1st Scrog-Blue Dream with Timber COBs

Welcome back to the grow. The seedlings only stayed in the solo cups for two weeks. By week three, they were in one gallon containers where they really thrived. By week 4, we have moved them to 5 gallon containers. I am now using Fox Farm Ocean Forest and perlite as my medium. This is a little hotter soil than the Happy Frog soil that I used for germination. So far I don’t see any excess nitrogen issues. I should have captured a photo, but the root ball was extremely fragile and loose due to my high perlite ratio. Roots were mildly wrapping around root ball in the one gallon lightly…..maybe slightly too early to transplant. I could have gone one week longer I suspect, but it’s better to transplant too early than too late. Using dimmer to adjust lux to 45,000 lux. This intense lighting is probably driving the short distance between nodes. They are short, and I plan to top them once they are 7 nodes high. I will top above the 5th node, and likely top one more time for the scrog net to word effectively. I plan to try scrogging these plants for the first time , so I make no guarantees about my skills here. 9/8. Watered at 1g per plant today. Topped both plants above the 5th node (or best guess at 5th). They’re so bushy I can’t see nodes, but I believe I counted 7 nodes on one plant before topping. 9/9. Lifted pots and still relatively heavy, so not going to water yet. Waiting to see how the plant responds to the topping. 9/10. Installed plant bending clips to bring lower branches bud sites up to the top of the plant. Raised light 3 inches to create a 16 inch spread. Adjusted dimmer to 45,000 lux. Decided to plant the runt of the litter….so I will be growing 3 plants instead of 2. 9/11. Watered and fed with 100oz of water to each large plant….40oz to the small plant.