Hello . Few things would like to know

[Olderfart]

@Flexus13 Welcome to AFN A good indoor grow starts with the environment. You must provide the basics and it is harder than it sounds. Cannabis is a weed and will grow under many conditions but if you want it thrive then you need to optimize these conditions. Night temperature 68°F Daytime Temperature 78°F, Relative Humidity >40% <60%, ~40 DLI (daylight integral) at the proper spectrum, gentle continuous fresh air movement. Good Quality starting water. Most indoor growers use a tent to help control this micro-climate. The taller the better.

Then decide on a grow style that suits the time schedule you are willing to devote to the grow. After preparing the soil (which can take months on DIY soil) Organic Living Soil take the least amount of tent time. Time demands go up from there on other styles.

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Precharged soils have a learning curve as to when and how much to feed your plants. Many new growers mess this one up by feeding too much too soon. I work the Infirmary and this trips up many and is difficult to get back under control. Less is better.

Coco is a form of hydroponics and many growers are successful in coco but you need to do the research first.

Hydroponics is a full time every day, even multiple times a day grow style. A solid understanding of salt nutrition is helpful in this style. I grow Hydro in precision drip irrigated rock wool. A DWC Bubbleponics bucket can be done with a little research. Some of the biggest best plants I have grown were in Bubbleponics.

Choose a grow style then choose a nutrient line designed for that style of cannabis farming and use that entire line. Do not mix and match based on flashy names or bottles. Nutrient lines are developed with the products designed to work together to keep the all important "Balance" in the media. To understand balance research Liebig's Law of the Minimum.

Understanding your water's starting profile is important. If you are on municipal water you should be able to get a water quality report off the internet. The sections we are interested in are the Hardness and Sanitation sections.

Tag me with that information and I can help you understand it.
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On point as always @Mañ'O'Green, thanks for weighing in.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

On point as always @Mañ'O'Green, thanks for weighing in.

It turns out he/she has a plant in the infirmary already - man that was fast . We will get them fixed up. It is what we do!

 

[Olderfart]

It turns out he/she has a plant in the infirmary already - man that was fast . We will get them fixed up. It is what we do!

Your knowledge sir is exceeded only by your remarkable patience.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Your knowledge sir is exceeded only by your remarkable patience.

I had a lot of practice. My domain before I retired had over 100 users, 5 remote locations 18 servers, 80 desktops, 40 scanners 60 printers. And All of the infrastructure to support it. Always a new employee to train into the system - that took patients. If someone cannot learn I am not communicating correctly with them. I had to slow down and listen to them. Just like I try to listen to the plants.

You don't know how many times I have wanted to push the



on some peeps Then I just do a couple of these and all is good in the world.

 

[Olderfart]

I had a lot of practice. My domain before I retired had over 100 users, 5 remote locations 18 servers, 80 desktops, 40 scanners 60 printers. And All of the infrastructure to support it. Always a new employee to train into the system - that took patients. If someone cannot learn I am not communicating correctly with them. I had to slow down and listen to them. Just like I try to listen to the plants.

You don't know how many times I have wanted to push the

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As a former administrator myself, you might be surprised how often I imagined your finger hovering, trembling, over that button. Especially when, for the how many hundredth time you provide once again, the %$#%&* infirmary form and suggest quietly that someone might bother to fill the thing out if they expect you to figure out what is up. And then there are the new growers who do zero homework and expect you to do it all for them without any effort on their part. And the list could go on.

Anyway, my hat is off to how you patiently help growers out whatever stage they are at, and keep a lid on things when they give you good reason to do otherwise. Your approach to helping people, and similar attitude on the parts of many other growers here, make this site the comfortable and helpful place that it is, especially for newcomers.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

As a former administrator myself, you might be surprised how often I imagined your finger hovering, trembling, over that button. Especially when, for the how many hundredth time you provide once again, the %$#%&* infirmary form and suggest quietly that someone might bother to fill the thing out if they expect you to figure out what is up. And then there are the new growers who do zero homework and expect you to do it all for them without any effort on their part. And the list could go on.

Anyway, my hat is off to how you patiently help growers out whatever stage they are at, and keep a lid on things when they give you good reason to do otherwise. Your approach to helping people, and similar attitude on the parts of many other growers here, make this site the comfortable and helpful place that it is, especially for newcomers.

Thanks for the kind words I hope I can live up to them.

 

[nizmoKush]

Welcome to AFN :smoking: ..
One tip I can give you if you go soil, once your soil is in the pot pick it up so you can see how it feels to pick up dry soil. Then water till you get some runoff (water slowly) pick it up again and you'll notice a significant weight increase.

This will give you a idea when to water. If you let your soil dry too much then when you go water again it will repel the water and just go to the outside of the pot.