Dance World Space Bucket [1st grow]

What a grow! I just want to start by saying this first grow did not go how I originally thought it would. The first major thing was time, I thought this was going to be a 12 week grow max but I made some mistakes early on which stunted her in the veg stage quite a bit. This being that I defoliated way too early and way too often in the first 5 weeks of her life. I'm not going to defoliate any leaves while topping. It also took me a while to get the hang with PH'ing the water to the correct value, I didn't realise how important this was and often allowed it to fluctuate quite a bit during veg. I also let her get way too big for the bucket I was growing in, I probably should have switched to flower at least two weeks sooner but I was obsessed with seeing how many tops I could train into her. Turns out 15 is way to many tops for the size of my bucket and the quality of buds would have been much better if more light was able to penetrate the plant. Definitely something to take into account in the future when growing in this bucket. In the end, though I'm still really happy with the results and yield. I got just over 2 ounces which is double what I thought I would get and they are really nice airy buds but packed full of trichomes. I learnt so much in this first grow, I know next grow will be even more amazing as I will be able to take everything I learned and reapply it. Thanks to Grow Diaries for this amazing platform and the community for all the help and encouragement.