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Two and one half years ago, my brown thumbs and I created a mutation in my garden worth exploring. I am all solar, had a cloudy spell long enough to cause light problems, and got early flowerers. I had two early flowered females well covered with flowers, and and then a third plant flowered. A...

I've always said I was born for challenge. All the while trying to hide behind skin so thin it's nearly transparent. Ha Ha. Kick away! You'll either toughen me up, or kick me away....

Leaf and stem? I admit, I have two brown thumbs. Life would not interest me if it didn't challenge me. I probably get half the bulk I should be getting, so I just grow more. I give away everything I grow, to family and friends, except for personal stash. It saves them $. Must be a reaction to...

The only thing illegal about my grow is I have one plant too many.

I take chances. But, what's dangerous about that splice? The first wire is ALWAYS taped individually, and if it's important (heavy load), both wires are taped individually before they are taped together.

I've been smoking on it for two weeks now. It'll do. Sour Diesel.

This grow has been a disaster. First, I started loosing foliage badly about two weeks after switching to 12/12 lights. I discovered my soil was over 9 pH. A pH chart informed me nutrient uptake was inhibited in alkaline soil. So I started feeding FF Tiger Bloom nutes...by the instructions. But...

This just started. It's nutient related, but I can't help wonder, is the sudden stretching due to it's reverting to veg stage? I admit adding a seedling in the room with 16 hrs of light may have triggered this, though the lights are well below the flowering foliage. I'm flushing this for...

I have had root gnats as long as I can remember. I have opened new bags of commercial potting soil and witnessed a cloud of them exiting the bag. Above ground, they are harmless, except in their capacity to lay eggs. Some say they are near impossible to eracicate. And as aphids, they can be bad...

They are whiteflies. I'm gonna get a bomb fogger.

Damping off is fungus.

I'm in a panic. I just went in there with my Ortho house pest insecticide. It has the added advantage of an electric sprayer which lets me spray the underside of the leaves. I tried to be sparing. Hope that hydrogen peroxide rinse works.....

Yeah. That's kinda like, fungus will kill a seedling, but plant life on earth could not exist without it.

It dawned on me I had lately been observing an abundance of what I have always called root gnats. I've never bothered with them. Store-bought potting soil can be full of them. They are always there. But these are not root gnats. At 60x, this is very much what they look like:

Early this morning I had to reset a light timer in my grow room before lights on, so I had my forehead light on. I had to sit on the floor to reach the timer, ( it was behind a grow bag), so I was looking up, at the underside of some flowering ladie's leaves. I was horrified to see white spots...

I just finished trimming some stuff that had been against the ceiling where light wasn't bright, and it was so leafy much of it went into my trim bucket to be made into edibles. So also I don't care how close I trim cause there's no loss with reclaiming trim.

I've been trying to understand how long it takes salts to break down in the compost pile.

I've been having nutrient problems with this plant for a while, first not feeding and loosing leaves, which feeding FF nutes corrected, til this started. Is this the dreaded nitrogen curl?

Salts kill soil microbes. Not good for my compost.

High, or low pH inhibits nutrient uptake. Here's a chart I use: