I'm on week 5 now and have differentiated 6 indica and 4 sativa plants. Noticing the cotyledons are withered on most, I started superthrive treatment. I did some investing with a bit of an increased budget, juicing my plants up on a few drops of superthrive, and 188w CFL at 12,200 lumens in a 22gal bin. I put a fan in there too, im still working on the efficiency of the bin, because currently it is still to hot inside. I use two 2x4 wood slabs laid across the rim to help with the venting. I need a better design for air intake and cooling. Depending on the fan arrangement, my bin will range between 80-95º. Without the 2x4's, my bin will exceed 102º.

the lights are (2) warm 42w, (2) warm 26w, (2) cool 26w.

i'm going to do some shopping and change out the bulbs to (6) cool 26w's and (1) warm 42w. But with the 10w increase im not sure if the heat will increase as well.

My kids are working either on the 4th or 5th node. No idea why their growth was stunted earlier, but I left them alone for a week no nutes, just water and light of course. Their growth seems to improve greatly nowadays, except for 1.

I have this one plant which seemed to have stopped growing altogether. Looking the leaves, I can't tell what kind of stress, the leaves look healthy--however the new shoot/node will NOT grow in..?! It's remained the same the entire week and I'm growing concerned. It SHOULd be working on its 4th node, but its "pot" is the smallest of them all..

do plants stop growth activity when they need to be transplanted?

One of the plants the previous week suffered a vicious attack from the light, which fell out of the socket (I found it half hour later). This destroyed the top growth coming in, 1 entire fan leaf, and half the other fan leaf. However this baby is recovered and apparently underwent some kind of FIMMING ordeal, this plant now has TWO heads.

So I went and re-did my research on fimming, and ended up trying to FIM another plant (the proper way). I'll be able to tell in a few days if i did it right or not.

And so now its 5 weeks in, I've seen a few guys on here go into flowering at the stage, but my plants are only working on their 5th nodes. To the experienced growers out there, how many nodes did your plants accumulate at this age, or when you started your flowering stage?

I wanted to cut a fan leaf off, root it and see what happens. I figured if it took root and continued to grow, I could flower it and see if a flower bud or pollen sack would form, but I think its more stupid than clever to try it before research. At such an age I wanna know what sex's these are but I'm a little scared to touch'm just yet. What do YOU guys think?

I made a cheap humidity dome for the 10 kiddos out of seram wrap and a cardboard box. I have a cup of water in there I'm using to help build moisture to absorb the heat and provide a healthy environment for the kids.

12 pics, here are the 1st 5.