New to growing. Tons of pictures> WANT YOUR THOUGHTS

Sick of typing this same shit over and over so heres the lowdown:

8- 5gal buckets running DWC with bubbler stones at the bottom. As far as I know these plants are Blurberry/White widow. The source of the clones is unknown so if someone can verify that they are not I wont argue. Vegetative state was not monitored heavily and correct knowledge of PPM and nutrients wasnt there as well so the nutes pretty much just got eyeballed with no math Awesome I know. So my plants flourished over the course of 6 weeks in nute water as high as 2400. I hear this is bad but i did not get any burn on the leaves and everything seems to be going fine. Since I have learned a bit more. 7 days ago i added 1 part bloom nute and waited a week then added my flush, ran my flush for 36 while plants were in complete darkness and when the lights came on I got them all new resovours. I am following the nute program exactly as in my pictures. My PPM on all buckets were 1010-1180 and PH was 5.9-6.1 so everything seemed to be great. I popped the lids on gave em a little trimming and set my timer for 12/12. Anything else anyone thinks I should do at this point? Im running 2 T5 6 bulb with all red spectrum ( was 3 red and 3 blue during veg) also there at 4 105w daisyed lights undernearth seeing as I didnt crop lower foilage as much as Ive seen many do here.

Also I included a picture of the new Aeroponic SOG I'm working on to fit 40 plants under 1 T5 6 bulb fixture

Lights are about to shut off. Finally able to upload these pics

Peace

That Aeroflo 40 unit I made

you might want to check out this thread and think about adding some diff bulbs in your mix.
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/358190-led-without-leds-my-first-46.html

Just a personnel thought but i would either suggest giving them a trimming around the inside bottom and maybe some fan leaves, just as ive seen, some of it with my own personnel experience, that t5 lights dont penetrate foliage as much as a hps. so when its time for flowering and you want some nice dense buds its best to go with the high pressure sodiums and trim those buds so there getting optimal lighting.
If moderating temperature wont be a problem for you i would suggest maybe trying out a 600 watt hps and 400 mh(mh optional) for flowering season, just as t5 lights are known to have very little if any heat output, which is a plus in the fact as your bulbs can be as close to your plants as you wish, hps are known to give quit a bit of heat and cant be as close to your buds.
Im also new to growing but i know for me, all tips help.

p.s. delta-9 labs have been producing amazing buds using a 600 hps and 400 mh for flowering on most of their strains

well the red and blue bulbs he are using are made to penetrate water 3'-5' deep. If kept close to the plants light penetration might not as bad as you might think. The thread I linked is lengthy but a great read. Plants do require some other colors than red and blue so do some research.

Awesome input. yea I have a 1000w hps setup at a diff grow site (pics coming in the next month) so i thought id compare and contrast some of my harvests. No doubt hps are better but the elec. bill and the heat output arnt so much of a problem as they are just undesirable. Maybe once i get a crop up from under a hps it'll change myt mind completely but seeing as its my first grow I figure I couldn't go wrong. Specially since i got those 6 bulb T5s with all reds brand new for 140 out the door. As for the trimming: this is my first time so as i looked at it i chopped alot off but I see now that more could be done. lights go on tonight so ill have to get in there and chop em up and show ya some more pics. As for my basket problems I was having I got a neat easy fix I did I'm posting tonight too. But on another note> I wanted to go into my room today when the lights were off. I have a green bulb i purchased on amazon. Doing some reasearch back in the day i recall hearing that the green light spectrum doesn't affect the plants during budding phase. is this true? I asked in another post but it cant hurt to ask again. Either way I decided to whip out my night vision goggles and take a looksy around. Im bout to go back down there right now and try to get some Night Vision pictures hahahha!!! post soon

Is there any way to post videos? The video I made of the night vision turned out ALOT better. The auto focus kicks in every time i take the take a pic and picks up all the light so its kinda glared. Plus its hard getting it to look down the NV goggles. Dunno how its gunna look. Ill try again later after some adjustments.

yeah my first season i never trimmed any of my plants and ended up with some medium colas and TONS of snaps haha. The trimming is ussually to only leave colas and to get rid fo areas that may not be getting adequit light, like the underneath of a sea of green grow.
Yeah that picture is pretty bad, but lookin forward to see some updated pictures!!!

Yea I agree it looks good... You could add a couple cfl's to the mix to help out on the lower parts if you decide not to trim...

Phillip, i read alot of that and theres tons in there so i bookmarked it for more info later on. I trimmed em up heavy and added some CFLs underneath so hopefully between the two it does good.

Fluffy and Fatty, I just got done updating my journal so theres some pics right now of it from last night and then tonight Imma trim them up again and post some more so lemmi know what you think

As always thanks for everything guys