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I am a complete newbie to growing plants in general, and have killed most of the herbs I've tried to raise. I'm hoping that weed is a bit hardier.
One day, I was sitting on the back porch with my girlfriend, and for some reason I decided to look up marijuana seeds. I had no idea they could be bought online. To my surprise, CKS was available in my hometown, so I wouldn't even have to mail order them. I flipped through the catalog, and saw Purple Kush. Purple is my GF's favourite colour, and the strain was listed as "easy to moderate" difficulty. Fate seemed to have a plan in store for me!
In retrospect, starting with some kind of autoflowering plant might have been a better choice for a first grow, but I didn't know what autoflowering was; I just knew I should be getting feminized seeds.
I picked up a packet of 5 seeds, took some selfies of myself with the people in the store for souvenirs (you don't get to see those pics!) and wandered back home to start the germination process. The seeds are feminized, and I wasn't planning on building a huge grow box, so I decided to germinate 2 now and save the rest for later.
Following the CKS instructions, both seeds successfully germinated and were ready for planting with 72 hours. Trying to be environmentally friendly, I built some germination pots out of brown paper bags.
I will never do this again! The bags ended up getting too moist and becoming moldy. It ended up in an emergency repotting a week into my grow and caused both me and my plants a great deal of stress. Red Solo Cups are cheap, tried and true. No sense in reinventing the wheel, eh?
Not knowing where to start, I picked up a bag of Schultz Seed Starter Plus. Nowhere on my bag did it say that it contained any nutrients at all, but in researching the media later on, I found out that it does "extended feed plant food" (0.07 - 0.05 - 0.04).
I was going to pick up AN's Grow-Micro-Bloom, but the fellow at the store convinced me to "Buy Canadian" and said that GP3 was basically the exact same stuff, so I picked up that and a big bag of Coco.
This is my grow at 7 days, before I discovered that the paper was wicking up the runoff, and the moisture was allowing mold to grow in the media. I had my grow room (spare bathroom with no windows) waaaaaay too humid, like 60%+ relative humidity because I saw one website that recommended starting with really high humidity and backing it off 5% per week during the grow.
Strain | CropKing Seeds Purple Kush Feminized |
#Plants | 2 |
Grow box | DIY 48" x 37" x 21" |
Bucket Size | 10 gallon Smart Pots |
Soil | Scultz Seed Starter Plus Planned transfer to 70% Coco Coir, 30% Perlite |
Lights | 8x CFL (5500k 2800Lumens |
Nutrients | Green Planet Hydroponics GP3 nutrients |
One day, I was sitting on the back porch with my girlfriend, and for some reason I decided to look up marijuana seeds. I had no idea they could be bought online. To my surprise, CKS was available in my hometown, so I wouldn't even have to mail order them. I flipped through the catalog, and saw Purple Kush. Purple is my GF's favourite colour, and the strain was listed as "easy to moderate" difficulty. Fate seemed to have a plan in store for me!
In retrospect, starting with some kind of autoflowering plant might have been a better choice for a first grow, but I didn't know what autoflowering was; I just knew I should be getting feminized seeds.
I picked up a packet of 5 seeds, took some selfies of myself with the people in the store for souvenirs (you don't get to see those pics!) and wandered back home to start the germination process. The seeds are feminized, and I wasn't planning on building a huge grow box, so I decided to germinate 2 now and save the rest for later.
Following the CKS instructions, both seeds successfully germinated and were ready for planting with 72 hours. Trying to be environmentally friendly, I built some germination pots out of brown paper bags.
I will never do this again! The bags ended up getting too moist and becoming moldy. It ended up in an emergency repotting a week into my grow and caused both me and my plants a great deal of stress. Red Solo Cups are cheap, tried and true. No sense in reinventing the wheel, eh?
Not knowing where to start, I picked up a bag of Schultz Seed Starter Plus. Nowhere on my bag did it say that it contained any nutrients at all, but in researching the media later on, I found out that it does "extended feed plant food" (0.07 - 0.05 - 0.04).
I was going to pick up AN's Grow-Micro-Bloom, but the fellow at the store convinced me to "Buy Canadian" and said that GP3 was basically the exact same stuff, so I picked up that and a big bag of Coco.
This is my grow at 7 days, before I discovered that the paper was wicking up the runoff, and the moisture was allowing mold to grow in the media. I had my grow room (spare bathroom with no windows) waaaaaay too humid, like 60%+ relative humidity because I saw one website that recommended starting with really high humidity and backing it off 5% per week during the grow.