First Hydro Grow, 600 Watt BadBoy T5, DWC Buckets

This is my first "real" grow. I've gotten other plants started in the past indoor and outdoor but never really seriously put effort into it.

I have 5 bagseed plants in veg going but by bagseed I mean the seeds came from bags of White Widow, Blueberry, BC Skunk, etc. These babies are probably less than a month old, I forget when I planted them exactly. They had a rough start with pH issue and over-fertilization caused by my ignorance and fertilizing them too early. I'm not sure about what their sex is yet but I think pic 2 is a male based on it's lanky structure and lack of branches and leaves. I hope the bushy 2 are female and the other one I'm unsure what it looks like.

One of the veg plants (pic 5) was actually a girl I started back in August, put into flower and then forced back into veg when I added the four other seedlings to the grow area. She suffered tremendously and her stems turned dark purple, almost black but I think she's recovering 2 weeks later. I took 6 clones from her and have 4 left, two of them I put into Rockwool and the other 2 will probably die cause they look weak. I took the clones from a flowering plant and it was my first time so maybe that's why they suck.

Plants are in rockwool embedded in Hydroton filled net pots and the roots dangle into the buckets pretty densely. I give them Advanced Nutrients Grow/Micro/Bloom, Botanicare Aquashield, Botanicare SilicaBlast, and I was using Hydrozyme but it led to me having brown cloudy nute solution and brownish slimy roots. I added h202 yesterday which totally shocked the plants and led to leaves wilting and crispy dead leaves, I immediately flushed and they look like theyre coming back now and werent affected too badly.

The lights are BadBoy t5 with a mix of the veg/flower tubes. Its all in a 6x6x10 wood frame with mylar stapled around it and an open roof where the lights hang down. I'm worried about ventilation but someone told me with the t5s i dont need to worry about heat. I just vent with fans and opening the door basically.

So here's my first grow, I'll keep pics updated. Comments, criticism appreciated. :leaf:
 

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