Looking to learn more?

Looking to learn more about growing. I love it but there's always room for improvement. Anyone who can help point me in the right direction?

This site has a lot of great info. However:
Look into:
- Ed Rosenthal's Mari Jane Grow Guide
- Jeff Lowenfels Teeming with microbes
I feel between those two books you should be more or less set.

Indoor, outdoor, soil, hydro?

You should find your way to a medical card; and start growing; those two steps will keep you busy for a couple months. I'm using FFOF + HF + Mother Earth Tea + Iguana Juice 400MH + 600HPS; that might keep you busy for a half hour or so. GL!

Light = dense buds
manipulating the plant so you have as many tops as possible will ALWAYS multiply youryeild(top your plants or tie the tallest part of plant downward so other nodes can and will grow taller to equal your top when it grow back upward.

ENVIROMENT IS EVERYTHING... clean rooms/preventative bugs spray every so often/air movement/correct temps AT ALL TIMES... you will get a very good yeild and potency per your strain without much effort if you follow the basics above.
As you go you will learn what strains like for training and food and maximize from there.

mrCRC420 said:

You should find your way to a medical card; and start growing; those two steps will keep you busy for a couple months.

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If you're brand new, you'll be busy spending a bunch of money and doing it wrong for a couple months. The same way anything is when you're new.

Watch the videos on YouTube and learn about the equipment you need to grow. I watched the "I Grow Chronic" video on there a couple times because its a pretty solid documentary about how to put a room together and how to take care of the plants. So you learn what goes into a room, then you start looking for equipment. Think about the space you have available, and how you're going to set up the layout. If you don't want to modify your house, grab a couple grow tents. You can focus on the stuff you need for your veg room first, then once the plants are on their way in veg, start building your flower room. Buy used stuff. You can get vegging quickly for short money, you just need a tent, a T5, and a couple fans. Shop on craigslist. Use hardware you already have in the garage to save money. You can use S-hooks and chain for a LOT of stuff, you don't need a light hanging kit from the grow shop. Steel is tougher than plastic.

Then grow, grow, grow! Feed em their nutes, keep the room cool and comfortable, train em how it suits you. You'll be on your way before you know it!

Start simple. General Organics nutrients require NO pHing as long as you follow the feeding schedule(synthetics require a lot of checking with pH or EC/PPM) you can move on to better nutrients and higher quality brands when you know how to get a plant to harvest. Coco or readygro for a medium as they contain no nutrients. so you will not be burning as soon as you start..

I've been growing for about 3 years now and still learn everyday. Hell I had never read up on super cropping and just got some info from a MOD of RIU and BAM! My Blue Dream went from ok to HOLY FUCK SHE LOOKS GOOD..... You will never learn it all.

you can download anything you want off the internet. open your frostwire, click on search, click on books, and type in marijuana. you'll get e-versions of almost everything worth reading. But I will tell you trying to find out a problem you are having by looking in a book almost never helped me. I was never diagnosing correctly. and fucked up a lot of plants.

Get a few essential books, ie. Grow Bible, indoor horticulture.

Watch the DVD's if you want. NICO has the best I've seen. even better and both jeorge's. you can download them too. As long as you are legal or just know your local grow shop owner. most grow themselves and can have some very high quality information and advice for issues or upgrades. Good luck and just get started. as long as you are not trying to run the world with weed as soon as you start up you should get many of the basics down after a grow or two.

BrewsNBuds said:

If you're brand new, you'll be busy spending a bunch of money and doing it wrong for a couple months. The same way anything is when you're new.

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That's not someone being harsh, thats the kind of honesty you need to hear. You WILL have issues,...learning from them and plowing forward is what will eventually make you a grower with consistency or make you say "this is way more than I planned for"

BrewsNBuds said:

If you're brand new, you'll be busy spending a bunch of money and doing it wrong for a couple months. The same way anything is when you're new.

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That's not someone being harsh, thats the kind of honesty you need to hear. You WILL have issues,...learning from them and plowing forward is what will eventually make you a grower with consistency or make you say "this is way more than I planned for"

Read a book on botany. It is a plant. Aim small miss small.