5x5 Tent LEDs Newbie Grow Journal first grow. Clone Planted 6-21-2018

Hello everyone, I have started my very first grow four days ago and thought I would share the journey. I have snapped some pictures of it tonight.

Setup
5x5x8 Grow Tent, HLG-550s on timers 18-6, Hummidifier,

Soil:
fox farms ocean forest with approximately 1/3 perlite in 7 Gallon fabric Buckets

Water PH:
~6.2 Reverse osmosis

Plants:
THC Bomb, Skywalker OG, Pie Face, Sour Tangie, Chemdawg 4, Blackjack

Sorry I hit the wrong button on my keyboard and it posted prematurely.

Temps are around 83 and the RH is from 44% to 65% depending how much the humidifier is running.

Please call out suggestions or problems you see in this setup.

Thanks

How is your grow going?

Deltagreen said:

How is your grow going?

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Are you questioning Jesus ?

Yes, yes I am

Well the grow was going great up until about a week and a half ago, then the PH out of my water changed without telling me (WTF? it's tap water through RO). This was also at the time when I tried to switch to organic using compost teas and thought I was smart putting worm casting to top dress my soil, now I have some clay I have to remove. I'm giving up on organic growing for the time being and will try it again next round.

Only two plants show signs of my mistake (Skywalker OG and Pie Face) plus a fan fell on the sour tangie and THC Bomb WHOOPS! The other strains are doing great! Black Jack (picture name ends in 541) seems to be doing great but is a little bit of a midget. I think he might have been topped to early. Right now the plants are two months in and about to switch to flower after all my imperfections are fixed, hopefully my tent will be tall enough (8' with about ~7' usable) to fully flower. The smells are not too strong at all right now probably due to my PH imbalance but overall I am pleased. Yes I know I have to work on my VPD to get the ridges out of the leaves, also in progress.

Any Ideas about putting 6 different strains into flower? I was thinking about putting them into a scrog net while putting a booster seat under Black Jack. Any other ideas I should look into?

Power bill is up and blood pressure is down, good times.

Yes I was bad keeping this updated, round two will be a lot better, I already have the Raspberry Pi with Mycodo and a camera ready for constant monitoring of the crops and slow mo photography (hopefully).

I think you are too hard on yourself, even a bit of a screw up it looks good

Its looking good, at least you caught it before it got out of hand. As for the scrog with different plants, I would look into flowering time for each strain. If they're about the same in weeks then you can probably get away with it, but if some take longer than others best to individually separate them so you can pull them out as they finish flowering for harvest time.
I'm just getting back into it after 10 years, but I still remember a few things.