General Cultivation Q&A

The hippy husband saw a report on t.v about the banning of sunbeds. Reckons we should pick one up cheap at auction and raise the babies with that.

Hi Everyone, First I'd like to say hi to everyone here, this is my first post!! I have been thinking about having my own stuff at home rather than the late night dodgy deals that go on, and finally came to a conclusion that suits my needs. This below option seemed like a good one for noobs like me that are still trying to get their head around the whole indoor grow thing but still want speedy results so I got one - I have ordered a "Sungarden" indoor garden kit. It's basically a whole bunch of LEDs at the top and a shelf below for soil and another shelf below that for water, that uses a wicking technology... This means the lower tray is filled with water and th…

Next door neighbour lent me a gardening book written by Esther Dean. "growing without digging" really good book. Don't know if this works yet. Will be giving it a try sometime today.

hey guys, my seedlings have been going for nearly 2 weeks now, they all look nice bright green and very happy, but i have one skunk that i have put in, the seed was about a year old and whilst the seedling was starting to pop out of the ground it appeared to have either 3 water leaves and i thought it looked odd so i just left if be to see if it would change but the plant hasn't changed at all really its growing its first set of leaves and its growing in a group of 3 instead of the regular 2, any reasons as to why this could be happening or if its a good or a bad thing, i've just never seen it before even though this is only my 2nd season.. 3 leafed clover = lucky 3 lea…

hey there guys. just need some help, im planning on growing in my forest on my property. its not to clear hope it will still be ok. so yes any comments on weather it would be bad growing in a forrest? and i have some seeds but would like some better ones, any one no of a good Aussie seed sight ? thanks thanks

well basically after the exceptional results i have had with my organic aquaponics producing terrific flavours i thought i might like to experiment with a few different organic soil and soiless mixes. basically there are tons of great organic mixes getting around on the forums but trying to find ingredients or whatever over here can be tough so im going to attempt to create something using mostly ingredients from bunnings or local nurseries. im going to attempt a coco based soiless mix loaded with natural composts and worm castings etc and similarly a traditional soil based potting mix with lots of organic ammendments. stay tuned. any advice from anyone who has gone…

i have an excess of kno3 pottasium nitrate and wondering if anybody has used as a fertilizer it is a technical grade 99.9%. i have found fertilizer grade which says it has a n.p.k ratio of 13.0.45 but can not find a dilution ratio to mix with water to use as a fert. has anyone any knowledge on what tech. grade kno3 might have as a npk ratio and possibly a mix ratio.

So my tap water e.c is 0.2 I making up 30L to feed my 2 plants at 4ml per L seasol 3ml per L canna coco a&b then i let it bubble in buckets for a day and get a e.c of 1.5 Should i add more a&b?