First grow fluence Spyder 2i

Just got some clones from a friend and some were very developed and the other half had insignificant root structure. I transplanted half of them into solo cups and kept the others in the humidity dome. They started the week in my living room under 2ft T5 light which is not ideal. The tent came and I moved them in there which created another issue because my basement was too cold and I had to put a heater in the tent and something to increase humidity until I can get an actual humidifier

Just set up the new light and have it set to 25/100 power and was told to start under 30 increase there percentage by 1-3 everyday. I was also told to keep the plants at 6 inches away and not more the 12 but I decided to give them some extra distance for the first week because I'm a new grower and didn't want to burn them. I finished transplanted the remaining plants still in the humidity dome because they had been in there for an extra week. I don't think I was watering enough because they cubes felt a little dry and the roots still weren't as developed as they should be but I thought it was time to move them and ultimately I think it worked out. At the end of the week I ended up transplanting all of them to larger containers. I couldn't believe how well they responded to the new light and even the ones I didn't think were ready for transplant had grown roots that stretched all the way through the solo cups.

Moved into one gal pots and definitely had some large root balls that could’ve been moved earlier. As soon as I moved them they all started growing in stretching. Still have 8 plants but going to be getting rid of a couple to make room. Watering about every 3rd day.

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Had 8 plants in the tent and had to find a home for 3 of them. Now I’m left with 3 Chem D and 2 White Tahoe Cookies. After getting rid of the the 3 others I attempted to switch to flower but due to an issue with my timer they were getting 15 hours of light. Overall this might have been a good mistake because now they have an extra week to grow into the empty spaces where the other plants were.

Everything is continuing to go pretty good. I just bought an R/O machine because my city water is around 450ppm TDS which is a lot higher than I want. I've also moved up to the heavy feeding schedule on the BioThrive they seem to want more and more and have been handling everything great. Ive been slowly turning up the dimmer 1-2% a day and we've reached the the 85% and will have it up to 100% by the end of this week. I also attempted to defoliate the plants but looking back I probably should've done more because the leaf coverage is still very.

I feel like things are really starting to get exciting! In one of the pics you can start to see roots growing in the space between the Air-Pots and the drip tray. I have two Air-Pots and 3 cloth pots and Im interested in how they will compare to each other. Will one yield more than the other? or help with quality? Only time will tell. I was a little worried i had over trained the plants by constantly tucking everything back under the trellis during Veg but it now looks as though the plants are stretching up and increasing the height of the canopy up over the 3.5"X3.5" netting. What will these little ladies do as far as packing and stacking?

I spent a good amount of time trying on deflation this week trying to increase the air flow and focus more of the plants energy towards the top. I added the Exhale CO2 bag in week 3 and though this was going to help make a difference. In all honesty I didn't think it made much a of a difference and from my understanding going from 400-600 isn't going to make much of a difference. However it does look like there was a significant increase in size and bulking once I increased the PPM closer to 1200. This being my first grow I'm wondering is the nug growth exponential or is the CO2 has made a big difference. Also I started adding the Atami Bloombastic bloom enhancer this week. What do you guys think what was the biggest contributor to this weeks growth. Was this typical of week 3 of flower? was it the CO2? or maybe the bloom enhancer? Would love to hear all your thoughts!!! ....was it the defoliation?!?!