Newbie to growing

Tom Bee said:

Hi do you know what watt cfl bulb I should use if im only growing one plant

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tom, most of my friends who grow with cfl use multiple bulbs spaced all around thier grow box, typically the put as many cfl's as they can fit in the grow box without overheating the airspace most cfl grows are kept smaller in size also, typically if you have more head room and space growers go with a HPS or LED, I have seen many single plants grown under the single large size cfls such as the 125 watt or the single 250 watt like this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apollo-Horticulture-250-Watt-CFL-Compact-Fluorescent-Grow-Light-Bulb-System-/171339600845?var=&hash=item27e4a2d3cd
but if you have room I would put a 250 watt hps , you will out yeild the cfl by leaps and bounds

Tom Bee said:

Okok it's cool pal, what strain you growing mate

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I got 5 jock horror af, 5 Medusa, and i got couple freebie seeds from nirvana growing as well so hopefully thoes come out to be some bomb ass weed to.

I have a pair of donkey kong teenagers in my grow box, I am preparing the scrog screen to place over the top of them now

Tim Fox said:

I have a pair of donkey kong teenagers in my grow box, I am preparing the scrog screen to place over the top of them now

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Nicee! I would love to see pic's when you get a chance. I have never grown that strain before. I would love to though!

Would love to see pictures, it's only my first time growing so I got some auto kandy kush, thought that would be a nice one to start with

Tom Bee said:

My first time growing and I'm doing it indoors, I've ordered some auto candy kush and I have some miracle multi purpose compost, shall I mix the compost with anything or just by itself, any help would be appreciated!

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Hey a bag of black gold soul it's light airy add about half a bag of fermeculite and half bag of clay pellets moisten and you got an easy bad add mix no nuets will b needed for first 3 weeks just PhD water and you'll get frosty treats like this every time week five flower gorilla glue #4

Roughly how often would I be watering my plants? I know it's whenever they look too dry but how often is that? And how often shall I fertilise

Killerdills420 said:

Hey a bag of black gold soul it's light airy add about half a bag of fermeculite and half bag of clay pellets moisten and you got an easy bad add mix no nuets will b needed for first 3 weeks just PhD water and you'll get frosty treats like this every time week five flower gorilla glue #4View attachment 3473437

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Looks amazing, do you know if you can still trim the bottoms of your plants if you have autos? I know autos don't handle stress very well and I'm wondering if that would be too stressful for them

Tom Bee said:

My first time growing and I'm doing it indoors, I've ordered some auto candy kush and I have some miracle multi purpose compost, shall I mix the compost with anything or just by itself, any help would be appreciated!

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In fiddy litre pots i mix 20l mushroom compost , 20l generic potting soil , 5kg of clay balls and 5kg of vermiculite

Dont use cheap nutrients and only run at 65-70% max , this mix is quite microbial , is the bloody beez kneez , will upload photos of my babies only 3 weeks in tomorrow when lights cone on
Hope one day you try this , has only amazed me ...

Tom Bee said:

Looks amazing, do you know if you can still trim the bottoms of your plants if you have autos? I know autos don't handle stress very well and I'm wondering if that would be too stressful for them

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I have heard you can still trim them but don't do it all at once, take a few branches off, leave it a couple of days and take some more etc… also if possible try to pinch the branch off rather than cutting as I've heard this is less stressful for them