Wellll, truth is with first grow with a newbie. I would suggest get an near inert soil try black beuty , at the local nursury npk 0.05-0-0, this should be fine for sedlings as well as veg and bloom, There is a mirad of chem nutes that will grow weed, not all will fit the bill for decent production. When you begin vegitive growth,you will want a nute that will come in about even npk 15-15-15 some thing of that sort. Miricle Grow has different rateings, they do have one thats a pro formula, Well,,,,,,,thats what it says on the box. That comes in 20-20-20. I've used this with fair results, I started by mixing the recomended ratio, then I cut that by 1/4. found this to be too hot for even ful veg plants, So I took that and deluted it by half. So start at about 1/8 the bloom foods are easy to find as well shulz has one thats decent, What you are looking for here is lower n value near to equal p slightly higher than n and k, later as you get near end of bloom you can boost k with some pot ash. I find its easyier to get perolite worm castings, guano, bloodmeal, these things added to the soil above at the begining of veg, after seedlings are in there 3 or 4th set fan leafs. This is when I transplant into prepared 3 or 5 gal nursury pots (.50c- $1.00 local nursury). for the bloom process,its just simple tea,created out in my garage.With fish pump and airstone. 5 gal pickle bucket. tea guano with un-sulfured molassas, you can add other organics to suit your needs, With good ingredients, you simply can't by better nutes than this, sorry,you chemical nute junkies,but you can't. NOR will you have to go through all that riggerramoe.To chase down nutes,ebay this link bullshit that, hydro store bendover. We need a good supply house for most decent and pro equipment, I have a favorite and they treat me well. igrowhydro.com,Best online shitshop, stealth included.also some on line grow houses are clip joints, ebay is retarded stay away from anyone claiming free shipping, this means its allready added into the suposedly , lower prices. I spend aprox $12,000 annually on everything from med pouches to nematoeds. nug jars you name it what we do cost $ to make $, before I started buying wholesale dir from various manafacturers, I used IGROWHYDRO. com . P.s. forgot to mention when you do order call them dir alot of these places are like the napa store, always ask is that the best you can do price wise. I never payed cataloge $, because i did this. Almost all chem products have a shelf life, the proprieter knows this and rather than setting on nutes for a couple years they will reduce price just to rotate stock, you are probably not going to be concered about shelfing it because you will be useing it up! now I'll step aside so all the 16 year olds can tell me how big of a moron I am and don't know shit!