I decided to raise the light up. It was 18" above the plants and now it's 30". I'm not really suprise at how dense and tight she is considering I'm cranking a 600w/ 7000k MH. But I want her to start to stretch out a little bit before the "bloom stretch", and it should give the 8-9 sets of side branches some more room and light.
She's not looking too bad for being 23 days old from germ. And looks like she isn't done yet with the veg portion of her life.
I've been very very conservative with the feedings. Actually, I've only feed her twice and they weren't very strong at all. Mostly microbial tea with 1/4 strength FPE (fermented plant extract), and blackstrap for carbs.
Also hit her with some catalyst from Earth Juice and liquid kelp from Age Old Kelp.
I may hit her 1 more time with good dose of PK to give her some flower power.
So far, zero problems and I've only watered twice and that's when I gave the tea. I'm not worried at all about her drying out. The soils surface is always dry and when I stick my finger in the soil, it's always slightly damp. I'd attribute this to the renown benifit of bacterial biofilms and fungal mycelium. They assist in retaining moisture and eliminating hard compacted soils. Populations are so high that I have the myco fungi colonizing the pots drain holes.
Zero pests and zero deficiencies.
