Beginning of week 3, everyone looking perky and green. Really starting to pop off growth now. Node 4 starting to show, it's probable that I will top by the end of this week. I was thinking about doing it right now but my plan from the beginning was to top node 5 so I'm going to resist the temptation and stick to that.
7/24
SC2 has been growing a little... sideways for some reason. Decided to stick a bamboo stake in the pot and gently tie her upright with gardening tape for a few days to see if she will straighten out and fly right. Realistically, plant is still healthy so I'm not that worried about it.
SLH2 is the pretty girl.
Starting to smell vaguely like cannabis in the tent.
7/26
Decided it was time to top today. The 5th nodes were about 1/2" long.
Everyone looking super healthy. Going to hold off on water until tomorrow I think.
7/28
Starting to see 2 healthy growths coming from each topped node now.
It's been 6 days since I watered so I'm gonna hit em again with ~2 cups of plain, pH 6.2 water.
Got my new temp/humidity controller today (after waiting forever for the shipping), only to find that I ordered the wrong item and it's actually a temp controller and humidity *sensor*. Scooped up the correct one off amazon, I'm not sure why I ordered it direct off the mfg site in the first place but I guess I'll have to figure out how to send that back.
7/29
They are growing pretty rapidly now. Quite a bit larger every day.
The SC plants are both displaying a small amount of cupping around the leaf edges. It hasn't gone above 83F in there this whole time, so I backed my light up a couple inches. Using the phone lux meters, I'm reading around 30k lx now. Not sure if that is super accurate, but I have a decently new phone and all 3 apps I tried had similar readings. According to some conversion calculator, that's around 770 umol/s/m2 which should be within an appropriate range.
Anyway, will continue to monitor the condition to see if they look any better over a day or two.
7/30
Last day of week 3 and plants are looking pretty healthy. Starting to see the new chutes come up after the topping. One of the new chutes on SLH 2 is looking a little jaggedy but I think it will grow out alright.
I set up a humidifier and put the exhaust fan on the new controller, so I'm hoping that will help me tighten down the environmental parameters a bit.
The leaves on the SC plants are possibly looking a little better with the slight reduction in light intensity. With the new environmental controller I plan to try and keep the daytime temps a bit cooler, around 75-80F. Previously it was hovering around 83.