First Grow 8|

Will try to update this more frequently so I can review on the next grow. Posting Week 2 one day early for notes, the "true" week 2 is closer to 3/11 - 3/12 I'd say. 3/10/22 - Gave them each about 400ml this morning, the larger plant got roughly 600ml. Trying to get the watering down right, I last watered on 3/6/22 and tried to judge the weight of the bag while also feeling the soil. I also increased the light intensity from 50% to 75% on 3/6/22, not sure if that helped or was just a coincidence. Doing my best to follow Emilya's watering guide. Reading conflicting info about letting the soil dry or not, did not feel bone dry but dry enough to water. They still seem stunted and the 3gal took a hit from the tent door, not sure if that's causing a little bit of drooping in the leaves, will keep an eye on it. I have been almost too vigilant on not over-watering; that was my main issue last year in my vegetable garden. Slow growth could be number of things, my first thoughts were the day time temperatures, but I've seen other successful grows of this strain at around the same I've been at, roughly 70F-71F in the day time. I added the water bucket with aquarium heater last night to help bring up the temperatures, will report on the success or failure of that. So far nothing. I'm thinking the stunting may be the ph of the starter soil mix I used to drop the seeds in, also may have made those divots too big. I'll likely try to start the seeds in peat pods next time, or just make the divot a lot smaller. I may try transplanting one as well and comparing how it does against direct sow. Water ph is right at 6.5 so hoping that helps bring it down until the roots can get into the FFOF. Also discovered last night that the humidity was shooting way up when the lights went out, past 80% when I checked. Likely due to the decreased temps from the light being off and also having my circulating fan shut off. I've moved the circulating fan to always be on and that helped immediately, night humidity is staying between 65% - 70%. I'll be starting to lower the humidity roughly 10% each week now until I hit 40% - 50%. Takeaways from 3/10/22 -Start the journal right away to help inform the next grow. -Weigh the pots with a scale when first filling them and use that to help with watering. I don't have the skillz yet to really judge without a scale. -Try to transplant a seed next time and compare with direct sow. 3/15/22 - Watered them again, may have waited too long between watering. Lots of runoff in the bigger plant; I used 1 gal for that and 800 ml for the other two. Significant runoff (filled the entire plastic tray) from the large plant, reintroduced that back into the pot, still had the same amount of runoff again. I think it just got too dry, but the plants don't seem to be showing any signs of being under-watered. Regardless, will aim to shorten the period between watering to 3 days maximum. Been reading 1 - 1.5 gal is standard for 5 gal pots, so will be aiming for that going forward. At this point, lack of water or lower temps are the likely culprits of the slow growth. The smaller two plants have started to pick up a bit fortunately.