Second Grow - Aero - AlphaKronik F2

I am a little disappointed with yield on this grow. I am sure the yield has more to do with me than the genetics. I decided to flip to flower earlier than I wanted for Alphakronik because a second strain in the tent was going to become overgrown, and that definitely impacted my final yield. Additionally, the rockwool starting substrate may be a problem going forward. Rockwool stays too wet, and the bottom of my main stalks showed some rot in the early stages of vegetation. This problem widened the development gap and must be solved. Neoprene collars? Peat plugs? Looking into it for the next grow. I dried for 8 days and trimmed then went directly into jars for curing with Boveda 62 packs. My buds were just a tiny bit over-dried, sitting at 58% RH in the jars without Boveda. I'll have to get a weight on it in the upcoming days, trying to keep it in the 62% RH environment as much as possible. Intense gas and chem, tennis balls, and some of that acrid garlic the breeder described on their website. I really like Alphakronik Genetics and the team over there has been great to do business with. I'll be running another line of their genetics in my upcoming grow, but trying to figure out which one is going to be so hard! I just picked up seven strains from them during their 420 sale, and I will have to decide in the next day what to pop! 5/2/2020 - I decided. Next grow will be Maturin (Alien Rock Candy (Kind Love cut) x Alphakronik) by Alphakronik Genetics. I've been on a dark kick lately, so the Maturin turtle from Stephen King's Dark Tower saga appealed to me (as well as dense buds of ARC and the coffee undertones in the description for this strain, love me some coffee cannabis). In this next grow, I will focus on getting chunky buds, starting off with a mainline structure and marrying that to a double layer of trellis for training and support with a more open structure for air/light penetration and longer, bulkier colas. I plan to run 4 clones in sites [1,3,4,6] because sites [2,5] routinely get crowded out. For now though, I've built a soil with Miracle Grow Organics, perlite, vermiculite, and peat. I know Miracle Grow is trash, I only need to veg these mothers for a short while and I'm not concerned with the quality of the soil for flower. It was easy to get and will be fine for my purpose. I will admit though. I have seen some beautiful indoor beds inside tents and I am being tempted by these soil setups. Maybe in the next place I live I can have another tent for soil grows. Still not sure if this hobby is going to make me broke or make me financially stable, haha. Check back for more pics and updates.