Personally as long as you are happy with the quality then, good enough. You would have paid someone for some dank anyways. Chalk it up to experience.

I would move into 5 gal containers, run a 6 week veg. cycle at least, grow 8 under those lights for now. What you are looking for is the experience of a full cycle. Less is more in this situation.

Meters are critical, these alone if used properly will greatly increase your yeild, their cheap now.

Do some more reading, ask questions and always keep one eye on your grow and 1g per watt is attainable.

IMO

Good Luck

Vaper

I am going to keep all my lights on, and get my skills dialed in instead. I am not complaining about my yield,just making an observation and documenting it. I have got a few crops off so far, and have done okay for myself. I have lost 2 clones out of 100 or so, I have lost no mature plants. Product has been nice and dry and cured and burns clean, tastes nice, smells very fruity, solid buds.
I am happy with my progress.
My initial clones came with thrips on them, I identified and dealt with them, room has been clean for a year. I am also a shower/strip down to my underwear to go in my room kind of guy.

I learn something every single day that I browse these forums.

good luck with your next crop, and if you are satisfied with your current one, no need to worry. just stick to the forums and ask lots of questions and post lots of pictures and your results should greatly improve.

Yep, sounds like you got nothing to worry about.
I was simply suggesting that you can save yourself some cash while achieving the same results.
Good luck bro.

4k watts and 20 plants in promix. 5 plants per light I would try to run some 10 gallon pots or geopots. Those lines are from the magnetic ballasts you have, digital ballasts don't do that to your camera.

Now here's a guy who knows his stuff.

I got some test strips today, and I appear to be sitting right around 6.2 when I test water which has been sitting out for 24 hours.

Bigger pots are definitely in my plans.
I posted a while ago asking about pot size, and was pretty much told that the big pots would be a waste. Perhaps I should have made it clear I wasn't growing in a tent or closet at that time.
I have 9 weeks or so every cycle to get clones to full size before moving them into my room, and there are 20 or 24 plants every time.
I should step up the sizes of the pots? Meaning transplant a few times? That would be better for root growth than putting straight into large pots?
Thanks.

I hope that the PH was checked after you added your salts, because it will change.

As for the pots and stepping up a little at a time...1 gal, 2 gal, 3 gal, and finally 5 gal. I used to do it that way to, then I watched a few of the grow sessions on the Green House Seeds web site. These guys just go from 1 gal to 10 gal pot, right away, so I tried it. I have done the last 2 rounds 1 gal straight to 5 gal, plants loved it, got stocks bigger then my thumb and branches to match.

Here's a link to a grow session, check it out, you may just want to go small pot right to the final pot yourself.

Here's the link:

http://www.growhd.tv/video/Chemdog-grow-video/ab128d58c94b689cf470866fc2897c9a

Peace...Buddha

I checked my water that had been sitting out, I Have not had an opportunity to feed yet.
I use AN PH perfect 3 part, I assumed that meant that it would not change the ph of the water. Perhaps that is what they want you to assume.
The Plant in that Vid is Massive, I don't think I could grow that tall...