# NewB, 1st Indoor grow

**URL:** <https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022>\
**Category:** Show Your Grow\
**Created:** [January 12, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022 "2025-01-12T22:48:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![DaveySprocket](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/daveysprocket/32/1203334_2.png) [@DaveySprocket](https://ilgmforum.com/u/DaveySprocket)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 10:48pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/1 "2025-01-12T22:48:02Z")

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What’s up fellas, I’m new , thanks for having me, this is my first indoor grow. I’ve got a 4x4 x80 vivosun tent kit. Two 200 W LED. 4 in exhaust fan and three small circulating fans. 8 three gallon pots with possibly eight strains planted in Happy Frog and additional perlite. Using Advanced Nutrienta Micro, Grow, Bloom 3 part pH perfect along with AN Big Bud, Overdrive and Sensei Cal Mag plus. There are eight Auto flower strains from Fast buds. One Orange President, one Kamala OG, and one Gorilla Cookies and the rest are mystery beans x5.  
Today is day 52. The early bird is in week five of flower and then I have week four of flower for two others and the rest are at week 3.  
What do you think?

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**Author:** ![Caligurl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/caligurl/32/597950_2.png) [@Caligurl](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Caligurl)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/2 "2025-01-12T23:05:48Z")

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First indoor grow? Do you normally grow outdoors?

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/3 "2025-01-12T23:07:46Z")

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Yes. So Cali. Heres some of 2024 photo plants, Biker, Jupiter and Pravada.

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**Author:** ![Caligurl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/caligurl/32/597950_2.png) [@Caligurl](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Caligurl)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:16pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/4 "2025-01-12T23:16:20Z")

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Beautiful! Size of pots or in ground?

This was my last summer’s grow

> [@Seriously… only 2 for 2024](https://ilgmforum.com/t/seriously-only-2-for-2024/108677):
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> Welp, spring is around the corner! I’m working on my plan for this year’s outdoor grow. Last grow I had 3 volunteers (Anni I, II, and III). They all grew great - beautiful plants, if I only knew who their mothers were LOL… Annie 1 gave me 2 seeds so I really want to learn how to reverse her. The year before, I got 18 of my Momma’s Mangoes (cross between DJ Short Blueberry/Corpse Flower and a Banana Mango, but I gave 6 away to have someone reverse it for me and that never happened…so I have 11. …

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:21pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/5 "2025-01-12T23:21:35Z")

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Very nice! Outdoors I grow on a table and inground and in pots hehe

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**Author:** ![John7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/john7/32/965417_2.png) [@John7](https://ilgmforum.com/u/John7)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:29pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/6 "2025-01-12T23:29:30Z")

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8 plants in a 4x4 tent. Your plants are awesome congratulations. I bet you won’t have any wasted space. I grow hydroponic and have 6 autos currently growing in a 4x8 tent. They can be small in size or huge depending on the strain. One is juicy fruit and the other is banana purple. I have a Alaskan thunder f—k that is 4’ and not in flowering yet

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:31pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/7 "2025-01-12T23:31:06Z")

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I start them inside, then they either go into a 45 gallon, a 50 gallon, and/or into the ‘ground’ which is a raised bed with direct contact with mother earth (except I don’t have to kneel down to work on them LOL).

What part of the country are you growing in?

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/8 "2025-01-12T23:39:10Z")

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Thank you John, those look amazing and yummy. They’re very big. I hope mine get like that. And you’re right I am finding out that there will be no wasted space. All of mine have stayed pretty short at about 24 to 30 in but the Kamala OG is a couple inches short of 4 ft and has a huge wingspan and has barely started to flower.

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 11:39pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/9 "2025-01-12T23:39:37Z")

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I’m in Southern California and my 2024 outdoor grow was water entirely by using my Koi pond water that is loaded with nitrates and phosphates. The PPM is usually 600 ish with a pH in the sixes. They loved it

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**Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/10 "2025-01-13T00:33:35Z")

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NorCal here.

Funny, we have a pretty good sized goldfish pond (and maybe a stow-away koi LOL) and I use the pond water to make my PNSB ( Purple nonsulfur bacteria), which, in turn, I actually put back in the pond). I’ve used gallons at a time of pond water but usually dilute it pretty good.

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**Post date:** [January 18, 2025, 4:54pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/11 "2025-01-18T16:54:55Z")

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Today. My early bird is bulking up great. The 4x4 is filling up!

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**Post date:** [January 22, 2025, 2:12am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/12 "2025-01-22T02:12:08Z")

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The Early bird is coming long. I picked up.one of them usb microscope for my phone. I need to set up a tripod deal and learn how to dial the color

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**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 9:14pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/13 "2025-01-23T21:14:21Z")

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Day 63

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**Post date:** [January 25, 2025, 4:13pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/14 "2025-01-25T16:13:13Z")

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Vivosun tent controller reports. It shows my learning curve trying to figure out how to manage the environment. My controller doesn’t control humidifiers so I got a smart humidifier that controls itself. The last report shows the difference as I just installed it last weekend. I am at ease now. Check my channel-

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/original/4X/0/a/9/0a98573be8b5352ce5343eb43c45d43ec18eed79.jpeg "#Vivosun weekly reports. #Fastbuds AF. Day 65") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SZcY9aufjw)

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**Post date:** [January 29, 2025, 12:27am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/15 "2025-01-29T00:27:56Z")

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Update. Day 68. Found my runoff low pH and high ppm. All due to not watering till runoff ugh.Flushed with tap. Numbers are good now. Check out the latest pics on YT.

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/original/4X/9/b/5/9b5741249dabccc7066d059a14f6d5ce66454b4c.jpeg "Fast Buds Day 68 #fastbuds #vivosun #indoorplants #growyourown") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNAjezwKe0)

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**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 2:25am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/16 "2025-02-03T02:25:27Z")

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How’s this lady doing? This FB AF Mystery plant is on day 74, week of 8 flower. She started flowering on day 19. Shes a week ahead the next in line of 8 different plants from FB. Heres some microscope pics, I read and took @Growdoc advice and snipped a sample from main to get a steady look with the scope and it worked great. Thanks GD! The sample was taken about 3 inches from the top. The smell is delicious Fruity Pebbles mmmm.

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**Post date:** [February 14, 2025, 6:10pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/17 "2025-02-14T18:10:15Z")

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12 weeks from seed the next lady is ripening up

[![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/original/4X/f/6/4/f64caccfa847851424ceccb5481614abdde69760.jpeg "12 weeks FB AF") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhiLBZoxVOw)

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**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 5:03am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/18 "2025-02-15T05:03:01Z")

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Peek a boo, infrared from daily pic cam  
And 1 minute after

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**Post date:** [February 15, 2025, 4:19pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/19 "2025-02-15T16:19:07Z")

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Soon to be on the chopping block, polyploid

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**Post date:** [February 16, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/newb-1st-indoor-grow/117022/20 "2025-02-16T23:03:11Z")

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#2 of 8 on the chopping block. I hang the whole plant. Thent dry tent has been 65°F and 52-61 RH. The 1st plant in the dry tent is on day 8 or 9 and still bendy. Things are doing good

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