General Cultivation Q&A

hello ppl.. after growing in dirt for 20+ years thought i'dd give hydro a go. a mate gave me a old double crate kit, that i looked at for a few weeks thinking of a better design, as i'm used to growing big plants as in 6' to 14' the crate kit is just to small 6 plants so close together, aint going to give me very big plants, so i'm building this new kit as a 3 pot system should be fine for 6' to 8' , plants. i'll be growing outside during summer & in a hothouse through winter as ive been doing in dirt.. i do have lights but cant afford to run them. but thats fine as i've never had any problems growing outside summer or winter. melbourne weather suck…

this is my plant its been in bud for about 4 weeks now but this past week its barley grown any 1 got any ideas whats wrong. thnx stoners

i have 2 clones of "magic bud" just finished there reveg and bushy as hell, they are currently under 80 watts of cfl with the lights going off at 7pm and on at 1am i want to put em outside as the season has just begun, im wondering if they might bud as the dark period would of been increased. i would of preffered to have planted alot later but this was a one off chance for an actual strain. i live in perth and they have a nice sunny spot with good shade during the heat of the day, say i do everything right with some nice big pots what could i roughly expect? they grow real quick and where taken from the best female out of a batch of 15 seeds peace

hey guys...I dont post too much, but an avid reader of this site...got a bit excited with my grow getting close to finishin...so cut 2 buds for a taste test...just thought i'd share tha pic.....cheers...

Ok before i set up my grow cupboard, i decided i want to try growing a plant in a small pot/bucket... is it possible to get a plant to only grow to say 1ft- 1.5ft? by either trimming it or limiting its root space? I no this can be done with a few other plants. I really have no intention of smoking anything on this plant, its just more of a 'showpeice' for my apartment... Any infor wauld be great!

Sorry for shooting out all the questions here folks...just having ideas. I have a fishtank at home, a relatively small unit, which my spiny leaf insect lives inside. It has an openable lid, and an inbuilt light. I actually threw in a couple of seeds just to see what was happenin'...and it worked...to an extent. Mind you were talking about a tank with a normal fluro light, no nutrients, just some dirt down the bottom, some sticks and leaves. I had like 10 seeds growing successfully in there for a bit, Feeding off the water I sprayed in for the insect every now and then, but ended up with tall stalky things with tiny leaves on top...they reached a certain height (very qu…

OK i have got myself a nice little present sitting in my shed in a Pie warmer ( the type seen in stores holding Pies as shown below) The glass doors and the back glass panel i can replace with plywood for ventilation additions maybe into a carbon filter??? I was thinking that the shelves and the base stainless steel tray would be an ideal dryer and kiff catching tray what are your opinions on the following. Drying ventilation systems??? Drying speed up options (heat, chemical dehumidifiers, peltier devices)??? I havent tested how low a heat i can get it to spit out but if i could make it just sit very low heat non stop it would help the dry as im in a moist o…

Hi I am currently trying to make up my own potting mix. I am sitting on about 200kgs of worm castings, 40 kgs of enriched worm casting based fertilizer from nutri-tech called nutri verm. 10 bags of organic mushroom compost, 5 pags of composted chook shit and a 25kg bag of guano. I also have afew blocks of coco coir and a big bag of perlite. I am looking to make enough potting mix to fill 10 60litre bins. I was looking to use the castings as the base about 40% , perlite around 10% coco coir around 20% and the mushroom compost as the rest. Ofcourse adding a bit of lime and a few other goodies and then adding the chook poo and guano as a tea when required. I have s…

I wanna get a grow chamber going on...I was thinking about one of the expensive "all in one" pre-mades, but well, they ARE pretty fucking expensive. So...I figure I'll try and make one myself, as many people up in here seem to think it's a relatively simple endeavour, I'm prepared to give it a try. First of all, I'd like to do some reading. Now, assuming I know nothing of hydroponics other than "you grow stuff under a light", what would be some good sites to visit, or books to d/l that would give me a basic idea, in terms of things like drainage, materials, nutrients, lights...and all that shit. I wanna go way oldskool at my starting point, so let's assume I need HEAPS …

Ok so I'm pretty desperate right now have two new plants in the early second week under a 400w hps, though they are pretty close to the light. I'm using gravel as a medium, and Amsterdam Indoors for the nutrients. My tap water is usually high in alkalinity in the 9.0 - 8.0 scale. I usually have been bringing it down with phosphoric acid. I usually keep the res at 5.8 - 6.0ph. I haven't had a problem with ph fluctutation this time as i'm using gravel instead of clay but the same problem on my plants keeps appearing! FU** The oldest and first leaves started appearing with yellow spots on the leaf tips and then those whole two oldest first leaves on the plant started curl…

hey guys, im growin my first weed plant and i was wondering if you would be able to give me some tips to keep it alive. its about 2 weeks old, maybe 3, and at the moment, its only a stalk wit two leaves but it has 2 flat leaves too, its weird, but is that normal? iv never grown a plant before, and its still in a tiny pot, but when should i plant it in the garden and how often should i water it, i need lots of advice, also, i was told if, when the base starts sprouting leaves, to cut them back and they will grow back bushier, is that true? i just need lots of tips, i will get a photo of my plant and also, how can i determine its sex and can i stop it becoming male?? please…