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Day 18. Seedlings still on window sill. Cabinet build starts tomorrow. This is them in night mode, I have a home made reflector against the window (cardboard and aluminium foil) and a cheap grow light suspended above. I have a heating mat with thermostat control below to keep the soil at the sweet spot. Cloches very useful to keep plants warm overnight and on colder days.

Seedlings maybe a bit small for this stage, but the older ones showing clear signs of true leaf clusters emerging now.

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Day 22. The seedlings had a feed of liquid fertiliser at half normal strength a couple of days ago. They are now outgrowing the cloches and leaves are bursting out.
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Day 25. They are growing quite fast now, a bit stretchy but not too much. Still on window sill (in plastic bags) as cabinet not quite finished yet. Maybe they are a bit small for their age - I put this down to temperature and sunlight at the window fluctuating quite a lot. I am managing to keep the soil temperature reasonably constant with a thermostatically controlled mat under the pots. This is the seedlings at night, with a grow lamp topping up daylight to approximate an 18/6 light schedule.

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Day 27. Two of the seedlings are now in the completed grow cabinet. So future entries in this diary will focus on the remaining single plant at the window, which is only 22 days old.

Here are the two older siblings, now enjoying 25C temps and 18 hours of light per day guaranteed.

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It's exactly a calendar month since I planted the seeds in the propagator. This is the plant that stayed on the window sill, when its older siblings went in the cabinet earlier this week. Not yet a month old, having waited five days before sprouting. It's still growing quite slowly, getting a bit stretchy and spindly. Looks healthy enough otherwise.

This one spends most of its time inside a large plastic bag, contacts with which may have caused the leaves on two sides to curl under slightly. I'm still topping up light in the evenings with a cheap grow light suspended above the plant.

I imagine it might flower at some point, though maybe not on the normal schedule - could be later.

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A handful of pistils showing today, near the top of the main stem. This seems a good sign, and hopefully more sites will appear over the next couple of weeks.
 
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@Jenko Here's the best photo I could manage. Much clearer under a magnifying glass, but you can hopefully make out two pistils in profile here, near the centre of the image.

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I measured this plant this evening and she's 42cm high, and still growing. I noticed pistils showing in a few other places. Gave some (half strength) tomato feed yesterday to help them along a bit. Only a 3 litre pot and the soil level has gone down, presumably because the plant is using it up a bit. I'll maybe top dress with some compost over the next week.

Will soon have to move this one down to the table in front of the windowsill, so I can continue to top up light in the evenings.
 
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Day 40 since the seed was planted, 35 since this one sprouted. Another pic of the window sill plant in "night mode" with two LED lamps trained on it. Rather than move the plant from the window, I've switched to side lighting for the bigger grow light due to the plant getting taller. Hopefully this will help the lower leaves and bud sites get a bit more light, and encourage them to grow more.

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Day 42 from planting the seeds. This plant is 37 days from sprouting. Now 52cm tall. The side lighting seems to be helping it be slightly less spindly. Plenty of flower sites opening up. One lower branch is being supported as I managed to bend it severely the other day. Hopefully will recover okay.

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Day 47 (42 since sprouting) and the plant on the window sill has enjoyed strong sunshine all this week. It's now reached nearly 64cm in height. In full flower, still not that much scent unless you move or disturb it, even then it's still a slightly sweet tomato/citrus scent.

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Day 56 since seed went in the soil (51 days from sprouting).
Plant is 68cm high, and 55cm at the widest point.

Buds are starting to shape up, but this plant is taking her time. Weather has not been brilliant this past week, so sunlight quality not as good as earlier in April. I can imagine this one will take another month, maybe five weeks before being ready for harvest. Which is fine, I'm patient. :weed:

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(Delayed from yesterday by web site outage / DNS issues).

Day 63 since seed went in the soil (58 days from sprouting).
Plant is 70cm high, and 60cm at the widest point.

Never expected such a relatively large plant in a 3 litre pot. Weather has been mostly overcast this past week. This may have slowed things down a bit for this one, but the buds are starting to fatten up a bit.

At the end of week nine from planting, though this seed did not sprout until five days later so closer to eight weeks old in reality. If there are some sunny days over the next few weeks maybe this will ripen a bit quicker. As it is, could be week twelve or more (since sprouting, not planting) before this is ready, taking it into early June.

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Crow River said:
(Delayed from yesterday by web site outage / DNS issues).

Day 63 since seed went in the soil (58 days from sprouting).
Plant is 70cm high, and 60cm at the widest point.

Never expected such a relatively large plant in a 3 litre pot. Weather has been mostly overcast this past week. This may have slowed things down a bit for this one, but the buds are starting to fatten up a bit.

At the end of week nine from planting, though this seed did not sprout until five days later so closer to eight weeks old in reality. If there are some sunny days over the next few weeks maybe this will ripen a bit quicker. As it is, could be week twelve or more (since sprouting, not planting) before this is ready, taking it into early June.

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Still killing it ...get that shittttt hahah great house plant
 
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