is it a pollen sack i had a sack grow on my white Russian 21 days into flowering and had to put it down it sucked the rest of the plant had killer nugs on it or are they bananas
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check all your tips about 2 inches from the top and see if there are any weird looking areas spreed the nug and look inside to see if its been eaten if so track them down and kill them they come in pairs of 2 usually
if you don't see potential in the get rid of them your wasting your food and the plants energy on something that's not going to grow anything smokable so take it off and let something else have the growth that can produce something
sounds like your on the right track you want to water less to get those roots to stretch so 2 times until you get good roots than try for 4 wean you can be ther to watch it that day and if not 3 times till it can Handel it
if you have them in bigger pots they might be able to handle a little bit more food but start it out at what the paper says and bump it up from there but make sure its the same strain some cant handle very much food
the fan is making the water on the surface evaporate so the faster the the fan is the more water will evaporate get a moister probe that will tell you how wet the soil is below the surface