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  1. Thedillestpickle

    Flushing or stripping fan leaves

    At the risk of sounding like a noob, I have a few questons With soil(outdoors in the backyard in the dirt), is there any sense in thinking about flushing? Ice water flush? anything at all, or just forget about it. Also could stripping all the fan leaves during the last 2 weeks act as a flush...
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    No Watering/No Maintenance Guerilla Growing?

    How unlikely is it to simply stick a plant in the ground, and come back 5 months later to harvest? I live in Southern Ontario Canada. The Summers here are humid and warm/hot. Many breezy hot sunny days, and many really strong/short thunderstorms. What I want to do is find a very...
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    My recipe for first time doing organic: Will this recipe work?

    Looking for any opinions on this recipe, if there is anything I should take note of or change. I'm planning to do 4 plants in 20 gallons of soil mix each, under a single 1000 watt HPS. I'm trying to work out a water only recipe from start to finish. I'm a little worried this may not be...
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    Subcools' Super-Soil in the garden

    Subcool's soil recipe gets great reviews by those who grow MJ with it. Would it work well with other crops? Is it good soil for growing tomatoes, potatoes, beats, carrots, and herbs? Has anyone tried it?
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    Store Bought "Super-Soil"

    I'm nearing the final days of my first crop. I decided to grow in coco and one thing is for sure... I never want to have to mix nutrients ever again lol So SubCool's super soil has interested me. I'd love to have a soil I can grow from start to finish only adding water. My question is...
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    Soil pH'd to 6.5 with chemical nutrients -Why?

    Can anyone explain why it is you would use a pH of 6.5 with plants being grown in soil if you are using chemical fertilizers? this seems to be the norm, pH 6.5 in soil, regardless of what your feeding that soil If your using chemical nutrients(salts) with soil than your feeding your plants...
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    Buds touching the walls

    I've got my grow room completely packed with plants and alot of budsites and fan leaves are pressed right up against the wall. Is this a garanteed recipe for mold? I don't want to have to remove all those budsites if I don't have to, but I'm starting to think if I don't I'm going to ruin my...
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    Long term Storage of Mothers/Clones? How do I save these Genetics?

    Every year I go out west to work for 3 months, I do treeplanting in BC and Alberta, and I make alot of money at it, while living with almost zero expenses. I need to continue doing this job, as minimum wage isn't really too appealing to me. But I don't want to let my mother plants die while...
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    I Think Sspeak for Everyone when I Say...

    That this crap is really starting to piss me off The following errors occurred with your submission You have reached your stored private message quota and cannot send any further messages until space has been created. Cmon RUI, I've got 3 messages in my inbox... Alot of the messages that I...
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    Spinosad: is it really the "cure all" for bud infestation?

    I have been reading alot of what might possibly be "hype" about this new organic(OMRI listed) naturally derived chemical called Spinozad. Apparently it works like kryptonite for thripes. It's also breifly mentioned to be effective against spider mites. I don't have any pest issues yet, but I...
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    Female Spliced to Male, Experimental

    OK here it is guys, I had a few requests for this experiment to be posted as a journal so I went ahead and made one. Hopefully we make it to a week 2 update(it doesnt die). What I've done is taken a cutting from a female plant and spliced it directly onto the stem/rootzone of a 50 day...
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    6 plants in 1 tote?

    Ok soooo at this point its just a thought. Ive been looking at my room and how the space is looking, thinking about how many plants Im going to have in there and how I will fit them in there and what size pots etc. So I had the idea of taking a 65L tote and filling it up with coco...
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    Harvesting males?

    Hey I know this sounds pathetic... Im wondering if theres any way I can extract the THC from male plants? I have a quite few large males that I need to cull soon and I dont want to just toss them, is there any way to get the THC from them? I doubt they have trichs yet because they are still...
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    How to setup my 168 cubic foot grow room

    Hey people, I've already got an idea in my head how I want to do this but I just wanted to check with everyone to see if it makes sense. What I have is a 168 cubic foot room, Inside I will have 4 large plants and 2 1000 watt bulbs burning inside cooltubes. I will buy 1 oversized carbon...
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    This Leaf

    Why is there a bud growing out of this leaf? This is the first image you will find if you type Marijuana into google.... always puzzles me Oh and this Seedlings! wtf is happening here? This is on the second page of images you will see if you type Marijuana Seedlings into google
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    MXE in canada

    I bought a 5gram bag of this MXE just a few weeks ago from the UK, got it sent here in canada and it came no problems... But now Im hearing that it just recently became scheduled in Canada! So is this the last I can get MXE online? Anyone here in Canada know what's up with MXE? Its not...
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    Was this a big mistake?

    Hey everyone, no problems with my plants just yet, they look good, but I am getting a little worried about a transplant I just did. I took the plants from their 1 gallon pots of 100% coco and transplanted them into 2 gallon pots with a 50% coco and 50% perlite mix. Im just a little worried...
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    TheDillestPickle's First Grow Journal

    I've decided to start my grow journal! This is my very first grow, I think I once grew a kidney bean plant in my backyard but I'm no green thumb so it should be interesting. There may be moments of suspense along the way but hopefully a happy ending!Any comments are welcome and I encourage...
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    Are these nutrients useless?

    Ive been reading alot of mentions of how first time growers often buy all kinds of garbage additives to mix with their nutes, and most of the stuff they buy is useless at best and potentially harmfull to the plants. Im wondering if the stuff that I have fits that description so heres a list of...
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    Green CFL's during 12/12

    Hello, I read somewhere that you can turn on green incandecent lights in a flower room during light out and it will have no negative effect on the plants. Does anyone know if green CFL lights are also safe for this use? I have a green 13 watt CFL but ill replace it with an incandecent if...
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