My First Grow Ever

I wanted to post the results so far of my first attempt at growing. I didn't post this earlier due to how busy i have been with everything. i didn't start taking pictures until the clones had veg'd for about a month. the picture names have the description of the dates when they were taken etc. the strain is trainwreck, i was told they are 65% sativa and 35% indica, got the clones at a club down in California, 12 plants each in a 20 gallon pot soil grown using all fox farm products for soil & nutrients. 5x 1000 watt lights 1 giant XXXL light fixture over the plants and 4 side lights one on each wall of the 10x10 grow room which i have custom modified, the top of the grow room has been raised an additional 1' using a custom built frame to support the light and raise the top height of the room for more plant growth room. also i have modified the bottom of the grow room and put the frame of the room on a 1' 2" frame to allow more additional grow room, the room from floor to ceiling stands over 9' 6" tall, inside the grow room are two 9000BTU ac units to keep the room temperature at a constant 75 degrees, one 9000BTU ac unit outside the grow room to cool the lighting and a 24,000BTU wall mounted ac unit to help cool the inside of the tent with ducting and to cool the outside of the grow room, there is a c02 unit mounted inside the grow room that keeps the ppm levels between 1300 and 1500, and a humidifier that keeps the grow room between 50-60% RH. i water every 3-5 days depending on the soil dryness with 2.5 gallons of water per plant and i keep the soil PH around 6.5 using the water as a medium to alter the soil PH, i use foxfarm nutrients Grow Big, Big Bloom, and Tiger Bloom, and i have been following the feeding schedule from foxfarm since week 1 of the clones using nutrients once a week basically every other feeding. i have worked my way up from 1/4 strength nutrients to full strength nutrients and the plants are loving it. At 1 month veg the plants were lollipoped a little bit and a 3' tall 7' wide by 9' long screen was placed over the plants. please feel free to post your comments and questions i would like to know how everyone thinks i am doing on my first go at this. i will continue to update as often as i can with new pics and information, i also just started the flowering on the day of week 7 and am now 2 days in.

Impressive. I really like your room, wish I could have one of those babies! Looks like you got everything down pat son. Roll it up's the shit, helpes me whenever I'm in'a bind. Goodluck (doesn't look like you'll need much of it)!

ya i love this website, i spent a lot of time researching other peoples grows on here before i started mine, i also forgot to mention in my post that all of the 1000 watt lights are dual arc MH/HPS and the plants are all around 4' tall

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Sweet setup! Looks like you dropped a grip for that setup. Very clean

thank you, its been an expensive and time consuming challenge setting every thing up just right. i hope i can expect good yeilds from all the hard work I've put in.

was wondering if there was anyone on the forums that could help with some questions i have about my grow. i start off, my plants are 4 days into flowering and are now growing at a rate of 1 inch per day easily. as you can see by my pictures there is a very large mass of big fan leaves over the top of my net above the canopy, i need to know if it is better to try and tuck them all under the netting to allow bud sites sufficient direct lighting or to just cut some/most of them off (which would also be a lot easier than tucking them under at this point). i am going to run out of vertical height at the rate they are growing on the sides unless the screen starts to slow their growth some. i have about 1' more of growth on the sides of the tent before they are getting too close to the lights and around 2' of room in the center that they can grow and still be a safe distance from the lights. my questions are, should i trim or tuck the big fan leaves, should i tie down the large stems at an angle above the canopy, and from the pictures you can see should i trim more bulk of the smaller branches under the net that will never be able to grow tall enough to be above the net (they are completely shaded from the light). please help answer the questions as i have never grown before and i am in need of some experienced opinions. thank you very much.

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Here's the plants after flowering them for 20 days. Feel free to post questions or comments.

wow is all i have to say, looks like you have it all dialled in perfect and you know what your doing.

im seriously lovin the size of that main stem!

keep up the excellent work

hey i just spotted these plants should be 50 days into flowering, whens the next update? that must be filled up with buds by now

ya i havent had a chance to post my updates, i took pics at i think around 40 days and i'll take some more tonight then update this tonight. i also found out (since they are flowering) that they are not really trainwreck like the person who sold me the clones claimed them to be, turns out they are Snocap, the fort bragg sativa strain kind. which is a great strain imo.

Here are some older photos that I have that never got uploaded. There are 4 at 25 days flowered and the rest are all at 38 days flowered. The 38 days at 7x magnification were taken through a jeweler's glass.

Here are the updated photos at 52 days flowering.

Wow just came across your post of this grow Very Nice !!!