 / 2 cups/g Earthworm Castings / 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Flower Girl 2-8-4 and 1tbs/g Dr. Earth Bat Guano. ~24hr light cycle during germination / 19/5 light cycle for Veg & Flower ~Straight water ph'd @ 6.2-6.8 when needed, top dressed every 3-4 weeks and weekly Compost Tea's. 3/1- I'm watering her twice daily with de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 @ 74-76deg. 200ppm. Today I added 2.5ml/g of Botanicare CalMag+ to her watering. I'm using a pump sprayer with a hose and wand attached that has a fine spray head on it now. When I water I am just giving enough right now to keep the soil moist, not wet, in the upper half of her pot as her roots haven't developed and penetrated to that point yet. As she matures and her root system develops into the monster I'm hoping for, I'll increase the amount of water she receives to ensure that the microbial colony thrives. Tent temp's are maintaining 78-80deg during the light cycle and 72-74deg for their 5 hour dark period. RH in the 4x4 range from 47-55% and the co2 level from 460-530ppm. I've got the HLG 650R's hung all the way up @ 42" now and have them set to 200w at the wall each. I'll be slowly dropping the light as she gets bigger and can tolerate the additional intensity without getting stressed. Later, in pre-flower, I'll switch the supplemental UVA Bar on to really boost trichome production and terpenes during flowering! 3/3- Watered today with .25g each de-chlorinated water ph'd to 6.5 with 1tbsp/g of Wild Alaskan Fish liquid added to give a little nutrition to the microbes. I'll follow up this weekend with some added unsulfured molasses to give the microbial colonies some more goodies to feast on. Gotta keep the microbes happy as they are responsible for providing nutrition for the plants, take care of your microbes and they'll take care of the plants! The tent temp's are maintaining 78-80 degrees during the light cycle and 72-74 degrees for their 5 hour dark period. RH in the Gorilla 4x8 range from 47-55% and the co2 level from 460-530ppm. The little girl is healthy and she's SLOWLY getting taller by the day. She is approaching a little over 1" now and I anticipate her taking off really soon. We'll have to wait and see how long her 'legs' turn out to be! 😎🙏 * Side note: I tried unsuccessfully FOUR times to germinate a Glue Gelato Auto from the same breeder as this strain. I used every method - directly in medium, soaked for 24hrs then planted in medium, soaked for 24hrs. then placed in wet paper towel and placed directly in wet paper towel. I finally gave up on any further attempts. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but I checked the Lot #'s on the seed packs and they are all the same.😐 3/5- Day 12 and she's finally starting to gain some height. She's in the process of sprouting her third 'true' set of leaves which should have five 'fingers' on them. I went ahead and added 5ml/g of Alaskan Fish Extract 5-1-1 to her water which was de-chlorinated and ph'd to 6.4 @ 76deg. 400ppm. I'm using the pump sprayer with the spray head set to a fairly fine cone. I'm giving her .25g twice a day keeping the medium moist all the way through to the bottom of the medium. I've found that if the roots encounter 'dry' medium it rapidly pisses off cannabis cultivars, ESPECIALLY autoflowers, so we're not going to explore that scenario....we're staying moist, not wet! 😁 I anticipate, based on her current rate of growth, that she's more than likely not going to be a very large cultivar. Not to mention at 12 days old, she's the smallest cultivar out of 12 in the current runs!!. I'd really like to see this girl veg for as looong as possible before starting to flower, which should help her overall size and conversely, her yield!....we'll have to see what happens won't we?😎🙏 3/7- Week One of veg is here and gone and the Barneys Farm Wedding Cake Auto has come to life! This girl has great color and her structure, while not perfect, is looking better than I'd hoped. I've added nightly foliar feeding to her schedule and she looks to be enjoying it! Her water intake continues @ 0.5g of de-chlorinated well water daily which is ph'd to 6.4-6.5 @ 74deg. after any additives (Fox Farm Wholly Mackerel, Botanicare CalMag+) are mixed in using either Alchemist PH Down or General Hydroponics PH Up which are diluted in 2 cups of water before being added to the remaining water. This dilution before addition prevents any chemical reaction that might occur from adding the PH Up/PH Down straight into the water that has nutrients in it, which would possibly have negative affects on the plant. Hopefully if her growth continues through next week, as I'm anticipating, I'll be able to start thinking about LST on her to increase her yield. We'll have to wait and see what the next couple of weeks bring! 😎🙏 Thank you for tagging along so far! Things should be getting more interesting as the coming weeks approach! I'm excited...are you? See you next week! 😎👍