End of week 2 is tomorrow.
A weird week, while the plant has continued to grow it has not been as quick or as visible as in the first week. The only difference has been a change of lighting from 24/0 to 18/6. < I expected to see a bigger increase with a longer dark period.
My house is not the most warmest of places to live and all we have had this week is rain making the house cooler. My temps stay between 22-25 when the light is on, but when ever opening the door and turning the light off the thermometer can quickly drop to around 15
I have now changed the lighting back up to 20/4 and having the dark period during the afternoon and will see how the plant reacts to this over the next 7 days. I think this is how I will stay as it does not cost much to run, being on a meter and able to watch what I am spending it has hardly made a dent into what is normally used per week even when running 247.
Last weekend was lovely with 12-14 hours of sun for almost 3 days. I had the plant out in it the entire time, bringing it back in at night and it loved it. The only downside being it may of picked up a bug or two while out enjoying the sun as I noticed signs on some leaves this week and even found two insects which has had me worrying. I have bleached everything and I have treated the plant with soap and water tonight and will be picking up some bug spray in the next day or two.
The plant was also looking a little patchy on some leaves with a light / yellowy green appearance that you can see in the photos.
I thought at first it maybe down to the insects so left it a day or so to monitor it. The plant drooped midweek asking for water. So I decided to gave it some food - 6mm to 6 liters of water. I expected to wake the next morning to find the plant burnt, but there has been no side effects at all apart from the leaves looking a lot better.
I am surprised that I needed to add any feed so soon, maybe a good thing? but I did think the soil would have enough init to keep the plant going at least for 3 -4 weeks. So from now on I will carry on feeding once a week. I am hoping to get at least another week maybe more, before the plant starts to think about flowering.
Day 13,
Sides are starting to branch out
I am also looking into getting a 2700k bulb to flower indoors, because the weather is being so unreliable here, one or two nice days is followed by 3-4 overcast and rainy days. I know it wont always be this way but I would rather not take the chance and having a bulb here ready to use should the weather turn bad seems a good idea to me. Plus I wont have the added issue of bugs indoors.
Lets see what happens this week
A weird week, while the plant has continued to grow it has not been as quick or as visible as in the first week. The only difference has been a change of lighting from 24/0 to 18/6. < I expected to see a bigger increase with a longer dark period.
My house is not the most warmest of places to live and all we have had this week is rain making the house cooler. My temps stay between 22-25 when the light is on, but when ever opening the door and turning the light off the thermometer can quickly drop to around 15
I have now changed the lighting back up to 20/4 and having the dark period during the afternoon and will see how the plant reacts to this over the next 7 days. I think this is how I will stay as it does not cost much to run, being on a meter and able to watch what I am spending it has hardly made a dent into what is normally used per week even when running 247.
Last weekend was lovely with 12-14 hours of sun for almost 3 days. I had the plant out in it the entire time, bringing it back in at night and it loved it. The only downside being it may of picked up a bug or two while out enjoying the sun as I noticed signs on some leaves this week and even found two insects which has had me worrying. I have bleached everything and I have treated the plant with soap and water tonight and will be picking up some bug spray in the next day or two.
The plant was also looking a little patchy on some leaves with a light / yellowy green appearance that you can see in the photos.
I thought at first it maybe down to the insects so left it a day or so to monitor it. The plant drooped midweek asking for water. So I decided to gave it some food - 6mm to 6 liters of water. I expected to wake the next morning to find the plant burnt, but there has been no side effects at all apart from the leaves looking a lot better.
I am surprised that I needed to add any feed so soon, maybe a good thing? but I did think the soil would have enough init to keep the plant going at least for 3 -4 weeks. So from now on I will carry on feeding once a week. I am hoping to get at least another week maybe more, before the plant starts to think about flowering.
Day 13,
Sides are starting to branch out
I am also looking into getting a 2700k bulb to flower indoors, because the weather is being so unreliable here, one or two nice days is followed by 3-4 overcast and rainy days. I know it wont always be this way but I would rather not take the chance and having a bulb here ready to use should the weather turn bad seems a good idea to me. Plus I wont have the added issue of bugs indoors.
Lets see what happens this week
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Hopefully the new leaves will show a darker green color as the plant manages to get more nutrients and minerals from the soil mix.
