Dinafem Blue Widow - 1st Grow

Day 15 Gave the girls a major watering and some additional top dressing yesterday. Looks like they were a little dry because there's been some nice leaf development overnight. Also happy that they don't need the toothpick supports any longer. I started this project in soil, but I've been looking for a good beginner level nutes program to help maximize my results, and after considering Jack's 3-2-1 I decided on some Botanicare products. They're on order and I'll write it up as soon as they get here. I'm not going to be able to keep the seedlings in the temporary germination area much longer, so I've set up a Vivosun 2 x 4 x 5 veg tent. It's no Gorilla, but for $85 it's going to be just fine. I was going to configure some of the cmx3590 COBs for veg but I decided to bite the bullet and ordered 2 5000K 304 Quantum boards from northerngrowlights.com. They should be here in a couple of days along with a Mean Well HLG-240H-C1050B from RapidLEd. Just guessing but these should be some happy sprouts. Day 16 Soil was dry again this morning so they got another dose of water ... there are no roots poking through the aeration pruning holes but I'm wondering of it's time to move to the 1 gal air pots. Seems like they're drinking a lot for their size. Problem … I've been noticing the leaves curling down … and it's getting more pronounced. I checked the temp at the top of the plants and it was close to 80°. Retested the water ph and it was way too low … 4.8. I moved them to a larger temporary area 14” under 4 cxb3590 4000K COBs @1400ma with a dimmer and flushed them with ph 7 RO water to bring things back into equilibrium. I guess I'll have to test the water each time I use it. I took the reflectors off the COBs to get a better spread until the seedlings adjust. Looking at the seedlings, I think I may have 3 phenos here. Time will tell Day 19 Components for the veg light arrived so I've started configuring the 2x4x5 grow tent. Plants were getting a bit too much light so I dimmed 20% and I'll wait to see how they respond. With the power reduced the temps will stay in the upper 60s until I get the new tent ready but it shouldn't be a problem. Transplanted into the 1 gal air pots using a 50/50 mixture of Happy Frog and Stonington Blend. Dusted the root ball with Mykos and buried them a little deeper for better stem support and hopefully some additional root mass. Gave them a little water near the center of each pot … have to be careful not to over water until they develop some size and more root mass. The Rootmaker seedling pots did their job … a nice clump of fine root strands developed on all plants but getting them out of the pots was a bit nerve wracking with all the internal pot structure. There was no visible root damage so hopefully they all will survive.