Nirvana - Northern Light / GSC

This is my very first grow. I am attempting two plants (both strains from Nirvana and feminized seeds). (Left) Northern Light: Typically an Indica, or Indica dominant strain. (Right) Girl Scout Cookies: According to Nirvana, it's a hybrid. Grow medium: Fox Farms Ocean Forest Nutrients: Fox Farms Trio Air Filter/Fan: Both are VIVOSUN 6in with adjustable speed on the fan. No complaints here. Fan is audible from upstairs, but it has more to do with the fact that's it's resting on a surface outside the tent, which is vibrating, and creating more noise. I plan to move the fan inside the tent and hang it. Lights: 1 VIPERSPECTRA 600W (equivalent). I decided to go the LED route after reading due to it's lower power consumption, ease of setting up, and I'm going to get shit for this...I thought the purple/pink lights looked dope. After researching a ton of LED lights and reading reviews, I settled on the VIPERSPECTRA model. Lately, I've been hearing about Quantum Boards and COB setups...and I gotta admit, it's very enticing to just build one custom for my setup, and just return the VIPERSPECTRA. I might do this down the road, but for my first grow, I wanted to keep things more simple until I get a few under my belt so I have less to worry about. There is a heater outside the tent due to my tent being in the basement, which is kinda cold. I walled off the area the tent is in, which definitely helps with the temperature. It's a nice 71 degrees Fahrenheit inside the tent with a relative humidity of 50%. The rH is normally around 25-30%, hence the humidifier. The humidifier itself kind of sucks. I have to run it almost full steam to keep the humidity up during vegetation, and the tank has to be filled daily. There will be low-stress training, multiple toppings (probably twice), and grown in a scrog. I plant to grow in vegetation until the scrog is full, and then flip to a 12/12 light schedule to induce flowering. Scorg is (poorly) homemade. I originally constructed it with legs, and then took them off and decided to add ropes, pulleys, and carabiners. It's turning out to be quite the clusterfuck at the top of my tent as you can see in the pictures. I am honestly probably going to let the plants grow a bit to see how high they're going to grow, and then reattach the legs to the scrog and keep it at that height for the duration of the grow. Since it's two plants, I don't think plant accessibility is going to be an issue. I also might just scrap this scrog all-together and build a new one out of PVC piping and zip ties to the tent poles. Plants are both currently in solo cups, and once the leaves are hitting the edges, will be transplanted to their final homes, which are both 5 gallon Smart Pots. As I said before, this is my first grow, and everything has been a great learning experience for me thus far. I have made and will continue to make mistakes, but I will definitely try to learn from them. If anyone has any advice, tips, criticism, or anything, please feel free to let me know. I take criticism well! Update: Day 7: I have modified my setup a bit. My humidity has been pretty hard to maintain. The humidifier has to be filled roughly every 12 hours, which is kind of annoying. My timer is 18/6, and lights are off at 10am. I've been trying to get down there before lights off to fill the tank, but sometimes I"ll be a little late and will have to mess with the humidifier with lights out, which is kind of treacherous, as I don't want to accidentally knock my plants over or spill water everywhere. So, I tried something a little different. I have one vent flap open in the back of the tent, which is against a wall, just to make sure absolutely no light is getting in during the day. I moved my tent a bit forward to have some space behind the tent, and put the humidifier back there with the mist nozzle aiming directly at the vent. As soon as I zipped the tent back up, all the mist was immediately being sucked into the vent. I also moved the internal fans around a bit to help direct the mist towards both plants. Humidity has been pretty stable at 50-60% as a result of this new setup, plus I have so much more room in my tent for activities without that stupid humidifier taking up space. Plus, there is a tiny green indicator LED in the humidifier that I tried my best to tape over, but I think some light was leaking through. It was green light though, which you can technically use to see plants in the dark without it confusing them, but I'm not sure of the actual spectrum of the light. Better safe than sorry! It's now outside the tent where it can't hurt any innocent plants. Also, the first couple days I am pretty sure I was over watering, so I switched to misting them with a spray bottle of tap water (6.5ph) every 2-3 days or so. All that's left to do today is wait for lights to come back on, so I can zip tie everything down and clean up the cables. As a final update for the week, I made a decision to use a Quantum LED setup. I bought the Horticulture Lighting Group 260 Watt Quantum Board LED Kit, which is coming tomorrow (Monday)! I can't wait to get the new one set up and running! I'll be returning the VIPARSPECTRA as the new light will be a perfect lighting setup for the space I'm utilizing. 😜