First ever grow

So today marks the start of week 6! Pictures from day 42. This has been my favourite week so far. Not a lot to report other than FLOWERING! We had signs of flowering last week but now the bud sites are clear to see and I’m so happy that there seems to be a lot of them! Sticky orange seems to be about a week behind purple skunk in terms of flowering. They’ve both continued to grow and we have how reached height capacity in the tent. So I’ve had to LST the main stem and hopefully this will give them more room to grow a couple of inches. Never thought I’d say this but I hope they don’t grow too much more. Also defoliated them really gradually this week.. just a few leaves every few days to not stress them too much. They’ve taken it well. I’ve only been watering once a week and up to now, this has been plenty. But today when I lifted the pots they felt completely dry and I noticed a couple of the bottom branches had started to go a little bit limp. So from now on I’ll keep a much closer eye on their water levels and figure how much extra they’re going to need. Possibly dried out quicker due to the dehumidifier I added last week.. who knows! I’ve switched from grow to bloom nutrients today to fatten the buds up as much as possible! Smell is manageable atm. The filter in the dehumidifier and leaving the window wide open in the lung room is doing the trick for now. Other than defoliating and a bit of LST I’ve just really let them do their thing again this week. Things are still going way better than expected for my first try.