If you haven't posted yet, this is a place to introduce yourself and let us know your here. Don't be shy, and if you have any questions, start a thread, and ask away, we'll do our best to help you out.
If you haven't posted yet, this is a place to introduce yourself and let us know your here. Don't be shy, and if you have any questions, start a thread, and ask away, we'll do our best to help you out.
Hi, this is my first post -- I hope I'm doing it right by replying to this "Welcome Newbie" post. If not, I'm sure I'll find out post-haste.
A little bit about what I hope to accomplish and how. I'm from Maine where weed became legal a couple of months ago. I like growing things (veggies, perennials, etc) and I've got a moderately green thumb. I've never grown pot, but I'd like to give it a try. I'm not looking for high yields. An ounce would last me personally a good 6+ months, maybe a year. I'd like to share with friends and family. I'd like to use what I have laying around already, or I can buy off the shelf at my local Lowe's for cheap. I don't want to get elaborate, and I don't have much interest in the technical aspects of either growing or the botany/biology of cannabis. Plant, raise, harvest.
Here's what I have: A cellar with a constant temp of 50-55 F, an inherited grow tent, fabric pots, jiffy pots, a bale of Promix soilless growing medium, a drip irrigation set-up normally used for growing tomato seedling indoors, a light timer, and about half a dozen ordinary 60W household LED lights, both the new bulb types and floodlights with inexpensive, adjustable aluminum housings, and a heating lamp. I have 4 seeds I already started -- germinated in jiffy pots, it's been about a week since they popped above the surface. I'm using the 60W LEDs set about 4" above, and the seedlings look healthy.
I've researched the nutrient requirements, and I have that down pat. My biggest question(s) involve lighting. Since I already have those LEDs, will they work as grow lights? Or should I switch over to CFLs? If so, what size? I'm not interested in using HPS lighting, or anything that costs more than $25 or so.
So that's where I'm at. Any help, suggestions, tips will be appreciated. I'd like to keep posting on my progress in hopes it can help another new grower avoid any mistakes or benefit from any successes.
Thanks, and I'm happy and excited to join all of you here.