Help with First Indoor Grow.

[WeedyBoyWonder]

Heyyyy, grow mate!

[turtle420]

Well,if you ain't got money right now...

Buy the CFLs (flouros)... but PLAN on buy a better light for your plant(s). If you try to bud with the CFLs you're going to get jack-shit (from what I understand).

[crashdamage]

Hey mand... lots of good info here, and not to nit-pik...but I have a question about seeds "unlikely to have been pollinated". Iâ??m not an expert on plant biology, but i believe pollination has to occur in order for a plant to produce seed ( fruit, of course, can still be produced, thatâ??s how one gets seedless grapes, among others). If you have a seed, it should have all the genetic material needed to produce a viable plant.
Therefore the reason for the seed not germinating must be due to other factors, perhaps if the seed pods not being mature enuf when harvested for them to have completely formed, or not the right temperature, do you think?

[Marc Benson]

You could go cheap and buy a few CFL's and then throw a few more in when you get some extra cash but seriously by the time you get done buying a bunch of cfl's you could buy an hps from places like insidesun dot com. Or they have an econo 250 for $75 plus S&H. Then just use the cfl's for veg (you could veg sufficiently with 4 43 watters if you place them around the plant not just on top of it) and when you throw it into flower blast it with the hps and keep the cfl's in there too and kick some butt. You would have about $150 in the whole setup. That's about as cheap as I think you could do it for and still do it well.

[turtle420]

$75 + S&H for an HPS!

WeedyBoyWonder, now you know what you must do.

4 CFLs for veg
4 CFLs + HPS for flowers

Now that would make you WeedyBoyWonder!

[SeedKing72]

I think the CFL's are gonna cost just as much in the long run.. What do they cost? What Wattage are we talking..

[Marc Benson]

The reason I suggested CFL's is because he could buy a few now to get things going and then as he got a few extra bucks buy a couple more. Then by the time 12/12 rolls around have enough maybe saved up for the hps.

[SeedKing72]

Yeah go with the CFL's,

[mand]

Hey mand... lots of good info here, and not to nit-pik...but I have a question about seeds "unlikely to have been pollinated". Iâ??m not an expert on plant biology, but i believe pollination has to occur in order for a plant to produce seed ( fruit, of course, can still be produced, thatâ??s how one gets seedless grapes, among others). If you have a seed, it should have all the genetic material needed to produce a viable plant.
Therefore the reason for the seed not germinating must be due to other factors, perhaps if the seed pods not being mature enuf when harvested for them to have completely formed, or not the right temperature, do you think?

Hello Crashdamage Well as I was writting I thought oo-err shall I say this
You see I'm not 100% certain about it, I can only speak from personal experience. I am of the mind that a plant will on occasion produce un-pollinated seeds. I say this because I have not had many seeds in my crops, but of the few I have had I am utterly convinced there were no male flowers at all.
The last crop I grew produced the most seeds I have ever had, two of the plants produced around a dozen seeds between them and I am absolutely positive that there were no male flowers anywhere, I may be wrong but I don't think so.
I really don't have enough knowledge about the subject to say ethier way 100%

I tend to think of it this way, I have in the past kept chickens (I know it's not the same thing but just humor me ). Anyway all the chickens were female, no cockerall's at all, and yet during the summer the chickens laid eggs everyday, totally unferterlised, which is what chickens do
A broody chicken could sit on one of these eggs forever and it would never hatch because it was simply a baren egg.

Therefore I really do think that the odd plant will produce un-pollunated baren seeds.


Anyway C thats my theory, right or wrong I'm not a 100%...........why do I think I'm digging a big hole for myself here


love mand xxx

[Marc Benson]

Cluck cluck cluck! Scratch scratch scratch! Ya know I love ya Mand.