This will be a small closet grow, just to try it out. 1-3 plants
what would be a good grow light and wattage for this size? It seems most people use more then one type of light, but alas I am on a low starting out budget.
I see all this talk of how much nutes and fertilizer and such to put in, and when to put it in. But Almost no talk on some simple beginning grower stuff to pump up my soil.
I'm a noob, not a lick of experience, hoping to start my first grow within a few weeks
Hey, as u say you are a noob, well let me say I am to green but have been growing veg and friut, yes fruit,, so anyway i wouldnt advice just planting the seeds and seeing what happen,. cause thats not the way to get your seeds off to a good start. YOU know the shot glass trick? soak the seed for 12hours in water, perferably left out water so the chorline and comtams have evaped. , making sure its in the dark and come back, push the seed so it sinks and wait again for hour top,, i dont bother, go to seed after 6 hours and push it down. Making sure it sinks. Anyhow, then take the soaked seed out, place on damp/moist/wet kitchen roll(can use toilet paper but get messy and hold contams.) place the seed back in the shot glass pressed against the side wraped in it cusion of kitchen roll. make sure there a tiny biy of water at bottom, barely enough to cover base of shot glass. Then cover top of shot glass in clingflim. place in dark warm place. i put in bag ontop of telly(tv) when its on. come back in 24hrs and have quick look, if the seed has poped and white sprout is coming out its all good. you can wait till they are all sprouted and more than1-2mm long. then transplant to your medium. I take it you are using soil?
I use MG but lots of people recommend other and its up to you. If you do use MG potting soil then try mix it with pertile or somthing to help airation. The thing with soil Rager is it dosnt have to have any of the nutes in it to begin with as long as your willing to be vigliant and very slowly introduce the nutes through fert(soil drench only for first 5 weeks then you can Foliar feed), but i surpose the idea with soil is it dosnt alot of the nutes for you. I use it more a a buffer to stop me from screwing up. Just remember what every you put in and then add to,to then wash out (leach) maybe every 6 weeks? that just depends, I do it every 5 weeks, so once in a grow for my time scales. It also is dependent on how big you pot is, 1-2 gallon? 3gallon? I using 2 types at moe to put to reast in my mind, bug 4 gallon pot and small 3 gallon pot.
As long as the soil is airy, dosnt retain water, and perferably dosnt include slow release nutes. If its a potting soil make sure its got the main Macro nutes and micro nutes. as they are just as important.
As for lights I use 250 watt cfl's (plug and grow is the make) and I run a reflector to help. The big advantage with cfls is no ballest to have to deal with, no heat, can be close to plants so low space impact, they use f all electricity, they can be run straight into a plug timer. you can just run the cable as the hanger( I use envirogrow to buy this so that where the examples are.) The only draw back is you have to use two bulds at different times , one in 2700k and one in6200k for each stage. One seed/veg/clone and one flower.
When you go to buy your kit just remember to ask questions and look around at differnt options. there loads out there each one of them some one uses at rui.
I hope I helped and try looking at the threads, theres so many but there full of lots of info. Its everyones opion though and this is just my exp.
Take it easy and hope you get growing soon. Sorry for the stoned ramble.......
