General Cultivation Q&A

First of does anyone know if hm ec3 pen can be changed from us reading to ppm? What a prick of a unit. Sure it used to say ppm. Long story short my water tank run dry yesterday and looking for tne best alt water till we get some rain. In any case my (funny looking u) us is reading 302 from my dam, 189 us from the tap, if I leave the tap water sitting a few days is that going to be the better Water? I've already asked a couple questions in another person's thread and got some great answers, just thought it was a bit rude continuing the conversation. Started with 6 down to my last one now and she's a midget so really want to baby her from now on. With this heat I've s…

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I have 2 each of 4 varieties all at week 7 but one plant has since day 1 been weird. Its a Bruce Banner (Photo) that has always seemed very healthy but stayed very small (about 40cm) and very dwarf like compared to its sister plant and all others in the grow. It grew vigorously so far as leaf growth but not in relation to height. It looked like some kind of bizzare leafy mop until I removed a huge amount of leaves to expose what seem to be flower sites but they seem to be sparse and there are not a lot of pistils and even now at week 7 its hard to see the pistils and doesn't look like its flowering. What is wrong with it? Any help/advice would be appreciated.

Timber cob LED's Cheap Bunnings & woolies soil mix amended with a few things Cow manure Mushroom compost Seasol Powerfeed Sudden impact for roses Heaps of reading on here has helped. Thanks guys, also thanks to itchybromusic's advice on soil etc and keeping me motivated to stick with soil. Even the one that grew really slow at first is doing well now. Still in solo cup. The rest are clones. One started in rockwooll still not recovered from transplant and may not make it. This is my second grow. First was outdoor. I bred a male bag seed with some double affie and got this thing. The daughters are stickier and frostier than the mother was so I think I did ok. Stil…

Wondering if anyone might know if ABC still grows wild or if somewhere to buy original ABC seeds. Not crossed

My fellow horticulturalists, Has anyone tried propagating plants using leaf cuttings? And has there been any success? I am currently doing two experiments: 1) with a tiny leaf with a small piece of stem attached, dipped in clonex purple and set in sphagnum moss in a cup under plastic wrap. After a week the leaf is still green, but no signs of growth. Female parent plant, basically Colombian Gold two month old plant. 2) is a fan leaf with seven segments and leaf petiole attached. No stem tissue. I dipped the base of the petiole in clonex purple and set in sphagnum moss with no cover on an inside window sill. Only done today so no progress to report. Male parent plan…

G'day mates. Due to the high amount of overpriced mycorrhizal products on the cannabis market,I thought this might be handy. https://moldresistantstrains.com/diy-how-to-make-mycorrhizal-fungi-inoculant/ It only costs a few dollars in materials and your local soil and can make more mycorrhizal fungi propagules than most people could afford to buy. Also I learned to avoid ectomycorrhizal propagules, as cannabis and the other annual plants are all associated with endomycorrhizal and they cant associate with the other. Cheers.

Okay guys so heres the situation. I have 12 double powerpoints in my shed. Its a big workshop. I have 2 x 15amp circuits on fusebox for power. My tent is situated in the back part of my shed. Theres like 4 double powerpoints down there. So... I have a 6 outlet growlush 600w box timer with two cords comin off it. I plugged one powercord into one powersocket. And the other cord into other socket. Okay ? So.... I ran 3 x 600 ballasts from the growlush timerbox last night for the tent and that was fine. I come in this morning and unplug 1 ballast only leaving two running in the tent. Adelaide was stinkin bloody hot today. I decided to plug the third ballast ba…

I'm sure the answer is out there but doing a search for "ec" is tricky. So I bought a $50 EC pen (Hydro Axis or something) because I'm getting ready for a noob DWC grow and I thought I needed it(?). I couldn't figure out how to get to the batteries so I used a screwdriver in a hole which I later realised is the calibration dial thing. Oops. I also think I broke the dial thing. Oops x 2. Anyhow, I put the end in a small bucket of tap water and the display stayed at 00. I mixed a splash of nutes in and it read 04. Another bigger splash and it read 18, Could it be the display doesn't have a decimal point, ie 04 = 0.4 and 18 = 1.8 EC? Also, what is the EC of Melbourne tap…

Hey all ……..I have a heap of the Cyco nute range left over , after trialing it , can it be used outside in dirt , & do you have to increase or decrease mixing rates ? Always wondered whats the difference between nutes made just for coco & nutes for soil

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