I've been watching this forum for awhile, it's been a great source of knowledge for me but I'm just now joining. I've helped a few friends set up their grows and tried to find answers to their questions, I tend to be someone people turn to when they want to figure something out. Point being that I've been around grows sporadically for awhile and built up a fair bit of knowledge but I'm now doing it the first time for myself.
A little about my setup... I built two rooms in my basement, a 6x6 veg room and a 6x12 flower room, ceilings are about 6.5' tall. I laid cheap linoleum over the floor and reflective insulation on the walls, cracks and crevices are covered in foil tape; all this to make cleaning easier and remove hiding spots for pests.
For lighting I have a Fluence Spydr 2p in my flower room and I'll be adding another one soon, I could potentially squeeze a third one in. I have a cheap Amazon Cob LED in my veg room for now, I'm on the fence about what light to get to replace it. I'm leaning towards a Fluence Razrx.
My setup isn't complete yet. In addition to the new lights I need a mini-split and Co2. For the Co2 controller I've been leaning towards a Trolmaster room controller but I'd like other people's opinions on what to do there.
For nutes (I'm in soil) I'm using almost the whole
Heavy 16 line. I use everything of theirs including the foliar, except I replace their roots with House & Garden
Roots Excelurator Gold and I use an inoculant from a local company. I follow
Heavy 16's feeding schedule and feed with every watering except the occasional "inoculating flush" as recommended by
Heavy 16.
Right now I'm at the end of week 4 of flowering with 4 Do-Si-Dos and 2 Gorilla Glues, here's some pics leading up until now:
A little less than a week (day 6) after clones from a friend were potted, I think I started LST a little too early.
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Day 17 of veg
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Day 27 of veg:
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Day 35 of veg, netting up
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Day 48 of veg/Day 0 of flower
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Day 10 of flower, I added a frame for another layer of netting I won't end up needing
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Day 19 of flower, first defoliation (2 pics)
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Day 24 of flower
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Day 31 flower (3 pics)
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And that's about where I'm at now, I'd love to hear anyone's thoughts or suggestions.