My 1st grow

After just a week the plant drank more than 10L of nutes. Nutes level in the bucket was actually so low, that I could not draw sample for EC and pH measurements with my long needle on a syringe. So it was time to mix another batch of nutes, scrub the bucket and all equipment with soap and rinse well. This time there was no slime in the bucket, and no visible mold on the roots. Color of the roots is about the same, no dark spots to be seen, mostly white to slight pinkish hue. I truly think that I managed to get rid of the moldy roots problem, and since the plant looks like it will empty it's bucket on weekly basis, it will also get a good rinse of the roots and a good scrub of the bucket on weekly basis. This should keep nasty mold at bay. Plant is doing really well. Buds are growing, snow is falling, smell is now what I would call normal. It stinks up to room as soon as I unzip the tent :) It smells citrusy and a bit fruity perhaps. Quite nice smell actually. Also I had to lift the light an inch or so, because some of the flowers got too close to the LED strips for my liking. No sense in burning my buds. I also got me a magnifying glass. It says it's 30x magnification, but I'd bet it's x10 at most. It was cheap and I can see trichomes with it. They are still a bit small, but I think I'll be able to tell when they start to turn milky. They all seem pretty clear to me. Closeup of the photo also shows clear trichomes. Also almost all the hairs are still white and uncurled. New white hairs still forming on most flowers, so I think I still have at least a week or 2 to go, possibly even longer. My plan to smoke this baby for new year is definitely out of the question now, since I want to get good cure before smoking. But I'm quite sure the wait will be worth it :) I'm shooting for a nice energetic high like HSO describes, so I guess I need to wait for 50-75% milky trichomes before harvesting. Also I have to apologize about the photos so far, I did a pretty stupid thing: I had aperture set to widest setting, making focus depth on the photos a bit shitty. I closed down the aperture as far as my camera allows it so now the photos have some focused depth and you can actually see the flowers on my plant and more details on closeups. No more of those nasty "halo'd" closeups where details just blur into the photo. Sorry about this one.