First Grow, 500$ and a dream

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So I have always been toying with the idea of growing my own marajuana. For personal use my friends use and maybe a little extra cash on the side. So one fine saturday I decided to do it. I have non experience with growing marajuana, but a green thumb runs in my family. So I started searching the internet for the first thing i would need, SEEDS!. I almost bought seeds from a site called "Mellow Gold". I had all my information typed in , but left my credit card number empty. I pushed enter to see what would happen, and sure enough it was a scam site. The owner even emailed me back trying to get my credit card number. So I browsed on and started looking on forums. Thats when I stumbled across this fine site. I Spent hours and hours reading everything i could find about growing, light types ventilation CPM, CFL, CSD, HID, and many more abbreviations untill I thought I knew it all. So I orderd my seeds from Gypsy nirvana's seed boutique. I order a pack of "Flying Dutchman Royal Orange". I also recieved with this bag a free bag called "Sam The skunk mans Poison X #1 South african. Royal Orange is a 60% indica, 40% sativa strain. With my seeds in hand, my desire to grow increased even more. So I Started my search at Home Depot. It took me 8 trips and 311 Dollars to finally get everything i needed for a stealthy grow. I had decided that I was going to try a cabinet grow. This would seem to be the easiest way to hide any unwanted smells which may expose my hobby. I also hit up Rona for some lighting and this is what I took home with me.

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Ah finally finished, and in my appartment.

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Now To start germinating my seeds and begin the grow!. Im very cautious person so I started growing the sativa bag of skunk. I Placed all the seeds into a dish wrapped them in paper towel and watterd the paper towl. I coverd the dish with another dish and placed it upon my fridge. Then i waited, and waited, and waited. Finally 3 seeds split open slightly, and then I waited some more. 4 days laters no tap roots had appeared at all on the seeds that split. So I planted the seeds anyway being the impatient person that I am. I waterd them and gave them light for another full week and still nothing budged

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I got impatient and dug up the seeds and not one of them had developed further, so I figured they were old and tossed them away. Then I broke out the good seeds, the "Flying dutchman Royal orange. I started the germination processes like i had with the skunk X and they immediatly developed tap roots withing 40hours. I quickly went to the store and bought 2 bags of 16 10 10 miracle grow wet soil, and two bags of 14 14 14 soil and one bag of organic soild. I mixed them all together and put a layer of water retaining soil on the top. I used MUCH larger pots this time and lined the button with granite gravel. Using a Bathroom light fixture i created a 6 CFL bulb seed board. I loaded up my Wardrobe placed the tap roots down into the soil and burried the seeds about quarter an inch deep. Now i wait. BTW all that duct tape is to tryin and make the cabinet light proof. The dam thing lit up my room when i first turned it on.

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JoeSchmoe Reviewed by JoeSchmoe on . First Grow, 500$ and a dream First Grow, 500$ and a dream -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So I have always been toying with the idea of growing my own marajuana. For personal use my friends use and maybe a little extra cash on the side. So one fine saturday I decided to do it. I have non experience with growing marajuana, but a green thumb runs in my family. So I started searching the internet for the first thing i would need, SEEDS!. I almost bought seeds from a site Rating: 5