My First Ever Grow!

--Jan 21-- So we're now in week 7 of veg which I'm hoping is my second last week. Ladies aren't looking too bad at all; finishing off the last of the toppings on PEX & Cappuccino as the nodes stretch out. I think by tomorrow the mainline topping should be 100% done and they can just concentrate on growing the last week and a half. Carm has a crazy stem on her so I'm hoping that's a good sign. Not much else to report at this time. If anyone thinks I should be defoliating any of them more please let me know. Some of the lower leaves are starting to get shade, but they still seem so big an healthy I'm reluctant to remove them. --Jan 22-- I think my lights were too low; some of the new leaves at the top nodes were curling up this morning. Raised the lights a little bit and now this afternoon the leaves have spread out a bit. Hopefully that was the issue. Checked some other leaves and they don't seem as dark, mostly just the very bottom leaves. I gave them some plain RO water w/CalMag today just in case. They are starting to get bushy at the top now and I'm struggling to figure out what to tie down! Good problem to have I suppose. --Jan 23-- Never a dull moment is there with this stuff. Somehow I lost one of my nodes off of Carm in the last day or so. Not sure if I was being too rough or if one of the tie downs choked her off; either way, its gone now. After doing some reading last night, found out that CO2 is good only in the first 2-3 weeks of flower and that its also good for the veg state. Glad I did cause I probably would have wasted that stuff otherwise. Hung that up this morning after giving the girls a bit of a hair cut of some fan leaves getting in the way/in shade and then gave them a big drink. Hopefully they will stretch out a bit more before next week so I can start the fun stuff. --Jan 25-- not much has changed the last couple days. Today I gave the girls a big drink and still no runoff. Gave them just over 2L each and not even a drop. no trimming today but I did adjust the tiedowns a bit to try and get some space between the nodes. I'm not sure if my leaves are curling upwards to stretch for the light, if they are tacoing because of too much heat or if they look that way because they are cramped. Nothing special planned for next week other than letting them grow up a bit. I think I'm done with the defoliation too. Maybe another clip before flower but I don't know that I need it anymore. Comments are welcome if you see something wrong! :)