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SETUP AND DIRT HELP/OPINIONS? FIRST GROW!

smokinowl

New member
Hi! Ill be starting my first EVER grow in a week or two, whenever i get my seeds in. :woohoo:

I have a VERY low budget, I cannot get any big fancy lights. In fact, ill be going to the resell store to find lamps to screw all my growlights into! :tumbleweed:

I wanted an opinion on what Im going to be using, or wanting to use, and if any of you have a better suggestion for more bang for my buck!

Ill be doing, tops, 2 plants at a time, most likely only 1. It will be a very small grow for jut me and 1 friend.

My moms house has A TON of gardening stuff, including good stuff for soil mixes, i just need a base mix. I was thinking of trying to find foxfarms ocean forest or happy frog, I want to avoid using nutes if possible. This should be a capability with the stuff my parent has.

with lighting, she, the master grower in all things non cannabis has no indoor grow lights save a shitty aerogarden, which at best would probably be good for starting seeds or clones, LOL. So ill need to buy some. I was thinking six "
Hydroponic Full Spectrum CFL Grow Light Bulb 60 Watt Bulb 5500K H60" off of amazon or something similar from lowes, and two-way socket adapters to bunch all six into three lights. This in of itself is stretching my light budget, which is sad. But when my friend (differnet friend)who buys took my 50 and without asking got 3 grams of 'good stuff' instead of what we AGREED ON (which it very mych WASNT. foul taste, very very weak high, the stuff they got for 12 bucks a gram was waaaay better than this shit) i said enough. Tired of being scammed lol.

opinions? Will those lights be enough? Or do you know of better lights for as much (about 9-10 a bulb) or less?
 

smokinowl

New member
ah! There be the confusion. One friend buys, used to get stuff from her. Other friend has made investments in this little project if in return they get a lil. Parent couldnt care less, wont be messing with any of it but is letting me use supplies, is going to be 'in the dark' about it so she cant say if she knows shite. essentially, unknowing.
 

Tri_Cho_Me

Member
I think what Granger is saying is, and correct me if I'm wrong, the number one reason people get busted is word of mouth. Yea, they say "they're cool", but next thing you know, Sally gets drunk and a couple more people know....

Just keep it under wraps. Keep it small, manageable, clean, and safe. Keep those in mind, and you shouldn't have problems.

Welcome to the site and good luck!

Tri_Cho_Me
 

VERMONSTAH

Active member
all this projection about what your gonna do.........get your seeds, put em in potting mix not dirt from your backyard, and at the very least try to utilize t-5's or hid lights that may or not be on sale on local craigslist or cheap kooltubes off amazon.
 

Tynehead Tom

Well-known member
I veg all my plants to 5 /6 weeks with T8 florescents.
Any hardware store has the 4 foot 2 and 4 bulb T8 fixtures for 35 to 100 bux depending on size and indoor/outdoor useage. you want outdoor models.
for these you buy Maxlight 28watt hi lumen 4ft tubes. These burn at 4100Kelvin and grow some real nice healthy seedlings/clones. easy and cheap
each 4 ft x 4bulb fixture can start a lot of plants and I use one fixture to keep all my moms alive and producing cuttings. I use another 4ft x 4 bulb fixture to veg plants up for the flowering room (NH 940 HPS). Vegging clones 10 days to 2 weeks yields me 2 ounce plus fully cured per plant, fitting 9 plants around that 1000watt bulb.
simple and cheap as it gets.
Instead of soils with stuff in them, I would get a soiless media like promix hp or sunshine mix 4 and use a simple feeding program.
all I use is sunshine 4
dolopril supplement (dolomite lime)
general hydro flora series micro and bloom (3 part formula but the "grow" bottle is not used or purchased)
koolbloom powder in mid to late flower
and that's it.
my cost per gram is ridiculously cheap and garden maintenance is simple

there's a whole lotta ways to grow the bud and it's easy to get overwhelmed. New growers need to practice the KISS method ...... keep it stupid simple LOL . Learn the basics with the most forgiving methods and grow from there ;)
 
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