So how bad did you screw it up?
My first indoor was in a fireplace with a monstrosity of a 125w compact fluorescent.
It turns out I was growing some kind of sativa.
I cropped after bending the whole thing sideways for what seemed like forever. It was adequate, not good.
I was also 16.
In a small homemade plywood box with a 70w hps security light and a computer fan for exhaust. Put a big ol’ padlock on the front for security… 
Everything died.
I had a computer exhaust fan too but it was on a later model. It was a big one too.
College apartment. It was in a closet. (Some things don’t change) With no ventilation. Still full of clothes. With an incandescent “grow-bulb.” With miracle grow soil. Leggy does not properly describe my 3-leaf “beauty….”
Yeah the incandescent will kill you.
I once vented my light box but forgot to vent the grow space…
My FIRST grow was like 22 years ago. A single bag seed from some shitty swag. Started in a closet sitting on a board that was catty corner across the top shelf so it could be closer to the light. Two weeks in a bumped the board and it fell and fucked up the plant and it died. Pretty anticlimactic story 
We are almost all guilty of murdering our first plant in very ugly ways.
It was a blood bath! fucking wet dirt everywhere
Mine was outdoors, with clones I got off of craigslist. We don’t get enough light most of the year to keep anything in veg coming out of a tent until like… June, and I didn’t know any better, so naturally it flowered, re-vegged, and while the grow did make it to the finish line, it was absolute wispy fluffy stuff.
I am extra careful to not spill when I’m doing my little plant watering dance because I HATE cleaning it up.
Easy mistake to make. That’s some advanced stuff for a noob.
And I’d be too chicken to get clones off Craigslist.
I think I’ve told this story before, but maybe not here. Just about 30 years ago I popped a seed and tried to grow it in a white plastic trash bin (a shiny abs kind) with an incandescent bulb, in a closet. I grew it for a few weeks, turned out to be male. Just as well because there were way too many people coming in and out of that house.
Second time indoors was almost 20 years ago, but with a 400W HPS in an unvented closet, in the deep south. That actually worked reasonably well, though would’ve been better if I had ever been able to resist sampling buds here and there. Note to self… don’t do that.
I think in between I tried popping seeds and planting them random places outdoors, but they never panned out.
i have evidence of this atrocity!..circa 2007 
And this is her AFTER i finally figured out that plants don’t do well with zero airflow and being fucking baked under a 150 watt hps…But to be fair,this was an “Experiment” grow first time using a “Real light” with some schwag bagseed…i tried topping,cloning,revegging,all sorts of stuff lol
A learning experience I like it.
i definitely learned a lot that first grow,i remember it fondly despite all the screw up’s
I remember I bought my fancy bulb but it needed a special mount for it so I just asked the guy if I could have his floor model and he charged me $10
My first indoor grow was a 2 plant dwc under 400hps, I did pretty good actually 
It’s on the third run I messed up bad. It was a long time ago but for laughs I’ll tell what I did.
So I caught some bugs on my plants. Pretty sure they were gnats. I had read on the web that you had to treat the root zone too, and that peroxide was the thing to use. I poured a bottle through the net pots LOL. They died overnight 
Ouch that’s gotta burn.
I’ve got a few early failed outdoors under my belt but I’m focusing on indoor bloopers.
but this technically wasn’t my “First”…the first was when i was 13,a Cfl grow in an aluminum foil lined closet…i was using nirvana white widow and skunk number 1 freebies i got on seedsdirect…i still remember waiting like two months for them lol…beautiful healthy plants,but i was to scared to flower them though
Young me was very inspired by the original Overgrow!
I too got seeds from nirvana and seeds direct. Holy throwback Thursday.
I remember the seeds were protected by a little office paper triangle the name of which I don’t know.
