Winter Wonderland w/ Californian Snow

Nov. 12, 2019 Seedlings are looking great. I had a bit of stretch going on with all of them. I ended up lowering the light in stages.... starting from 18" to its current height of about 7" from top of leaves. I took some advise and mounded the soil up around the stems leaving about .5" of each stem exposed. I took pics of 3 of the 6 after mounding the soil. Nov. 16, 2014 After 4 days of having the lights lowered, we've noticed some weird leaf deformations. On three of the seedlings there is some sort of twisting of the leaves going on. After doing some Googling and forum reading I think it's either normal or from heat from the lights being too close. So the latest change is I've raised the lights back up to about 15". I'm going to leave them there and after five days see if there are any changes. I've added updated pics. Its kind of hard to see the leaf deformation in these pics. Nov. 19, 2019 Week 2 ended well. Seedlings have turned into little vegging plants. Decided to lower the lights back down to around 9 inches. Leaf temperatures are staying at acceptable temps leading me to believe the deforming leaves...I think it's a characteristic of the plants. The one thing I am trying to figure out is watering. I'm a newbie using a light soil in fabric pots. They dry out quick... not sure im giving them enough water. Also reading about the genetics of the plant and learning it likes to drink alot in is early stages....I started near the end of this week giving them 1 cup if water a around the base of the stem daily. I'll observe this for a few days and adjust the amount upward as needed.