New Grower First Grow - Short Stuff Purple Amnesia Haze

[Jewbilee]

I started a journal at another website, much fancier in layout, but one can not compare the wealth of knowledge I have found here with the bells and whistles that attracted me there...
Anyway, this is my first grow, I am in super stealth mode. My landlady will not be nosy in my business, but if she were to find out i would have 30 seconds to break down and move the plants out and it would cause some trouble. We'll get in to the stealth a little later.
As the title suggests I have 2 Short Stuff Purple Amnesia Haze Autos going.
One was started a week to ten days after the other (rookie move, I know, but like I said, this is my first attempt).
I am building a grow tent out of PVC and panda paper, and until that is done I have the plants inside a 50 gallon white plastic bucket with a 4 bulb 2 ft T5 lamp hanging over.
I germinated in small plastic cups and moved to 1L Air Pots.
I the fifth day, I started the respective plants on:
Cornucopia X2 1ml/L
Cornucopia plant energy 2.5 ml/L
As well as some rooting hormone mixed in as I transplanted.
I think that is it so far, I will post some pics in the following post

 

[Jewbilee]

This is AH1. the first pic being June 25 all the way up to the last being on July 3rd

 

[Jewbilee]

AH2 July 3rd - July 5th

 

[Jewbilee]

I look forward to embarking on this project with all your help. Tha k you in advance to all those helpful caring people out there that keep AFN the great resource which it is.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

hi and welcome plants look happy and healthy
micro section https://www.autoflower.org/forums/micro-growing-discussion.104/ lots of good growers in small spaces.
good luck n stay safe

 

[mcpd_refugee]

Looking good so far. Have you thought about odor control yet and how you might handle it?

 

[MickJ]

I like budget stealth, I'm in and good luck!

Sent from my comfy chair.
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[Jewbilee]

Good morning AutoflowerFriends,
@mcpd_refugee, I have thought about it, but am still up in the air about how to handle it. This was obviously one of the main things u hoped to gain some guidance about. But more on that in another post. Because while bi was greeted this morning with a very green pine aroma from my little feminized friend, it is not yet the conspicuous smell which I have to worry about.

What I wanted to do today was:
1. Fill in some of the holes from my OP.
2. Talk about light distance
3. Talk about LST/topping.

1. I forgot to talk about my soil. I started the seeds in McEnroe Organic Potting Soil. Upon transplant to the 1L Air Pots, I mixed: 1 part MG organic care potting soil (I have heard this stuff is not great, but I find it has the best drainage of all the soils i have used so far so i wanted to use it as a base). 1 part McEnroe Organic Compost, and 1 part McEnroe Organic Potting Mix. To this I added about 30% perlite and a pint of so of worm castings. Additionally, every other feeding has been getting 3ml/L of CalMag.

2. This one really ties in to [HASHTAG]#3[/HASHTAG]. In my current setup, I have the two plants at two separate distances. AH1, the older plant, I have about 1.5-2 inches from the T5s, AH2, which is about a week younger is about 5-6 inches away. Now AH1 has not stretched much at all, and AH2 looks like it has an extra 1/2 inch on where [HASHTAG]#1[/HASHTAG] was at this stage of the game (I will post updated pictures in the next post). This issue will be resolved once my tent is ready (hopefully by the end of week), and all the plants will be level, but until then I just switched the plants.
This really only becomes an issue as I consider:

3. LST/topping.
First of all, about the stretching, it seems like it is going to be hard to do LST without some more stretch on AH1. Should I try anyway?
Also to top or not to top? I read that if by 2 weeks you have robust growth and 4 nodes then topping is an option. Should I forget about this in my first grow? What should I do about the LST?
Again, thanks for all your help.
Pics to follow...

 

[Jewbilee]

AH1, 2 weeks and 1 day since breaking the surface

 

[Jewbilee]

AH2 - 7 days since breaking the surface