FIRST indoor GROW!! Everyone please give advice!!

[TheGatorViking]

Hey everyone! Just wanted to start a thread on my first grow!

My girlfriend and I are growing 2 soil based plants and using "Northern Lights" and " Ice" seeds. I'm using Miracle grow for my soil and 2 100 watt day light bulbs just to start. (The blue package)

We are currently germinating the seeds next to the water heater in the dark closet. So in a couple days or so I will be planting them into Dixie cups with 4 water slits at the bottom.


My questions for the Pros is..
1: What nutrients should I feed them, how much do I give them and where should I get it.
2: What is the best modest lighting setup for one plant. I'm planning on using 4 - 100 watt day light bulbs. Is that too much or too little?
3: From start to finish how many months do you guess these will take to reach smoking potential.




Thanks in advance for any comments, tips and concerns!


Happy Smokes Everyone!:rastasmoke:

TheGatorViking Reviewed by TheGatorViking on 06-15-2009. FIRST indoor GROW!! Everyone please give advice!! Hey everyone! Just wanted to start a thread on my first grow! My girlfriend and I are growing 2 soil based plants and using "Northern Lights" and " Ice" seeds. I'm using Miracle grow for my soil and 2 100 watt day light bulbs just to start. (The blue package) We are currently germinating the seeds next to the water heater in the dark closet. So in a couple days or so I will be planting them into Dixie cups with 4 water slits at the bottom. My questions for the Pros is.. 1: What Rating: 5

[Italiano715]

My questions for the Pros is..
1: What nutrients should I feed them, how much do I give them and where should I get it.
2: What is the best modest lighting setup for one plant. I'm planning on using 4 - 100 watt day light bulbs. Is that too much or too little?
3: From start to finish how many months do you guess these will take to reach smoking potential.

1. Fox Farm Trio Pack is a popular one (if you can find it). You can really use ALMOST (not everone) any nutrients and get good results so long as you use them right. You will want to get something for vegetative (higher N then P and K) and flower (higher in P then N and K).
2. Should be OK for one plant. I'd personally use about 6 (no less) on mine.
3. Well if you are just looking for smoke, then about a month of vegetative growth and then when its mature you can throw it right in to flower by switching lighting schedule to 12/12. Then depending on the flowering time of your strain then it goes by that. Usually 3 months give or take you can have a crop done. Remember NOOOOOO LIGHT LEAKS!!! <~~~I can not stress that but sooo much. It's important to remember that!

[syde00]

also to add to what italiano said:

1. no nutes until you have 4-5 nodes, and start them off with 1/4 strength, then 1/2 then full

2. I assume you are talking about 100watt-equivalent CFL bulbs? its better to go by the CFL wattage... in your case, thats probably a 23watt bulb, but even better is to go by the lumen output of the bulb - which is what you actually care about. Not all "23watt/100watt-equiv" bulbs are created equally when it comes to lumen output, and lumens are the important thing here.

that being said, checkout the threads in my sig for some good info on CFLs

[MRDiff]

Not to disagree with either of the two comments, but if using MG, I dont recommend using nutes for quite some time. Its a mistake I made and even now, they still have signs of nute burn. And if you do, definitely go 1/4-1/2 strength.
As far as lighting, I have 4 80w 5600k, and 4 43w 2100k bulbs. I have about 6 plants and hope to fower half of them after weeding out the males. So your 100w bulbs should do fine.

[Italiano715]

Not to disagree with either of the two comments, but if using MG, I dont recommend using nutes for quite some time. Its a mistake I made and even now, they still have signs of nute burn. And if you do, definitely go 1/4-1/2 strength.
As far as lighting, I have 4 80w 5600k, and 4 43w 2100k bulbs. I have about 6 plants and hope to fower half of them after weeding out the males. So your 100w bulbs should do fine.

Well that all depends, I grew in MG soil and used MG ferts and had no problem really at all. And I was giving them ferts about 3 weeks after they popped out the soil. It's all really on your strain. Some tolerate ferts better than others. Sparingly is the keyword here though. Like these BB I'm growing at this moment. I haven't had to give them fertilizer at all. I tried to one time to see what it would do and it gave me a slight burn, so I haven't given any yet and it's going on 2 months that I had these suckers, from seedlings. Yes, if you do burn them though, don't expect after a good flush that burn look is going to disappear. It won't get any worse, but it won't get any better.