New Grower Stunted plants on first grow, recovered. Thoughts?

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Hello AFN, I'm new to this forum and new to growing as well. I'll give you the run down on my plants before I list my grow details. I'm growing in Promix HP and when I started, I watered with 6.5 PH water up until about day 25 or so and noticed my girls were nutrient deficient and growing very slowly I looked much deeper into the Promix PH debate and decided I would flush with lower ph water, 6.1, and then began plain water at 5.8 and now 2 weeks later I still haven't fed any nutrients because I didn't want to take any chances and overfertilize so I gave a fery light feeding after flush. 1/8 strength. Growth exploded, the leaves turned a nice green color. New growth looks excellent and overall plants look very very happy however the entire height is not more than 6 inches. I wonder if I can fatten these Dinafem White Widows now that they're getting the proper nutrients even though they're so small. Under 400w HPS 18 inches above the tops. I haven't trained them and have developed 3+ side branches seemingly overnight on each plant. After growing slowly for so long, they exploded but vertically and with really bushy growth but barely any height change.

Grow Details
400w CMH/HPS 18 inches from top. Halide until day 28, currently day 39. 24 hour light.
2x2x7 Tent with 240cfm exhaust.
Temps: 70-81 RH: 34-40% for the whole grow.
Promix HP in smart pots with Fox Farm Trio.
Seeds: Dinafem White Widow Auto x3 Germinated directly in pot.

Now I will upload more pictures later but due to my remote location, the upload speed is very very slow but here they are at day 39.
 
I'm not familiar with fox farm trio but I start my feeds in promix around day 10. I think your girls can do with a little more feed. At least 1/4 strength and see what happens
 
I use Fox Farms trio, generally 1/3 to 1/2 strength. I tried less and didn't do very well. You could sure tell when the soil was exhausted...

However, the plants recovered quite well when I quit starving them, so hopefully yours will as well.
 
Hey there, welcome to afn! :bighug:
Looks like you're getting it sorted here, hope you enjoy you're new home forum!
 
they will explode during their final stretch (where all the nodes climb up exposing additional buds to light). plants looks good, keep it up
 
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