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Al B. Fuct said:

yeppers, it's overwatering. Judge the watering by the weight of the pots. When about half to 2/3 of the water weight is gone, it's time to water again, but not before. Might be every other day or even less.

I don't do soil so I can't tell you what the pH should be. You're also on your own with organic noots. Sorry.



Well insulated house construction along with effective ventilation is usually enough to prevent a wall "looking" warm to FLIR, but remember that it is unlawful for police to FLIR scan a dwelling without a warrant. Randomly FLIR scanning dwellings is a major nyet and would get any evidence against you thrown out of court.

If you're really worried about FLIR anyway, you can hire FLIR cameras for a couple hundred $/day from your local test & measurement hire company and look for yourself. Also very useful to survey the condition of your house's insulation, can help you find dodgy power wiring connections, exhaust system leaks on your car, etc.

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O well a helloooo,
These clones look in a bad shape they havent grown in a week, I watered until it ran out the drain holes & watered only once. Man hydro was a lot easier.

Im not sure if similar rules apply in U.K. but many people are getting caught for growing pot weather its 4 plants or 400, chopper coppers above our houses every day I am considering hiring out a FLIR gun just to be on the safe side. Your a great help Al thank you.

no worries.

I'd turn down the paranoia about cop helicopters unless you're growing outside.

The best cure for paranoia is more info. If you're worried about FLIR, just hire one and look at your place. If you don't like what you see, you can do stuff to fix it. Prevent the walls from being warmed by radiant heat from your lights. A room lined with pandafilm with a small air gap between the panda film and the wall will usually be sufficient. Exhaust air can be cooled by dumping it into an intermediate airspace like an attic. This will drop the temp and disperse the exhaust through several attic air vents before it goes outside.

Al B. Fuct said:

no worries.

I'd turn down the paranoia about cop helicopters unless you're growing outside.

The best cure for paranoia is more info. If you're worried about FLIR, just hire one and look at your place. If you don't like what you see, you can do stuff to fix it. Prevent the walls from being warmed by radiant heat from your lights. A room lined with pandafilm with a small air gap between the panda film and the wall will usually be sufficient. Exhaust air can be cooled by dumping it into an intermediate airspace like an attic. This will drop the temp and disperse the exhaust through several attic air vents before it goes outside.

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Love how fuct provides an appropriate solution to all of lifes problems.

How about you fix this fuct economy?

Hope you're doin' well bro.

GrowTech said:

How about you fix this fuct economy?

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First, kill all the capitalists.

Second, ban the secondary trading of stocks (purchase from the issuing company only, sell back to the company only); make dividends the only legal profit to be made from stocks.

Third, nationalise the banks and regulate them to within an inch of their lives to prevent predatory and discriminatory lending.

Hope you're doin' well bro.

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yeh, doing OK, thanks.

Hey Al, I was viewing your pics of your cooltube attached with a batwing reflector, I just wanna know if your modified it or did you purchase it as is. Ive been searching for that lighting system in UK but no results.

You probably won't find my lighting arrangement ready-made. I added a 500mm x 150mm cooltube to an Adjust-A-Wings reflector to get what you see in my op.

Al how goes the editorial?

Just between you & I, it's annoying. I'd rather be working in the op.

Al B. Fuct said:

You probably won't find my lighting arrangement ready-made. I added a 500mm x 150mm cooltube to an Adjust-A-Wings reflector to get what you see in my op.

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sup Al
here a visual

Al B. Fuct said:

You probably won't find my lighting arrangement ready-made. I added a 500mm x 150mm cooltube to an Adjust-A-Wings reflector to get what you see in my op.

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Ah thought so.

SOG said:

sup Al
here a visual

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Hey SOG thanks for the pic how did attach the reflector to the cooltube simple screws?

By the way hope everything is better at home.

iloveit said:

Hey SOG thanks for the pic how did attach the reflector to the cooltube simple screws?

By the way hope everything is better at home.

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ty bra, things are slowly getting back to normal
i used a plumbers tape to make a bracket
these are 8" tubes with the large WWA

SOG said:

ty bra, things are slowly getting back to normal
i used a plumbers tape to make a bracket
these are 8" tubes with the large WWA

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Cheers, good to know its settling down.

I thought I'd bring this to you Al....

Al B. Fuct said:

Hi yawl, just popped in for a lookabout. Want you all to know how mightily impressed I am with the general quality of discussion and advice going round the boards. I had feared that when I no longer had time to answer grow op queries that this place would devolve back to pseudocience-spouting. It mostly hasn't. YAY!

When I first showed up here a few years back, muddleheaded fans of molasses, CFLs for everything, LEDs and organic nutes were leading earnest new growers down the rosy garden path.

I pounded the keys day and night in the hopes that a bit of science would stick, and to no small degree, it has.

Well done, rollituppers. Keep up the good work.

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Didnt realize what section i was in.. nevermind

Hey Al B! First off let me get this out of the way.... THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I'm one of those Al B. crazies that has read every page of Get a harvest every 2 weeks, Clones in rockwool, and the Al B. Fuct FAQ. I have learned more from you than anyone else. Thank you for taking the time and effort to educate and assist us noobs.

Now, I'm finally setting up my first grow room and i'm trying to work out the cooling and ventilation. I posted this thread https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/237102-cooling-idea.html but haven't had any responses so I thought I would bring it to the master. Would you mind taking a look?

Also, my journal is here https://www.rollitup.org/grow-journals/232930-first-grow-3000w-ebb-gro.html which of course includes props to you. If you have some time to critique any feedback would be welcome.

Thanks again Al. B!

Hey man i had a question you said"

yep, SOG grows a 'sea' of top colas- only. Since tops are the biggest and most dense buds the plant can produce, SoG ops produce more per sq ft than any other method."

on a comment of the picture you drew.

i was wondering if you think chopping my side branches off for more yield. I wasnt sure on the SOG if you did or not.

here 2 pics on my grow

iloveit said:

Hey SOG thanks for the pic how did attach the reflector to the cooltube simple screws?

By the way hope everything is better at home.

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I bought one that had the screw holes already drilled for the reflecter, I think it's called a coolstar.

Cyproz said:

Hey man i had a question

i was wondering if you think chopping my side branches off for more yield. I wasnt sure on the SOG if you did or not.

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At this point I would say keep them on those in the pics, because you want to prune those sides off early before they get too far into flowering. Also looks like yours stretched a bit. Just my $0.02...

SOG said:

i used a plumbers tape to make a bracket

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I hope that the tape held. It's really hard to find any sort of tape that sticks for long in a grow room, between the heat and humidity.

GypsyBush said:

I thought I'd bring this to you Al....

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heh, thanks GB.

KnowledgeSeeker said:

Hey Al B! First off let me get this out of the way.... THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I'm one of those Al B. crazies that has read every page of Get a harvest every 2 weeks, Clones in rockwool, and the Al B. Fuct FAQ. I have learned more from you than anyone else. Thank you for taking the time and effort to educate and assist us noobs.

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You're welcome, welcome, welcome.

Now, I'm finally setting up my first grow room and i'm trying to work out the cooling and ventilation. I posted this thread https://www.rollitup.org/grow-room-design-setup/237102-cooling-idea.html but haven't had any responses so I thought I would bring it to the master. Would you mind taking a look?

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Thanks for the compliment, but I can't make any promises to visit your journal. I'm simply too busy to commit to following individual journals. Invariably what happens is that I put a comment on a journal, which in turn generates more questions- then I'm away from the pot boards for some months... and people are then summarily disappointed.

If you have a specific question, put it in this thread and I'll get to it as I can. Keeps everything in one place, which is not just helpful to me but also to others following this thread, preventing me from repeating answers to similar questions.

Cyproz said:

i was wondering if you think chopping my side branches off for more yield. I wasnt sure on the SOG if you did or not.

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Yep, SoG is all about growing only the top colas and packing in as many plants as possible in the lighted space. Lower branches always produce smaller, less dense buds than you find on the mainstem- the small buds are poor producers and difficult to manicure. The small lower branches function mainly to restrict airflow around the plants. Best to snip them early in the piece, generally at the end of wks 1 & 3 of flowering. Anything longer than about 1", which will be mainly on the lower 1/3 of the plant should go.

WoldofWeedcraft said:

At this point I would say keep them on those in the pics, because you want to prune those sides off early before they get too far into flowering. Also looks like yours stretched a bit. Just my $0.02...

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Agreed. Lots of things can cause stretch like this. Air temps might have been a bit high, clones might have been vegged for a while before the plants were stuck in to flower instead of being put in to flower immediately after the clones had a good set of roots, etc etc.