I said goodbye to 1 of my 6 young cannabis plants, which was 'returned to nature' today. The seedling in question was 'Northern Lights 1' in this post a week ago.
Here she is just an hour before writing this:
This plant (who named herself '(()())()((())())())(()(((()', or 'the sound the wind makes as it blows through treetops') continues to have issues with small leaf size, and today I spotted, well, spots.
At first, I thought I'd just whack off the affected leaves:
But after doing that, I realized (()())()((())())())(()(((() probably wasn't going to be viable for flowering, being the weakest of the 3 Northern Lights seedlings. See the plant profile of 'Kaila' here, and stay tuned for the profile of 'Beauty'.
I don't know what the spots are. They appeared fairly suddenly (pretty sure they weren't there yesterday). The leaves in those spots is very thin, almost transparent. It's not nutrient burn or light/heat burn. It's not powdery mildew. It doesn't seem to be a nutrient issue at all. I just don't know.
So I made the decision to pull the plant. This gave me the opportunity to check out the roots. Even though I just yanked the plant out roughly, a nice amount of healthy-looking roots came out.
The other plants are probably just as healthy below-ground, if not healthier. It was the right decision, but it's always hard to say goodbye to a plant you've nurtured carefully every day for many weeks.
She did teach me a valuable lesson about managing vegetative growth. I wish I'd topped the other 5 plants like this, but at least I know for next time:
Now I've got 5 plants: 3 Steem OG (on the left) and 2 Northern Lights:
You can see the 4 'big girl' pots (underneath), empty and clean, into which the remaining 5 plants are hoping to end up. Ideally, 1 of the Steem OGs is male, and will only be needed as a pollen donor.
Gardening hats off, salute, moment of silence, she left us before her time, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, rest in compost, onward we grow, forever and ever, amen.
DRutter
