Hello All

I can see I've got a lot of reading to do to even remotely catch up with most of yall thus the reason I joined this place.

Personally I've never cared for the effects that pot had on me but my fiancee has Crohns and really suffers with it. After some research I found that marijuana could be beneficial and had her try it. The difference has been night and day. So, if that's what it takes to keep her healthy and happy, that's what I'm going to do.

I've been thinking for the last few weeks why not grow our own? Additionally I've been talking to my parents about the potential benefits to them who are dealing with their own health issues so if I can figure this all out maybe I can kill two birds with one stone.

I've researched the heck out of grow at home systems and it's such a complicated mish mash of opinion and techniques it gave me tired head over the last couple of weeks. What I really want to do is grow a couple of plants that will produce an ounce or two a month which should be more than enough for our needs.

I decided to join this place and, hopefully, get some good advice about cultivating, good robust strains, etc.. So if you find folks could help a guy out that's just trying to help his loved ones with medical issues I'd truly appreciate it.

You should maybe check into what kind of strains are going to be helpful for her affliction.
Then you should tell us what kind of space you have and your budget.

You could easily pull say 5 ounces in 4 or 5 months starting off with a small space and a 400 watt light.
There's a lot of ways to do it...

bgmike8 said:

You should maybe check into what kind of strains are going to be helpful for her affliction.
Then you should tell us what kind of space you have and your budget.

You could easily pull say 5 ounces in 4 or 5 months starting off with a small space and a 400 watt light.
There's a lot of ways to do it...

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Thanks Mike. All of the information I've found is equivocal and scattered. I live in an apartment and I was going to grow in the laundry room using the exhaust vent as an outlet through filter or in the upstairs closet through the roof. Both are easy to design and construct. I've been looking at space buckets as an option but the 'instructions' are really poorly written and the constructions I've seen are generally pretty bad (I'm a structural steel designer / pseudo engineer so I like drawings and details). Generally I can conceptualize a design from a description but this one is escaping me. Add in the fact that I've never been able to grow jack I'm a little nervous about investing a couple hundred bucks for a potential epic fail.

As far as strains I've kind of settled on a 50 / 50 for the overall benefits but I'm still doing research. It would probably be easier if I partook but, like I said, I've smoked about 20 times in my life and really didn't like the effect. Nothing against it and I've always been a big time supporter of legalization because I think it's completely stupid to outlaw something that, with the right instructions, could be grown on my balcony. Not to mention the billions of dollars we spend as a country to try to interdict / stop the flow of it into the US and the number of people that we pay to incarcerate for weed plus the fact that it REALLY helps my girl who I've watched almost die twice and, well, screw it. Whatever it takes to make her better and hopefully helps my folks then that's what I'm going to do. I'd just like a bit more control and quality than what I'm getting now.

I appreciate the response sir.

I would just start of in a small cabinet or closet grow depending on how much money you want to spend u can pick up 2 125w CFLs and throw them in a cabinet from Walmart or something...you could also start on auto flowering seeds which are very hard to fuck up haha you just leave em on 18/6 and feed em nutes! Good luck on your adventures wish I could go to the beginning again haha...BTW cannabis is a gateway crop to growing literally everything..hahaha

I don't much about space buckets.
Aero always grabbed my attention because of the simplicity and fast growth.

Weed is easy to grow. With your background I'm sure you will do fine.

You can pop some seeds and put them in miracle grow in your window and it will grow. Not the preferred method...

I like aero but I guess most would say start with soil. I can't imagine using anything less than 400 watt hid. I use 2 600s.

mbishop95 said:

I would just start of in a small cabinet or closet grow depending on how much money you want to spend u can pick up 2 125w CFLs and throw them in a cabinet from Walmart or something...you could also start on auto flowering seeds which are very hard to fuck up haha you just leave em on 18/6 and feed em nutes! Good luck on your adventures wish I could go to the beginning again haha...BTW cannabis is a gateway crop to growing literally everything..hahaha

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I'm not in disagreement. But this guy is educated. Why waste time with cfl?

it's hard tip you with such small info, grow weed it's easy, it's a resilient plant and if you spend some time reading different opinions there's no reason for you to fail.
To grow a plant need light, fresh air, a proper media and the right nutrients, that's everything you need to know to start.
on this forum you can find everything you need about stealth grow (noise, odor), if all you need is a small harvest than go with "cfl stealth micro grow", try google that and you get all the info you might need.
good luck and happy growing

If its your first grow regardless you're gonna fuck up somewhere...everyone does. CFL's run cheap and the heat produced is very low...they are also very easy to work with while learning.

mbishop95 said:

If its your first grow regardless you're gonna fuck up somewhere...everyone does. CFL's run cheap and the heat produced is very low...they are also very easy to work with while learning.

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CFLs are also super cheap to buy. You can put a little more money into your room and get that going then once you learn Mich about growing took me about 3 grows with CFLs before I finally orderd my first 400w HPS which works way better than a cfl but way more heat and money on hydro! Im thinking of switching to 300w led or cool tubing my HPS.

http://www.growweedeasy.com/marijuana-space-buckets

Just read about space buckets. Lol

So I'm trying to cashcrop and that might affect my outlook on this.
But if you're going to grow and you want 2 oz a month why not just get a small tent and scrog with a 400 watt. Or 600 for that matter? You will need a light. A tent. Or diy which should be easy for you. A little ducting. A couple fans. A filter. Some buckets and soil. And some nutes.
I just saw a guy that pulled 8 oz from a 3 foot square with 1 400 watt. I'll try to find his journal for u.

https://www.rollitup.org/t/yoda-dont-know-first-time-grow-ak-royal-400w-3x3.899014/

Check this guy out. You could easily replicate this.
You can go online and get a medical strain feminized seeds...

Thanks a bunch for all the information folks. I figured if I asked in a good forum I'd get a little clearer understanding of what I'm getting in to. Yall can laugh as much as you want but my little designer / enginerd brain took off on a tangent reading all of this and I designed a grow system in my head. If I get time today or tonight I'll draw it up and post it up for opinions / criticism / ideas. A lot of local fabricators have what they call 'drop' steel which is essentially scrap from a former project. Generally you can pick this up for pennies on the dollar and fab yourself if you want. What I'm thinking is a 24" OD round metal bucket with a raised mesh about 2" from the bottom to hold the soil and allow for good drainage where the waste water drains into a plastic bowl that can be easily changed daily. I've got a couple of spare computer fans that I'll attach to the cutouts on both sides for good airflow. I'm thinking a misting system shouldn't be too hard to come up with but I have concerns about the effect that might have on the fans maybe make the bucket tall enough that I could mist under the input fan. I can probably get one of my suppliers to 'sample' me an outdoor led fixture that can be easily wired in. Exhaust system is a piece of pcv with a coupling to change out the filter that I'd refill regularly with activated charcoal.

As neophyte as I am what would be the optimum height of the plants for a decent grow and good buds? I'd like a small bushy plant as opposed to a tall one. I'm thinking 24" to the top of the plant and another 12" for the lighting, misting system, and inflow / outflow fans. Sorry if this has been answered by some of the links provided I haven't had the opportunity to peruse them as my work day is blowing up on me.

Edit. I drew one up today but it's not showing when I try to post it as a pic. Weird.

bgmike8 said:

http://www.growweedeasy.com/marijuana-space-buckets

Just read about space buckets. Lol

So I'm trying to cashcrop and that might affect my outlook on this.
But if you're going to grow and you want 2 oz a month why not just get a small tent and scrog with a 400 watt. Or 600 for that matter? You will need a light. A tent. Or diy which should be easy for you. A little ducting. A couple fans. A filter. Some buckets and soil. And some nutes.
I just saw a guy that pulled 8 oz from a 3 foot square with 1 400 watt. I'll try to find his journal for u.

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That's pretty much what we've settled on for starts. I figure some pcv or scrap tubing which is easy to find in my line of work hell I could probably get one of my suppliers to build me a frame if I asked nice and either some heavy plastic sheeting should do the trick. We don't get a lot of visitors (by choice) so I'm not as concerned about the stealth aspect until November when her parents come to visit. By then, hopefully, she either has plenty to get by and I can suspend operations for a week or plan ahead and downsize for a week.

Best of luck

I have grown confidential cheese, CBD Shark and pennywise for a few crohns patients.. check out this..its a start.. https://www.leafly.com/news/strains/top-10-strains-to-combat-crohns-and-colitis in an apartment, Sativa strains could be a challenge, but can be done with training. Like bgmike8 said, I would encourage an HID light or there are some decent advertisers here offering COB/CREE LED lights.. personally I would recommend a CMH light.. decent spectrum and the 315 will cover the space you will probably have in an apartment and give you decent yields of good quality, much better quality than CFL will offer... or you can look into some good T5's if HID wont work. There are some good folks here producing quality under T5. If I can recommend anything, if it is for medical, focus on quality over quantity first, as it will benefit your wife more than having a boat load of poor quality bud. Research making oils and butter for edibles too, they tend to be a good way to take in meds... or a good vape pen. There are many good threads here to get you started and some good folks too... do some reading and enjoy the grow.. when planning space a decent sized plant is going to use a 2x2 space in flower, just something to keep in mind... you can do smaller plants but genetics, veg time and training dictate how large they get in flower... happy growing

Mount said:

I have grown confidential cheese, CBD Shark and pennywise for a few crohns patients.. check out this..its a start.. https://www.leafly.com/news/strains/top-10-strains-to-combat-crohns-and-colitis in an apartment, Sativa strains could be a challenge, but can be done with training. Like bgmike8 said, I would encourage an HID light or there are some decent advertisers here offering COB/CREE LED lights.. personally I would recommend a CMH light.. decent spectrum and the 315 will cover the space you will probably have in an apartment and give you decent yields of good quality, much better quality than CFL

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Thanks brother. I cut your reply down a bit so I don't text wall the forum. I'll look into all of that for sure and the 2 x 2 sounds good as I've got a 5 x 5 space to work with. What do you think about LED's? The reason I can probably get one that puts out 5600 lms for next to nothing.

Edit: Oh ya. We went through that thread today. Good info.

Next dumb question. I like beer. No, check that, I LOVE beer. I love the effect, the way it calms me down, helps me concentrate, etc.. Frankly, as I work from home and am not subject to any tests, I do have to wonder if there's a strain out there that closely resembles the feeling I get after downing a few cold ones. I might just change my mind about personal use if I can find something that gives me a good chill without feeling that rational thought is a tad out of my reach. Last hit I took was off of her pipe and, granted, she had thrown some kief on top and I sat down trying to do a drawing which I could do after a 30 pack in one day no problem but there was no way I could even get close to messing with it.

Good luck. Check out the second link in my signature for more ideas.

Dalek Supreme said:

Good luck. Check out the second link in my signature for more ideas.

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Good stuff there sir. Thanks. It reads like an engineering or code manual. NOW you're speaking my language LOL

GodfatherKCCO said:

Good stuff there sir. Thanks. It reads like an engineering or code manual. NOW you're speaking my language LOL

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Thanks...That's a great compliment. Tee-hee!