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    Nova Ardent Lift Decarboxylator - Don't Buy !!!

    Do you know what his company is? I'd like to check them out.
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    Accurate Information About Autoflowering Plants

    All I grow is autos. They get big, and yield big in hydro. And they are potent. Trashing autos in an autos thread is strange.
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    Flushing article

    So the other major crop that people smoke, tobacco, isn't flushed by growers. That says a lot. Here's a different discussion. https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/flushing-is-a-bad-practice-based-on-flawed-science.64789/
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    Defoliation Side By Side - Bushy Plants

    It's difficult to asses the benefits of pruning, and there's a lot of disinformation. But a side-by-side test does answer questions. Removing fan leaves won't send more food/energy to the rest of the plant. Removing a solar panel will cause less food/energy to get to the rest of the plant. The...
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    Defoliation Side By Side - Bushy Plants

    This is the result that commercial growers would've expected. They don't waste time doing costly things that do no good. Not surprising that cutting off solar panels harms yield.
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    Cheap alternatives to overpriced hydroponic nutrients

    I'm using Greenleaf Megacrop in DWC, and love its ease of use. It's hard to tell, but my yields might be up a bit. I had to use some CalMag early on, but haven't ever used a bloom boost. The P in pH dn (phosphoric acid) probably does that already. The need for CalMag was probably my fault...
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    First Time Going Hydro. Suggestions Needed

    Difficult question to answer because I had some early over-feeding problems that stunted my last auto grow for awhile. This was my first time using this brand of fertilizer. I grew 6 plants in 17 sq ft with about 600 W of QuantumBoards, COB, and Platinum grow light. The total harvest was 32 oz...
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    First Time Going Hydro. Suggestions Needed

    Most nute companies recommend too much base nutes. Some of us believe that nothing else is needed except base nutes and maybe some CalMag. I use a 1-part solid nute (Greenleaf Megacrop), and no other nute of any kind, from seed to harvest, with good results. Many growers are enticed into using...
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    Cheap alternatives to overpriced hydroponic nutrients

    They have changed their formula I believe.
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    Noob's 2nd Grow - First-time Hydro - Critical Purple & Gorilla Glue Autos.

    I started with paper towel and rockwool, but broke a few taproots, and decided my clumsy hands needed to be touching seeds less. Now I just plant directly into wet Rapid Rooters, and transfer the RRs+Sprouts into netpots with hydroton, and then put those pots into top feed hydro. A minor issue...
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    Accurate Information About Autoflowering Plants

    I've got a DutchPassion Auto NightQueen at 105 days now that will go 120 days. I suspect early stress from overfeeding.
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    Sodium Hypochlorite Vs. Calcium Hypochlorite

    The active ingredient in the original Pool Shock is calcium hypochlorite, and in clorox it's sodium hypochlorite. It's the hypochlorite that's responsible for the antisceptic properties, and both the sodium and calcium will just dissociate from the hypochlorite, and become nutes. The sodium in...
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    Ph/ Ppm Question

    ppm pens and meters are really Electrical Conductivity meters that calculate ppm from electrical conductivity. Any ionic compound (salt) will contribute to EC, whether or not it's a needed nutrient, so EC and ppm are just estimates of nutrient strength, and can't tell individual elements apart...
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    Ph/ Ppm Question

    You aroused my curiosity about this. I just added 10 mL GeneralHydroponics pH Dn to 1 gallon of 240 ppm nute solution. The ppm went up to 970, for a rise of 730 ppm, or 73 ppm per mL of pH Dn (used BlueLab ppm pen). If added to 5 times as much volume, likely the ppm would go up 1/5 of that, or...
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    Does The Efficiency Of 600w Justify Start Cost Vs 1000w? An Analysis, Input Wanted

    There is no doubt that what you say is correct. But there is still a strong, albeit not exact, correlation between ppfd and lumens. If the lumens of one light are higher than the lumens from a second light, then it's almost certain that the higher lumens light also has more ppfd than the other...
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    Does The Efficiency Of 600w Justify Start Cost Vs 1000w? An Analysis, Input Wanted

    I'd strongly recommend full spectrum LED lights instead (not blurple LEDs). They have gotten very efficient over the past few years. A lot of people use the Horticulture Lighting Group LEDs, such as...
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    Scroggin Technique

    I gave up scrogging because there was too much plant mass to keep underneath a scrog. Even a second scrog above the first one couldn't handle all the growth. If a plant wants to be 6 feet tall, topping, scrogging, training can't contain it. Now I do only Low Stress Training and Leaf Tucking...
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    Cheap alternatives to overpriced hydroponic nutrients

    I recently switched to Greenleaf Nutrients Megacrop, a 1 part solid nute. The same exact nute is used from seed to harvest, with no need for bloom boosters, calmag, or anything else.. I love the simplicity, and so far it's at least as good as the more expensive GeneralHydroponics and...
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    Noob's 2nd Grow - First-time Hydro - Critical Purple & Gorilla Glue Autos.

    Here are my opinions: 1. I use only LED full spectrum, and know nothing about CMH. 2. I switched from soaking, paper towel, and rockwool cubes to no soaking, no paper towels, and Rapid Rooters. I like this style much better. 3. DWC promotes huge growth with little food needed. Feed 1/4 to 1/2...
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    Auto Flowers

    Photo growers have an undeserved sense of superiority over auto growers. Especially the ones who have never grown good autos. My first grow ever was photos, because I was unaware of autos, then I switched to autos, and am glad I did. Life is so much easier. Photo growers shouldn't criticize...
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