General Cultivation Q&A

hello ive been aways on holidays, to come back to see that my plant is ready to harvest the hairs are red/dark red. But at the bottom of the plant the are still new ones growing because they are still clear/white colour, shood i chop top off and leave to still grow. or harvest whole lot? Also can someone step me through the procedures of harvesting (hanging in dark, what to cut etc) thanks for your help

I dunno where to put this so mods if it isnt in the right spot please move it :-D Hello all last night i filled up my 10litre jug with rainwater and tested the PH it came to 6.3 which is perfect for me. So i thought great i am going to start using rain water. Well i woke up this morening and for some reason i decided to test the water again and it came to 7.8 OMFG. I though WOW! whats going on so i grabbed some ph7 calibration buffer and my meter is reading perfect. All i wanna know is has anyone ever had water fluctuate that much overnight? is this normall? is it possible that the plastic container is leeching acidity into my water? any help would be very gratefu…

Guys, at what stage of the plants life do i take cuttings?, i plan to make a DIY bubbler box. Thanks.

OK is this stuff possible to clean? i have just spent 30min cleaning one buckets worth of the stuff and i put it in my pot hooked everything up and after 10min the resi was dirty AGAIN!!! and had sedient in the bottom. Should i keep going or should i just not worry about it?

I have a flood and drain setup in a closet with 400hps, I cannot find anywhere laymans terms on how to scrog, or sog, i know they involve nets or sea of green etc BUT how do you actually do this?? do you veg under the screen and then turn it to flower and as it grows through the screen bend it over so its above the screen and bent over????? or what?? how many plants of different strains can be grown together, can I sog different strains??? theres heaps of info on what scrog and sog are but nothing that tells me actually HOW to do it????

G'day all I just noticed a small coincidence the plant with the deformed leaves I have seems to be the only plant that the lower leaves aren't dying on there all in the same potting mix,same water,same everything anyone know why the lower leaves are dyin on 3 but not the deformed one?

On ebay theres this item called quantumponics, anyone tried this or know anything on it??? they sound like a good idea,

Hi Guys, Im still reading up before my first grow, been learning for a few weeks now. Im still undecided about the method I will use. I want one that does not require too much maintenance and thought the bubbler garden looked OK. Does anyone use bubbler buckets and how good do they work? Thanks heaps

Elefunk just PM'd me this link to a hydro shop in NSW, I phoned them and ordered two Son-T-Agro at $32 each plus $7 postage and $6.40 for insurance (10% of value), all up that comes to $77.40, I was going to make a trip to the shop to buy two new ones next week, at $56 each. Thanks Ele. http://www.gamers-forums.com/smilies/contrib/ruinkai/coolgleamA.gif

Something I often overlooked when scrogging was the trimming of growth underneath the screen when I went into bloom. Lazy me. I used to end up with all the leaf and tips underneath the screen dying off and littering my floor. Then one grow I decided to be clean and trimmed off all the leaves and shoots that didn't make it through the screen. The result was a lot of space under the screen, with the bare branches growing through. Unknown to me I had opened up a whole new airflow to my roots and underside of my screen, and my plants grew about 20% larger. So, it's not just tidy, it gives ya more buds, and allow your girls to consentrate their growing above the screen w…

sup everyone, i just planted a few seeds the other day in a pot full of garden dirt and ahve been watering it little bits each day. its on my window seal and gets morning and early afternoon sun. im in desperate need of help coz ive got no idea what im doing. any help would be much appreciated. i dont know what strain they are either my friends is a stupid dick and has no idea what he's doing either, so im hoping you guys can help. i also want to set up some sort of secret grow box or something. i was thinking an old run down server case (bout 20cm wide, 50cm deep and 50cm high) that i ahve in my bedroom, dont think tha housies will notice that anyway, so yeah, if any…

Hi all, I'm wondering weather i should tip or not. My grow space is 1m x 1m x 2+mh, This gives me a hight of 1200 room for growth, I have 5 plants under a 400hps. My plants are up around the 8 inch mark now. So, Should i tip these or just let them grow?. Roughly, How tall should i let them grow before turning to flower and using up my space?. Any help/Advice much appreciated, Thanks heaps. Paranoid.

a quick question,, when do u guys top up your resovoirs,after each feed, or when a litres gone?? over to u guys,