First off I would like to thank TxState and Boss for inspiring me to grow after reading their relatively cheap grow journals. Nice work men.
Anyways, this was originally gonna be a budget grow, which is still is, but I came into a small chunk of change during the time I decided to grow so why not use it to invest, right?
First I started off by finding my "spot." My space was limited in a sense, meaning that I have several places that could be potential grow sites, but I was limited by height. To keep my grow on the down low, I decided upon a grow tent after finding one that fit the description. It measures 48 x 20 x 48, so I won't be able to house tall plants but I think it will do. It stated that it was made for a T5 flourescent light fixture, so that's what I went with seeing that both the tent and fixture was in my budget of $500. I used my remaining funds to purchase the other essentials (soil, nutes, timer, pots, seeds, etc).
Basically I'm using Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. From what I've read it's a pretty good soil to start with. I also picked up a bottle of liquid seaweed and Fox Farms Grow Big and Tiger Bloom liquid nutrients. These seem pretty popular in the grow world and I figured they were good enough for me.
Next I had to decide on what kind of seeds I was gonna purchase. I did a little research because at first I was really nervous about getting seeds through the mail. I stumbled upon Nirvana seeds and browsed their selection for a bit. Finally, after a few days of making up my mind I decided on Pure Power Plant due to it's high THC content and relatively large yield. I thought I made the right decision until I just recently read a couple negative comments about Nirvana and read about TxStates problem where only 3 of his 5 PPP seeds germinated. We'll see what happens....
So here I am, starting the journal off with the germination. I'm using the germination kit that I purchased along with the seeds. They're little plots wrapped with bio-degradable lining that soak up the water/bacto (supplied with the kit) solution and form a bigger-little plot. I poked the seed down about 3mm like it suggested and it's all in Mother Nature's hands for now.
I'll update the journal again when I start seeing some action happening. But for now I just had one concern that hopefully you guys could set me straight on. I'm concerned that for flowering my florescents aren't gonna put off enough light intensity and I'm gonna have skimpy looking plants. Anyone care to shed some knowledge on this matter?
**tl;dr version for you lazy stoners: First grow. T5 flouro's. PPP fem. in soil.
**
Anyways, this was originally gonna be a budget grow, which is still is, but I came into a small chunk of change during the time I decided to grow so why not use it to invest, right?
First I started off by finding my "spot." My space was limited in a sense, meaning that I have several places that could be potential grow sites, but I was limited by height. To keep my grow on the down low, I decided upon a grow tent after finding one that fit the description. It measures 48 x 20 x 48, so I won't be able to house tall plants but I think it will do. It stated that it was made for a T5 flourescent light fixture, so that's what I went with seeing that both the tent and fixture was in my budget of $500. I used my remaining funds to purchase the other essentials (soil, nutes, timer, pots, seeds, etc).
Basically I'm using Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. From what I've read it's a pretty good soil to start with. I also picked up a bottle of liquid seaweed and Fox Farms Grow Big and Tiger Bloom liquid nutrients. These seem pretty popular in the grow world and I figured they were good enough for me.
Next I had to decide on what kind of seeds I was gonna purchase. I did a little research because at first I was really nervous about getting seeds through the mail. I stumbled upon Nirvana seeds and browsed their selection for a bit. Finally, after a few days of making up my mind I decided on Pure Power Plant due to it's high THC content and relatively large yield. I thought I made the right decision until I just recently read a couple negative comments about Nirvana and read about TxStates problem where only 3 of his 5 PPP seeds germinated. We'll see what happens....
So here I am, starting the journal off with the germination. I'm using the germination kit that I purchased along with the seeds. They're little plots wrapped with bio-degradable lining that soak up the water/bacto (supplied with the kit) solution and form a bigger-little plot. I poked the seed down about 3mm like it suggested and it's all in Mother Nature's hands for now.
I'll update the journal again when I start seeing some action happening. But for now I just had one concern that hopefully you guys could set me straight on. I'm concerned that for flowering my florescents aren't gonna put off enough light intensity and I'm gonna have skimpy looking plants. Anyone care to shed some knowledge on this matter?
**tl;dr version for you lazy stoners: First grow. T5 flouro's. PPP fem. in soil.
**
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