Little kitchen grow of a crippled auto

madflavoursgarden Thats my first plant, so I am a total beginner! :) Got that little sucker from a friend, it was pretty crippled and in a super small 10x10x10cm pot where it already sat for around 3,5 weeks. The strain is "Chemdawg Auto" from fastbuds and it was germinated with the paper towel method and then planted into some cheap soil from a gardening store. She had no nutes, measurements or anything - just tap water. It kinda bumped me out that she already got that white hair and I was afraid it already went to flower or something, besides that it was pretty small, long and not looking "strong". When I got her over to my place I transplanted it into a 26L fabric pot with Plagron Lightmix soil, a little 2-3cm drainage of plant clay (those red bubbles) and then put the soil on top of that, transplanted her into it and gave her some tap water at room temperature. She seems to liked it as she started growing visibly.

madflavoursgarden After a few days I gave her a little top dressing with each 3g per liter GHF BioGrow and BioBloom as they advice people to give autos both dressings right from the beginning! I then watered her with their GHF BioEnhancer and did not adjust its high PH (as they also advice people to do in their feeding schedule). So far it looked good and I really love the top dressing method to apply the fertilizer - damn easy! Then I bent that long noodly stem over and away from the light source to see how she reacts. I tried bending her a few days earlier but could feel that she was not really ready and had a too weak stem. Anyways, now it was possible and I just did it. I was super surprised as I saw her already rising and stretching back to the light source - crazy, for me as a beginner this was amazing to see and I think I watched that little thing for the next 2h close up! I was really fascinated about that stretch and in my mind I already making a stressing schedule for the coming days :D To hold her I just used cheap garden wire my wife luckily had. Two days later I decided to top her as I saw the next leaf pair appeared. Just went for it and she doesn't seem to mind... so far! Lets see what the coming days bring. Watering her just as much to keep the soil wet, so I guess every 2-3 days or whenever I think it feels right. No signs of flowering but the white hairs are still there. If anybody has an idea if thats normal or why that happens - PLEASE enlighten me! For now I am super excited and have to train my patience as I would love to just do any work on my little baby plant but I guess at this point I just have to wait...

madflavoursgarden So the little baby grew a tiny bit and still looking good. I watered it a little bit today and decided to train her a little further... as I am a beginner and have no real clue what I am doing I was pretty unsure but still tried to pin down few of those branches as well as spreading them out. After I was more or less done (let's say halfwhat satisfied :D) I just realized how the plant structure really was and it gave me a clearer idea of where it will probably grow. Next time I try to plan more detailed where and when to cut and to mainline it properly... Another thing I noticed was that a root appeared like 6cm away from the stem and was reaching for sunlight - whatever that means... maybe she is a freak of nature, maybe it's nothing or maybe I crippled her when transplanting (which was shit as the earth was somewhat falling apart while doing it but still wanted to get that auto in her endpot asap). The next morning I did not saw any visible changes, she did not stretched as much as I expected - but she also did not look worse, I will see that as a win. However, the strange hairs look even more strange, with some sprinkles on it that remind me of early terps but I am quite unsure here (picture attached). Also that little root came back after I tried to cover it, what is going on here??? :D EDIT: WTF are those things in the last picture, how could I miss that? So I guess we are already in flowering by now and can expect a yielt up to 0.5g 😂😂😂

madflavoursgarden Happy Easter / happy 420 - what a nice coincidence. So she is keeping strong... but also she is for sure in flower now. But thats all our mistake, wrong handling at the beginning, then i had to transplant her, then i tried to train her, she is really looking great and gets a nice place in the sun now that the weather is good (at least in the day, at night she is under that craigslist LED). I watered her pretty good (at least I thought so) but the soil does not really looks and feels wet enough in my very (un)professional opinion. Anyways, I will give her a good feed tomorrow when I get her out in the garden. Another thing is pretty probably that 7gal/26l pot that was totally unnecessary for that early flower. Next time it will be better :) Target yield: 1g dry😎

madflavoursgarden Daaaaaamn! I forgot to move her in at a cold night, slipped and fell over... the plant got pretty stressed up and parts went flying. Lets just call it ultra HST! BUT she kept staying strong and recovered over the days. To be honest I just tried to save what I can and tried supporting her the best I could. Always making sure important parts are exposed to the light. Moved her out when the sun was out (sadly not often) and moved her back under the craigslist 25w led at night at a lets sa 1 inch distance... 😬 Sorry that I only have one picture but I had trouble with my smartphone.

madflavoursgarden So far so good, the little baby recovered and got some more LST along with lots of defoliation (at least for that little baby) and some main-lining. Fed her again with the GHF BioEnhancer after schedule without adjusting the high PH and else she is only getting tap water. Today a very sunny week started so I am super excited to see what it makes with our lady! Thanks for all the followers and comments :)