First Grow

Rough week 4 with two with 2 main events: 1. Weeks 1-3 were done without a pH meter, it finally came and I found out I've been watering (tap) my plants with 9.4 pH water. 2. My dog peeked into my tent while my back was turned and munched on 2 of my plants. After finding out about the pH I transplanted the plants from their solo cups into 3 gallon pots with a mix of Coast of Maine Organic Grower's mix (75%), Perlite (15%), and Coco Coir (10%). First watering I bought 2 gallons of spring water (couldn't find distilled), added 1tsp calmg/gallon water, and pH'd with a bit of lemon juice down to 6.5. As I was cleaning up after the watering, the smell of wet, fishy, soil wafted about the room and my dog decided to taste test the two closest plants (see pics). 1 was already the runt (Green Fire), the other was on par with my two bigger ones (Sweet Honey Nug). In light of these events, I'm taking them as lesson's learned and moving on. It makes total sense why my plant's aren't as far along as I'd hoped but they're all photo-period so I feel like if I do the right thing from here on out they should be able to bounce back but maybe add a few weeks to the veg.