hey new to growing any tips would be great!!

so i started alil project a few days ago. so far so good. i used a hydroponics set up my lil brothers 6th grade school year just 4 months ago. kinda wierd shit to be teaching 6th graders but hey what the hell. i threw like 25 seeds in it knowing that alot of seeds wouldnt start. iam useing the water from my alligator snapping turttle tank because off all the waste he puts out. but by day 4 i have 21 starts all have broke out of seed shell and has those first 4 lil leafs things on them and are atleast 1 and ahalf to 3 inchs. im not to sure but i think the turttle water is helping hardcore. i can use any tips you give me like the best ways to tell male from female. you know the key thing i need to do this right....

p.s the reason i put so many seeds in one thing was cuz im tierd of hearing people be like ya i got couple plant i wanna be like ya well fuck yo weed plants i got a weed bush

any tips

I can help you out but your goin have to give me more info and mabey a shot or too. what kind of hydro system are you using? I don't understand what you wrote.

You should really get a book.

more info?

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Originally Posted by demoreal

I can help you out but your goin have to give me more info and mabey a shot or too. what kind of hydro system are you using? I don't understand what you wrote.

You should really get a book.

more info?

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well it aint really a hydr set up ill put up a pic of the set up in my albums under first project

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Originally Posted by demoreal

I can help you out but your goin have to give me more info and mabey a shot or too. what kind of hydro system are you using? I don't understand what you wrote.

You should really get a book.

more info?

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thepic is up ised abttle cut the top off b i put a screen around th mouth part fliped it upside down filled it wit some soil in it took the other half put turttle water in it an slid the top part in the bottom part then i put 25 seeds in it now i got the starting of a bush

I would carefully transplant them into different cups. don't let those roots start fighting.

wash your hands be clean and carefull. dump that out.
you need to transplant them.

If I were you I would go to the store and buy those plastic red cups for drinking. there sometimes blue. you know the ones I am talking about?

any way drill or just cut out some holes in the bottom of the cups and transplant one plant a cup. You should also go to the hydro store and buy some root starter type stuff or B-1 stuff like super thrive. don't fertilize them yet. Your tap should be good. (unless you have better) don't used distilled. your plants will want calcium and some other stuff from the water)
i mention super thrive cause if theres no hydro store were you live that stuff is all over the place.

I think you should let those plants grow for a bit, take clones later, when they get a bit larger. they will get big enough in those red cups. (for a clone or two) --- test clones put these cuttings under a 12/12 light cycle right away. this is when you sex them. kill the males and keep the females. take two clones a plant incase one dies. and make sure you know about clonning by this time.

for the long run my goal would be to transplant the females that are still in the red cups vegging. (you know which are female now cause you did a quick test flower with the clones, lable them.)
kill mnales
now you shuld be left with a bunch of females vegging. now you can take cuttings for hydro, dirt whatever you want. you are on your way for a neverending garden.

1. transplant
2. veg
3. clones (for sexing)
4. grow happy mothers of females
5. decide what type of grow you want to do
6. by this time you will have done enough reading to know whats up.

I will keep track of your grow however you do it. and help out along the way.
just my advice for now.

start leaning about hydro nutrients too.
and clonning. thats how i sex my plants, and have many plants for many grows.
this is all i can say for now.

do you know what you are going to use for light?
are you buying one?
give those plants 18 hours of light right now.

I gave you advice on how to get a full continuous garden gowing.
is that what you are lookin for or just grow these plants and done?

thx man thats great advice it is wat i was looking for this was just atest to see if i could just grow a giant bush.. i gota wait tell october tell i start my garden cu me and myokder bro have our cards but arnt in a living place we can have a big set up like that so i may just keep my bush idea for now all im realky concernd bout is make sure i dont get seeds if i want to keep some of the budz but im going to let some of the budz actualy flower. like i said mor fun right now then trying to make production. if that makes sence but agian thank you very much

if you want to keep it simple you have to transplant those plants into the plastic cups i am talkin about cause plants won't grow the way you have them they will fight for root space and die. even if transplanted in a larger container all close like that fan leaves would be all bunched up and no place for buds to form. try it you like but you will wast time. you have to seperate all those plants. into a larger pot. one for them to flower they will need at least 6 inch pots each. that takes up some space. so ether go for the 6 inch pots now and veg them under whaterver light you have. most likely you don't have space for this. so do the plastic cup thing after they are in the plastic cups keep vegging them. cutting the tops. You want a bush. it takes one plant to do this. all you have to do is keep topping that plant and since those are from seed they will take a while. the little plastic drinking cup with the holes in the bottom. (for no salt build up). will slow down there growth and let them get older. you need that if you started from seed. they won't flower for a while. this won't take too much space. remember one plant per cup. you have to do that if you don't have space try to pick the ones with the best roots and keep them. rid the rest if no space. after vegging as long as they can hanndle those cups transplant into the 6" pots or bigger. take all those plants and put them under a 12/12 light cycle WITH NO DARK.
are you doing this outside or inside?
get some nice rooting fertilizer right now. B-1 or superthrive or something. use it when you transplant and feed it that for a bit.
I know you don't want to transplant but you really do have to.
all it takes is one plant for a bush. just keep topping it. keep it small and bushy.
what are you thinking about doing?
they will die very soon in the thing you have them in. sorry.
you can try, but its a wast of time.

I want to see what you do! so keep me posted and put a pic in your album here and there. I am putting more pics of a garden I am workin on soon.
peace.

check out my photos put, some up.

you don't need to post another thread on how to grow.
if you noticed the other guy helping you said the same thing I did.
;)

put a picture up soon.
I want to see you grow succsessfully, so you get that good feeling.

throw up some pics, whats goin on with your grow now?