Hello Spacebuckets. I am not usually one to post but I learned so much from just seeing other peoples progress that I figured I should give back by showing mine. I am using a 270 watt (not true watts) UFO in 5 gallon bucket set up (I don't believe anything unique or special in my setup). I am growing Vision's Northern Lights sourced from Herbie's.

I germinated in a jiffy pot placed into a small plastic pot that was filled with a 50/50 mix of perlite and plain potting soil. I put a humidity dome on until it sprouted and also kept a light on it to keep warm.

http://imgur.com/vEn4kJG - Here she has sprouted but a piece of the shell is holding the leaves together. This is 5 days after placing in Jiffy Pot http://imgur.com/bAPF1Za - This is it right after removing the shell with tweezers.

http://imgur.com/pON0mAX -This is 7 days after planting

http://imgur.com/Wu8fK2J -~15 days from planting, leaves started drooping and first real leaves looking discolored. Leaves always droopy even when soil dry or right after watering. I have just been using water straight from tap.

http://imgur.com/pON0mAX - 23 days out, still droopy but after this photo, I started PHing the water and using RO water.

http://imgur.com/ZumfvlQ -28 days and transplanted to smart pot with 2/3 FFOF and 1/3 perlite. Starting to show deficiencies and I think it was potassium due to PH over 7 for start of plants life. Otherwise it is looking bushy. I had also tried to FIM but I don't think it was successful.

http://imgur.com/a/nCv9O -This is about a month in and things are starting to improve. The first pic is prior to topping, second two are after I topped. I could have waited to see if the FIM took but I had 2 nice colas below it already and many more forming so I thought topping would be the quickest way to the same result. Also started some LST

http://imgur.com/a/AThpF 5 days after last photo. More LST and gave Tiger Bloom nutes at 1/4 strength. 12/12 started that night.

http://imgur.com/YLCMkNk F2, nice even canopy, I believe I am off to a good start.

Everything looks like it is going well to me but I welcome any suggestions.