First Grow Ever - Auto DWC - All Opinions Welcome!

[newbiegrow16]

So, I've been wanting to grow for a while. Due to the legality and my paranoia, I wanted to keep it extremely small. I bought (more like wasted money on) a pre-built grow cabinet. I have never grown anything in my entire life.

Grow Space:

Converted cabinet - 13" deep, 1.5' wide, 4' tall
300W Mars Hydro LED
5 gallon black painted and then wrapped in black electrical tape reservoir
1x Intake bottom center- 110 CFM case fan
2x Exhaust top center- 110 CFM case fan
1x 6" oscillating fan

Strain:
Auto Dark Purple (from Herbies) - was a free seed

I have 1 plant going at the moment, with plans for 2 at the very most.

Seed was planted directly into half of a jiffy pellet, the jiffy pellet was then put into a net pot w/ hydroton around it.

Here she is the day she sprouted and dropped her shell:

9-8

Here she is today, 9/12:

As you can see she is drooping for an unknown reason. Temp is hovering at 90 degrees with humidity at 30%. I have a humidifier coming today and I don't know what to do about the temps. I don't see how it's running at 90, the inside of the box feels MUCH colder than that. There is a ton of airflow as well.

Res temp is at 75 and I am using ice bottles to keep it cool. If you have any suggestions or input on what I can be doing better, please don't hesitate to help out a newbie!

 

[UKredeye]

I don't know much about hydro, but the drooping could be the medium being to wet, constantly wet roots can kill your plant, I know for soil you have to let the medium dry before watering, not to sure how it works in hydro

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[newbiegrow16]

Since I cut the jiffy pellet in half, to prevent any bubbles from the reservoir reaching it and keeping it too moist, I wanted to top feed until the roots reach the res. I probably did overwater it when top watering for the first week.. but I haven't watered in days and now the roots are a few cm away from the res water itself. The roots are growing at an astounding rate. I figured it should be perked back up from the over-watering by now.

With DWC, the roots will be sitting the res (water) the entire grow

Thanks for the input.

 

[newbiegrow16]

Here she is today. Roots still growing great, should be hitting the water within 24h if they are not already barely touching it.

Any opinions on it? 5 days from sprout.

 

[Oful33]

I'm here! I never had a hydro grow, never seen loads of journals but Im pretty sure most of hydro grows have these loose leaves like yours (someone please correct me if I am wrong). Anyway, it looks nice and healthy.

 

[David Bowman]

Hope all is well in your world.

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