I Grow Mids

The track

First Grow

Most grow sites hand you six hundred articles and let you figure out the order. This is one path, start to finish. Every step makes the call for you and tells you why. You can second guess it on your next grow.

  1. 01What You Actually Need To StartThe short gear list for a first indoor grow, what each piece costs, and the expensive things you can safely ignore until grow two.
  2. 02Picking Seeds Without Overthinking ItHow to choose your first cannabis seeds: feminized versus regular, autoflower versus photoperiod, and why the strain name matters least of all.
  3. 03Germination, Or Getting The Seed To CrackThree ways to germinate cannabis seeds, how long each takes, and the handful of mistakes that kill seeds before they ever reach the soil.
  4. 04The Seedling WeeksWhat the first three weeks above soil look like, the temperature and light settings a seedling actually needs, and why doing less is the whole skill.
  5. 05Watering Without Drowning ItHow to tell when a cannabis plant actually needs water, how much to give it, and how to read the droop that means too much versus too little.
  6. 06Light Distance And Your Light ScheduleHow high to hang an LED at each stage, which light schedule to run, and how to flip a photoperiod plant into flower without stressing it.
  7. 07Temperature And HumidityTarget temperature and humidity for every stage of a cannabis grow, cheap ways to hit those numbers, and why late flower humidity is the one to guard.
  8. 08Feeding, And When Soil Runs OutWhen pre-amended soil stops feeding your plant, how to start nutrients at half strength, and how to tell a deficiency from a fertilizer burn.
  9. 09pH, And Why Most First Grows Stall HereNutrient lockout looks exactly like a deficiency, so beginners feed more and make it worse. Here is the pH range to hold, how to test it, and how to fix it.
  10. 10Training For More Bud From The Same LightTopping, low stress training and a flat canopy are how beginners double their yield without buying a bigger light. Here is what to do and when to stop.
  11. 11Flipping To FlowerSwitching your light to 12/12 starts a stretch that doubles plant height. Here is when to flip, what to change, and how to tell males from females.
  12. 12Flower, Week By WeekWhat actually happens in each of the eight to ten weeks of flowering, what to change, and which scary looking things are completely normal.
  13. 13When To Actually HarvestPistil color and the breeder's day count both lie. Here is how to read trichomes with a cheap loupe and pick a harvest window you can defend.
  14. 14Drying Without Ruining ItSixty degrees, sixty percent humidity, seven to fourteen days, in the dark. Drying too fast is the most common way a good grow turns into harsh mids.
  15. 15Curing And StorageJars at 62 percent humidity, burped daily for the first week, is the difference between harsh dry weed and something you are happy to smoke.