Ya, its just on a few of the dry top rocks. thanks bud, was worried there, lol.

maybe mites oh no!!!!

I am in the first week of flushing 6 Pure Power Plant girls,(from clones) In a newly aquired Aeroflo 20. My first hydro grow. I just got some Clearex today. It's a Botannicare product. Specifically its a "Nutrient salt leaching solution". I bought it as a flushing aid, along with a "HydroLogic" small-boy de-chlorinator & sediment filtration unit. hoping for a tasty first harvest! The Clearex is used by running it alone with fresh water until the PPM level stablizes. And/Or pouring it onto the hydrotron and the netpot, allowing runoff. Then dumping the water and resume normal res changeout. It did clean the rocks nicely.
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Hey thunder, The salt build up could be from your food. When I change my rez, about every week to ten days I will run clean water over the top of my rocks to help flush out all the extra salts that have built up. I is useally not a problem. There is a product out there called salt be gone, it is just a flusher, more for the last week before pulling. I useally just run straight water at that time, but the food I use is pretty clean to start with.

I'm bummed. Learning the ropes isn't all that easy - maybe the pressure to have my medical crop is part of it - will soon be without. So my five plants - four were males. Not happy. Looking forward to clones. But I have my one female plant in bloom cycle now, tho it hasn't done anything since pre-bloom. Can I take clones off it at this stage? It has some nice lower branches. I also have six big seedlings with four to five sets of leaves - skunk #1 and orange bud - can I take clones off them? They are only about three weeks old. How early can I bloom them? I hear different things. Do I wait for pre-bloom? My other skunk really didn't pre-bloom - it just came on with male buds a week after I put it to bloom. It wasn't as obvious as the male orange bud, male afghan and male red shiva. So how early can my seedling go to bloom, can I take clones from them at 3 weeks, 4-5 leave groups, and can I take a clone from my pre-bloomed but not yet blooming large orange bud in bloom cycle?

Thanks! Looking forward to clones and feminized seeds when I need something new.

Sure, take those lower branches and root them. If they have been induced to flower, it may take them a little longer to root, but they will be fine.

And your seedlings are not actually mature enough to flower for about 8 weeks, but many indoor growers put them to flower sooner than that. It may take the plant longer to start flowering, and longer to mature, but you can do it. You can take cuttings from any plant that has a suitable branch.

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Thanks, potroast - will take your advice (not sure why your reply never showed up in my email alert). But I came to moan and lament more - somehow a few days after I put my now single lonely plant into bloom, it turned yellow - in just a couple of days - and then I came home from work today to find my new ballast had gone caput - the ignition, I am assuming. It's probably under warranty, but a bummer. Was lucky to have a 250 with new HPS bulb and only the one plant for now to keep going while but will have to see how long I can keep the seedlings in the aerogarden - they are growing like the weeds they are. I found that the orange buds showed preflowering quite early but really the skunk #1 (my budget variety seeds) never really did pre-flower that this noob could see until I put it in to bloom. I will go ahead and root some of those lower branches on my one bloomer girl, but try to hold off on anything with the seedlings. Thanks again!!

Hey guys, i am having a problem with my seeds. I plant them in rock wool or rapid rooter sponges after they crack and show root. I have even put them in my Aerogarden and they never seem develop or sprout. Could i be soaking the seeds too long and damaging the roots. This is my thred First time grow set backs. Please Help!!!!!!. Please let me know what you think. Thanks.

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okay, I'm bout to start a, possibly, large scale DWC grow in a couple weeks. what I can't find is anything specific on nutes. what are the cheapest, but still good, nutes. and how much should I add per gallon