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    Earthbox Question

    So I have been going over a lot of these earthbox threads. One question I have is won't the roots grow into the wick (net pot) and into the resivor? Or worse the roots grow into the wick and plug the holes stopping the wicking action. Do you have to cover the wick enterance with a sock or...
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    Rehydrateing Buds?

    I over dried my buds, now I'm looking for a way to rehydate them without taking away the natural smell and taste. I've tried orange peels and it made it smell and taste like oranges.
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    Forceing early flowering

    So I have been LSTing my plants(Barny's Farm LSD)since they had 4 sets of leaves. Love the results, will never top again. Anyways, so I picked up some 50 gallon rubbermaid containers and painted them with 3 coats of flat black paint and started covering them up today. I'm doing 12/12 light...
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    Big plant no buds?

    I used Advanced Nutrients Heavy Harvest Spring, Summer and Fall. I was Running 2 Kannibia Seeds Mataro Blue(morning Sun through mid-afternoon), 5 Barneys Farm Red Dragon(these plants had all day Sun.) and all seem to be pretty decent looking plants maybe alittle on the small side 4.5 ft to 6.5ft...
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    Big plant no buds?

    it was an 8 week strain called Mataro Blue from Kannibia seeds. But it was'nt strain specific all my plants turned out weak. Did great during veg and went to shit during flowering.
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    Big plant no buds?

    Its was first week of october.
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    Big plant no buds?

    OK, so last year was my first outdoor grow. It seems like the plants did great during the veg period but things went down hill during flowering. I did'nt have alot of plants maybe 10 scattered around and for example one was like 6.5 ft and a big bush but when I harvested I got like an ounce. It...
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    Harvest time rumors?

    Yeah i bought one at radio shack, I wish the view area was little bigger. I had to check each bud in a few different spots. Right now the trichs on my Red Dragons are about 70% cloudy and 30% amber. I thought I would see some clear ones, but no there are definitly different shades in the cloudy...
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    Harvest time rumors?

    I've heard many rumors though my grow. If you do this or that it will be more potent, or more resin production ect.... There are some rumors with harvest I would like to sort out. Does it really matter what time of day/night I harvest? I've heard that early morning harvest are best due to the...
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    Anyone use inda-gro light fixtures?

    Ok, so I'm going to answer my own question. As for lumen's per watt these lamps are not much better than t-8's. A new t5 bulb puts out 100 lumen's per watt. Where these induction lamps have the edge over fluorescents is the deprecation in light output induction lamp life hours 100,000 and 5%...
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    400watt HPS or 600watt?!

    Definitly 600 watt. You get almost double the lumens as a 400 watt and only using 200 watts more
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    Anyone use inda-gro light fixtures?

    I was just woundering if anyone has done any grows using these lamps. Here is a link http://www.inda-gro.com/
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    Building a house

    The simple fact is I really don't even smoke only to test my product. My wife is a daily smoker though. I've been growing for the last 3 years and come to love this hobby. All my grows have been done sorta half assed do to the fact that I don't have enough room or being able to afford the...
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    Building a house

    Ok, so within the next year or so I'm going to have a house built on a 12 acre lot in a quite sacluded area. I've been trying to decide wether to have a veg room and flowering room in the basement. Or to have to veg room in basement and have a climate controlled greenhouse/room built on to the...
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    Pre-sexing before going outdoors.

    Ok, so next year I really want to sex my plants before I put them outside. I want to do this so I don't have to take the time to dig holes and waste good soil and nutes on plants i'm just going to throw away anyway's. I know this year none of the plants started to pre-flower before early july...
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