General Cultivation Q&A

This is probably a stupid question but here goes anyway. If I dont ask, me like a lot of others probably wont know the answer. I am growing hydroponically indoors using expanded clay and a recirculating system. I change the water every 2 weeks and have been told to flush the pots with pH adjusted water until the output CF reading is the same as the input reading. When you have to flush 15 pots several times with ph adj water, that is one hell of a lot of water, not to mention the time, chemicals etc. involved in getting the water right to begin with. What's wrong with using ordinary tap water as after flushing, the clay in the pots is going to be fed with the corr…

Hey Buddy and any others who use it, why do people say dwc is simple. Is it real low maintenance or something? Most of the setups I've seen seem more complicated than a simple recirculating system. ie - all you have in that is one res and some trays to catch the runoff and drain it back to the res - not individual buckets and a control bucket and a space command centre - is it better for some reason? Like does the growth rate shit on a recirc system, etc... They seem complicated to me but I don't fully understand why folks use them. Could anyone who uses it clue me in? Cheers Vaz

Has anyone tried this. It is from a company that sells the seeds and has a write up on each type of plant: WHITE WIDOW Taste: The major player is a freshness laced with many fruits, but because of the strength of the crystals - the only real taste goes hand in hand with the expectorant effects of the THC. You better try it for yourself. Smell: A strong pungency first hits you, then follows a sour sweetness with the final whiff ... turning sweet. If a plant could have a strong body odour then the White Widow needs a deodorant Visuals: If you have ever seen a green plant grown in a snowfall then that's it. It has a dense covering of the sort of hairy crystals we all cra…

Hi All Got a digi cam from santa so here's a couple of pics of my over growth still sorting out the cam settings so there a bit rough, I'll post some more in about a week.

hello again., i thought i might jump on the band wagon and put in my own grow thread. should be good for a laugh anyway. the thread will be about 8 c99 clones. o.k i took the clones off the mother about 4 weeks ago and were grown in styrofome cups in yates seed raising mix. the larger pieces of bark were screened and removed. the cuttings were approx 3 inches long and were placed in water for 10 mins,scarred(thanks w.c) dipped in hormone powder and were planted about an inch or so into the medium. the lights i used were 3 18 watt cool white c.f's. within 2 weeks clones had strong root system and were ready for light period to be reduced to 15 hrs. they were gently…

If ive had a few seeds lying on a bench for a few months in a bedroom, is thier any chance of them growing or would they be useless?

Hi to all, I have a couple of silly questions. Firstly, I have some seeds I ordered from seedsdirect, they arrived 7 days after ordering. They are: K2, B-52, Bubblicious & Northern Light X Shiva. All Nirvana. Because they didn't have Ice, they have given me 15 seeds of Skunk#1 and didn't charge me for the NL X Shiva. Unreal deal. I dont want to make the same mistakes that I made with my first attempt at germ. I think I overwatered them and also using 1/2 strength nute when they first came thru didn't help either. This time, I have soaked rockwool cubes in ph 5.5 with 1/2 strength nutes added. I have read this several times somewhere. At the same time, I soa…

I am seriously thinking about starting an indoor grow with my friend, we don't have a hydro store here so would there be any outdoor nutrients that i would find at Mitre 10 hardware store or a garden shop that i could use in my buckets?? And if there is do you mix the nutrients at half directed strength??, I am thinking about having 4, 15 litre buckets under a 400w HPS, and in the veg part i was thinking of having 4 15 litre buckets but in 2 of them i would have 2 pots so i could start 4 clones off, and the other 2 buckets would have 1 pot each in them, these would be under a 400W MH, how much air would i need to be pumping into the buckets?? Also, where are all the place…

OK, I've read that if u cut off the very tip of the plant it branches into 2 more or somethin like that . Now correct me if I'm wrong cuz I've read alot of pruning and tipping but I still have no clue how the fuck to do it right. Well I cut off the top of my plant it's about a foot tall and I guess it's supposed to heal or somethin and keep growing. It's been like 2 weeks and nothin happened...It's still blank and the part that I cut is just brown on the inside and my plant hasn't grown an inch. ALL info/pics would be greatly appreciated on how the hell to tip/prune and all that shit. I'm clueless

Here is a link for some books you can download for free. Some guy scanned them and put them up so other people could access them. I downloaded a couple, but he didn't zip them or put them all in one download so you have to download a chapter at a time, but it still beats buying them!! Some excellent books here too!.... There is 8 books all up. Download Grow books here.

hello all just a bit off advice needed Just got given this durbon poison off a mate it's about 3 mounths old and in dirt. it's been under floros all it's life but now I got it under one off my 400w hps would I be able to transfer it out iff the dirt into a another pot and into my flood and drain and would I start it on full tit nutreints and super thrive or a weeker mix ( I will be useing clay balls as well) . any advice would be good punk

i am starting a 6 plant grow 900x900 flood and drain 400 watt hps i have to start from seed unfortunatly as i have un successfull in finding clones ITS FUCJIN IMPOSIBLE even on here i will be posting pics throughout (hoping no males ) anyway ill keep yuz posted

Well I finally bought a digicam so I got some pictures for ya's. Its a cheap ass camera so pics arnt too good. Ok this grow is a bagseed plant that looks pretty fucking sativa dom. under a 400w Son T HPS growing in a 20L bucket full of coco and a bit of perlite. Used DM Hot CoCo for veg then DM Advance for flower but I just about am out so I bought some Amsterdam Indoors to finish.... (I would never buy DM nutes again after using hot coco and advance, I reckon the cheap general shitty hydro nutes at big w worked better for me then the hot coco.... Also got some R & D Superbloom anyone used much of it its ment to be 100% natural however that works and you add it …