Thanks a lot man, it really sucks you got beat though. I won’t be ordering from them. Lol.
I’ve been using HPS/MH with organic nutes and a mix of jiffy pro-mix with perlite to about a 50/50 ratio then adding some bone meal and worn casting. I don’t have an actual recipe for the amounts; I usually do I by feel. I mix everything in a big container, or a cleaned and sterilized bathtub and mix it up and keep adding till I get the feel and consistency I’m looking for. For nutes I use Alaska fish fertilizer and a bat guano tea for flowering.
You won’t get quite as high a yield with soil and organic as you will with hydro, but it will be much higher quality overall, have a better taste, smoke better and more evenly as well as being a lot cleaner since therewere no chem used during the growing process. Keep at it brother, after a couple grows you’ll get better used to the methodology that’s used as well as to the to the little quirks of it and like any other method you’ll get better with each cycle.
I’ve been running hps/my fir over 25yrs and am in the process of starting to renovate my complete perpetual grow setup and am tryinv to decide on if I want to try a new method or stay with what I know.
I'm seriously thinking about Switching from air cooled mh/hps to either high quality LED’s (I’m seriously considering Green Sunshine es300’s) or maybe even vertically hung my/hps, with possible supplemental led quantum board side lighting as I’ve seen some pretty impressive yields using vert. hung hps lights. I could even go with t5’s for propagation or cloning, led for veg, and one of the two fore mentioned ways for flowering. It’s just so damn hard to decide. There’s so damn much out there these days. I remember when I started out, and I didn’t have any indoor gardening stores anywhere near me, and had to order my lights and stuff from a company with a small black and white ad in the in the back of high times. Hell, if we wanted hydro we had to order the schematics and part list from another ad in the back there and send in line $3 or $5 for the plans, in cash only, lol, and hope we would get the plans back in the mail, or if you were really lucky you’d call the right ad and find a real good place, like I did back in the day with General Hydroponics, and be able to order a few different hydro systems.
As far as growing methods, I’m looking at one pretty cool and intriguing way that works by gravity and an automatic valve setup that’s called an Autopot. It’s a mix of hydro and soil with optional added airdome things, and seems like it would work well.
Do you use led or mph/hos for lighting, and what type if I may ask bro?
