I thought I might start a journal to help me remember what the hell i did. Firstly though i want to thank forum members on their help. So much to learn and seems so many ways.
The reason for growing and in particular BD is that my daughter has a disease where she has chronic pain. End goal is to make oil to help her out. BD was recommended to me so here we go.
Live in OZ so its illegal to have any type of cannabis at all so hoping no one finds out.
Plant- Blue Dream
Situation- shed with clear polycarb roofing. Roofing has aluminet shadecloth 50%. Has a 250mm exhaust but dure to closeless to neighbors i will need a carbon filter. Shed also has rc aircon.
Plant time- start of spring
Watering- i think i will need to use rain water or even spring water to start as our water is heavily chlorinated.
Soil- premium potting mix, perlite and coco Coir
Have mushroom compost but unsure whether to use yet.
Pots- 20 litre plastic buckets with drilled holes.
Well thats a start, see how i go
Get yourself a decent pH pen/meter. A ppm/tds meter if you can afford it.
Plan to add cal-mag if you’re using rain water. Amend your soil with dolomite lime as well.
Ask many many questions.
I use to be into saltwater aquariums and used ro water and suplemented cal and mg so thats the easy part from me lol
The first rule of grow club is, you do not talk about grow club.
The second rule of grow club is, you do not talk about grow club.
Tell NO ONE that doesn’t absolutely need to know, and then threaten the lives of those who do need to know lol. Okay, that’s out of the way…
I’m sorry to hear about your daughter. I admire your ambition to help. Blue Dream is fantastic for pain. I use it or something similar almost every day for neck and back pain from injured discs, and for migraines. Enough of it will even help with sleep. Concentrated into oil, it will do wonders…for her, too, I hope!
It sounds like you’ve got a good setup. Ask every question that comes to you. Read until your eyes hurt. There’s an abundance of knowledge and nice people here that can’t be beat! 
heavily chlorinated is ok just leave it out for 24 hours and chlorine will evaporate. Then check the PPM’s to see how good it is
I have a Blue Dream Grow Journal you might want to have a look at. The only suggestions I would make so far is to use cloth pots, and do something to justify a higher electric bill. They used to look at electric bills around here to find growers. So see if you can pickup a used electric spa, then set it up but never use it.
Thanks. I am planning on using natural light in shed as it hs clear roofing. The only issue that has come up is that the clear roofing reduces uv. Not sure if this will be a problem.
Yeah i tell no one
Whats a good / ideal way to test ppm?
So whats the benefit of cloth over plastic?
Thx. Whats the name of journal?
So to test ppm the best way would be with a TDS meter, people like using cloth pots as it helps with overwatering and also more air gets in at the sides meaning the roots are air-pruning themselves 
As for @1BigFella grow, if you type in the search bar at the top ‘blue dream grow journal’ his will come up 
Welcome and goodluck 
You can check mine out to at
https://ilgmforum.com/t/gorilla-glue-4-from-dead-to-filling-a-4x6-tent-for-over-1-lb-in-100-days-or-less-in-a-race-with-a-durban-poison-autoflower/22672
What meter?
So in a soil grow are you measuring the input or the output(whst goes though the pot)?
You always measure what goes in, especially the ph as you dont want to lock out any nutrients, you want 6-7ph for soil. You can measure her runoff water to see what she is eatin ppm wise. If you ever have any issues you can always refer to the runoff and fix it. I suggest keeping a little note pad of what you feed/when and what the ph/ppm is, it has helped my stoner brain ALOT! lol.
Most growers use pH 6.5 for soil. My first grow, I used soil in plastic pots, and I always wondered of I should water or not, if I was using enough water, etc. Second grow I went to pure coco in cloth pots, with water-to-waste (water until some washes out the bottom) DynaGro nutes. Solves several problems at once. You always water and feed enough, since any excess washes out the bottom. Can’t get root-bound because of air-pruning of rootlets that come through the cloth. Plenty of oxygen at roots.
Never bothered with PPM, just pH, since I knew exactly what was in the coco and it got renewed every day.
Those are perfect pots, but I think you can get them cheaper.