1 month old

So I have 4 " feminized fast skunk" plants growing and they have just passed the one month mark from when they sprouted from seed. I use an organic soil with compost mixed into it, I measured my PH with litmus paper and found it to be between 6.5 and 7. I have started low stress training on 3 of them so far. I have already noticed new nodes growing on the lower branches so Im pretty pleased with the LST technique. I'm in a cooler climate then some of you fine people,but my plants still get 6-8 hours of early morning to late afternoon sun. I have been using some grass clippings as a mulch around the stem to retain a little water and for a bit of a nitrogen boost as they break down. I water as I think they need it but mother nature has been taking care of that for me for the most part. I use my finger to test the moisture in the soil, once I see its dry about 2-3 inches below the top of the soil I water. Since this is my first grow I was hoping to get some insight from some of you experts out there.

They look very healthy, a bit small for a month tho.. guess it's just the light hours.

They are smallish for a month, but sometimes when you start plants right outside they take a little longer to get started I have found in my experience thus far...I have only planted veggies outside though...I planted some peas in the ground outside in the garden plot, and I went ahead and started 6 pea plants inside with the big lights and FFOF soil...then I moved them outside when they started trying to all vine around everything else in the tent...the 5 that were inside first are like 2x the size of the seeds I planted in the ground...So that first little start to get big before going outside seems to make a difference...same with my tomatoes...planted some in jiffy pucks and put them outside for sun...started others in jiffy pucks and put under the lights...indoor plants are bigger...but if you leave one of these plants inside, they will end up way way way smaller than the outdoors ones...so once a plant is like 6-8 in high and outside they grow like crazy...but you can get to that 8 in faster inside...then move outside and wham-o! Giant plants fast

Its kind of strange, I have one plant that has grown twice the size of all the others and one plant half the size of all the others. I'm pretty sure it's the low temperatures that has made them a little small, when I planted them outside as tiny seedlings temperatures dipped down to 5 degrees celcius and some nights a little lower. Im getting about 22 degrees now on a good day and a low of about 6 degrees overnight on a bad day. Part of why Im LST is because I'd like to keep them a little shorter for discretion, They should be vegging untill september when the day light hours will be 12/12. I think that should give me plenty of time to get them to a respectable size before they start to flower.

These b****es can take very low temps. Mine was outside in a pot and i think there was a frost that night, probably not in the grow spot but it was almost there, and it survived.

my outdoor LST's. both looking male-ish. i have one more. a dainty thing. same age but 1/3 the size. one can only hope. i pin them down mercilessly with steel landscape staples. just thought i'd share. good luck with yours.
i may have to change my name to "LSTodyte." its a lotta fun.