shnkrmn
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Hi all, so this is going to read like Al B. Fuct's "How not to grow marijuana" thread, but . . . .
I started these plants around new years day in generic potting soil with a little perlite. Basement grow using a total of 200 (actual) Watts of cool white CFLs. Germed in paper towels stuck em in 4 inch pots. Watered the fuck out of em until they started to wilt. So I decided to give em Fox Farm grow big. They turned yellow. Got 600W HPS and baked em 24/7 for a while. They stopped growing completely. Oh yea, I never checked pH or knew anything about my water. Did I mention my unheated basement in the Northern plains was averaging around 50 F during this bastard winter we're having? They got sadder and sadder, droopy and brown and brittle at the leaf tips. Got to three tiny nodes with no stem growth at all. Water in the pots would never get drunk, and never evaporate just stagnate. So I'm reading on here and figure for me soil in the basement sucks. Let's go hydro! Get bubbleponics setup two weeks later (plants are on little respirators now). Also get ph and ppm meter, learn my tap water is 330 ppm and pH around 7.8. Dig up my 15 or so little patients, wash their roots off in light H202 solution, stick em in netpots with hydroton and fill my tanks with tap water ph'ed with distilled vinegar to 5.6 PH and sit back. next am my ph is 7.8 again. YOU CAN"T GROW IN HARD WATER!!!!! 1/4 strength nutes. 48 hours later, my res is cloudy and foamy bubbles are forming. Plants lbut when didn't they? Poor bastards! (Cont'd)
I started these plants around new years day in generic potting soil with a little perlite. Basement grow using a total of 200 (actual) Watts of cool white CFLs. Germed in paper towels stuck em in 4 inch pots. Watered the fuck out of em until they started to wilt. So I decided to give em Fox Farm grow big. They turned yellow. Got 600W HPS and baked em 24/7 for a while. They stopped growing completely. Oh yea, I never checked pH or knew anything about my water. Did I mention my unheated basement in the Northern plains was averaging around 50 F during this bastard winter we're having? They got sadder and sadder, droopy and brown and brittle at the leaf tips. Got to three tiny nodes with no stem growth at all. Water in the pots would never get drunk, and never evaporate just stagnate. So I'm reading on here and figure for me soil in the basement sucks. Let's go hydro! Get bubbleponics setup two weeks later (plants are on little respirators now). Also get ph and ppm meter, learn my tap water is 330 ppm and pH around 7.8. Dig up my 15 or so little patients, wash their roots off in light H202 solution, stick em in netpots with hydroton and fill my tanks with tap water ph'ed with distilled vinegar to 5.6 PH and sit back. next am my ph is 7.8 again. YOU CAN"T GROW IN HARD WATER!!!!! 1/4 strength nutes. 48 hours later, my res is cloudy and foamy bubbles are forming. Plants lbut when didn't they? Poor bastards! (Cont'd)
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