Myweedplants
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Just finished my first grow, 1 plant started the cure stage, the other just air drying. I've actually learned a lot which I will apply to my second grow looking to get better results.
#1) Lighting (Ill start with the most obvious): Make sure you get enough and don't be fooled by numbers advertised by CFLs and LEDs. There's always a crazy high number advertised (I'm assuming its equivalent lumens to incandescent). The LED canopy I bought was advertised at 600W, my friend got one advertised at 400W. The actual output on mine was 108w and his was 100w. Caught onto this very quickly and supplemented with CFLs. The output on my grow was significantly higher than my friends for the same strain. I believe the rule of thumb is 60-70w/ ft^2
#2) Pot Size: This depends on your grow room and how big you want your plants getting. The general rule is 1gal/ft plant height. Too small of a pot and roots don't have anywhere to grow and growth is stunted. Too big of a pot and you run the risk of over watering because that soil will stay soaked for too long. Grow medium is another factor as well.
#3) Setup: You can spend lots of $$ on expensive tents and other equipment, but if you just take some time and DIY a lot of your grow area...you can have something just as good, if not better suited to your needs than a pre-made setup. You can DIY everything from grow room to active carbon filtration to grow lights. You don't have to spend a lot to get a good harvest.
#4) Clones: Once you find that plant you want, stick to cloning. Much faster to harvest time, I made a small clone start to flower 2 weeks after cutting. This was just an experiment and I scrapped it after as it was far too small. But I learned that with cloning, the plant is already completely developed and once it has a solid root base established you can start flowering as soon as it reaches your desired height, even 3 weeks after cutting. Don't waste your time with seeds unless you really want to try something new
#5) Conflicting information: There are some things generally agreed upon by most growers (pot size to plant ratio, lighting per square foot, etc). Other things such as light cycles, nute ratios, etc...you can spend hours searching online and have so many conflicting answers that you leave even more confused. Some will swear they got x amount oz from one setup, while another got next to nothing on it. My conclusion was, for some things there is no precise answer for you to find...there are many factors that change what will affect your plant from strain type to lighting to pot size to grow medium to humidity to temperature to ph, etc. The only way to know what if best for your particular setup is trial and error. Don't expect everything to be spoon fed to you, some things just come from experience.
#6) Just get a magnifying glass...try as hard as you want, but with little to no experience you can't see much about those trichromes from the naked eye.
Hope this helps.
#1) Lighting (Ill start with the most obvious): Make sure you get enough and don't be fooled by numbers advertised by CFLs and LEDs. There's always a crazy high number advertised (I'm assuming its equivalent lumens to incandescent). The LED canopy I bought was advertised at 600W, my friend got one advertised at 400W. The actual output on mine was 108w and his was 100w. Caught onto this very quickly and supplemented with CFLs. The output on my grow was significantly higher than my friends for the same strain. I believe the rule of thumb is 60-70w/ ft^2
#2) Pot Size: This depends on your grow room and how big you want your plants getting. The general rule is 1gal/ft plant height. Too small of a pot and roots don't have anywhere to grow and growth is stunted. Too big of a pot and you run the risk of over watering because that soil will stay soaked for too long. Grow medium is another factor as well.
#3) Setup: You can spend lots of $$ on expensive tents and other equipment, but if you just take some time and DIY a lot of your grow area...you can have something just as good, if not better suited to your needs than a pre-made setup. You can DIY everything from grow room to active carbon filtration to grow lights. You don't have to spend a lot to get a good harvest.
#4) Clones: Once you find that plant you want, stick to cloning. Much faster to harvest time, I made a small clone start to flower 2 weeks after cutting. This was just an experiment and I scrapped it after as it was far too small. But I learned that with cloning, the plant is already completely developed and once it has a solid root base established you can start flowering as soon as it reaches your desired height, even 3 weeks after cutting. Don't waste your time with seeds unless you really want to try something new
#5) Conflicting information: There are some things generally agreed upon by most growers (pot size to plant ratio, lighting per square foot, etc). Other things such as light cycles, nute ratios, etc...you can spend hours searching online and have so many conflicting answers that you leave even more confused. Some will swear they got x amount oz from one setup, while another got next to nothing on it. My conclusion was, for some things there is no precise answer for you to find...there are many factors that change what will affect your plant from strain type to lighting to pot size to grow medium to humidity to temperature to ph, etc. The only way to know what if best for your particular setup is trial and error. Don't expect everything to be spoon fed to you, some things just come from experience.
#6) Just get a magnifying glass...try as hard as you want, but with little to no experience you can't see much about those trichromes from the naked eye.
Hope this helps.
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