My First Ever Grow!

pumped up the nutes to the standard feeding levels to start this week. After setting up a runoff collection and measuring last week, it seems to me that I am under feeding. There was little to no effect from the transplant that I could see so I'm thinking that was a success and the added room has made them hungry. Moving over to the main section of the tent has had some challenges for me related to humidity & temperature. Temps haven't severely dropped but its tough to keep the heat up in that room with a space heater, without baking everything that is. watered this morning with the new solution and damn they were thirsty. 800 ML each and for most I barely got any runoff. I was only planning for ~400ml each so I have to make another batch of solution. Took a look at my caramelicious this morning and decided that she was ready to be topped for main-lining. took of the top 3 nodes but nothing else. Assuming she is still somewhat happy tomorrow I will trim down the rest of her so she can concentrate on the new stems. The other three I'm hoping will be ready to be topped later this week. They are pretty close but I would like a bit more growth. I also lowered the lights a bit as I found they were stretching a bit. that alone seems to have helped the temperatures in there so hopefully I found the magic formula for that. We shall see. So I topped all 4 this week for mainline training. Screwed up PEX 1; cut off the node I wanted to grow so now he's half of what he was. I'm going to try and train the remaining branch back to center and try to top that a few times to salvage something. Moved Caramelicious into a 5 gallon which is her final home. I'm going to move the rest over this weekend as well as upgrade some of the saucers and that set up. Now that I'm steadily tracking the runoff, I'm seeing almost no change in the PH from what I am feeding. 6.1 goes in and 6.0-6.17 comes out. TDS on the other hand is a little strange. Caramelicious is the only one regularly spitting out more than I put in but my other 3 are all much less than what I put in. I believe this means I need to start feeding these guys more. Guess I will need to test that theory.