Yay! Clone A and clone B are both now well-rooted. So much in fact, that they were almost root bound in the solo cups even though they aren't much to look at on top! I had to move them into 1-gallon buckets.
Time for the second generation to get its own diary. I may keep these as moms and clone off them, or I may just grow them out for a second 8BK harvest before moving on to another strain.
As my adventures in perlite truly begin, I'm now going with a sterilized 50% soil / 50% perlite mix in the new buckets. The plants have only received distilled water at this point in their lives as there's still nutrients to use up in the soil. There's a little more perlite on top of Clone A because I was running low on soil and needed to stretch it enough to fill the bucket, so when I started running low I mixed extra perlite in to finish off the top 1-inch or so of the bucket with perlite-heavy mix.
Applied LST to Clone A at the same time, as it's definitely ready for it. Honestly even if clone B, the weaker of the two, doesn't make it -- I think if I take my time with LST this time and apply what I know, I could easily make one bushy plant that covers my whole grow tent :D
Onward she rolls. Will update every week on either Tuesday or Wednesday when time permits.