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Your recipe for "Straight Potting Mix" sounds about right. There are so many different recipes out there, I wont even comment on that! What I will say is this - "If you like FoxFarm's Ocean Forest, you will LOVE thier Marine Cuisine!". It is a dry fertilizer (10-7-7) that is made out of the...

Man, that really blew my mind - I thought I was going color blind!

Is it just me, or did "everything" just turn blue?

Ya need to fix the link!

So, there you have it! Both sides of the coin. Wether you're talking about growing with CFL's, using Miracle-Gro, or repotting techniques - you will always find people on both sides of every issue! All I can say is, try both methods for yourself and see which one produces a better root system.

Sure thing. I'll try to break it down and address your issues one at a time: 1. Transplanting more than once = shock more than once and stunted growth more than once. I've been transplanting/repotting a long time now and I imagine that I have developed a "gentle touch". My plants don't...

17.5 litres - but not all at once!

Magnificient explained 1/2 of the process pretty well in Post #2. He explained "how you grow one" - not so much "how it could increase yield". Normally (in "Nature"), the plant grows vertically and the sun has no problem "blasting" it's way down through the foliage to get to the "Lower...

Another thing is the way the rootball developes! If you start your plant in a large pot, it tends to run the roots down and cover the bottom rather fast - not really using all the pot space very efficiently or evenly. And, like said earlier, the roots aren't able to develope a strong network...

I just thought i'd add my $.02 worth, since I use a DIY Soil Mix that is both compost and soil. All ingredients are "Store Bought" and constitute 1/4 of the overall volume, per "Part". "Eccescentially" it is: 1 part Top Soil 1 part Compost 1 part Perlite and/or Vermiculite 1 part "Composted...

I use a DIY organic soil mix, the same mix all the way from about 3-4 weeks old through harvest, repotting several times. During veg, I suppliment with a little Alaska Fish Fertilizer (5-1-1) and a little Mexican Bat Guano (high Nitrogen). During flowering, I suppliment with a little Alaska...

If you can't tell the difference, it doesn't really make any difference, does it?

Light coverage isn't measured in "how many plants", it's measured in "how many square feet", because a "plant" can be almost any size at any given time! It all depends on how you are going to grow your plants (SOG, SCROG, small, medium, larg, or big friggin' trees). A 600 watt HID is good for...

StonedBlownSkiller has the right idea! Your 5,000+ lumens are being spread out over a area of 2.25 sq.ft. (under ideal conditions?). That's below minimum! You should have at least 2 more - better yet, 4 more, for a total of 8 CFL's.

That sounds about right to me too! I don't fully understand the equation, but I know a little about probability. If you are flipping a coin and recording the results, for every 100 flips - you should get 1 "run" of 6 "Heads" and 1 "run" of 6 "Tails", consecutively.

If by "regular (household) socket", you mean a plastic fixture - than definetly not! An HPS just runs too hot for a plastic socket! You need at least a "regular (household) socket" made of porcelain, to handle the extra heat. But HPS lights have a "Starting Pulse" that hits 4,000 to 5,000...

You mean something like this? http://www.unbeatablesale.com/peppp19709.html

The roots stay "soggy" and eventually the plant will die. By the way, overwatering doesn't mean "adding too much water", it means "watering too often".

But, to answer your question - no, more than 12 hours of darkness wont make a (female) plant flower "better". The length of the dark portion of the photoperiod acts like an "On-Off Switch", not like a "Volume Control". On the other hand, you can give female plants a little extra light (perhaps...

Just add a pinch of soil on top of it, the problem should fix itself (if it hasn't already).