General Cultivation Q&A

I recently had some clones sent to me that were rooted in Rockwool, it seemed to keep its shape better than grow wool and didnt stay water logged. I've just started to play around with growing from seed and I'm, trying to get a good foolproof method going. I like to see whats going on each day so I dont use soil and so far I'm not real impressed with the grow wool blocks that I,m using now......when I squeeze the excess water from them, they stay squashed and look like they could suffocate the newly emerged seedlings roots. Any one else use grow wool ?.....any tips ?

I have several healthy plants just placed into flowering (today) as they are quite short they contain considerable foliage: about 65 * 50 centimetres. As I have read that pruning should be done at this stage (before flowering) I was wondering which and how much leaves to prune? I have asked a friend who told me not to touch the plant, to let nature alone, but have read that pruning does improve yield. All comments and ideas ars welcome. Also I have been pulling a plant over to increase it’s exposure to the HiD which has placed a branch directly into the shade of the main stem. The branch has not shown any signs of discomfort even though it’s growth has slowed. Should I…

Hello everybody, I've just set up a recycling system using a pond pump to pump nutrients through polytubing with drippers. As this is not on a timer it will be on all the time, will this mean that the roots may get flooded or will it be alright as the water will drain through? All advice much appreciated Cheers Holyreality

I have a plant on the inside of a window in my bedroom and It seems to be growing slow, I have friends that planted the same time i did and there plants are 3 times the sieze of mine. My Question is...... At night time, I always put the aircon in my room on, and the unit is very close to the plant, could this be stopping the plants growth?

there are these things called dutch pots whcihc are being sold at grow.com for 455 bucks with light(400 Watt High Pressure Sodium light kit), 400 Watt UltraSun lamp , that's kinda steep. Should i get the normal kit without a light for 225 and buy flouros, or build my own one, Please Help crzc

Hey, i'm just wondering if airsponges will help me with and odour problem, i'll have a modular ScrOG, some clones and a seperate veg room, all maybe attached to eachother, but i'm wondering if i got a good few airsponges(put them in front of the exaust fan, right?), would it get rid of the odour? or should i just build a carbon air scrubber, or both? i'm gonna start in a few weeks and have most my supllies, but need odour deletion before i start just to not be paranoid... thanks a bunch crazychicken p.s. i know it's off topic again, but what are airstones? i looked on overgrow.com and a few other sites, but no ones fully explained it to me thanks for the help

Hey what's the difference between between soil grows and hydro, i thought it was just what was in the pot when you grow it... isn't it? and what's flood and drain cycle, anyone?

Hey all I am having different oppinions about the whole growing game, but i think i've found my perfect match because it's cheap and pretty simple for a first time grower... it's that hydro thing by robbieganjaseed ( http://www.ozstoners.com/420Australia/InvB...ct=ST&f=9&t=298 ) and so far, i think it's perfect, but i was thinking of growing it with a flood and drain system(unless someone can advise me better), but this is my only problem. I was looking on this site about it, but it didn't give too much specific info that i was hoping some of you peepil could give me. I'm planning on doing it for my first grow, so i'll probably be using bagseed. How much water/n…

http://www.fctraders.org/members/albums/album35/DSC00642.jpg g13 hpF2 bred from originals from sensi Mr Nice g13hp, to date have all shown low pheno spread , have used 1 as mom these are her clones at 6wks. http://www.fctraders.org/members/albums/album35/DSC00641.jpg this is bronze F2 b/c from original P1 male super skunk at 28 days http://www.fctraders.org/members/albums/album35/DSC00646.jpg st#3 from Spice of Life, selected a very early maturing male , showed sex while still in veg a very vigorous plant that I have kept as a P1 male because of these traits. This cross was with Greenhouse White Widow, I used a bushy pheno that had very atypical widow crystal…

Just out of interest How tall do you all let your plants grow? I'm going to aim for 1.2 metres. Cheers Holyreality

Ever noticed that a lot of hormone additives contain bee's wax ? Well AF of mine tells me he has been using a special non refined honey as a cloning jell for his clones and has met with a lot of success. The stuff he uses is called Medihoney and it is produced by bees that collect pollen from tea tree plants which as we all know has medicinal properties. Manufacturers Capilano have developed the product which they claim is having great success in treating conditions such as menigococcal septicaemia, eczema and burns. Medihoney is produced from a particular type of honey, high potency anti-bacterial leptospermum honey, which until recently was largely ignored due to…

hey ive got and outside grow @ the moment of 5 plants and at the end of this month im going on holiday for 1 or 2 weeks and wanna make sure my plants are ok when im gone. Because it can get pretty hot throughout the day they need watering every second day. So far ive got a plastic water tank thing that holds 9-10lt and drilled a hole in the bottom and put some irregation pipe into it. Sort of a drip system and the end i crimped it and put a pin hole for the water to come out. The result is a small water drop that continuosly drips slowly out. I tryed it on some rose bush in a pot last nite and in the morning the dish it sits on was completely full off water (The w…

i understand that everything else being equal, hydro will generally grow faster than soil, but my question is that is there any difference in the actual quality of the finished product? same question for fluoros. Yield will suffer, but will the actuall product be the same as if budded under a hps?

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