General Cultivation Q&A

Hello oz growers I've just begun the process of sorting out what I need for my dwc grow... check out the attached image on how I am planning to set it up. It's VERY simple, but that's because there's not a greal deal to consider on such a small system... I do want to get it perfect however. I'll be using 5 gal (roughly 19L) buckets with 6" net pots... a typical setup really. The aim here is to grow 4 - 5 foot tall plants, I think these buckets should provide a great space for roots. As far as yield goes ... well, that's not really important to me, for a first grow I think I'd simply be happy for the plants to not die in the ass on me! Hmm what else? I'm still decid…

my clones have been in my "aero" cloner for about a week now, and only one of them has sprouted some roots. some have started to wilt, and I'm giving them tough love at this stage, hoping that no misting will make them root faster. anyway, what I am most concerned about is some sort of growth/buildup thats appearing on the lower stems. On some stems its white, on others it green. Somehow I think its not root bumps. below is a pic. Do I have a problem here?

Ok heres my other bubs....using superbud....what more can I say?

Sup ppls.. i was was reading around overgrow about seeding your clones to produce seeds.. the story is.. ive got clones of all my plants and im wishing to collect a few seeds off them if possable.. im not too worried about losing the cuttings all together but just lookin to produce seeds from them partiucular clones.. ive heard about switching lighting spectrums and bascily stressing females to produce female seeds.. could any1 go into depth with this.. ? im aware of the male pollon storys.. with the female plant buds being painted with male pollon to produce seeds.. but i have no pollon plus.. but i wish to keep this strains as is.. ive also heard about stressing …

I read on another site about a bloke who urinates in his nutrient every other day.....says it makes his plants grow faster. The chinese also used it to make gunpowder in the olden days, and inmates in cold third world prisons use it to heal chilblanes and other ailments. Anyone heard of other uses without mentioning "golden Showers"

is there a PROVEN WAY of keeping a Mary J PLANT to survive through winter so it can boot off again when spring comes.as winter is on us now i need to know the best way to keep it alive.

One of the nice things about vapourisers is that you don't need to cure flowers before you can use them. Lately I've been taking a few flowers from some SPC Thai I'm growing outdoors and finding seeds within them. More precisely ONE seed per bud. What's going on here ? I thought that there needed to me males/pollen around for seeds to develop. Are these seeds the blueprint that will be duplicated when the pollen appears or is it some quirk of the plant. All plants are female (no hermies either). I'm curious to know if these seeds are useable or are, I don't know, unfertislised or something. Any experts out there? Many thanks.

i've been growing outdoors for a while now and have a fair idea of whats going on etc. I'm about to embark on my great journy indoors soon and was wondering from other peoples encounters which they find works out better, indoor soil with controlled nute feeding system or a full blown hydro setup ? just concerned about the upfront effort & time taken for the initial setup and result as i want to use my outdoor plants for clones for my first grow. Just curious as to thoughts and opinions.....

hay guys i have a 1000watt HPS and a 600 HPS i am using them for flowering how many plants could i do with that much light ??? also i will be using pots with expanded clay balls. what size pots should i use?? also i will be taking roooted clones staright to flower !!! any help?????????????? cheers Auziie Sydney dude

at the hydro shop today and asked the guy about PH up. He said that instead of using chems that the plants can't use he recommends a product called "Silica plus". He said its normaly used as a foliar feed but can also be used to raise PH, and will help growth either way. I seem to remember a thread with "swing" in which some raised a concern about using silica....or have I got my wires crossed? anyway I told the guy I had heard that silica may be bad for you and he said he didn't know why, because it is a naturally occurring substance and is absorbed through the root system. anyway, I decided to leave it, just wondering if anyone else here had an opinion.

Just thought i would thank all those who gave me advice. I pulled my girl up a week or so ago. No one wanted to guess from the pics what i would yield. So i ended up with 20 oz dried. Fabulous. However you were all right about harvest time, which was the end of march. I did pull a little early as i got some flowers, only a couple. So i strangled my other half when i found out why. My partner put a new power board in the room. It had a bloody red glowing light on it. For days i could not figure why they were stretching a litttle. I know now. Never mind 20 oz off one plant makes me happy. So thankyou all.

Late 2001 SPC sent me some complementary seeds to try out, Headstone and B’shen, as it was coming up to outdoor season and having had an excellent crop the previous year I plated them in the stealth garden. They survived an attack from some now deceased rabbits but then we copped a disastrous two week long cold snap over that Christmas, we had snow on the local mountains, and every single female went hermie on me, I had to pull the hydro out of mothballs. As I have been using clones in the grow room I forgot about a leftover B’shen seed so when I was going through my seeds for this years outdoor grow I thought I would try it out, somehow it ended up in the grow room ins…