First Grow, How am I doing?

Lol, how you think Im doing though?

A little background: I have lurked this forum and many other growing forums for many, many, many years! I am in my late 20's and started smoking and getting an interest in growing around age 14 lol. At a certain point you can only read so much though and have to actually get to growing and learn through experience, I thought I had a bunch of knowledge but through the experience of this first grow have come to see how much I still have to learn.

Setup:
Strain: Wedding Cake (Photo) from MS-NL
Tent: 5x5 AC Infinity
Fan and Filter: AC Infinity Exhaust Fan / Carbon Filter
Light: HLG 600 R spec
Pots: Knockoff 2 Gallon AirPots (Lot cheaper than Superroots brand)
Medium: Mother Earth Coco Coir / Perlite Mix
Nutes: General Hydroponics 3 Part Nutrients and Botanicare Calmag
Temps: Around 77-82 ( Havent been super consistent about monitoring this to be honest)
Humidity 50-70 ish? (Again havent been super consistent, need to get Humidifier/Dehumidifier for next grow to be more consistent)

Details: These plants have been pretty neglected honestly. Started April 23rd, under 2 crappy 13 W CFL bulbs, due to work and life they were just kinda on autopilot until May 9th, which is when I finally got them under my HLG light. At this point the plants we're really leggy and stretchy. So transplanted them from the 4" nursery pots into the Airpots (while also burying the leggy stems deeper so they didn't appear all stretched) . We're now sitting at about 2 months and a week old. Ready to flip to flower probably. Not expecting a bunch on my first harvest but have already learned a few things I wanna be more consistent with in my next grow. I planned to LST these a lot earlier but due to work and stuff never got around to it. Kinda just had my tent on autopilot. Havent even been consistent with watering either ( getting better at that , possibly looking at a autodrip system).
I am pretty proud of how thick the stems on these babies are though.
These have all been topped 1 time as well

Also to note, I have never turned my HLG light up to more than about 280-300 watts Yet, due to some Light burn? ( which i later discovered may have been wind burn from too much fan current)(thinking this due to the plants that weren't getting as much wind being a lot greener and not having the rust colored spots and bleaching of leaves.

So how do you think I'm doing for my first grow?
Is it too late to try to LST these baby and make the canopy a little more horizontal?
Also with these airpots, should I transplant them to a bigger one before flower if roots are spilled out the bottom? I get the whole point of air pruning but would it be better to allow to more space to grow a larger root mass even more?

On my next grow I will be getting a lot more consistent with a lot of things, from watering/feeding, training, etc. As well as documenting a journal on here and YouTube.

Heres some pics:

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Any tips, advice, I love to hear! Have so much to learn still but am in love with the process. (If I missed including any pertinent details let me know, and I will add it)
MUCH LOVE
 

Autodoctor

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The yellowing is not so good. Am sure you will a lot of remarks here really soon . Need to now your ppm readings and all that info cause looks more like nutrient problems
 

Grams333

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Wedding cake always has the purple stems I guess. This is helping confirm my plant is most likely wedding cake as I used some mix and match bag seed and one I know for sure was WC.
 

Autodoctor

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Not sure about Wedding cake only. I see a lot with purple stems but hear that is not so good either l would worry more about those yellow leafs
 
The yellowing is not so good. Am sure you will a lot of remarks here really soon . Need to now your ppm readings and all that info cause looks more like nutrient problems
So thats the one thing I don't have is a PPM/EC Meter, guess I will make sure I get one. I have been PH'ing every watering that I actually did to between 5.5-6.5 ( got this info from General Hydroponics Nutrient watering Schedule Chart) Here is a few pics taken right now. If it is a nutrient/ppm problem how come 1 plant in the tent is more yellowed and 1 is completely green.
For example here is a birds eye view
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Below is closeup of top left plant
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Below is closeup of bottom right plant
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myke

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Coco?Read more.Feed to runoff every day,simple.Elevate those pots so runoff can be collected.Those plants will take off in 4 days with your new light.
 
Can’t believe their started April 23rd and still this small.
Can’t believe their started April 23rd and still this small.
As I mentioned in original post, I have been HORRIBLE about consistent watering/ feeding (I'm talking about the coco has gotten bone dry, many, many times.) (Horrible I know I know, but just being as honest as possible to get the correct assistance.) Im sure this is why they arent as big as they could be.
 
Coco?Read more.Feed to runoff every day,simple.Elevate those pots so runoff can be collected.Those plants will take off in 4 days with your new light.
I have been removing runoff when I do feed them , but also I do have plant elevators on the way that should be better than just the saucers I have. Thanks for the advice!
 

Autodoctor

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Here is what I suspect is wedding cake. It’s the only plants with purple arena like this and had them since they popped. So I think it’s genetics. It’s a good thing if so.
top left space cookies top right wedding cake bottom right northern lights
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Feed everyday,Have a 5g bucket mix up half strength from what the bottle says.every morning pour enough so u get lots of runoff.
Yes I will start making sure I feed everyday, Im sure thats probably my biggest problem. All my research noted in Original post was with soil, just recently made a switch to wanting to try Coco at the advice of a friend.
How long can you let a premixed nutrient solution sit? Do I need to re-PH it before every feeding, or is just the original PH'ing okay? Also do you have any experience with autofeed systems, as this is probably my end goal due to a busy life, LOL
 

myke

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Yes I will start making sure I feed everyday, Im sure thats probably my biggest problem. All my research noted in Original post was with soil, just recently made a switch to wanting to try Coco at the advice of a friend.
How long can you let a premixed nutrient solution sit? Do I need to re-PH it before every feeding, or is just the original PH'ing okay? Also do you have any experience with autofeed systems, as this is probably my end goal due to a busy life, LOL
It takes less then 5 min to pour feed on 4 plants,the key is a way to collect runoff so you dont have to dick with it when in a hurry.pH check before feed those are small plants dont need to pre mix a lot.
 
It takes less then 5 min to pour feed on 4 plants,the key is a way to collect runoff so you dont have to dick with it when in a hurry.pH check before feed those are small plants dont need to pre mix a lot.
Will do! Working on setting up some kind of drain to waste run off system, but once my plant risers get here, I should be able to just use my shopvac to quickly remove runoff, as I'm currently manually picking up the plants and saucers and dumping the runoff.
 
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