I like soil for the conveinance with a full time job and a good size garden most of the time, only have to water or feed every 3-4 days and never open the door otherwise. I really like DWC though . It took the guessing and waiting time out of if I was feeding enough or to much and what defffiancies (none)I would have as opposed to soil. It takes all guessing out of what your soil is doing. Hope that makes sense ? In soil I generally expect or have to prevent a micro and cal mag deff starting in 4-5 of flowering and really showing in week 6 if I didn't pay attention. I really like DWC and the growth rate and seems easier to me once you get the hang of growing mj.
As my partner in crime always says "we are reading the same porno".
Except my reason for loving soil-grown is you can't seem to get the same taste out of hydroponically grown weed. But I have mad respect for people that can pull off proper hydro grows with optimal levels of everything 24/7. You can get a high quality product at surprisingly quick, high yields. And I especially love how quickly your plants will give you feedback if something is going wrong. But you need the knowledge/experience to be able to quickly identify
what is wrong with the plant, and in time to correct it! Personally I'd probably end up losing entire crops from minor mistakes.
no mate i only cut the fan leaves as my bro did it to his girls to make them bush out n grow abit better not sure if it helps at all if im honest
wot does it mean if it curls up like that glad you noticed that cuz i didnt
TWS briefly touched on something very important. You will get a
lot of misinformation, and a
ton of subjective information.
This particular point, happens to be some of the bullshit you'll have to be wading through. There is only one benefit to cutting the tips of fan leaves (that I know of), and that is during cloning. The reason the fan leaves are cut is to decrease the cutting's transpiration of water through its leaves. As you had just cut the plant off from its roots, its only source of water is its leaves, so you trim the surface area and jack up the humidity so the plant can survive long enough off of stored water (and water absorbed through the stomata on the underside of the leaves) to root.
Apart from that, there is no benefit to cutting the fan leaves. In fact, during vegetative growth, this will hurt your plant.
Your leaves are where all of the photosynthesis in your plant occurs (photosynthesis does not occur in buds/flowers, they do not need light, the leaves do).
The top surface of the leaf absorbs light for use in photosynthesis.
The stomata on the underside of the leaf open to regulate internal humidity and absorb CO2 from the air for photosynthesis and food creation.
The leaves are constantly creating and storing energy, absorbing CO2, regulating humidity, etc., it is very important to leave your leaves intact whenever possible. If leaves are getting in the way, it is better to trim the entire leaf off, however this should be avoided unless necessary.
