I haven't updated my grow, so here it goes.
I am at day 24 of 12/12 and the girls are chunky as hell.
CLONING
I built a bubble cloner to keep the family alive and it seems to be working well. I lost one clone of PHW due to not touching the water, but everything else seems to be doing good. Theyve all got little bumps protruding which makes me happy. I bought some stuff to put in the water to help rooting, but I think it was a waste. I'm going to try just tap water next time and compare my results. The water temps in the cloner were very cold, so I put a heating pad under the reservoir and the water is warm now.
MOTHERS
The mothers are doing great. Rapid growth has been the name of the game in my DWC. The white widow was growing at 2-3" per day! It grew about a foot taller than the others in a short time after switching to 12/12. I pinched her 5 days ago. She continued to grow like crazy. She hasn't repaired the part that was bent down, but the top pointed up within a couple hours and again it is taller than the others. The GDP's were topped when I got them, and they are bushy as hell. They came from a very good strain that is delicious and a good producer. The Purple Hash Wreck is doing great also.
ROOM
I had to move my light farthur away from the wall to get better coverage. The 1000w HPS is in a 4x4 room. With my intake and exhaust fans, the room stays nice and cool. 60's-70's. The exhaust fan is on 24/7 with the charcoal filter attached. The intake fan is controlled via thermostat and kicks on at 72. No A/C needed this time of year... It's cold. The water stays very cold also. Hopefully upward growth will slow down, and start focusing on making buds, because my light can only go up another foot or so. I have been able to keep my lights as close as 10", but they will start to show pigment loss when that close, so I try to go 12-14" away. I have been refilling water every 3 days or so with about 5-6 gallons. They're thirsty.
SMALL MOTHERS
I have smaller plants that went into flower at the same time. I have a strawberry cough x deep chunk that was in soil, but was transplanted into a dwc bucket. It doubled in size since flowering, which is good because it looked stunted before. A Mr Nice is slowly gaining momentum. it was topped and the branches grew up pretty good since the roots hit the water. Purple OG Kush is catching up to the strawberry.
PICS
WW after pinching
Here you can see the pinched WW laying down in with the GDP
Here you can see the WW in the very back. I kept having to raise the light to keep it away. It was only a few inches from the back edge of the hood. Now that it's pinched I can keep the lights low again. In the bottom right you can see the container with the SC and stuff.
There are 4 plants on the left in their own RDWC buckets. L-R: GDP, PHW, GDP, WW.
Here is another overall shot of the 4:
Heres the WW again. On the rt top corner you can see how close it was to the light.
I think this is the PHW:
These pics were all taken 6 days ago. I will try and get more tomorrow.