Botched Grow

~~~~~3/12/18 - Watered & fed. Came back late Sunday (3/11/18) and checked on the girls. They weren't dead, but had turned a new shade of yellow. They looked hungry af! No wilting or browning, so I'm hoping the nutrient deficiencies weren't at a point of no return. First thing in the morning, they got their first full-course veg feeding: -3/4 tsp Big Bloom -1/4 tsp Grow Big -1/8 tsp Earth Juice OilyCann (cal-mag supplement) all miixed into a one liter of pH 6.3 water. I gave approx 1/4 L of solution to each plant. All nutes were given at half the dosages listed on the bottles. Now my mind is swimming with how much bigger my girls could have been if I hadn't let them get this hungry. All I can think of is how many weeks I've set my harvest back because of this hiccup during the very first couple of weeks of veg. Is it weird to take this so personally?😩 ... I've been looking up images of cannabis plants at day 14, and every plant that pops up is at least twice as big as my largest. I'll be going on a long trip at the end of May, and if these girls aren't ready before then, it'll have been 3 months of time, money and materials for nothing. They're autoflowers, and I've been told up and down that they shouldn't take longer than 90 days. But based on what I'm seeing online, and based on their rate of growth (for which I feel at fault for letting them starve) I'm getting really doubtful that they'll be harvestable by the end of May. March is already halfway done, which leaves only two months to grow & mature, and they haven't even grown any fan leaves yet. Should I just cut my losses and wait til after my trip to start over? If anyone reads my journal and reads this, comment below. I need some wisdom, please! ~~~~~3/15/18 - Watered. pH 6.3 water, didn't measure amount--enough to fill their little cup-spaces to the brim twice. The nutes did their jobs! The girls' growing has accelerated, their color is coming back, and they're both putting out new growth. I'll start watering them regularly now, I think their roots are now established enough to handle it. Plus I think the extra water will help them grow a little faster. Decided I will not be pulling them up (surprise, surprise!) and if they're not ready before I leave for my trip, I will try to make some kind of arrangement to have them watered until I get back. I'll figure it out when I get there, but until then, I can't just give up without trying! Grow and learn; faith, trust, and confidence...here goes nothing! ~~~~~3/17/18 - Watered. Inoculated the soil outside the cup-spaces of both, and filled in the cup-space of Fae. Inoculation solution had: -0.75 tsp Big Bloom, -0.25 tsp Supre Myco Tea -0.25 tsp molasses all in 1 liter of pH 6.3 water. I was beginning to wonder if the girls' slow growth was because their roots were growing in a small column of moist soil, and couldn't spread further into the dry surrounding soil. Mauve is still too small to fill around, but I think Fae could handle it. My hope is that if they're able to stretch their roots out, they'll stretch their leaves/branches out too. Dunno if there's any hard science behind the concept, but at this point, I'll try anything to move them along!