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In the past, I stayed with the old school method of growing the plants large and indoors. Typically the plants are over 6 ft tall and 4 of them fill up the 12x8 space fully under 2x 1000 HID lighting, using Promix in 5 gallon buckets. After 40 years, I have decided to try a different approach...

After my last grow, I got sick and I had to somewhat abandon my plants. They were ready for harvest but I wasn't around to take them down. They were grown under 2X HID lighting, with one MH swapped out with a HPS bulb. When I left them, the lights were off but the exhaust fan was running to...

After conquoring all types of mites and crittets, I started a bunch of plants from seed, but due to difficulties in geting decent seeds, they got mixed up and are unknown lineages. One in particular is unlike any plant that I've grown, and is so bushy that it has proved difficult to train. The...

I went to get my normal bunch of mixed compost and composted manure but they were out nd I had to get Mushroom manure instead. I mix it with Promix and wondered if any of the old timers had any comments on using one VS the other... or are they about the same? Growing in 5 or 6 gal buckets under...

Has anyone tried supplementing their plants with laser light? Since laser light is generally a small point, the beam would either need to scan the plant continuously or use a higher power laser to illuminate the plant with diffused laser energy. I wanted to try this on a few plants or branches...

I've noticed that I seem to cough a lot more on certain strains com[ared to others, although the THC levels don't seem to be the reason. My Grandaddy Purple, which doesn't have a lot of smell or strong taste for some reason, is a lot easier on my lungs than other strains that are very dank. I...

I stumbled on a docu-drama about Jim Belushi and his quest for growing the Captain Jack's variety of bud while plagued by insects and slow moving workers. His treatment with Neem oil should serve as a "What Not To D" video... he sprayed a few hundred nice size clones with Neem, leaving the...

Are there any cheap tests that will give you an idea of the Potassium or phosphorus levels in a growing medium? A TDS/EC meter measures the sum of a bunch of stuff, but a test for P or K exclusivly would be a great help to growing, since I think a lot of growing problems are caused by competing...

While trying to mitigate a mite issue on harvested plants, I rinsed off the fresh buds with water. I am noticing that I don't notice nearly as much flavor and aroma from them, although while flowerng they were overpowering. Can terps be washed away? I thought they were not soluble in water, but...

I'm scratching my head on the last grow. During flowering, the smell ws overpowering and everything looked great. After harvest, I'm noticing that I don't seem to have the strong taste or smell that I had while flowering. I used as 1000w HPS for half the room, 1000w 10K MH on the other half. I...

Saving the worst for last, it was between Trainwreck and Double Berry as to which strain was the bigger pain in the ass to trim. The Trainwreck seemed to have more leaves than buds! I mean, the buds were big and great and all, but there were a zillion leaves to trim off of the bud. What is your...

As I get older and lazier, I find that when I harvest buds, it gets to be a pain in the ass trying to get a lot of them and I often just leave them on the plant, which usually dies off from lack of watering. I had one that I overlooked and while it died, the buds were actually pretty good with...

I have grown a few rounds of Grandaddy Purple over the last few years. While the plants and yields are great, I notice that they seem to be lacking much flavor or smell, unlike all of my other varieties which smell like they should. I sort of noticed this before about the GDP, but it usually...

For some reason I had an old flashback about the Iso Machines, the Isomerizer, that used to be sold in High Times... maybe still is! It was a spacy looking machine that had promises to make even lousy pot act like MMJ, make your own hash and extracts. I think it was just a tin box with a heating...

Recently the prices for MMJ have been reaching crazy levels in Pennsylvania, with 1/8 Oz going for $80 or more for some brands, concentrates are going up to $85 or more per half gram. What bugs me is that the state makes very little from the sales, the growers are complaining they aren't making...

This season I got a little lazy after vegging and installed my 1000w HPS bulb in one lamp and the other got a 10K 1000w MH. I wanted to see if I could see a difference between buds grown under both lights, and the light's coverage area overlapped in the middle in a rectangular room. I had a...

How in hell do regular farmers grow crops like they do? I have never seen one pre-soak seeds in coconut water tea, shave off the point of their seeds, or feed and water 5x a day... how in hell do they do it? I also wonder where they hide the tanks and silos full of specialized "Giant Kernel"...

I recently started peritoneal dialysis for kidney failure. If you aren't familiar with it, the basics of it is a solution is pumped into your belly, into the peritoneal area in your lower abdomen. It sounds creepy and it is, but it works well. This is often done with a machine called a cycler...

My last season I was given the gift of mites by a "friend". This year I was mite free before someone gave me an orphan that I didn't remember to de-contaminate and ended up behind the 8 ball again. In previous encounters, Pyrethrins seemed to do a pretty good job, and a phosphorus based vapor...

I was looking at some seed advertising and noticed that most of the "Big Bud" type of plants seem to have foxtailing occuring in their pictures. I have had foxtailing happen before and I didn't really notice anything different aside from the shape and slightly less taste. Does anyone else try to...