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Ok, I'm quite new to growing and I do prefer to keep it organic. I believe nettles are a good source of nutes and I learnt today, re a thread on here that banana skins are another good tea. Up until now ive just lobbed a load of nettles into a tub of rain water and added it to my clear (rain)...

I have an organic compost heap that's about 4yrs old. Garden waste (grass cuttings, nettles, leaves etc..), kitchen waste, tea bags, veg peelings (no potatoes!) egg shells and about 4 banana skins a week. One top of all that, I've added the leaves, stems and roots of about 6 mj plants. It is...

I've just nicked your Benjamin Franklin quote for my FB status! :-))

I like that idea.....I think I'll try it with garlic (tea) so it puts the cops off getting too close!

Nick ...."the only one i go heavy with at this point is the banana tea......" Do you do feed your babies just the once with this or every watering? Can you over-dose with it? btw, I'm friggin' glued to this thread.....I wanna thank all of you for sharing such interesting and valuable...

Put sheep shit in the water! They love it!!

Hi I was given some cuttings that were almost yellow, I even thought they were a new strain. Ayway, I hung a milk container above them with a yeast/sugar mix to give them extra CO2, I alsofed them seaweed extract and......I pissed in the water I fed them with. They all turned a very healthy...

Thanks a lot guys ....really appreciated

Okay, sorry if this is already covered, ' went back ten pages but couldn't find an answer. So, tell please, how often should I feed my girls now they have buds? I'm using organic seaweed extract and rain water. Thanks in advance guys!

Hi guys....my florecant is 5 tubes, not 8 as I said earlier, found the box. It's 2700k red/ 6400k blue, 125w , 50Hz. Maxigrow. I've gone 12/12 today and turned this lamp off as I believe it's mainly for foliage. Is that right?

Thanks boys...much appreciated

Thanks again for all the input guys...much appreciated. What's a cool tube? As for water, I piss in a bottle, add a bit of seaweed feed and top it up out of the tap. They seem to like it I started with a 250 + a 70 watt hps and they loved it, the first few leaves were like bleeding...

Thanks for the tip re budding

Hi guys, I built a shed from 50mil polystyrene 8' x 8' x 7' high. I got a 250 + a 70 watt sodium light(s) plus an 8 tube florecant light designed for in door growing. The temp gets to 84 deg. But once I install my filter/extract fan I expect the temp might drop. Q. How often should I have...

okay....I just tried to buy one (ebay uk) but was givren a choice....."warm" or "cool". Which one guys? :-))