Nice job on that cabinet! 
This will be cool to watch.
Cheers
G
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That cabinet is boss! Look forward to seeing your grow!
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Thanks guys!
I think the building part is almost as fun as the growing part 
Here is a shot of the app screen in case you’re interested, it displays temperature, humidity, vent and light power (in % of max power), with the ability to switch light and vent power within the app.
Those past few weeks I’ve been around 28celsius and 60% humidity during the day, and around 20celsius and 70 humidity during the night. Good enough for now, but I might have to find a solution to decrease humidity during late veg/flowering
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Some news from the battlefront
Keeps growing nicely, took off a few leaves every other day to help air circulation and focus the effort on branches. Still not stretching a lot (/at all), so waiting on the good moment to top. Maybe in 2/3 days it will be okay
Below is my topping plan:
Don’t know if the marks are visible enough on the picture but I’d cut the top after the 3rd node (counting from the bottom) and also the bottom 2 branches that develops enough to make decent clones, but that I don’t want in the way of the 4 main branches I’m keeping (nodes 2/3 right now) during flowering.
Would you think is too much to take off at once? Maybe first the top and after a while the lowest branches?
Also would you recommend to make the cuts before or after watering? If it has any influence at all…
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Welcome back to growing @DHB, I love micro grows. I have done some myself in the past but this is super tidy. I will be watching
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I think a little while after a watering after they look lively again is a good time to cut. I do not know how you will go cutting that much off at once. It should survive but it might slow down growth for a bit.
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Thanks for the input @BudSy 
Actually up to now the plants never looked less « lively », even if I was very cautious with watering in order to avoid overwatering (I find harder to realize whether there is too much water with fabric pots as water doesn’t go out from the bottom of the pot).
Also I finally did the topping/cloning session yesterday
BEFORE
AFTER
I followed my plan (using Clonex and peat pellets) by topping the main « trunk » and also taking out the bottom branches (so 3 crops per plant in total) to only keep the 4 strongest branches. Now I just have to pray for everything to turn well 
Will see what happens in the next few days/weeks…
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Follow-up pictures one week after topping/cloning attempt:
The plants seem to have reacted well, I also removed a few leaves as with 4 “trunks” per plants it’s starting to get really bushy
I’ve slightly moved up the side lights too to make them stretch a bit more.
The crops still look healthy, even if I don’t see roots coming out yet. I’ve been following Clonex recommendation by water spraying them every 2 days with the dome closed, and now I’ll start to gradually open the aeration holes on top of the dome for another week.
Also I’ve been thinking about changing my plan a little bit, meaning keeping all the clones in veg (if they survive) and rather put the main plants in flowering sooner than expected, maybe in 1-2 weeks from now.
The main reason is I have a quite small space and I don’t know how much they will stretch during early bloom, so I’m concerned 8 main colas might be alot for this space. Of course the harvest will not be “maximized” if I make them bloom that early, and I might have to deal with a male plant to take out from the main space as I don’t know their sex yet. But I guess I’d rather do that than letting them grow too much while waiting for the clones to be ready for flowering/sexing, at the risk of overcrowding the main space (leading to moisture risks, light burns…).
What do you guys think?
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As I can feel your impatience to know who’s gonna die on the next episode, I can’t help but release it
LEFT SIDE everything is still going well:
I did a bit of training for future buds spacing, and took off a few leaves every few days, mostly on the center of the canopy to improve the exposure of secondary nodes and keep outside leaves to gather enough su power 
I noticed a very slight yellowing on the end of some leaves of the right plant (remember the 2 plants are 2 different unknown species), what I guess should be linked to nutrient (slight excess?), while the left plant looks like she could handle more 
Nice teaching for future grows of those 2 babies (if any of the clones survive 
).
I’ve been following the recommendation of @GreenleafNutrients for the quantities.
A couple of lower fan leaves on the left plant kind of showed brown areas though, and after a few research (this forum, growweedeasy…) my best guess was a calcium/magnesium deficiency.
Also acknowledged that the little “balls” in the Megacrop new formula are (apparently) Ca/Mg, while the powder essentially contains the other nutrients. So I paid a bit more attention to the balance between both (not so easy with so little quantities) and the problem disappeared. Or rather it didn’t reappear, as I ended up taking off those leaves 
Moved the side lights a bit higher again, this time to prevent light burns.
RIGHT SIDE, the real battlefield 
I decided to replant the peat pellets in small pots with soil and a tiny bit of nuts in the water. I wasn’t really seeing roots popping, but a few signs told me it might be time to make a move 
- Clones from the right plant (3 to the right) seemed like they were asking for water/nuts (?)
- Clones from the left one showed lot of yellowing at the end of the leaves and a globally less healthy look. I’ve read somewhere that it might be a sign the plant is using the nutrients stocked in leaves to grow roots, anyway I felt I needed to change the atmosphere
Generally, it seems the crops where I kept more/bigger leaves reacted not so well compared to the more “naked” ones…
Also, when transplanting I realized the worst looking clones were the one with the pellet almost completely dry 
For now I find the peat pellets very hard to work with, quite hard to put/keep at the right humidity, while the outside “net” makes difficult to figure out what’s going on inside…
First I had a few germinated seeds that didn’t make it through once in the pellet, and now the clones seems to struggle a bit Obviously I don’t master it yet
—> Next step
LEFT SIDE, put to flowering within 3-4 days while keeping spacing/trimming the canopy every few days (only during late veg/early flo)
RIGHT SIDE, save the troops, soldier 
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5 days after switching to bloom:
Stretching sweet, the 4 branches of the left plant are roughly the same height, while on the right plant 2 are a bit behind. Maybe because they have been trained a bit more (/lower) than the others and thus do not get as much light
Also even if it’s still early to tell for sure, I’m afraid the one on the right is a dude:
No pistils and some kind of small ball looking like a male preflower, unfortunately.
The one on the left is most likely female (a some white pistils showing up):
I’ll wait a few days to be 100% certain but if confirmed I’ll need to get rid of the mister asap, not sure if I should just cut him and let the roots in the soil or find a way to get them out/replant the other one in a new pot…
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I believe you to be correct. Anyone else concur?
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I’d say your correct…but give it a couple days… Wait for the male to start forming clusters so you know for sure… At this point preflowers can be pretty androgenous…
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Yup, I’ll wait a bit before the execution
Also some new from the clones:
One is definitely dead, other 5 seem okay(ish), with one (first row left) really vigorous. But bad surprise, I see a lot of white spots on the new leaves 
F***ing spider mites I’m afraid, I’ll need to do something very soon…
After double check, I can see a few white spots here and there on the main plants as well (even if not in the same compartiment), so I guess I’ll have to treat them too, even if mostly preventive at this point… 
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Doesn’t look like mites to me, you can trim the bad looking leaves and check the back with a scope, post a pic if you can …
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I don’t see anything under the leaves but on the top of leaves I see a lot of white spots…
I’d like to think it’s something else
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You don’t see them naked eye, you need a loupe or scope to detect them, if it is not nothing that you can wipe out from the surface (PM) i am beginning to think it could be mites … 
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Finally took off the sick leaves from the sick clone and tomorrow I’ll clean the whole space
Some Spinosad product arrives in the following days, I guess I should spray all the clones with a light solution as a precaution
Also for plants turned in flowering a week ago:
Plant 1
Plant 2
Do you think there is still a doubt on sexes at this point?
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My guess is:
#1 : 
#2 : 
but wait for more opinions as I already culled a lady 
, time will tell, be patient … 
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Yeah I agree. #1 female, #2 male.
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It’s too cute! That thing will give plants a good start. Where you going to flower at?
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