First grow - Help my green thumb please

[Budless]

Hey guys!

First off let me suck up and say I love this site, I really do.

Ok right now I'm on track to start my first grow.

Strain - Barney's Sweet Tooth(seeds)

Type of grow - indoor-soil, microgrow

Grow Space - Red_Greenery's 'Maid

Lighting - 6 x 23 Watt CFL's for vegging, 6 x 42 watt CFL's for flowering

Medium - Expert Garder's Prefect Mix "all purpose potting soil", Perlight, and Vermiculite

Nutes - Only nutes contained in the mix, but mix has fast and slow release nutes within. However I will pick more nutes up when the time comes.

Water - City water, good quality though. Will test with pH kits regularly.

Additional info - ScrOG, 18/6 light cycle for veg, 12/12 light cycle for flowering

With all that having been said, allow me to ask you guys a few questions if you don't mind.

I had planned to use Promix, but I couldn't find any pro-mix for the life of me. I 'm going to go look today, but I can't promise anything. Do you think the stuff I currently have will work? Or do you think that the 'fast acting' nutes will burn my seedlings to death?

I bought Sweet Tooth under the impression that it's definately better than bag seed and I was under the premise it would produce purple buds. The more and more I look at different grows of Sweet Tooth the more and more variation I see. I want to know if there are any specifics on how one could get purple buds to form on the plant, or if it happens to be a specifically bread trait that can only be obtained from certain vendors? Also if anybody wants to be my guest and tell me what they think of Sweet Tooth(Baney's more specifically) I'd love to hear it. Is Sweet Tooth even ScrOG'able or is there a more prefered method of growing them in a small space? Lasty how would one describe the smell of Sweet Tooth(for smell management)?

On a side note - The purple bud is a novelty for myself. I don't have to have one, but I think the purple makes the plant really pretty and stand-outish. I'm only growing for myself, so I really don't mind either way.

I'd love all recommendations and helpful hints to keep me going in the right direction.

I'm constantly reading on the boards and I'm always looking for more information to improve my knowledge base over my hobby.

Thanks all for chiming in! Wish me luck!

 

[Guest]

i have a question for ya....where did you order your seeds...and how descreet is the packaging that comes threw the mail...im looking to order some and am doing some learning on who to order from and how stealthy it is.


if you already had these or got them for a friend than i guess im SOL...

thnaks

 

[Budless]

i have a question for ya....where did you order your seeds...and how descreet is the packaging that comes threw the mail...im looking to order some and am doing some learning on who to order from and how stealthy it is.


if you already had these or got them for a friend than i guess im SOL...

thnaks

I ordered through seedbay.com and sent a money order. I can't account for how descrete they come because mine are on the way. Im under the impressoin that I'll actually get the seeds. I guess I may be jumping the gun, but I have faith in the laziness of customs officals and good packaging.

I'll let you know ASAP.

 

[dre86]

18/7 that's an odd light cycle
Aside of that, it's sounding pretty good! Good luck..a tip: let city water sit 24h prior to giving it to the plants, some chemicals that could be harmful to the plant will evaporate out of the water then.
How many % of soil, vermiculite and perlite will you be using?

 

[Budless]

Oh, oops. I ment 18/6. A small slip of the finger.

 

[ItsGrowTime]

I just received a seed order from Dr Chronic today. Bought three Nirvana strains and 8 days later my seeds arrived. They were packaged stealthly. Seeds were packed well and I got a free sample of Chronics Revenge, too. No complaints at all. Im sure most seed banks use similar tactics to stealth the contents.

EDIT: removed specifics about shipping methods

 

[FallenBuddha]

I just received a seed order from Dr Chronic today. Bought three Nirvana strains and 8 days later my seeds arrived. (method of delivery deleted) Seeds were packed well and I got a free sample of Chronics Revenge, too. No complaints at all. Im sure most seed banks use similar tactics to stealth the contents.

It's not cool to reveal how a company sends their seeds.

peace -fb

 

[green_grow]

good point, buddha . an edit may be in order, growtime .

 

[ItsGrowTime]

I went ahead and edited it even though I simply answered the question that was asked. Hopefully the poster got a chance to read my original text and have the answer.

I will also say that I highly doubt the "powers that be" are totally clueless about how things are getting through and reading on some website will tip them off.