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Oh, sure, but you're probably better off vegging another month or so once you get your lighting up to speed. You've waited this long; might as well wait an extra few weeks to get some decent yield and make it worthwhile. It's amazing how much plants can put up with and how long they can wait...

Don't start over. You have a healthy plant there; just too small. What I'd do is get rid of that light. IMO, lighting is the last place you want to cut corners. From what I've read, the Mars 300 is actually the equivalent of a 200W HID light, and even at that, the spectrum is very limited. You...

Well, that's just amazing. I never dreamed someone would be be to identify the specific fungus! It's interesting to see firsthand how effective and how virulent the mychos are in the products I'm using. Great White or Oregonism ought to use it in an ad - "turn your back for just a minute, and...

I actually have a third tent. I have two 1000W tents, 12 on and 12 off, alternating so one of them is always lit. That means no 12-hour long,1000 watt spike in power every day, in case anyone is curious enough to monitor power usaqe. Then, I also have a smaller 600W tent for clones, seedlings...

I really recommend this thread - https://www.rollitup.org/t/get-a-harvest-every-2-weeks.6592/ You can learn a ton from that. What I do is very similar in many ways, but adapted for coco and for my particular growing space. I didn't copy it, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't influence the way...

Yield per plant? Yes, absolutely. Yield per light? No, not in my experience. Yield per year? No, definitely not. My first coco grow, I packed 16 2.5 gallon pots into a tent, and got 2.5 pounds. The plants were enormous. I didn't plan on growing redwoods, it was just that I didn't realize how...

I should add that i kind of suspect it might be from the mychorizzae that I use in my grows. Most of the rootballs that had this crap had a heavy concentration right in the area where I transplanted the seedlings into the larger pots. I had the impression that that was where it started.

My medium is coco, but I'm posting this in a forum that's more focused on soil grows because I think the problem I'm having is more likely to happen in soil. I re-use my coco, and something odd is happening. First of all, it's important to note that I never re-use the same coco on 2 consecutive...

I use a blend of about 35% coir and 65% coco chunks. To me, that's the perfect balance - an ideal combination of drainage and moisture retention, aeration and hydration, through all phases of the grow. I hate perlite, because i re-use my coco, and that crap is just a colossal pain in the ass to...

Yeah; I'd be curious to know how they found this guy. But I suppose that if you don't know much about growing to begin with, you won't know to ask the right question when you're interviewing someone. Sounds like the guy knows he completely fucked up, and is just hoping that he can get away...

What. The. Fuck. That's what I get for staying up all night. In fact, "coco" was the key word that made me open the thread in the first place. I'm going to have some breakfast and get a couple of hours of sleep...:dunce:

One thing you might try is soaking the medium with a 1% peroxide solution once a week. That won't eliminate them, but it probably will keep them under control in your roots until harvest time. Then, you launch D Day and declare total war. What is your growing medium, by the way?

Oh, those are very bad news. By the time you see them crawling on the surface or on the pots, you probably have a bad infestation, and they can be almost impossible to get rid of. When I had these a few years ago, I had to shut down for 3 months, disinfect EVERYTHING with bleach, and start over...

The sticky traps aren't going to do much to keep the gnats down. They will help some, if you use enough of them, by taking adults out of circulation before they lay their eggs. But to eliminate them, you need to use a product like Gnatrol. You can get it on EBay for like 50 bucks a pound, and a...

Ha! Yeah, that's exactly what I figured. In order to evolve from a new grower into a good grower, you have to learn from your experiences and have an intuitive sense of what's happening with your plants and why. If you don't have that, you'll never be much good at it. Frankly, it doesn't sound...

What's your growing medium?

I wonder what the difference is. It might be as simple as the coco being packed more loosely, but more likely it was that those plants had better root systems and their roots managed to establish themselves in the new pots. When it's all done, you might want to dig into the pots and investigate...

It's too soon to worry. Roots after just a week are a bonus; two weeks is more the norm. I've even had some strains take 3 weeks or more (curse you, black cherry soda!). Everybody has their own favorite way of making clones; yours sounds as good as any. The only think I might do differently is...

Well, first of all, I'm sure you know by now that this grow is toast. There's no saving it at this point, unless that genius from Colorado can invent a time machine and go back and do about a half dozen things completely differently. You say they vegged for 5 freakin' months? Why? Why did...

One thing I do that might help is to tear open the bag of worm castings several weeks in advance, crumble up a mosquito dunk, and stir it into the bag. I've never had a problem with fungus gnats, or at least never from worm castings. I still get them every damned time i break open a new block of...