The complete beginner grow guide.

Everything needed to plan and finish a first grow, written as a sequence of decisions rather than a pile of theory. Print the checklists, keep them by the tent.

• 01

  Planning your space

  Footprint, height, noise, power and where the air goes.

• 02

  Light and air, sized together

  Matching fixture wattage to extraction capacity.

• 03

  Choosing a medium

  Soil, coco or hydro — and what each one demands from you.

• 04

  Feeding without guessing

  pH, EC and a schedule you can actually keep.

• 05

  The seven stages

  What to do, and what to check, at every point in the cycle.

• 06

  Harvest, dry, cure

  The three weeks that decide the quality of everything before them.