First grow spent 5G's gettin' hooked up

This is my first post. I am so excited I just couldn't resist.. I am stoned, so bear with any ramblings. I am 50+ years old with a little time on my hands...
What I have done is read endless hours of journals and based upon that digested and redigested knowledge I decided to basically give my hydro supplier a quasi blank check and told him too hook me up.
After seeing various grows I decided the best way to get through my own various learnng curves, would be to keep it simple.
I have framed out a 10'x6' room. I have wired each room to have it's own own 110 20A circuit. Mother/veg room is 5x5 and a flower room of the same size. Mother room has a 250W MH (mother plants) and a 4' T5 4 bulb reflector for clones and veg. I also have in that room a 4" Ative Air 165cfm inline fan with a carbon Active Air Scrubber. Flowering room I guess is the same but on steroids. 600W Yield Master II sealed & vented hood, 6" Can Fan with a larger Organic Air carbon scrubber. I have an entire line of Fox Farm nutes and feeding guides. I am flowering in 4 gallon pots with some really expensive organic potting soil. The flowering room has a 20 amp 240W line dedicated to the HID/Ballast and timer. Each room has a thermostat controlled day/night programable 3,5 or 7 degree settings.
The reason I have opted to grow now is I have acess to Alaskan Thunder Fuck and Matuska Valley Mist clones. I have also ordered 4 femenized (2 sativa and 2 indica) strains (Diesel,White Widow, AK48 & Kush strain) from Nirvana.
I have opted to make at least the first grow in soil as to have a little less need for critical micro controls. I think my general philosophy will be to keep the ladies smiling and tend to a little less nutes that recomended.
My grow will be in 4 gallon pots with a 4x4 footprint.
I am venting the flower room directly out of basement through dedicated dryer vent 12 feet away with no elbows. Ambient air temps outside of room are between 65 and 70 year round (warmer in winter as I suppliment heat in winter with a coal stove. Next winter I will vent this right into the basement as addition heat suppliment (if odors allow.) I also have 12" occilating wall mounted fans in each room.
I will have 10 clones ($100 each) 12" clones under lights sometime on Monday. Should I just let them go? I plan on 18/6 until I see vigorous growth. Should I, in keep it simple philosophy just let them go & flower as they or should I consider LSTing keeping it simple and train them down?
Thanks for reading my journal and thanks to all who inspired me to take the leap into a little greener greener air.

Morning has come and hoped that someone would at least say Hi, but it's all good. I suppose once there is porn, you'll be back (hopefully). Can't believe how many new threads since I went to bed. Dosn't anybody work?

wineart said:

Morning has come and hoped that someone would at least say Hi, but it's all good. I suppose once there is porn, you'll be back (hopefully). Can't believe how many new threads since I went to bed. Dosn't anybody work?

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Hey wineart, your grow space sounds awesome I can't wait to see. Post up some pics a soon as possible and I'm sure you will be getting more posts. I think you should just let them grow without lsting. You learn a lot more about the plants and how they grow.

5G'S! that's a whole lot of money to grow weed man, i 'm growing in dirt and in a DWC (deep-water culture) system, and i didn't even get near that much! I'm excited to see this grow, post some pics of ur set-up ASAP...thx! and keep on tokin'!

wineart said:

Morning has come and hoped that someone would at least say Hi, but it's all good. I suppose once there is porn, you'll be back (hopefully). Can't believe how many new threads since I went to bed. Dosn't anybody work?

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yea we work!!! ON WEED!!!! get sum pics up and they'll be on it like ants on candy bro!! good luck with it and keep us posted we wanna see it all the room/set up the girls/ the nutes!! we are bud porn nymphos here!!!

COOL! I am officially no longer talking to myself. I did spend a lot of money, but I didn't want to face unforseen problems due to trying to reinvent the wheel. Last time I tried to reinvent the wheel, I put the spokes on the outside.
By the way....These rooms I have built as much for knowledge and much more so than profit. It will be nice to know I don't have to settle for the all too often (once a year is too often) seedy schwaggy mersh. I can see in the next few years States around the country will fall like dominos towards Legal Medical. I want to be there and set up on a larger scale, even if it means having to move to one of those States that fall sooner than later.
I have always wanted to lead a more pastoral life, even have thought about raising Alpacas. I think my choice of raising things was better if only because I don't have to clean up after them. Seriously...I want to focus on breeding and stable hybridization. I have taken the first step on a new life's journey. Though I still have to work (I design/create custom crystal awards and trophies for the award industry) I own the company and it has reached a point where I no longer want to grow it beyond what it is. In time to come the business will get smaller and easily manageable.

The pics of the room are a day old, but at least now I have it all closed up and trimmed. I went for that 70's trailer park look. As you can see I faced all of the walles with some kind if insulating foam 3/4" thick, faced with a dull foil material. Should I make a mylar tent around plants in the flower room or is the reflective wall sufficient?

hows the room now !??

I don't have a can fan, I have an inline fan with closed hood. I have temps set at 80 but the fan hasn't come on since September (always hovers just below 80).
The rooms are working out fine. I didn't need to spend all of the money I did, that is for certain. With all the left over "stuff" I turned the veg room into a 2nd flower room. I added a 360W HPS to run in the 400W MH when the room isn't being used for veg. I am guessing I won't use the MH anymore as I have the rooms on opposite schedules. Only slight drawback id I have to move vegging babies back and forth for a week or 10 days. Because they are small, it isn't so much of a hassle, especially when it gives you a second flowering room. Temps in the "smaller" room are a bit low (around 70), but doesn't seem to bother the plants...

i always run around the 70's low to mid..no problems,i need to figure how to split my room for propetual grow but having fun !