Barney's Farm - Biscotti Mintz

Plants are chugging along. When their roots dove down into the buffered coco they started to green right now and started to burn a little bit on the tips of the leaves. Even the very young fresh growth top leaves had a touch of burn. They have adjusted now and are overall quite perky and happy. The 2x strength calmag buffer i did deposited a lot of nitrogen in that soil, which likely caused that burn. First week of transplant they were pissed off and hating life. Being taken out of their cushy clone dome I imagine is similar to a baby being pushed out of the womb. So for the first 5 to 6 days they were droopy and sad with no real vertical growth. By end of day 5 they perked up, and day 6 they were happy girls. (typical recovery timeline) 2nd week is where they went boom. They started at 3 inch rooted clones, and didn't grow the first week. and in a week they have grown from 3 inches to 10.5 inches. 👍 It's getting hard to maintain consistently high humidity due to the recent nice weather we're experiencing, which is causing the temps to ride close to 78F which is the temp trigger. It always rides close to 78F but it doesn't rise up as quickly when the fan turns off which allows for more time for the humidifer to catch up. It's always a battle to maintain VPD with budget home grow gear. I've been debating on if i should top these plants or not. I'd like to get more side branching, but i don't want to deal with the added delay while waiting for them to re-veg new tops and the side shoots to develop, Still thinking...but i doubt i will. I want this crop done by end of May. PPFD is around 515 at the canopy, with a DLI in the high 30's which is good. Plants aren't burning or bleaching from the light so they will grow up further towards the light till the PPFD is too much. Then i will raise the fixture. Dimmer is now at 8 of 10. I should have been using a light meter decades ago. But, decades ago we were using H.I.D's and you were constrained by the heat. I fed these ladies on Saturday i think. I gave them 1 liter each. The pots are feeling light, so I think today i am going to mix up week 1 of bloom formula and give it to them at a 6.2 pH while still in veg for several more days. The elevated phosphorous triggers the plants to start making flower parts. I found last crop in doing this, that i reduced the stretch of the plants when introduced to 12/12, and I would say I was 7 to 10 days ahead of where bud development usually is by week 3. By end of week 2 i had white bulbs of pistils and early bud formation. I've never seen that in my life! UPDATE: I decided screw it, i'll whip up some nutrients today. So i mixed up a bloom mixture and gave each plant 1 liter. They are still on 18/6 but the bloom gets the phosphorous going which signals the plants to make flower parts. It's accelerates the flower growth and puts the plants ahead of schedule by a week to 10 days when in flower. Also reduces the stretch to a degree. We press on! 🙏