First time grower started August 17,2026. Got an off brand 3x3 off Facebook market place(40-50$). I got an alpha par 200w led for 40$ and a Gary sherbet seedling for 25$ from another seller. I bought by a small non oscillating clip fan from another seller, 3 full bottles of missions organic nutrients and my haul from another seller that nearly completely my budget 3x3 set up which included an 4inch vivosun inline, dry amendments, a 4x4x6.5 vivosun tent, a small off brand veg tent, 150w led and 2 small cylinder inline fans w/ ducting. Peat moss, coco and supplemental lighting for 70$ and a vape lol. Only thing I needed was the inline. So In a few weeks time I was off to the races until my real money started to kick in. I forgot to mention I had some leftovers from an associative of my family. 1/2 bag of the big bag of hp pro mix, starter pots, seedlings trays. A fresh 20 pc of 1gallons, a couple used 3 gallons, a gallon water can, clonex packs, and a few other random things. I’ve since to sell what I can form the marketplace haul and have done in deeper scenes to keep a tent and then the boom of my turtles 50 gallons aquarium into a small nursery for space. Now for the Gary sherbet photo in flower. She has grown well thru my few mistakes, none too big. She got Vegged for around 5-5 1/2 weeks. Flipped on the 31st or the 1 of October. Lollipopped, well at least that’s what I thought I did lol it was more like a schwuz or however you say it. Learned to not take so many fan leaves even though I knew they were the few to growth I still took too many anyways. That’s around day 21-22, have been doing some defoliating, tucking, and just arranging the canopy with the trellis. She has since bounced back, probably not to 100% but I don’t see or sense too many deficiencies. Except for a very little yellowing I got from tampering with that light height about 2 weeks ago. This is now around day 40 give or take. She has crazy recline production for her age. The smell is starting to switch from the fresh weed plant smell to creating its first layers to is aroma. It’s giving sweet ripe bananas vaguely, and a good baby poop smell. I nipped two tiny buds sites to helps with air flow and better flow up to the canopies tops. They do look a light small ngl, I’m waiting for them to start to swell and I’ll know im on the right track. Kinda still got the air look to it but I do wanna say it does look like it’s wanting to swell but I’ll just have to be patient and see. I know it will. Idk how much I’ll yield but if it’s any of 2.5 I’ll be satisfied the baseline many say new growers get. I’d be real happy with 4 qp dry but i wouldn’t be trying at all. Growing has given me a new hobby, I feel I have a natural green thumb. Along with 10plus years of studying online, growers chats, random grow info I come across and of course YouTube and google. I feel those things helps knocked my nerves off and allowed me to just in a try my hand experimenting what words best for me as well as just giving me a sense of calm and know how even thru my mistakes I can often see where I messed up if I don’t move too fast like with that lollipopping and not seconding guess myself even though it’s my first go around. Ppl have been very helpful as well with info, and support. Im thankful I started growing. Especially being a heavy smoker. I always have a decent stock of seeds and am ready to take this thing all the way til god tell em otherwise wise. I made this post for me as I want to document more and use a platform like this to go back and just review things. If you have any questions, tips or suggestions or you want to collaborate somehow reach out and happy popping!