New Grower Balcony grow with 3 Think Different and other photoperiodic plants (Journal jump started 1.5 months)

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This is my first proper grow I'm doing with 3 Think differents, 4 bag seeds from albania, Super silver haze and amnesia. The 3 Think differents' are autos obviously while the other plants are photoperiodics. The main focus of this grow is my 3 TD plants. I grew the other ones mostly because I could.

The 3 think different are always the closest 3 plants (to us) in the photos.

I get currently around 13 hours of direct sunlight and 14+ hours of light for these plants.
Advanced nutrients pH perfect 3 part GMB nutes
Mixure of Bio Bizz light soil mix and Compo soma potting soil which is high quality enriched soil.
No other supplements for my plants this grow.
14L pots for TD and albanians, 18L for SSH and amnesia.

Day one for my TD is the day that I planted them into soil which was on the 22nd of March so that will make today 53. This journal well cover everything that has happened and now that will happen in new posts.

Right so my 3 TD were germinated on the 18th of March. I wanted to write my journal originally up on this site but after found it a lot easier for myself to write it in a hard copy book. But I will be transferring all my data from my book as well as all the photos I have taken along the way to show you the journey I have been on till this point. Till now I had almost no problems. The growth was never stunted and the leaves were always bright green. However recently (a week ago) the weather changed from being the ideal weather for autos (21C to 26C) but these days we have having 30C + and it's just going to get hotter from now on. Heat has been my first proper challenge for me which so far I haven't been dealing with it well. But from now on I will be watering once or twice a day in. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to comment and any advice from you guys is more then welcomed! I hope you enjoy this grow.
18 April
Let 7 SSH, 7 Think different and 2 amnesia to germinate in paper towel behind my pv. I will be leaving my computer on for warmth. 7 plant pots with a mixture of Bio Bizz light mix and compo soma soil were added in each pot.
20 April
Initially placed the seeds to germinate behind my old laptop for heat in small espresso cups. The cups are horrible as the water either collects at the bottom and drowns the seeds or dries up to quickly. Moved the seeds to plates sandwiched together for consistency and control. Placed on top of a bed heat mat and aiming for 25C. (During this time it was 15C in my room).
21 April
Heat mat set to setting 1 and is producing consistent heat between 20 and 25C. All TD seeds have popped but with a max taproot length of less then 1cm. SSH and amnesia have yet to display taproots. Amnesia have cracked opened though
Flushed plant pots with pH 6.0 water and the run off is at 5.8. Too low.
22 April - Day 1
Planted 3 TD seeds into plant pots. #1 had a taproot of 3cm, #2 of 2cm and #3 is the seed I accidentally stepped on, when it was planted it almost didn't have a taproot, however the seed was cracked open and the cotyledons were showing in the paper towel. When planted, it was as such that the cotyledon was showing above the soil. The remaining 3 TD where transplanted to a clean plate as the original incubator was now contaminated with soil, next day the SSH and amnesia were planted.

1 April - Day 9
The closest TD looks great. I've germinated a few cannabis seeds but this one looks absolutly massive for its age. Very strong green leaves.
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16 April - Day 25
Fed autos and 2 others at 3.5ml/L with 1.5L of water at pH of 6.6. The run off was 6.0.
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24 April - Day 33
Watered 4ml/L with 10L of water. SSH stem is bent and must be fixed. Rusty spots on the albanian leaves show an unknown deficiency.
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25 April - Day 34
Follicle feeding of Calmag to all my plants at 2ml/L in a 330ml bottle. This was done on the previous day as well.
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26 April - Day 35

The sex of the plants started showing for both my albanians and Think different. 2 Albanians are females and the other two look like males. Maybe they are hermies. Defolicated the fan leaves of my albanians. All plants are looking happy and healthy.
27 April - Day 36
Watered the plants at 2ml/L and 2ml/L calmag. pH 6.6 with 13L of water. The first signs of flowing also appeared today for the autos.
1 May - Day 40
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4 May - Day 43

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Great looking flowers and nice feed schedule, I have also think different at balcony :-D nice to see yours! Subbed up m8
BTW what size your pots are?
 
5 May - Day 44
Flowers are showing up nicely.
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7 May - Day 46
The heat came and struck the plants! Seriously though. After this day (exactly 7 days ago from writing this post) the growth of all my plants has been stunted and have grown a maximum of 1cm on each plant. It's pretty worrying and my plants now look pretty unhappy. This was the day that the temperature went from around 24C to 31C. Not so happy plants
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9 May - Day 48
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11 May - Day 50
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14 May - Day 53
These are them today. Soon I will make a separate post with the status my plants are currently in.
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