Soil for many reasons. Organic is just a little slower than other methods and honestly hydro is very much faster in veg but not much different in flower and a plant spends more time in flower.
The tent you picked is the same one my wife picked out fore as a gift. She has seen the activity on the Amazon account and bought it happy birthday
Ok 2.7 x 2.7 x 63. That is 6.7 square feet. A grow where you get righteous buds and fills the tent and 2 plants will fill this tent needs 40-50 watts per square foot. That means your light will cover a little more then 3.4 feet for about 43 watts per foot. This is enough light for one plant.
So I bought another one of the same lights. Mounted them at the top of the tent and adjusted the light by the Vivosun app and lifting the plants on 5 gallon buckets. The second thing I did was adjust the light using a simple lux meter. We use lux as a reference point but we watch the reactions of the plant at lux levels and we document changes and reactions. Move the lights on the tilt using pop sicle sticks until the light power is level across the whole tent. Now no light in the way and you have a steady light as lights on a long string ( provided in kit ) wobble in the air.
The tent is well made and has a strong zipper. There tent also bags up and is very loose. A great stoner hack is a plastic clothes hanger in the corners. It spreads the loose tent fabric. Boom 3x3 tent!
My first grow I tried to do cheap with a humidifier in the tent and reptile bulbs in the ceiling for added heat. I put them both on the same Inkbird outlet controller and it kept pretty good numbers. I could get to 80 degrees and stay within 1.5 degrees. Humidity control sucked. Best I could do was 3 up 2 down for humidity control. This led to an outbreak of power mildew that was corrected but due to control I had to lower the humidity. This out my numbers out of reach. This is what I mean.
This is the app screen for Vivosun. You can see from the app the temp and humidity and what is called the Vapor Pressure Deficit. Another word for VDP is dew point. Vdp is important because a cannabis plant has a broad range that it will grow in but a more narrow range where it delivers good yield and potency. I am in early flower at 1.1 vdp. Here is the same screen at night time. Lights off and lower heat but the VDP is the same for both.
The tent is small but will do 2 plants well if configure properly. I am sure you saw the picture of the air handler and carbon filter in the tent.
Gads that’s stupid. Cut a piece of wood the dimensions of the tent pole top and mount it on the roof to pull air out. This frees up so much room. The tent will hold over 100 lbs ( in the manual) and it prolly weighs 25 lbs.
The tent has many 6 inch holes for running stuff in and out of the tent and a couple of cooling panels that can be opened that have built in insect screens. The tent holes also have a very serviceable light exclusion system using simple draw strings. Works fine.
My reconfigure of the system included an ACi 68pro controller and the heater box and 15 liter humidifier. This was the best move I have made. I can dial down to a .4 degree wave and humidity is 1 up 1 down. The humidity and temp numbers on the Vivosun app track the same as the ACi controller. It’s just another duplication that I rely on to maintain the tent environment
Here is the current grow. While widow bought from this place. 45 days above ground and just flipped to flower on Thursday.
I am using for farms happy frog and ocean. Forest 50-50. 3 cups perlite for drainage. Placed in 5 gallon fabric pots that come with the tent. When needed I top dressed with a mixture of fox farms soil conditioner with added Earth Worm Castings or EWC around here and some vermiculite for water retention. Now that I am in flower I am using organic pour nutes. The only thing you need to do with the pour nutes is pH after mixing like you should pH your water when you give the plants a string. 6 3 ph plus or minus .1
I have a lot of stuff I bought trying to balance the environment. The added light is about $100 bucks on sale. The heater box was $99 and the humidifier 179. ACI pro controller $70. That pretty much. All ai should have spent. Now add extra controllers and a DWC system ( do not buy those make them OMG if you do hydro in this little tent you will hate it). Hydro should be a 4x4 tent.
Now the best place for information is here and growweedeasy.com Look for grow journals and follow from start to finish. This will show you both success and failure although the punks who fail just bail out. My first journal was closed as a fail and I documented what happens so no one else will make those mistakes. My journals are on another board as I started it there cause I did not know this place existed. Bought the seed from here and am 8 for 8 on germination.
Any other questions just ask. Do some research. The folks here will help but if you need to ask for help use the support ticket available on the forum splash page under grow support. You will need basic information and knowledge. A lot of guys here will not bother is we have to explain how to pH freaking water or someone who thinks a 2000 watt burple light will deliver the fire.
Good luck and again just reach out for questions.
Ps look around for the tent. My Amazon has it for 319. Also the Vivosun app comes with a portal for purchasing products. If you look at stuff for a while it lowers the price or sends you coupons LOL
