Al B. FAQt

[Chumlie]

Does over watering also depend on strain too. Cause I got roots Man! Yea! and it seems to be nothing wrong. There white and not slimmy, So maybe its overwatering or something else.
DOMt...DOMt...DOMM!(scary plot thickens)

 

[brontobrandon1]

al b i have spider mites in my flowering room i can see a couple on my flowering plant would spraying the bug spray i got from the grow store be good for the plants, i mean i thought it would be bad but its worth it to save a plant i guess ya no??

thanks peace

 

[drgreenGMX]

Hi Al good to meet you

i have a large ro machine in my house. This was purchased way before my growing days (just about to harvest my first plant) as i have a couple marine fish tanks. Just wondering if you think i should be using the ro? I have read your comments on it earlier being unnescecary but its basically free for me, would it perhaps be worth me using an ro and tap water split to get both clean water and the elements? Or would ro perhaps even be holding my plants back in some way? (growing hydro in a wilma 4 pot system)



thanks

 

[Al B. Fuct]

How do you look for root disease when there not visivle yet

Poorly developed or browned roots are a telltale.All should be bright white and pert. How do the roots look?

The ones I know that are heat stress have a very slight rolling drop, while its just slope gradually down. My RH stay at hight 50 low 60 except when A/C on then it's at low 50 sometimes low 40.

That's in the ballpark.

Maybe to much water but all aeroponic people even the "guys" at the store say water every other 15 min, yet they gave me nute burn so switch the night to 15/45.

It's nute strength that causes nute burn, not watering frequency or duration.

It seems all the other plants are fine.

OK, then as a process of elimination, it's not a condition common to all the plants such as RH & air temp (and your RH & temp are OK anyway, right?).

What do you think about the white specs, are you just waiting on pics?

yep, need pix. Thanks.

no there is no hurry, i just thought i was wierd.

It is weird, but characteristic of a certain condition.

but the clones were taken from a plant that had never seen 12/12, only 24/0

That's the weird part. The character you described sounds just like a re-vegging plant.

Is there any possibility that the lighting on the mum was not what you expect, such as the light cycling on & off instead of remaining on all the 18+h/day? This can happen when an HID lamp tube is nearing end of life.

and once the clone took root they were veged for 4-5 weeks more with normal growth before i flowered

oh, OK, these plants are flowering now. It could be a response to shifting into flowering habit, but it doesn't sound usual. Got pix posted? Link?

when they got to be around 9-10 inches. thats when it started its growth sport and loosing leaves

hm, ok, once I get a look at the flowering plant, I'll have a better idea.

I think the second option would be more plauseable to me, Cheers Al

OK, let me know how it goes. By interrupting its night cycle every night for a week or so, you should be able to induce a herm. If you have a separate lighted area where you can do this so you're not affecting other plants, a timer can do the odd sked for you instead of you diving in to the dark area and retrieving the plant to expose it to light every day.

Does over watering also depend on strain too.

No, all strains should behave relatively similarly in that regard.

Cause I got roots Man! Yea! and it seems to be nothing wrong. There white and not slimmy, So maybe its overwatering or something else.

Usually with overwatering, you see browned or stunted roots. Yours are in good shape per your description, so I'm not sure that's the cause.

DOMt...DOMt...DOMM!(scary plot thickens)

Yep, the thick is plottening.

al b i have spider mites in my flowering room i can see a couple on my flowering plant would spraying the bug spray i got from the grow store be good for the plants, i mean i thought it would be bad but its worth it to save a plant i guess ya no??

If you have mites, you have to clean the entire op, vac everything, thoroughly spray all plants esp under leaves and all surfaces in the grow. Even the general area and path leading to the grow must be cleaned and treated. Plants near the entry to the house should be checked and treated or removed if infested. Azaleas are mite hotels.

Mites are bastards and very persistent. All treatment has to be done at once to have any hope of getting rid of the bastards. Half-measures will guarantee they will be back and likely resistant to the miticide. Short acting miticides are the tool for the job, like Avid or any other miticide containing abamectin, aka avamectin.

Avid has a 14 day withholding period post-treatment. After that, it is OK to consume or smoke the treated plant material.

Just wondering if you think i should be using the ro?

It won't generally hurt anything; you should be getting most of your Ca & Mg from your nutes. Micronute deficiencies might be possible i.e Fe, Zn, so if pH is right (5.8 ) and yet you see Fe or Zn defs on the RO water, you can add supplements or switch back to tap water.

 

[grandpabear3]

not to anger you with sillyness.....but you got the 420 post....yay....but you should have been smoking. shame on you

 

[Al B. Fuct]

not to anger you with sillyness.....but you got the 420 post....yay....but you should have been smoking. shame on you

huh? I see post 420 in this thread by someone else.

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You're kinda on your own with specifically how to keep the noseynellies out of your op. About all I can suggest is to lock the door!

The room can be a tent made of pandafilm which is only large enough to fit the tray in, just need to plan to have about 2m vertical height to work with. In such a space, cooltubes will help keep temps under control. Ventilation system should be able to shift the tent/room airmass volume in about 3 mins.
All my tanks run flowering nutes at 1400, except for wk6, when plants get dosed with Canna's PK1314. If you plan for about 5L of tank volume per plant , a single tank will be pretty big. Also, with a single tank, you can't do stuff like applying a PK additive for wk 6 plants without dosing all the plants. I used 4x 900mm^2 trays (23 plants each) because the biggest el-cheapo storage tubs I could get were 125L.

Yea thanks AL your right but of course it will be under lock and key lol

Yea no problem height isn'st an issue have a 8 feet celing max, also would you think running 4 sperate trays in a 6x6 grow area would work.

 

[Al B. Fuct]

Just to be clear, I don't mind a bit of silliness. Humour is always encouraged. Meaningless, unnecessary posts or 5 posts where one would do fine mainly contribute to clutter and make it hard for me to keep up. I miss queries when the thread is flooded, that much does annoy me.

 

[wyteberrywidow]

i got 4 cfl 23 watt bright white to add wit my shoplights the 23 watt bulbs are rated at 1500 lumens so that 6000 and my shop lights are reg 40 watts at 3300 lumens cool white and warm white tube in each thats just so they can get strong so they can b ready 4 the 400 watt.r the bright white bulbs good and is 9300 lumens good to start them off or will i need more light??

 

[Al B. Fuct]

The lumen figures cannot be added and result in a meaningful figure. The lumen is a measure of intensity. Putting one lamp next to another does not make either one brighter. If you have 2x 1500lm lamps next to another, the brightness is 1500lm. If you are illuminating a space with a 1500lm lamp next to a 3000lm lamp, the intensity is 3000lm. The distance from the lamps to the lighted surface will determine the lux (lumens per sq metre) applied to the surface.

The shop lights by themselves, suspended horizontally above the plants, are probably enough for plants less than 200mm or so tall.

 

[wyteberrywidow]

ok so i dont need the cfls there then ill just use the shoplights then i just thought u add more lights itll be better being more lumens but like isaid b4 u explain very well and just from this thread alone i learned alot

 

[grandpabear3]

huh? I see post 420 in this thread by someone else.

ok i meant 4:20 a.m......but it occurs to me it might be a different time so ...i'm a tard.

 

[wyteberrywidow]

al b quick question im starting from seeds i ordered and i got to find my females from males(hopin all fems) so i was reading and i decided to go with taking a clone from each but i want to know the time limit b4 i should cut to take clones and wont hurt my plants from growing while still gainin succesful clones, some people say cut at a foot an some people say wait till 2 months whats ur best answer or suggestion??

 

[gvega187]

al I have a few cloning questions for you...again tanks 4 u helps already

1- Is it extremely important to disrupt cells and b sure to take 45 degree cuts? I often forget to to these things and was wondering how it will affect my trays.

2- will cloning work at all without doing these things?

3- Does moving around your tray and picking up cubes/plugs mess with their ability to generate roots?

4-What do you think about cloning with the stem? Wish i had a picture, but I mean when you have a very small node and you cut the stem below that node to lengthen the cut, thus making a decent sized clone. Does the thick stem produce roots as well as a normal branch clone?

 

[Chumlie]

Hey what up Al, that heat element that I got is pretty close to the deep finned heat sink, and do you know specficaly what type of aluminum resistors that you use?(size,power limit, etc)

 

[Chumlie]

What up Al hey that heat element I have is sort of like a heat sink. It looks like this, but compare to the pic on the screen witch on my screen is almost 3". The one I have is about 6" long with a solid round rectangle core were the finns go all the way around.

Can you tell me the type of aluminum resistors you are using.

I determine to make this SoB THaNks

Sorry about the repeat, I didn't thing the other went in

 

[Al B. Fuct]

i want to know the time limit b4 i should cut to take clones and wont hurt my plants from growing

Cannabis is not just extremely tolerant of pruning- it quite likes it. It will very quickly replace any plant material you cut off.

I cut back my mums really quite severely, every 2 weeks:

just after cuttings

2 weeks later

Some commonsense is needed- you don't want to prune a couple-week old seedling which only has a couple pair of 'true' leaves. When you prune, you must leave some nodes and a couple sets of leaves. If you cut the plant back so there is only a mainstem and no nodes or leaves, the plant will die. As you see, I only leave a couple of sets of leaves on each plant, but they come roaring back in 14 days.

It doesn't do you any good to try to sex a plant before it is sexually mature (showing preflowers at the nodes), which usually occurs about 6-8 weeks under veg cycle light after cracking beans.

al I have a few cloning questions for you...again tanks 4 u helps already

no worries.

1- Is it extremely important to disrupt cells and b sure to take 45 degree cuts? I often forget to to these things and was wondering how it will affect my trays.

Lightly scraping the stem surface in a few places with the back of the scalpel blade disrupts the tissues enough to trigger formation of root nodes when they're kept in a warm damp environment (ie inside a RW cube). The 45 deg angle cut exposes a larger area of the end of the capillaries (think about a piece of tubing cut on an angle) which helps with water uptake while the plant has no roots.

2- will cloning work at all without doing these things?

It will but rooting will be slower without the few scrapes and water uptake may not be so good without the angle cut.

3- Does moving around your tray and picking up cubes/plugs mess with their ability to generate roots?

No, should have no effect. The only thing you want to avoid when handling plants is wiggling the stem around in the RW cube which may cause the hole in the RW to enlarge and cause the fit of the material around the stem to be loose. The stem must fit tightly in the RW with no air gap between the stem and the RW where air may enter the cube.

4-What do you think about cloning with the stem? Wish i had a picture, but I mean when you have a very small node and you cut the stem below that node to lengthen the cut, thus making a decent sized clone. Does the thick stem produce roots as well as a normal branch clone?

Thicker stems root better and faster than thinner ones.

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The stack on the left all have stems of about 4mm or less. The stack on the right all are over 5.5mm. of course, all these were cut at the same time.
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You don't need to bury a node, as is often recommended, either. If conds in the clonebox are right, pieces of stem without a node buried in the media root just as quicklyas those with a node.

Hey what up Al, that heat element that I got is pretty close to the deep finned heat sink, and do you know specficaly what type of aluminum resistors that you use?(size,power limit, etc)

I used 25 watt aluminium bodied wirewound resistors with mounting tabs. For 120V, the paralleled resistors should be about 576 ohms. For 240V, they should be about 2.3K ohms.

What up Al hey that heat element I have is sort of like a heat sink. It looks like this, but compare to the pic on the screen witch on my screen is almost 3". The one I have is about 6" long with a solid round rectangle core were the finns go all the way around.

Is this the heat sink you intend to use or is this just a pic of a heat sink?

 

[Chumlie]

This is the heat sing that closely resembles mine(little diff. in disign)
I was going to do something like this. With the heat sing on the inside.

 

[Stoney McFried]

Hey Al, I made something with your name on it, hope ya like it!

 

[HATCH]

Al.,The Claw, What's Causes It???,,,& How Can You Treat It????,,, Or What Can Be Done To Prevent It From Happening???,,,,,Thank's

 

[Al B. Fuct]

This is the heat sing that closely resembles mine(little diff. in disign)
I was going to do something like this. With the heat sing on the inside.

Sorry, I can't tell much from that img. Doesn't even look like a heat sink. Looks like a doorstop with a fan on it.

Hey Al, I made something with your name on it, hope ya like it!

hahahhahaha, very qute.

Al.,The Claw, What's Causes It???,,,& How Can You Treat It????,,, Or What Can Be Done To Prevent It From Happening???,,,,,Thank's

What's 'the claw' ?