New Grower Total Newbie First-Ever-Ever Grow. Strain : TD Auto

[Serengeti]

Hey There !!

This is my first post at AFN and here is my short story. I've been thinking about growing my own plant for a year maybe but never had a time because of my job and my college. I stopped working so i have a lot of free time so started to search about growing marijuana and saw a blog about autoflowers and feminized seeds and how easy it is now to grow a plant at home. i decided abt my seeds - Dutch Passion Auto Think Different Feminized - and started to search everything about autos for a week and ended up in AFN.

I am inspired with BillyWu's Journal and ordered my seeds. I am now building my grow room which is a small toilet in my house.

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I am building my setup atm and would like to know if my setup is correct.


Dimensions of the room : 1.5m x 0.9m and 2.40m height.
Pots : 2x 25lt plastic pot (i will grow 2 plants in the room)
Seed : TD auto feminized
Soil : 1x 50lt Biobizz light mix
Nutes : Biobizz's (Grow - Bloom - Topmax - RootJuice - Formulex)
Light :
- 400w Philips MH (for the veg stage)
- 400w Philips Pia Plus HPS (for flowering stage)
- 2x 36w Florescents on two sides of the room. (on both stages)
- I will have a reflector but not a cooltube for time being. Maybe later when i have more money.

I will have fans for air circulation. Another fan facing between light and pot.
I will make a carbon filter on my own using one of the DIY guides.

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So thats basically it.
I have a couple of questions tho, i can't find Formulex anywhere, is there anything that you guys can advise to replace with Formulex?
Would my carbonfilter be enough to be able to filter the smell from 2 TD plants, since i have absolutely zero idea about its smell, your thought is important.

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Its going to be my first-ever-ever grow, and i am planning to make a journal. Keep in mind im totally newbie at growing a plant.
Any help would be apprecieted.

As soon as my seeds arrives, the action starts.

 

[BillyWu]

Just replied on my thread for you bud but here's my answer :]

All of that looks grand to be fair bud. All I can recommend on top of that is getting some CalMag supplement if you haven't got anything like Epsom salts.
Have you got a pH meter? You'll want one of those, I use the HM Digital one.

As for Formulex, you can find it here: http://www.growell.co.uk/formulex.html

What kind of fluorescent lights were you thinking of using? The tube type? I'd very highly recommend some LED lights if you can afford them (order Chinese wholesale, DON'T buy the Hydrogrow ones as they're a con), they provide great supplemental light if you're putting them on the sides or even in conjunction with your primary lights. I got two 50w LED UFO lights for £80 from China and they're smashing.

If you make a good carbon filter it shouldn't be a problem removing smell. You'll need extraction though, which is basically just a fan that pulls air out of the room by ducting. Otherwise the air is just passively getting filtered and it will escape the room. Are you buying a grow room or making your own one? When they're just finishing up flowering, if you've got healthy plants with big buds the smell she puts out is very strong.

Just a few things you're gonna want to consider before you grow:

• Can you keep the temperatures at about 75-80 degrees Fahrenheit? A 400W HPS light is going to put out of a lot of heat, make sure you can control it. For that you need extraction and if it's still too hot then an intake too.
• If applicable can you keep your grow stealthy?

 

[stylez]

Good luck on your first grow ever. lots of green kharma sent your way.
:dance:welcome AFN, this is a great place for answers.
One love:smokebuds:

 

[GoAuto6]

sounds like a good show soon gona sub up. here's some reading you might enjoy.
Newbie tools, What is needed and why, Come contrbute!

 

[JM]

now we have all your info together in the right place..

now... about a proper welcome!

:smokebuds:

Welcome!
see my sig for all sorts of useful info.

JM

 

[Serengeti]

Is Calmag for setting the pH at the right point? because i was planning to use "Cellmax pH up / pH down" to arrange my water pH right after adding the nutes and yes i am going to be using a pH meter.

About the fluorescents, yes im thinking about the tube types, i don't think that i can afford LED lights at the moment. I am planning to set the height of fluorescents 10cm above from the top the pots at the beginning and raise it as the plant gets bigger, try to keep bottom parts of the plant gets light as well.

I am going to turn my small toilet in to a grow room, will be using a extraction fan but not a intake, will see how it goes and add a intake if its needed.

About stealth, im living with a flatmate which will know that i am growing plant in there, but the door will always be locked and i will have the only key, and im not planning to tell anybody else whats in there.

 

[GoAuto6]

yes

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[Serengeti]

sounds like a good show soon gona sub up. here's some reading you might enjoy.
Newbie tools, What is needed and why, Come contrbute!

Thanks mate, i will take a look at it

 

[JM]

calmag is a nutrient supplement (Calcium / Magnesium)
molasses and epsom salts can replace cal mag cheap.
1tsp each per gallon of water during flowering.

I am going to turn my small toilet in to a grow room, will be using a extraction fan but not a intake, will see how it goes and add a intake if its needed.

About stealth, im living with a flatmate which will know that i am growing plant in there, but the door will always be locked and i will have the only key, and im not planning to tell anybody else whats in there.

the appropriately sized extraction fan should work fine... you got the idea.. negative pressure so smells are sucked in and extracted through the fan / filter.

never tell anyone! :thumbs:

 

[BillyWu]

Right on. CalMag is a calcium & magnesium supplementary nutrient solution, basically tomato feed. It's good for providing those supplementary micronutrients as their deficiencies are quite common.

Fluorescent tubes are okay but they're not all that good, they don't give out that many lumens of light in many spectrums.