So you know I am analytical person by nature System Analyst by trader. I do al ot of research before I do something. I don't blindly post without reading on it first. This is my contribution for newbies, because I am a newbie and I thought it might help someome else or some with more experience can help me. I am reading INDOOR MJ HORT by Jorge Cervantes. Good book, but it gets confusing and for newbies it has MORE INFO THAN YOU WILL EVER NEED, he gets technical. But I guess that is why he grows BIG BUDS!

Thanks for all the encouragement and help. I really am getting into this!

Questions:

Fert: How long should I wait before I start fertilizing? I am kinda scared to start hitting it hard with fert. So I was gonna take the reccommened doses and make them a weaker soloution and feed with every water. Is this safer? Should I slowly introduce the fert and then increase the stregth (1/4 the strength and then 1/3, then 1/2 over a period if time)?


Pot Size + Transplanting : I was gonna plant right into 5 gallon buckets from jiffy. Now I realize this is a dumb idea, because I will be using more material (fert, soil, perlite, etc) for a plant I might not even keep. I think I will now go from Jiffy to 6 inch to 5 Gallon bucket. So transplanting 2 time, Is there any way I can reduce the shock?


Vegging + Flowering time periond: I am doing Northern Lights. Seems people do differrent Period of times. From my research I am guessing it depends on how big you want the plant. It is as simple as that? Is there a quality vs Quantitiy issue here. I just want my plants to grow to their full potential. Of course I am excited, but I am an old dude now and I realize patience has more potential. I would rather harvest more at a good quality, than jump the gun and harvest less. Any thought on this? Does SOG reduce the quality. I realize you are growing smaller plants quicker with more turn around, but what are you giving up. For this grow I am gonna veg until the thing is 2-3 feet (Is this smart?). I see some post where the person only vegged until 18 inches and then they forced flowering. Wouldnt you grow more buds if you Vegged longer?
SeedKing72 Reviewed by SeedKing72 on . Newbie pre-grow (Pot size, Nutes,etc.) So you know I am analytical person by nature System Analyst by trader. I do al ot of research before I do something. I don't blindly post without reading on it first. This is my contribution for newbies, because I am a newbie and I thought it might help someome else or some with more experience can help me. I am reading INDOOR MJ HORT by Jorge Cervantes. Good book, but it gets confusing and for newbies it has MORE INFO THAN YOU WILL EVER NEED, he gets technical. But I guess that is why he grows Rating: 5