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Hey RIU! Been a while since I've been consistently active. I've moved out to Alabama where I bought a home with a whopping 5 acres of land. I'm going to spend the next few years filling it up with as many plants, and eventually livestock, as I'm able to. While this thread won't have anything to...

I've been working on a project since mid-June that's been keeping me pretty busy. Had a blast with my last journal, and I've been realizing that I was much more organized when I had a journal on here as opposed to the multiple notebooks I've been using. As always, my goal is to show how simple...

Been working on a project lately that I thought might be worth sharing to display the power and capabilities of such a simple soil recipe. The DE bulbs, and SIPs do deserve credit here too as they've been putting in some serious work. Base 40% Peat 40% Perlite 20% Hardware store compost Limed...

Hey guys, Wanted to share something I just finished building, it's a cheaper (and in my case ghetto/Mickey Mouse'd) version of an Evaporative Cooling Wall that normally costs thousands of dollars. I built this for less than $125, not including the cost of fans. The fans I chose cost ~$115 a...

What's up guys? Been busy these last few months here and just wanted to show you all what I've been up to! Still in the same room, but have been experiencing mediocre results due to a variety of things I've done. The main issue being a lack of a mother/veg room and a good source of clones, both...

Hey guys! I was going over the manual for my light controller and it mentioned how the outlets on it are universal with 120v/240v plugs. My ballasts are all digital so the only thing I'd really need are 240v cords for them. However, I thought that in order for me to use 240v cords I would have...

Hey guys! Said I'd be back with a new thread this month and I'm finally about ready to get things going. I just finished cleaning the room and re-arranging things, here's how things are looking now. I had originally wanted to run raised beds, but unfortunately I'll be unable to do so...

I've seen comfrey mentioned numerous times when researching no-till growing, but never anywhere to actually source the plants or even just the leaves themselves. Would anyone be so kind as to point me in the right direction for where to grab some comfrey plants? Any advice for taking care of...

Haven't been able to grow since 2015, finally was blessed with the opportunity to start up again. I've been living in small mobile homes for the last few years, so growing was never even an option for me. However, the place I recently moved into has a 10x15 shed that's wired for 40 amps. Not...

I think I have root aphids, I'm not quite sure if it's them or gnats but based on the problems I'm seeing I think I have RA. I'm 15 days into flower right now and just spent the last hour and a half plucking bananas off my girls. It has to be RA because it can't be anything else. They haven't...

I've seen a handful of threads concerning Diatomaceous Earth and even a few replies in pest control topics that bring it up, but I never really see it discussed much on the organics section here. The main reason that I post this is because of the problem a lot of newcomers to organics...

Hey RIU, Having a bit of some trouble with my supersoil's pH and I was hoping I could get some advice? I recently quit drinking, but the damage for a lot of things has already been done. I only bring that up because it was the cause of a lot of my laziness so I didn't do a lot of things I...

Just as the title says I'm quite interested to know which would be better between growing 1 plant in a 20-30 gallon pot or 4 plants in 7 gallon pots? I just finished my first SCROG recently and was completely satisfied with the results, however 6 plants in a 4x4 space kind of seemed like it...

Hey RIU! I'm a little over 4 weeks into flower in my first SCROG grow, so far everything is looking great! However I am quite concerned about eventual mold/mildew problems. The temps are constantly between 72-80 all day every day, humidity is usually in the 30-40% range, sometimes going down...

Ok, so I have two 1000 watt hoods, only one of them is running at the moment. According to my electric bill online it says in the last 5 days I've somehow used between 75-80kWh a day? My AC is on 24/7 and my lone MH is on for 18/6. Then when I look at last month's bill when I was using 2 1000...

I've been doing some reading and have learned that it is in fact alright to plug in a ballast/light into an extension cord so long as the cord is of good quality. I was originally looking at this http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002HWRS6S/?tag=chrome-purchreview-20 Everything I've read recommends a...

As the title of the thread says, I'm a Prop 215 patient located in Southern California and the heat problems in my room are just killing me. I thought that my ventilation was set up properly but I'm thinking it's not? I used to think that growers in areas like mine always required the use of an...

Well I'm running into some temp problems and I really can't quite tell why. I have a 6x10 room that's about 7 ft tall that I built within a 10x12 room and it's pretty much completely insulated, some patches on the wall aren't completely insulated but the roof and bottoms of the walls are. I'm...

So I'm having this problem where after 1-2 batches of tea my air stones stop working like they did when I bought them. I tried soaking them in hot water with soap for an hour and that didn't do the trick. What do you guys do to clean out your airstones? Or do you just buy new ones when you need...

Hey RIU, I'm posting my first ever grow journal for my indoor grow set up that I just built up. I have many reasons for deciding to post this journal. I figure that if I post everything about my grow on this forum it would be a lot more useful of a way to keep notes on everything. Also, if I'm...