General Cultivation Q&A

i wish to run a perpetual garden and am wondering what the best medium/setup to use is , im tossing up between a satellite system with expanded clay balls or two flood and drain tables with rockwool (im not interested in coco) ......i think the rockwool would be easier to use in a perpetual set up , as its simply a matter of transfering between flood tables.........however i plan to grow fairly large plants with a decent veg and the clay balls/pots seem to have the edge .....do clay balls need to be replaced each crop or can they be washed and re-used ?.......

Hi all does anyone out there know what has happened to Celtic Stone site. I have been using it for a few years but it has disappeared & I am now stuck for seeds.

whats a good foliar feed mix for veg? i normally give em a spray once a week with a 1/2 strength nute mix (a bucket from the nute tank!) when lights are off. if there are any pests (spider mites) i throw in some omite at this stage. otherwise thats it i got myself some DM penetrator to throw in the mix was wondering is there anything else worth mixing in (maybe nitrozyme?) also how ofter should you / can you foliar feed ? thanks all

Hey guys so i got 2 girls under 12/12 with 800w of HPS, I'm also vegging a couple of strains in a cupboard under a 150w CFL ( one of those big mofos from the hydro shop)its a blue light spectrum....i was wondering... when i wake up in the morning i take my vegging plants out of the cupboard and put them into the tent with the HPS and the 2 girls flowering ...just before lights out i'll take them back out and back into the cupboard where they'll receive another 6 hours of light then a few hours sleep, then i repeat the process the next day, can switching these plants light spectrums confuse them/stress them? I can notice good growth when there in the tent with the HPS b…

I have been trying the short light cycle for the last 2 weeks on my veg. 14hrs under CFL. It looks like better growth, it has not had any negative effect that I can see. these 2 clones have doubled in in size with plenty of allover growth. I have another cupboard for veg running a 400w, it has been on the 12on-5.5off-1on-5.5off. These also appear to be doing extremely well with on sign of flowering. My budding room is still 12/12, if all goes well with the veg I will try the reducing light cycle. How to reduce the cost of growing cannabis saving 30-50% on your electricty bill using the 12-1 lighting schedule. The biggest innovator in the history of cannabis i…

"Curiosity" Hey, I'm new to this forum. I'm not sure if what I'm about to post is allowed on these forums or not because I don't believe it's under trading or what not. But I recently well, not so recently well over 6 months ago moved from Canberra to QLD. & I've been struggling without a toke.. I don't have the balls to just go around asking people for Marijuana, I've made the odd trip down to Canberra to meet old mates/dealers but it's so much effort, even nimbin is closer to me! Anyway to the point of this post. I'm interested in growing my own marijuana for a hobbie & a self benefit. I've been browsing forums of where to buy seeds but they all lead to that …

So, here's the deal. My babies are burning (see pic) and I can't figure out why. I have added ZERO nutes to them - only rain water and the soil. It's possible that the heat of the new warm lamp (I recently graduated my babies from the seedling fluoros) may have turned the soil's slow release fertz into fast release and overwhelmed the poor girls. So, I did a PH test and it came out pretty squarely at 7.5 (again, see pic). I gotz me some dolomite lime and am ready to go, but I'm wondering... if all the lime's going to do is stabilise the PH to 7.0, I'm wondering if there's a point to applying it at all? Isn't the ideal PH around 5.0-5.5? Can you please advise me, b…

Hi everyone, I'm a new grower from Victoria Australia. I don't want to say too much so ill get straight to the point. For my next grow I am going Organic Outdoors. But firstly I thought I would get everyones knowledgable Help & Advice. I am after some information on Soil Additives, Companion Planting & Compost/Worm Tea. Also any infomation on Fungi & Bacteria will be extremely help full. So heres the plan: Medium (In ground, not in pots) Natural Soil from the Enviroment Coco Peat Moss Worm Castings Perlite Lime- Dolomite or Calcitic Coarse Sand Azomite or Basalt Rock Dust Mycorrhiza-Endo, Ecto, Ericoid? Optional Ingredients I wanted to add…

Hi all got a question? I;m just about ready to flip my plants for flowering. changing over from the 130cfl to the 400 cooltube. I also have to repot them I cant repot and leave in the veg chamber as they wont fit so its straight off to the flowering chamber, I have been veging under the 12-1 system anf the main light period is 7pm to 7am now I want to run the hps during the day 7am till 6pm (you start at 11 hrs ib the 12-1 system) So should I repot them during the 1 hour break and then give them a long nights rest? which would be repot between 12.30and 13.30 leave in the dark till 7am next morning (17.5 hr long night) OR repot and the long day under hps 23 hrs (Long …