Post the dumbest advice you have ever heard here!

00ashoo said:

i was smoking a spliff with my mate and he told me he got told that when transplanting into new soil u should break the root ball up so " the roots can spread into the new soil more easily " i told him was bullshit, id never do that n would more than likely course more stress than good
worst thing is he did it with a greenhouse seeds bubba kush i gave him in a party cup

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I would not suggest breaking up a rootball but if very root-bound you should score/cut the rootball up and down the sides and across the bottom before repotting. If not the roots will not spread out nearly as fast or as well and the plant will still grow more like it is still in too small of a pot. If someone has to remove soil for some reason a bare-root transplant can be done where the soil is rinsed from the roots and then the roots planted in fresh soil.

The most absurd advice I have ever seen given here was when you harvest you should pull the entire plant out and remove the soil and stick the roots in boiling water to drive all the THC in the plant's roots, stems and branches up and out into the buds.

Why is it I cannot help but feel very confident that the person who advised people to do that now works for the Obama administration?

tip top toker said:

I;'d have thought that a smooth curve in my mylar, being 80-90% reflective and such, would cause a heck of a lot more chance of a hotspot due to the parabolic curve thingymajig, than a crease in foil (crease will not concentrate light as well as a curve i'd have thought) yet myalr and hotspots are never mentioned together. I'm interested to get to the bottom of this. WIt that in mind it also would stand to reason that foil would be safer because it can't curve uniformly in the way mylar can (the mylar was delivered as a roll of it, so it naturally tries to roll itself up, curveyyy)

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Yeah, I'd think the odds in that situation would be similar. It's quite possible it's been blown out of proportion between the theory about the possibility of an issue vs the likelihood that you could create such conditions accidentally. If it's a one in a million chance, you could grow for lifetimes and never have an issue, and I really have no idea how likely it would be to create such a situation.

You're also 100% correct on curves vs angles. same math proof as for parabolas, but you can also just think about how light reflects. An angle will reflect uniformily on either side of the angle, so you get an overlap, but much less of a concentration. smooth curves can take a great deal of diffused light and reflect that large surface area into an increasingly small focal point. If you look at different reflectors, spotlight reflectors will be smooth parabolas. Reflectors meant to give a more uniform distribution will be in the general parabola shape, but with flat surfaces inside. These reflectors are designed to spread the light more evenly over specific areas at specific heights. (side note, one of the reasons german made reflectors are the shit is because they spend the time engineering their reflectors to take advantage of all this. The same 95-99% polished spectral aluminum is used, they simply put a lot more into their design in general).

Brick Top said:

I would not suggest breaking up a rootball but if very root-bound you should score/cut the rootball up and down the sides and across the bottom before repotting. If not the roots will not spread out nearly as fast or as well and the plant will still grow more like it is still in too small of a pot. If someone has to remove soil for some reason a bare-root transplant can be done where the soil is rinsed from the roots and then the roots planted in fresh soil.

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he was talking more breaking / ripping the ball up, which i thought was a no no

Some guy told a person to buy a 1,000w HPS light and plug that sh17 in with out getting enough info of the grow space and if the person can use that much power or be able to cool the heat that the light puts off

tying purple string aroung the stalk of the plant to make the buds purple so you make more money!!!!

Someone around my area told me this, I laughed so hard.

1) This is a load of shit
2) When people find out you are selling purple colored shwag they are going to want blood

gobbly said:

Yeah, I'd think the odds in that situation would be similar. It's quite possible it's been blown out of proportion between the theory about the possibility of an issue vs the likelihood that you could create such conditions accidentally. If it's a one in a million chance, you could grow for lifetimes and never have an issue, and I really have no idea how likely it would be to create such a situation.

You're also 100% correct on curves vs angles. same math proof as for parabolas, but you can also just think about how light reflects. An angle will reflect uniformily on either side of the angle, so you get an overlap, but much less of a concentration. smooth curves can take a great deal of diffused light and reflect that large surface area into an increasingly small focal point. If you look at different reflectors, spotlight reflectors will be smooth parabolas. Reflectors meant to give a more uniform distribution will be in the general parabola shape, but with flat surfaces inside. These reflectors are designed to spread the light more evenly over specific areas at specific heights. (side note, one of the reasons german made reflectors are the shit is because they spend the time engineering their reflectors to take advantage of all this. The same 95-99% polished spectral aluminum is used, they simply put a lot more into their design in general).

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I need to go get a degree so i can talk like that haha, everything i ponder is just me fitting logical pieces together as i'd feel they ought to, so i tend to be a bit vague and make up my own buzz words

Someone on here is telling people to really nitrogen up during flowering and during the flush to use a mild nutrient solution, and they keep telling newbs this crap!

mY buddy told me that if you add mangos to the soil you will get mango weed... LMAO!!!

In the argument of will aluminum foil cause hot spots or not one thing is sometimes overlooked and that is who is saying what. Most times those who claim based on their experience aluminum foil will not produce hot spots use lower wattage lighting, CFLs etc. where the dangers are reduced due to there being a much weaker source of light to reflect meaning a greatly reduced chance for hot spots.

I am not saying no one does it but I have yet to read about anyone with a 600-watt or 1000-watt or multiple high wattage light(s) using aluminum foil for a reflective material and saying hot spots will not occur. The use of aluminum foil almost always goes hand in hand with a lower budget and with a lower budget normally comes lower wattage lighting. The combination might mean a reduced enough chance for hot spots that many will not experience them but that would not mean they cannot and do not happen to others and that it would not happen even more with higher wattage lighting.

The size of a grow room and number of plants grown in the area would even change the chances of hot spots when using a low enough wattage light. The farther from a reflective surface the less intense the light rays so if someone does not fill their grow room with plants near the walls/sides or if they do the difference in distance could make a difference with differing wattage lights.

Some things about growing are written in stone and others are not. Still people want a singular answer for every question that is across the board, that will fit each and every situation and condition and setup and strain and system correctly. For other than those things written in stone such answers do not exist.

Grizzdude said:

Someone on here is telling people to really nitrogen up during flowering and during the flush to use a mild nutrient solution, and they keep telling newbs this crap!

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wtf. Nitrogen is used for veg not for flowering and when flushing you can use a buffer other then that no nutes during the last 1 to 2 weeks of flowering

Spanishfly said:

What is a PPM ??

A common Old Wives Tale (there are others, believe me) is that Aluminium foil used as a reflector somehow causes hotspots on your plants. Total BS, people read it and then just repeat it, nobody has experienced it because it DOESN´T HAPPEN !!!

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true i used foil on my first grow and no burn spots
TOTAL BS

The dumbest thing I have seen has nothing to do with growing weed but smoking. I seen some where online how you can smoke bong water. Use the same water for several smoking sessions than leave the bong out in the sun so the water can evaporate then scrape the shit left behind and smoke. Seems really gross to me cant be good for you either.

Spanishfly said:

What is a PPM ??

A common Old Wives Tale (there are others, believe me) is that Aluminium foil used as a reflector somehow causes hotspots on your plants. Total BS, people read it and then just repeat it, nobody has experienced it because it DOESN´T HAPPEN !!!

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I have to say that i love that this guy is giving advice after asking what a ppm is!!!! Wha.. oh....i believe a ppm is an old wooden ship used in the civil war era...

Manosapien said:

The dumbest thing I have seen has nothing to do with growing weed but smoking. I seen some where online how you can smoke bong water. Use the same water for several smoking sessions than leave the bong out in the sun so the water can evaporate then scrape the shit left behind and smoke. Seems really gross to me cant be good for you either.

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wouldnt that just be resin?

When people tell other growers to not use MG because it causes nute burn and buy a bag of soil that cost $10 - $20+ when the truth is many things could have caused your plant to get burned. Over feeding, Water ph levels, your lights and such when people onn here have and still is growing with mg with no problems.

What seems more realistic growing with a 8.8L of MG soil that people can grow fine in or turn around and buy a $20 bag of soil that pretty much does the same job?

I'd say buy the $5 bag of MG soil use it then clean it and add nutes you can mix into the soil and what not to fine tune it then do what alot of people do on here buy a $20 bag of soil use it then throw it away then buy another $20 bag of soil. I grow house plants in MG soil with no problems and I feed them 8th teaspoon of 20-20-20 and 1ml of B-1 Thrive every watering with no problems. You can grow herbs in a $5 bag of MG soil just fine so quit telling people to buy a $20 bag of soil that will do the same job that you can buy it for $5

It makes perfect sense. Many smaller leaves have more surface area than a single larger leaf. Dont get me wrong i dont drop all of the fans, but if they overhang another bud site i trim half of the leaf or the entire leaf as needed to allow light to lower bud sites. This results in dense nuggets from the under brush and no cooking scrap. I use a scrog so my experience may be different but certainly trimming "cockblockers" as me and my buddies call them, allows production of more dense buds. this is not a myth or bad advice. That being said the theory of "drop all your fan leaves the plant doesnt need them" is complete and udder bull.

mr.mike said:

wouldnt that just be resin?

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No the stuff that's in the bog water is tar and smoke. the water is like a filter for cigarettes

It wasn't advice posted on here but me and a friend were talking and I told him I would love to get a greenhouse. He told me not to cause they create greenhouse gasses. LOL

Unkrautmeister said:

It wasn't advice posted on here but me and a friend were talking and I told him I would love to get a greenhouse. He told me not to cause they create greenhouse gasses. LOL

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LOL! is ur friend like 12 haha.