First Time Grower, Hoping for the Best

Hello there,

I am a first time grower and I am trying my hand with some Lemon Haze seeds given to me by a friend. I germinated them by the paper towel method and planted them on April 26th. They sprouted and have been going strong (at least to my unexperienced eyes) ever since. I just wanted to post up a few pictures and see if I was doing alright or if anyone would notice something that maybe I was missing as far as nutrient deficiencies or anything I could do to the plants. I flipped them to 12/12 light schedule yesterday. 2 of the Plants were at 12 Inches and the other 2 were at 9 inches. Trying to keep the grow quick and short. Not going for huge yields first go round, but hoping for at least something.

My setup is as follows:

Light: Viparspectra P1500
Grow Tent: 2'x2'x63"
Soil: Fox Farms Ocean Forest
Veg nutes: I only used Alaska Fish Fertilizer towards the last couple weeks of veg because FFOF has plenty of nutrients to have gotten me through my first couple weeks.
Nutes: I am going to be using Advanced Nutrients through flowering starting at 1/4 strength and going up as my plants show what they need. Will supplement with Calmag if necessary, but my Tap water has been serving me well at a pH of about 6.4 so I havent noticed any Calcium or Magnesium deficiencies.
Pot Size: 3 Gallon Nursery Pots
Temps: Holding between 72 and 77 degrees Fahrenheit during light cycle and 68-71 during Night Cycle.

These are the latest pictures of the plants and from everything I have read here and other sites I am hoping they are female.

I look forward to any criticism or advice that can be offered so that I can make this a successful grow.

I forgot to mention that I FIMed them on May 18th.

Looks good. Keep it up!

Your soil moisture/PH meter should not be left in the soil like that. They are already pretty inaccurate but leaving them in the soil will make them worthless.

To be honest just got it a couple days ago and its a piece of shit anyway. I have already removed it yesterday. The pictures are a couple days old. I am just going with the finger method for soil moisture. But I do appreciate the advice.

Does anybody know what exactly those meters measure as far as light?


Plants look good, are you going to lst at all or just let them go naturally??

I have only FIMed them. I just wanted to do that this grow and let them grow. I have 4 other plants in a separate grow box that are getting fimed as well as some LST for when they go into the grow tent after these are finished. Since it was my first grow I didn't want to fiddle with things too much. They seem to have stayed bushy and spread out more than up. I plan to do some defoliating in the first couple weeks of flower, but like I said don't want to touch them too much as I want to see what happens with very minimal training

Figured I would add some progress pics. They are now on their 6th day since showing pistils. Unfortunately 1 male had to be taken out of the tent, but we got lucky and had 3 females.