#1 AUTORUN /1/+/2/ - POV of a first-timer

(last updated: 23 Oct) 16.10 + 17.10: One day I just opened the tent and there was it - the scent! 😆 Yeah, babies started to give weak, but easily recognized, fresh smell. I give them as much CO2 as only possible, lighting a candle, giving some fresh air every sometime, adding CO2 to watering. I think I stabilised the watering and dosage, also from the next watering I switch to Bio-Grow from Fish-Mix, and add a bit more Alg-A-Mic and Calmag, because I noticed a quite rapidly progressing problem, that I cannot diagnose for 100% yet - I suspect Calmag deficiency. It was spotted only on plants, that were behind the front ones. Pics uploaded. I use very soft water (totally clean with 0 minerals in it, my tap water is like almost 8 pH, with lots of chlorine so I'd kill them instantly with this crap, water filters aren't efficient enough and just too pricy option...) They really look healthy, but some leaves feel dry; I rearranged the tent a bit, lowering the light source to 39cm, moving lower plants closer to the center, and raising the humidity from 66% to ~70%. The soil in late and defficient one was 4/10 dry, so I used more calmag and fed this one. I think they slowly start the process of flowering, not yet, but days close! We will see what will happen in week 4 - it is going to be interesting. Week 3 emotionally is probably the most chill week - after I received all your support and answers, saw many growers having bigger problems I just chilled and let the defficiency show itself a bit more. They are all fast ones, so I bet 10 weeks overally if I don't make any bigger fkups! The defficiency is now very clearly seen on many leaves and every plant, it is surely magnesium or/and calcium deficiency - all I changed was the water quality. I'll use 0,5ml-0,8ml/L of Calmag from now on and added Acti-Vera. I guess I will show it somewhere in the next update. Also, I'm pretty sure this is not the tent, nor the light for 4 XL flowers, but now there is just no choice! Next time I'll definitely use SOG or ScrOG + LST and two or maximum three plants in fabric pots. 19.10 - I made a decision to remove late critical from the tent, I had no idea how painful it is to kill such a strong, beautiful baby. But others would have suffered, if I didn't do it. No room for four. So now there are two main Criticals and perfection - Banana Purple Punch. I think it slowly started to flower, but I have no idea - I need to ask about it later. Now, there is 50W/plant, so I moved LED up to around 43cm. The tips started to be too bright, also I think Calmag deficiency is taken care of. There were clear signs which stopped developing after I used more calcium and magnesium, and add a bit of tap water to the demineralised one. Rearranged the tent once again and now, finally, I can feed them without worrying about wet leaves. Watering BPP is a piece of cake. I will add some photos later! I used a mix of Fish-mix, Alg-a-mic and Acti-Vera as a foliar today and I can clearly see they are really happy... 20.10 - I think Banana Purple Punch is showing the first signs of flowering! I need to ask about it, but yeah, it seems like a flower and I'm as excited as only possible. Can't see any on Criticals, it is still very low with a lot of fat leaves. I stop using CO2 with adding Bio-Grow with HCO3 (don't want too quick absorption, because I couldn't control it I guess, co2+hco3 is a good idea, but maybe for someone experienced. I noticed a small 'claws' on the top of every flower after removing the 4th plant. I suspect a too close light source, so it is now on 47cm and we will see! I needed to buy additional, big moisture absorber, because at this stage and weather, I just can't control it with a simple, cheap one - <65% is an impossibility. Temp and humidity is stable at 66-74% and 22-25C but it won't be any day. 23.10 - Criticals are showing early flowering, Banana Purple Punch is uncovering the main flower already, and many, many other colas are clearly visible. On Criticals, there are so many leaves and these micro-flowers, I probably won't have place for three of them anyway! It was a good decision to remove one plant. Painful at the moment, but a LOT less stressful now. The plan was not to use any training and leave them naturally, but I had to use very light 'defoliation' and already mounted a supporting mesh. Criticals are huge comparing to BPP, like a tree, not a plant, 5x more leaves, which isn't too good situation - I have no idea which should I cut, which should I leave. Removed these under the shade. but there is probably nothing I can do at this time. I moved the light up again, and dimmed to 75%. I can't understand why it was fine to use 90-100% power with 40-45cm before flowering and they were growing slowly, but now it is 50cm and 75%, they are growing like 1cm a day, but the tips still has yellow claws after few days of testing multiple light settings. The Jackson v. Nemesis 150W proposed settings is a quite a bullsh't - 30-40cm from the top in instruction for this tent size, in reality rn it is 48cm and 75%, never closer than 42cm, very powerful light...) Claws are most visible on the to BPP, which is most exposed to light. They are being fed well, today I used clean demineralised water for the first time with 6,2pH to "flush" without any additives. In fact, it wasn't flushing, I just thought it is the time to "dilute" everything in the soil, I cannot do any good run-off. Who doesn't love a small tent?! 😂