Today is a good day. Yesterday we turned the corner and rapid growth has restarted on all the babies. There seems to have been no apparent shock to the transplant done three days ago. Deep green is replacing the pale green and the yellowed leaves are all starting to fill in with color again, with the possible exception of the first leaves on #1 and most of the cotyledons. All the plants are turned upwards toward the light again and appear to be thriving. Yesterday in a 6-12 hour period I could visibly see an astounding amount of growth at both the very top and the new bottom leaves coming in on the two biggest plants. It is remarkable to me that when things are going right, the plants respond so quickly and visibly.

New growth at the bottom of #1


Watering is being done at about 3 day intervals now and I am carefully measuring 1/4 cup each time. No thoughts are even being entertained as to adding anything else to the plants, the new soil should be taking care of it. Soil moisture content is being carefully watched with a meter as I try to learn to "feel" the pots with the lift method.

In an effort to completely control the environment, yesterday I worked on the humidity. I have purchased a cheap vaporizer and installed it with a timer in the grow tent. I have it running for 30 minutes every hour right now and the humidity has risen from 25-30% to about 50%. Temperature is carefully controlled at 78-79 during lights on and 74-75 at lights off, still running a 18/6 light schedule. The new tent is allowing for a very good amount of air exchange in the tent and I am working on the vent to the back porch through a DIY carbon filter. I also worked on plans for my scrog table yesterday and have a good drawing now to try to build that will give me 3.5 sqm of SCRog. I have tried to plan for the ability to flush in place without flooding the room as well as structural soundness and ease of access. We will see how well I have done with this plan as it develops! This is fun!

If things continue to advance as rapidly as they did yesterday, we will have shrubbery here very soon instead of little plantlings. I am very excited to see this and now am working on my patience. The plants are very good teachers... my training is coming along very nicely.

Here are today's pictures!

Look at the runt gooooo! :thumbsup:


Our odd but seemingly very happy #3


Compare the pictures from yesterday... much more green and upward thrust on #2


Our big boy who was impacted by the root problem more than the others
because of his larger needs. A bit of green is creeping in to those big
leaves now especially at the veins. He may not lose them after all. We will see.


Have a wonderful day everyone!
Emmie