General Cultivation Q&A

What the people's preferred methods of starting from seed? There seems to be many ways and some of the are markedly different to others. One way I read recently (on here somewhere) had the seeds float on the surface of water and germinate that way. Thought that was a strange and interesting way. In the past I've ranged from straight into soil, to rockwool and to laying them in moist paper towel. I quite liked rockwool. But I'm interest what other people prefer and why. For example I can see that soil might be bad due to the presence of pathogens. Thanks!

Hi all just starting out again after a long hiatus and would like to ask you all your opinion on what mediums and nutrients I should start of with I used to use a recycling top drip system with rocks and canna nutrients but I now would like to hand water in a coco perlite mix under 600W Should I do a 50/50 coco perlite? Or is there something better out there And with all the different brands of nutrients out there whitch one is worth trying? I'm asking you guys because I have been to all the hydro shops in my area and none of them seem to really even give a shit. I think they must be getting enough money from commercial growers to not care about giving decent customer…

Hi all, woke to a bang. Was my outside box. Saw a car drive off was etsa ( elec providers) its 12:30 am. Must be checking my power. What should I do?

"Fermentation Baking soda/acid is a good system, but it is ultimately fairly expensive. Furthermore, you also release acetate ions/salts, as well as other volatiles from the vinegar (which is not a pure solution of acetic acid, of course). They prolly won't kill your plants, though they might. Instead they will likely make it smell or taste bad. What is a better way to get your carbon dioxide? Fermentation. Acquire some brewer's yeast if you can. The types of yeast you can use are in order of what is best, though all are acceptable: Champagne Wine Ale Beer Baker's Rig up a simple fermentation chamber with airlock. The airlock is designed to keep the atmosphere ana…

hello, I've never grown before so plz excuse the ignorance but I was just wondering what's up with feminised seeds? Once you run out of them, do you just order more? Wouldn't you want to seed your own plants so you don't have to keep on take the risk thru the post again and again? What's the right tradeoff between losing quality by having males and/or just always buying new feminised seeds? With the extremely small scale grower in mind.

Hello again everyone, it's been a while between posts! I finally decided on buying a Growlush grow tent 1.95x1.95x2m. For lighting I went with one 600w hps and one 1000w mh lamp, I will use this for veg, then when flowering comes I will use 600w mh and 1000w hps. Ventilation will be carried out through a 6" centrifugal fan, which I plan on having outside the tent, connected with the 6" carbon filter, further ducting it directly outside. I haven't purchased a silencer yet, I wasn't sure how loud the fan would actually be, can anyone confirm thier effectiveness? I've got 6 feminized Pure Kush seeds germinating presently, the description along side them says that …

ok nub question here but, are there / is there any adverse effects if you start growing a plant one way then change it later? ie indoor / outdoor combo? for example: i want to start growing some plants, but i go on holiday in about 7 weeks for 2 weeks - so i wont be there to keep an eye on things. and its too short to get a decent grow. so what i want to do it plant the seeds outside in pot plants so i can look after them for now a bit b4 i go on holiday then hope that mother nature will keep em in check for 2 weeks - i can always put a small bit of slow release fert and / or trickle water. so then when i come back from holidays i can get my lights going and bri…

I thought this might be of interest to coco and or soil growers, unfortunately embedding is disabled so you'll need to watch from youtube - segment begins at 5.55mins and runs for about 2 minutes. ps you don't need the fancy tool they use for taking the samples, an apple corer works fine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SMPNg1DCGE&feature=relmfu

Hi all, I keep hearing how great H&G is so thought I'd do a litle research before giving it a go and found on their website they recomend NOT aerating the res.... WTF? Under the FAQ section on their US site they state: How is the nutrient container prepared with House and Garden nutrients? When preparing the nutrient container, fill it two-thirds with water. First add Aqua Flakes A; circulate well and wait 10-15 minutes. Then add Aqua Flakes B; circulate well and wait for 10-15 minutes. Adjust the pH-value of the nutrient with pH- (Down) or pH+ (Up). Add any root, growth or flowering stimulators. Your nutrient mixture is ready to water. Notice: Do NOT add Aqua …