Curing increases the flavor, gets rid of the "green" taste, makes the smoke smoother, preserves THC levels among others. To not cure would be like to drink fresh wine
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if anything you should go up to 13 or 14 hour days for the last week to give them a bit more growth. its too late for them to switch back to veg at that point, as long as you keep the light 14 or under
CFL's and LED's dont get that hot. If you box is going up that much, you need to seriously increase your ventilation! As for the lights, you want at least 150w of flouros to get any sort of a decent plant. Ive grown with flouros and ive switched to HPS and i will never go back. Flouros give you...
Thats a tight budget unless you want to use a bunch of CFL's, which i wouldnt recommend. Save up for some sort of HPS light, if you can afford a 400w you'd be set, probably 100-150 max. The light is the most important part, save up and do it right
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letting the soil dry out can usually kill bugs, but i would use neem oil as well. Not sure if it will work for your particular bugs, but it works on most of them and is all natural
heat usually makes them burn/curl. Sounds like you are over/underwatering. If your roots get too dry, the hair on them die and water/nutrient uptake is severely stunted. Try a rooting product. I use Rhizotonic, works wicked. Piranha from AN worked well too, although it was hard to mix
Well the reason its only 6 inches tall it cause it stops growing when it flowers. Definitely sounds like you got a lady which is good. I would keep her going for another year, let her veg in the spring and then she will try flowering again in the late summer. Make sure she gets lots of light...