Officially week 7
Dec 31:
Came back a week later to very heavy pots, needed 36 hour drying period, not happy, smaller plant has tips of leaves curling down, some like taco, dryed out the pots and went back to normal conservative feeding, need to fine tune the auto irrigation setup before I use it again for sure. All in all, nothing crazy happened. Really cool to see a plant be small, but way bigger after a week of vacation. First grow seems to be going pretty good!
PS: I think my hygrometer is broken, saying 85-100% RA even when I significantly improve airflow and it doesn't seem anywhere near that. Gonna do the salt paste test on the hygrometer
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Jan 1:
I recalibrated my hygrometer and it’s working great, weird leaf curling of smaller plant still happening but seems to be improving, big plant is frosty and fat for week 7, seems to be at same stage in development as smaller plant but the pheno is beautiful.
HI :)
For the first grow, I honestly wouldn't worry too much. You seem to be somewhat well informed already, which will definitely help along the way :)
Just let her do her thing and grow. Watch her and take notes. That's kinda what these diaries are for!
Your first few grows are going to be part of a learning process and mistakes will be made. Get to know your plant and the strain.
To get to your other questions, I would leave the fans leaves be and keep tucking them, until your plant is bigger and can afford to lose the bigger fan leaves. For now, your plant needs photosynthesis. To do that, it needs leaves.
Secondly, if your plant was just recently flipped, removing the lower nodes now could stress her even more. Remember, she is producing new hormones and having to move new nutrients (P and K). Let her do her thing another week or so and then remove the lower nodes and foliage, if that was what you intended to do.
Just like a human, plants need time to work through new situations. It's best not to rush her.
Hope this helps :)