to get back to informing about my progress,
I planted 1 AF great white shark which will be two weeks old on monday, its about 10 cm tall it has a nice dark green and growth wise its been on the leaves of the third node for a day and a half additional growth is seen there where its small branches come out. all leaves look healthy the stem is getting thicker and i can notice growth continuously. still no signs of sex. in my humble opinion my baby looks very healthy!! i went really close yesterday to see if it was growth between the branches and i moved the leaves just a bit and got a light but pungent sweet mj smell, hardly noticeable but there!! other than this i have one feminized Af Ak 47 which is on its third day and has already started to make the leafs of the second node. she has a much lighter green colour i guess because she is more of an indica compared to the gws but she looks very healthy. I also have two feminized AF white dwarfs from buddha the one has a thick green leaves with some purple in it!! the stem of it is all purple to red and this colouring is also seen in the leafs but mixed with the green giving it a green gray purpulish colour which i like she seems healthy too. she is on her second day of life just as her sister. however sister WD had the seed stick to the leafs abit longer and has stunted its growth about a day. there is a light yellowing on the first leaves(the round ones) however the pointy leafs that are emerging between them have a nice green color abit more light than its sisters. i think she will start picking up from today! i had read when sowing AF to slightly scrape the seeds with some sand paper to make it easier for the seedling to break the seed well i know now what they meant i had a feminized ak which died because its leafs couldnt open in the seed. i mean it had slightly routed and was planted before all its siblings which were soaked and sowed all together but when it popped out of the soil its seed wouldnt come off so yesterday i tried to help it and tried to crack the shell of the seed so it could free itself. the leaves in the seed were pale white and by the evening she had perished. so i had to replace her and as seeing how i had two out 5 babies being injured one fatally by their own seed shell i decided to use the sand paper technique. couldnt find sand paper so used my girls nail file i scratched once on the seed and to my bad luck it scraped right through making a hole on the seed. i didnt like this but i immediately placed the seed in a wet with a mineral water with a ph of 6.0 towel and put it in a lightproof plastic bag and in a warm place. this morning to my amazement the seedling inside showed signs of life as it was all swollen and pushing on the shell so i think by the time i get home she will have popped right through i just hope the cuts on the shell dont injure it!! when the seedling is in the soil i water slightly just to keep the soil moisture three times a day, as they start growing i slow down on the watering. i water my gws now every two three days as i have all my babies less than a foot away from the cool tubed 400hps with blue spectrum that dries up the soil quite fast. im going to make a tea tomorrow with high N pelican guano and worm castings so i can feed my gws and maybe give a little to the one week olds to see if they like it less strength off course. will post back progress soon!!! peace and love
it has damaged it but not much i packed soil abit around its stem to keep it straight and this morning it seemed still alive i hope this hit wasnt to its detriment (leaves were not damaged and it wasnt cut by the fan luckily). otherwise things are doing good my GWS which is two weeks old today is the biggest its clearly on its fourth node leaves the third node leaves are nice 5 leafs and from the first node side branches with 5leaves are comming out!!! still no signs of sex i can only comment on its health!! it seems to like the soil i planted it in as it grows continuously, new life is always emerging it must have 14-16 leafs and its stem is getting thicker and thicker!! then i have my AF AK feminized which is on its third node leafs now they are tiny at the moment and still building on its leafs of the second node as they are not fully complete color is good and growth is continuous. my AFWD fem is doing well still on its second node leafs with tinier than the ak's third node leafs but has a nice color and is growing too. on my other WD i am waiting to see how it goes after the hit it received but its colour is good. the only thing abit troubling is that on the tip of its leafs i see a slight yellowing which i cant explain. this was the one i had some probs with as the seed had stuck to the leafs and they were stressed by trying to release themselves from the seed shell. otherwise the seedling that i cracked is still underground and hasnt popped through the soil. i have been watering with a mineral water with a ph of 6.0 and on saturday i gave my babies a first run with a tea. i placed two table spoons of worm castings and two of high N pelecan guano in a litre of water mixed and left an air stone in aerating the mixture. then i used 1 to 5 tea to mineral water and watered all my babies. the gws and the AK definetely liked it and the others just seemed to grow normally. i had a humidifier but i removed due to temperature increases. thus i have humidity ranging from 42 to 15%. i will place some plastic cups with water in the room and water more often the non mj plants in the room to increase it any other ideas??