Zkittlez - i49 seeds- CMH - First Grow

Here we go my first journey into this hobby is almost complete. It has a citrus and earthy taste and its was smooth. Starting with the good, the seed germinated quickly, I had a small tap root in 24 hours. After a couple of bumps, my fault, the plant started growing. It grew quickly, tall and strong in the first few weeks as well as in the first week of flowering. It was reacting well to its training but grew too fast for me to keep up. I will know for next time as this was one of many lessons learned. Overall this plant was very healthy with large leaves and the bud was nice size in my opinion. Now for the challenges I faced, the quick growth was hard to keep the LST in check. It grew so high that I had to take the lights off the pullies and raise to higher. Thinking back I should have done another round or two of topping and fimming as I only ended up with 6 good colas which may have affected my yield. In the last week I was infested with spider mites, and moving forward I am not sure how to prevent this from happening again, they are so small they can just crawl in from anywhere. After hanging my plant to dry in the tent I left the fan and carbon filter on high to prevent the smell. I check on it a few times and cut the bud in the jars on the 7th day but I think I waited too long. The buds were extremely dry and crumbled, I ended up with only an ounce from my plant and looking at the size while it grew it looked like I would get a couple of ounces at least. Next time I will turn off the fan and let the carbon filter on med/low to let it dry. Overall I enjoyed my first harvest and hope to learn to grow bigger and better buds from the next time. Any tips or suggestions are welcome.