White Widow Auto - First Real Grow

Day 22 - All plants seem to be growing at a much healthier rate than they were in the beginning. There's a mild dank grapefruit smell when I open the tent now. All of the plants look like they're showing a mild magnesium deficiency but I'm also worried it could be too much fan or too much light. I'm guessing plant 3 has entered flowering because of the amount of stretch happening at the internodes. Plants 1 and 2 are now also showing pistils but they don't look like they're flowering the same way that 3 does. Plant 4 isn't showing any signs of preflowers but it's stretching in height like it actually is flowering. My tower fan that's currently in the tent is too strong for how flimsy plant 4 is with how much stretch it has going so I was forced to start training it. I'm getting a new fan with a slower setting for when plants 2 and 3 start stretching and get tall enough to start getting hit by the fan so I don't have to worry about wind damage. I'm planning to just let them grow naturally and see what happens. For the first few weeks I had a lot of anxiety about getting things perfect and I'm just accepting that I'm never going to get it perfect, so I'm going to learn as much as I can from this grow and totally disregard harvest amounts. I was going to see if I could get myself through the winter with this harvest without having to buy any but I'm giving up on that so I can just grow and enjoy it while I learn. --- Day 23 - So I got the new fan in the tent and I was just kind of paying extra attention to air flow and I realized the exhaust fan isn't doing anything. So again, I've learned the lesson of why you don't use tap water in a humidifier in a grow tent. That mineral dust is so fine that now the prefilter on my carbon filter is completely clogged. It doesn't matter how high I turn up the fan, hardly any air comes out of the exhaust. I know if I run it without a sleeve on there it will ruin the carbon filter so I ordered a new sleeve that I'll put on as soon as I can. In the mean time I'm going to see what happens with the humidity without a humidifier running because this time of year I can probably get away with it. If and when I need to use a humidifier, I'll be using distilled water only from now on. If I get tired of buying distilled water I'll consider getting a cheap RO system I can hook up to my laundry faucet. This also could possibly explain the apparent magnesium deficiency in the plants. If their stomata are constantly being dusted with calcium, the leaves are going to eventually "lock out" magnesium, I think... 😕 --- Day 24 - So I just watched a video on tobacco/hemp mosaic virus and it seems like plant 3 and possibly plant 4 have it. I've been touching all the plants regularly so it may have spread to the entire grow. The video I watched recommends cutting down any infected plants before they can spread the virus. I'll look for advice in the comments. --- Day 25 - The pattern that resembles mosaic virus isn't spreading to any other growth so it's probably from a deficiency since I don't use tobacco or know anyone that does. I watered with cal-mag and all of the plants except for plant 1 seem to be appreciating it. Plant 1 probably could have gone another day before I watered it. I'm sure everyone that grows from seed says this at some point, but all of the seeds I planted were from the same pack and all of the phenos are so different I feel like I'm actually growing four different strains. I'm excited to see how they turn out. Plant 4 noticeably smells way more dank than any other plant. I'd say if it weren't for that plant in the tent, there wouldn't be any smell when I open it. Plant 3 looks like it's showing some sativa traits and its leaves smell a little bit piney. Plant 2 is developing purple stems and plant 1 is has gone full indica bush mode.