First Grow - Crop King Blueberry Cookies

Day 15 - Watered all 3 plants this AM, as soil was dry. All 3 plants have started the next set of leaves. Front left definitely ahead of front right and back right, which is odd because it was the last to sprout. Must be a phenotype thing, although front right and back plant bent a little bit when I made the mistake with the fan. They look great now though, just smaller than front left. Day 16 - No need to water today. Plants look good. Nothing too exciting going on. I did a little research on when to start nutrients in Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil today. The best recommendation I found was to use water alone until the plants show signs of needing something. Most people say this is around a month. I think doing it this way, with this strain, in this tent, with good records will let me tune nutrient schedule to this particular set up. Things to avoid with particular care - overwatering and burning the plants with too many nutrients. When I finally do start the Fox Farms Trio, I will start out at 1/4 strength and see what happens. I'll update with more pictures and information as the week goes on. The other thing I am making an effort to do is take photos with flash. I don't like the way the photos look with just the Viparspectra LED turned on. Speaking of which, I started from the beginning with both the veg and bloom lights on. I'm not encountering any problems so far. Day 17 - No need to water today. Still a little moisture left. The back plant has fallen pretty far behind the other 2 in terms of new growth but still looks healthy. Front left is absolutely rocking it, despite having been started a few days later. It is 2.25" tall today and starting yet another new set of leaves. I'm really impressed with the Viparspectra 1200W full spectrum LED so far. I really don't have anything to compare it to other than a few years ago when I started a few ghost pepper seedlings under a grow light from Home Depot. You wanna talk about stretched seedlings? Whoa. I've never grown MJ before, but from what I can tell these babies aren't stretching and they seem very healthy to me. Looking at other journals I've decided to reduce might light distance to 30" today and see what happens. I doubt it will burn them. Other folks have theirs much lower and they seem to be getting a lot more growth than I do. Day 18 - Lowering the light doesn't seem to have done any harm. All 3 plants made progress yesterday. I'll let it run today at 30 inches and maybe lower tomorrow to 26 if no problems develop. I expect the plants will need watering tomorrow. Front right and back are a little dry but showing no indications of water starvation. Front left still has a little moisture left in the soil. Noticed something different today - the stems on all 3 plants are noticeably thicker above the cotyledon leaves than they are below. I suspect that there is a lot of monkeybusiness going on at that level, what with forming new leaves etc. Day 19 - It has been 36 hours since I lowered the light from 36" to 30". All the plants seem to like that change. All three plants started some new growth at the first node above the cotyledons. Plants are 2.5" tall this morning. Also front left plant is now starting to thicken the stem below the cotyledons. I think letting them dry all the way out and sit that way for 24 hours was a good thing. Soil was bone dry this morning so I watered all 3 with a few ounces of water just around the plant. You can see them in the day 19 photo above. I decided to see if I could push the light just a little lower this AM. I lowered it to 26". I'll watch the plants very carefully today for any signs of problems, but they seemed to really enjoy the change from 36--> 26. 7PM on Day 19 - plants don't seem the light being closer. If I wake up tomorrow and everything looks good I will lower light to 24". Front left is FAR in the lead, growing like mad. Front right is holding it's own. The back plant may have auto-topped itself, if that is a thing. It has no new growth from the top of the plant, but at the first node above cotyledons, it is very active. Even though the front left plant is way ahead of everyone else, the back plant is ahead at the first node above the cotyledon. I am planning on topping, LST and scrog for this grow. I'll probably have to be creative with the back plant. Either way, we're gonna fill up 75% of a scrog net before we switch to flower. Which plant contributes the most I don't care. Day 20 - Plants doing great. No need to water today. No ill effects from the lowering of the light. Back plant still seems to have auto-topped. I don't know if that is a thing or not. I'm keeping the light at 26" for now. May lower tomorrow, although plants are growing enough that I can probably just let them grow into the 24" range. Plants are now 2.75" tall. Front left plant continues to dominate, despite being born a few days later. Day 21 - Plants doing well. Light is at 24" now. Plants are 3" high. Did not water today. I'm pretty sure now that the back plant auto-topped for some reason. Back plant stops at node 2. Front right and front left are all showing new growth at node 2 now.