Day 15:Gave water & nutrients (2 L each).
For the looks they do very well - dark green. Fanleaves build little sunroofs over a good amount of new shoots from the nodes😊.
Planns for this week:
will keep the soil moist and spongy and wait for the first roots to come out the bags. Till there i'll keep my alternating rhythm of clear water/nutrient solution. As soon as the pots are fully rootet through, i'll start feeding with a little drain, so i can observe wether my soil gets too salty or not.
Further i'll keep bending the tops, in order to give more light to the younger shoots. As soon as the stems start making diameter, i'll prepare my scrog-net.
Day 16:
everything fine so far - nothing to do.....let them ladies do they thang......
Day 17:
1.5 liters of water each (pH 6.2)
1st root made it throug the bottom-edge of the pot💪!!! strong white and meaty😁. stems get stronger now, plants show dark green colour. 1(!) tipp shows a tiny little tipp-burn. i will keep watering 'till the ladies loose a little of that dark green..... just to avoid overfeeding.
Day 18:
1.25 liters of water each (pH 6.2)
Everything fine so far…….. still dark green an vital.
Soil is soaked (i had first little drops coming out the bottom after watering this morning)
Thoughts:
More LST? Less LST?
These fanleaves are really huge and make real sunroofs right above the new shoots. I don't see any way to get the shoots into the 'sun' but bending those fanleaves away.....but honestly..... nope! Since the lights are running at 60% (~600 ppfd) already, i rather give the littleones a soft start. They'll make it through the roof one day.
My real 'concern' is the height. Yet the stem doesn't really push upwards..... if these ladies stay short, it'll take plenty of time to create a scrog 😕.
Wonder wether it could help, if i let them grow straight up for a while and bend them again later. Any suggestions?
Day 19:
plant 3 really pops out some roots...😁; elsewise everything fine......
Day 20:
Poured out some 1.5 l of water to each an had a decent amount of drain…… pH 6.1 EC 2.4 - 3.4 (average 2.9)🤡😵💫!
Since the ladies don‘t show any tipp-burn, i will keep watering with drain (daily from now on) instead of flushing them - no panic here 😎.
i guess it was just some accumulations from feeding without drain.
Stems get stronger…… slow but steadily…….
They still don‘t make much hight, though they produce mass. No worries yet:-)
What's next?
Will keep watering with drain and have an eye on EC. As soon as it gets below 1.4/1.5 i'll start feedin nutrients again. In case the ladies start getting brighter, i'll start feeding just underneath the EC, measured at last.
Day 21:
Drain EC still rising!!! (top 3.7/avg. 3.0)..... still not panicking - i observed very few leafs, rolling up their teeth...... but there are some. No tipp-burn at all.
1 liter poured out, would produce about 0.4 liters of drain - i guess there is still a lot of root-growth happening.
Main colas and shoots are developing fine. Still dark green.
Lifted the lights a bit - since the ladies took a little hight😁.
Thoughts:
According to the producer, my soil has an EC of about 1.2. Factoring the amount and concentration of nutrient-solution fed, i can only etsimate, there are some accumuations, residue or whatever, washing out from top to bottom.
Though i'll have to check for signs of overfeeding...... and do a little flush ........only if REALLY necessary😤!
In an ideal world, the ladies would demad more nutrients with any bit of growth, so i would just have to feed them water, another 2 or 3 days and everything was just perfect😁😁😁
UPCOMING: Week 4 😶