Inaugural grow - Amnesia Haze ILGM

I am back. After two months of personal tumult, I can finally start posting again. The good news is that the plants are doing fine. Long and short, I have been learning a ton on this grow. First is that when it comes to nutrients, less is definitely more. I will be coming up with a custom nutrient schedule for all grows going forward based on my findings for now. Right around the time I stopped posting, I started getting very frustrated with slow growth. It was the nutrient levels. Immediately, I started diluting my reservoir, but even when I got to 50% of original concentration the roots were still rejecting nutrients like crazy. Eventually, I changed the solution to 1/4 the strength I was at, and very soon the plants stopped spitting nutrients back into the reservoir. Apart from that though, there wasn't really anything to post about. Slow growth isn't exactly amazing to look at. Today, however, is special. Today, my plants reached a revised goal (18"). As such, they got a heavy defoliation and cleaning. I removed any and all colas that will never reach even near the top, any with slow or damaged growth, and took a bunch of fan leaves (though mostly I took bad colas). I have also officially changed to a 12/12 light schedule, so once I start seeing pistils, we're flowering.