General help first post first grow in 30 years

Hi guys. First post!! This is my first indoor grow in 30 years. I grew a lot when it was illegal back in the day. My son talked me into growing two plants with him. He gave me two plants from his friend that were about eight weeks old. I went and bought a whole new system tent fully automated Bluetooth the whole shebang. I’m just looking for help. here are my photos. What do you think? how do my plants look? I think there’s a little curl in the leaves. I’m waiting for my pH meters to get here today and I can give you guys pH numbers. Where should I put my temperature humidity probe? The probe right now is hanging in the middle of one of the plants about halfway down the plant. my height from the light is 14 inches. I’m now in flowering mode. Tomorrow will be week two of flowering. I estimate the plants are 12 weeks old vegetation. I switched to flowering July 1. 10 gallon pots fox farms ocean soil self watering from the bottom I will take any and all help and criticism you guys can put thanks for your help.

Your plants are looking fine. Welcome to the forum.

I second that they look good :+1:

Great thanks guys!! What about my prob for humidity and temp. Where is a proper placement for it?

I keep my temperature between 80 and 85 F. I don’t worry about humidity. Many do concern themselves with humidity and I did too, years ago.

A more complete answer is that I don’t worry about humidity except when they are seedlings. I put domes over my seedlings for the first couple of weeks.

Welcome aboard.

What I’m asking is what’s the proper placement (where in the tent) for the most accurate read of my remote sensor.

Welcome to the forum..
I put mine at the canopy height

Plants look nice and happy..

Everything looks normal enough , carry on lol , welcome , peace …

Welcome aboard! Looking like 30 years didn’t do anything to that greenthumb! Grow looks great! Got a good community here! It’s your son on the forum?? Don’t think I’ve seen that one yet. Good luck and happy growing!!!

Hello @Westbank and welcome to Weeden! :peace_symbol:

Like @ScottsBuds mentioned, the best place to put the sensor is at the canopy’s height. So, in your case, I would raise it to the top of the plant. :nerd_face:

Just a suggestion.
Eventually you might wanna get your filter on the outside of your tent.
I grow in the same amount of space and I switched mine and you get a lot more space for height.
This way you can veg longer.

Just a suggestion…

Happy Growing
Have a Stellar Day..

Those look like the grass I would run into out fishing hidden ponds.
Wild, healthy and natural.
Ran into the growers of 1 patch heading through the weed to get back to my car. They were kind of annoyed but I showed them my stringer and they got it. Just asked me to roll in from the other side.
Look great. That is actually my minds eye version of growth from younger days.

No it’s me the dad on here. I grew lots and lots in my late teens early twenties. Then nothing for the past 25 ish years. My son wants me to teach him. He asked dad why does our yard I.e. lawn and flowers look so much better then the neighbors every summer. So I told him. I use to have a very green thumb lol

I agree with measuring temp and rh at canopy level. The reason is because both are important for water to move through plants, so it doesn’t really matter what either are at the very top or bottom of your grow space.

Something else I noticed, you have a large bend in your exhaust duct. If you need it is reasonable, but if you don’t I would run it straight out the port next to the fan. Length of duct and bends will both put additional static load on your fan.

It’s too late to worry about now, but your first screen is too close to your pots. On your next grow put this a minimum of maybe 10" from pots as it will give you some room to train plants some and still have a little room to access pots for watering when the screen starts filling in later in the grow. If you need the additional screen later is no big deal but if you don’t need it harvesting will be easier.

Keep up the good work!

Honestly, they look pretty solid for a first indoor run in that long. I’d move the temp/RH probe closer to canopy height rather than halfway down the plant, since that’s the environment the tops are actually experiencing. The slight curl could be light or heat stress, so once your pH meter arrives I’d check that too before changing too many things at once.

Looks like you didn’t forget too much from your past experience. Looking fabulous in there!

I would place your heat/humidity probe at canopy height. That’ll give you the best indication of heat from the lights hitting the plants.

Totally agree. Fast air exchange is a key component of climate management. Can mitigated heat easily if can exchange air in the area in a minute. Good air movement along with exchange will mitigate a lot. I keep VERY short exchange lines. I use the lungroom to adjust temps in tent. Can hit some exceedingly high temps without the plants blinking.
Gets very hot and dry here. Atm I am getting 95° highs in garage.
More water, solid air movement/exchange and this is where I am.