General Cultivation Q&A

Has anyone ever used growth stimulants on their plants? I have never grown the stuff before but horticultural pursuits have always been my hobby (propagation grafting etc) and a while ago I was working in a nursery where they used growth stimulants to speed up growth and get the plants out the door faster. The stuff was in 4 litre containers and I scoffed off with about 250ml (plus dillution notes on an envelope) for personal use. I used it once on some blackwood seedlings I grew when they were about 30cm high with immature leaves because blackwoods by nature are slow growing. I used the prescribed dilution rate but they kind of freaked out with the next leaves being a …

Ok these have been sprouted from the soil for about a week maybe a few days longer they were dark but now they are going light coloured are they burning ?

hi all. so far, i have only come across harvesting methods which kill the plant. i have heard of methods to harvest the bud without killing the plant, but cant find it anywhere. can someone point out what its called and link me?

Im interested in seeing how small you guys have rootballs for your plants? After seeing some ridiculously large plants in small pots during my travels on the net, I decided to see just how small you can go? And thus, we come to these bloody things: Between the two standing plants, you can see a full sized HPS globe standing Before you say anything, yes, they are revegges, they have also always been on the edge of the rooms...and they are currently 10 days into flower, however, as you can see, the entire rootball is encased in the rockwool cube. I intend to take these all the way to harvest without further medium, which is the purpose of this little experimen…

Sup all about to get a small cupboard grow going but need advice on the soil. this is my gonna be my first indoor grow, gonna use some 80w CFL's in this small thing (still need to rig it up with fans and filters etc) measures about 40x40x175 now being my first indoor im a complete green thumb - i have atteptemd grown 2 outside plants b4 but that was just pure luck they survived as long as they did. so question is what is a good easy first timer medium to use? something that isn't too hard to look after or requires crazy nutes etc .. i dont want to get too crazy yet on my first attempt. from what ive read coco seems pretty good, i have noted that it says it retai…

Hi guys, Im starting a new grow in a week or so and am going to be growing some fem strawberry cough for my anxiety. I was planning on growing in a small attic with some high powered cfl's and with soil and canna nutes. the area I have selected is fairly large but has limited ventilation. Could some growers on here give me some advice on ventilation, lighting, soil mix amd anything else I might need to know ?

last night the power went off in my area 6hrs into my budding cycle and stayed off till 6 this morning, do I go on like it didn't happen or what do I do as they only got 6hrs of light before turning back on for 2hrs . My budding cycle is 8pm to 8am.

After flushing my plants (15ltr pots of perlite) Should i give them full strength nutrients or should i give them 75% or 50% or 25% nuitrients.Please help