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Dogs barking at you in the early A.M.? Not only are you compromised, but the entire area - within, say, a 1 mile radius - is as well. Unless your area features a massive amount of constant night-time dog barking, to include coon dogs hunting, then the dogs barking WILL result in a walk-through...

Using either the 1.5" A-OK plugs or the macro-plugs (preferred) under a dome, I wait until at least a dozen or so roots are shooting out the bottom of the plug. Then, they go directly under a 600w HPS (typically 24" or higher from plant tops) on 12h cycle w/ 4x4x4 cubes. If I do not wait for the...

I got 50% females from a pack of Mandala #1 which is perfectly acceptable. All 5 plants have varying characteristics and none are 100% finished yet. Mostly they strike me as a bubblegum variant. A couple of them feature exceptionally large buds which leads me to believe the african sativa...

Reverse chemicals won't cure the problem which is failed genetics. Kill the damn things immediately and eat the loss. You can't use them for cuttings and any pollen that escapes from them is just going to contaminate other plants with junk pollen that will create hermaphrodite seeds.

Fixed it for ya.

Doesn't matter if it is drain to waste or not, any given batch of nutrient solution is going to immediately start pH drifting. Aeration eliminates this problem. Throw an airstone in there, a simple aquarium pump is plenty of air to do the trick.

Not only are they going to come back, they will be doing an extensive search of the entire area in the hope of finding more weed. By next season, they will have had an entire year to think of ways to spend the money they will get from stealing your weed. In fact, it is always a bad idea to...

Not necessarily. In my experience, if you have decent genetics and clone in rockwool 1.5" plugs or macro-plugs under a dome, 100% success is the norm. I haven't had a clone fail to root since 1993. But then I don't mess with the rooting goop, having learned by experimental evidence that it is...

Dyna-Gro has long been one of the lowest cost liquid nutrients. So of course a company that would sell a product like the Phototron would contract with them for a "branded" nutrient solution. So what? Hell, the efficacy of Dyna-Gro could well be the reason that the Phototron is still around...

As long as the plant has at least a tiny bit of green to it, then resurrection is possible. HID lighting is preferred for this process. Put it on 18 hours with the mildest of nutrient solutions.

Even for a 250w, try to get a light where the ballast is separate from the fixture. That offers better heat control options. Then figure how to buy from a vendor that offers such items. Home Depot offers some decent T5 HO fixtures but I don't see a 250w HPS horizontal with a separate ballast.

Quick note on hydro: rockwool is the only way to go. You can move the blocks around for optimum placement at different stages of growth. Can't move your aero plants around. Rockwool holds a lot of water and can go quite a while without watering; good luck surviving a power failure with an aero...

What makes you think so? A single free blue widow feminized seed I got was outstanding. Granted, there is some luck in that. I am not aware that the feminization process is limiting on key genetic factors. The problem is that the genetics from such plants are clone only; you won't get useful...

Cram 'em in there with smaller pots and transplant upon sex determination. Keep in mind you may get 9 females or 3 females or some other number: seeds are always a crap shoot. EDIT: Foxfarm and AN? Get some Promix or Sunshine #4 and something like GH Floranova. EDIT #2: Foxfarm does not...

Absolutely false. More lumens = higher yield. It's not even debatable.

There is no 600w ceramic metal halide that I am aware of. Nor is there a 600 watt HPS industrial bulb. In the case of the 600, do not waste your time with MH (especially the "pulse start" garbage). Blow the $85 at Greentrees to get a Solarmax 600 HPS. Works great for all phases of plant growth...

The greatest advantage of hydro (ebb and flow type) in my experience is that if you are properly set up, you can go out of town for a week or more and the automated system will take care of itself.

If you ever plan on producing a seed crop, then you DO NOT want feminized seeds. It is my understanding that a pollinated feminized plant will produce nearly 100% hermaphrodite seeds, which are worthless. That's no small issue, seeds from a regular male/female cross of the right genetics can be...

If you blast a dog in the face with some pepper spray, then that would certainly qualify as assault. But if the dog picked up some unfortunate scents while sniffing around, is he going to testify to it? Best bet is don't answer the door and hope they don't have a search warrant. Alternately...

Sorry, but the "trichome coloration theory" does not apply to all plants. For example, the blue widow I am working with is best cut when about 10% of the pistols have turned brown. There are no amber trichomes and letting the plant age does NOT improve the effect in this case. So don't get too...