First Indoor Grow with Tent

I received 7 clones at day 1 in soil on Dec. 22nd, 3 weeks ago. I used happy frog for my transplant from solo cup to fabric 7 gallon bags filled to 5+ gallons including some manure, worm castings, microbes, and marine cuisine nutrients per instructions around transplanted stalk, plug just below surface and covered with top layer of manure etc. I am using the following light setup about 25" from bottom of tube to highest leaf:

iPower 1000 Watt HPS MH Digital Dimmable Ballast Grow Light System Kits Horticulture Cool Tube Reflector Set Add-on Wing with Timer, 1000W, 6 inch, White

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I installed a cheap inline fan from lowes attached to tube and ductwork running out of tent, Box fan hung high, Small fan blowing gently on plants, 2 of the bottom vents open and maintain around 75-78degF 90+% of the time. Humidity rarely goes above 50 to the point my dehumidifier never kicks on, the tent is approx 6 feet from my furnace that probably causes most moisture to be sucked out of tent, I am using a moisture sensor and all pots are still showing wet reading for the last 2 days straight without adding any additional water. I moisten the leaves at least once a day usually 2-3 times.

Would like any input on things I should consider doing to improve my yield and quality and if there are any warning signs of the plants straining for some reason.

Nice looking clones
Vegging longer and not harvesting early
Nothing wrong with misting them in veg
Nice beginnings

You're gonna need a bigger tent!

HydoDan said:

You're gonna need a bigger tent!

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I plan to get another tent and move 2, keeping as mother plants until the others are harvested

I wouldn't be spraying them so often. What are you spraying with. Just water? For what reason?

Jjgrow420 said:

I wouldn't be spraying them so often. What are you spraying with. Just water? For what reason?

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Purified bottled water and spraying so they don't dry out from lack of moisture in tent and heat on plants, also makes them look healthy when there wet so thought it was good for them

pogue2002 said:

Purified bottled water and spraying so they don't dry out from lack of moisture in tent and heat on plants, also makes them look healthy when there wet so thought it was good for them

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Well, if you're just spraying water on them you could actually be doing more harm then good. If the medium is wet the plant will drink when it needs to. Foliar spraying is fine but not every day and especially not multiple times a day. Use a humidifier to raise rh if it's low and put the water in the soil. Ditch the bottled water. There's no need for that unless you've got some real poor quality city water or well water with high ec. And in that case I'd be looking into a more viable option than buying bottled water. You know that water holds 71% of the earth's surface and there are only 1.65 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves in the world as of 2016. The world has proven reserves equivalent to 46.6 times its annual consumption levels. This means it has about 47 years of oil left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves). (Google). Yet you pay more for a gallon of bottled water than you do a gallon of gas?
Isn't that fucked up???

A common misconception is that the foliage likes water. Once the plants are established (roots grown) they don't need to be sprayed anymore.

Your setup looks nice. Looking forward to updates.

I buy gallons of water at the dollar store, my well water is high in sulphur and I don't think it's great for the plants, I have a hose filter coming tomorrow that I might try on a plant and see how it works. Will stop spraying but every other day like you say, thank you for the advice

The bottom pic of plant is the weakest plant right now. Highest are currently 14"+.

Update I attempted the FIM approach, hoping I wasn't too aggressive.

Update : [Day 31, Week 5]
Tallest plant is approx 19"H
Plants are still on 24HR light in veg state
Have new tent coming next week that is double the size, will start cloning this week and start flowering once new environment is ready at approx week 7 latest.

One week into flower, trimmed bottom of plants yesterday, added a few trowels of manure to each and watered will add flowering nutrients again next week

95 days into grow, watered and rotated today will add some fresh nutrients today as well. Have a couple dead leaves and quite a few wasted branches I should have trimmed but missed. Leaving alone and will just trim better next time. Clones seem to be doing well.

Any update on this? Looks like a good first indoor experience! Would love to hear of your success.

keep it real. said:

Any update on this? Looks like a good first indoor experience! Would love to hear of your success.

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Curing most now first plant smoked well, holding off on weighing until dry but 6-7oz I believe out of 7 plants

pogue2002 said:

Curing most now first plant smoked well, holding off on weighing until dry but 6-7oz I believe out of 7 plants
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Very nice! They look good! I’m sure you have learned some things along the way.