My First Ever Grow!

The ladies are now in their final home with some adjustments to their platforms. I accidentally refilled my water with reverse osmosis water instead of distilled; so now my PH starts out higher than previous. Hopefully the adjustment down won't cause too much concern. I moved them into the 5 gallon pots and gave them almost 3 liters each, but no runoff from any of them. I may give them some more later once I let them settle in from the move. hoping to top them again before the weekend is out, assuming they take the move ok. --Jan 13-- Figured out the RO thing and now I will probably just use RO going forward since its actually cheaper to refill. Gave them another 3 liters yesterday and got a bunch of runoff. Gave them another liter each today since the humidity is super high and the coco is still damp. haven't topped them again yet cause they just don't look ready. I feel like they are growing slow but maybe I'm just impatient. Sorry for the pic's; trying to figure that out still obviously. --Jan 14-- gave them RO water and some calmag today and got a bit of runoff. I think I now have things rolling as my temps and humidity are finally where I want them. Plants seemed to have a decent spurt since yesterday so I was able to top caramelicious again. I think when I topped the first time, I took too much off; hence the slow growth. This time I only took off the growth tips and left all the fan leaves. Hoping to top the other 3 in the next day or so. The nodes are there, just need to stretch a bit more so I can safely chop. --Jan 16-- Caramelicious is starting to get a bit big but the other 3 are just not really moving. I managed to top Caramelicious for the 2nd time. I also topped the other 3 for the second time as they finally looked stretched enough to safely take off the top.. I'm going to guess I have another week before I can top for the 3rd time on the 3 small ones, which puts me out to 2-3 weeks before I can flip to flower. That puts me around 8-9 weeks of veg so I guess I'm on the right track. --Jan 17-- topped carm again on one side. other side wasn't quite ready. I think by this afternoon though she will stretch out and I can finish off the final topping for mainlining. other 3 are looking good from the top yesterday and hopefully ready to be topped again before the end of the weekend. I could then give them a full week or 2 of veg to fill out without any major manipulation, which would hopefully translate into a healthy start to flower. here's hoping. --Jan 18-- Well today is looking good! Opened the tent this morning and all 4 girls were looking pretty good! Carm is taking the toppings well and I was able to tie down the 2nd branches for LST. Leaves on her are HUGE already. Cappuccino looks to have a bit of a mutation, as the 2nd topping site I did now has 4 nodes growing up instead of just 2. Looking closer and I noticed that she has 4 fan leaves all symmetrical. Not sure if I'm going to leave them or not since they are close together. Maybe LST can help that out. My pinapple express plants are doing very well also. PEX1, which i screwed up during the first manifold trim, now has 6 nodes on her remaining branch. I don't think I even need to top her again; mainly because she's off kilter due to my screw up. Definitely happy that she regrew so many nodes! Looks like everything is coming up Millhouse today! :)