General Cultivation Q&A

I have been keeping my eye on one infected plant and its powdery mildew problem (should have just cut it early). I trimmed off the affected areas and sprayed with Serenade a week and a half ago and have been monitoring all the other plants. There was just a bit on a few leaves but I was planning on harvesting in a couple days, so I figured it would be easy to take care of. The problem is that just today, the stuff has popped up on all my other plants, and in a bad way! There isn't much on the fan leaves, but there are patches in the buds themselves. These babies may be able to go another week before coming down, but that's pushing it. I was planning on starting toda…

i got these free Wanda seeds, put all in. lost 7, mostly bugs. still got 1 seed left, other 2 both males. now i got another strain dunno what type but its a heady/up high stone. got 5 females of them, can spare one. so just want to know what % of seeds i'dd be looking at that would be female . when i stick em together ?

Hi everyone. Ive got some Poison Dwarf on the grow atm (auto flowering strain), in a mixture of perlite, coco and soil. The reason for all three is apparently autos do better in soil but can be more proned to root rot hence the mix of perlite and coco. I read somewhere that flushing should be done at least once a week in soil to get rid of the salt build up. Should it be this often considering its an auto strain and only has about 2 weeks veg and 8 to 10 weeks flower? Im using about 40% soil, 50% coco and 10% perlite; special sauce and molassas mix for the first 2 weeks (special sauce is my home made fert concentrate using a Bokashi bucket - potant stuff at about 1:100!)…

hi all, ive been told that if i tip my plant it will increase yeild? is it true? is it worth it? does it harm the plant much. its about 10 inches tall. thanks heaps.

Topping a Plant 1. Locate the very top of your plant and cut through the main stem just below the newest growth. This should be done after the 3rd or 4th leaf set but can be done at any time after the 3rd leaf set. 2. Shows Plant Top cut off and where the 2 new Branches that will form a "Y" in the main stem will grow from. 3. Shows the newly topped plant after 2 days of growth, notice the Y in the Stem Forming. FIMMING A PLANT! Fimming is actually no different that topping, what fimming does is virtually the exact same thing only your leaving part of the new growth. This only takes of part of the new growth and actually topping the very very new growth which is…

Hi peoples. Just wondering how old plants usually need to be before i can tell its sex? Also my plant seems very short , yet stocky and compact. Its 11 days old. Unknown strain. It looks very healthy with moderately fat leaves. System is aeroponics and drippers. 1x400w hps is 30cm away. Im a newbie and just trying to get a scope on a plants average size at this age in optimum conditions. Thanks any help would be appreciated.

hay everyone what is a pgr? what dose it do? and what is the diff between a pgr and p/k? seams like i have a lot left to learn never realy used hydro nutes up untill about a year ago always just chook shit and pot ash and always outside in prepared plots and is there somewhere on this site where i can find out what names are given to different grow set ups as i dont know what dwc and other abeverations stand for? thanks stinky

So I am going to order some new genetics over the internet, probably from greenhouse seeds and I have a couple of questions if any of you have had experience with this. What I'm wondering is should I use my real name for postage address?? If the beans arrive in a regular envelope then an alias will be fine, but I am concerned that they will come in a box/package that I will need to provide photo ID to pick up from the PO. Or If they send TNT do I just need to sign? What is the safest way to get beans in the post?

hi guys its my first grow my start date was 24th dec using the hydrophonics stystem with water im now into bloom when would u suggest i add the buddy food which has to be added weekly for 4 weeks until my final flush the thing is the guy who told me how to set up etc told me to turn from growth to flower after just like 2 and half weeks now after realising ive lost importsant growth time im now real not sure on taking any more advice from him he says i have 6 weeks left on my crop how long would you carry on in bloom until you put them on there final flush ? he says my end date is in 6 weeks time then do i flush them or is 6 weeks including my flush ....im confused hes to…