First grow with no setup and seems to be doing well. Can I make it successful? Tips?

[ABgrowin]

I know this has very little chance of succeeding considering I don’t really have a setup and I haven’t put honestly any thought into this grow at all but it seems to be doing pretty well! Only issue is it seems the base of the stem is very skinny compared to the rest of the plant. Any tips. Also do I need to transfer or could I just end up with a really small plant in that cup.

[Need2Know]

I'd say read all the info on this website. It's got loads. Transplant to a gallon container and put the plant in a large box with the light. It needs 18 hours of light and 6 of no light. Go from there with a little reading to see what the next step should be.

[Bluey]

It needs heaps more light. It's growing tall reaching for the light...it won't stop till it hits the light..even if 10ft tall.

[Orggrwr]

Start with investing in a good grow light. You won't harvest anything worth smoking with that light.

[Ckbrew]

"this has very little chance of succeeding..." .

You need to decide if you are going to do this for real or just grow house plants. Not that there is anything wrong with house plants, just don't expect to harvest big sticky buds from them.

[shadycon]

It does,t take a lot of money to get started, When I was in school in the 60's we learned how to READ. If you read what is available and learn from it, you can start slow and move up. I started my 1st indoor grow last yr. with 1 cheap light in a spare room. Sure I had problems, but I kept reading and asked for help to verify my solutions for problems. After 7 months I'm just about ready to harvest my last plant. #4. So far I've gotten about 4 oz's. This spring I'm moving into a small hot house to eliminate in house growing problems.It's a learning process, If you have problems, read first, It makes growing fun.................I'm still a low budget grower. 3 decent lights and no tent with all its costs.

[ABgrowin]

I do know how to read and have done a lot of research. Just wanted some personalized feedback. Thank you for your feedback

[shadycon]

You are welcome. So far I'm staying away from tents and all that goes with them. I'm just an old fashion/old fart.....

[Rwise]

Heres my tip, you see that green bar at the top of this and every page, click on the links it contains and read read read! Also dont overlook the main page of this site (also in those links), and again, read read read!
As already stated the light in your pic will not get you anywhere, it has stretched looking for more light, needs more soil and planted deeper, but without a sufficient light its a waist of time and seed.

[Mollisol]

Hey bud. If your looking for the least expensive route. Consider using CFLs. GWE has articles and a tutorial.

As everyone stated above. That light will never work. It just simply does not have the power.

Actually, I got to thinking. You can probably pick up a 100 watt LED quantum board grow light for not much more than what the CFLs and reflectors will end up costing you. And it would make growing simpler and with better results.

The last time I bought CFLs I had to order them. I couldn't find the high wattage or color temperature i wanted in the local stores. And they weren't cheap.

[homegrown]

Before we can answer that, what do you mean by successful? Can you grow a plant? Yes. Can you get a decent harvest from that plant? No. But good luck with it.

[Mollisol]

About the least expensive you will find. No dimmer option. But you can make height adjustments easy enough. Google the Spider Farmer 1000D.

I like the dimmer option. But that's just me.

It's a nice option to have in a pinch.

[Radeon]

That's some of the worst stretching I've seen. Even using CFL's way back my plants didn't stretch like that. Crazy....

[Rootsruler]

ABgrowin

Please don't take offense to some of the comments. They are made with the passion that many have for growing on this site.

I guess the takeaway from all this is the setup you have now will yield you a spindly, sparse plant. Cannabis is a light whore so you need lots of photon density for it to grow usable flower. If keeping a cannabis plant alive is your goal then I would say give it a stronger light and continue on. If your goal is to grow actual flowers then you will need to setup the conditions that will get you there. Your current conditions will not.

My suggestion would be for you to take this experience and build on it. You planted a seed in dirt and it grew. Once it sprouted you started to get the same passion most of us have for growing. There are many ways to skin a cat and growing is no different. You'll get lots of different answers to questions you have and the only right answer is the one that works in the setup that works for you.

If you decide to continue cultivating, use this experience as a stepping stone. I suggest you buy a 2 x 2 grow tent, a 4" exhaust fan and a 6" fan to circulate air inside the tent as your next step. Oscillating fan would be even better. This setup shouldn't cost more than a couple hundred at most.

There are many different grow medias to choose from. Some easy. Some not so easy. My suggestion would be to start in soil/potting mix and once you've mastered it you can move on to coco coir. Once you've mastered that you can move into aqua culture if you want to really see what plant performance looks like.

In any case, don't set yourself up for failure. Decide what your goals are and execute. The comments on here come from hard earned experience so watching someone else do the same thing can be frustrating to watch.