[h2osho]

As a newbie to growing I started using some seeds from a four month old dried up large bud. I really did it on a whim and before you know it I had three nice seedlings coming up.

So I grabbed some more seeds and threw these in some Rockwool the other day (I did not germinate them outside the Rockwool) and I'm sitting a waiting for the next batch.

My question is: Other than my soil w/nutes bag, T5 light, and a small fan I don't have any considerable investment in my first grow. Plus I'm also doing some veggie's for the garden.

However if I can manage to take these plants to flower and through the drying period I'll have more money invested as I need more space. By then I'll make the decision if I want to drop $100-$200 on some seeds from a bank bought oversees.

I hope I'm doing this properly and my learning curve can be a minimal monetary investment until I get this right? But I don't see a "seasoned grower" ever investing time in a seed that they didn't know what it was, well unless they just did it for "fun".

Who knew growing could be such fun?

[ahhhavalanche!]

you have to think that you are investing your time and money into this seed which may come from crap genetics. Quality seeds don't usually run you more then $10 per, so it really is a small investment that can pay substantial dividends down the line (in both yield and quality). I prefer to grow feminized seeds, because once again I dont want to invest my time and limited grow space for males that I will need to kill

[FreezerBoy]

Originally Posted by ahhhavalanche!

you have to think that you are investing your time and money into this seed which may come from crap genetics.

Or it could be the finest stuff you've ever smoked. Only once in the last 40 some years have I found weed equal to the $10 an oz dirt weed of my youth and that was 7-8 years ago. no seeds

Whether it smokes well or not, you'll still learn the basics of growing and will be better prepared for "quality" genetics.

[foo_bird]

I started with mex brick weed seed just to see if I could grow
now I'm ready try better seeds as soon as I have room
1st grow 1 or more plants Hermied whole crop was seeded
I reveged the best plants just to see if I could then took
clones so now I need more space the immature seeded
crop was almost as good as the brick the seeds came from

[MaynardG_Krebs]

Originally Posted by FreezerBoy

Or it could be the finest stuff you've ever smoked. Only once in the last 40 some years have I found weed equal to the $10 an oz dirt weed of my youth and that was 7-8 years ago. no seeds

Whether it smokes well or not, you'll still learn the basics of growing and will be better prepared for "quality" genetics.

I agree with both these lines of thought, but, it's ok to learn your chops on some bag seeds. By the end of this, you'll have a decision made if you want to continue on with this or not. I would not base my decision on the quality of smoke you're growing now, but you'll probably be pleased as long it wasn't total bunk the seeds came from. If the bud that seed came from smelled good, looked good, tasted good and worked good, it'll probably be good pot. I had some accidental seeds (actually a lot of them) from my last grow. It was 6 different strains and I'm not real sure who hermied on me. I did take a seed from a Nirvana Swiss Cheese cross with who knows what (your choice of 5 others). That plant is in day 28 of flower right now and is showing tons of buds coming up.. branched nice and looks like it's gonna yield some interesting smoke of some quantity... we'll see in about 4 or 5 weeks (I hope). Good luck to you.. do research (use the search option on ICM).. make good educated decisions and try to not do anything stupid.. you'll be good.

mgk

[tripa]

I think if they come from the killer buds, they may be ok to check out...this year I'll make one big hole and put some unknown and other seeds into it...you're still able to find some nasty genetics

[Normannen]

just make sure you don't reproduce them if they are crap...

[Justin_Credible]

Originally Posted by h2osho

As a newbie to growing I started using some seeds from a four month old dried up large bud. I really did it on a whim and before you know it I had three nice seedlings coming up.

So I grabbed some more seeds and threw these in some Rockwool the other day (I did not germinate them outside the Rockwool) and I'm sitting a waiting for the next batch.

My question is: Other than my soil w/nutes bag, T5 light, and a small fan I don't have any considerable investment in my first grow. Plus I'm also doing some veggie's for the garden.

However if I can manage to take these plants to flower and through the drying period I'll have more money invested as I need more space. By then I'll make the decision if I want to drop $100-$200 on some seeds from a bank bought oversees.

I hope I'm doing this properly and my learning curve can be a minimal monetary investment until I get this right? But I don't see a "seasoned grower" ever investing time in a seed that they didn't know what it was, well unless they just did it for "fun".

Who knew growing could be such fun?

I'm not one much for growing from seed anyway, I have usually gotten clones from a friend/mentor. I actually just made my first seed order on this site....my friend has told me in the past that some of the best pot he ever smoked was from an unknown seed. Some genetics you see on this site came from something similar to what you have mentioned here... i.e it was from a bag of dope. Grow ém out and take clones so you won't be p.o'd at yourself for not saving that lady! That's what my boy says....Good luck with it.

And yes, most days growing is fun...alot more fun than sitting in that cubicle I used to share with my no-talent-12-sandwich-a-day-ass-clown-boss!!

[habeeb]

I never grew / grow bagseed

I say just buy some cannacopia or chimera or mandala or mr nice. ( so many cheap strains )

to say use bagseed first is a confidence killer... just read up some before planting and you'll be ok. if you want to be super ok, just buy some FFOF and it will grow the seed for you practically

but you need to decide if you want to grow the bagseed as like some people say, it might be good genetics, I'm just picky and need to know what I grow

[Maj.Cottonmouth]

I would say for me it depends on what was spent to set up the grow, spending $1200 on a setup to grow bag seeds seems foolish to me but on the other hand if you cobble together a grow on the cheap then bag seed makes sense. Good genetics can be had on the cheap, go to seed bou and do an advanced search and set the price cap at $25. For a first grow I would (and did) spend more to get easy to grow strains Like GN's White Castle and NL #5.