As for how long to veg for:
First you have to detrmine how tall you want your plants to get when they are done. That is determined by two factors:
How much room do you have between the lights and the floor.
What kind of lights. The more powerful lamps ( 1000 watt ) will penetrate...
if you suspect its root rot you can check and see by lifting the roots out of the pots and checking on the color of them. Healthy roots are a nice white color, or at least a light tan. If you have dark brown or black areas of the roots than it is a fungas attacking them. This can be treated...
I was talking to my hydro guy about premixed soil for my next outdoor grow. I have previously mixed my own, basically using a 20% worm castings 80% compost as a base and adding my own nutriants etc. ( Blood meal, bone meal etc.) which worked out ok as the worm casting / compost base cost about...
I generally top / fimm all my strains, however I did find that there are several strains that you do NOT want to top. Thats why the growers forums and Journals are so important. I have a Chronic strain that if you top it or fimm it, you would actually decrease the resulting yeild. Befor I start...
I do have 45 gal camo pots, but there are some I bought from a friend that are even better. These are a tan color ( which matches the ground color ) and have handles sown onto them for easy lifting. I'm not sure who makes them but the handles make them a winner in my book, as I'm getting pretty...
Nirvana has some decent strains, never used sannies though so I cant comment on them.
The best I've done with Nirvana was with their Pure Power Plant and their White widow. Both did well indoors and outdoors ( you don't specify which you are doing ) The power plant is a very good producer of...
Did you check for warm spots ? Was the outlet warm? could be a bad wire, or plug. Could be too small of a wire for the current overheating the wires , could be many things. Do you know the amp rateing for the circuit you are on and what is being used besides the light on the circuit? Have you...
depends on the space you have. Reveging is fairly easy and there are many guides that will tell you how its done most efficiantly. I assume you are planning to re-veg after you harvest?
If grown in soil ( you don't mention medium you are using ) what I do is to leave the lower 1/3 of the bud...
I'm reviewing all those things I did wrong last season :) I had some root rot that was the result of smart pots sitting on soggy ground. I'll remey that with drain rock under them. Also paying more attention to the finish times of my strains. Last year I f*cked up by planting some haze varieites...
The only one I am familiar with on your list is c99. I liked it for the speed with which it finishes and the yeild was good. Outdoors I got between 1 and 1 1/2 lb per plant. very little mold problems.
I'm curently running Chronic and Critical. On both of them I had 100 % gern rate and both of them practically clone themselves they are so easy, and I am not very good at cloning. I cant verify yeilds or hermies yet as they are still in veg.
The ground around here has a lot of clay to it. The kind of ground that is hard as a rock when dry, and stays wet forever. Lots of rocks in it to. Thats why I did smart pots and not in the ground. Even though the terrain has a slope to it it still stays wet. I figure that next year I can use the...
Looking at the picture you posted the plant looks healthy in every other respect. The leaf curl is a small issue that I would keep an eye on but not panic over. I have some strains that seem to do this more than others. I believe that the leaves are trying to 'protect' themselves from either...
Good ideas folks. Mine are outdoors, so when it rained and the soil got soaked the moisture could not leach out or drain due to it sitting on wet ground for so long. Even after a week after the rains quit the ground under the smart pot was still soaking wet, as was the soil in the pot. If I had...
Look at how plants grow at a higher altitude, as opposed to a lower altitude. Its all about air pressure and available oxygen. At sea level there is plenty of both o2 and co2 so the plants are happy. The higher you go the thinner the air is ( like negative pressure in a room ) and the plants are...
Yes, thats kinda what I thought. That also is one of the reasons I don't do scrog. I didn't think that there was a real difference, all things being the same, but I have had no experience doing it any other way than raising bushes. Thanks for the response, I appreciate it.