ILGM White Widow Auto, First real grow

I germinate papertowel and plant into final container. I use a hand spray, put a plastic cup over the sprout and spray the top surface with about 100ml every day and take the cup off when finished spraying (no opportunity for the light to burn the leaves if they dont get wet) - leaving it dry around the plant to encourage lateral root growth and then a tiny trickle down the bottom if the stem like 5ml 100ml sounds a lot but your temps and air movement mean that most will dry out before the roots get anywhere near it and it means your soil won't (hopefully) go hydrophobic.

Lower your PH that might help, 6.5 seem high try to go 5.8- 6.0 as they start to root out. Try it out and see what happens .

I usually just tuck the big leaves that are in the way in the early stages. I'll do my first defoliation at the beginning of flower and then another on at week 4 of flower. From then on I just remove leaves that are blocking prime bud site. ✌️