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Dec 27 (day 8): Start of week 2. She’s looking great today, getting taller and her second set of true leaves. She’s thirsty though as the water has dried up on top now. I gave her more PH balanced water from the syringe in a circle around the seedling. No nutes until the end of week 2 as the soil will have enough to keep them going until then. I’m really pleased with how well she is growing. Dec 28 (day 9): She's looking good and still growing. She seems to be growing to the left a bit which seems odd. Will keep an eye on it. Gave her a bit more water. Dec 29 (day 10): Looking good, growing fast and a lovely colour. Leaves are getting really big and she has 2 sets of true leaves now at a good size 😀 She seems to have straightened up a bit now too, so thats good. Dec 30 (day 11): More growth but mainly on the leaves. Her second set of true leaves are showing 3 fingers and her third set are starting to come through. Gave her a bit of water with the syringe. Still having to refill the humidifier daily, even on its lowest setting but thats ok. The environment seems stable and RH is averaging 75-80% and temperature is consistently around 22C. Dec 31 (day 12): She's definitely the leader of the pack and is growing the fastest. She's still looking really good today and her second set of true leaves are now fully separated from the main stem and showing 3 fingers. She's also got her first set of nodes and I got some nice close up photos of them. She's leaning a bit to the left again and so are a couple of the other plants. My best guess is that the light is on too high. I am going to turn it down a bit from 40% to 30% and see if they straighten up. No water required at this point. Jan 1 (day 13): Happy New Year! Looking good and still growing. Nodes are getting bigger and new ones coming through. She could probably do with some water, but going to leave it until tomorrow as it will have been two weeks, so I can start her on the nute schedule. Jan 2 (day 14): End of week 2. Cannot believe she is only 2 weeks old as she is SO big! Am really pleased with her progress, she now has fingers on her third set of true leaves, one set of nodes is beginning to take proper shape and the second set are growing. She was due a water today and definitely ready for it. Now 2 weeks have past and she has likely used up all the nutrients in the soil, I am starting her on week 1 of the Biobizz nute schedule, adding a preventative dose of calmag and microbes (which I will add once a week). Its difficult to know how much water to give at this point, so I checked out the FastBuds site and they suggest 300-600ml every 2 days during Veg phase. I prepared 2 litres of feed as its a nice even number to calculate from and thought I would see how much she would take. I gave her 300ml to start with and she drank that very quickly and easily, so I added another 100ml. She also drank that down quickly, so I gave her 100ml more which made a total of 500ml. I got a tiny bit of run off, but I am fairly happy about that as it means I know she got enough water. With my first grow, I was underwatering quite dramatically and didn't find out until well into the flowering stage. It seriously stunted the growth of my first two plants Ophelia and Wendy, but I managed to get Orla and Wanda back on track as they were 10 days behind. As its the end of the week, I have exported the thermometer stats and entered them into my spreadsheet. This way I can calculate the average weekly temperature and humidity. Average temp was 23C and RH was 71% which is improved from week one as I got the humidifier. Some of the plants are still leaning slightly, although two have straightened up a bit since I turned the light down. Have turned it down to 20% to see if the others straighten up. Out of all the 4 plants, it seems the indica dominant plants are slightly ahead as Gertie and Kelly both have fingers on their third set of true leaves. All in all a good week and I'm hoping the onward path is similar 😃