There is a a lot of different factors when deciding to grow Personally i would build a small growing area out of a good sized cabinet that will veg the seedlings into plants you plan on growing with a intake and outtake fan to keep fresh air flowing to your plants at all times, next step is to choose your growing medium AKA the stuff your gonna grow in either that being soil or hydro, i would go with soil if you are a beginner i use happy frog cause it's cheap about 10 bux a bag at the Hydro Store, next your gonna need some small pots and your gonna need to line your grow cabinet with some reflective material like mylar AKA shiny gift wrapping material to make sure your plants are absorbing as much light as possible, now LET THERE BE LIGHT!
Get you some cheap CFL lights to put in the box the more the merrier just make sure there's enough ventilation in your grow box to keep heat from building up but normally CFL's don't get that hot anyway choose the blue spectrum bulbs for VEG, Veg AKA the stage in which the plant grows leaves, okay now we got our grow box up and running with our small pots of dirt, now you need to germinate those sweet island seeds throw em in a small shotglass with purified water not tap water! never use tap water unless it has been set out in a container like a cooking pot for 24 hours to let the chlorine dissipate, you will also need to PH your water to 6.0 for soil get a small ph tester at the hydro store for cheap PH is important for the plant to be able to take up nutrients correctly Ok now you got your seeds germinated and now were ready to rock and roll baby! throw those seeds with the little white root tip facing down in the soil do not plant the germinated seed too deep! i get a pencil and plant it the depth of the eraser and cover it very lightly with soil do not press down on soil, remember to be very gentle these are your little baby's so be careful when handling the seeds i use a small plastic spoon to get the seeds out of the cup of water then i take a pencil and plant the root tip down to about the depth of the eraser on the pencil. in about 4 days to a week you should see your seedlings start to pop out of the ground! Congratualtions! You have gotten through the germination process and so now we move on to the seedling stage, i water my seedlings every morning with a teaspoon of water until they look big enough to transfer to bigger pots, now your grow cabinet or growing space will need to be big enough to fit the bigger pots in for the seedlings so that way they can turn into healthy plants, so now that your seedlings have been re-potted and put into slightly bigger pots we can go ahead and water them only when you can stick your finger into the soil and your finger comes back out with barely any dirt on it this means its ready to water your plants will also tell you when they are thirsty they tend to droop a bit, remember to never over water always remember that less is better every third watering we want to give them some fertilizer to keep them nice and green and healthy so what i like to do is get some seaweed and a bag of worm castings i make a gallon of seaweed water and let it sit for a couple days while i shake it each day i then get about a cup of worm castings and put it in the bottom of a 1.5 liter water bottle and fill it up to the top with seaweed water i shake it up like there;s no tommorow and let it sit a day or two and then its ready to water the plants with it THE PLANTS LOVE IT!, make sure your lights are also the correct distance above the plants to prevent the plants from stretching, ok so now your plants are big enough to start sexing them we wanna go ahead and switch the blue spectrum CFL bulbs to red spectrum CFL bulbs for flowering so that way we can sort out the males from the females we only want sweet sticky sinsemillan budz
Your lighting will need to have changed from 18 hours on and 6 hours off for veg to 12 hours on and 12 hours off for flowering. You will need to get you a magnifying glass to check the nodes of the plant for little club like clusters these are what are called male balls there are plenty of pics on the net that will show you a male plant from a female plant, a female plant will have what is known as pistols little white hairs coming from the underarms AKA nodes of the plants. You want to destroy all the males and choose the healthiest vigorous growing females to make a mother plant with so that way you won't lose the genetics of this strain for later growz
Now with the rest of the clones you can let them bud you need a fertilizer with high phosphorus and potassium instead of nitrogen, nitrogen is what is used on plants during the veg stage to keep the foliage green and grwoing nicely, and phosphorus and potassium is used in the flowering stage to trigger bud production and halt leaf production, so we stop giving nitrogen based fertilizer when we intend to switch our plants into the flowering stage, you need to get some neem oil also and mix that in a spray bottle with a small amount of dish soap to spray for spider mites give all your plants a good spraying of neem every three days for plant maintanence im trying to write this as quick as possible so if i leave a lot of stuff out please forgive me, do not spray any plants that are flowring with anything! it could cause bud mold and rot and we dont want that at all costs! You want the humidity down in the flowering room for obvious reasons. please forgive if i left anything out i couldnt really sit down and write this out good but i just wanted to try and help with what i can PEACE! There are many other ways to grow the herb so get creative so get your ganja goggles on and have fun! LOL