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First time grower !!!

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ABigGreenBud

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Hi fellow growers
Im absolutely buzzing to start my first ever grow, i will be like a child with a 1000 questions:)
I got given a couple of plants they have already been started.
Are these plants healthy, are they carrying on,are they female.

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They are light starved. Suggest you go to bottom right of this page, under quick links click "growing basics" and start reading. There is everything you need to know about growing on the main GWE site.
 
Thank you pal much appreciated im
Still in the process of setting up my tent ect
But once everything is set up im no doubt i will be back with some more questions
 
Please read everything you can on the GWE site, like @Ckbrew says. The info WILL prevent you from making numerous first time grower errors.

Now, to your plant pics. They show no evidence of flowering, which is essential to determining a male or female plant. Ask whomever gave you the plants to tell you: M or F seeds, and the strain. I will opine that they are likely photoperiods not autos (too big to not display flowers). If bag seeds, you are in for an unforseeable result at harvest.

Your real challenge is getting your grow set up purchased, installed and dialed in for optimum plant growth.
Selecting grow medium, nutes, pH measuring, drying, trimming, curing, etc., are all on the vast GWE tutorials you must read.

Also, you won't/can't learn it all from reading. Hands on growing, learning and making mistakes is all part of the game. Best wishes!
 
Allotrope1000 said:
Please read everything you can on the GWE site, like @Ckbrew says. The info WILL prevent you from making numerous first time grower errors.

Now, to your plant pics. They show no evidence of flowering, which is essential to determining a male or female plant. Ask whomever gave you the plants to tell you: M or F seeds, and the strain. I will opine that they are likely photoperiods not autos (too big to not display flowers). If bag seeds, you are in for an unforseeable result at harvest.

Your real challenge is getting your grow set up purchased, installed and dialed in for optimum plant growth.
Selecting grow medium, nutes, pH measuring, drying, trimming, curing, etc., are all on the vast GWE tutorials you must read.

Also, you won't/can't learn it all from reading. Hands on growing, learning and making mistakes is all part of the game. Best wishes!
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Hi mate
Thank you for the reply , i have asked the guy but he doesn't know,it was more like he found and couple of seeds, planted them to see what would happen.
My set up is a small cupboard size tent 2ft by 4ft im using 100% coco soil, nutrition i will be using bio-grow,bio- bloom and top max
I Still need to order a light but still unsure whether to get a white led light or red one
Kind regards
 

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ABigGreenBud said:
My set up is a small cupboard size tent 2ft by 4ft im using 100% coco soil, nutrition i will be using bio-grow,bio- bloom and top max
I Still need to order a light but still unsure whether to get a white led light or red one
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I got a 200W Spider Farmer led grow light for my 2x4 tent based on the growweedeasy website saying that combo should get 5-11 oz on an average grow. It seems like it's a lot of light but doesn't get so hot as a lot of other 2x4 grow tent led options.

Cannabis plants need a 12/12 light schedule to start flowering and reveal whether they are male or female. Except for autoflowers which start flowering on their own after about a month. Usually 12/12 is done by putting plants in a tent with grow lights on a timer and the tent close during the dark period so light doesn't get in.

I'm still a beginner too, but I was able to get my plants budding with a 12/12 light schedule pretty easy.

Yours look healthy, just starving for light as everyone else said. You can tell because they're growing taller and taller without any side branches. They're "reaching" for the light.

And maybe think about topping or bending them. From what I understand, the key to yields under a grow light is bending branches over so plants are wide and flat like a table. That's how you get the "sea" of buds in the flowering stage.

Anyways, I'm just a beginner too, this is a pretty friendly and helpful place if you run into problems or have questions. Lots of experienced growers here that have gone through it all before so they know what to avoid.
 
Not familiar with that brand of nutes, What I see missing is calmag supplement and pH adjust additive. For the light, don't skimp. Buy the best light u can afford. It is the most important part of an indoor grow. Stay away from the cheap knock offs. Spider farmer, mars hydro, HLG are good lights, there are more. See the GWE site for more information. Go to the search bar in the main GWE site and search "LED light selection"
 
wannabeagrower said:
I got a 200W Spider Farmer led grow light for my 2x4 tent based on the growweedeasy website saying that combo should get 5-11 oz on an average grow. It seems like it's a lot of light but doesn't get so hot as a lot of other 2x4 grow tent led options.

Cannabis plants need a 12/12 light schedule to start flowering and reveal whether they are male or female. Except for autoflowers which start flowering on their own after about a month. Usually 12/12 is done by putting plants in a tent with grow lights on a timer and the tent close during the dark period so light doesn't get in.

I'm still a beginner too, but I was able to get my plants budding with a 12/12 light schedule pretty easy.

Yours look healthy, just starving for light as everyone else said. You can tell because they're growing taller and taller without any side branches. They're "reaching" for the light.

And maybe think about topping or bending them. From what I understand, the key to yields under a grow light is bending branches over so plants are wide and flat like a table. That's how you get the "sea" of buds in the flowering stage.

Anyways, I'm just a beginner too, this is a pretty friendly and helpful place if you run into problems or have questions. Lots of experienced growers here that have gone through it all before so they know what to avoid.
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I went with the Mars Hydro 150W TS1000 LED Grow Light
Once i get the plants in the tent with the proper light and right food im sure they will start looking good
This is my first post on here and im really surprised i got any replys but the stoner community never lets you down !!
Thanks for the advice i take everything on board especially just starting out, i cant wait to see the finished product.
 
ABigGreenBud said:
Hi mate
Thank you for the reply , i have asked the guy but he doesn't know,it was more like he found and couple of seeds, planted them to see what would happen.
My set up is a small cupboard size tent 2ft by 4ft im using 100% coco soil, nutrition i will be using bio-grow,bio- bloom and top max
I Still need to order a light but still unsure whether to get a white led light or red one
Kind regards
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White LED
 
When ordering your light I would look for 1 that will give you 30-50 watts/sqft. You need that for bloom in my opinion. Example: 8sqft tent with 200 watt grow light = 25 watts/sqft. That's a little shy in my opinion. Good for a beginner though
 
Chipmunk said:
When ordering your light I would look for 1 that will give you 30-50 watts/sqft. You need that for bloom in my opinion. Example: 8sqft tent with 200 watt grow light = 25 watts/sqft. That's a little shy in my opinion. Good for a beginner though
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I only have a 2ft by 4ft tent
And the light i went for was the Mars Hydro 150W TS1000 LED Grow Light
Would you say that was okay for the space i have.?
 
That first grow excitement is contagious...if you hang around here your weed will reward you for it'. :cool:

Everything I know about growing MJ I have learned at growweedeasy.com and this forum. There's lots of knowledge and some smart assery as well. Hope you like it.

Welcome aboard @ABigGreenBud
 
ABigGreenBud said:
I only have a 2ft by 4ft tent
And the light i went for was the Mars Hydro 150W TS1000 LED Grow Light
Would you say that was okay for the space i have.?
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If your tent is the standard 2x4x5ft tent and you have a true 150 watt grow light then I have to say your light is very under powered for that tent.. That's under 20 watts/sqft of grow tent. Not so Bueno in my opinion
 
ABigGreenBud said:
I have brought a digital ph reader can i ask why you would suggest the strips over the digital reader ?
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For a pH meter to be accurate it needs to be stored properly, calibrated often, and checked against a known reference. Cheap ones are junk and fail often, expensive ones cost $ and still need to be properly stored and calibrated. The resolution digital pH meters strive for is not needed for the garden. Strips and papers avoid these problems. They are inexpensive, don't need calibration, are plenty accurate for the garden, and last for years so long as they are in date. An observation I have made in my time here is that when pH causes problems in the garden it is either someone not understanding how important pH is and how to manage it, or their meter has failed or drifted out of calibration. Imo we have been conditioned to rely on a "hard" number coming from a machine instead of using critical thinking (observing and determining a color change in this case) to come to a conclusion ourselves.
 
Ckbrew said:
For a pH meter to be accurate it needs to be stored properly, calibrated often, and checked against a known reference. Cheap ones are junk and fail often, expensive ones cost $ and still need to be properly stored and calibrated. The resolution digital pH meters strive for is not needed for the garden. Strips and papers avoid these problems. They are inexpensive, don't need calibration, are plenty accurate for the garden, and last for years so long as they are in date. An observation I have made in my time here is that when pH causes problems in the garden it is either someone not understanding how important pH is and how to manage it, or their meter has failed or drifted out of calibration. Imo we have been conditioned to rely on a "hard" number coming from a machine instead of using critical thinking (observing and determining a color change in this case) to come to a conclusion ourselves.
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I will bare this in mind
thank you for the knowledge
 
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