Total Noob - First Grow

Hello! Complete and total noob here making my first attempt at a grow. I'm in an illegal state, although with the slight hope that by the time I'm harvesting it will be legal, but haven't had an issue with getting weed . But being illegal I have to take what I get and in doing that I noticed that not all weed is the same. From how it smells, looks and most importantly how it effected me. With it becoming legal in some states I started to hear about different strain names and it peaked my interest. So I started looking into it and it was fascinating! Didn't want to wait for the slow people to catch up so I could buy it legally so I decided to grow it myself. So I went to sites like this to get me to the point I am at now. I bought a Vivosun 48x48x80" tent, 600w HID, 6in. exhaust fan with carbon filter, couple fans and some 5 gal. grow bags. Then what I thought was going to be the hard part, the seeds. From seeing a lot of good reviews, grows and the fact Fast Buds is the #1 breeder in number of diaries and I believe harvests on this site I decided to go with them. Found out they don't ship to the US, so I tried Seedsman and wanted to take advantage of their Black Friday special and get a good variety of strains. But just couldn't get pay with credit card to work due to website issues. Tried to resolve it with them but got tired of the delay due to the time zone difference. So looked at the US distributors on the FastBud's website and found Hella Dank Seed Co. The only concern was that I had to order in 5 packs and that was going to limit my variety so I decided on Blackberry, Green Crack and Blue Dream. Ordered them on Monday and had them in my hand on the other side of the country on Wednesday. They mistakenly sent me Grapefruit, let them know and they said keep 'em and resent the Green Crack. Had to wait a couple days until they were back in stock, but again had them in two days once they shipped. Definitely use them again. I decided to grow all four for the variety and be able to compare them but to keep this diary to one strain I picked Blackberry. I pretty much spoke weed recreationally, although I guess you could make a case that the relaxation and joy of life achieved makes it a medicine, with the exception that it very much helps me sleep. Seeing as how Blackberry is good for insomnia I decided to pick that strain to focus my first diary on. Sneaking a pic or two in of the other strains here and there. :-) On to the grow... I germinated the seeds in a glass of tap water per the FastBud's site, had them in there for three days and they all cracked but some just barely. Didn't want to leave them in the water any longer so I placed them into the soil. I think next time I will try the paper towel method after an overnight soak. For soil I used Fox Farm's Happy Frog cut with 30-40% black gold perlite. I started them under a T8 shop light but quickly found out I needed to turn the big light on to keep the temps up. Tent is in my basement and it is in the low 60s to mid-50s during winter. I even had to disconnect the air cooled hood on my light. I started out just misting them with 6.5 pH'ed water but I think I was underwatering them, probably needed to presoak my soil a little bit more. Got the soil moist and slowly the growing started. I don't know if I stunted them with underwatering or it is too cool in the tent at times but they didn't seem to grow much this first week compared to others I've seen. I have been strictly watering them with pH'ed water but I do plan on using Advanced Nutrients Grow-Micro-Bloom for this grow including a couple other of their nutrients, starting with Voodoo Juice during the second week. I also am considering some LST but that scares me a little so we will have to see how things go. So far they are still alive and even though it is a little nerve racking I am still having fun. It's my new obsession that helps fill a void until I can get back to my summer obsession of chasing bass. Couple pictures but not much to see yet. Will keep it focused on the Blackberry from this point. Hope things turn out well but it is the challenge that makes it fun!