General Cultivation Q&A

Ok so here's the story. I was doing my normal grow and my HPS 1000W Ballast kicked the bucket. Actually I turned it on for the first time during this grow and it smoked and then died. Either way it was about 5 years old so it is time for a new one.(Got 2 Daytek 600w's) on order. So I decided to do a little experiment. I am flowering with my 1000W MH with a little twist. I got a 400W HPS from my brother for free as he is now getting all his stuff from me. So I set the Light on the bench behind my Flood Drain Table and made it so only one plant was being hit by the light Directly. The results are interesting. The plant receving HPS Light as well as MH is producing mu…

i took 2 male cuttings to polllinate a few branches for seed.there in the same room with my clones.im budding now for a week.males have closed sacks on them.im afraid theyll open and seed all my plants.when do i seed branches.should i take them out now DRY PLANTS AND SEED LATER? I HAVE NO CLUE WHAT TO DO. WHAT DO I DO!!?? (NEWBIE)

G'day Tom, I was wondering if you could post a pic of your old system of RUN TO WASTE. I've found myself in a position whereby I need to run a "passive" system for a crop or two. I don't think I'll have any worries to hurdle, but seeing as you've run with it for so long, you'd know of any traps I might fall into. What I plan to do is to fill some pots within 2 or 3 inches of the rim with expanded clay balls, and then top them off with loose flock. I have a 20 litre drinking water drum here, the kind with the moulded handle in top, with a tap screwed in the bottom. I'll rig something up to fit into the tap thread at the bottom, and set it up high, to gravity feed. T…

hey whats up all.. i am currently running an NFT system... i have lavender and tw both feed from same res... i am just past 7 weeks now and the trichromes look ready on the lavender but not the tw... prob have another week or two on the tw... my quetion is... sinse i am not really using any medium do i realy need to flush before i harvest the lavender... if i flush now i will not get the full potential from the tw cus they not ready yet... should i go ahead and chop down the lavender and continue feeding the tw or flush for a few days then bring ppm back up after i harvest the lavender? any advice on this would be great... i know everyone loves pics so heres a few from ab…

gday everyone =] first of all, here are the stats: 600w HPS nutes: Coco grow part A & B and Budlink watering once a day for 1 hour using flood and drain. 4 weeks into flowering. this is my first grow and everything was going well until i turned to 12/12. since then the new fan leaves have been looking very sick. does the plant just need more food during this period?? any advice would be great. cheers.

Hi all, just had a quick question regarding the probably of male/female plants. Everywhere i read it says it's a 50/50 which obviously makes perfect sense, however every single plant i've grown has been female. I've only grown a grand total of 10 but it seems like there are more forces at play than 50/50. Is it possible the genetic predispositions of the plants are changing due to breeding practices? I don't know but it seems strange that i'm yet to be unfortunate enough to get a male plant. Perhaps i'm just lucky.

I am doing some work on my microATX case that i am doing seedlings and clones in, i was wondering how often they like too be watered, i will be building a small flood and drain system that will just wet about 3/4 of the way up the rockwool cubes for however long is necessary then drains back into the res. the seedlings will be in a seedling try, the tray suspended over a plastic container which will fill too the level i elect too put my overflow pipe. I am just wondering how often i should set they system up too fill the container, and also i have left an area large enough too house probably 4 clones at a time next too seedling tray, how often do they like too be watered …

i have a 6x7x8 room at 12 hours continuous co2 run, calculations say i should set regulator at .08 which feels like nothing coming out of tube. my room is somewhat sealed but not airtight due to heat reasons i cant change.my meter goes to 2.0 max which i can feel if i hold it to my face,but still not a really strong flow.My question is,is that normal flow,and what signs of over co2 should i look for.(i read over co2 will halt growth which is obviously no good and worse than no co2 at all)

I have a problem where my flowering females have had to go outside because I'm using my grow room to veg up some clones. I however have a tall skinny freestanding wardrobe. Its 400mm x 400mm x 1800mm. I have a spare 400W HPS. Am I dreaming that could 12/12 with a single female and maybe scrog it? I'd prob put in a 150mm extraction fan, I've got one in my 1.6 x1.6x 1.6 grow room and it sucks very well. :: I'm planning today to try it out without a plant in and check the temps. Harry

ok so lets say that i have a plant that is growing in a pot and it gets to a certin size then i snip the top off ( the main bud ) and it goes brown and then what happens does it grow another two lets say it does grow another two main budz what happens if i snip them off am i getting it sorta right here or what ?? please help somebody really want to learn this method and scog sounds good to good grow methouds i think id rather have a little bit of good pot then alot of shit pot

hey guys, couple of pics. what would be the best yield potential out of something this size? (1200mm long, 800 wide, 1800 tall) i'm looking at copying 'Gazza's' previous grow using 30 ltr buckets and an auto drip feed system. gazz if you're out there - where did you pick up your buckets from? i saw them at bunnings for $11 each but i don't wanna spend $66 on plastic buckets. any ideas? what's a good size you'd recommend? 30 ltr? that's just a mazar i shariff lady sitting in there now, she needs to be repotted, she's wilting a little=( what's people's ideas to get maximum yield? 6 buckets with 3 plants each? 2 plant scrog? SOG? que piensan? cheers