Remdian
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After I kept killing seedlings in the growing phase, the realization of how long it might take me to ultimately get to a Harvest phase dawned on me, so I started Googling what happens when you flip the Flower button early and I started to come across bonsai Pot articles and bing-bang-boom here we are. (Also...big Size constraints here..need small)
Around August 1st I put one germinated bag seed into Miracle Grow (As I understand, this is a problem right away) dirt under 2 x 20W CFL Broad spectrum (Reveal) lights @ 18 Hours light/6 Dark. No fertilizers and water (learned this pattern with the aforementioned dead seedlings) every 3 days.
On August 18th I switched the lights to 12/12. (using same Dawn) After about 2 weeks of this I switched one CFL out with a 23w Warm spectrum bulb. Water every 3 days and no fertilizer.
At this point (early-mid Sept) the seedling was ~4-5 inches tall with bottom Round leaves and Two-Tiers above those. First Big Move: Bonsai Time, right? In Flowering none the less. I take bonsai-scissors and cut the off at First set of pot (versus bottom round) leaves.
Now, everything after this cut is actually going fine; everything is growing anew. Two weeks after the Cut (Mid-late Sept.) though, growth has slowed way down and so I go back to the Google-machine and start reading on Fertilizers/Nutrients.
I buy Jungle-Bloom Flowering and this Root stuff that has .1% Nitrogen in it. Smaller plant so I work the math down to around .5-1ML (of each) mixed into the 300ML of distilled water that I give it every 3 days.
Now we are to the present. Starting two weeks ago the bottom Rounds died and fell off and upon research I came to my own personal conclusion that since we are now near to the approximated Harvest time (Time plus the white hairs are turning brown), that the plant was pulling nutrients from bottom leaves for the final push. But after those fell off, the 2 original branches (Node of First Cut) started as well.
On Sept. 24th I was in a hurry so when I watered it I used only water. I figured a flush isn't the worst thing anyways, right? When I came back on Sunday the top leaves joined in with the Bottom leaves. but just from the tips.
Tuesday (27th): The leaves are getting much worse (from middle) and I see a picture of Nitrogen deficiency. That could be it! I take the Root stuff (.1% nitro, right?) And push around 5-7 ML of this stuff into the area around the base of the plant with an eye-dropper and also put around 5ML into a small spray bottle with water and spray down the soil for the next 2 days. At this point I cut all Total yellow leaves off. They've been brittle for days anyway.
All positive growth (see the buds in the pics) stopped around 2 weeks ago.
This past Saturday I just flushed it with water, since the various chemicals in various doses wasn't changing things.
SO! Now I leave it to the capable hands of the Masses. Thank you for any advice in Advance!
Extra Misc. Information: Up until this past weekend I had been using a 5-6 inch mirror under the plant to redirect extra light to bottom growth.
Edit: I normally keep the Lights sitting crosswise across the plant and sitting about 2 inches above the leaves (rotating the plant to get warm and broad spectrum), but I raised it to the current height out of Ozone damage fears.
Around August 1st I put one germinated bag seed into Miracle Grow (As I understand, this is a problem right away) dirt under 2 x 20W CFL Broad spectrum (Reveal) lights @ 18 Hours light/6 Dark. No fertilizers and water (learned this pattern with the aforementioned dead seedlings) every 3 days.
On August 18th I switched the lights to 12/12. (using same Dawn) After about 2 weeks of this I switched one CFL out with a 23w Warm spectrum bulb. Water every 3 days and no fertilizer.
At this point (early-mid Sept) the seedling was ~4-5 inches tall with bottom Round leaves and Two-Tiers above those. First Big Move: Bonsai Time, right? In Flowering none the less. I take bonsai-scissors and cut the off at First set of pot (versus bottom round) leaves.
Now, everything after this cut is actually going fine; everything is growing anew. Two weeks after the Cut (Mid-late Sept.) though, growth has slowed way down and so I go back to the Google-machine and start reading on Fertilizers/Nutrients.
I buy Jungle-Bloom Flowering and this Root stuff that has .1% Nitrogen in it. Smaller plant so I work the math down to around .5-1ML (of each) mixed into the 300ML of distilled water that I give it every 3 days.
Now we are to the present. Starting two weeks ago the bottom Rounds died and fell off and upon research I came to my own personal conclusion that since we are now near to the approximated Harvest time (Time plus the white hairs are turning brown), that the plant was pulling nutrients from bottom leaves for the final push. But after those fell off, the 2 original branches (Node of First Cut) started as well.
On Sept. 24th I was in a hurry so when I watered it I used only water. I figured a flush isn't the worst thing anyways, right? When I came back on Sunday the top leaves joined in with the Bottom leaves. but just from the tips.
Tuesday (27th): The leaves are getting much worse (from middle) and I see a picture of Nitrogen deficiency. That could be it! I take the Root stuff (.1% nitro, right?) And push around 5-7 ML of this stuff into the area around the base of the plant with an eye-dropper and also put around 5ML into a small spray bottle with water and spray down the soil for the next 2 days. At this point I cut all Total yellow leaves off. They've been brittle for days anyway.
All positive growth (see the buds in the pics) stopped around 2 weeks ago.
This past Saturday I just flushed it with water, since the various chemicals in various doses wasn't changing things.
SO! Now I leave it to the capable hands of the Masses. Thank you for any advice in Advance!
Extra Misc. Information: Up until this past weekend I had been using a 5-6 inch mirror under the plant to redirect extra light to bottom growth.
Edit: I normally keep the Lights sitting crosswise across the plant and sitting about 2 inches above the leaves (rotating the plant to get warm and broad spectrum), but I raised it to the current height out of Ozone damage fears.
