Strawberry Gum #3 (Advanced Seeds) grow journal

After my last grow turned to be a disaster, I changed set up: new soil mix (Batmix) from Plagron and Tropf Blumat auto watering system. I have inoculated soil with Funky Fungi mycorrizhae from B.A.C. and put some in a hole with seed.
On July 4 seed went in to soil and on 7th it popped up from soil. I hope this round will turn out better then previous.

A week old seedling. This one is doing grate: 3 pairs of real leaves, side branches already forming.
I give her plain water through Blumat drippers. I still trying to dial them in, but main work is to check soil moister and let it drip less or more.

2 weeks old plant. Now she has 4 nodes and growing compact and bushy. When plant will have 6-7 nodes, I will top it.
Fan leaves that touching mulch layer are showing necrosis on the tips. But it doesn't spread yet. I hope this plant will be fine.

3 weeks since braking soil. Plant had 6/7 nodes and I topped her above 4th/5th node. Some of older leaves on side branches show a little necrosis on tips. I don't know what causes that. Overall plant looks healthy.
I will try to form 6-8 tops on it.

8 weeks old plant. 5 weeks since last post. I had to leave my plants on Blumat auto watering system. And it failed.
Top part of the pot is wet and well watered (maybe too much as this plant has a fungus gnats infestation) but pot as a whole was light and dry.
I will give it a week to deal with infestation and then I will switch to flowering light cycle.

10 weeks since sprout. After I had fixed irrigation plant started to grow. Now she looks hungry and I have to find a way to feed her.
This weekend I will try to fix infestation problem and top up pot with fresh soil mix. Probably I will give plant a week more to grow before switching to flower to let it fill grow space more evenly.

11 weeks old. I figured out how to feed her and see how plant gets greener and started to grow. I feed her with small amount of water with very diluted Grow ntrients.
I bought yellow sticky paper to fight gnats. Hopefully I will stop infestation. I had removed most of the mulch layer, so top part of soil in the pot should dry better.
I will give my plant a week more to grow and than, judging by her size, I will decide to flip or not in to flower.

12 weeks old plant. Last week I let her grow just up without any LST. Today I will flip cycle to 12/12.
2 to 3 months of flowering ahead.

13 weeks old. 1 week on 12/12 schedule. Not a lot of stretch and there isn't any pistils yet. Lack of stretch is, probably, due to indica genetics and low nitrogen available in soil. "Cover crop" (cat grass) is doing fine, though.
Last week, before flipping to 12/12 I dropped a handful of compost worms in a pot. Hopefully worms will give enough food for the plant later on.

14 weeks old. 2 weeks since flip to 12/12 cycle. Plant has a little stretch but is definitely bigger than before.
Middle of the week plant showed first pistils. There are no real bud sites yet, though.

15 weeks old.3 weeks since flip to 12/12 cycle. Finally plant started to form budsites. Nothing really happens to the plant now. It has stabilized more or less: leaf necrosis doesn't get worse, no new leafs affected.
Also I lowered lights to 40 cm (14") from canopy.
I don't think she will finish in 65 days even if I count from now.

16 weeks old. 4 weeks since flip to 12/12 cycle. Plant slowly grows some pistils and forms buds.
She looks miserable.
On weekend I will cut down tall grass as it, probably, leaching remaining nutrients from my soil mix.

Such a shame I had to cut down my plants. I have to move apartment and can't take my plants with me.
This one is a misery so I am not that much upset. The other one is a hard loss.

Cappuchino said:

Such a shame I had to cut down my plants. I have to move apartment and can't take my plants with me.
This one is a misery so I am not that much upset. The other one is a hard loss.

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I'm sorry to hear that, but don't give up. Hopefully you can try again soon!