compact 6 plant system, first time hydro!! comments, critics and questions welcome!

This is my first attempt at hydroponic mj. I recently had lost of sucess with this system cloning and growing basil in my windows so I made small box and thought I'd give it a try.

I sprouted a seed at the start of summer from a very good strains bag seed (only seed I found), sexed her and cloned her. the 3 plants you see in the system were in the 20 watt spouting box shown for about a week and a half, and are 11 days into the hydro. I feed the nutrient shown and the clones in picture were made off the plants today. The mother is also in the pictures and budding in my window.

A funny thing is they all seem to have a genetic trait of purple stems, if anyone could identify this strain that would be rad! Thaks for looking!!

Lookin good!


What size tote you got?

Thanks DP, I think your asking about my container when you say tote, it's
24 x 16 x 8.75 inches I think but is fills with 5 gallons to the perfect level.

This is an upadate to this thread on day 22. The first picture is of the roots on day 12 (nute change day). The second and third are of the plants today (day 22 also nute change day). fourth is the roots today. last is clones I took today. Changing to 12/12 soon due to space .

Hashishin said:

This is an upadate to this thread on day 22. The first picture is of the roots on day 12 (nute change day). The second and third are of the plants today (day 22 also nute change day). fourth is the roots today. last is clones I took today. Changing to 12/12 soon due to space .

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Do it now your going to run out of room. lots of plants in a small space.

So far so good

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way too close together...i have a similar setup-with 3 plants spread farther apart
check it out....

Thanks for your thoughts Js, sparkafire. I did start to realise that they were too close together. luckily I didn't use all six spot in my lid!!! The middle plant is starting to get crowded out by the other two so I have been pruning fan leaves every day, bacially right back to the newest growths. A question, is it alright to start 12/12 with your veg nutes then change to flowering nutes after a few days?? thanks.

Well I bought some flower nutes and a new airstone in town the other day. I was also able to drop them another 5 inches for space using my shelf brackets. Plants are coming along good, been keeping my pH in the 5.8-6.2 range. We are on day 28 and have been pruning about 1/2oz - 1oz of leaf every couple days. Also the clones all have established themselves and are doing great. I'm going to switch to 12/12 at the end of the month. Pics are of plants today and their mommas kola today .