HSC - Hella Jelly - Autopot Coco

Schwarzer_Daumen First week of seedling growth. I love watching those first few weeks. Keeping the tent at around .7 VPD, nice and humid, and it seems to be growing in nicely. The second pair of leaves is coming in, and it seems like one is faster than the other. Lets see how it will develop. Also, we got a little Cameo of my seedlings for the Outdoor Grow, in soil.

Schwarzer_Daumen They just keep growing, it's awesome. I love gardening. The soil plants are almost big enough to go outside, and the main plant will soon need to be repotted as well.

Schwarzer_Daumen As you can see, the plant does not look great. I transplanted on Thursday, just after last weeks post, and the plant completely stopped growing. I assumed it was just transplant shock, but the bottom leaves started to look worse and worse,. I finally measured the Drain, and it turns out something was wrong with the coco I used, and the Drain EC was a bout 4. Which explains the dark green leaves. I had to flush, and now I just hope the plant recovers quickly. I should have been more careful about buffering and washing the coco.

Schwarzer_Daumen Growth has started again, but I wouldn't call it vigorous. I'm still handwatering a pretty weak nutrient solution, but the first roots are poking out the bottom of the pot, so I'm positive I can start the autopot pretty soon. The plant is way too small for my liking, but what can you do. I'll give it another few weeks. I want to scrog anyways, and vegging it during the hottest parts of the summer does actually sound smarter than flowering.

Schwarzer_Daumen The plant looks healthy, slowly growing. I put in the screen a bit premature. Not a lot of photos this week. I turned on the autopot, although the plant was a bit small still. It's growing very stout and bushy, but that's fine.

Schwarzer_Daumen Temps are insane, but the plant seems to like it. I'm worried about the temperature in the reservoir, I think the plant has recovered enough so I can start feeding more. The humidifier is just using up tons of water, to keep the VPD at around 1.

Schwarzer_Daumen Growth is still super slow, I'm getting worried. I have also had some issues with the tray flooding because of the airdome, it's very possible that my coco is just too dense, as the plant seems to show some over watering signs as well. I have considered the nuclear option of replanting the whole thing into fresh bagged coco/perlite.

Schwarzer_Daumen Had a shocker of a week, the plant looked worse and worse, I decided to repot into fresh bagged coco/perlite and finally it starts to recover. Today, 8 days later, the leaves finally start to point up again, but I will continue to top feed for about another week until the new coco is completely rooted through. First time I have struggled like that in more than a year, and autopots+coco is supposed to be the easy way.

Schwarzer_Daumen The growth is looking healthy, and the speed is picking up. I have ordered the AN coco specific formulation, now that the normal kind is nearing it's end and I'm excited to see where it goes. I'm going to veg for a big longer, I don't want to flower during the peak of summer, so it might end up being late August.

Schwarzer_Daumen It continues to grow really nicely, I think she has mostly recovered from what I did to her. I have now cleaned up the lower growth, in preparation for flipping her to flower. It's going to have to wait another two weeks, because I'm on a trip and I don't want the stretch to be uncontrolled. I'm still top watering, but I will switch on the Autopot tonight and let it run for those two weeks.

Schwarzer_Daumen Last week of veg, today she will experience her first short day. Hella Jelly is supposed to be short flowering, so I might actually get another grow in this year.

Schwarzer_Daumen As a little experiment I kept the veg nutrients for the first week of flower, the stretch really seems to have started, had a lot of tucking to do today. I will be gone for most of the next week, so I expect to return to a real jungle.

Schwarzer_Daumen IT'S A GIRL! I came back on Sunday to a nice little jungle, tucked it all down, and it's already up about 15cm above the net again. I'm going to wait a few more days to see if the stretch slows down, if the plant stays that size it would be perfect.

Schwarzer_Daumen Of course this summer has to be terrible again, and I have real trouble getting my rh down during lights off. I will add a bunch more air circulation and it should hopefully be fine. Other than that the plant is growing nicely, already smelling divine. Can't wait for the harvest.

Schwarzer_Daumen I just love watching them grow. Not much else to do right now. But she seems healthy, and the buds are forming nicely.