yet another first timer grow log

[xmk]

my plants have been in soil now for 4 weeks, im going to start LSTing in a few days here(after their next watering) I never found out what that yellow rusty colored stuff on my one plant was, never ended up doing anything about it because i wasnt sure if it was spider mites or not but either way it stopped spreading and getting worse and the plant is growing again and looking very good aside from the left over marks.

first two pics are of my tallest plant, its a blue mystic

next two pics are of my second tallest, this is the same one with the marks on the leaves, this one is a Papaya

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couldnt fit all the pics in so here are the other two plants

first two are of my other papaya and last two are of my other blue mystic,

not sure whats wrong with the blue mystic, it doesnt want to seem to grow upward, it seems to just want to grow a lot of leaves instead of getting tall like my other 3, its very compact as well, almost no space at all between branches

[atsar]

if it was spider mites you'd have noticed loads of bits of like fine web all over the leaves,probably just a bit nute burn or something

[xmk]

yeah im thinking it probably was just a burn of some sorts, all the leaves are now i nice healthy dark green and its my largest plant by quite a bit now, so whatever it was it was self limitting and shes recovered VERY well, started LSTing them yesterday so ill post some pics of that tonight or tomorrow

[xmk]

another week down, this is week 2 of vegatative growth, 5 weeks since they were planted into soil, and just under 6 weeks from seed. I started LSTing them about 5 or 6 days ago and that seems to be working out very well. Next week i make the big switch to 12/12 and the real fun can begin. As you can see from the pics the blue mystic dwarf still isnt really growing, its been pretty sensative to my ferts as well. At a full dose bottom leaves were completly burned so im babying it for now with a half strength mixture, its also being super sensative to watering, doesnt take much at all to over water it, for now im going to keep it around for the first few weeks of flowering and see if i can get it to spring to life, if its not doing anything by then im going to just toss it

first pic is my biggest which is a papaya,

second pic is my dwarf which is a blue mystic

third pic is the biggest next to the dwarf so you can see the size difference

fourth pic is the big papaya next to a lighter so you can get an idea of size

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heres pics of the other two plants

first pic is a blue mystic

second is a papaya

and third is the two together w/ a lighter for size comparison

[xmk]

another week down, not to much going on, ive just been working on LSTing them here and there and that seems to be working AMAZINGLY, they seem to have grown a lot this week and tonight the lights go out early and the 12/12 starts....cant wait to see how many females i get... a week or two left and theyll start showing sex

first pic is the largest plant - a papaya
second pic is the runt - a blue mystic
third pic is a blue mystic
fourth pic is a papaya
and the fifth pic is a buddha of good fortune which sits on top of my tubs

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so theyve only been on 12/12 since thursday, and i think ive already got some female pre flowers showing. can anyone confirm for me that this is a female pre flower?!

Both of my papayas have these growing at either the 5th or 6th branch internode

[mythin]

Looks like a female to me! nice job on the plants so far

[xmk]

thanks, the papaya genetics are really kicking in, their an early maturing strain and both are female, and they have just exploded with growth since switching to 12/12. still waiting on the blue mystics though but they are a slower growing strain so it might be a week or so still. i hit my goal of getting at least two females but im still really hoping i can get some blue mystic to smoke as well