The amature's guide to low yields

I sprouted the seeds using the paper towel method. The blue cheese sprouted very quickly and seemed very hardy. Both euforia seeds sprouted but were not as robust as blue cheese. One of the white widow seeds sprouted quickly, but the other took 2 days longer to show any sort of root. (this plant has continued to lag behind the others even on week 6) I'm using biobizz light-mix for the soil and saturated each pot 24 hours before planting the seedlings. They seem to be off to a pretty decent start even with my utter incompetence.

I started with nutrients this week. I think the white widow runt was too fragile though and I'm pretty sure I damaged her by adding too many nutrients too quickly. She turned a bright yellow and continues to lag behind the others. I've had issues keeping the humidity above 50 so I've been periodically spraying inside the tent. I ended up adding a bowl of water, which seemed to help a bit. I think a mistake I made this week was not adjusting my light to a lower setting, I think it might be too strong for early veg, but I'm not sure.

The plants all look pretty good except for the white widow. She looks very very yellow and is not growing as quickly as the others. I think it is probably nutrient burn

This is the week it started to dawn on me that I should have been less greedy and maybe only started with 4 plants at the most in my small tent. It got out of hand pretty quickly. Watering started to become a challenge because of the lack of space. The than that the plants seem to be thriving

Watering the plants has become the bane of my existence. I will never try to shove 6 plants in a tiny tent ever again. I'm pretty sure my PH meter is not working properly, everything I test shows a PH of 7.2. I'm worried that a few of my waterings have had too low a PH. Taking the plants in and out of the tent has been a little disastrous as well. Branches have broken and tears have been shed. These ladies will be the death of me. I've decided to order a proper PH pen, hopefully I'll have it for next week's updates.

This week was a real challenge. One of the dehumidifiers I had hanging in my tent fell and crushed some of my plants. It took off a few of the side branches from euforia and blue cheese. The humidity was up to 70 and I was having to open the front panel and keep it open because I was worried about how humid it was. Because I'm inexperienced and greedy, I decided to start with 6 plants in my 3x3 tent, so there is absolutely no extra room for anything other than hanging things above the plants. I think I finally figured out a system to get the humidity down by putting a stronger dehumidifier on the outside of the tent next to the larger vent. For now it seems to be working as the humidity finally came down to around 48. I think another error I made was cheaping out on a PH meter initially. I was using a soil meter to measure the water I was using and it kept showing as 7.2, so I kept adding some apple cider vinegar to lower it. I think a few of my previous waterings (in week 4) had water that was very low PH. I finally bought a better meter and realized how much Id screwed up the PH because even a tiny amount of the apple cider vinegar changed the PH by A LOT. Hopefully I wont face nutrient lock out because of this error. The final error was overdoing the nutrients, so much so that one of my euforia plants looks very sad and depressed and has a lot of discoloration in the leaves. I flushed her and she's drying out now. Im hoping she'll recover. Hopefully next week will go a little smoother. Update: Flushing Euforia made a Huge difference. She is still drying out, but her leaves look more lively even though there is still some discoloration. Im optimistic that she'll recover. The white widow runt has really taken off. Although it flowered a little after the others, I think now she might be my tallest plant.

This week is off to a much better start. The euforia that was sick is looking much better. I have been noticing more fan leaves at the bottom of the plants turning yellow, so I've been cutting them off. I'm hoping it's just because they are buried under the canopy and not getting any light. The white widow runt has exploded in growth, I don't think I can call her a runt anymore, just a late bloomer. For this week's nutrients I've lowered the biogrow and added a little CalMag into the mix. The nutrient schedule for biobizz is a little confusing. They recommend equal bloom and grow nutrients through the whole flowering stage. I've decided to go against this advice and instead go off the experiences of other growers. (For the plant arrangement in the tent: left back-blue cheese, left front-white widow, middle back-euforia, middle front-euforia (sick euforia), right back- white widow runt, right front-blue cheese)

The euforia that was sick before continues to lag behind the others and I'm noticing that some of the smaller stems are very weak and can bend easily. I ramped up the nutrients this week in hopes that it will boost the buds a little, hopefully they won't burn from too many. Week 8 finished, the buds are filling out and the plants seem to be responding well to the increase in nutes. I really hope euforia fills out a bit more, she seems pretty lean

The plants seem to be fattening up. The Euphoria that was sick is still struggling, the stems seem very weak and bend easily if I'm not super careful, I've also noticed some weird pistil curling and darkening on the white widow that flowered late. Hopefully it won't affect the development of buds.