Your starting in a large pot, normally roots like a little resistance in order for them to push up in my experience, you have very healthy plants and yes heat and humidity play a crucial role in plant development but the plants are very versatile and can thrive in many conditions and climated but they really thrive in the best conditions which had to do with your VPD the best user friendly app you can download is Tent buddy and you can can check your PPFD and DLI which are all light intensities and adjust using the calculator and the app also has a VPD calculator which is a environmental calculator to get you in the proper ranges of heat and humidity and in the veg stage you want to be at 77F or 25C and 72%RH to get you into a 0.89 VPD which is in the optimal range...