Finally some pics worth sharing, they took a second to grow roots but are rebounding nicely into these containers. I raised the light to 22" and turned it up to about 1/3rd from low.
Went crazy with the 
in there today at lights on. I feed them full strength, wait until I see runoff, then chop away. The goal here was to remove fans and get each growth tip mostly in its own square of the frame. I also pulled the scrog down and supercropped the stem of every top to open up the meristem and get a level of nice knuckles right at the trellis. Once I see a few more of the trellis cells fill in, I’ll let them just grow vertically and inch the trellis up a bit with them. I want a nice even carpet of tops about three nodes high.
From there, I’ll probably put in another layer of trellis and flip to flower. Probably another couple weeks honestly, although they may surprise me and go HAM now that they’re filling out the root zone.
Today is 21 days in these containers under this light, I have it around 40% intensity and can see them grimace a little with some stress. Suck it up ladies!
Feeding a basic nutrient mix right now as the Coco had a lot in it from the start.
3gallons water, 3 grams epsom, 18ml Micro, 27ml Bloom, 3ml pH up.
Day 23 of vegging. Just fed and tucked, looking forward to a little manicuring below the scrog soon. I want to give some of the lowers a little more time to catch up, then anything not in direct light exposure will come off. I’ll let the tops exposed stretch vertically, then flip once I see a couple nodes of growth.
Well my patience lasted about 18 hours. Now they’re in a good place to stretch vertically; the left plant had leggier lowers, so I could leave a lot of leaf in place without blocking the key sites.
Righty has a ton of growth sites, but they’re denser and not developing vertically yet. Now I’ve got her cut way back and stitched into the net, I’ll just let her go and hopefully the tips will pace nicely with each other now that everything had even light exposure. I was worried that righty was going to end up with a ton of stunted nodes and therefore not fill the screen, so I wanted as much leaf out now as possible.
I also realized the runoff from my feed is super high, like probably mid 7’s.
This is likely due to the amendments I put in, so I’ll remember that going forward this mix won’t play super nicely with hydro in veg. I will feed them a bit more acidic mix for a while and see what that looks like.
Reinforces my sentiment that lefty is the keeper phenotype of the two, if I had two of that clone instead of righty here, I’d probably just flip to flower and let them stretch into the light on full boogie. As it stands we’re still babysitting righty… 
My friend grew righty recently and the buds were about double the size, hencey curiosity in growing her this time.
Okay, all done shaping the plants, ready to flip to flower once lefty recovers from the defoliation I did on Sunday. Tops are 27" to the light at the closest, so I’m thinking we’ll stretch about 8-10" from here and finish in the 15-18" range, maybe a bit closer. That’s probably not enough space to run the light pegged at 100%, so I’ll play with the dimmer to keep them happy. Right at about 60% on the knob right now, not sure on intensity… should probably pony up for a PAR meter sooner or later.
Did a little experiment yesterday where I put the light on 100% to see if they would get visibly yellowed from the intensity. They did, which leads me to think this light might honestly be too much for the space!
Either way, I dialed back down to like 70% and they seem to be happier this morning. Added another layer of trellis and broke the necks of some spindly tops that were stretching to give them a nice supercropped knuckle to build from.
When DLI goes down in 12/12 the light intensity issue should mostly resolve itself. Probably going to flip them on Jan 1st.
Alright, timer on 12/12 starting tonight. I’m hoping the decrease in DLI will do the trick to green them up nicely. Looking for a mid-March finish meaning this should be ready for 4/20/2022.
Morning of Flowering day 3, three nights of 12/12 so far and they’re already showing that they’re happier at this DLI. All the odd yellowing is gone and they’re far more turgid than they were under 19/5. I barely ooched the dial up on the light, it’s at 70% by position but it seems like they’re mostly on “full” here as turning it further doesn’t seem to get brighter according to my perfectly calibrated PAR sensitive eyeballs, lol.
Flowering day 5. Did some leaf fluffing and arranging to keep fans from laying flat on each other and getting wet.
Still feeding full strength veg brew, will shift to less nitrogen when stretching ends.
Fan speed controller is keeping temps under 82 farenheit, RH is set to 65% and it’s exhausting most of the time at speed 7/10. I’m considering lowering it to 60, but doubt it’ll be able to keep up. Will consider a dehumidifier for flower if I can’t maintain 55% during the winter with the heat drying us out.
Glad they are doing a bit better. Upset plants can take a while to recover and kick back in sometimes that’s for sure. They are starting to pump along pretty good though 
Yeah, this is definitely a grow where I learned about excess DLI in veg…
I might need to talk to my therapist about why I like removing leaves so much…but hopefully this is it for a while. This maintenance exposed a ton of lowers and will hopefully keep the airflow between leaves acceptable.
I also watered heavily today with a lower pH than normal and only some FloraBlend ferment and SLF-100 enzymes. The goal here was to get a nice flush before I move the fertigation recipe over in a Bloom direction. The plants haven’t been giving as much runoff as I would have expected so far this grow, so I wanted to get some salts out of the medium to prevent weird things with nitrogen from potentially happening. I’ll probably give them a bit more of that flushing feed in a few hours and then give normal fertigation starting tomorrow.
New formula for fertigation starting this morning:
3 gallons tap water
1.5g Epsom Salt
12ml FloraMicro (5-0-1)
30ml FloraBloom (0-5-4)
12ml FloraBlend (.5-1-1)
6ml Floralicious Grow (1-.7-.6)
add
The FloraBlend is basically a fermented extract and the Floralicious Grow is protein hydrolysate and sea kelp with humic acid from leonardite. The plants generally seem less finicky when I add these to the base nutrients, I just have to drop the Floralicious so I’m not giving too much N late in flowering.
