First Timer w/ GG#4, by i49

Week 5 of Veg was a stressful but good one. At the beginning of the week I had serious issues that were killing the girls and at the end of the week I had to do an emergency transplant from 1.57 gallon thick plastic pots to 3 gallon fabric pots. The reasons for this are numerous and all user error. Learned some hard lessons that many small, seemingly innocuous, mistakes can turn into some seriously big, plant-life threatening problems. Also a lesson for me that no matter how much I read and how much I talk to people about growing, I'm going to make mistakes through actual, practical experience. There were also deficiency issues I was dealing with this week (Certain it was Cal-mag/zinc) specifically affecting GG#4, plant #1. This is where she became the 'runt' of the group. She was young and her largest set of fan leaves were pretty damaged. Eventually, after the deficiency was rectified, I removed the leaves as the damage was too much and there was no bringing them back. Those two fan leaves I took made a huge difference and were about 1/3rd of what she had. She never fully recovered and that's pretty clear from the flowering photos and the size of her stems/stalks. Notes of the week: -Topped two sections, for the second time. I will not be topping this much in future and plan on heavier LST to accomplish my desired # of tops -This grow should not have taken this long, but with the stunting, root binding and deficiencies I estimated 2-3 weeks of Veg time were lost in this time. Not totally ecstatic about what went on and the mistakes I made, but man did I learn a lot and man am I glad I didn't just straight up kill them with those mistakes.