Hi all! I'm a total newbie at this whole thing. And, I'm not even going to be using! We're looking into the details of getting my husband a medical use licence in our state, and while on vacation out of state he tried pot to see if it worked for his pain. It was GREAT. His pain is usually 8/9/10 but the pot brought it to nearly NOTHING! WOOT! Nothing we've tried from the pharmacy worked even a third as well! BTW, he's had pain from scoliosis and then a spinal fusion surgery 20 years ago, but 18 months ago he sneezed and threw out his back. It's been getting worse and worse and worse and worse ever since. We still have about 12K in medical debts to pay while the insurance has paid close to 1/2 MILLION for everything we've been doing to try to help him plus the ER visits for falling down the stairs and various treatments and scans that have helped nearly none...

So we got a 1/4 ounce from a relative's connection while we were gone... and apparently we got 28 seeds in it.

Yes, you read that right. TWENTY. EIGHT. SEEDS. And this isn't crap weed, it's good quality (not *best*, but pretty darn good according to my husband who used a LOT 20 years ago! He only has had better a COUPLE times, and he smoked pot a TON over 10 years all throughout western NY and surrounding areas). He's never grown before either, so we're just figuring this out.

He "borrowed" one of my nursery flats I use in springtime, and put in a bunch of jiffy 7 seed starters. *sigh* We now have 24 seedlings (would have been 25, but one's stem snapped cleanly in half when he dropped the flat while bringing it out to show me! Oops). We potted them up since a few had the taproot already showing through the mesh. They are now in 3" jiffy squares (four in 4" plastic pots as I only had 20 3" pots). Nearly all have their first set of true leaves (only 2 or 3 don't), and 2 are showing a second set of trues about to grow! They are about 1 3/4" at most right now, mostly because they were in the dark until this afternoon, but a few hours of evening light (not direct) allowed them to go from lime green to a nice medium green that should darken tomorrow I'd think. And of course, he didn't tell me until a few hours ago about this or they'd have had good growing light from the START. (you should see my GARDEN right now! )

So... They are currently out in our greenhouse/shed (LOCKED) right at the windows so they'll have light during the day. Soon I'll have it set up in our basement for them to be under a fluorecent 4' fixture (sometime tomorrow or Saturday) for 18-24 hours/day. Next payday (5 days away) we'll get the lights we need to set up the plants in our closet.

I'll get pics in the morning. From the looks of things, some are at least 3-4 days after cracking shell and a couple are only within a day.

Guessing that these are going to be mostly male from the stress of being DROPPED, no light, and repotting (though with the J7s it may not be an issue)... How soon should we set them at 12/12 to check gender on maybe half of them? Or more, as we don't have a TON of space to get these to "full" size. I've read you can switch any time but I'm thinking after we pinch the 4th node, let them have another 3-4 leaf nodes before the switch. Thoughts?

If we switch light for gender, how long does it take to usually show the sex, and how bad is that stress to check gender then put back into veg state? How likely is that to make any females herm out? If we did the light switch in, say, 3-4 weeks, how big would these plants likely get on average (for average street-sold pot strains, whatever that means)? How long do you suggest we let them grow before we make them flower? How likely is this an auto type? How could we tell if it's auto or not?

Also, how many CFLs do you think we'll need, as well as how much space???? :wtf: Serriously, I NEVER thought I'd have ANYWHERE near this number of plants to deal with of this sort. I jokingly told my husband that I could just claim it's another of my flowering plants I can put in my garden... I LOVE flowers.... (They'd blend quite well in with the dahlias until they start their flowering phase!)

Now to figure out how to get 24 plants inside my closet... *sigh* I'll also have to get some good 6" or 8" pots now... either that or plant all my rosebushes already, even though I didn't want to do that until next spring since they are so young and thin still. At least I'd have enough large pots for about 14 plants in our closet then (and I MAY be able to fit them well in there... maybe. It's 2.5' deep but at least 10' long if I want to use ALL that space...)

Sorry for rambling, but it's a start to this odd journey. At least we have a decent chance to help my hubby be out of pain! :dance:

(Note: next time, dear husband, we shall only plant a FEW at a time, k? Heck, even 10 are managible! But 28 seeds at once on your FIRST TRY???? REALLY????)


Note to self - Start half in 3" jiffies and half in 7s next time to compare. Heck, use 10 in each to compare how well they do to get to the point of needing to be upped to 6/7/8" pots to see if there is a difference. Also, try making a mixture for them for seedlings and up (hum/verm and hum/verm/comp/man mixes

Another note to self - find correct separate NPK ingredients FINALLY to make the mixes we need for the specific plants. BETTER GROWTH ON ALL PLANTS THIS WAY, DUMMY.
Buggy Reviewed by Buggy on . Oh great, apparently we're growing now! Hi all! I'm a total newbie at this whole thing. And, I'm not even going to be using! We're looking into the details of getting my husband a medical use licence in our state, and while on vacation out of state he tried pot to see if it worked for his pain. It was GREAT. His pain is usually 8/9/10 but the pot brought it to nearly NOTHING! WOOT! Nothing we've tried from the pharmacy worked even a third as well! :D BTW, he's had pain from scoliosis and then a spinal fusion surgery 20 years ago, but Rating: 5