1st Grow! Candyland Peyote, Hindu Kush

3/28 (0845): New week, who dis? Lol. Things seem happy in the tent. Gave all the ladies a watering today and the big girls got their first feeding! Super light doses since I know the soil is prob still packing some heat. Big girls seem to be adapting well to the LST and topping, nodes are starting to grow in quickly and the stem is turning a nice deep purple and green color. These ladies are gonna be colorful, I can tell. The smaller girls seem to be moving a little big more slowly but they look healthy so I'm not changing anything. 3/30 (1330): Been an interesting couple of days, y'all. The 710 seedling started looking real sad with some yellowing leaves at the bottom. Watered, but that didn't help. Moved it a warmer part of the tent, got it better light and some more airflow. Hope that helps. My one Candyland is looking awesome, really coming along nicely, but the other plants...not so much. Guess I'll chalk it up to a learning experience, take em all to flower if I can, try and do better next time around. Due to my own personal time constraints, I'm gonna have to flip them all at the same time. So if a few are smaller than the others, well, such is life. If I can get a QP or a half out of this round, I'll be happy. 4/2 (0800): Sheesh yall, the crisis has been ongoing. Ok, crisis is overstating it. 710 seedling continued to decline, started growing pistils, so I decided to cut the cup open and peek in on the roots. To my surprise, despite the substantial top growth, the roots never grew down into the cup. My theory is too much drainage, so the lower soil couldn't retain moisture. Did an emergency transplant to a 3gal and some strategic defoliation maybe 2 days ago. She's looking much better now, I think she'll pull out of it. Again, due to time I won't really be able to fully veg her. I've got maybe 25 more days of veg before I'm gonna have to flip to flower. I'm gonna do what I can do now and do it better the next time. The one big Candyland continues to thrive, has taken well to LST, got a couple nodes on her branches and I'm thinking about doing another round of topping since I have a few weeks and feel confident she'll flower well. I think the other Candyland got seriously light stunted as a seedling (my fault) and so is struggling to process more adult levels of light without taco leaves. She's growing a lot slower and, again, I'm just gonna have to take them all to flower and see what happens. Next time will be better!! That's the motto. Somewhat related note: got some KILLER seeds from Pandora's Grove by supporting a grow podcast's patreon ("Smoking With"). The strain is called "Zorak" and it's alleged to have a gas/chocolate/dark cherry terp profile. Saving those babies until I'm a little more competent. (See? It's all about the long game. I've got the rest of my life to grow dankies [especially with weed about to be legal federally? could it be true????]). Note: topped the big Candyland gal again at some point this week. Can't remember when. 3/31 maybe.