Okay, I'll lay out my mistakes
1) I underestimated how fast a plant will fill up a nusery pot with roots. A 9oz cup takes under 2 weeks, transplant to 1 gallon and it fills that pot in two more weeks.
2) For my first time grow, I was scared of too much nutes. In retrospect, I think I have slightly starved them all along.
3) genetics does matter. All I had was bagseed. I might still do okay, but what came out was a variety of sizes/types. A couple are fantastic, others are kind of scrawny
4) I took on too much. I put 34 seeds (all I had) into sprout, 31 sprouted, 27 lived, 17 were female. 17 females in 4 gallon pots is a lot of plants for a single 1000W light. I think this light would can handle... at most... 12 comfortably.
5) I vegged for 8 weeks. I now think that maybe 7 weeks or 6 weeks would be better. I am hoping that I don't run out of head room by the time these are done. I have about 24" and 6 weeks left to flower. (I just started week 4 of flower)
Things I've done right:
1) Overall, I am doing good. I have told NO ONE about this. I went whole hog with 4 fluorescent (too start them), a 600W (MH and HPS bulbs), and a 1000W light (MH and HPS bulbs). \
2) I constructed a 7'wx10'longx8'h room split into veg/flower. When I topped the first batch, I rooted the tops, and kept track of which plants they came from. I had about a 46% survival rate of the clones, and about 60% were female, so I have 6 known female clones and I can cross reference them with they parents and pick the best for further propagation.
