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As is said on Mr. Obvious on The Bob & Tom Show.....Long time listener, first time caller...
I have spent a great deal of time reading, reading and more reading....time for the reading to stop and the growing to start. I will be growing indoor but have the land and available water to grow outdoors very remotely. I have 10 White Widows and 20 freebies due any day.
Let's get started with some opinions.
Soil: As for seeding soil, all of the local super stores are pretty well depleted with growing supplies, ie., all they have are Miracle Grow Seed Starting Mix and such. I did find some potting soil and organic soil. All of these have some type of either MG plant food or organic plant food. From my reading, the seeds will not need any type of nutes, other than water, for the first three week. Care to comment of whether I should go with MG seed starting or mix up a potting soil combo of 2/3 potting soil, 1/3 perlite and lime, or just go with the organic and be done with it.
My grow box will be a 2'x2'x4-6' open box. While I would love to spend the money on a HPS, seeing this is my first go round growing inside I am going with this CFL setup for vegging.
These are Home Depot 27 watt, 5500K, 1400 lumen bulbs. Why....they were $4.97 US, per two, so that came out to $4.97 per 2800 lumens. Since my sq. footage will be 4 sq. ft. using three of those setups, I will have 5600 lumens per strip, 16,800 lumens total, 4,200 lumens per sq. foot of 5500K light for, with power strips, plugs and dual screw-ins, $70.00 total. Sure, I'd love to have HPS but I couldn't beat this price for a first timer...
Now what to grow first. Opinions on just jumping in with the White Widows. If I go with the WW's, how many should I germinate in order to be able to harvest the fems or is it just luck of the draw how many of the dreaded males I get? With the size of my box, the way I read it, I'll be limited to 4 flowering plants..or build another box to flower in and keep the fems, if I'm lucky enough to have more than 4 fems, top them and use them as donors as long as I can. If I time my harvest correct, I'm thinking to start the freebies in the spring and transplant those outside, in time for a May harvest.
Lookin forward to some growin'
I have spent a great deal of time reading, reading and more reading....time for the reading to stop and the growing to start. I will be growing indoor but have the land and available water to grow outdoors very remotely. I have 10 White Widows and 20 freebies due any day.
Let's get started with some opinions.
Soil: As for seeding soil, all of the local super stores are pretty well depleted with growing supplies, ie., all they have are Miracle Grow Seed Starting Mix and such. I did find some potting soil and organic soil. All of these have some type of either MG plant food or organic plant food. From my reading, the seeds will not need any type of nutes, other than water, for the first three week. Care to comment of whether I should go with MG seed starting or mix up a potting soil combo of 2/3 potting soil, 1/3 perlite and lime, or just go with the organic and be done with it.
My grow box will be a 2'x2'x4-6' open box. While I would love to spend the money on a HPS, seeing this is my first go round growing inside I am going with this CFL setup for vegging.
These are Home Depot 27 watt, 5500K, 1400 lumen bulbs. Why....they were $4.97 US, per two, so that came out to $4.97 per 2800 lumens. Since my sq. footage will be 4 sq. ft. using three of those setups, I will have 5600 lumens per strip, 16,800 lumens total, 4,200 lumens per sq. foot of 5500K light for, with power strips, plugs and dual screw-ins, $70.00 total. Sure, I'd love to have HPS but I couldn't beat this price for a first timer...
Now what to grow first. Opinions on just jumping in with the White Widows. If I go with the WW's, how many should I germinate in order to be able to harvest the fems or is it just luck of the draw how many of the dreaded males I get? With the size of my box, the way I read it, I'll be limited to 4 flowering plants..or build another box to flower in and keep the fems, if I'm lucky enough to have more than 4 fems, top them and use them as donors as long as I can. If I time my harvest correct, I'm thinking to start the freebies in the spring and transplant those outside, in time for a May harvest.
Lookin forward to some growin'