Hey I'm a new grower and I need some tips from the pros on here. This is a great site prolly be around here a while. But this is my first post. I've got an assortment of seeds I've acquired over time. I don't even know what seed came from what plant anymore. Anyways. I've taken about 10 seeds and have started germinating them. I'm not sure where to plant them yet. I have two options.

One option is planting in my house. I have a large crawl space inside the wall with insulation. The other option is growing outside. I have about 20 acres of land and I live in North side east coast USA. I want to plant a few plants for my personal use.

I have actually planted some seeds in the insulation without germinating them so its prolly not gonna work but they've been in there a week or so with no sign of life. I have an aquarium tank with miracle grow potting soil with 2 lamps on it. One lamp has two 25w red aquarium tubular bulbs and the other is a regular 80 or 100 watt bulb. I water the 10 or so seeds I've planted with a quart of water a couple times a day.

I need to know if indoor or outdoor would be better with the equippment I have. What equippment I would need to plant indoor. And if the seeds I've planted now have a chance.

Thx

aaahhhhhh!!!!!! start over. outdoor is to late. indoor you need a restart. kill those lights. get some shop lights if anything. kill that aquarium. you need pots with drainage. are you growing IN the insulation? what's wrong with soil? read "grow faqs" top left of your screen.

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Are you telling me you haven't tried Sensi's Asbestos X Jack Herer? A cerebral high to die for my friend.

Ok I'm gonna start fresh. I've started germinating some seeds. I've dumped the current and ill prepared project in the garbage and have gotten some pots. The planting area is in the second story behind drywall. There are boards in there so I can place the pot, after I germinate and plant the seeds, off the insulation but the area is all insulated. You said the pots need drainage but I can't have water going through the ceiling. Would watering them over a sink and then placing it back work or watering them with something like a baking pan under the pots work? I read up before posting on lighting but don't know where to acquire such lighting. Can something like that be bought at a hardware store? And how many lights do I need for 3 or 4 plants?

you can put the pots in some kind of big plastic tub. wal-mart has something. i am using shop light to veg my babies.

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Well you need drainage to avoid getting root rot. Can't you just put down a plastic tarp of some sort? You can get HPS floodlights from Home Depot, but you can get reasonably priced HID systems from High Tech Garden Supply. How big of a grow area do you have?

The area is 5 to 6 ft tall and 5 to 6 feet wide and the prolly 80 to 100 ft long to grow in.

Where did you say you lived again? Thanks, I'm moving in.

This will get you from veg to flowering: High Tech Garden Supply

I did some digging in the garage before I made a trip to the garden store. I found a couple shop lights like fdd2blk said. They are kinda small but they will get me started. I also took pictures of the growing area caused people asked.

Lights I have 2 of these has a 50W in it.

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Growing Space

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Also I'm planning on building a growing box area big enough to fit at most 10 plants but prolly 5 since half will turn out female. I'll buy bulbs and a small fan for ventilation. But in the mean time will putting the germinated seeds into a 2 liter bottle cut in half with holes for drainage and potting soil work until I get it built?