GrowinDownSouth
Rooted
Thanks for checking this out. I must stress that I know nothing about anything and nothing I do should be replicated. I am very open to critiques, advice, guidance etc.
My state is scheduled to legalize home growing in a couple months, but I am impatient and diagnosed with ADHD that gives me a laser like hyperfocus drive that cannot be stopped so I am starting a bit early...that and I am growing some outside and don't think it's a good idea to start outdoor grows in July.
Intro
Who am I? Just a dude that has always wanted to grow cannabis.
Grow Details
What seeds do I have?
Setup
*Only growing ILGM Northern Lights Auto inside*
For indoors: a Mars Hydro kit with 2.3" x 2.3" x 5-ish" tent, their ts1000 LED board, inline fan and carbon filter, two 3gal smart pots and one 5gal pot. All grown in Fox Farm Happy Frog w/ added perlite at 10-20%ish. Tent size is what it is, can't go bigger right now due to wife and small apartment. Cant get another one either.
For outdoors: honestly idk yet. I've got 6 Black Banana Punch and 5 Pennywise in some cow pots right now. 5 15gal smart pots on the way to put a few of each in outside, A few will be planted at my family's mini-farm/big garden and then a few more around their yard in some random areas. I'm hoping to get some of those seeds from GLG out there as well.
Plan
If the autoflowers fail (which they all might idk), I will try the feminised seeds I got afterwards. I already have gnats in my soil (using fly tape) but 6 days into it is not very inspiring lol. Gonna be doing some LST, using different levels (within reason ofc) of the big 3 FF nutes for experimentation, defoliation testing...I think that's it.
Outdoors: since their location will be about 35 minutes from me, I won't be able to mess with them much which is good and bad. The bag seed I planted last year had incredible growth and really blew my mind so I'm hoping I can replicate that experience which requires me to not do a fucking thing! The smart pots are to keep some of the plants from growing into actual trees since I don't have the knowledge or capability of processing that much bud (what a problem to have lol).
Goal
To have a success rate of 50%, meaning 50% of the female plants will provide badass consumable bud from seed to harvest to curing. Giving cannabis away to 21+ folks will be legal, so a stretch goal is having enough to do just that.
Questions I have (more for me, no obligation to answer ofc)
What soil should I use in those outdoor pots (plz need to keep this not as expensive)?
Are those seeds I have "good"? Any I should avoid buying again or should absolutely only place inside/outside?
What do I need to tweak? Sprouts are stretching so I turned up the light a bit and lowered it a couple inches. I moved some soil around to support them more.
What should I throw out and buy instead for next time?
What am I missing? What mistakes am I on track to make that I'm not noticing?
Sorry for the length but a lot of it is for me to refer back to lol
TLDR; newbie is growing cannabis indoors and outdoors w/ some basic research knowledge. willing to take all tips/advice/knowledge from folks here. expecting the worst, hoping for the best.
^6 in top right corner all connected are black banana punch, disconnected 5 are pennywise (oh I forgot I dropped all the pennywise carrying them upstairs so that's why some are missing soil and stuff)
^fan rig is being reworked lol I am waiting on straps. carbon filter is intentionally not connected rn
^moved those back 2 closer together and to the light, turned brightness up to 55-60%. They wouldn't stretch if they didn't want to be closer to the light, right?
^if you made it this far, you get to see this insanely gorgeous place my friend is at right now in China. I'm very jealous lol.
My state is scheduled to legalize home growing in a couple months, but I am impatient and diagnosed with ADHD that gives me a laser like hyperfocus drive that cannot be stopped so I am starting a bit early...that and I am growing some outside and don't think it's a good idea to start outdoor grows in July.
Intro
Who am I? Just a dude that has always wanted to grow cannabis.
Grow Details
What seeds do I have?
- 5 Northern Lights Autoflowers from ILGM
- 10-15 Brisco Bargain Beans Black Banana Punch F1 (big black bananas x banana punch)
- 10 Pennywise x Uber Male regs (thanks for the recommendation to JBC btw) that came with some freebies I forget
- (the rest from GLG 4/20 sales, ty phenohunters for the sale post!) Bohdi seeds snow monkey
- Bohdi Seeds field trip
- Bad Dawg SFV x Bye Ya
- Twenty20 Snowcaine (fems I think?)
- Mosca Seeds Cheese-sus Christ (more fems I believe)
Setup
*Only growing ILGM Northern Lights Auto inside*
For indoors: a Mars Hydro kit with 2.3" x 2.3" x 5-ish" tent, their ts1000 LED board, inline fan and carbon filter, two 3gal smart pots and one 5gal pot. All grown in Fox Farm Happy Frog w/ added perlite at 10-20%ish. Tent size is what it is, can't go bigger right now due to wife and small apartment. Cant get another one either.
For outdoors: honestly idk yet. I've got 6 Black Banana Punch and 5 Pennywise in some cow pots right now. 5 15gal smart pots on the way to put a few of each in outside, A few will be planted at my family's mini-farm/big garden and then a few more around their yard in some random areas. I'm hoping to get some of those seeds from GLG out there as well.
Plan
If the autoflowers fail (which they all might idk), I will try the feminised seeds I got afterwards. I already have gnats in my soil (using fly tape) but 6 days into it is not very inspiring lol. Gonna be doing some LST, using different levels (within reason ofc) of the big 3 FF nutes for experimentation, defoliation testing...I think that's it.
Outdoors: since their location will be about 35 minutes from me, I won't be able to mess with them much which is good and bad. The bag seed I planted last year had incredible growth and really blew my mind so I'm hoping I can replicate that experience which requires me to not do a fucking thing! The smart pots are to keep some of the plants from growing into actual trees since I don't have the knowledge or capability of processing that much bud (what a problem to have lol).
Goal
To have a success rate of 50%, meaning 50% of the female plants will provide badass consumable bud from seed to harvest to curing. Giving cannabis away to 21+ folks will be legal, so a stretch goal is having enough to do just that.
Questions I have (more for me, no obligation to answer ofc)
What soil should I use in those outdoor pots (plz need to keep this not as expensive)?
Are those seeds I have "good"? Any I should avoid buying again or should absolutely only place inside/outside?
What do I need to tweak? Sprouts are stretching so I turned up the light a bit and lowered it a couple inches. I moved some soil around to support them more.
What should I throw out and buy instead for next time?
What am I missing? What mistakes am I on track to make that I'm not noticing?
Sorry for the length but a lot of it is for me to refer back to lol
TLDR; newbie is growing cannabis indoors and outdoors w/ some basic research knowledge. willing to take all tips/advice/knowledge from folks here. expecting the worst, hoping for the best.

^6 in top right corner all connected are black banana punch, disconnected 5 are pennywise (oh I forgot I dropped all the pennywise carrying them upstairs so that's why some are missing soil and stuff)


^fan rig is being reworked lol I am waiting on straps. carbon filter is intentionally not connected rn


^moved those back 2 closer together and to the light, turned brightness up to 55-60%. They wouldn't stretch if they didn't want to be closer to the light, right?


^if you made it this far, you get to see this insanely gorgeous place my friend is at right now in China. I'm very jealous lol.