Things You found Out on your own
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PraxicalExcercise
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1: Hydro is easier than soil, if you go simple. Lucas Formula w/ Maxibloom + bubble buckets are pretty hard to get wrong. Lucas Formula + Hempy Buckets are even harder to get wrong. Soil is dirtier (heh) and harder to correct nutrient problems in. If you have nute problems, you can always just dump the rez and re-fill.
2: Bottom heat is the secret to fast clone rooting and high strike rates.
2a: You don't need a heating pad and a thermostat -- just get a plastic bin smaller than your clone tray and a 100-ish watt, thermostatically controlled submersible fish tank heater. Fill the bin half full of water, set the heater to 85, drop it in, and put the clone tray on top.
3: Holy crap do DWC plants get big, quick.
4: Evaluate additives through side-by-side grows with a control, or by reading side-by-side comparisons from people who're doing it right. (If the plants are all from seed, they're doing it wrong.) Everything else is hearsay and should be regarded as potential snake oil.
5: Clones (and moms) are insurance and the cheapest source of new plants.
6: Sometimes smaller's better, particularly when you can cram 16 plants in the same space you can grow one huge bush in.
7: Naturally cool basements are awesome.
8: Read lots of grow logs, so you can learn from other people's mistakes -- and triumphs.
2: Bottom heat is the secret to fast clone rooting and high strike rates.
2a: You don't need a heating pad and a thermostat -- just get a plastic bin smaller than your clone tray and a 100-ish watt, thermostatically controlled submersible fish tank heater. Fill the bin half full of water, set the heater to 85, drop it in, and put the clone tray on top.
3: Holy crap do DWC plants get big, quick.
4: Evaluate additives through side-by-side grows with a control, or by reading side-by-side comparisons from people who're doing it right. (If the plants are all from seed, they're doing it wrong.) Everything else is hearsay and should be regarded as potential snake oil.
5: Clones (and moms) are insurance and the cheapest source of new plants.
6: Sometimes smaller's better, particularly when you can cram 16 plants in the same space you can grow one huge bush in.
7: Naturally cool basements are awesome.
8: Read lots of grow logs, so you can learn from other people's mistakes -- and triumphs.
powerslide
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Not bad for four posts!!!
WolfZen
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Have to give you props for this one. I was skeptical but tried it because I happened to have some branches from a previous harvest about and which had a fair amount of dried sap on it. It did the job, definitely more than just a placebo effect.
meltdown213
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Amen. Set it up right and things are a lot easier. I go days without doing a dam thing.
Filthy Phil
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Thanks man
its always cool to see someone confirm something. I was thinking while stoned, what if the new thing is sapping your plants...like maple trees or rubber plants? Giant groves of chronic sap harvesting. Kind of counter productive financially speaking....
smokey de bear
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Thanks man
Funny you say that Iv'e been looking at ways to just harvest the sap when it's flowing in flowering time for a while now, kinda like what you said how they harvest the maple syrup.
Thedillestpickle
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Ive learned when trying to separate your 4 topped plant's four tops, not to try to use skewer sticks and tape to prop them apart. Use wire or string and pull them apart.
-that mistake has been haunting me for the last 3 weeks
I learned that cannabis is one tough plant! It takes alot to really hurt her
-that mistake has been haunting me for the last 3 weeks
I learned that cannabis is one tough plant! It takes alot to really hurt her
thump easy
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what i found out about gardening is do it on your own dont depend on anyone specialy on vacation, dont trust anyone to ph your shit. dont have partners in any dam thing especialy your grow. and dont believe everything you read and hear. and dont buy a bunch of pesticides that dont do shit... ow and yes you do need money no mater what.
mccumcumber
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Look for pests multiple times a day.
Thedillestpickle
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Sounds like a good way to introduce pests lol
smokey de bear
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I like how GET OUTTA THE CAB is the advice right above his check multiple times a day. lol I go in there once a day or every two days more or less to make sure the soil is moist, I check quickly for pests but I`m a clean freak and I look at my room like a ferret cage that need cleaning every time I water them. It`s more or less maintenance cleaning but sure goes a hell of a way in pest prevention, i notice all the little dust particles floating in from my clothes every time I open the Cab and Cringe so I wouldn`t be able to introduce stuff more then once a day
mccumcumber
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I was talking about outdoor growing. Probably should have specified that, my bad.
smokey de bear
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Lol Makes sense now lol Yeah thats good advice, ive never tried outdoors yet I may soon but hunting season and harvest season are the same time and I dont trust the hunters around here, and Im sure as hell not wearing hunter orange to go harvest also the fish cops (conservation officers) are in the bush in full force soo it's a good ol time getting into and out of the bush without being seen.
Anyone with advice on that, getting in and out at harvest with the fruits of your labor.
Anyone with advice on that, getting in and out at harvest with the fruits of your labor.
woodsmantoker
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Cannabis Trellising - Solves problems... 
