Vocabulary of growing terms/slang

WeeBabyDoll

WeeBabyDoll

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Had a look, one a couple of hours away from me and it sell Canna Coco plus 50litler. Would this mixed with perlite be a good idea?
 
jondamon

jondamon

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NO as COCO is not soil. It is a hydro medium.

You can hand water it but not on your budget as you need to spend £100 on 2 meters to test EC and PH.

Look for sterilised soil. PLANT MAGIC ALL MIX, CANNA TERRA PROFFESIONAL.


You should look for soil. NOT HYDROTON NOT COCO NOT ROCKWOOL

Just SOIL.


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Bngrpr420

Bngrpr420

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some one had asked about 420. here's a lil somthin for ya...
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thoughts

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Hi guys, I am super new to posting, but i've been stalking the threads for at least a couple months now. I'm starting the buying process for equipment, and well, i'd like hanging lights but am having a hard time locating them on the net or in stores. What I want is string lighting so I can re-arrange the cfl rubbermaid lights around if I get too close. What terminology would you consider calling these type of chord/string bulb multiple socket lighting? Also, what stores sell cheap good equipment? Thank you, in advanced, and sorry if I missed any n00b rules that pertain to thread restrictions.
 
Snow Crash

Snow Crash

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curseofnoob said:
what is hermy or hermie or herm what ever...
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When a plant shows both male and female parts it is considered to be a Hermaphrodite. Hermy, Hermie, and Herm are all shorthand for this.

Reproductive parts first appear in the area between a branch and the main stalk, usually around the 12th branch set at 35 to 40 days depending on strain.

Male parts resemble testicles in a way. They are roundish/ovular at first and grow in clusters. Once the male parts are developed they will open up (like a flower) and drop yellow powdery pollen.
Female parts are more tear drop shaped and will appear with two white hairs that emerge from that. These "hairs" are often referred to as pistils when they are in fact stigmas.

Hermaphroditus is inheritable, and most plants contain the gene for the train. Consider plant sex genes to contain XX, xx, and YY, yy. So that an xxXY may appear at first to be female, but then grow male parts later on for no reason. An XXXy might not grow male parts unless stressed. This isn't entirely accurate, but it gives a grower an idea that their might be a recessive male gene in their female plants that can be activated by stress. This is an evolutionary process designed to allow a plant to breed with itself so another generation could have a chance. Annuals do this commonly.

Professional breeders take advantage of this process. They will start hundreds of plants, and induce all kinds of temperature, wind, drought, and light stress to the plants. The few that do not have both male and female parts are known as "True Females." All woman! So they use chemicals on these plants to force her to produce some basically female pollen. This pollen is used on the plant and from that you have a 99% female seed stock which should stay true to the mother plant.
 
DMZ

DMZ

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Lots of great info here. I find it helps to break it down into categories. Group words together by the topic they relate to, it will make it easier to digest and improve your absorption of the material
 
DMZ

DMZ

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PPM is parts per million. It's a measurement of concentration in a volume. For example, the amount of gases in your grow room atmosphere would be measured and considered in parts per million. Say one part CO2 per one million parts of everything else. Since the proportions are so comparatively large, you have to use millions or 10^-6.

Here's a link for adding CO2 to your growroom. http://www.420magazine.com/forums/how-grow-marijuana/71088-how-much-co2-should-i-add.html
 
MsBotwin

MsBotwin

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Very enlightening! Thanks. Now I won't feel like a complete moron! I will actually understand more than half of what I'm reading, for a change!
 
myselfship

myselfship

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Thank you. And I just wanted to point out that while reading all of that, it sounded like it was narrated by Snoop Dogg in my head.
 
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hyphyskater

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How about "training" I think that term should be in the list as well. I'm still not 100% clear what that is, but I think I might know.
 
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hyphyskater

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CFL - A compact fluorescent lamp (CFL), also known as a compact fluorescent light or energy saving light (or less commonly as a compact fluorescent tube), is a type of fluorescent lamp. Also in our case used for growing.

And correct me if I'm wrong, Autoflower means the strain will flower when it decides to and not during a certain time of the year. And on indoor grows it's the same, with any light schedule it will still flower when it decides to. (That's what I understood but correct it if I'm wrong)
 
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