My first grow! questions for you within

I've already had a few threads going but I figure I'll go ahead and make my official grow journal on the site.
So here goes telling from seed to where i'm at right now.

I did 6days of 24hour light. 1 week of veg and decided i should of done 12-12 from seed because i wanted to stay small.

well on the 6th day of 24 hour light I moved the light too close and 3 hours later it was burnt. so i started a thread in here and then posted this pic. Day 62012-05-29 14.30.19.jpg It was so shitty, I felt pretty bad. I gave it water immediately and decided it was time for it to have its first dark hours.

I was told to "Grow that wench" in my thread so I didn't abandon her.

I switched to 18-6 right away in attempt to save it, and it actually recovered fairly well& continued to grow. I also realized at that point that soil from my yard just wasnt good enough, so I added some black gold top soil, here it is day 7, or day 1 of veg.
2012-05-30 20.36.19.jpg the newer leaf set was continuing to grow so I was glad.




Day 8 still growing! the leaves never recovered but growth was still going, so still glad.
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one day after that I decided it was time for a transplant. and I was right, in the small seedling pot i had it in it was nearly rootbound already. I switched up to something not alot bigger however.. a yogurt cup. it was 2 days after this that I topped because the plant seemed to be doing well, so I'd say i transplanted day 9. this baby has gone through too much stress eh?
june 3
Day 11 or day 6 of 18-6. I looked up if topping would be okay and heard mixed responses, went ahead and topped my plant anyway. It's probably gone through a lot of stress. but she's a survivor.
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I was getting interested in 12-12 from seed. and my light is more of a flowering light anyway I think.. So I switched to 12-12 (thinking it might of been a bad move while its stressed from topping.) so on the night of day 11 it went into the dark for 12 hours after the 18 hours of light.

this is where my first question to any readers comes. Should I have waited to switch to 12-12 or should it be okay?


Well either way here's a couple pics from further along, it's hard to see but the 2 new tops are already coming out.
these are day 14 or day 2 of 12-12 2012-06-05 23.21.04.jpg2012-06-05 23.21.32.jpg



My lighting situation is pretty bad I'm just using my desklamp atm, the further I get the more serious I have to make my setup. So This leads me to more questions. I'm aiming for a 4-5 light cfl grow. Right now its 1 cfl and I believe it is a 2700k. I neglected to mention that I also started another seed when i found the burn, which has now sprouted and showing first set of true leaves at 3days 24 hour light since sprouting. so the 1 light won't cut it before long.

soil is now black gold potting soil, water has less than 1/8 reccommended doses of 20-20-20 right now. Soon to get blooming nutes, because i want to go 12-12 pretty much from seed.

going to do 1 week of 24 for the seedling and switch it straight to 12-12. sound good?

also reccommend a good stealth or cab setup and I'm open to opinion so feel free to speak your mind on anything.

The skewers are to tie the plants up to so they don't become gone with the wind.