Newb setup. Any recommendation would be helpful!

Well, a list of stuff is not a setup. I know that from 2 years of setups you can see in my journal.

You remind me, of me. All hope. No experience. I can make a few comments.

- You are not at the beginning, when you build it, that isn't the beginning, either. First time thru a cure. That's the beginning.
- How are you in Botany? I was much better at building set ups.
- How are you fixed for electricity? I ran out of 30 amps very quickly just in a bathroom.
- How can you control the heat and humidity?

Your list can become a setup, no problem. But, an indoor grow can be quite robotic, with you as the robot.

- How are you fixed for time? Sometimes I look up and it has been all day, I have been futsing with leak or something.

So, location, situation and money seem to be covered. You just need to grow stuff.

The setup will help or hinder, the plants growth, only a little. The rest is on you.

Good luck....start with growing stuff and that can push you to make decisions. At frist, it can just be tomato, you know.

These are just questions you ask yourself, no need to tell us, but to think about it.

Doer said:

Well, a list of stuff is not a setup. I know that from 2 years of setups you can see in my journal.

You remind me, of me. All hope. No experience. I can make a few comments.

- You are not at the beginning, when you build it, that isn't the beginning, either. First time thru a cure. That's the beginning.
- How are you in Botany? I was much better at building set ups.
- How are you fixed for electricity? I ran out of 30 amps very quickly just in a bathroom.
- How can you control the heat and humidity?

Your list can become a setup, no problem. But, an indoor grow can be quite robotic, with you as the robot.

- How are you fixed for time? Sometimes I look up and it has been all day, I have been futsing with leak or something.

So, location, situation and money seem to be covered. You just need to grow stuff.

The setup will help or hinder, the plants growth, only a little. The rest is on you.

Good luck....start with growing stuff and that can push you to make decisions. At frist, it can just be tomato, you know.

These are just questions you ask yourself, no need to tell us, but to think about it.

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Very true... Very wise. The truth is I'm going into this with low expectation but with full dedication. I'm gonna do my best and I know that I'm bound to make mistakes. With people like you on the forums I'm hoping will help ease the stress/mistakes along the way.
I really appreciate the knowledge you've dropped on me within my post, people like you really do make it a breeze to get integrated within the forums and have full confidence to walk or stumble forward into their grow.

Once again thanks for the tips and advice.

Tell us when a plant dies because of you. That is also a true beginning.

By the way, going back to the journal you mentioned which one would be the best to start off on?

Well, since it is a process of learning for me and my needs, I can say I found a simple solution that seems to be working for me. I still don't use soil indoors. So I'm not sure any of it will work for you.

What I found by going thru the experiments with growing in a variety of media, is I like co co coir, top feed, hydro. And I can use spray feeding for correcting imbalances separate from the over watering problem.

This stuff likes well drained and loose, not compacting, "soil" or media.

So, it is not the setup that matters so much. The "setup" is just your controls. How you control is different.

I would be wary of gathering a pile of stuff and expecting that to be the setup.

I have changed things so many times, because I was experimenting for me. I resisted the idea of firming anything beyond duct tape, plastic, and string, for the 1st year. I was looking at micro-grows. So, don't bother with that.

Then I moved into the standard 5 ft wide bathroom without the sink and cabinet.

Water source, is a main part, but water dump is the other main part. I can dump in the bathtub. I think a setup is what it can do for you, not the plants.

Plants need light, food, water, air and space, people temperature range. Simple. But, the setup is what allows YOU, to provide that. Makes it easy on you to operate the controls.

So, I think you can ignore all my 12 bucket hydro pumping phase as well.

You want roots. We all want roots. A setup is not roots. So, if you want to read a bit, I would start here.

You can see my previous attempt at top feeding, but, now I just use those Hydro Farm kits, for the feed rings and the drain tubes.

So, after 2 year of setup experiments, I have exactly 1 month of success. But, I did manage to get some Ounces bloomed and cured along the way.

In the house, we want fast grow, and a few plants staggered in growth, to create a reliable production, year round, right? Or else would would not invest in the set-up. It is not a one off deal.

This last chapter is called the Doom of Overwater.

https://www.rollitup.org/blogs/353494/blog30471-prev.html

That's a setup.