u/Miserable-Housing407

Water to run off since seedling and then wick feed from week 4 with weekly top water, never expected her to survive with all the stunting and accidents. Broke a few branches early, defol every other day, had high ec from dry back and some leaves showed nutrient lockout flushed her run off ec from 4+ to 2.

I should’ve scrogged but never expected it to stretch so much even with the light lowered pre stretch and had to super crop 4 branches which bounced back the next day.

Today marks Day 60 total but Day 22 into flower. This grow has amazed me with all the abuse it had taken as I had another seedling going only for this to fill out my 2x2 tent.

First time trying lst on this auto flower with some 3d printed hooks, one of them don’t work well at staying in the substrate but she seems to be ok.

This was a bit of an experiment as i wanted to try a different approach on watering. I planted her germinated seed directly into a 5 gallon 70/30 coco perlite mix that I had buffered with 6L of water + calmag (totally unnecessary as this was already a pre buffered mix but I wanted to compare) and then after 30 mins of sitting i planted her. After planting i placed a humidity dome on her until she sprouted and her helmet came off, i then proceeded to water her every 3-5 days with 4L of water with Calmag and removing run off.

She did not grow at all for the first 3 weeks as I’m sure I stunted her with the overwatering, she’s now bottom wick feeding since week 4 and a weekly run off with silica and Calmag. Currently reaching week 6 (Last photo is middle of week 5) and in pre flower I hope she doesn’t stretch too much due to limited height in this tent.