Dutch Passion Power Plant Auto

Well here we go into Week One of Veg! 👏😎With a week of initial growth behind her now, the Dutch Passion Auto Power Plant is doing great and sprouting her 2nd and 3rd sets 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 78-80 degrees during the light cycle and 72-74 degrees for their 5 hour dark period. RH in the 4x4 range from 47-55% and the co2 level from 460-530ppm's. 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 1 tbsp./g of Fox Farms Wholly Mackerel 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 getting taller by the day. She is approaching 2" now and I anticipate her taking off really soon. We'll have to wait and see how long her 'legs' turn out to be! 😎🙏 3/5- Day 12 and the signs of deficiency on her leaves looks to be dissipating slightly. I'm going to hit her with a dose of Botanicare CalMag+ tomorrow just to add the extra bit of micro nutrients she's starving for. She's in the process of sprouting her third 'true' set of leaves which will have five 'fingers' on them. I now have the HLG 650R light @ 42" above canopy, with temperatures in the Gorilla 4x8 ranging 71-80deg. with the RH @ 55% kept in check by the AC Infinity Cloudline T6 w/Controller set to monitor and keep the temperatures in the tent constant. I went ahead and added 5ml/g of Fox Farms Wholly Mackerel 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'll really be taking off going into the latter part of week two going into week three and will more than likely be a mid to shorter phenotype. I'd really like to see this girl veg for at least 30-40 days before starting to flower, which will definitely help her size and hopefully yield!....we'll have to see what happens won't we?😎🙏 3/7- Week One of veg is here and gone and the Dutch Passion Auto Power Plant has started to lose the leaf discoloration thanks to nightly foliar applications of Fox Farms Flower Kiss applied via spray bottle. She has great color in her new growth and her structure, while not perfect (short & stocky), 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 effects 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! 😎👍