Heyy everyone , I am doing some research into my first grow and I am stuck on what sort of strain to grow. Firstly here are some of the details: -Room: Walk In Closet with dimension of 8.5ft long x 5ft. wide x 9ft. high -# of Plants: 10plants in 5g pots for vegging (planning on having 3-4 females left for flowering (is it ok if I germinate the seeds in these large pots as well so there is no transplanting involved) -Lights: Dimmable 600W Metal Hallide for vegging and 600W Super HP for flowering Length: 4 weeks for vegging and 9 weeks for flowering. I will have Mylar set up around and have a couple of 75-100w CFL's around the sides if my room handle that much electricity -Vent: 8inch exhaust inline fan (700CFM) located in ceiling (goes into attic) and carbon filter -Nutrients: Unsure atm but leaning towards General Hydroponics Flora Series or FloraNova Series with supplement additives being Advanced Nutrients Overdrive and Big Bud. Any advice on this combination would be appreciated -Soil: Undecided but leaning with with Forest Farm -Other: Planning on cloning the strain just before flowering I have narrowed my seed selection to: Northern Lights #5 Big Bud Big Bud vs. NL#5 My selection criteria, in order of importance, is as follows: Yield (hoping to get 2oz per plant) Difficulty of grow and resistance to stress Odor Any advice at all about my seed selection or set up would be greatly beneficial. Much Thanks in advance!!!
I think you pretty much have everything in order. Get your ass growing! You picked some solid strains there. I've never grown any of them personally, but they have been around for years and are a respected group of strains. It's impossible to predict yield before your grow even starts. SO many factors could predict the final outcome. You're set with odor if you're using a carbon filter.
I am also on the verge of beginning my 1st grow. I have picked 3 strains all fem'd to start with 1 Big Bud x Northern lights, 1 Double White ( a pheno white widow x great white shark) and 1 Pineapple Express, I am also getting 2 anonymous strain fem'd freebies I have a tent 36"w X 20"d X 64"h. I am going to be using a 2 bulb 2' t5 fixture at 10,000 lumens and 4 35 watt cfls at about 2400 lumens each. I will use 6400k to veg and 2700k to flower. Going to use FFOF potting soil and FF Big Bloom and FF Big Bud. I figure the OF will have plenty of nutes I will not need to feed the first several weeks. I am going to mix the soil, 4 parts soil:1 part vermiculite and a half cup dolomite as a ph buffer. I hear the Ocean Farms has some ph issues out of the bag. Since this is my first experience I am only going to have 5 seeds total, those little boogers can get expensive! So I will only germinate 2 at a time because I just don't have the space or the light required to do all 5 right at one time. Besides I am a complete newbie so even though I am not planning a failure, it never hurts to have a plan B. Anywho, I usually do all my blogging at cannabis.com but I saw your post as I was looking for reviews on the BB X NL and thought it would be kewl if we both post logs on that grow to compare...interested? "Give a man a toke, he gets stoned today. Teach a man to grow, he stops bummin' your budz." bkbbudz "I would be pissin my pants excited if I had those girls in my closet." bkbbudz All comments, threads, and attachments posted by me are fictitious, and are strictly for entertainment purposes. I am merely acting out a fantasy that I do not live in a police state under an Orwellian regime, and am free to think and behave as a responsible adult .
if this is your first grow go with one strain. its a good idea foe everyone really unless there in totally different rooms. reason is different strains have different end times, strenght of nutes vary, heigths and bushyness. So you have to many variables to have to watch. its hard enough the first time with one. Ive never grown any of the strains you picked so ill give you my opinion on some easy growing weed i have grown. I like sour deisel for first timers. reason is hard to hurt ,heavy yeilder, like high nutes so with following feed schedule its hard to burn. Just an easy plant to grow on the whole.
I can recommend northern lights. good yield, flowered 56 days and it was ready to harvest. TONS of trichs on the fem version I got from Nirvana. easy to clone too.
^^^^^^THAT^^^^^^ Running more that one strain is a recipe for problems and a big time newb mistake. Get the beans, just run them at different times, separately. From your list, I've only run NL and was very happy with it. Wet
I am currently on my first week of growing 8 clones under a 400w mh veg / hps flower. I have 4 white widows, 2 pineapple chunk and 2 nl x big bud. What kind of yield should i get? I will veg for 5 weeks and top some wnd supper crop others.