Watching Grass Grow

nagganaggaren;2872280 said:

Finally watered this morning, the PH level of the water had lowered to 7.0 and I gave it about 700ml, first 500ml and then another 200. A few seconds later it began to seep (a drip every second or so for about 2 minutes) from the bottom of the pot, I would estimate maybe 40-50ml made its way out.
This evening I noticed that the soil level has dropped about 3 or 4mm after the watering but the plant seems happy enough about it. I understand how this has happened but don't know if its a good or bad thing. Something about my soil preparation and lack of knowledge in that department maybe, I just emptied the bag of potting soil into my pot, topped it up out of another bag of the same and plopped my plant in! I imagine after the watering the soil settled a bit and the level dropped.
It's been a bit hectic here over the last day or 2 and the pictures were taken quickly just so I had something to post picture-wise.

Trying to show the thickness of the stem and how it has grown.

I think this was from the day before, before watering.

Another showing thickness and height.

A dull, overcast day temp 25.3 humidity 77%. Talk about changeable weather! Hot, cold, dark, bright, wet, dry.
It seems odd to me that the stem is thicker higher up than it is at the lower part, could this be because of the accident I had with it, is it normal or could it be something else? I would have thought that the strength and therefore thickness would be at the base rather than higher up. I know its early days yet but . . . . I hope there is a simple answer.

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