So yeah.....after a brief hiatus from riu, I have an update. The ladies have grown quite a bit and I think we're at about day 51. The plants finally adapted to the weather about a week after my last post, but that's also also about the time I got some ferts (fox farms BB). I'm still trying to get an idea of how much I can give to the gang before it starts harming them. The tolerance level varies from plant to plant. I put 4 small spoonfuls of BB in one gallon of water. Right now I just give them a dosage once a week....I can't even call it a watering because I don't even water them anymore since it rains so damn much around here. The longest it's gone without raining here is about 3 days all summer. Makes the process a little more natural I guess lol. I also started to try supercropping on the three biggest ladies a few days ago. I've got mixed results so far, on two of them I bent the stem too much and you can see the signs of stress on them. The other one responded well and is looking fantastic...well,almost. Some kind of bug is slowly muching away at it, but I can never catch the critter in the act! The plant grows so fast though that it's hard to notice the damage until you really look at it,but it's definitely a concern. Other than that, everything is gravy. Even the two in peats started shooting up from the BB bit still no roots coming out of the bottom. I'm trying to wait until then before I make the final transplant, but I don't want to wait too long. Check em out

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you can see the stress on it.....my bad buddy

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I bent the stem on this one a little too far I think, as you can see by the signs of stress.

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this one is quickly becoming the star of the show. You can see the damage from pests. The weirdest thing is that this is the only one that is being targeted by insects! Weird for real.
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this one was the test subject (sounds bad lol). It turned out to be female so it's starting to get pistils all over. I don't expect too much cuz it's bagseed and it's pretty small, but it's a nice bonus still.

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and here are the two runts. They're looking really healthy and are really starting to take off.

This iPhone is really kool... I just did everything for this post on it, photobucket and all!

Oh yeah... I meant the grow big stuff not big bloom!