first grow room(pics), please help!

I'm going to break down the details and try not to leave anything out as best as i can.

We have one room thats 10x9 feet. We have a 8x10 tray with a 40 gallon reservoir.
Around the 10x9 we have that black on the outside white on the inside vinyl reflective covering. In the reservoir we have a pump that pumps water up through the inch diameter tubing straight into the manifold which we drilled quarter inch holes in them where we attached the quarter inch tubing that pumps water individually into every plant. The drip system in simpler terms lol.

For lights we have a 600watt hps light, 1000watt hps light, and a 400watt hps light all lined up in that order.

we have ducting between the 1000watt hps light going straight to the 600watt hps light where we exhaust the air with a 6inch standard exhaust fan. couple feet away from that we have an 8inch duct booster fan set up to where it just exhausts heat from the room.

Our temperatures in the room were in the high 90's, we decided to open up an AC vent that we had in the room, attached some ducting to the ac vent and directed to the top of the room where we cut a hole stuck it through and now hangs about 2-3 feet right next to the lights. Our temperatures dropped to about 91 degrees. We still need to get the temperature below 86 degrees. Any ideas?

Our plants are sitting in 3 gallon buckets with clay rocks. All the plants are clones that were sitting in the bubbling bucket system so the roots were pretty well developed.

My second question is where should we actually set the drip at? Closer to the stem or further away from the stem? right now we have the drip placed up against the wall of the bucket away from the stems. But i'm afraid that the roots are not absorbing any of the water for if i stick my finger down on the other side of the bucket the clay rocks feel dry.

Should we control the flow of the drip? we bought a timer and would also like to know if we should set it to three times a day for 15 minutes at a time or if it should be constantly on and pumping. Right now we have it at 4 times a day for 15 minutes at a time. Thats every 6 hours.

we're using botanicare Pure blend pro grow and cal-mag plus with the PH set at 6.2. The humidity is at 42%.

Ok here are all the pictures. Please tell me what you think.

This is also in an apartment/condo. will we get away with blasting 2000watts of power?

22urbo said:

I'm going to break down the details and try not to leave anything out as best as i can.

We have one room thats 10x9 feet. We have a 8x10 tray with a 40 gallon reservoir.
Around the 10x9 we have that black on the outside white on the inside vinyl reflective covering. In the reservoir we have a pump that pumps water up through the inch diameter tubing straight into the manifold which we drilled quarter inch holes in them where we attached the quarter inch tubing that pumps water individually into every plant. The drip system in simpler terms lol.

For lights we have a 600watt hps light, 1000watt hps light, and a 400watt hps light all lined up in that order.

we have ducting between the 1000watt hps light going straight to the 600watt hps light where we exhaust the air with a 6inch standard exhaust fan. couple feet away from that we have an 8inch duct booster fan set up to where it just exhausts heat from the room.

Our temperatures in the room were in the high 90's, we decided to open up an AC vent that we had in the room, attached some ducting to the ac vent and directed to the top of the room where we cut a hole stuck it through and now hangs about 2-3 feet right next to the lights. Our temperatures dropped to about 91 degrees. We still need to get the temperature below 86 degrees. Any ideas?

Our plants are sitting in 3 gallon buckets with clay rocks. All the plants are clones that were sitting in the bubbling bucket system so the roots were pretty well developed.

My second question is where should we actually set the drip at? Closer to the stem or further away from the stem? right now we have the drip placed up against the wall of the bucket away from the stems. But i'm afraid that the roots are not absorbing any of the water for if i stick my finger down on the other side of the bucket the clay rocks feel dry.

Should we control the flow of the drip? we bought a timer and would also like to know if we should set it to three times a day for 15 minutes at a time or if it should be constantly on and pumping. Right now we have it at 4 times a day for 15 minutes at a time. Thats every 6 hours.

we're using botanicare Pure blend pro grow and cal-mag plus with the PH set at 6.2. The humidity is at 42%.

Ok here are all the pictures. Please tell me what you think.

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all that and they still look like that? They dont look so good dude........

sorry i forgot to give you guys a little more information. The room was just finished today. The first two are the only clones in there that look droopy and unhealthy. The second two pictures are from a plant that we had in soil that was over fertilized. we just transplanted them into the clay TODAY with proper nutrients and PH. The following picture after the over fertilized plant is of another clone(different strain) that looks unhealthy. The last four are clones that were in rock wool cubes and soil. They were transplanted today and they look VERY healthy.

There is a total of 24 plants, i only took pictures of the 2-4 plants that look really unhealthy and 1 plant that looks really good for kicks. We need help ensuring that they all grow healthy so now that you guys have more info, please help!

the hydrton rocks dry out very fast,
My plants looked like that at first too when i flooded 4times during lights on, Now i flood 7 times lights on and 1 times lights off and there doing great.
Try increasing watering and see how they like it =)

i'm under 24hrs of light right now so should i do 8 times a day for 15 minutes at a time?
i also need help with lowering the temps. Does anyone have ideas?
Will my electricity company find it odd that so much power is being drained all of a sudden?

things to watch out for?

should i spray the leaves with some phbalanced water?

You could switch to 18/6 for the rest of veg.

i thought 24hrs under light is better for vegging?

i just realized that the timer is only for 30 minute intervals. So instead of 8x a day for 15 minutes at a time i changed it to 4x's a day for 30 minutes at a time. will that work?