AntToeKnee
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yeah everyone has there own way just take someones advice and try it out honestly the only real way to LEARN is to grow we r just here for advice
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KronikChaos77
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Thanks Padawanwarrior
Good luck with the grow glizzy
Dr.J20
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naw dude, what i mean is, if you don't want to have to add nutrients or anything to your water (i.e., just leave it 'plain') then you should look into supersoils which have been amended with nutrients and microbial life so as to do the feeding work for you--with a well made supersoil you really don't need to top dress your soil or add any liquid nutrients to your water (indeed, since supersoil is an organic method, adding salt-based liquid fertilizer to your water would kill off your microbial hoard and undo the effectiveness of your supersoil).
container size is directly related to root/plant size; you can take a plant from start to finish in a party cup, but because the plant will consume all of the nutrients that are in the amount of soil that fits in a party cup, you'll have to add nutrients to your medium. You can also put a plant in a pot so big with so much food that it will never be exhausted in one grow. you're in charge of how you do it--learn how plants grow and make the decisions that fit your lifestyle and goals.
be easy,
JimmiP
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Not needed for a first time grower. Or any other either. Start in seedling mix move to happy frog(mixed with extra perlite-25-33%) then to ocean forest (again mixed with extra perlite) and then up pot to ocean forest again and use a little fox farm bog bloom until its ready to cut.
Unless something drastically craptastick happens, a new grower will make it through the grow, get a decent yield and get to learn how the plant actually grows. And they won't get overwhelmed with ideas that this or that bottle of something or another is going to give them tops the size of a blimp.
Also it costs a lot less.
Dr.J20
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i mean, yeah, ok, but the same is true about miracle grow. you've just shifted from bottles of snake oil to bags of it. you need a mix with a base, some aearation, and some food. coco-ewc-perlite, sphagnum-cow manure-pumice, the more diverse your mix, the better, but if the bar is just getting from seed to smoke then any basic medium and a little patience should get someone to cropout. the plant wants to grow, after all!
glizzyboyyyyys
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Thank you. I’m gonna look into supersoil, that seems like the movenaw dude, what i mean is, if you don't want to have to add nutrients or anything to your water (i.e., just leave it 'plain') then you should look into supersoils which have been amended with nutrients and microbial life so as to do the feeding work for you--with a well made supersoil you really don't need to top dress your soil or add any liquid nutrients to your water (indeed, since supersoil is an organic method, adding salt-based liquid fertilizer to your water would kill off your microbial hoard and undo the effectiveness of your supersoil).
container size is directly related to root/plant size; you can take a plant from start to finish in a party cup, but because the plant will consume all of the nutrients that are in the amount of soil that fits in a party cup, you'll have to add nutrients to your medium. You can also put a plant in a pot so big with so much food that it will never be exhausted in one grow. you're in charge of how you do it--learn how plants grow and make the decisions that fit your lifestyle and goals.
be easy,
Corporal_Biscuit
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I use spring water from like anywhere. Plenty of calcium if you mean non water in the midwest lol.
JimmiP
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Yep, that's what I'm getting at. The op is a new grower. And at this point the most important thing for them to do is build a relationship with the plant and learn from it. They can learn to manipulate it more as they progress. Too many times new growers fail because they try to do too much without knowing why they should or should not.
The best advice I could ever offer to a new grower (and almost no one follows) would be to just put a seed in the ground and watch it grow. You can learn a whole lot by just observing what a plant will do when left alone. Especially when you are new... And sometimes even when you have been doing it a while.
JimmiP
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Also, those mixes have all of that. And they are not (ick) miracle grow.
PadawanWarrior
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I'm almost using water only now, and top dressing. I'm getting closer, but am still always behind the game a bit since the organics take awhile to break down. You really need to be kinda physic and feed before they need it.naw dude, what i mean is, if you don't want to have to add nutrients or anything to your water (i.e., just leave it 'plain') then you should look into supersoils which have been amended with nutrients and microbial life so as to do the feeding work for you--with a well made supersoil you really don't need to top dress your soil or add any liquid nutrients to your water (indeed, since supersoil is an organic method, adding salt-based liquid fertilizer to your water would kill off your microbial hoard and undo the effectiveness of your supersoil).
container size is directly related to root/plant size; you can take a plant from start to finish in a party cup, but because the plant will consume all of the nutrients that are in the amount of soil that fits in a party cup, you'll have to add nutrients to your medium. You can also put a plant in a pot so big with so much food that it will never be exhausted in one grow. you're in charge of how you do it--learn how plants grow and make the decisions that fit your lifestyle and goals.
be easy,
Here's my latest plant that I recently harvested. I was kinda lazy and didn't feed it when I should have so it was kinda starving, but this no-till thing is a learning process for me. I'm using 15 gal plastic pots.
I've harvested this plant at different times. This one I went a few days past the pics and harvested at day 59. I've harvested some earlier and later. There's another one in there that's at like 4 1/2 weeks, and a few in my veg tent. It's a clone only Green Crack that I would like to keep going. Actually it's the only strain I'm growing right now. Sorry the pics suck. They were taken on an old ass IPad that I can't even get updates for anymore, lol.
glizzyboyyyyys
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Man forget this question it’s been answered & y’all keep taking it outta context I got it. Thank you
PadawanWarrior
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JimmiP
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Now I'm laughing so hard I may wet myself.
JimmiP
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But wait,,, that would be a good source of nitrogen wouldn't it??? LOL!
glizzyboyyyyys
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We have one growing w a lil fan & lamp light above it. My roommate’s project, I’ll get to see this one grow for a couple months before I start fr
glizzyboyyyyys
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This what we rocking rn y’all take a look
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PadawanWarrior
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You can put it under any light right now. I've having fun with this houseplant. It's got a 23 watt daylight LED in a lamp, and it gets some sunlight during the day, but not a lot of sunlight. CFL's will work too, but you'll need them closer. To give you an idea, I just took this pic a minute ago.
