The Cold Hard Truth, Tell me how it iss....

OK folkss, while i keep on reading more and more and listening to peoples advice about growing ganja indoors. Are my hopes to high please let me kno so i aint let down come harvest. This is going to be my set up...

- The Shell of a hardwood 5 drawer dresser with a quarter/inch plywood as a door wid 3 heavey duty hinges,

- I stapled 2 emergency blankets all around the inside on the walls and on the floor for reflection purposes,

- For lighting, I ordered 2X t5 striplight 2f and Chrome hanging bracket kit also, 2Pack of T5 HO 2f lamps/daylight for veg, and 2Pack of T5 HO 2f Lamps/warm for blooming,

- For Nutrients, I ordered "Foxfarm Grow Big for soil 1L - npk12-7-7", also "Foxfarm Tiger Bloom for soil 1L - npk-2-8-4" And for an additive I ordered Snowstom 250ml - Produces more resins and buds sites also compacts buds,

- The Soil i am useing is Foxfarm Organic Potting Soil and Buying Prelite to add in,

- Also In the Dresser i am going to be useing a 2-Fan system then has excaust on one side and frash air on the other, useing flexible tubing i am putting both ducts on the back of the dresser doing both excause and fresh air. I Ordered a Digital Humidity/Temp Meter, and a ph testing kit (Which i am pro at due to the fact, i done a ph test as a science project back in highschool), Starting the germanated seeds dixie cups under 24/7 light then once reaching max size for cup transfered into 5gal pots i also ordered online.

- Last But not least the seed, i am ordering my seeds online at sweetseeds.com, i have bought two magazines at a needs 24/7 store and seen these in here, with a 3 pot setup and seeing i can buy 3 femenized seeds online was great so i am doing so once i recice my gear i ordered online and set it all up!!
The Seeds i am looking at first to grow are...

Big Devil (Autoflowering Feminized seeds)
A feminized automatic strain of high stature we have selected this particlar one which can reach a 1.5 meter height, In order to answer our customers demands for a higher automatic strain. Good production of compact and resinous buds, Incienced and fruity taste with a skunk touch.
Autoflowering 100%, THC 18%, CBD 1.2%, CBN 0.3%,
Indoor Yeild - 400 - 500 g/m2, Outdoor yeild - 40 - 250 g/m2,
Indoor Blooming - 6weeks, Indoor/outdoor harvest - 9weeks from germination,
Height 1-2m

Now, i personaly am expections about 400 to 500 grams a plant, so please tell me with this setup do you think ill get my hopes and wishes and if not tell me what you think will be the outcome , me and my twin bro nd family plan to take good care but not to much care me nd my ol man grew befour so i kno the basics this is personaly my firsttime indoors and using ferts/nuts. So please tell me one ways i can better this setup/meterals and tell me what you think of my hopes for 400-500 grams a plant!! Thanks nd have a good onee

P.S - Take to mind that these photos are older pics, i couldnt upload the newer pics with the emergency blankets, but thats it thats the only new thing so theres no use. tuill i get the new lights and all that gear sut up ill put the pics up then. so enjoy.

Well looks like you have some good stuff going but your expectations are extremely inflated as far as yield. If you expect a specific number your first serious go around, you are only setting yourself up for disappointment. Maybe 30-60 grams per plant would be a realistic number, but better to focus on the enjoyment of growing and being sensitive to the plants' needs. Good luck to you!

the projections of yeild are per metre squared not per plant and they are often based on optimum conditions. Autoflowering strains often don't produce as much yeild as non-auto strains and if your talking about 400-500 grams wet then that would work at around 3.5 ounces dry , which a experienced grower would strain to pull off a normal plant (veg for 4 weeks ext) under HPS, yeild depends on so many variables so its impossible to tell what it will be but i think 3.5 ounces per plant dry is a bit steep , sorry man

i lol'd at 400-500g! you wont get anywhere near that. ive only seen a few grow go veg through flower using t5 so it will be hard to estimate yield even if we knew all the other factors that are unforseeable. for instance on my first grow my plants vegged to long and got so big in flowering that i had to tie them down. then i messed up my nutrient mix by not washing out my bucket and i was barely able to save them. there really is a learning curve and trust me i thought i had this shit down when i started.

5 gallon bucket is way over kill. i rock 600w HPS's and i dont use that big of a pot. you need to rethink your strategy completly. t5's are good lights (i use em for veg to save electricity) but they still suffer from the same achille's heal all flourecents have, light penetration. after about 1 foot they start becoming ineffective real fast. a more effecient way to maximize your light situation would be to grow SOG. maximum bud sights and light doesnt need to penetrate very deep.

Immature587 said:

i lol'd at 400-500g! you wont get anywhere near that. ive only seen a few grow go veg through flower using t5 so it will be hard to estimate yield even if we knew all the other factors that are unforseeable. for instance on my first grow my plants vegged to long and got so big in flowering that i had to tie them down. then i messed up my nutrient mix by not wasing out my bucket and i was barely able to save them. theres really is a learning curve and trust me i thought i had this shit down when i started.

5 gallon bucket is way over kill. i rock 600w HPS's and i dont use that big of a pot. you need to rethink your strategy completly. t5's are good lights (i use em for veg to save electricity) but they still suffer from the same achille's heal all flourecents have, light penetration. after about 1 foot they start becoming ineffective real fast. a more effecient way to maximize your light situation would be to grow SOG. maximum bud sights and light doesnt need to penetrate very deep.

Click to expand...

Yea that seemed a lil to real to be true bout the 400-500 grams aha but like i sayy yuh gotta ask tah learn rite aha what do you mean bi SOG?

if youre looking for that much yeild my olny suggestion is to put the plants in the earth. it isnt too late to start an outdoor grow. (im in california) and like posted previously your auto plants wont get as much as a normal sativa, or indica for that matter.

caper24 said:

Yea that seemed a lil to real to be true bout the 400-500 grams aha but like i sayy yuh gotta ask tah learn rite aha what do you mean bi SOG?

Click to expand...

to true buddy we've all been there. i remember when i was 14 or so thinking you could grow, flower and harvest a full sized plants in like 30- 40 days for some reason lmao!

anyway here's an article that describes SOG (Sea Of Green)
http://www.concept420.com/marijuana_sea_of_green.htm

aha yea thanks alot fellas, i aintt 14 tho by a long shott im 19, jus didnt fully understand when it said g/per square meter nd all that jazz but i got that down noww, i aucally jus sprouted 4 jamacian seeds my sister picked up for me while she was in jamaica. She was at Rick Cafe and sum fella came up nd said " hey Monnn, you smoke the ganjaa" she said yess, he said wel here take some seeds bak of the finest budds youll ever puff enojy my love and left.. so here i am with thee seeds ofr over 2 months decided to sport them befour its too late nd there almost ready to be laid to rest in its pott nddd risee aboveee with sum sweetness aha.. i have a question for you growers out there too, my last attempts on growing i started off in a red dixie cupp then transplanted.. can i jus start the seed in my 5 gal pot and keep it in therefrom now to harvestt?

You could do that, but if a seedling died you'd have a 5 gallon bucket of soil instead of a dixie cup of soil. Transplanting is easy

Also 5 gallon pots seem big/wasteful for a cabinet

i would suggest that you do aperpetual 12/12 grow to keep the stetch to a minimum. dont think about yield at all, just think about creating the best conditions you can with your setup and letting nature take her course. yield is linked to genetics more that any other factor. and with auto they have a built in limit on size (read yield). so just have fun! and learn how to make constant improvements. oh.... btw keep your mouth shut, if one other person knows about your grow thats too many!

landracer said:

i would suggest that you do aperpetual 12/12 grow to keep the stetch to a minimum. dont think about yield at all, just think about creating the best conditions you can with your setup and letting nature take her course. yield is linked to genetics more that any other factor. and with auto they have a built in limit on size (read yield). so just have fun! and learn how to make constant improvements. oh.... btw keep your mouth shut, if one other person knows about your grow thats too many!

Click to expand...

aha im talkin bout ,my sister knowing bi, its pretty hard to hide considering she lives in the house and she smokes it herself, trust me this little project is a in house secret, no body knows about this but my family. Anyways i was just reading some other threads right and i came across someone with a similar setup as me, so im thinking, till i get that 2' fluro fixture im thinking on putting 2 trouble lights about 1 -2 inches from the seedling which i will start ina dixie cup and ,later transplant.. and in the trouble lights i am going to add a twin connecter to both so i can house 4 bulbs in the 2 trouble light fixtures and put 4 CFL 6400k and 4 CFL 2700k Bulbs when the times needed for each set.. for now i am only going to be growing the seeds from the jamaican fella and there are only 4 and so far one is only 1 sprouting so tomorow i plan to plant the sprouted seed and put this trouble light setup with the 4 bulbs, does anyone think this is the best way for me to go in the dresser grow box, please help me outt the times is nearr!!!

Try running it as you plan to run it, make sure the temps and all are correct. Temperature will likely be your biggest concern. If the temperature is good and you have some airflow, you should be good to go! What wattage CFL are you running?