First grow, need advice.

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Hi, I recently decided to grow some weed :biggrin:

I don't have a lot of space, so I had to put the set-up on my balcony. The climate here is temperate, but I guess 6 month out of the year no extra temperature control is required.
Equipment I have: 60x60x170 tent, filter + fan, small rotating fan to move air around the tent. Light is Mars Hydro Epistar 600, actual power draw ~230w.
Growing medium is soil - Plagron Batmix. Fabric pot, ~20l, out of which I am using probably 18l.
Humidity control - cheap ultrasound humidifier, maintaining around 60% RH.

I started just one seed of Auto Big Demon in a tablet and in 24h it has already sprouted. It was on 2nd of May. I immediately transfered it to big pot, just by putting the tablet with the seed into the soil.
I tried to maintain humidity just by spraying in the tent for first 10 days or so, but then got humidifier.
I used just veg switch on my LED for first 3 weeks, and yesterday I switched it to both veg and bloom.
Light schedule was 18/6 with light off at night, but then I realized that it's chilly at night and changed it to 20/4 with lights off midday, which I plan to maintain till the end.
Plant to light was ~80-90 when I started and week 1 I made it at ~60cm.
I watered it every 2-3 days with 1.5l of tap water, PH is fine, tested it every time.
Today I did a first time with a fertilizers, adding just 1ml of organic veg fertilizer and 1ml of organic bloom fertilizer per liter of water. Watered with 3 liters today after letting it dry up a little bit more than previously - 4 days. I had a concern of the fact that the pot may be too large for the plant and did not want to overwater it. So far it seems happy no matter how I water it.

What concerns me is the size of the plant is good for its 22nd day, and second - it seems to be very bushy and not growing upwards a lot.
What's good - I saw some pistils few days ago, so at least it's a girl.
Another thing I'm not sure about - the color. It seemed to be very dark, but when I first looked at it with light off to take a picture, I realized it was just because of the LED. Anyways, does the color look healthy?
Another thing - first leaves - pair of ones and pair of threes seem to be very low, like extremely relaxed. Is it ok?

I'll attach some pictures taken today.

Does it look OK for its age?
Is bushiness a problem?

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All looks as normal as it should OP.
Bushy is fine, a window of opportunity is shorter with autos than photo periods. So LST n topping are a useful skill to cultivate, will allow you to redirect plants energy where YOU wmt it...
Good luck.
 
All looks as normal as it should OP.
Bushy is fine, a window of opportunity is shorter with autos than photo periods. So LST n topping are a useful skill to cultivate, will allow you to redirect plants energy where YOU wmt it...
Good luck.
Jimmy nailed it, as for the lower leaves, they are relaxed due to not being exposed to light and energy priority is going towards the top node for flowering. I would start lst to even out the canopy so 1 top is not much higher than the rest or consider topping if you feel you have 5-7 days for recovery before you hit the flowering stage. I've done both on my 1st grow right now and it worked like a charm and growth continued. Remember, Respect the process.
 
The plant looks healthy. It’s actually a very striking plant with the thick indica leaf structure. Beautiful color. By the way, the natural color pic was the only helpful one for me. Looks good keep it up!
 
Just an update - everything seems fine. In a week it grew quite a lot. I started doing some kind of LST - just folding lower branches away from main stem/cola.
It is 4 weeks old now.

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Small update - plant is 6 weeks old. Decided to spread the branches a little bit with a net. Also upped watering frequency and moved darkness time to midday due to heatwave - it's been 30 degrees outside, so getting close to 35 in the box without running AC if the lights are on. I went away for a weekend and when I got back home it was 39c in the tent. Before opening I assumed it's dead, but it seemed perfectly fine. After that I am keeping the temps 28-31c.

Some picutres taken just now:

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Looking good but yeah, don't let her get that hot...no bueno.
 
Agreed. Looks surprising great for the heat is has endured! Keep the temps and humidity within the zone, And I think she will reward you handsomely!
 
I think it got that hot only once for several hours, so hope it did not make it suffer.

Regarding harvesting - all the strains have some advertised flowering time. Should the count start when it germinated, showed first preflowers or real flowers? It's on its 48th day from germination and two weeks after real flowers developed. Will the flowers grow more? They don't seem too large. And when should I harvest it?
 
Most start counting the first day the sprout is above ground. That is day 1. Don’t sweat it, the buds will grow and develop over the next weeks. Don’t worry about harvest yet, as you probably are a month away from that.
 
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