General Cultivation Q&A

How important is it to use airstones for indoor grow ,what size would i need for 50 ltr tank,and where to buy,thanks for advice,

This plant has been flowering for 3 weeks exact. Just wondering how long she has to go........

Welcome All, Well I thought that I would start my diary today as I am going to collect all my lighting gear today, plus SPC will be sending off my clones tommorrow. Set Up Lighting: Son T Agro HPS 400w, Small Bat Wing Reflector, 400watt Control Unit. Strain Headstone from SPC. WateringPlants will be hand fed for first grow, Will look into drip watering next grow. Plants The 2 Headstone clones and a small basil plant. I have a good digital cam, So expect to see plenty of pic's as i get set up. AzZa

OK, let me tell you something about 20L buckets, THEY ARE BLOODY BIG! too big to comfortably fit in my little grow cupboard in fact. I decided to go with 11L square buckets and 100mm net pots, one per bucket. reckon that will be big enough? PS - had trouble locating a small water pump and float valve today, any suggestions on where these might be available? (hydro store was out of stock)

i know this sounds a little silly, but i setup, watering system kinda like toms, but my drippers wont drip, all they do is suck air and make my resouvoir bubble, i got a feeling i havent done it right, ok, i got a resouvior, with some line running around the cupboard an back to resouvoir" just had a second look at toms an i didnt put in the small line, it is the one size right round "13mm" i think, that part works, the water goes around an comes back to resouvoir, but when i punched in a dripper, it sucked air in? an bubbles the resouvoir,"also on a second look at tomo's, i didnt put in the preesure relief line, i felt like such a spastic, as id done most of it yesterday…

Im using coco as my medium for my clones i'm wondering how often do i need to water a day i know my ppm will be at 700-800 and i know that the clones are in rockwool so should i sock the coco before adding the rocwool so the rockwool stays dry to incourage roots to grow into coco. Basicly can some one give me a idiot proof step by step guild so i dont f$$k this one up thx While u at it i ve got a soil grow happening that is in all sorts of trouble its basicly 50% perlite and 50% potting mix with nothing else added but a few slow release osmocote pellets what else do u reckonment i should add. thx

g'day; here is Desert Rose, been on 12/12 for 21days.

im wondering with a hydro setup,how often do u feed them nutes, and how often do u feed the water, and for how long should u do it for?, example, do i feed them nutes all day everyday or for a few hours a day , and when i feed them water do i water them all day or for a few hours a day, im not really sure , my babies are only young an wont be getting nutes yet but, should i be running water till then,, im using a perl/vermic mix, by the way how lightweight is that shit"perlite", i acccidently knocked the bag off the shelf at the shop an it nearly floated,, any advice on the running of hydro ? cheers

I have a home made bubbler and I'm wondering if the plants have a good root system, do i have to keep feeding them from the top? or will they be fine just getting nute from the roots?

Hi guys, just did a check on my young bbxww plants I started recently, and one of them has done something very strange.... She seems to be growing with three leafs coming out from the stem instead of the standard opposing two! I just tipped her a couple of days ago, and that was what I thought it was (I'm trying to FIM) but the three leaf set is underneath the cut, so have I got a freak plant or what? Has anyone else had this happen? peace

im having trouble keeping my temp down,, it seems when ever the wheather is hot like the last couple of days the cupboard temp rises, i have got 2 fans in their going hard, i set one both up to extract but found temps got worse, so one is extracting , one blowing it keeps it down a bit more but, temps still 29,30,31, i use a digi thermomter and its accurate, should i whack another fan in, i have one more, i original bought three, its gonna come into winter soon, an i dont think temp will be a prob then , but in the meantime, what effect does higher temps have on my little babies , overanout

i know its early but i was wonderin,whats some good media, an how expensive is it,im gonna buy an easy to use one, im normally a soil guy, but im gonna change my thinking,well im changing my grow style so im gonna go with a more hydro freindly media,am also looking at get a hydro setup, kinda like toms going,something that will drain quickly and not hold water/nutes for too long,but im kinda stuck with a couplea things for the setup,if u guys could help much appreciated,as im off to the hydro shop in as couplea hours ok heres where im stuck, when plants are old enough do u run a nutes mix all the time in hydro? if not how long do i run the nutes for?,and do u water them w…

well, ive done it, it took most of the arvo, but ive knocked up a hydro set up,,i have abandoned previous plans of hand watering,and this is how im gonna learn to grow indoors, i still like soil,an handwatering, but for my mullies, i think this might be easier in the long run an will be easier to work the nutes, i set up a resouvoir kinda like toms, with a line that runs around my cupboard with drippers,that will feed into the pots an plants then there is a tray under them ,that will empty back into resouvoir, i decided to let the tray empty back into resovoir cuz i didnt want floods and i couldnt really fit big trays in the cupboard,the trays are kinda like kitty litter…

sorry guys, i lost a post,i canna find it anywhere, it was about what ph mj likes,someone posted a cool diagram that had ph charts for soil an hydro,an it was in colour,anyone got the chart or can tell me what the ideal ph range was, i knew i shoulda copied the chart,,cheers