Bagseed etc. first grow

This week I've included a shopping list for a second 300W COB light that I'm going to add to my tent when I make the flip, hopefully on April 1. Here's a lesson for those who want to build their own LED lights: give yourself enough time to order and receive all the parts you need. To spread out the cost of my setup, I started veg with a 300W COB setup and planned to build a second one in time for flowering. Late last week I repeated my online order with Component Distributors, Inc. (USA Citizen COB distributor) but the Citizen 048-1212 3500K COBs, heat sinks and power supply were out of stock, with estimated delivery times from 2 to 6 weeks. I tried to find COBs at other temperature values and they were all out of stock. So I turned to Alibaba and made an order with KingBrite in China. I had to get 3000K COBs because 3500K and 4000K were out of stock. So I'll have a little more red in my flowering setup which may not be a bad thing. Speaking of red, I have done some reading on the subject and decided to add a small array of 730nm far red LEDs to manipulate phytochrome state and put the girls to sleep ~1.5 hours before they normally would. This should allow me to either shorten up my flower time under 12/12 or allow me to keep the flowering time about the same under 13/11 while increasing yield by about 8%. So I have ordered the parts I need to build this far red LED lamp. I bumped up the thermostat on my electric heater a bit and have achieved a fairly steady 72-75F temperature in the tent, and I think the plants are responding favorably. As an energy efficiency freak I don't like the idea of using supplemental electric heat, but the unit is on its lowest power setting and doesn't run frequently, so the benefit clearly outweighs the cost. The Vortex is looking and smelling really interesting. Bagseed looks and smells very promising. The White Widow isn't doing much for me in veg stage, but they are healthy and bushy. While I'm waiting for my light components to arrive, I changed nutes again and addressed some of the overcrowding on the two buckets (front left) that each have 3 plants. I did some defoliating and HST. The plants rebounded well, and actually pulled up the training softwire that I had taped down to the bucket lids with Gorilla tape. The plants won the training battle! They're pretty much recovered and ready to start flowering as soon as I add my light. Great advice and feedback from all. Thanks.