Recent content by blackmelo

hey speero, surprised you didn't get a better answer than my opinion. Just stick with what you have for now. One thing I have learnt when growing is to never make any drastic changes, learn from your mistakes and improve on the next one. If you try to improve things now and mess around with too...

tbh i hate coco. You are supposed to "wash" it before using it to remove any salts. Dirty business. Then I found it stays soggy far too long. Supposed to be great for retaining water, yep so is toilet paper. I think toilet paper might be better if it didn't decompose so fast lol. Anyway gl mate...

well it's definitely a deficiency. I can't be bothered to check which one, it's either potassium, phosphorous or iron but that is not really that important. What is important is why it is happening and the most likely reason is a wrong ph in the soil/watering solution. Amazon sell decent ph...

to make cuttings you need to use a jiffy plug, roottit cube, rockwool or other and these then go into hydro systems so same principle for seeds but yeah it's absolutely fine. I've never had rot and my cubes were constantly wet. Ideally keep them dry but not the end of the world if not. So keep...

just one more ps nobody ever seems to mention.. Hairy bud takes 10 times longer to trim than tight nuggets. Hairy buds are a pain in the bum to trim and clean seriously. Sorry to be a downer on that fact.. Make sure you get some household cleaning gloves or you'll be sticking to everything you...

I skipped the picture of the trimmed bud but yeah that is classic looking led bud. Under hps the buds really swell up in the last 2 weeks. Like watching a raising swell into a grape. All those hairs get engulfed by the swelling calynxes giving nice dense nuggets. I can see you have a green...

might be what chefkimbo is saying but I find you need to always add a week to all strains so if it's 7 weeks it will finish in 8 etc. Then lack of ventilation and cold temps can delay things by up to 2 more weeks. But most likely you just have a long flowering phenotype, there are variations...

I think the question is hypothetical as he is researching the subject but hasn't got a setup running? Generally if you have a bucket of water and you add nutrients, it will stay at a certain ppm and ph. If you add more nutrients the ppm goes up, if you add ph down the ph will go down but apart...

Personally I would go for 8", it should make less noise.. Bigger hole to move air through but I've never gone that big so maybe see what someone who has an 8" fan reckons

The sizes you have concluded to use seem perfect. The clone tent should hold roughly 10 plants (2 mothers and 8 cuttings at any time), then the vegg tent should have 4 going for 4-5 weeks at a time which can then be moved to the flowering tent. It's easier rotating the plants than setting up 3...

hey zypher, loving the diaries you have made. It's a shame those quantum boards have been sold out for so long. Seems demand is only going to grow also. Especially with diaries like yours.Particularly impressed with the really fast growth in the first half of flowering. I was going to ask you...

600w HPS is the best bang for your money for sure, might be a bit overkill running both. See what you think, you might be happy with this viparspectra, make up your mind after you have used it and let us know how it goes. My friend likes it. Def make it pay for itself in saved bud first. Also...

hiya heavy j, for a first grow you are doing a lot better than I did. I will never forget that scraggly yellowing little branch I cherished so much. We all start somewhere and its good to see people knowing so much more about indoor growing than when I first started. I've been learning a lot...

you have a 600w in a 60 x 60cm tent? Yeah I don't think that will ever work. You need a much bigger tent. The max I would use in a tent that small which is 4 times smaller than a 4"x4" tent is a 250 watt hps. I know you just got this light for free which might seem like a bonus but it's an old...

hmm pineapple kush. Sounds nice. I found the smelly culprit amongst my new lot - it's a critical kush from barney's seeds! ps: I think your yield outperformed my results under a hps so not bad at all. Least I think so.