Early Miss Rd. 2

Day 22: removed two leaves, 12 hours apart, with angled cuts using pruning trimmers. Last grow I used my fingers to do this, until my nail caught bark and tore a strip of that off as well. After that I switched to pruning trimmers. which I'm using this time as well. The two leaves removed were from the first two pairs of true leaves to emerge, and which were most heavily damaged by the fungus and which were also sitting lowest in the pot. One had its tip dipped in soil when I was doing LST and that last bit of damage plus getting blocked by other leaves was enough to kill it, so I just clipped the husk. The other leaf wasn't as badly damaged and wasn't dead, but it wasn't getting light anymore so I preemptively removed it 12 hours after taking off the first leaf. Day 23: all of the remaining leaves seem okay. The oldest are spotted/disfigured but still healthy enough and able to get enough light. The new growth is a very rich green, so if there's no nute burn or signs of toxicity, I'll consider them "dialed in" for this week and maybe up the Rocket Fuel next time in week 2 from .5 to 1 ml/L. I'm hoping to have a potassium silica additive by that grow for the first few weeks to harden the plant against infections, though I don't think I'll need to repeat a foliar spray and the newer growth is also less disfigured. Next grow I'm disinfecting my humidifier before it goes in the tent - I missed that this grow and its the root of the problems there, though I think the plant recovered soon enough that it may not hurt final yield too much. If I do another 3 gallon pot grow, I'm going to start it in a solo cup then transplant whenever its time to add Bud Juice Grow (which will be 28 this grow as this plant is lagging my last grow by a few days - it may eventually catch up though). Day 24: plant grew about an inch overnight. Added more LST to the new growth. There are several side leaves I've been "cultivating" by using LST to feed them more hormones and light, and they'll soon be tall enough to begin super-cropping (my planned novelty for this grow is to try supper cropping my side branches instead of lolli-popping them like I did last grow, once they're tall enough). Day 25: plant grew another half inch over night. I removed a dying fan leaf that was the last of the first two true leaves, a second low side leaf that was too low to reach the light, and snipped away some dead growth from one of the oldest surviving fan leaves. Its taking more time to veg compared to my previous grow, but some of that may be because I'm growing in a 3 gallon pot this time instead of a 2 gallon. Day 26: the only thing to do today is re-adjust LST. I think the plant is spending more time in veg, compared to last grow, because of the larger pot size: 3 vs 2 gallon. It may well wind up veg'ing for the full 28 days this week and even some of next week. Therefore, I'm going to hold off bloom nutes like Bud Juice Grow this week and all of the phosphorous in it, but instead basically repeat what I fed last week but drop the Cal Mag to 0.5 ml/L. That will be on day 28. It grew another half inch over night and is 8" tall now. Also clipped off the last of the 4 original fan leaves that still remained (the leaf is dry and feels like it is beginning to die). Day 27: gradually reduced the light until it hit 14" above canopy, which seems to be the sweet spot right now. Also did more LST to make room for side branches I plan to super crop within a few days. And the plant is showing pre-flowers so I'm going to start Bud Juice Grow tomorrow and taper the Rocket fuel down to supplement strength (2 ml/L). The first feeding of Bud Juice Bloom will be three weeks from tomorrow. Day 28 Fed the plant and pruned another old fan leaf that was no longer getting much light. Substituted Marphyl (50% strength) for Cal Mag this week and went with 3 tablespoons .of Bud Juice, a supplement ratio of Rocket Fuel (2ml/L), and 50% strength Humbolt's Golden Tree for veg (2.5 ml/gal). Also began HST today (super cropping) on three stems to begin on. Also lowered the light another inch. Measured plant height is 9".