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The_Herban_Legend said:
Looks good. Keep it growing my friend.
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Thank you. I'm just playing it by sight really. Haven't got a temp gage or ph reader. Got some air coming in from my room. A fan. A little nutes here and there and just tap water. If I see any changes I just reduce something in its diet. Had a little heat burn at the start. A little curl down of the leaves so I read up and found out many too many nutes so just reduced it slightly and so far so good. It's just started to flower so I'm keeping a beedy eye on it.
 
Hello all. Just a quick introduction here. Been reading the forum for quite some time without ever registering. I just seem to come here more often than most other sites when searching for answers. I am a newer grower. I am about 5-8 days from my second harvest. The first was a complete nightmare. Mostly because I 'thought' I knew what I was doing and did not! Hopefully, I can get into my adventures for that grow at a later time. This one is much better and consists of 2 Lemon OG Haze girls and 1 White Widow that are close to harvest. I grow in my attic and have two 'rooms'. I have a veg room with CFL. Can't remember the total wattage at the moment because I'm experimenting with a cabinet for veg and clones. My flower room isn't tall, but right now I run a 600w HPS in there. I am upping it to 1k after the new year. I also currently have 4 clones in veg. I also use Fox Farm nutrients. Been a daily user for 15+ years. Started to learn this addictive hobby when I lost my job and didn't have the $$ to spend on it. My wife quickly agreed that a small garden in the attic is worth the $$ I was spending. Not sure what else to put. Glad to be here!
 
Hey. Total newb to growing anything really. Had to switch up my lifestyle a little bit now that I have a wife and a couple of young kids. Went from being a ski/trout bum and living mostly outside to having pretty demanding obligations both professionally and at home. Both the ol' ball and chain and I are heavy smokers and even at medical prices can spend as much as $800 a month on ganj so seemed like growing would be a fun hobby that we could both get into while being at home and hopefully will end up making financial sense as well. I am pretty torn at the moment, I have scrounged up enough cash for a setup from a prefab growbox maker called BCNorthernLights but am not sure I want to pull the trigger. Fully understanding that they are just about the spendiest route to accomplish what I want to do I'm leaning that way for the following reasons and would love some feedback/advice:
  • We are renting the home we will be in meaning we may be there for as little as 1 yr and it is obviously not kosher to be growing on the property as per our lease so stealth is really important.
  • Like I said, I have little kids who are very curious so the idea of being able to lock everything appeals to both of us but especially my wife
  • I am not super handy and really don't have many tools on hand so I feel like the boxes will have paid themselves off by the time I got a more DIY setup figured out
  • My wife is doing the mommy thing full time right now so she will be around most of the time but neither of us has a lot of free time to sink into this project
If somebody could tell me why to go another route and maybe offer some re-assurance that as long as I'm not an idiot I could figure it out I am open to whatever. What we have available to us space wise is a pretty big 2 car garage. Any feedback about BCNorthernLights specifically would also be really appreciated. Sorry for the long post, really looking forward to getting up and running and being involved in what seems like a very cool community both on and offline. Thanks!!!
 
BeaverStateKronicChief said:
Hey. Total newb to growing anything really. Had to switch up my lifestyle a little bit now that I have a wife and a couple of young kids.
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I was/am in the exact situation you are in. As I am still a complete noob at this, I've learned so much from the hands on part of growing. I am not familiar with the grow box you are speaking of but will take a look. I've been wanting a grow tent but haven't decided to go that route yet. I have had more fun trying to make my own stuff and I'm not handy either. This site and YouTube have step by step instructions. I'm experimenting with a cabinet, strictly for veg and clones, that I threw 6 100w CFL lights into. Good luck!
 
jme5674 said:
I was/am in the exact situation you are in. As I am still a complete noob at this, I've learned so much from the hands on part of growing. I am not familiar with the grow box you are speaking of but will take a look. I've been wanting a grow tent but haven't decided to go that route yet. I have had more fun trying to make my own stuff and I'm not handy either. This site and YouTube have step by step instructions. I'm experimenting with a cabinet, strictly for veg and clones, that I threw 6 100w CFL lights into. Good luck!
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Thanks for the feedback! So did you just start going to the local hydro shop and figure it out as you went or get plans off the internet or something?
 
BeaverStateKronicChief said:
Thanks for the feedback! So did you just start going to the local hydro shop and figure it out as you went or get plans off the internet or something?
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I read a ton! And after all that I still screwed everything up. I ended up trying to spend as little as possible to start up. Other than a few trial and error buying mistakes, I did pretty good. I divided a space in my attic into a veg room and a flower room. My biggest purchases were 2 inline fans and a 600w HID ballast. I use 100w Panasonic CFL 6500k daylight bulbs in the veg room. I built a reflector that holds 8-10 bulbs (I can't remember). I'm moving it later today so if you'd like, I can take some pictures. The hood maybe cost $15 in parts. A 4 pack of the bulbs are $12 at Home Depot.

I do get my seeds online. I'll share through PM...I'm not sure if that's allowed on the forum. I actually have a lot of seeds. I used 3 seeds that I ordered and have taken clones for this grow except for my white widow.

I checked out the unit you are looking at. Holy crap! If you can afford it, it looks to have gotten decent reviews. I was some more impressive grows from a similar box named Titan or simething.
 
jme5674 said:
I read a ton! And after all that I still screwed everything up. I ended up trying to spend as little as possible to start up.
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Yeah I am still pretty conflicted about the whole thing. I think if I don't go the box route I will do a couple of tents. It makes sense to me that nothing is really going to become clear until I actually start growing and getting some hands on experience. Just trying to set myself up to be successful as quickly as possible/avoid some headaches. I'm interested in any information I can get my hands on so if you get the chance I will definitely check out some pics. Thanks man!
 
no problem! i'll share anything i can. i wish i would have joined here last year! i read, but never interacted. my nutrients were way off, i got spider mites and fungus gnats. i never thought that everyone saying to 'prepare for anything' was right. i think one of the biggest thing that i've learned is how the plants tell you what their problems are. like the nutrient deficiencies...i had an obvious calcium deficiency but didn't know what it was. i had the gnats, but had no idea that's why i was getting spots on the fan leaves. stuff like that. i thought i knew enough, but the hands on is where it's at. my lights come on at 5pm eastern time. i'll get some pics and post them later.
 
New to growing. I've been puffin the Cheeba for many years and decided to start raising my own girls. This forum has provided so much helpful information. I'm approaching my first harvest and I get tingly just thinking about burning my own grown ganja. My baby girl is in the window getting some sun but it's a bit cloudy so I threw some cfls on her. I made some mistakes early on and shes a little stunted as a result. But her buds look feel and smell POTENT. Is this window/light combo a bad idea?
 

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Just signed up, read some things in some forums that peeked my interest and I'm starting my first ever grow with an AeroGarden ultra led. Wish me luck and all advice welcome
 
jme5674 said:
no problem! i'll share anything i can. i wish i would have joined here last year! i read, but never interacted. my nutrients were way off, i got spider mites and fungus gnats. i never thought that everyone saying to 'prepare for anything' was right. i think one of the biggest thing that i've learned is how the plants tell you what their problems are. like the nutrient deficiencies...i had an obvious calcium deficiency but didn't know what it was. i had the gnats, but had no idea that's why i was getting spots on the fan leaves. stuff like that. i thought i knew enough, but the hands on is where it's at. my lights come on at 5pm eastern time. i'll get some pics and post them later.
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Here some pics of my current grow. Sorry for the awful lighting. i didn't want to take any with the HPS light on because of the yellowing. had to take these with a flashlight shining overhead. i'll try to get some better ones closer to harvest, but i don't have a good light up there....

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This is one of the colas of my white widow.

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Closer of the white widow

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Close up of the top of one of the buds

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This is one of the lemon og haze colas. These two girls look great with good light. tons of trichomes. but i tried to make 8 colas and the thing stretched so much i had to top all 8 so they both have 16. gonna get small tight nugs from them.

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This is a clone i took. she's only 10 days into flower. i had to supercrop everything including the main cola cuz of the crazy stretch. probaby 3x! I didn't train, top or anything to this one. she is super healthy right now. i did trim off all the popcorn at the bottom that started to form.

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Here is a really bad shot of the 4 of them.
 
jme5674 said:
Here some pics of my current grow. Sorry for the awful lighting. i didn't want to take any with the HPS light on because of the yellowing. had to take these with a flashlight shining overhead. i'll try to get some better ones closer to harvest, but i don't have a good light up there....
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WTF do I know but that looks like pretty strong work to me! Let's stay in touch dude. I decided to go with a couple of tents and a cocoa setup in the garage to start. Linked up with what seems like a kick ass grow shop here in Portland so they will hopefully offer good support and are going to quote me a price for a package kind of a deal. Seems like any growing pains (it's bad but pun intended) I experience will be worth the knowledge gained in the long run since I would like to work towards eventually having a dedicated room or basement when I buy a place here in the next couple of years. Thanks for sharing man!
 
BeaverStateKronicChief said:
WTF do I know but that looks like pretty strong work to me! Let's stay in touch dude. I decided to go with a couple of tents and a cocoa setup in the garage to start. Linked up with what seems like a kick ass grow shop here in Portland so they will hopefully offer good support and are going to quote me a price for a package kind of a deal. Seems like any growing pains (it's bad but pun intended) I experience will be worth the knowledge gained in the long run since I would like to work towards eventually having a dedicated room or basement when I buy a place here in the next couple of years. Thanks for sharing man!
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i think that's a good choice to start. sounds good on the staying in touch. after you get it down...which i still haven't...you'll want to dedicate a warehouse! it's way more addicting than i thought it would be.
 
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