Herbies Beginner Auto Mix Grow

Week 4 (03/07/2022 -- 10/07/2022) 3 July 2022 (day 22): My girls are 22 days from seed! Raised the light today and it's now sitting 50 -- 53cm above the canopy of each of the three. Concerned that node spacing (particularly on the GCA) is too dense which makes LST/getting ties in between the nodes tricky. Also removed the previous LST ties that had been added just below the first five fingered nodes. Keen for the girls to stretch a bit so may raise light again tomorrow depending on progress. 4 July 2022 (day 23): The girls all appear to be standing up straighter today with the ties gone, which let me do some height measurements. This means their light-->canopy distance has reduced to between 47cm (AFA) and 52cm (GCA). I fed them water (they'd had two days in a row dry) with veg nutes at 1/2 strength -- meaning 3ml for the 1.5L watering can. They wouldn't be drinking more than 400ml each but its enough to spring a leak in their fabric pots. Anyway, they look happy and there's no sign of pistils yet. I'm keen to get back to the LST but will approach it with a strategy. Plants heights today -- GCA: 13cm; AFA: 16cm; PCA:12.5 cm. 5 July 2022 (day 24): The girls are happy and don't require watering today. Measured them before a bit of gentle LST -- GCA: 14.5cm; AFA: 19.5cm; PCA:14.5 cm -- that's 1.5 - 3.5cm growth each! Obviously it narrows the canopy to light distance but I did some gentle LST on each to widen the gap. GCA nodes are still super stacked and GCA's leaves are still a bit scuffed from a close encounter with the oscillating fan last week (yikes). 6 July 2022 (day 25): About 500ml each of water for the girls with 3mls of each veg nute mixed into the 1.5l vessel. The girls are changing so each of them had their LST ties adjusted/tightened to try and open up the canopy somewhat. The AFA was standing particularly tall and I'm wondering if the canopy is entering some kinda pre-flower. The GCA is looking totally insane in terms of density of nodes and has not stretched up as much as the others, so I had to do extensive leaf tucking of the fan leaves to expose the new growth. Also raised the lights up a bit to try and encourage them to grow taller before they start doing the flowering thang. Light distance for GCA: 58cm (22.8in) from canopy; AFA: 54cm (21.2in) from canopy; PCA: 61cm (24in) from canopy. Keep stretching ladies! 7 July 2022 (day 26): The AFA and GCA have both burst into bloom today with hairy white pistils sticking out of their nodes. Proud daddy moment. While the AFA has pleasantly space nodes, the GCA is still a hot mess and looks like one big lettuce. I have adjusted the LST to bend down nearer the tops of the plants and tucked the big leaves behind the new grow sites. Also added a question because I don't really know wtf I'm doing. Fun though! 8 July 2022 (day 27): The AFA and GCA continue to shoot out pistils and the PCA is still holding out on me. I have repositioned the oscillating fan to offer more direct airflow into the dense nodes of these plants with the aim of staving off moisture-related issues. The tucking/LST had come undone a little on the GCA and generally everything was a lot less tidy than I had left it, so I retucked, adjusted the LST and exposed those internode leaves as much as I could. No water today because I could still feel moisture within my first knuckle of the soil. The AFA is definitely still stretching up nicely whereas the GCA is a bit of a mutated lettuce. Ganbatte girllllz. 9 July 2022 (day 28): Girls had their first taste of bloom nutrients today! I am using 1/8th of the recommended dose for veg (something like 0.9ml of each veg bottle for 1.5l water) and 1/4 of the recommended dose of bloom nutes (1.875ml per 1.5l of water). The PCA is still holding out on me and no pistils have emerged. I did another round of LST and tucking and surely enough managed to snap my first fan leaf on the GCA... guiltily slid it back into position to see if it'll reattach but I don't think that's how plants work.