Hey, I haven't updated in a while, but my babies are coming along pretty well. After giving them half strength nutes for a while, the runt in the back corner started to suffer. So, for a week, I just gave them ph balanced water...no nutes. The runt caught up, but I hurt my healthy plants a bit...I weaned them back up to half strength, and I'm going to 75% this week, and hopefully full strength the next week. I might want to flower soon because they're really starting to get vertical! I only topped the back middle one, so far, since the rest aren't really growing on the main cola, more on the side branches. I for sure know the one on the bottom left is a female, her preflowers are coming in already!
I think a lot of my leaf yellowing and curling problems are from my closet being too hot...but as of now I really have no ventilation options other than the fan I have running on them 24/7.
Now, I have a question: if any of them are male, what's the best way to cut them out? I have a small DWC, so of course all their roots are intertwined really well. I've read to cut them down to a stump, and barely keep them alive, as completely pulling them will leave dead roots that will rot. Is this the way to go? I don't think there's any way at all that I'd be able to safely cut the roots of individual plants without hurting the rest.
P.S. Growing healthy bushes of pot is so damn fun! I feel like a kid watching my potato experiment growing...