First Grow

I'm a little late on this post, as the 4th week actually concluded last Thursday, and today is Monday (new pics were taken yesterday). We actually got the transplant finally done late Tuesday, so almost a week ago. Everything went fairly well, except I wasn't aware that the recipes provided by the nutrient companies give you such a hot mix. We followed Advanced recipe for a 10-gal reservoir, adding only the Cal-Mag outside of their specs, and our first TDS reading was 2270 ppm. Yikes! We diluted and got the mix down to 1030 before introducing the little ladies. I guess we also screwed up by adding the Cal-Mag last . . . another unknown. We'll add first per directions next time, but since the girls appear to be doing okay, I'm not going to stress and instead just wait until nute swap. I'm a total newbie, so I don't really know what I'm talking about, but everything looks pretty good to me. I am checking the reservoir every other day, and I've already had to top it of and dilute the mix. The ph had climbed to 6.6,and the TDS to over 1100 ppm. I just added ph'd water and got the ppm down to 900.I then had to add more PH-down to get that in range. Temps were running rel high at first. I had the 4-inch exhaust pumping back into the room through a carbon filter, and it just wasn't getting the temp down at all. With the room at 77, the tent was 86-87. Over the weekend, I added venting to get the exhaust out through a roof jack. That enabled me to close the grow room door (otherwise humidity climbed way too high). I also adjusted the registers for my central air to up the flow into the grow room. I can now set the house to 77-78, and the grow room will run 73-75. This keeps the vege tent at around 83. I'm now shopping for a mini-split . . . My other problem I'm trying to address is the humidity. It's been unusually dry around here lately, the house running at 45-46%. The vege tent is running even lower by 2-3 degrees. I ordered a humidifier and will hopefully receive that and get it installed today before I have to hit the road for a coupled days. Anyway, the theme for my week is "vege is much easier than propagation." Onward!