Welcome newbie. Although that adjective is redundant considering your inqueries. No offense meant. Please notice my tagline "Educate yourself...." You will find a book invaluable in your quest. I am about to give you solid, yet brief and general advice. But you won't be able to tell if it's any good. I see crap on the site posted daily. Many just have different experiences and objectives and many do give sound advice. But, if you don't invest time and a few bucks into a couple of books.... well, you get the point.


1) To many variables to come close to giving an estimate dry weight. Do you have greenthumbs? Are you gonna try to skimp on other things like you did with the light? Do you have enviroment control like air intake and exhaust? Temp. control? Humidity? It's endless. Buy a book, read it, do what it says!

2) Plants vary in length of time to mature. Generally (see I told you), Sativas take longer than Indicas. Most growers I know like a strain that flowers for 60 days. Vegitation can be from a couple weeks to 2-3 months depending on how tall you want the end result to be.

3) Halogens Suck! Cost way way to much per lumen and have wrong spectrum, not to mention the heat. Pratically wothless, as are incandescents.

4) Can you trust marijuana sites? Presumably to buy seeds. What's at risk? A few bucks. Try cheap seeds first to lower your risk, and when you have experience and some money and trust, buy better seeds. I have ordered from Emeryseeds.com and gotten my order every time.

5) 1 seed per container. How do you think 5 fir trees do planted close together. They need light and air flow to penetrate their canopy just like weed does. Over-crowding is detrimental.

6) Making money off weed is Illegal. But, if you are intent on it, the only leaves worth anything have visible crystal (trichromes) on them. The rest are crap. You can process the trichromes to make honey oil or hash. Although I doubt you could manage it on a scale to make it economically viable for your time and effort. All the same, hash tastes sweeeeeet and it or honey oil will bomb your skull.

Did I mention, buy a book. Peace newbie