sandiegojack2
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Cheap grow total cost was 255.00 and have allready done 4 rotation's...just an idea...plan plan plan use worst case senario's!!
Good Strains For Beginners
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StonerPawn
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Would an autoflowering strain be easier for a beginner?
Some autos like from nirvana are very very unstable. Some are very finicky with nutes,etc. Problem is if you do something to stunt them, rather it be heat stress, a nute def, nute burn,etc it will stunt them and you will lose yield. Autos go by days a live. So if you do something that halts or dramatically slows their growth for a week..You basically take a week off its life.
Simply by using the proper care with bagseed you can make it way better just by simply removing the males and Properly flushing/curing/drying. You can take bagseed and make it better to a certain extent. If a female is pollinated it stops takes energy away from bud development and resin development ultimately making it a bit weaker potency wise and a smaller yield since its trying to make seeds. Take your bagseed, remove the males before they pollinate and you instantly have better weed than what you purchased to get the bagseed.
You should do it in the phases..Keep in mind, you can go 12/12 from seed if you're impatient,etc keep in mind with bagseed you must identify rather its sativa or indica. Full on sativas are much taller and explode in the flowering stage. A problem for indoors. I read and saw a post on a forum a long time ago about how he didn't know it was sativa and he gave it a long ass veg time..then flowered..Went all the way up to his ceiling and he was unable to get the lights in..Was pretty LOL worthy tbh.
1) Bag seed (2-3 grows hoping you actually run into a problem or two so you can identify and fix it) Just want to get from seed to harvest to cover the cost of your setup.
2) Cheap genetics from a decent seedbank Nirvana or Mandala. Which this you know exactly which strain you're getting. Learn cloning and breeding..Do several harvest. Where you keep a mother, clones,etc. Or have a male knock up females to get you more seeds.
3) Once you have enough experience, ran into some problems where you KNOW how to fix those problems fork out the money to get awesome genetic seeds. If you're not going to be running a mother plant, or breed a male and female with good seeds, then don't waste your time on expensive good genetics. The point of spending 100+ dollars on awesome seeds is to have a mother plant to constantly take clones off of her, or hope you get a male and then pollinate a whole crop so you instantly get 300+ dollars worth of seeds.
Buying 10 reg seeds from a seedbank will not give you a higher chance of having all females, and using bagseed will not give you a higher chance at having all males. Buying fem seeds you risk it turning hermie from stressing it, or the small slight chance of it actually being a male.
Hence why its not advised for beginners to use fem seeds, as stressing could cause it to hermie.
Bag seed is by far the best, most logical choice to start out with UNLESS you just have the money to burn. Then at the very least start with cheap genetics. The 100+ dollars you spend on good seeds could of went towards more or better equipment.
You should do it in the phases..Keep in mind, you can go 12/12 from seed if you're impatient,etc keep in mind with bagseed you must identify rather its sativa or indica. Full on sativas are much taller and explode in the flowering stage. A problem for indoors. I read and saw a post on a forum a long time ago about how he didn't know it was sativa and he gave it a long ass veg time..then flowered..Went all the way up to his ceiling and he was unable to get the lights in..Was pretty LOL worthy tbh.
1) Bag seed (2-3 grows hoping you actually run into a problem or two so you can identify and fix it) Just want to get from seed to harvest to cover the cost of your setup.
2) Cheap genetics from a decent seedbank Nirvana or Mandala. Which this you know exactly which strain you're getting. Learn cloning and breeding..Do several harvest. Where you keep a mother, clones,etc. Or have a male knock up females to get you more seeds.
3) Once you have enough experience, ran into some problems where you KNOW how to fix those problems fork out the money to get awesome genetic seeds. If you're not going to be running a mother plant, or breed a male and female with good seeds, then don't waste your time on expensive good genetics. The point of spending 100+ dollars on awesome seeds is to have a mother plant to constantly take clones off of her, or hope you get a male and then pollinate a whole crop so you instantly get 300+ dollars worth of seeds.
Thats kind of silly, using bagseeds are no more probable than buying 10 regular seeds from a seed bank. You'll still have a 50/50 chance of it either being a male or female. More importantly, he needs to learn how to identify hermies/males/females. If he were to buy 5 fem seeds thinking they would 100% be female he would ignore their sex..then tada guess what, his whole crop got pollinated.
Buying 10 reg seeds from a seedbank will not give you a higher chance of having all females, and using bagseed will not give you a higher chance at having all males. Buying fem seeds you risk it turning hermie from stressing it, or the small slight chance of it actually being a male.
Hence why its not advised for beginners to use fem seeds, as stressing could cause it to hermie.
Bag seed is by far the best, most logical choice to start out with UNLESS you just have the money to burn. Then at the very least start with cheap genetics. The 100+ dollars you spend on good seeds could of went towards more or better equipment.
Dbossmanfl
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need help trying to find a few seed banks that will ship to usa .
420southwest
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Blue Widow on the left, Northern Lights on the right. My first two plants. The Blue Widow was about a week older than the Northern Lights, and much more finicky. They both stunk to high heaven, which I love, but might be a consideration for you.
A bit of a close-up of the Northern Lights.
Dbossman, I've had great success with Attitude and Sea of Seeds. Both were very speedy, and have awesome freebies. I ordered from The Seed Depot three weeks ago, and am still impatiently waiting for that package.
StonerPawn
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I wanted to try bagseed for my first official grow but i cant find any seeds in the bags of dank from the "local dealer" and I dont want to use a reggie/shwag seed for my first grow just for the simple fact that I wouldn't want to put in all this time and effort for a "bad plant"
yesum
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I am gonna try Point of no Return by Mandala for $35. Sounds like a good easy to grow indica, cheap strain with a good high.
I would say go indica whatever you decide. I am finishing Grandaddy Purple and Peyote Purple, which are indica dominate, both real easy to grow. Maple Leaf Indica is another I am finishing, super easy.
Figure out in advance what you will do about bugs, ph, nute burn or lockout, heat, humidity, hermies and whatever else seems likely. I used pre amended soil from the first grow on to eliminate nute issues.
I would say go indica whatever you decide. I am finishing Grandaddy Purple and Peyote Purple, which are indica dominate, both real easy to grow. Maple Leaf Indica is another I am finishing, super easy.
Figure out in advance what you will do about bugs, ph, nute burn or lockout, heat, humidity, hermies and whatever else seems likely. I used pre amended soil from the first grow on to eliminate nute issues.
StonerPawn
Member
I ordered some mandala mango seeds they were pretty cheap. i ordered 10 regular seeds hopefully i grow some females. I've heard some bad things about the mandala seeds though
grandaddydank
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selfed bagseed is a great way to start off, for many reasons. I grew bagseed from good sensi for years, helped me avoid alot of travesty. Bagseed, if its low in number (quarter pound bag - 2 seeds found), is usually female. Back in the day, that was how feminized seeds were made, from females going hermie late into flowering and producing a couple seeds. As long as its just a few seeds found, you will usually get girls, and if you want you can use DM Reverse as a prophylactic to avoid any extra self pollination.
Bagseed from schwag or the traditional dirt brick pack mexican whatever can actually work out well too, especially good for saving money and learning. But those are pollinated the standard way, so you will get a normal ratio of fem to mal. Usually they end up being these fat leaved indicas, and can actually produce much better quality bud than the original bag, as long as you cull males.
Bagseed from schwag or the traditional dirt brick pack mexican whatever can actually work out well too, especially good for saving money and learning. But those are pollinated the standard way, so you will get a normal ratio of fem to mal. Usually they end up being these fat leaved indicas, and can actually produce much better quality bud than the original bag, as long as you cull males.
Dbossmanfl
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Dbossmanfl
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what seed bank could i get that from mandala.
kgb424
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I been using bag seed for a couple grows now, still figuring things out, but in my bag of seeds there Cocco Kush/Cholate Kush, G13, Mendo Purple,OG Kush, Green Crack,Blackberry Kush and alot that I think are kinda small, if they pop I will use then up, then buy some fresh seeds and do clones to make the seeds packs last longer.