General Cultivation Q&A

looked at my babys today and one of the plants had a white sticky substance comming out of the top of it. i paniced and poored water on it trying to remove it. the weird stuff turned into snot and oozed down the whole plant it was a white substance thought it might have been white mould after reviewing over a hundred pics of white mould on the net i dont think that is what it is.nervous of infecting the other plants i removed the plant and had to kill it other wise i would post a pic. has anyone ever heard of this or seen any thing like this?

Hey guys, Only new here however i have ordered my seeds from growhigh, some lovely white russian. Atm have just obtained some bag seeds from a mate of mine and have setup my cupboard as the veg. Dimensions of the space im working in is 910mm X 410mm 2000mm LWH Im using a 2ft fluro with 2 x 18w grolux fluorescents, humidity crib with heat mat and have my 3 seeds (after soaking them in distilled water in the cupboard for a few days til they sunk), in blocks of groban rockwool. As you can see by the picture i have an oscillating fan in the corner and the fluro is on 18/6 timer. ATM i am only hand watering, but am looking to setup a flood and drain setup for the veg roo…

I had two large pots 2/3 full of clay balls and didn;t want to spend more $ on another bag, so i filled the remainder with a perlite/vermiculite mix I had layin around. Drains got blocked by heaps of sludge (from the vermiculite). Am I best off picking the clay balls out of the mix and discarding the perlite/vermiculite (whole mix is in the bath now, and vermiculite seems to disintegrate with any pressure), or does it just need a good rinse? This has really pissed me off , time for a few

Hey, Found this while in the veg room . The strain is kashmere from cs.. It has three branchs each set instead of two.. Will be tryin to isolate the trait and work on it a little.. Will update later down the track...

Hi All It's been a while since my last post so here is a progress report using the Autopot system and HPS / LED combo. The plants are looking good should be ready in a few days. I'm going for the trippy high rather than the body stone and a sample shows it about there. Total flowering time so far is 4 weeks - Seeds sprouted Jan 4. My next lot will be kept smaller as the clones are all female and will be grown as SOG. Strain is a Jack Frost x Northen lights Questions, comments welcome! At 5 weeks after germination: http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/1236/0093zb6.jpg Now: http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/6285/67653990fa2.jpg http://img401.imageshac…

So its been 10 days and no roots out the bottom yet. The clones leaves are starting to yellow at the bottom, and 1 clone had some powdery mildew on it. I took off the humidity dome and thats all i know to do at this point. Is there a problem here? Should i get the humidity dome off and start treating these like real plants yet? thanks again for all the help...next time will hopefully go smoother! ah crap. i made a bunch of extra clones with hopes of even half surviving, but i pulled one up from the rockwool tonight to see if it was rooting, and holy hell, it doesn't have any roots. wtf!!! I dont know what to do at this point, i guess just sit tight and wait? shouldn'…

Gday guys, an outdoor plant has started flowering about 2-3 weeks ago and the white hairs on some of the buds are already starting to turn brown? I thought that when they brown it is time to pick them? and i thought it took 6-8weeks for this to happen? i have sprinked ash from the fire place around the base a couple of times the buds are still small/skinny and so i dont want to harvest yet also, will the plant be affected if i was to cut a few of the budding stems off? Any help greatly appreciated!

Has anyone used Silica, and what was the out come. Basically to use or not to use.

hi what yield per square meter are u guys getting? and what method of growing are you using to achive that? last grow i achived 1.36 lbs per sq meter using scrog with 1000's mix of hps / mh. this is above my average of 1.2 lbs per sq meter using just hps. always interested in ways to improve thanks.

Yeah this thing is very BADASS but, i think that with alittle ingenuity I'm pretty damn sure someone could build this system just as disgustingly amazing as it is or probably even better....here are a couple links to the websites* where this thing can be found and im tryin to see if any of the othere stoneres on here could give me some tipson how to duplicate this grow box...suxh ass blueprints, ideas, sketchs, etc...just about any damn thing anyone can offere to help fabricate one of these bad boys rather than wait like 5 yrs and just buy it outright? i know the mombers of ozstoners and myself if we put our heads togethere would be aBLE TO BUILD THIS BOX 10XS BETTER…

i was wondering if you can clone from a flowering plant that has been pollenated and if so what are the effects?

firstly, hi all . New to the forum etc etc. this is my first ever grow so i dont expect too much in the way of returns, although one is always hopeful !!! its week 4 now and i havent a clue what i am growing . the seeds came from friends and they found them when they bought sticks. only thing is though like i said before i havent a clue what strain they are. Can anyone help? I have been through so many photos my eyes have started to hurt and i am no closer to finding an answer any help is appreciated. .... grow harder

Ok, so I've been growing dope for many years, and been doing it in hydro since 1997...but I'm still pretty much a "grow by numbers" kinda bloke when it comes to hydro. You know, mix this, flush that, bla bla...but the finer points are something that's eluded me, perhaps because I baulked at some of the text books I have looked into (some use words with more than seven letters in them!!), and maybe because my first love for growing anything is in organic, very bioactive soil. And somehwere deep in my physce, I believe I will return to my first love...oohh..ahhh... Whatever the reason, I've been perplxed and subsequently asked many people, many times why the PH goes mad, …