I guess my question is: is it easy to screw up a crop? I don't want to invest months and get just a medicore harvest when i could've had premo (have $$ for good seeds)
i would start out searching for some easy to grow strains, some of them are pretty potent. Like: Northern Lights Hindu Kush Afgahni #1 Black Domina Silver Pearl Marley' Collie Sensi Skunk Skunk #1 Superskunk Shiva Skunk Skunk Kush All of those are pretty forgiving from what i understand, with northern lights probably the best to start with agreed apon by many canabis grow books. GL
If Your pockets ( cash ) are right...then yes I Would invest in some seeds..... Ya never knoW....sometimes your 1st groW can be a good 1....hate 2 have a successfull groW and have bagged seeds...but on the other hand....hate 2 have a bad 1st experience and have good beans...your choice.... like Spastic said.....those are all good I Would choose Northern lights or ak- 47... good luck
Get some Diesel ryder, it's one of the shortest plants and it autoflowers which means you can keep it on 24/0 light scheduel and it will still flower when it's ready. http://www.drchronic.com/products.asp?partno=Diesel Ryder
Spend a great deal of time reading stickies and grow journals while your beens are in transit and if you do enough you SHOULD be rewarded for the effort you put in. Just cut my 1st harvest 2 days ago and the next will yield just under 8 oz. of very nice big buds,i say try NLxBB or WR and you will be very happy.
growing is not as complicated as it may seem think about it cannabis is a plant before i found this forum i grew bag seeds outside with a no name soil i bought from walmart and it worked i hardly even watered it only if it didnt ray for lke 10 days lol and it produced the best weed i every fucking smoked so growing with exotic seed will be ok as long as you dont do a simple noob move dont overfeed.
You are right and wrong,plants have and do grow wild outside and can do very well without much care in the right setting BUT we are mostly growing indoors where we try to mimic nature and this can be a REAL challenge at times. Its these challenges we all are working with,some ppl have more than others. There is something to say about great genes and cannabis,especially when it goes well.
i just started a new grow i will start a journal in a few days i will be using a 400 watt hps system for flowering and cfl for veg i will make five clones and put them out side and I'm grow 7 plants inside using lst 1 plant will be in a bubble bucket i will then do a smoke report on them both just to see which smoke is better the indoor or the outdoor
I am in your shoes. I have just recently purchased everything for my setup for ~$300 (400W MH/HPS, 9 CFL's, 2' Fluro fixture with 6500K bulbs, timers, digital temp/humidity readers, home made CO2 bottles, nutes, soils, etc). I have priced everything very carefully to remain low cost. So I thought to myself... I've spent $300 do I really want to be cheap when it comes to seeds? My answer... YES! When our US conversion rate is like $1.60 per Euro... why spend tons of money on decent seeds to just kill the plants? Am I happy with my decision? Yes and here is why... I started off with 4 good bag seeds. I have killed one by putting the germinated seed upside down and forcing the root to sprout in a U shape and ended up getting weak with time and it died and I also hurt the remaining 3 from too much light exposure/heat from trying out my 400W MH for just part its light cycle. Then I was given three 3" feminized purple strains already started for me from an experienced grower that I'm friends with for FREE! What did I do to them? Stressed the shit out of them. This time with too many CFL's too close to them, over watering, and probably a touch too much Super Thrive. Am I a dumbass? (Probably)... NO! I've read every single guide. This is my first grow attempt ever and you can tell by the years I've been a member here that I've read quiet a bit. However... nothing is a substitute for experience. You need to try out a couple bag seeds. Bag seeds can produce amazing buds. Do a search on "bag seed" and you'll find users that have produced several ounces per plant of amazing looking bud with bag seeds. Sometimes better then designer strains. End of my story... I've been experimenting with growing now for 18 days total and don't have a single plant taller then 4". My originals that I started from seed 1 died, 1 I had to pull the 2 largest leaves off because they were brown/black and burnt, and other two are doing well and are only 1/2" tall and slowly moving. I have 2 more bag seeds that I just germinated 3 days ago and see how I do with them. But earlier in the week I purchased a 10 pack of Nirvana Blue Mystic (one of the harder ones but a higher yeild producer, with low odor, blue colors in the bud, and a great sativa/indica blend). I will probably end up with 3 weeks of experience before I start Blue Mystic and the freebie Durban Poison that they seed with it (Seedboutique $25 + $5 shipping w/ 10 pack of freebies). Btw, Seedboutique has e-mailed me with updates from my order three times now (when they package, when they ship, everything). They have super stealth shipping and most seeds arrive within 5-6 days I hear. Anyways... I would recommend you experiment on some bag seeds for at least a few weeks. Caring for seedlings can be harder then it sounds from reading forums. There are a lot of variables involved and its easy to mess one thing up. I have learned a ton! More in 3 weeks then I have in 3 years of reading on these forums. And when I do finally grow some great strains, I won't have to question every decision I make and worry that I'll stress my plants, stunt their growth, or even kill them all together. Within 10 seeds... you are only going to get a certain number of females. There isn't a lot of room for error. Good luck!
in my experience you can put a cfl within a inch of the plan with a fan on and over waering can be diagnosed very easily you will see the plant start to droop your plants probably all died every time because you over feed them while they were young
I didn't fertilize them at all. I used a drop of Super Thrive and a very small amount of Epsom salts once to add Mg to the soil. I agree that I over watered. But that is my point. There are many variables and until you do it, you don't know for sure that what you are doing is right even after reading everything humanly possible. Mistakes are easy to make.