what is the best way to grow one plant?

[surf.shaman]

If you wanted to grow just one plant - what would be the best way to do it?

[greenie]

inside or outside? how much room? whats your goal?

[surf.shaman]

inside...
the goal would be to learn.

[growurown]

I would suggest soil for the first go. The bigger the pot the bigger the plant. Five gallon buckets holes in the bottom lined with 2 inches gravel.
Soil gives you more of a buffer from what i understand but ive never tried hydro. CFLs are cheap and if you get a bunch of bigs ones and keep them close to the plant but not touching. You can find smaller HPS for the flowering cycle if you just have one plant.

I prefer outdoors personally. Way less paranoid and bigger plants but some seeds.


o yeah. start more then one seed. Try atleast 3 if not more. You can always cull out the weaker ones. This way you will get a female and gives you room for error since this is a learning experience. Its some work but you find that you love it and theres nothing better then smoken your own homegrown.

[surf.shaman]

thanks for the reply!I think I am going to try CFLs in a small grow box using soil...

[bugs]

Yep. Dirt, bucket, at least 3 seeds. Read around and find a good soil mix. Or (and you'll hear different opinions) get a big bag of Miracle Gro potting soil. I've had pretty good luck with it. The regular stuff, not the moisture control.

If you can get hold of some 3 gallon grow bags I'd recommend them. You can set them in containers like those big plant saucers, and water them from the bottom. That's how I've had my best luck.

If it were me, I think I'd put the babies into bud fairly early, a few inches tall, until they show sex. Then kill the males. If you have resources for a little cloning chamber, take a few cuts for the next crop. That saves sprouting and sexing, and preserves the genetics if you like the finished product and want to grow more of it.

Now you can put the mommy or mommies back into veg. and let them grow.

SCROG is the way to go, imo, for best yield, best use of vertical space, and efficient use of light. It's a little more work for a lot more bud. There are lots of threads on SCROG, here and on the grow sites. Google scrog, it'll point to plenty of info.

That's just one approach of many possible, but if my FOAF's cat's pet mouse decides to get into it again, that's what she says she's going to do.

Good luck, be safe.

[Coopdog]

I grew a single schrom plant in a 20 gallon rubbermaid full of mg soil, under a 400 watt light in a 2x3 ft closet and vegged it and bondaged it until it was one solid bed of tops and flowerd it, and got 8 oz of nice tops from it, and smoked the hell out of the bottom of it for a month before harvest. Bigger containers will yield much better results. Take the time to bend it and tie it until it is a nice bush, then flower, and you will get some nice tops, even under flouros.

keep the lights right down on top of it, the more lights the better with cf's. I would want at least 6 bulbs in that box and more if space permits.

You can go to the lighting or electrical section at walmart and get splitters that will enable you to put two bulbs into one socket and double the light per socket. They don't use much energy, so doubling them up is not a problem.

I have gotten 6 oz with flouros in a bathtub size space using scrog. That was with 4 4 ft shoplights and 6 compact flouros in strategic places.

Peace and good luck...

[Jaspmf]

Whatever you do, POT UP.
Start in small pots and work your way up.
Just throwing them in a giant container is silly, a healthy root-ball is key.
Otherwise the roots just shoot out to the edges and THEN start lacing all around it...leaving the inside nearly untouched. If you don't pot up you'll use maybe 15% of your soil. Uncool!

Scrog's are the bombdiggity, gives you the best light coverage.

Remember your plants need fresh air to breath. A fan of some sort exhausting out of the room is KEY.

HPS lights are the best, but CFL's are just fine for starting. Plus in the end you can prolly turn your CFL area into a mother room or such.

[surf.shaman]

topia totally rocks!thanks for all the advice... I will be staring soon!

[kcmoxtractor]

I definitely agree with bugs and say start several plants(3 or 4), better chances that you get a nice girl that you don't accidentally overwater or over feed. Top or FIM it three or four times and you should have a nice little bush! Try to take some clones when you top it the last few times, just for the practice. I would definitely advise training it down so it has an even top, since CFLs don't get the most light penetration. A SCROG would really be your best bet, or LST by tying down branches to the bucket so they are even. Do you know if your strain is an indica or sativa?

The miracle gro organic potting soil definitely works, no additional fertilizers needed but I usually add more perlite, since it is a little dense. Become familiar with how much the plants weigh in their pots and use that to gauge how much water is in the soil. A dry plant really does not weigh that much! For that reason I like to get plastic containers, since the clay ones are so heavy.

[copelandiaKidd]

g' luck!!!!