General Cultivation Q&A

Howdy, Iv been reading a decent amount about differnt soils from round the world, and most the conculutions of gotten too, is that Foxfarm is a great organic soil. Thats all good but i havent been able to source any from anywhere. I know its a Dutch company that makes it all, and am wondering if it is avalaible in OZ or dont they export for retail here? And if not, what would be the chances of importing a dew bags of soil? would customs deny it entry because of its organic matter or dont they care? On another note, can any soil users give any recipes for a good organic WELL draining soil mix that can be bought from normal stores like bunnings or some place like t…

well i want to grow marijuana but im a little confused . so ill say what i wanted to do and the questions i have. i was planning on just getting one seed and growing only one plant in my house, i live in australia in melbourne. ok my questions are firstly i would like to know where you get marijuana seeds? because that would help alot (dont think you can grow anything without seeds ) second is it worth the risk of only growing one plant? because if its a male i wasted my time also is there a way to garentee the plant to be a female? and my last question is there a way to speed up the growth so i could harvest it fairly early i guess the earlier the better but i still …

i want to be able to reduce the size of my pictures down to 100kb or so AND when i post them in a thread keep them big (not thumbnail size) the only way i know to do this is to upload them into 'my albums' and then 'insert image' into the thread..but sometimes this doesnt work!..hehe..also i cant remove pics from 'my album' i understand this is so we dont get dead links....that makes sense. . I'm not very computer savvy ...i only learned how to upload pictures from a digicam onto my computer and then onto OZ Stoners when i joined this community. i have read nuggests thread on picture resizing which is great but it doesnt have info on reducing the kilobyte size of…

Hi all due to space and time limitations im considering taking some cuttings, putting the stems in a cup of water and putting them in with my flowering girls in 12/12 to determine the sex of some plants that are in my nursery...will a cutting survive long enough to sex it without first being rooted?

I know it's a long shot but has anyone ever used Humboldt Countys Own, Gravity? It's supposed to be a flower hardener. From what I could find on search, the stuff works but is too strong, and it adds alot of weight supposedly makes an ounce look like a half. All they admit to on the label is kelp and B1 listed under non plant food ingredients (?) I'm going to keep looking because I really want to know what's in this stuff. Another product they make, Bushmaster slows vertical growth, but it does it with "anti hormones" wassat? Well anything will help. I want to give the stuff a try, but not knowing what's in it creeps me a little.

As I am new to perlite could some one please help me with an optimal watering schedule. How often should I turn my pumps on? What hours Day/Night/Both? It would also be good to have the schedule cover cloning, vegging and flowering periods. If it helps I am using 15 litre pots. TIA

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!