1st grow with all the trimmings!

Hello fellow lovers of the herb. Here's my first official attempt so if I'm doing something terribly wrong you all will let me know. As of now I am trying to figure out the best day to start the 12/12 switch from the current 18/6 they are on now. Equipment list is as follows
- 400w digilux enhanced blue spectrum hps bulb
- cheapo reflector and dgital 400w digital electronic ballast
- various cfl's and reptile UVBs strewn about as needed
- 5 gallon lowes buckets with a cross hair row of holes in the bottom made using an awl. Also river rocks make up the first two inches at the bottom of bucket for added drainage/aeration
- A few random fans and a new air evaporative cooling unit cover the temperature and air movement
- co2 is made using a boost bucket with a pump/ motor to dial into exact range (high or low). Haha yea I'm joking around on the exact co2 level dispersal. It seems to work very well though
- earth and grow system to ground plants to the earth is a new addition that I've already fallen in love with. Some people say its a hoax but I see stunning results in a matter of hours.
- full line of roots organic nutes
- calcarb foliar spray by extreme gardening
- distilled and r/o water mixed

I am upgrading my ballast as we speak and trying to figure out when to start the 12/12. The strain is something super awesome but I don't remember the name. I believe it was LA Con x cross I have pictures of the finished product my boy did last year and he have me the remaining seed to start this group of 5. I'll post pictures leading up to now.
Hope to hear back soon!

Tried to post pics didn't work. I'll figure it out.

The little icon of a picture in a frame that says "insert image" ..go into it ,then go into "from computer" , select your picture from whereever you have it and click upload now.Then when loaded you can double click it for resizing options.

ok so one is an early pic by a week and the other is more current.. you figure it out. heh.. so theres part of the nute line im using and then a finished product from last year...

and yes i know the mylar is totally messed up but this was sort of a rush job.... I vow to fix before my next update!! getting my cal-mag, bio-bizz fish mix, second 400w digilux bulb and quantum ballast today along with some other random ish....

why does it list me as "stranger" hahah.. thats the worst...

Subd, your plants are looking good. Mine were about that size maybe a tad bigger when I flipped to 12/12. I have a journal going and I have a la woman going 12/12 from seed. Its a la con x martian mean green cross I believe. Good luck!

Also I did some digging and followed the trail of seeds and found out that this should be an la con x red cross which was then hit with delahaze or something and the breeder called it Jersey Night Nurse. No clue and he could just have told me whatever his medicated ass felt like making up at the moment haha. But either way that bud pic in the previous post is last years ass kicker my friend grew from this lineage. And is it just me or should I remove the middle plant and cut this down to 4? Obviously I will wait to find out the sex and then see what's left but something tells me I've got a full stable here so 4 better for space?

Thanks for the help PDC and the feedback big cat! just posted an updated pic and will get better quality shots of them soon... until then! Im thinking I should throw the other 400 up there for a total 800w and double the lumens.. yea or nah?

Reason I tried my hand at this is because my gf and mother both have chrons disease and the past year I got them both completley off their nausea and opiate pain meds. Ibroprufen still gets slammed but I'm ok with that lol. Either way I kept getting ripped off and never could find anything like my best friend of 31 years had on the regular. He's a causality of the war on drugs and doing 30 years for selling and cultivating herb. Either way I figured I'd give a backstory because this will be the final update. My grandmother took a nosedive and lost her life today. While I was at the hospital my ladies and all their "tanning" and "bathing" accessories decided to start a game of hide and seek. Yea, I got jacked for the whole deck of cards. No way to fund a restart so sorry for anyone whose hopes I got up. - J

And anyone who is willing to donate anything can find me hanging from a tree somewhere. Heh....