Not only are there a few FINE grow stores in the South Florida Hollywood area I LIVE IN...
but Home Depot brand potting soil and 79 cents worth of styrofoam balls for good drainage, it's a blank I'm drawing for it's name.
By the looks of everything, your soil is going to be harboring and now colonizing all sorts of microscopic fungi, insects, mites, unlike good soils which have been pasteurized and enriched with EVERYTHING your plant needs for at least a month and a half.
Even clean soil isn't fortified for optimal nutrition.
Tip number 2.
NUTRIENTS.
They are FREE.
I have 5 seasons AT LEAST of companies that sent me samples of their liquid nutrients, their worm castings I LOVE, ETC... With the molasses are all VITAL to trichome production.
If it turns out male, you'll have learned to sprout more than one seed.
OH God that giant PowerPlant I got to about 3months and 7 feet and it went Hermaphrodite.
So I know what you mean about journaling and discovering its male.
Still. Google: Cannabis free nutrient sample.
Their "sample" is enough for 3 plants.
Dyna grow sent me 3 jugs they make it so easy. Vegetative, Flowering (Bloom they call it) and one more I forget what for.... I'll look