Recent content by FNG Grower

Seeds would be ideal. I have to wait for medical approval in WA State before I can plant them, so timing with clones might be problematic. Thanks everyone for the suggestions. I'll take a closer look at the strains mentioned. I don't know exactly how much plant height will be an issue. This is...

My indoor garden room is finally done. I was only planning to grow veggies this year as a trial run before possibly doing some cannabis next winter, but watching the plants grow has me itching to start a good medical strain right now. It's been quite a few years since my last grow, so I want a...

Welcome to RIU. I discovered this community several years ago, and it is a great source for information and support. As you are discovering, gardening is therapeutic. My stress level drops to almost nothing when I stand in my garden room under the warm glow of artificial lighting and healthy...

You had to send me down that rabbit hole, didn't you? If I am understanding correctly, the Apogee can produce a graph with it's measurements? This would be a game changer since my last grow.

I thought that light intensity was the same thing as photons. Am I missing something?

Please tell me more about this Apogee instrument. HPS to LED is a big jump, and I'm all ears.

Just throwing in my two cents. You can buy a really good 315W CMH setup for less than $100 right now. That's a ballast, cord, fixture, two bulbs, and an easy 3x3 footprint if you have reflective sides in your tent. 3000k and 4200k bulbs are both far superior per watt to any standard HID for both...

This is my first post in several years. Just getting back into the indoor gardening scene, and I’m already going to piss off a bunch of people on this forum. I got excited about new technologies since my last grow, but I fear it’s all just another marketing stunt. Here it is. Can we all just...

For those who are vegging with Eye Hortilux Blue MH bulbs, I would like to know where you buy them and how much they cost. Retail for the 1000W is around $240, but I have seen them as cheap as $115. Problem is that the last two I bought on Amazon were advertised as new but I received used bulbs...

Just wanted to see if anyone might be interested in some very high-end LED grow lights. I might be able to get a hold of some lightly used ones at a decent price. All of them are Lumigrow Pro 650 models, and they were used for about two years in a University greenhouse. Not a scratch on them...

***Update*** This thread sort of got lost because I didn't get the buds tested until this week. The results are in, and it is exactly what you would expect with greater than 90% cloudy trichomes and zero amber. Total THC: 21.1% CBD: Below detection limits (<0.01%) CBN: Below detection limits...

Yep! Nice thick stem too.

I once cut a clone that exhibited some similar behavior. The clone was the second cutting from a stem, so it was essentially topped before rooting. The resulting plant had two main stems instead of one, and each stem was a different phenotype. One stem was clearly female, and the other was...

Sounds like you had a bad ballast. Only thing I've heard about the Hortilux Eye bulbs is that they might not like digital ballasts. Never tried them myself, but I've heard nothing but positive feedback regarding quality and life expectancy.

Vostok and others are correct. 24/0 never worked for me (only tried it once). The plants were constantly stressed, and it actually cost me a couple of weeks as they tried to recover. 18/6 is the tried and true standard, but I am currently having great success with a 17/7 cycle.