Recent content by Bungalow

Yours may be much faster, I've seen it clear in less than a day before. Luck of the draw, or whoever is working that day, haha.

Mostly depends how long it sits at customs. Mine were shipped on the 13th, should arrive anytime. edit: To clarify, most of that time was spent sitting at the customs warehouse.

Maybe check out the XLG 200 H line? Less than 2% drop in efficiency and well priced.

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When referring to conventional I mean their inputs - chemical salt formulas. Bagged mixes are definitely cheaply made, and often come with fungus gnats or worse. Even if I were to practice conventional, I would make my own medium. I would use those chips in a heartbeat. I get a lot of chips...

I use bricks.

I'm not a fan of conventional either. I find the end results to be lacking in phytochemical constituents because I'm under the impression that soil biology and organic chemistry plays a role in the quantity and diversity of these compounds - phenols, aldehydes, alkaloids, flavonoids...

@MustangStudFarm For plants that are a bit on the dry side, add a small amount of water after mashing the sugar and plant material together. Just enough to slightly submerge the material. A rock or any other heavy inert object can be placed on top to keep it fully submerged - this will prevent...

Here's a related bit of info on the subject: Also, on the nitrogen note, there could be an issue with the nitrification cycle; it's possible that instead of the ammonia being sequestered in the form of nitrite, that it's gassing off before it can be converted to usable forms. I've read that...

Happy to help. I've seen a lot of similar issues so I felt it'd be good to share my experience. The extra dusts shouldn't hurt anything in the short term. In the long term, you use less and less micros as they're becoming available in the soil. That's crazy that a horticulture program says they...

Haha, give it a read, it's awesome for any home scale gardener. I wouldn't worry about the smell as far as use is concerned. Mix with em1/labs when using to quickly deodorize if indoors. I would recommend experimenting with a high(er) calcium mix. Pot up some tomatoes, peppers, or any other...

I would also recommend checking out soluble gypsum - something like Diamond K. Otherwise, it takes some time to break down. Gypsum will strip cations (Ca) and anions (S.) Ca has the strongest charge of all cations, so it breaks apart bonds with Mg, K, etc when flushing. S does the same with Na...

Do you use cover crops? You could search for crops that pick up those specific elements in abundance, grow a cycle, and discard them to remove some of the excess. I would also flush with gypsum to drop that K a bit, and completely avoid any P for some time. Make the P that is there available...

K deficiency. Coots mix is intentionally careful with K. Better to add a bit later than have too much to start. Also, most LEDs lack IR and don't have the same natural heating of the canopy that the sun or most other lights would. This, combined with high par causing the plant to want to...