no I didnt germinate it ... ive never had a succesful germination even using the "plate method and the paper towel"

I just poked a hole in soil and put a seed a inch in the soil... This is my first ever growing ANYTHING or creating new life.im high srry. anywayyyy i did that and covered the small hole and watered it until the soil was soaked. now im guessing ill wait until the seed comes out the ground. cuz I got the light set up from 7 in mornin to 7 at night. thats when it gets sunrise here and gets sunset. will it grow?.. or do i have to germinate it?

Edit: ohhh i forgot to ask... do plants hate heat?. cuz i got it in a 3x3 closet with no ventalation in it.. just the bottom of the door... i opened the door today and the heat beamed out on me and almost knocked my eyeballs out. It wasnt too hot but enough to make you say... ehh its hot in here, turn on the air condition.

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to be honest I have never had success with just putting a seed in the dirt. You have to germinate the seed before puttin it in the soil. Make sure you put the plates in a warm place like on top of the a tv or monitor. It usually takes about 1-3 days for them to crack. Ive had them crack in as little as 10 hours though

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so, I guess i will wait 4 days until I check on the seeds?

Edit: Ok, right when i saw ur post about asking if I germinated first... i started germinating some seeds.... just now after i posted, i checked on them and i seen theres like a little point of white sticking out of the seed and it looks kinda cracked open. I planted it. I have a question... how many hours a day should I leave the light on? 400w hps ballast. I work night shift and my 1 room apartment is hot when the light is on, anyway I would like for someone to give me a time frame I should set my light to turn on and off becuz I prefer to not be in my room while its warm as hell. soooo I start work at 7:00pm and I get home at 6:30am. I dont mind having the light on in the morning cuz thats when i get my morning high and i dont feel shit.

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You need to keep your lights on at least 18 hours a day, some will even go 24 hours for several weeks. Hope you invested in a air cooled reflector. If the heats bothering you, you can bet the the plants are feeling it as well.

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^^ for sure get your temps down.
Since you work night shift anyway maybe you should have your lights turn on at night to keep the heat down.
HPS I would keep it down to a 18hr cycle just because of the energy cost. I do 24 hours under t5's and flouros then move to a hps(12/12) to save money

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how much more money will the electric bill go up if i leave it on 18 hrs a day? 400 watt hps ballast

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Can't say how much your bill will go up, but keep in mind that the plants need at least 18 hours of light to remain in the vegitative state. If your going less, your going straight into flowering. Alot of guys will go straight into flowering with rooted clones, but starting with seedlings they will never mature enough to produce much bud.

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so wut if i keep it 7pm to 7am... will the weed still make me high?

please give me estimation on how much my electricity bill will go up

EDIT: If yes... the weed will make me high... thennn how long should I keep these plants alive until I harvesst them?.... and how much bud or weed u think that they will produce once its time to harvest?....... most likely I will change it to 18 hrs a day if the bill dont go up that much but please answer my questions. Thank you I love you Mary Jane...


OH YEAH!!!! please tell me wut clones r xD cuz i dunno wtf u talkin about when u talk bout rooted clones

Edit #2: kk.. lol im so high but I still am thinking how I can make this grow good....after I germinated and the little white tip sticks out of the seed... how many days will it take until the plant comes out of the soil? ok... so how many weeks should I leave my lights on 24 hours?... i want this to be a good grow please give every tip because I wanna get the best results even though i am beginner. Thank you so much for replying to my threads . I love you all just like my homeboys that stay in my neighborhood in SW . thank you for getting me started and everything you suggest to me. Thank you seriously.

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Time of day has nothing to do with the quality of your pot. If you convince the plants that 7pm is when the sun comes up then they wont know any better. As long as they are getting their steady 12hrs of darkness, then they will flower just fine. I have read about people changing their light cycle in flowering but thats more advanced and wouldnt try it yet.Just stick with the 12/12 once you get into flowering.
The veg lights are up to you really. Some people say that 24hrs is better and some say 18hrs is better. It doesnt seem to matter much really. I noticed my plants do grow a little bit faster with 24hrs though

I am pushing about 1000w total watts between my two rooms and I have lots of other things, fans, humidifier, heater(for winter time). My energy bill is about $15 a month more. Its really not that much and I wouldnt worry to much about it. Its just one of those things my ol' lady bitches about so I gotta watch it lol

As far as when to harvest them you should go off the color of the trichomes(crystals on the buds). Thats when you know when to harvest. here is a good picture of the trichomes.

This is what actually contains the THC and other canabanoids in the bud. These little mushroom lookin crystals turn color from clear to cloudy to an amber color.
You can see some clear and some cloudy in this picture. The clear ones are not activated yet, so if you were to harvest a plant when its all clear it wouldnt get you high and would probably give you a headache.
When to harvest is all about your prefferences. If you harvest the plant when the trichomes are mostly cloudy you will get more or a head high or a energetic high. If you wait for them to turn an amber color then you will get that stronger body high that will sometimes put me to sleep lol
so its all up to you. Some people sample buds a couple times to see what they like best


Oh and clones. Clones are just cutting from any plant that you rooted and made into its own plant. You can take 20 cutting(branches or grow tips) off a plant and grow all out as plants that are idencital to their "mother". So if you have a really great plant that you want to have around for a while, cloning is the way to go. I make sure my cutting are at least 3" and some people go for more like 8". Its probably something you will have to read up on before you try it.

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so I should wait until the buds are a amber color untill I harvest them... cuz that means that they are ready to smoke to get me high huh? so i cut alittle bit of the branch and plant it to make clones?.... should I use a mature plant or a young plant?.... Thank you so much


So since my germinated seedling hasnt broke the surface yet... I should use 24 hour light for how many weeks?

should I keep the soil really really moist until the seedling breaks the dirt?

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