SOIL Disabled, senior female noob > LEDs. Have many questions, made mistakes, need advice

[Puglover1]

Oh my. I had to re-read this long strange yet productive trip of my first attempt using modern growing lights. This wonderful & needed harvest produced a lot of smokable weed, so far everyone I've shared it with liked the buzz, it works for them too. I wouldn't be here without my genius & patient mentor Mr.furley among many other helpful members. A group effort but I should name this Furley's Miracle Grow


I looked thru a year of Google Photos, didn't find what I was searching for but I found a picture of my plants from 5/13/20 (the wild pug's bday). I didn't ask for help here until 8/5/20, so much time lost. They couldn't have been in the closet for very long here. The smallest plant to the L that's being blown by the fan is growing under a hanging light with a greenish bulb that said Grow on it, found it in my new light bulbs container. The first-planted seed, the big girl that grew in the middle, grew to the stage below after being started in the Aero-garden then under the white-with-black-trim shade you see in the very upper R corner, it contained an 'led grow light' bulb that I won through entering sweepstakes, but not from a weed website. The unseen middle child was in the R corner of the closet with two fluorescent fixtures standing on end, only 3 bulbs worked. I think I had a pretty nice plant growing a year ago, just using that LED bulb in an old Pier 1 light shade, but I'm biased. I wanted to share this pic, it was a surprise to me.

 

[Puglover1]

panalilies He's my Mag grow. I was having to shove colas into the closet to close the doors, the harvesting almost broke me. LOL. I was having stupid injuries happen, aside from the grow. It was a trip.

 

[panalilies]

Those are some nice buds! lol Hopefully the harvest made the injuries worth it. I just got back from the dispo and opened my Mag flower, it smells soooo good. I dont see any accidental seeds left tho

 

[Puglover1]

Few and far between. My first, nicest looking seed was from a few years ago, the other two were from March 2020. I wanted to keep a mother plant or clone this so bad, the virus and shutdown timing couldn't have been worse.

 

[panalilies]

I think I have found 1 seed in the dispo weed, but I forgot what kind it came from. How do you do clones? Do you need female/male plants or can you clone autos? This shutdown was a small blessing for me. My boss had caught on to my smoking vapes during lunch and my breaks and a few other people started noticing my eyes were super red. He was cool about it, just asked me to cut back on when I do smoke (like breaks only or only during lunch). But like 2 days later we were sent home to work and havent been back since. My work is all good, better than drinking on the job.