Stepping up the game for better yields...

So I am finishing up my first indoor grow, bag seeds, and I am preparing for my second grow, 2 White Berry 1 LSD and 1 Diesel. I am looking at trying improve my yields with what I already have to work with, basically looking to improve not reinvent the wheel.

So here is what I used let me know thoughts on things I can do to improve.


Things I am not going to change:
3x3 grow tent
600w Sun Systems HPS
growing in soil
using tap water, let it stand for 48 hours to evap chlorine.

The rest of the grow:
Soil from start to finish with Fox Farms Ocean Forest, nothing added
3.5 gallon pots
Nutes were fox farms grow big for veg cycle and big bloom for flowering, had problems with grow big nute burning my plants when fed at full strength, but no problems with the big bloom though
7 1/2 weeks for veg Cycle
Topped and LST'd with a very very small amount of pruning.
Temps stayed between 80 and 70 degrees


So what will help me improve my next grow? Aero pots, adding perlite to soil, different nutes etc... I know water is a big deal but I am just not ready to invest in a RO water system and bottled water is just way to damn expensive to feed for the whole grow..
 
Started with 5 ended up with 2 females, 1 was my biggest plant and 1 was the smallest, I accidentally knocked her over as a seedling and knocked it out of the cup, I replanted it but it stunted her really bad, but out of the blue it began to really pick up its growth over the last week. I am on week 5 of flowering right now, still learning a lot, but I want plants ready to go into the tent when these 2 come out.

So for right now no numbers on yields, I just know I had a very basic grow for my first grow and now for my second grow I went with some good genetics, as well as all fem seeds, to improve quality and I want the rest of my second grow to reflect that as well.
 
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