Purple Lemonade Auto (Run #2)

A lot to report this week. Some good, mostly bad... Good news; Figured out what the issue was with #3... and it wasn't light stress. As you can see in the pictures, started getting yellow, then brown and dead leaves. Thought maybe I was having a soil pH issue like I did on my first run of this cultivar, but she hadn't gotten any nutes yet and I water with distilled water. That got me to thinking, I'm using recycled soil from my last grow that was Absolutely fine... except one MAJOR detail that I had completely forgotten. The last run was right before I moved. I had been so busy with the move that I missed the last two feedings (which lead to the premature termination of the Apple Candie and Nanaz). Now, I had "reamended" the soil with happy frog before planting these Purple Lemonade. Apparently I didnt mix the soil as well as I had thought, and #2 got the good reamended soil and #3 started it's life in spent soil. After realizing my mistake I took some the Roots Organic Terp Tea and made a tea for #3 as well as top dressed both #2 and #3 at 1 tsp per gallon as the bag recommends. I believe I have saved #3 from being a total loss, but I've definitely loss ground on what she COULD have been. With that being said, I have a policy in my garden. Once I fall out of ideal...it's time for FAFO. Fool Around and Find Out. In other words, once Ifall far enough out of the ideal range and can't make up ground, it's time to experiment and push the plants to see what happens. So... even though she's recovering from nute deficiencies... I topped her. It would have been time for training to start anyways, and I haven't topped an autoflower yet, so I wanted to see how it'd go and see just how resilient Purple Lemonade really is. And so far....not regretting my decision. You'll have to wait until next week to see just how it's going. ;) Now, as far as #2 goes. She's just chugging along being perfect...except I have noticed slightly slower growth than I expected. I assume that's from the soil being pretty scant on nutrients. There seems to be enough in there for her to be healthy and happy, but not enough to truly flourish. Also, as you can see in the pics...shes already started putting out preflowers and seems to be changing over to spiral patterned growth...aka she's started her flower cycle. She is WAY smaller than I had hoped she would be by the time she would start flower, but it happens. I don't think her flowering starting this early is anything I did or didn't do, think she might just be a genetic runt that got too much of the ruderalis in her genes and just did what her DNA told her to do. She's healthy and happy and she has the amendments now, so I'm hoping to still get at least an ounce or two off her, but we'll see. Not every grow will be perfect, and every mistake and moment of absent mindedness is an oppurtunity to learn and grow along with your plants!