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Fuckin' hell. Now I'm embarrassed. Was working in the op yesterday & noticed that the 400 in the mother plant area actually looked brighter than the 1000s in the flowering room. Dug out the lux meter & measured the output at 1m. The 400 (on a rather old ballast with a rather old HPS bottle)...

Yep. Heavy 16 must be an organic nutrient/additive. Typical result. It's as good a time as any. Use Canna Flores. In some markets, it's called Aqua Flores. You're looking for EC 1.5-1.6, which registers on the Bluelab Truncheon as 1050-1120ppm. Conversion chart, by Pure of Oz Stoners...

Bit surprised to see you say that, panster. I find SoG to be a real no-brainer. If you cookbook it from those who have it nailed down, it's hard to have it go wrong. I also have to register a dissent on vegging before flowering. The result will be tall plants, which defeats the purpose of SoG...

I am not employed by anyone but me. I DO have a 'business' account with my hydro supplier, so I do buy at wholesale prices (which are not 'cost' prices- supplier is still making a profit from my purchases), but I am not employed by the hydro shop. Anyone can set up a business acct with a...

Did some checking, found that the 20L size ($308) saves me $2/litre over the 5L packaging ($87). Was coincidentally placing an order with my supplier today & will be getting the 20L size. Hoping there is a tap on these jugs to make refilling 5L jugs a bit easier. I usually keep a pair of 5L jugs...

Pic 1 is straight nutrient burn, the other two could be related, but could also be pH error related, indicative of nutrient lockout caused by wrong pH. Heavy 16 prime is sold as a bloom enhancer but they give very little information about what's actually in it. From the sales literature, I'm...

*sigh* Use the counter folks' best expertise for everything it's worth... and that's writing up the sale and getting you on your way. arr arr arr :D

No worries. Nothing beats a clean, clear tank of inorganic nutes. It's so easy to be certain your tanks and plants are pathogen-free with inorganic nutes & regular dosing of the tanks with H2O2. Also, as I've said for many years, and as I'm sure you've just read, RO is unnecessary if you're...

One small note about cats running the counter at a hydro shop- if they really knew what they were talking about, they'd be running a highly productive grow op, not running the counter at a hydro shop for minimum wage. 'Nuff said.

That ought to make some bitchin' buds. Yep. Vegging only makes 'em taller, doesn't help with cola size. Flowering longer may help with cola size but fucks up the flow through the chain. Good news. :) Cooltubes are brilliant. I've heard ppl carp about light loss through the glass but...

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Yep. With CO2, you can run up to about 29C. Above that, THC begins to break down. 40-60% Your oscillating circ fans will keep the room air homogenised. Integrated controllers are really the best way to go if you're going to run CO2-...

One of these days, I'm going to start wandering around some of the threads in the hydroponics section & start smacking around some of the pseudoscience & general goofery in that neck of the weeds. There will be blood. Of course, this requires that I actually find the time to do so... Bear in...

Pods? Presuming you mean 'pots.' The action of water draining out of the pots, no matter the flood depth, will draw fresh air into the media. My trays were made by the hydro shop I bought them from- they happen to have a thermal vacuforming machine and produce them from...

O hai :) Hope you're enjoying the thread. I don't think I killed anyone in that one, did I? :D

Not sure I understand what you want to do. As long as you're putting down a minimum of about 50W/sq ft of HPS, should be OK. The specs claim '8% more grow light' - than what? HPS? How much does the Gavitas lamp cost compared to HPS? Consider that the lamp renewal interval for HPS is about 12...

See, this is the danger of writing in a manner that is hard to read. I didn't see any questions in that & took it as a comment. I would not use pandafilm on a reflector- unless the ref were fitted with cooltubes. Pandafilm is flammable plastic and I don't want to see it hung above a hot HPS...

No worries. Note that the bud dryer has gone through a revision and rebuild since the beginning of the bud dryer thread. Fan sizes were increased from 100mm to 120mm and the heater schematic was revised somewhat to put more heat into the heat sink. The most recent schematic is the one I posted a...

Yep. Ah, I see your problem. Remove the leaves in entirety and take the buds off of the stems. Fans alone will speed drying somewhat and will inhibit mould formation to a degree but if you are not increasing the air temp, there won't be much acceleration. Refer to my posts on the bud dryer. 3...

Yep. A good measure of bud dryness is stiffness of any remaining stems. If the stems are still flexy, they're not dry enough to smoke yet. My bud dryer is really quite effective, even when ambient humidity is high- and there have been some rain periods recently which has held ambient RH at...