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For the OP: If you are talking about being a legitimite retailer, get yourself a d.b.a (Business License - "Doing Business As") and a Resale Permit. Armed with these two pices of paper, you may purchase merchandise at real Wholesale prices (manufacturer or distributor prices directely to the...

Until the plant is about 8" in diameter. I have done this using a single 23 watt, 6,500 K, CFL. Here's what I did: Using 24" square pices of "Reflectix" and Scotch Tape (a quilted kind of bubble-wrap Mylar), I made "Grow tubes" that were 24" tall and about 8" in diameter . From above I hung the...

The way I learned it, pH stands for "potential Hydrogen", not "Power of Hydrogen". The one thing I could never figure out was wtf does Hydrogen have to do with measuring the relative amount of acidity vs. alkalinity! I understand the 1-14 pH scale, and all that crap, but what does that have to...

What's really a shame, is that we see this question (in one form or another) over and over again, week in and week out out. But that's not the shame! The shame is that we never hear back from the people who had the timer mal-function in the first place, to give us an up-date on what actually...

To the OP: The "Balls" can, easily, leak out a little bit of pollen without being obvious. How much is a little bit? Consider this; it only takes one grain of pollen to produce one seed. I'm guessing you just got a, relatively, few seeds per nugget; a fully pollenated nugget would produce...

That's at least twice as much Phosphorous (K) as it needs in flower, but the plant will just use what it needs and leave the rest. What kind of fertilizer, or nutes, is that? And what is the reccomended application rate (I would imagine something like 2 Tblspns per gallon of soil)? The bottom...

That should work fine. But to get the optimal "Dual Spectrum" effect, I would reccomend HPS for 2 or 3 cycles, then MH for each 3rd or 4th cycle. I would reccomend the same ratio for the use of multiple lights. This is the same basic idea as using "mixed spectrum" CFL's (some 6,500 K's, and some...

What a bunch of great responces - really! Starting with #'s 3 and 4 there were some qualified "Not so great" opinions. Let me see if I can make some sense out of what seems to be a "major difference of opinion", or at least what seems to be a bad reflection on molasses. 1. Adding molasses to a...

"No harm, no foul"!

1. First of all, what you are describing is called a "Perpetual Harvest". It keeps you "a little bit busy", on a regular basis, instead of busting your ass on a "big" harvest every couple of monthes (or so). And, yes, as "Charlie Sheen" says, "it is done all the time". 2. Secondly, if you're...

I think the OP is wanting to transfer to a "soiless" soil mix, not a hydroponic set-up.

FYI, I think you mean "reflector" - refraction is the appearant distortion you see when light passes through water at a certain angle. Nice idea though! Maybe you could "stretch out" those corners a little - to give the sides a "shallower" angle (something closer to a 45 degree angle). Just...

I'm sure that would work OK. A ratio of 3-1 or even 2-1 (in favor of the proper spectra) just produces a slightly more balenced amount of useful light.

The terms you used in your first post are a little ambiguous. "Red, white and blue" spectrums (spectra?) are not very exact; it is much more meaningful to use specific color temperatures ( such as 6,500K or 2,700K). These are the two color temperatures that provide the best spectra for growing...

Since you already have a 4-tube T5 fixture, the "most ideal" combination of tubes for growing is as follows: 3 6.5K (Daylight) tubes to 1 2.7K (Warm White) tube. That's 3 "blue spectrum", to 1 "red spectrum", for vegging. 3 2.7K (Warm White) tubes to 1 6.5K (Daylight) tube. That's 3 "red...

Yeah, what he said!

Genetics is genetics! It's the same in people or cattle or show dogs as it is in plants. It's all about passing on the best genes possible - around here it means obtaining the best possible seeds from the best possible parent plants (produced by the most reputable breeders).

Okay, so it looks like he's "out of circulation" for the next year or two. It's just hard to find the right information if you don't know which cubby hole to look into!

Most newer RIU members (a couple of years, or so) may not reccognize the username "fdd2blk". When I came on board (many moons ago), he was "The Man!". He had all the answers to all the questions and the photos of his backyard grows still give me something to think about! Anyway, he fell of the...

Of course not! Growing is one thing; helping to change the law is a different matter entirely. Look at it this way - I may participate in an effort to legally raise the speed limit. But in the meantime me (and everybody else) are ticket bait.