How to setup grow room?

Scooby is great!!! While you have some time on your hands you may want to read up on LST:
https://www.rollitup.org/indoor-growing/6834-how-lst-low-stress-training.html

It's a method that looks interesting to me and it should work in the area you are looking at. I don't know if you live near your friend who grow, but I have a good friend who grow and he gives me what I need in exchange for trimming bud, although I think he'd give the stuff to me.
Good luck and keep the questions coming.

smigula said:

ok thanks, this will be my first grow, so from seed the first time and then after that id like to do whatever is the easiest.

I can easily figure out the hierarchy in the other categories, but I feel like grow lights / bulbs are integral to the overall grow, so while I do appreciate the Hortilux bulb reference, which type of Hortilux bubl do I want?

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my pleasure man. i would go with the MH bulb and the Super HPS for flower. they make a daylight blue MH but don't get that. it's like twice the price. not worth it either. stick to the regular 400w bulbs. i would recommend 1 of those 3 ballasts. i use lumatek but i hear good things about the others. just make sure the ballast has a 400w setting. you don't want one that is a 600w ballast with a 75% setting. i'm not sure how the other companies are but lumatek has a 600w ballast that can be dimmed to 400w. they also have a 400w ballast that is cheaper. it can be dimmed to 250w. i say get the 600w for a few extra bucks. that way if you decide to go a little bigger in the future you have room to play with. all you will need are 600w bulbs.

honestly, it would probably be easier for you to grow from seed or buy clones if that is possible. you can have a mother and take clones but that means you need another tent or grow area and equipment. and you need to learn how to clone. stick with seeds or clones for now. when you get a few grows under your belt and have a little more knowledge then take a look at maybe keeping a mother plant and having a veg tent.

good luck man. let me know if you need anything.

From what little i have read, MH bulbs are used initially, possibly during the veg stage, and then HPS bulbs are used when the plant is flowering. If this is the case, will this Hortilux light be good?

thanks again scooby, in the last post i was looking at the most expensive lights by Hortilux, but for this grow i should be fine with 400w bulbs. my question is, should I get two lights, HPS & MH, or this one which appears to be both?

smigula said:

thanks again scooby, in the last post i was looking at the most expensive lights by Hortilux, but for this grow i should be fine with 400w bulbs. my question is, should I get two lights, HPS & MH, or this one which appears to be both?

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hey bud. that's the bulb you don't want. it's a dual arc bulb and the technology isn't there yet. plus i've heard they have problems running in digital ballasts. you would be much better off with these two bulbs.

http://www.greners.com/i/grow-lights/hid-bulbs/brand/hortilux/hortilux-super-hps-enhanced-spectrum-bulb-400w.html
http://www.greners.com/i/grow-lights/hid-bulbs/brand/hortilux/hortilux-metal-halide-bulb-400w-horizontal-high-output.html

plus it will actually probably only cost you a tiny bit more. you run the MH bulb once the plants are a few inches tall or the clones are rooted. before that you can use a simple 43w CFL from the grocery store. 6500-6700k spectrum. you won't need anything more than that. you run the MH bulb all the way through the first 2 weeks of flower. then you run the HPS for the last 6-8 weeks of flower.

thanks again scooby. since i will only be growing for myself, I wont spare any expensive (reasonable) that will improve my grow at all. im thinking i will only have 4 plants growing at a time, so if there are any nutrients/lights/strains/anything anyone can recommend me please do

smigula said:

thanks again scooby. since i will only be growing for myself, I wont spare any expensive (reasonable) that will improve my grow at all. im thinking i will only have 4 plants growing at a time, so if there are any nutrients/lights/strains/anything anyone can recommend me please do

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Growing is something that takes time to learn...you can (and should) start with good quality products for all different aspects of your grow, but most important is going to be experience. After that come genetics and lighting. Without good genetics you can do everything right and end up with a poor end product. And without proper lighting for the size of your grow you end up with problems like fluffy buds, stretching, etc..

Make sure you set up your grow room with adequate ventilation/filtration and read up on some of the basics regarding light distance from plants (if it burns your hand chances are it burns the plants too) and temperatures in general. Watering and feeding schedules are important, and as scooby said any basic nutrient plan will work well for you. Once you have more experience, you can add and experiment with different/more advanced nutes, but as a beginner especially I would stick with the simple two or three part systems for veg/flower. Marijuana plants can be easily "burned" by feeding too strongly, and most people recommend feeding at a quarter strength from what it says on the bottle. Listen to this advice, and if your plants are looking like they need more nutrients then you can slowly increase the feeding. If anything you want to increase frequency of nutrients rather than the amount given at each feeding to begin with. Once the plants have chemical burn it's tough to recover. Over time you learn the specific strain you're growing and what it likes through experience.


Expect to learn a lot through the first cycle of plants and take it as exactly that, a learning experience. My first grow I was just happy to smoke the bud and get high, and have learned a lot in the process. Good luck with everything, and think about buying a book for your own reference. Information on here is great, but the ease of access with a book, coupled with the completeness of the information, I think is invaluable as a first time grower. Hope your injury gets better. I had a burst fracture L1 and an incomplete spinal cord injury and seven years later I'm walking, healthy, active, and happy. Keep your head up and hopefully your recovery continues. The marijuana certainly helps with the nerve pain

Aloha

Don't listen to anything 808dank says. Ever. His dog is 200 pounds over weight and is a diabetic because he feeds it a diet primarily of boston cream pies.

jk thats great advice.

Shoooooots

RIPLouDogg said:

Don't listen to anything 808dank says. Ever. His dog is 200 pounds over weight and is a diabetic because he feeds it a diet primarily of boston cream pies.

jk thats great advice.

Shoooooots

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Coming from the guy with a screen name after a dead dog. You got the cream, you got the cake, you got the fudge...I fail to see anything wrong with that!
Besides, I think all of us in here would agree...the fatter the ladies the better!!

currently, the apartment that we live in is really small, we are planning on moving in a few months but in the meantime what is the smallest build op that I can set up?

I would think you could make things easier on yourself to snag some clones from your friend in Michigan if it's not too far from you. That way you know you are starting out with a female and can get some tips for that specific strain from your friend if he has been growing it for a while. This tent is what i started with a few years ago. (http://www.htgsupply.com/Product-Grow-Tent---Size-Original-39-x-39-x79---Silver-Lined.asp) It isn't overwhelmingly large and you can still fit a decent grow inside. You could recycle it as a mother tent when you go to a bigger setup in the future.