new to indoor growing. any suggestions?

No offense but it seems you should have waited to plant your seeds until you researched a little about growing techniques and learned some of the terminology. I get it though you were excited. But yes from the time you plant the seed till it's in its final pot most people have transplanted about 3 times.
 
  • Quick question, is this plant too young to LST?
 

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Yes to young not much there to train yet. Looks like your coming up on the 3rd node and the spacing looks good. Shortly you will be able to staring fiming and topping.
 
NorthernHize said:
Yes to young not much there to train yet. Looks like your coming up on the 3rd node and the spacing looks good. Shortly you will be able to staring fiming and topping.
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I would think with his potential grow room, that Lollipopping is probably not the best suggestion "Hes not going to get his plants big enough to need to do it", but rather just Topping and LST. Maybe I am wrong, but that would be a successful way to grow, and with 3 Gal Pots he still has room to transplant into 5 Gal Pots, If you are growing in 3 Gal, you aren't going to get as much growth anyways, "5 gal is almost double 3 gal." So with that being said, I would suggest the OP goes with an LST / Topping train, but again that is my personal opinion, I have a small grow space, so I grow small plants with lots of tops like a big flat bush... I don't see him growing big 6ft plants, I see him as being a 3ft - 4ft bush grower.

 
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bigfrog626 said:
A 600w hps buld. Ipower. Although ive never raised a plant from seed to flower so im excited to see it happen. And scrogging wth fill up the whole area? For reals??
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Hey bigfrog, with a good sativa strain and in coco you can fill a 4' X 4' area with the right training, if you DWC with the same plant you can fill a 5' X 5' area...again its all about the training, fimming, LST and supercropping
 
those areas are horizontal scrogs, sorry forgot to mention that and with those listed techniques you can get a really fruitful scrog
 
bigfrog626 said:
@Deadlytalon2014 im actually aiming for that 5' or 6' mark. I want some big trees with fat some buds. Probably going to transplant in 5 so i can do that.
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Ya if you want bigger plants, you want bigger pots, but again like they said, its best to transplant, although it don't seem logical, it really gives you more root expansion, when you start in a big pot, they have plenty of room to get comfortable, when you grow in smaller plants, they begin to cluster, you move it to bigger pot, cluster grows, move it to final pot, cluster grows more, giving you better root penetration, so its able to absorb more water "Atleast this is my theory behind it :D" I start in a planter or solo cups, go to something somewhat bigger like 1gal - 2gal, then final to 5 gal.
 
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bigfrog626 said:
I see what ur saying now, thanks for the advise, with my next grow ill apply that.
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It's all about research, I'm still learning myself, but I have spent the entire time doing nothing but research, there is ALOT to learn, not as easy as one would think first jumping in. Also make sure you are keeping an eye on your Humidity / Temperature Levels, I like to keep my plants at 73-80F and 40-65% humidity "Normally trying to stay around the 50-60% mark, but 40% at the lowest." I learned that the hard way and over heated my first grow, ran them at almost 90F not even bothering to measure temps.... "A newbie tip: If you have a phone like the S4, It has an App that will tell you the Humidity Level / Temperature of the room using its built-in infrared sensors, Go to the S Health App, and click the Comfort Level button. Let the phone sit in the area for awhile to acquire an accurate reading.
 
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