Wedding Cake - First Grow

Quick note: I am not sure if chop day is supposed to go into a "flower" week or the harvest, but I put it in flower because while they are chopped, I have not "harvested" anything for myself and the tent is still being occupied by this grow. And I like pictures, so you probably do too. Actually, I wonder who even reads these massive walls of texts all the way through besides myself. It's a journal though, so here I go writin' again. PPFD: "Up a smidge from last week, but only for the last day" Journal: I tend to panic and just make decisions. So I was starting to panic and think they were starting to reveg or herm from all the stress I've put them through (plus Wedding Cake likes to herm, right?). So I shut the lights off one hour earlier on Day 68F, and started 1 hour later the next day. I also up'd the light intensity a smidge, defoiliated most of the fan leaves, and didn't water them (don't ask why, I know I had some justification for doing all of that but I can't remember what it was, just being honest). I checked throughout the next day and decided it was time. I chopped halfway through the plant's day (Day 69F /Day 130). They were hung aside and the tent was cleaned. Fans were turned down and positioned facing the ceiling and over the humidifier. Excess fan leaves were removed, in addition to spreading the branches and fixing some criss-crossing, before hanging the plants back in the tent. Changeover took 1 hour, plants outside of tent for half of that. Environment in lung room was 66F / 50%Rh. I am slightly worried about the amount of airflow in the center of each plant, a few short branches had some smaller fan leaves dwarfed by the buds that I didn't want to disturb. I stuck the ACInfinity sensor above the foliage of #2. Rh is set to 60% and being held in the the range of 60-62%. The humidifier dial is set to the middle, controlled by the ACInfinity controller. The humidifier does have to cycle on to keep at the 60%, but branches still bend. Exhaust set to always be on at a low setting and exhaust when at/above 62% or 67F. I am able to achieve 66F-69F (19C - 20.5C). Normally sitting around 67F +/-1F. Not sure what else to do, portable AC isn't feasible long-term, as this is peak heat here and My lung room is typically around 62F. Initially I had cleaned and pulled the earthboxes out, replacing the covers with new ones. But the tent was losing humidity super quick so I put them back in to help buffer the humidity. If the humidifier starts to become hard to keep up I can always add water to them as well. Bonus: I was going to start another grow with 2 free seeds I got from a pack, and was pretty excited about them too. They were supposed to be Opium autoflower seeds. Well one (#1) seed looked rough, and after 4 days only cracked and spit out the browned sprout, without its cotyledons. No worries though, I just had room to run one anyways and was going to bonzai the other one if they both made it, or donate it to a friend. The other seed (#2) popped and rose out of the soil. Besides having a seed cap I gently helped free, #2 was standing up and starting to open its cotyledons. One morning, 30 minutes after checking them, I checked in on them again. I was expecting to see #2's cotyledons opening towards the light. (I suppose I should note they were popped in a glass of water and planted directly into soil.) Nope. An insect chewed the cotyledons almost all the way down to the stem. I want you to know, dear reader, that I found the assailant (I knew it had literally just happened so it was close, Still in the earthbox, unable to climb out). I became justice incarnate, driven by righteous fury, I delivered a heavy sentence unto the perpetuator and smote their ruin for all to see (smashed it into the sticky strap and put the super efficient bug trap back to do its job catching bugs, which it didn't really do well to begin with..). Anyways, I let the mauled sprout stand tall, maybe she survives... who knows, I still have the wedding cake clone from this grow that should definitely be dead. Guess we are doing a Humboldt phenohunt pack next, check out my other diary to follow the Nutter Budder x Pistachio Journey live-ish (I can at least confirm they all popped and were NOT devoured by a tiny asshole), the diary page should be up soon.