First try (officially) outside of stupid teenage attempts at starting my grow journey. I hope to try to keep up with it here. I’ve been lurking for sometime and feel good.
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Good luck!
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So what’s with the bags? Sprouting?
So, tell us about them, what strain? And yourself, how many times have you tried growing? (Yes, even teenage attempts count) What did you learn from them?
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Nice clean setup!
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So I am not starting off unread. I have a brother who is very competent in growing and one of reasons I wanted to get into this.
As far as the other attempts in the early years it was a bunch of dumb shit, like throwing seeds from our dub sacks and seeing a sprout ere or there then trying a closet grow and getting it tossed and threatened with getting kicked out of the house. Dumb shit. I have only had one ever attempted grow and it was a shit show compared to now. I was however able to produce a bud or two from a wardrobe in a closet with a lamp. Crazy lucky dumb shit.
p.s. that bud was trash and it was about 10 years ago.
Fast forward to now and i am in a place where I am legal and at a place where I can afford to dive in and enjoy this.
So on gear I went with an A/C Infinity combo tent for simplicity. (4x4), Nothing fancy just an off the shelf kit and I have played with settings for the last week to get climate right and ready for clones. Decided to go clones first for pure genetics and possibly better result. Using earthboxes and Build a Soil 3.0 with some of their rootwise added into the mix before i dropped my clones in.
I let that sit for a day then the girls arrived and I ended up going with 2 strains.
- Cinderella-Pineapple
- Rosetta Stone
I’ll hopefully try to write down and detail this journey without doing what I normally do and swear I’ll remember it. Thanks for the encouragements.
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Nice man! Skipped all the basic stuff & went straight to SIPs / Clones. Anything worth doing, is worth doing right 
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Clean and well organized, good luck!
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So had my first worry with the new girls. One of them started to droop pretty significantly. She was the tallest and I was slowly adding light. The other 3 we’re showing no signs of stress, just the tallest. I asked my guru and after relaxing and seeing a treatment rather than a response I decided to crank humidity to 100% and heat to 85 and let her ride in best conditions. Her genetics should help recover. Woke up this morning to get starting to teach and not drooping as much. Showing signs of recovery just over night. Hopefully she was a little too close to the light and needed a day.
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Woo buddy, love me some Earthboxes/SIP’s! 
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So I have a few first week pics. Happy with the progress. Slowly taking and looking good. Had to trim some dead ends and suckers but showing signs of life and growth.
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They certainly look to have perked up from lat pics. Should find their groove pretty soon in those boxes. Best of luck!
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Ok so first month down. Going to start training today and picking clone spots possibly. Wanting to keep focused since first grow so may relax on cloning early but we’ll see. I’ve been lucky to catch environmental issues as they have come up so nothing crazy has happened except some wet spots that needed air flow. If anyone can point me in the direction of step by step cloning process that’d be cool. Here’s some progress pics. Thanks for peaking in.
Looks great, keep up the good work.
Just a thought, success is all about roots, PERIOD. The rest will follow. If you can bury your leggy “trunk” you’ll induce root growth all along the buried area. Vigor (and yield) will increase 10X.
They are in soil, right?
UB
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yes, started from clones and I put them about 3 inches deep on initial transplanting. I have added dirt to the base of them early on but have just let them be since.
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There are 100 ways to skin a cat and you’ll find most of them here. I think for small gardens it’s easiest just to take some cuttings and out them in a cup with a little water.
I’m not familiar with the build a soil method. What’s the deal with the plastic and pvc pipe in the container?
Garden is looking real clean 
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Recommend root tip pruning systems, been using them for decades on all kinds of plant materials. Am now trying MicroKote. The science behind root pruning is kin to topping but underground. You’ll create a very profuse, fibrous and efficient root system in a small container. Makes life a lot simpler and cheaper.
If you can get to them without too much root disturbance then dig them up and plant them up to the first node holding leaves. If you grow tomatoes, that’s the only to grow them too. Leggy cannabis or tomatoes can be buried in a trench if root depth is restricted. Roots will still grow along the horizontally buried trunk.
Here’s an old experiment regarding this system. https://mycotopia.net/HTFaq/1321.htm
Uncle Ben
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I love the rooting gel cups. You just punch a hole in the foil top and stick your cuttings into the gel which contains a root hormone and probably a fungicide. Amazon sells rooting goodies.
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Is that a humidifier? Once they’ve rooted you don’t want the disease pressures high RH can promote in the garden. However, great idea for providing moisture cuttings need. Good on ya.
Uncle Ben
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