@jumper114 that plant looks great. I'm thinking that plant was probably not this small. The main stem is around 14".
Cool. Continuing LST.
There are some tiny flowers up on the stem under the main growth. Is this part of the cola or will they be seperate bud sites?
I let it go for a couple days with no stress and its reaching.
Today is weekly feeding day. For this I make a version of
Garrett Juice. <begin rabbit trail> If you want to know soil biology take a look at the Dirt Doctor Howard Garrett for praticle ways to improve soil biology and grow living soil. I don't know much but I do know there is a symbiotic relationship between the plant at the root level and the microbes in the soil. When the plant needs a nutrient it excreets a sugar and a carbohydrate, sort of a cake, that a certian microbe has. The microbe eats the cake and leaves the nutrient. This requires the soil to be alive. That's how I grow my garden with relative success? <end rabbit trail>
Last night I made Compost tea - 4 gals water with 3 garden trowel size scoops of compost with 10 tbsp molasses and bubbler.
Then this am I added 7 tbsp Fish emulsion, 7 tbsp seaweed and 6 tbsp apple cider vinegar . Folier feed and give everone .5 gal. soil drench.very little run off. so most was soaked up.
I believe the soil I am using needs less compost. I'll see when they are harvested I hope. now it is 45% coco, 45% compost, 10 % vermiculite, 1 cup root starter. It holds the moisture for 7+ days. On the probe meter it stays above the dry/moist line for the first 3-4in then goes to moist - moist/wet the further you go down.. I am guessing that since they are small they are not drinking much I'm hoping no anerobic activity starts in at the bottom. On the other hand the soil shold be very alive and I am hoping there are worms down there and lots of aerobic activity. The soil mix I used had compost with worms in it. I potted the soil in 5 gal fabric pots, covered it with straw, watered it in with homemade Garret Juice to give it a kick start and planted into it 2-3 days later. I am hoping they just get a steady stream of nutrients from the compost through out the cycle I do plan on using some Dr Earth bud&bloom booster (3-9-4) in the weekly feeding. I guess that should start when it goes from pre-flower to flower?
back to the show
So I did some light LST. on NL#1
I also trimmed like three of the original leaves that were turning yellow and spotty from lack of sun, I am guessing. And I trimmed any leaves that had caterpillar damage. I found a little tiny baby one and sprayed with neem. the following day there was some more damage so I hit them with BT. Today no more damage. I'm not sure if the neem took two days to be effective or the BT is what did the trick. I use BT on my kale for cabbage loopers (those damn little white moths are everywhere. The pest on the girls is from a smaller brown moth. i've seen them around but they are harder to spot.
These bud sites are in close to the stem, will they branch out or become part of the main cola?
The LST I did was mainly to expose these to light.
What are these right at the node base?
They had white hairs now turning brown. I also saw a couple other hairs on small floer sites with brown tips.
Is that a sign of entering a differnt stage of life?
And while I was trimming I was having a hard time finding the base of the leaf and got impatient and clipped a branch.@#$%
8 bud sites
7 bud sites
That is my longest update but so much is going on. Thanks for all the help and inspiration.
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to continue lst or not is totally up to u, but i personally still have all their branchez tied down all over the place, lol, and it def helpz with light/airflow 
