Recent content by Upsilon420

So 2 of my 3 plants are turning to hermi's around 3-4 weeks into flowering. I have a dilemma because I could trash the 2 hermi's and have one full female plant and get good bud. Or later down the road the 3rd plant turns hermi and I have nothing. Or if I keep the hermi's I will have 3 plants...

I don't remember exactly how long I had them before transplant. I just remember not wanting them to get too big (too much roots to handle) and not too small (too fragile to handle the stress). I think I waited until the second set of stems started to form. If the main stem seems sturdy enough...

I did this to my soil plants when they grew to be about 4 in. tall so they had enough roots. then, like you said, just dunk the roots in water and massaged out as much dirt as I could. Placed them in my homemade aero system and they did fine. very minimal stress (that I could see). This is my...

Ok cool. I was thinking of growing my mother in soil and then have the aero for clones. But for now I gotta work out the bugs with my system as it is. Thanks again for all the info! much appreciated.

Ok I guess I see what your saying. Beautiful plant btw. If I were to grow a mother plant to take clones from would I need a bigger light for sure then or is it ok for veg? Cause ultimately I would like to have a mother plant to pull from and then take clones to save time with all the seed work.

What would be the effect if I were to start flower once plant is 1 ft. it will get taller and thus have not enough usable light yes, but even if there isn't much light on the bottom nodes they would still grow some buds however small while still having larger buds near the top.

Well I have a 250W hps. So I would have a little over a foot of usable light? I guess in that case I need some mylar or something reflective to get the lower sites light right?

How close would you recommend placing my HPS to the tops of the plants? Mine is approx 1.5 ft from tops of plants. I also have a fan blowing in the air between the plants and the light to keep the heat down around the plants.

yeah you're right, I have a HPS not MH. So you're saying the HPS is fine for vegging? or just the dual spectrum HPS?

I don't think I'll be using quite as many added nutes beyond the grow and bloom and maybe cal-mag. I have heard that mixing a cocktail of nutes isn't good because it blocks certain nutes from being absorbed? maybe I'm wrong. I'm def gonna save that feeding schedule though. I really appreciate...

I plan on getting an airstone very soon and I believe after I use up my GH nutes (no reason to let them go to waste) I will be converting to botanicare since you sold me on that. Do you have a specific feeding schedule that you wouldn't mind sharing with the batanicare nutes? Do you know if it's...

Ok well if what you say is true for botanicare then I think I will prolly go with that. Is it ok to mix GH nutes with other brands? or are they only exclusive to use with a certain series of nutes? Like can I mix my micro and bloom GH nutes with the botanicare grow nutes? That's good to know for...

Yeah I realized that changing mediums would stress it but honestly after puting the aeroponic system together I felt like testing it out. I'm not a serious grower yet. I'm not expecting anything amazing from this grow but I'm trying to get everything tweeked out before I get serious about it...

Ok Sounds like I'll be scrounging up for some grow nutes. So instead of pH strips what else can I use? pH meters are a little pricey from what I've seen. The plants started out in soil but when they got about 3 -4 inches tall I transplanted them into an aeroponic system. Technically aeroponic...