LSD-25 Auto #1 - Fastbuds Grow, 1st DWC!

Day 22 - Week 3 begins! - A have a lot of anxiety about this whole DWC thing. She's smaller than she should be, and I'm certain that considering her nutrients and PH, I've been doing everything right, apart from maybe underfeeding her until a week or so ago. I've got the sneaking suspicion that she may be permanently stunted. She's showing phosphorous deficiency on her lowest two fan leaves, so I'm going to be switching from Maxigrow to Maxibloom. Autoflowers aren't super hungry for N anyhow so hopefully it's a big shift for the better. She's still growing like crazy, but just WAY behind the other girls. Day 23 - Man. MAN. I have been struggling with cyanobacteria since day one. I have used H202 and pool shock the whole time. I've got her water temp as low as I reasonably can without harming the soil girls (60-70f), and I changed her bucket water again today, after three days. I've reset everything again, and if she's full of brownish goop again in a few days, I'm going to go the other way from sterile and fill her up with Hydroguard to see if that does the trick. She's already relegated to "Experimental Plant" because she's probably stunted, so no harm, no foul at this point. Day 24 - Drinking more. Reduced the odds of light getting into bucket with a printed two piece cutout. She's growing every day but she looks pale and not so happy. The damage to her lowest leaves hasn't spread. Her roots look great but she's just plain not rocking and rolling. Day 25 - HOW ABOUT NO. So while I will try doing DWC again at a later date, I choose to surrender to my own ignorance and failures and put this girl into some soil, where I know what I'm doing. She's stunted, so she's not going to be a monster, but she will at least get a chance to live a more comfortable life out, free of nasty brown glop eating her from below. Put her into a 2.5 gallon pot, because my assumption is that she will be yielding in the grams, rather than ounces, and it isn't worth using a lot of the Great Lakes Water Only soil, which isn't super cheap. Anyway we'll see how she recovers in a proven environment rather than surrounded by suck and fail. Day 26 - Well, moving her to soil had an immediate and drastic result! She grew an inch overnight! She's never going to be a big girl now, but she's doing her best to make up for lost time.