My First Mixed Seeds Grow Log

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Today 5 showed his sex clearly.

I'd load him up and I'd haul him away, And I'd shave him and dump him all naked and bare. He learned to live with it, he didn't care...

For test purposes I'll keep him there for a couple of days to see what happens when you cut off upper fan leaves to show more light to the lower branches. They were 3rd and 4th true leaves and as you see there are 9 petals (finger, point... whatever their name). This is very common thing i know but it is much more common to me. I Always have them even eleven. Right now other plants are also have 9 like this. Almost half of my plants produce these leaves. I was wondering what exactly causing to this?

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Another male, number 3. He was just hiding there all the time and i didn't notice. I noticed a while ago the head was compact, now just checked and found his tiny balls.
Look how cute he is.
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There are more flowers from the others. 1,7,8. Not clear much, here i could took only 8. In couple of days they'll clearly tell.
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And critical's are not only smelling much, also trying to have as much stem as they can. Both like this.
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I applied LST on 8 and lower branches as well. This is a potential female. Looks like. Here are the pictures from her (I want to call "her" already).

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Another LSTd, number 1, showed his flowers. And left his place to 8.

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Today i saw sockets in a shop for my bulbs and bought 6 of them. Now I'm going to buy one big reflector from growshop (40x50cm), then make a good looking, more stable, more effective and much safer light fixture. I am also going to hang them with thin chains. So there are couple of shops i should go. Lets see what will come out after all.

Growing is just going fine but some exceptions.
There are no news for the first group.They look fine. I'm expecting one more male from there.
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Good news from second. 6+ is the biggest in the room.
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Looks like 7 and 8 having pistils very soon. 8 didn't mind LST, growing just well.
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Second big is 9+ has some leaf problems. I don't know what exatly causes this. I'll make a search about. Also I might be drop something on her during the light changes. But she seems fine and growing as usual.
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Some members of third group have some nutrient problems i guess. Since they're experimental grows and so tiny, not a big deal though. I'll also try to take care of them. 11 and 17 are the smallest in the room. There you can see 11 with AAA battery. 15 and 16 doing well. They are no more mutants. There is no head and nothing is coming out for 18. Only first leaves and thats all. Not dying, not growing either...
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These are all the news for now.

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Early morning first official female was 7. From now on her name is se7en. Second is 8. I'll call her smelleight. Couldn't find anything better Hope she smells well by taking this name.
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Yesterday a watered them lightly early morning with deionized water.
Today I transplanted 3 of them to their final size pots. 6+, se7en and 9+
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All used Plagron light mix. New pots (Final size) are 23x23x26 cm. On monday I'll bring more soil and put the rest females in bigger pots. During the process also i saw pistils on number 2, now only two females are in medium size. 2 is very small compared to the others, and she has some problems from the beginning. We'll see in couple of days. Right now if i count criticals too, there are 5 females already.
Criticals managed to have stems from under the cotyledons. 6+ also has something coming out from the bottom of second stem. Is this hermie thing or another stem coming out from there?
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This is 9+, managed to have a small stem from the cotyledon. And crtiticals together.
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I found this little fella on one of the plants. I don't know did it give any damage or were just hangin around. I fed my starving drosera with it. From now on I'll be wathing very carefully each plants to catch its relatives if there is any. I'm also making a research to find out who is this bug.
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Yesterday i collected snow from the street. Put them in bathtub, waiting to melt. Looks like I'll have 20-30 liters of water from them. I will keep collecting during the winter. Will help for flushing.

Today I brought more soil and transplanted smelleight to final size as well.
There are no other confirmed females yet. In couple of days some will show what they have. Also today just watered small pots. Bigger pots were fine.

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Snow melted in bathtub, i transferred into bottles and carboys. Exactly 90 liters of water i got:whalephant: ($20 saved compared to deionized water, $40 saved compared to distilled water :twocents. Looks like I'll have same process 2 more times to get enough water for flushing all the plants. Only problem is I already used all the bottles i have.

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I repotted one more female. That was 14. Will find a name soon. No more big pot left. 15 was male.
Feed all with 4/3 dosage Alga Grow. This is the last grow feed. Next week i am switching to flower stage.

I changed light fixture (no more hanging wires) and added 4x23WCFL (2x 2500k, 2x2700k) on the small pots temporarily. I used all red, coz my blue CFL bulbs were already used much and not bright anymore. One more ballast on the way, when arrives i'll remove CFLs and add 2x36w PLL, then to flower...