I decided to put this here in the discussion section since the grow is not set up yet, and if I post it in the regular section it will have 1,000,000 posts before the grow even starts.
So,
This will be the first time I have had more than $100 to spend on a grow. And this time I have a Fluorescent light, Halogen light and HPS light all from the beginning. I'm not going to use them all from the beginning, just saying I have them all from the beginning.
I am ordering stuff on Amazon using devcoins, and I'll probably get a HPS/MH mixed light sometime during flower. Or maybe just a MH to go with my HPS.
I'll be growing with clones from the store for my first time, just so I can skip a big chunk of waiting on a seedling to grow (I usually grow with Texas bag seed, or clones from my Texas seed). I'll be getting some Milawi
seeds for the next grow, and that will be my main breeding stock, which I will mix these store bought clones with (I'll take a few cuttings).
I am getting a book on microbes (I have never done any research on them) and will still be doing stress testing, as from EVERYTHING I have ever read about plants that get you high says "If you brutalize the plant, it will have more alkaloids". You guys all tell me that THC is not an alkaloid, but that is the way I learned about it growing up, so I'm sorry if my instincts tell me that I am on to something. And super cropping is a perfect example of brutalizing a plant not only raising content, but allowing it to yield more overall flower mass.
And I will probably (maybe not in this grow, but over time) do some more RC testing, but more professionally. I want to find out if there is a research chem out there that will work as a fertilizer (better than Fox Farm), and since they are full of nitrogen rings and such, something ought to work.
I am a medical patient, so this will be my medical grow. But I am in Colorado, so it is also recreationally legal
Got some Fox Farm "Grow Big".
I'll be using it on most of my plants, the others (maybe after this grow, maybe a few in this grow) will get RCs and I hope to find one that will work better than Fox Farm
I might do a few mixed plants also.