Another First Grow, would love some advice and helpers for my journey!

Hey guys :-o
Well Im starting my first grow with some friends. I have very little experience actually growing (one of my friends used to grow), but I have been browsing this forum for almost 6 months now. I finally decided to order some seeds. I would love any help or advice anyone could give me along the way. I picked a pretty difficult strain (I found out it was after I bought them), so now I've been kinda panicking.

heres my basic deal:

I bought 5 feminized Barney's Farm Tangerine Dreams, and I got a freebie autoflower as well. I did see a couple grow journals about this strain, and it appears to be somewhat picky.

I have a solid location, Ill be using CFL's for lighting and Im only gonna grow two plants to start.

I got the seeds, and plan on germinating in the next couple days.

I also plan on using soil. I dont see much advice about using soil, so I would love any tips with that.

And nutes! What are some solid all-around fertilizers or food or nutes that are somewhat easy to find (like maybe Home Depot)? My friend said miracle grow, but I dont know about that...

This will sound stupid, but do I have to feed my plant nutes? Or can I just regularly fertilize the soil?

One other main question I have is about "topping". Im pretty sure these TD can get really tall, so besides flowering early I was wondering how keep it short. What about LST? another term I didnt recognize.

Anyway those are basically my pre-grow questions. Any help or even links would be appreciated. Seriously thanks!

Will be updating with pictures of setup as soon as I figure these out! :joint:
 

MrCatatonic

Active Member
"One other main question I have is about "topping". Im pretty sure these TD can get really tall, so besides flowering early I was wondering how keep it short. What about LST? another term I didnt recognize."

I do supper cropping, it's an alternative if you don't want to LST, it's a bit less time consuming.
 
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