1st Grow! Candyland Peyote, Hindu Kush

3/14 (0900): All’s well in the garden! CPs grew their 3-point leaves over the past 48ish hours, 5-points are coming in even more quickly. Expect I’ll need to transplant them by the end of this week. HK and 710 are happy lil weedlings, can probably go another week or two in the cups. Overall, things are running super smoothly. Can’t wait to get the automated enviro setup! 3/14 (1200): Starting to increase lighting up to full veg strength. Previously ~270umol, increased to 330umol for CP seedlings. HK/710 are off to the side under 270umol lighting. 3/16 (1330): on the advice of a very wise grower, I’ve been focusing more on maintaining the right VPD in the tent and I think it’s helping to speed growth along nicely. Avg VPD is .75, hard to get it much lower without making it sapping heat from the tent. Turned down exhaust fan a bit to try and stabilize things. Also, watered today. 3/16 (2200): Increasing the light a few days ago was definitely the wrong move. Leaves have started curling inward more throughout the day and I know it's not because they're dry. Now that I think of it, some of the random light spots on the leaves do kinda look like light burn. Additionally I've been concerned with how closely the new nodes are stacking, it's looking a little overcrowded. VPD has been hanging around .7 so I know it's not that slowing down growth. Raised the light to 20in above "canopy" and dialed back output to 230umol. Going to start low and see if I can't get them to stretch a little. Fingers crossed. 3/17 (0830): Happy St. Paddy's Day!! Lights were on when I woke up and, maybe I'm still baked from last night, but the plants seem happier with less light. Was doing some reading on Photone's website about DLI, realized I'd been giving the ladies nearly 23mol/m2/day whereas their demand at this stage is only 16mol/m2/day. Something tells me my light has been a bit too strong since day 1, so I'm making a mental note for next time. Photone has great DLI calculator that allows you to determine cannabis's light need by week. I think less light from the start will help to get that super speedy Week 1-2 growth I see from a lot of pros. Uploading a few pics this morning so we can do a comparison later today. 3/17 (1900): atmosphere and lighting changes have gone a long way towards getting these ladies moving again. Top growth continues and lower nodes are starting to sprout. Love seeing happy plants!! 3/18 (1050): Well, it's Day 14 since sprout for the CP gals and they're growing away nicely. Top growth continues, lower nodes continue, all is well. HK and 710 are happy as well, true leaves developing nicely with 3-pointers on the way. Only concern is some wind burn on the outside of one CP, just on a few leaves in particular. Set up a wind break for the fan, hopefully that helps. 3/18 (2030): Was looking at my plants this evening (as I often do) and happened to notice (when I dropped one of the cups - oops - only lost some soil off the top) that there were roots poking out the holes in the cups! So I decided it was time to transplant the CP gals. Had been worried that it was too early given the upper growth, but I was pleased to see the roots starting to circle at the bottom of the cup. AFAIK that means it's time! Had a slight mishap with one of the girls (same one I dropped) and a little soil fell off the top again as I was putting her in the new pot. She was a little unstable but I shored her up and she doesn't even need a prop! Didn't hear any roots ripping so I think its all good. Of course, made sure to coat the hole with some Dynomyco. Heard that stuff works crazy good. Gave a light watering of PH 6.5ish just to get the new soil settled (cups were still fairly damp when I transplanted) - about 2 cups per plant. Adjusted the lights up but still at about 16 DLI (babies are on the side at 12). Pray for the candyland peyote, yall!! These will be final homes. 3/19 (0945): Everyone's looking happy in the tent. Update pics tonight since I want to give them time to grow, but I think the transplant was successful. Growth continues on lower nodes and tops, leaves are praying up. Happy happy.