New to growing! Help please!

batmangrow

Active Member
Well I'm absolutely new to growing and I have a lot of questions. I basically have NO idea what I'm doing but I'm picking up an aerogarden tomorrow because I heard it's real easy to use and I'm growing using some seeds I found in some bud. I've been looking on the forums and alot of the topics ya'll talk about is way over my head. Can you guys help fill me in on what I need to do to be successful in growing? Any comments would help, thanks!
 

Dirtfree

Well-Known Member
Welcome to RIU check out the FAQ at the top of the page and there is a special section for areogardens. Good luck and happy growing
 

hawaiinsolja

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yep for new growers there is ALOT of reading involved and after you have learned the basics of what type of growing you would like to do thats when u ask the specific questions that you still have no clue about... you cant just come and post a thread asking for help because there are over 1000 pages of information and everyone has there own way of growing so opinions are always flying through these forums.
 

smokeandfly

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hey just my 2 cents if your talking about the aerogarden from tv. the neat looking 1 for herbs and stuff. they are good for veg stage but you would want another dwc setup for flower since the flouros aint that great on giving much bud. iv heard there easiest thing to look after tho. might get myself 1
 

gogrow

confused
Welcome to RIU check out the FAQ at the top of the page and there is a special section for areogardens. Good luck and happy growing

this is what i was talking about yesterday.... that was an acceptable, polite way to point a beginner to the faq.... rather than saying something like "learn to read", or any other host of useless posts....

+rep to you sir
 

Nimbliez

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OK, here is the quick and dirty, Aero gardening..... Keep your water pH in the range 5.5-6.8 the middle would be great. Monitor it for at least 3 days. Bubble your water, you need good Disolved Oxygen in your aero setup. Use weak nutes at first, 1/4 strength at first according to your nute's instructions. Increase the nutrient strength every time you change the water in your aerogarden, about 2 week intervals. 24 hours of lighting to start, after the first 2 weeks, switch to 18 on 6 off. Use a Metal Halide light for grow, about 400 watts. You'll switch to HPS in flower. If your wallet is pretty shallow, you can grow with CFLs, Bright white for grow, cool white for flower. When you reach 18 inches tall your going to swith to HPS (more red spectrum of light) for flowering. Bag seeds have a tendancy to be sativas. You'll probably be seeing little hairs on the girls. Little balls on boys. Sativas will show airy buds thin hairs. Indicas will be shorter plants with thicker hairs and very dark green leaves. Remove the boys from your grow. Dont forget to keep monitoring your pH especially right after you change water and nutrients. This is real quick and real dirty, by taking the advice earlier posted about reading you'll now have some reference to what to keep in mind. Luck with the Aero.
Nim
 

sandmonkey

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There's definitely a lot to learn at first, but most of it will come with experience. So don't worry!

To get started I highly recommend watching one or two videos on growing, like Jorge Cervantes' Ultimate Grow. It contains a lot of essential and basic info about growing good bud as well as some more advanced tips. That's how I got started. Then I would recommend looking at the FAQ which might be a bit of "overload" at first. A video is definitely easier to digest at first.

Good luck on your grow :bigjoint:
 
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