sunlite's 1200W 12 plant grow

Hello everyone! Long time user of this forum but this is my first post and my frist grow as well. I've done about 5 years of solid research ranging from books, forums, my brother who grows and my local grow store. Ive got the basic idea of how to grow, just never felt confident to actually do it until now. So here it goes.

I am growing in a 10'x5'x6.5' Virtual Sun grow tent. I have 2-600 watt air cooled tube lights. Im controlling the environment with a 440cfm carbon filter to take air out and a 420cfm fan to bring fresh air in. I also have a space heater to heat up the room I built this tent around. (Grow is in my attached garage. Trust me I know the cons of growing in a garage, but its the only space I have. So bear with me)

My strains are..
9 sour blue cookies
3 sfv og
All are clones taken about a week ago.

To grow them i am using the Titan grow and flow 12 site bucket system in 80% coco (canncoco to be exact) and 20% perlite. I've read a lot about this system and its what most the people at my local grow store use too, so I figured I'd pony up the cash for it.

Im using Advanced Nutrients grow-micro-bloom with the hobbyists bundle with Bud factor X as an additive and final flush.

My plan is to veg for about 2 weeks, or when theyre about 1 1/2 feet, whichever comes first. Then flip to 12/12.

It might sound ambitious, but my goal is at least 2oz per plant on average. I know the first grow is usually trial and error, which I still expect. I'm just hoping I can counter any mishaps and still see good results.

Any feedback, comments, criticism, or just want to see me succeed or fail feel free to tag along. Ill post pictures later tonight.

Heres some pictures of the clones. Ones of the right are the cookies. They seem to be doing a little better than the sfv. They're sitting and a small cloner with some distilled water/clonex nutrients mix

I think in 2 days im going to put them into the buckets. Can I put the cubes directly into the coco or will I have to remove the clones from the cube material?



Thats the general layout of my buckets minus one for where my cloner is.

Current temp was 72° and 33% humidity

Well I put the babies in their new homes tonight. They seemed anxious to get out of that cloner and spread they're roots. I won't be able to use the actual hydro part of the Titan flo & gro yet. I thought I had two 20amp breakers going to my garage, but there's only one :/ I'm putting more breakers to the garage in two days but until then I'm just going to hand feed twice a day.



Here's one of the root zones forming very nicely.


All my sites lined up. SFV og are the back 3 and the rest are my cookies. I have them under one 600 watt MH bulb for now and I will probably but my other hood in this weekend.



Not sure if its something I should concern myself with, but some of the leaves were starting to curl up. They stopped after I took the cloner lid off. I'll just monitor it over the next few days.

Humidity was a little high at 43% but my temp was right at 70°.

Mini freak out, hopefully it's nothing. 10 out of 12 of my plants are getting pretty droopy. None look dead they just seem very unhappy. Is this normal when first transplanting them? Or is it something I should try and fix?

Leaves are looking less droopy. I went to pick up a Nanolux 600watt dual ballast at my grow store and they said its a normal thing with transplant. I also gave them their first feeding with 1/4 strength nutes in distilled water.

Update on my electrical issue. After looking at my breaker box and talking with an electrician I am going to unstall a 100amp subpanel in my garage.

I'll post some pics tonight. I gotta go install one of my 16" fans that came in the mail today to move some of the air around.

Well things arent looking good for 3 out of 12 of the clones. First two pics are the SFV clones. I dont think they will make it. Third is one of the blue cookies that isnt going as strong as the others. Last two are my best looking clones in the bunch. I gave them a small feeding this morning and ill check on then.again tonight. Hopefully my.girls perk up.

One thing I would do is water a little further out around the plants so as your roots are growing they don't hit any dry pockets.

I ended up pulling thise 3 clones and replacing them. My brother had 3 extra so it wasnt that big of a deal. When i pulled them out the cubes were completely dry. I think thats where my issue was coming from. Luckily for me the other 9 plants stayed healthy enough and held out for me to get my head out of my ass. I had been reading in multiple places to wet the medium then let them basically dry out before watering again. Nope. Nope nope nope never again will I do that. Ive been watering about every 8 hours with just straight tapwater for now. Tomorrow night ill add some nutes into the regimen.

As for the other 9 that survived, they look great. Tallest is around 8 inches with tons of growth on her.

One of them is getting some yellowing on only the bottom 2 leaves. My brother said it looked like nute burn. But its only on one of them? Something ill keep my eye on.

A few pics in the morning.

Here's the clone with yellowing on the leaves. Is this something where youd cut those leaves off since they kinda shriveled?


On a happier note, these ones are looking great!

Yeah those curled tips are a dead giveaway to much nutes for that little one cut your dose in half next time for that one and it should bounce back

Ive been top feeding water and every 3 feedings I add 1/4 strength nutes. That one clone is still the only one with curled tips and yellow leaves.