You should run hydro it is super easy but a bit expensive at first but the pay off is well worth it. I hope your bag seed does well and is bomb, I have aurora indica as well but have yet to run them seeing as I have a lot of beans. right now im running blackjack. I wouldn't use miracle grow but then again I know people that have had good results with it. You need to get you a sealed light hood, digital conversion ballast, 400w MH light, 400w HPS light, the MH is for veg and the other is for flower. I usually flower for about 4-6 weeks. The lumens meaning the more powerful the light the better the yield. I tried LED for veg on my current run but it was painfully slow for the plant to grow in veg so I switched back to HID lights aka high intensity diode. buy beans from attitude seeds they are well priced and you always get freebies plus use the discrete shipping and you will get a free t shirt and it is guaranteed if you do it that way. top breeders imo are gage green genetics, bodhi seeds, resin seeds, madd farmer genetics, kannabia seeds, jaws seeds, and hazeman seeds, TGA Subcool, seedism and sweet seeds.
for nutes I use flora bloom and flora micro, the lucas method, look it up on the web and it will tell you all about the lucas method and you can use it for soil it is simple especially for beginners and aurora indica is a great strain for a beginner and so is BCN Diesel that was my first grow and that sucker would not die even you tried to kill it! I got 2.5oz off of it using hydro in a 6 foot tall, 3.5 feet deep and 4 feet wide cab and my pots are small. i will throw some pics up to show you what Im talking about. I also use calmag because I use RO water, budcandy and liquid and dry koolbloom for flower, H202 aka hydrogen peroxide 10% to keep everything clean and sterile plus it adds oxygen to your water, I also use subculture b for the roots and sometimes hygrozyme for roots. Sometimes I use superthrive only as a foliar feed meaning I spray my plant with it and it will help with growth and healthy roots and green cure for any kind of mold.
I wish you the best of luck the first is always nerve racking because your not sure of what to do but by your second you will have most of it figured out.
Pics: BCN Diesel by kannabia seeds:
my first grow.
my current grow blackjack by sativa seed bank:
these pics are from yesterday 6th day of flower today is 1 week.
My cab:
wish I had a bigger pic of the cab. I only have one plant running in it now because I wanted to do an experiment with an LED light.
Almost forgot my bean list:
I have only been growing for 1 year and am on my fourth run and its so easy now and you will get to that point as well oh and I wouldn't use foil for a light reflector I would use what I have or the one that looks like the silver balloons you buy both come in rolls and you can buy them at walmart, lowes, home depot etc.
I don't know if you have a ppm meter or a ph meter or a light timer but you for sure will want the meters. I'm not sure about soil but hydro you want the ph around 5.5 - 6.5. seedlings you want the ppms around 200 - 400 and in flower about 1100.
my first harvest of the BCN Diesel:
I don't mean to seem like I'm bragging I'm just trying to show how good you can do your first time!
My top beans:
I just took these pics 9/19/2012:
