Hey Best Budz - those look pretty good so far! Good training job too -
I couldn't help but notice you have yellow stickies, and some of them are pretty saturated with, what I'm going to assume, are fungus gnats.
If that's the case, they can get out of hand pretty fast and those larvae that eat the roots could cause major damage in high numbers. The gnats will lay their eggs in the top of the soil, and within any exposed drainage holes at the bottom.
I'd recommend using a BTi product called Mosquito Bits - it works great and will not harm the plants in any way. I use about 3/4's - 1 cup per 5 gallons of water. I put the Mosquito Bits in a common household wire strainer and then I pour 3 gallons of water through it to extract the active ingredient, and finally fill the last 2 gallons with non strained water - pouring water through a strainer is slow, and I'm kinda lazy, so I figure 3 gallons should be enough to get most of the active ingredient. I do this because I don't like the 'bits' in my soil, or my runoff trays.
I'll pour a red solo cup of this ^ solution in the plants runoff trays to allow solid absorption from the bottom up and kill those bottom dwelling larvae - then I will water regularly from the top. This takes care of it for me, every time. If I see a problem with gnats, I'll use this method along with yellow stickies for control / elimination.
Good luck man!
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