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hey guys i want to start growing but i feel like i dont know enough about it. would a 200w HPS be better than a HID? which one cost more electricity

Hello everyone. I've been a reader for a couple months. I finally decided to join up and see what I can learn and what I can help with.

Im so glad I found this website! Its awesome! All this info. I started growing a few years back and just kinda started again. I got tired of trying to find the kind of bud I wanted to smoke, and got tired of paying high dollars for the primo, that will spoil you once you smoke it! So here I am and Im ready to grow!

Hello all I'm new and will have lots of Q's

I'm a newbie and well into my first grow. I began with just two seeds saved from a decent bag YEARS ago. I vividly remember getting a great sack and could not believe it had any seeds at all, but there were two in it (unsusual for KB in my experience).

I ended up with two "adequate" females, considering only CFL's were used and I started with just two seeds. My girls have been doing well, but I think I F'ed up. Here is the story.

CFL's were 6K range during Veg - this I did right. I swapped over to 2.7K for flowering. So far so good. About 2 weeks ago when taking them "outside" for some direct mother nature I noticed that bud development was not even - many of the buds "higher up" were doing the right thing, but lower buds looked like starving children - Sally Struthers style. Flowering is entering its fifth week. I then remembered about some info I read from a different site about removing the upper fan leaves to allow more light down to the lower branches. I began clipping away without double checking if this was the right thing to do.

I have a decent amount of light, plus mirrors in the grow room. I "did the math" regarding Lumens per sqft, yet development looked off.

I took off almost all of the upper 2/3 and a few of the lower leaves. I thouhgt I "knew" the fans were for overall growth and ASSUMED they would not greatly affect bud development. Plus I figured the lower buds would advance more, and I end up getting more buds then I would have otherwise.

Since then, I learned that I could have topped the girls, or selectively harvested.

Any way, if I have removed most of the fan leaves, how badly did I screw up? Buds are moving forward, not very tight. I also have the top most buds turning amber, though new growth of white/clear/opaque hairs still continue throughout both girls. Sorry no pics.

Please advise, and trust me, I feel sick about hurting my girls if I did. Clarice and Jasmine, myyyy bitches. Danke in advance.

pretty new to the site (as a member not its information) only been here about a week, but been growing for about two years in various mediums, ive read 4 or five grow books (favorite is indoor/outdoor medical growers bible-cervantes),im currently in like 4th or 5th week of 12/12 under cfls check the sig, peace and love brothers

Sorry 2101 Can't help you with the buds not tto familiar with indoor systems. Most of my research has been on HPS/MH and LED lights...getting ready to start an indoor crop myself. Been researching for almost a year now and finally ready to put my toes in the pool. One thing I did notice is in my reading/research mirrors can absorb up to 85% of the lihgt hitting them. Might want to just try some mylar instead for the mirrors. GL with everything. Might be able to get some more help in the medic thread.

SUP EVERY BODY IM NEW TO THE SITE U CAN CALL MY GUTTA. IM IN LOVE WITH MARRY JANE LOL THIS MY FIRST TIME GROWING I BEEN DOING LOSTS OF RESEARCH AND JUSS TRYNA LEARN EVERYTHING THERE IS ABOUT WEED CHECK OUT MY BABY I GOT MOR PHOTO ON MY PAGE HIT ME UP AND ADD ME

Okay thought I would say hi im new to growing got 2 plants started and dont know if they are male or female lol. I started indoor and now in a pot on my back deck any pointers would be great = ]

I i have a rubbermaid 55 gallon box with 4 daylight 27wat cfls the box is incased with a crome heat blanket i have a small desk fan running 24hours and have a 16/8 light scedule i use mg organic choice potting soil and have drilled holes into the bottem of my 6 inch pots and am 1 week into it i have 3 plants sprouted with its begging leaves and the round shell leafs and are about 2 inches tall is everything going as it should is my setting ok ?

Hello everybody, this is my first time growing and to cut heat and cost down, i am using LED panels for my grow room. i have no idea what wattage im pushing with these. i have two panels for my veg room and theyre all blue and i have three panels for my flowering room, one of them is fully red and the two are striped red and blue. Each panel is 12"x12" and has 225 led bulbs on them(15x15). i bought them cheap at "LAshop.com" and on ebay.I use reflectix that i bought online at HD.its great cuz the insulation is not itchy and has none of that fiberglass.Im using a 170 cfm 4 in exhaust fan with carbon filter.My carbon filter is in the grow room but in and enclosed airtight compartment with holes-one 2" hole on the side wall for veg and a 2" hole on the bottom for flowering.My fan is on just outside of the growroom with nothing attached to the end of it, so its pretty loud.will putting on some flexible duct on the end cut the sound and i pretty much dont have anywhere to vent the hot air (however when i put my hand over the exhaust fan,its cool) but in my closet.I do have a fan circulating each room and have two holes with darkroom vents to get air from the outside of the growroom,not outside outside. Well thats about me oh i live in san diego and im a patient. my real question is well i bought the jorge cervantes bible and did the germination process by using paper towels.every time i looked at them,i just saw seeds,so after a week i decided to go ahead and plant them.well i opened up the paper towels and the taproot and first sprout was away from its seed and was probably about 2 and a half inches long but still white(not dried out) and stuck it in about an inch and a half.book says 1/4" but thats with the seed attached to it.do i have chance with these or am i wasting my time and should pull them out and go to my collective to get clones?hope to hear from you guys.thanks

hi
thanks for having me.
i am a newbee, a friend of mine handed me a bunch of seeds five weeks ago, i thought i would have a go, i am the mother of 42 babys all about 12 inches plus,
i now have a responsobilty to my children and i could sure use some help. i have spent hours trolling through info on growing but now i am a member i feel a little mor relaxed about it all, will be in touch when i know the sex of my kids. thanks again

heres some pics. there 6 1/2 weeks old. ive never grown but i think hes doin good
in a month maybe half well be smokin bud.

Hello everyone, Im andy boo dont ask why just something i can remember. Im here to learn as much as possible before i start a project (3-4 plants) thxs

Howdy!

Just getting a head start on research here, figured I'd say 'hi'. Can't start my personal op till I am out of the service next year. Current intended setup is a 7' long by 4' wide space in the attic, two separate ebb/flows, one veg (under a 1K MH) and one flower (under a 1K hortilux HPS) for rotating production. I'm mainly concerned that I may be going overboard with my light plan and wondering if I can scale it down while still maximizing yield. Ideally I want to keep pumps/reservoirs/timers/medium/ventilation/lights/nutes/pHmeters/cO2 all under $1000 initial setup but max budget is 2 Gs. Planned seed stock is going to be Skunk #1 and Big Bud from Hemcy Seed Company (Anyone have experience with these?). Mission impossible? Any tips are welcome.

Thanks for your time and consideration.

Goodmorning all. I'm new to this forum and have only one plant growing at this time. Out little child as we call it started from a seed that was tossed out while a friend was cleaning his supply of medical weed. She's about 5 weeks old and only about a foot and a half high. She has started to flower already and has been outside. We don't really know which type she is other than Sativa. Here is a couple of pics of our Kid. We are planning on starting a grow room to grow more plants soon. Just wanted to say hello.. DarylP
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whats up all chuck in da house!!!

Hi everyone! Hopalong here! Just recently became a MMJ patient in Wa state, will be starting a small grow soon, and can use all the help I can get.

Anywho...........HI!

Hey whats up im StickySpider. been wanting to do a small grow project and need some tips.

I have been smoking weed since I was a young lad back in 76, & it's only thing i've not had a problem with over the yrs.....Feel like making people listen to the truth and not the media paranoia (and the rest) sometimes......but then i think - Would only bring the babylon down on me...... So sod em - more weed for us. - let the sheep drink that solvent shit they call beer if they want but it's a crying shame people get locked up for taking something harmless, yet peer pressure and law allows you to slowly poison urself..... Madness - I always thought it was illegal to kill urself in this country, fact i'm sure it is......so maybe they should arrest people buying cigarettes and alcohol.....and leave us alone......

I do not want Uk to legalize weed...simple reason for me is I dont trust politicians....They'd probably tax the hell out of it...I've seen a few price increses over yrs but its only "jumped" up high once in my lifetime so far, and that was when there was a big increase in strength (when sensimilla became prevalent)...


I'm on the other side of pond from most of you, and hoping to learn from you all.....


Heh - sorry for spouting off, but it's how i've felt for a long time...... Scrag