Recent content by Daniel Lawton

Yep, it was fungus damping off. In my jiffy cube mini-greenhouse. I've been using it for a few years without cleaning it. I guess it got a bad strain. Killed 4 plants just like that. Wilted and died just before it started on the first real leaves. I got a new container and just sprouted 4...

I think so also. Here's a fun experiment if you can make pollen. Catch a wild strain by having a female outside. It's not as rare as you'd think. If it come sout male, use the pollen to cross with an autoflower. If it's female, you have a new cross with whatever you had. I'm trying to...

>is this not "damping off" and caused by fungus? Maybe. But it happened so fast. Could be my incubation chamber for the jiffy pellets is infected. I've sprayed it with peroxide recently, but I'll try moving them to a different one.

I tested the Ph of 2 of them. One was 6, the other was 7. So that's not it. Maybe excessive nitrogen from adding a tablespoon of Osmocote each grow (every 3 months)? Certainly I'll use fresh dirt when I get more to sprout. For a while I had Rats!!!! They sneak in and bite the sprout's head...

Thank you! Great idea. I'll do it immediately. Nice blond too. I brought one like that home to Mom once. She didn't approve. 30 years later, I still have to hear about it. But I did get her to eat some 5mg gummies to help with foot pain. So old people can learn new tricks.

I use Jiffy cubes to sprout seeds, mostly because they're nicely portable and those rapid cubes are really for cuttings, not seeds. I've successfully sprouted at least 100 seeds that way over the course of however long it's been since California legalized growing your own. But for the last 2...

I saw the same thing as you, not much happening for a month. I gave up on spraying the nodes only, and drenched the plant the last 2 times. So I sprayed a total of 8 times, 5 days apart. Not 6 like he suggested. Now it's COVERED in pollen sacks. And not just at the "nodes" like that method...

Oh yea, he also had the 60ml syringes. You get a 2 or 4 pack, so it's perfect. Suck up 50ml, and it won't even leak or cause you trouble. Just keep the A syringe separate from the B syringe, so you don't have to worry about contamination.

The paranoid guy's. If you run into it, you'll know who I mean. I don't have the complicated mixing instructions for parts A and B, because really, just dump it in there and make sure it's dissolved before you use them. If you feel like stirring it to a 90s song on the radio, be my guest...

Yea, you really need the Mr. Coffee cup heater. They're probably under $10 at some discount places like Walmart. I believe I got one at Fry's for $5. With the heat, it can still take up to 3 days to get a nice yellow color. But once you have a yellow color, only use 3/4ths of it, and add water...

I sure don't know. But there are some very good E26 LED bulbs out there, putting out a true 19 watts, for around $15. All of the brands I've tested (10) eventually break however. The driver chip breaks, not the leds (which is typical). They're very nice while they're working, especially...

No doubt. 24VAC power supplies are hard to get these days, with Radio Shack gone. And if you don't mind losing some electrode, DC is much easier. I'd have guessed at 1V as likely the best DC voltage also, after all the testing I did.

That's true, I tested .25V to 7V looking for the sweet spot. Fuzz seems to start above 1.5V, but where exactly is very hard to tell. 1V indeed has no fuzz, but then it produces electroplate crystals floating on the top. So you have electrode loss from another source. It works like this...

Ok, I'll give it another chance. Still have the chemicals in the fridge. So remind me, is it better at converting just one branch, than the colloidal method? I have an unknown seed soemone found in some high quality weed. When it grew out, it had an amazing trichome count. I crossed it with...

I might not have mixed the solutions as slowly as the instructions stated. As I recall, it's not just 1 reaction. It's at least 2. Some people use it for a chemistry demonstration, about precipitates.