First Grow 8|

3/18/22 - Gave them a drink again today, aiming for watering once every 2-3 days, honestly the two smaller plants probably could have been watered yesterday for a 2 day window. Bigger plant was still moist and soil felt good, felt a bit heavy too, might not have been a good idea to water but tried just doing a surface soak. 800ml each except for plant B - gave that 1200 ml. Next watering I'm going to do the full soak for both the smaller plants, roughly 1-1.5 gal each. Aiming to line that up with the next full soak of the bigger plant. Growth seems slow still, but comparing these pics with the last entry shows some decent progress, especially on the larger plant. Hoping they're starting to soak up the nutrients in the soil as I have not used any of the liquid nutrients at this point; just straight water. The little bend on one leaf on plant A was due to it running into the wall, going to need to start spacing these out off the heating pad. Not sure about LST right now; everything I read says to do it so I may try it on one of the smaller plants once they get a few more nodes. My biggest problem continues to be the temperature and keeping that above 70F. The bucket with water heater seems to inch me up a degree or two but it honestly is negligible and is messing with my humidity control. Will likely remove it next week when I need humidity to start doing down below 50%. I want to avoid getting a space heater at all costs but that may be necessary combined with a temperature controller. I could try moving the grow tent upstairs where it gets much warmer, but I'm afraid I'll just have the opposite problem at that point and will struggle with keeping temperatures down. We'll see! The space I'm in right now seems to be the perfect temperature for later stages of the plant, 69-72F. Just going to ride this out and learn as much as I can, looking forward to trying these outside once the weather starts warming up in this area. 3/21/22 - Just a quick update; gave them all a good drink this morning, roughly a gal each. Will likely start introducing nutrients to the water in one or two weeks, but for now they seem like they're starting to pick up. Temperatures are still the biggest issue, have rarely been able to break 74F, and the heated water bucket is impacting the humidity as well; will need to remove that in order to get down to 40-50%.