German 1st time grower / Legal since april

welcome aboard,Sn0opY…viel erfolg!

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Welcome bro, happy growing.

Have a good time here.

Best wishes

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wow thank you guys =)

god i was so hyped i missed the seeds part ^^

it was a lil chaos as u could imagine - tent and setup arrievd before seeds so i started with a Blue dream non auto “bag-seed” and a few days later my 1st order of RQS autos arrived (for 1st grow/starters) - i went with 3 royal jack auto - 1 took a lil too long to sproud, so i made a new one of royal jack; after that i gifted some seeds as Bday present to some friend and im doint the early days for his Zamnesia Runts x2 as well / for my 2nd setup i started a royal runtz and 1 pink runtz

im using the overgrown app to keep track and was really surprised to find such an active forum hidden in this lil app =) great community

for the new light i might have a solution - a friend wanted this exact pack i think im gonna try the light and might order the KingBrite 240W for him

thx again

2nd seed order:

my only non auto (rnd bag seed)

the “big one”

and thats the same seed but i ripped this ones roots on the 1st repotting… genius

happy family

im so surprised 4 seeds of the same thing in the same thent can do 4x different things the 1 exploded nearly kissing the lamp, the 1 i ripped the roots was nearly dead after but i managed to bring her back quite well and the 2x small ones - i dont know
only thing i can think of … i started with 24/0 light and after a friend mentioned that my non auto is burning in hell like that i dropped to 18/6 - guess thats when the autos all started blooming regardless of the 2 small ones being 1 week or more behind the big ones

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oh and for the seed trading “legally” we are only allowed to ship seeds from EU
so no US seeds … unless u ship em to austria which is next to us (duh) and then the friend in Austria sends it to germany (lol laws…)

but i work for the customs and 90% dont give a fuck - i started smoken on my 1st week there and thats 15y ago - never had a problem (god thx)

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What is your job?

Hope you are not from the ACAB family.

@Sn0opY if you are IT/software guy, and want to automate your plant watering… you could try my Potnanny software. Runs on a cheap raspberry pi, interfaces with Bluetooth devices. Like Govee power outlets, and Xiaomi Soil Sensors, to set up an auto waterer.

Auch, Ich verstehe ein bisschen Deutsch

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Nice plants, nice setup! And yeah even with plants of the same strain you will still notice massive differences in its phenotype when growing from seed.

I had 4 Euforia Autos, of which 1 expressed as a fast indica dominant plant, one traditional “hybrid” plant with Christmas tree structure and both a fast and a very slow flowering sativa dominant plant, of which the fast one is like a White Widow with the frost, and the slow one is showing purple pistils… Super interesting.

One thing you can do to limit the height of your biggest plants is to buy some bending clips, or if you have the fabric pots there are Velcro strips that are amazing for quickly bending and fixing branches to the pot. If you wanna learn more about this just google Low Stress Training!

Cheers,
eS🍹

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And @Sn0opY please let us know how the Tropicana Poison is doing for you, I’ve been eyeing that strain as well but got distracted with other 420 offers :sweat_smile:

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Congratulations :tada: Your plants look fantastic

Welcome to OG @Sn0opY great to have you here mate, and congratulations on your new found freedom​:+1::green_heart:

200w is kinda bare minimum for flowering in that tent. Bump it up to 300w and watch the baseball bats you pull in!

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he thx for the input

i did google and watch videos - we also have some friends who didnt take the whole legalize thing too serious and grow for years now - im just too much of of p***y on my 1st grow to do crazy things ^^

thats for the next tent, already got clips, benders, velcro strips etc etc. god i spent waaay toooo much

humidyfyer / AC control for the room / dehumidifyer / temp setup, hp / ec water setup , fabric pots en mass in every volume - laser temp, biobizz complete

but ye might have to step up the light or get a 2nd one in

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since i dont pay for electricity extra (just a fixed fee) ill try to stay a lil on the low side :stuck_out_tongue: dont want the other ppl here to notice my power goes 3x and check the price contracts from years ago :wink:

other good thing is all my frinds are a lil slow and saving for a setup - so im 90% sure i could sell my lights etc pretty quick - everything is SOLD OUT here :smiley:

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urgh im done building the 2nd setup and u are right :smiley: the light is so small… need a 2nd one or a betetr one… thats what i get for ordering my friends recommendation without 2x checking :stuck_out_tongue:

@GCC.Bud haha nah im doing IT stuff for the gov - everyone smoking here

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I ran 3x 100w spider farmers in my 2x4 and it did wonderfully for me. I would recommend using a single unit, for heat reasons, but I wouldn’t use under 300w. I upgraded to a 4x4 setup last year and it has 700w, which seems like the sweet spot for me.

The tent kits seem like they mostly come with just enough light for veg. Between 30-40w/sqft is really about where you want to be for flowering.

I think Spider Farmer is having supply issues since German legalization, the price went from 90EU (sure it was with small discount), to a 150EU preorder for the SF1000D :frowning: . Ive also really been liking the SF1000D, and wanted to buy another one, but the big price increase is holding me back!

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I caved last November when they had a big sale on the new generation Mars lights and bought one, since Spider Farmer hadn’t updated to the new LM301H diodes yet. I’m very happy with it.

Hi, and welcome to OG ans happy legal growing !

spiderfarmer is sold out :smiley:

ye i noticed the big tent has heating problems with only 1 light, the spiderfarmer is perfectly controllable temp and humidity, the secret jardin gets so hot, even with the fans running on max, maybe a 2nd light isnt too clever

i dont know if sth like this would be better for the big tent size wise

but it looks like a cheap china toy compared to the spider with updated samsung LED´s

Hey, welcome to OG! I know the feeling man, my states first year of legal growing. Never should have been illegal to begin with but very exciting times. Good luck and happy belated 4/20

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