First Grow! Blue Dream [Photo] in coco!

Week 5: 10/22 - 10/28 Day 29 - Mainlining day! Topped both to the 4th node which helped even out the growth between the two. I withheld watering the previous day so I could get them bright and early in the morning when the lights kicked on. Gave each .45L in the morning and another .45L after the topping. I waited a few hours and neither were showing any signs of shock so I decided to cut away the lower growth. I'll begin the tie-down in a day or two once these new nodes begin to show progress. Day 30 - Started LST on the two fan leaves. Watered each girl .45L water in the morning. Day 31 - The new tops are coming in great! At this rate, I'll be applying more LST in a few days. Continued .45mL watering schedule. The local hydro store had a seed sale from Mosca Seeds today. Picked up six different autoflower strains and I'll get a few of those started tomorrow!! Day 32 - I woke up to the new growth looking a little thirsty. Gave them both .40mL in the AM and another .20mL in the PM. Got some runoff on the 2nd watering and it looks to still be set at 6.5. I have found a problem in the tent. I can no longer have the water reservoir inside the tent... I found the beginning stages of algae growing in the bottom of my bucket which is starting to form on my air stones and inside their tubes. Time to remove it ASAP!! The new nodes looked to bounce back really well after the 1st watering of the day. They continue to double in size day after day which is fantastic to see. Especially after cutting them all up... Day 33 - So yesterday was too much water. The entire pot is still wet at the end of the day. I lowered the inline fan speed to help bring the temps up inside the tent a few degrees. Looks like I'll be watering first thing tomorrow morning. I changed out my tie downs for the lower fan leaves and tied down the new growth. By the end of the day, they already recovered and corrected their positioning towards the light. When I sent pics to my lovely wife, she responded with "Woooo! Full bondage!" Day 34 - Oh yeah.. transplanting first thing tomorrow morning after their water. The root development at the bottom of these bags is great! I can't wait to cut them open to see what the root structure looks like. Upon close inspection this morning.. it does appear that 3 out of the 4 tied down nodes are splitting at the top of the bend. The nodes are starting to show signs of engorging which is great. I don't want to play with it at all.. just going to let her do her thing and heal on up. It's interesting to see the new growth development difference between the one node that's good and the other three. Planted two autoflowers from Mosca Seeds today - Frosted Watermelon and Blue Hindu. I'll be making another journal to track their progress. Day 35 - Transplant day!! Mixed up more coco/perlite along with more of the Down the Earth All Purpose 4-6-2 fertilizer. I placed 1 gal of coco on the bottom of each pot and then seated each girl in their new final home on top of 1 tbsp of Xtreme Gardening Mykos Pure mycorrhizal with another 1 tbsp sprinkled around the outer side of the roots. After everything is said and done.. I need to get better at making sure the plant is centered. My god am I off center on P1. I'll be adding some tie downs later tonight to assist in pulling each stalk more straight in the needed direction. It's been a few hours and they're both looking really good. No drooping! After 48h, I'm going to tie each branch down again to continue the mainlining process. Maybe I should have done it right away but I want to avoid any additional shock. I ended up with an extra 1 gal of coco so I decided to use it on another autoflower experiment and added it to the current autoflower journal. Weekly thoughts: Wow this week went fast and it's great looking back on the development and growth throughout the week. It's amazing to see how quickly these plants grow. I'm not surprised I might have split 3 of 4 nodes from my initial LST. Rookie mistake especially when diving into something as advanced as mainlining on your first grow! I'll be topping again soon to start my next set of nodes. I see the new growth around the main nub and there are 4 little sprouts on each plant looking to shoot upwards. Part of me wants to let them go and LST them into more colas but I know the smarter option would be to pluck away.. At the end of the day all they're doing is sucking up nutrients my main colas should be getting.