First grow

Solid week this week. The stretch is continuing nicely. I'm watering every 48-60hrs with 1L of nuted water each. I pour about 2/3 of the water through the top, then put the rest on the plate where the pot sits so that it can be soaked up from the bottom as well. Made one small change in the tent by adding a small cardboard light baffle to the inside of the passive intake. It fits nicely over the intake and is held in place by magnets so that it can be quickly and easily removed and reinstalled as needed. As humidity levels begin to rise, the oscilating fan is not staying on in the tent 24/7. Though I live in a very dry area, we typically get some rainy and humid weather in autumn and I don't want to take any chances with mold! There were several days this week during which the plants were growing 2cm a day! I did my last bit of defoliation this week as they finish off their 3rd week of flowering. Just snipped off any fan leaves blocking bud sites that weren't able to be tucked back and pulled any shoots that were buried under the canopy with no chance of growing up by the end of the stretch. Speedy Chile's roots were starting to show on the surface of the soil this week. I also noticed some strange white stuff on some bigger chunks of medium at the surface, so I pulled those pieces out, top dressed the soil to cover the vulnerable roots, and clipped a couple extra fan leaves down low that were affecting airflow. Hopefully that doesn't return. I'm very excited to see how the roots look when I harvest. I can hardly get my finger into the soil to test for dryness because of so many fine roots all through the soil. I'll definitely be moving up to 10L pots for my next grow. I unfortunately lost the even canopy, so I have about a 10cm difference between the level of the main stems and the level of the secondary branches in the middle. I waited about a week too long to flip, so the main stems, which weren't able to be tied down anymore due to space restrictions, got ahead of the other potential sites before the flip. Live and learn, but I'll definitely be flipping sooner next time now that I understand the limitations of my tent. Either that or I'll do a different style of LST. Fingers crossed that the luck continues through flower though!