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So I built a reservoir and tried to hook my plants into it. I had to drill holes and seal them with a plant already in the pot, which is tough, and I ended up losing one of the plants (the smallest one thankfully). the other one hasn't died yet but I haven't seen a large improvement yet, only...

well, this hydro method is just a straight up hydroton planter so there is no reservoir. It's just a pot with hydroton and water in it and I never built in a way to drain the water from it easily. I didn't have space for a reservoir in the grow box so I found a method that didn't require it...

I've already calibrated it. And the TDS meter that I have is actually an EC meter, but it has a feature to calculate PPM based on temperature from the EC values it gets. I think the TDS meter is fine, but how do you explain the almost 10x jump in PPM when 70 ppm water was added to hydroton...

I have a TDS meter that I've used but the problem is that the readings don't appear to be accurate. I say this because I have to stick the TDS meter in the hydroton directly. When I first set up the pots, I put filtered water around 70ppm that had a pH of around 6.8 but when I put the TDS...

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4 tsp of nutes over 4 weeks is too much? I was just following the directions on the Grow Big bottle and reducing it by about 1/3 because I know that over-nute is common for first timers.

I'm using a hydroton planter setup where I have a pot filled with hydroton and about 1 gallon of water per pot. I have 2 pots set up like this with an air curtain on the bottom of each pot. Both pots are being supplied with air by a SINGLE 3000 cc air pump run through a splitter. I have a...

I've grown a few times in soil with good success, so I decided that I'd try a couple of hydro plants this time around to experiment in addition to the soil plants. All of these plants were started from seed at the same time. The soil plants are doing fantastic, but the hydro plants are...

I could be wrong, but I didn't think being a hermie would effect plant growth at all... just the flowers. you know if it's a hermie if you see what look like balls instead of pistils scattered throughout or just on one branch. but I assume since you've had it for 7 weeks that you'd have...

yea, I think its a combination of problems. It could be over-watering due to poor soil mix (i.e. water pooling) but the soil looks ok. But it also looks a little bit like heat stress in some parts. make sure you are positive the temp isn't going above 80. I've had the same problem with my...

If you are using purchased seeds, it's possible that one of the seeds you were sent was not cheese, but rather a sativa strain that got mixed in your shipment. cheese is a primarily indica strain, i think, so the shorter plants are indeed the correct strain. sativa's grow much higher than...

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I'm running into a problem that I'm sure many people have. My DIY growbox is in the closet of what's basically my computer room. The closet is about 2ft deep with sliding doors and spans the entire wall. It's made of wood and has an air-cooled 400w HPS. The air intake and exhaust are both...

at this point, you should CAREFULLY remove the male sacs (take the plant into another room, use a razor blade and dont rupture the sac) and continue to flower them for another week or more. they do not look like they are at the point where you should harvest early. I think you'll be...

you want a relative humidity below 50% I would think. The thing is that if it's an airtight container, the humidity will increase when you put the buds in it as the water in the plant reaches an equilibrium with the air. if you're using mason jars, a humidor won't help you because the air...

As long as you keep them in an air-tight container, at room temperature or in the freezer and OUT OF SUNLIGHT... buds can keep for years. Sunlight breaks down all organic molecules over time. Obviously, live organic lifeforms combat this... because they're alive. But dead organic material...

you better have PLENTY of vertical space if you're going to veg a sativa for 3 months. if you're using a custom grow-box or some other high-limiting grow space, vegging a sativa for 3 months is going to give you a BIG surprise after 4 weeks flowering. I vegged my sativa's for a little over one...

I know a lot of people on rollitup.org use molasses, but if you're doing nutrients correctly and have a good soil mix, I don't understand why you need it. Plants need water, light, CO2... and then they need Nitrogen, Phosphorus and Potassium. From those components (and some other minor...

I'm sure you can do it, but it will not be forgiving at all. It will require ultra-vigilance in monitoring over-watering. If you are too poor to buy pearlite, just buy some styrofoam cups or use packing peanuts, crumble them up and use it like you would pearlite. you don't need...

I actually LST'd them for like 3 weeks and then threw a screen on them. I ran into a BUNCH of problems in the first 3-4 weeks of veg on the plants that all ended up being male. the only plants that I didn't have problems with were the ones that ended up being female. I basically tried to...