My First Indoor Grow | 4 x G13 BOG | 5x G13 WW | 600W HID | DR120 5x5

Well, I've probably spent a couple hundred hours poring over all sorts of threads on this and other growing subforums, finally felt ready enough to drop the money on a nice indoor setup. Definitely aiming to do it right the first time around for sure
 
Just spent $1400 on a nice setup, committed to doing stuff right, tired of variable quality bud from dealers around here
 
S&P150S fan
6" carbon filter
Phantom 600W + Digilux 600W MH + Ushio 600W HPS
Apollo Grow Light 6" tube hood
Secret Jardin PII DR120
 
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Seeds of choice are G13's 5x Blue OG and 5x White Widow from attitude, hopefully the wallet is stealthy enough.
 
Method is gonna be soil + lst
 
Ocean Forest for soil. Fox Farm's nute trio for fertilizer.
 
Should be pretty interesting to go from pure enthusiast to true connoisseur by all stretches of the word  Goals are to atleast hit a decent 8oz yield and not fail at things that first-time indoor growers commonly fail at   wish me luck
 
Will try to keep this updated as things fall in place!

 

Well tracking shows it made it through USPS processing, wooo . 
 
It's proving to be difficult to find a retailer that sells large square plastic pots annoying, gonna have to go with a .75gal for germination and early veg and a 3 gal felt bag for the rest of the training and flowering. the pots are damn expensive >.> Kinda unreasonable that I need to spend $40 for pieces of plastic that hold dirt on top of the thousand I already spent lol.

 

Woo only stabbed myself once getting seeds out of the g13 Pandoras box =.=
Widows on the left, blues on the right(more for my own notekeeping in case i forget)


 
Here's the official start of the grow
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Well this is a disaster, my ballast doesnt arrive till saturday and all my seeds have germinated already, they're under a 26W CFL desklamp for now :-/
 
Gotta say, ocean forest is the yummiest looking soil i've ever seen, almost makes me want to be a plant

 

Day 4
Still waiting for the ballast... Tent is half ready though. Hood shipped missing half screws so it's to the lhs I go
Need to find more lamps to put this under in the mean time

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Day 5 wohoo they're aliiiive!

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Day 7 grr no ballast... I'll make it up with 24 hour lighting when it comes tomorrow
 
9 Sprouted, 1 blue OG still sitting in its shell :/ gonna take it out and try to germinate it in a towel for longer if it takes more than 2 days to pop

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Well day 8, got an inch of growth across the board. STILL NO BALAST CMON FEDEX!!! My setup is complete besides the ballast
 
Tried to find the 10th Blue OG that didnt feel like growing, I dont even think the seed was in there o.o, yeah, I don't understand. 
 
I think I'll just run a 10 day longer-than-usual veg and attempt to clone one of my other blue OG's, slight OCD makes me want to fill all 10 pots <3

 

ANNNNDD its live! besides the ballast of course, damned ballast said Saturday and now it says Tuesday fucking shipping
 
Here are pics of the 99% complete setup:
 

 
That insulated ducting... EVERYONE says its better but nobody mentions how fucking hard it is to cut
I've ran the fan, it has pretty good airflow and is whisper silent, much more silent than my AC unit.
 
Airflow is Carbon filter -> Hood -> Fan -> Exhaust out the top of tent
 
For those of you looking to build a tent, I found this weaved vinyl strap at my local lowes for $3 for a huge roll, the stuff is super strong and attaches together with a few staples. I'm using it to secure my carbon filter.
 

 
Special mention to my custom made radioshack-bought 6A double switch junction for the S&P fan, allows me to control ON/OFF and High/Low speed from a really easy interface. Yeah I'm proud of it
 

 
Since ballast has decided to take its goddamn time I got to pace myself atleast, the plants are nearing 2 inches long now though :-/
 
Last piece of work is cutting up some plywood to hang up to the tent to attach the ballast and power strip to, thats bout it! Hopefully there will be plants in by tomorrow...

 

Day 10
 
Finally ballast came... That's a bright light damn :-D
 
Tent seems solid, only one light leak around seams of one of the socks and around an inch of a zipper, not too bad. Fan airflow is more than sufficient to pull air through, sucks entire tent sides in , gonna be good for when the smell comes.

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Close ups. Their weird shape is probably because they stretched quite a bit under the 28w cfl and are trying to catch up in thickness now that I have the fan agitating them.

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The biggest problem was that I did not expect the ballast to have been so delayed in shipping. I was relying on one 26W desk lamp to grow all 9 cotyledons. If I moved the lamp down close to 4 pots, the other 5 got almost 0 light, so I had to balance it.
 
I'll transplant them down tomorrow, probably best so it doesnt snap itself later on

 

 
Its because of what I bought... Phantom ballasts are mid-high end price wise and the S&P Silent fan was $250 which is 2.5x more than your average inline duct fan, but it is worth it because silence was a requirement for this. I also bought G13 labs' seeds which are not the cheapest seeds. It kills me that one didnt germinate(or I missed the soil, somehow o.o). 

 

I appreciate the advice

 

Thx man, appreciate the support