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yeah, very minor. The fact that you compensated with a full 12 hour dark was very good. Lots of people don't understand it, but the flowering is more about the amount of dark than the amount of light. Seriously though, get a timer :)

I'd look into T5's, they are going to be the best penetration of any flo out there. I dunno what budget you are looking at, but in your position I would probably veg under T5's, and flower using an HPS. Sticking with your 1000w figure, I'd go with something like 200-400 watts of T5, and...

Organics are typically not soluble and need time to break down in the soil. I'd suggest going with a more soluble version (probably won't be organic) till you have resolved the deficiency, then you can go back to using organics for maintenance of levels.

Not sure where you got this info, but if you look at what is called PH lockout, you will find that for soil a PH under 7 is advised (usually around 6.5 is good). For hydro you typically run lower, around 5.5. If you run too high you lock out most micro nutrients. If you run too low you lock...

the partnership isn't an issue really. This is someone I have known since we were very young, he doesn't know I already grow indoors, and I produce more than I use already, and never intend to sell, so as far as I'm concerned he could keep it all for himself and it wouldn't change my position...

Alright, so a little history. What you see flowering right now is our second crop in this operation. Both of us involved have grown before, once before this together, but this time has evolved into a much more sophisticated op than anything either of us have done before. We started out with...

Figured it was about time to post some pics of my setup. This grow is setup between both parts of a duplex. Vegging and cloning are done in one, flowering and drying are done in the other, all in closets. I'll discuss the veg room in this post, and the flower room in the next. As you...

that's not a bad idea... I'm going to have to see what I can find as far as a timer/dripper...

no, the barrel and tarp would have to be buried completely (and deep enough to not get dug up or anything. Rain water mostly runs down into the water table (what isn't consumed by roots), so a buried tarp should be effective at collecting rainwater, and should be stealthy. I plan on getting...

well, yeah, my whole idea includes a stealthy system to collect and store rainwater. However, I live in a fairly dry climate. There is no way a plant is going to thrive in the climate here without additional watering. so far my idea would involve burying a collection tarp above the barrel to...

bay lights are usually not going to be as efficient as lights made for growing. Often they are base up, which sends more light out the sides and less out the bottom (you see these hung even with canopies without reflectors a lot of the time). They also tend to use lower end ballasts (at least...

If it helps I can flower 6 5-gallon utility buckets in a 3'x4' space... I can veg 12 in a 4'x20" space. Not the sizes you cited, but maybe they will help you. Really though, if you measure the pots you plan to use and do some math (or just model it on graph paper) you can figure out exactly...

This is actually called foam fractation, is used extensively in terrestrial marine systems, and is the same thing that happens on the sea shore when foam washes up (the waves push small bubbles under which bond with organic proteins and collect in a foam at the surface). Anyway, an easy way to...

too many variables to answer. A large clone of a strain that does decent flower-phase growing (some can triple in size in flower) can produce quite a lot. Then again, not necessarily more than something you grow from seed. For sog I usually hear people say they are getting 1/2-1oz per plant.

yeah, the light in sprout stage is not going to be a flower issue, it'll just grow a little slower with 12/12 than 18/6 or other higher light schedules. You can control the light, and unless you are burning them, more light is pretty much always better (there is a debate about 24/0, but I won't...

the only thing I would add is that clones are almost always mature, so you have the potential to flower them pretty much as soon as they root. Might not work for your situation, but if you were interested in methods like sea of green, the idea of flowering clones with no veg can be a key to...

t12's used alongside a 400w mh (which I think is what he said he is doing) isn't going to hurt anything, then again the t12's aren't doing a whole lot for you. regardless, what do you mean when you say " I can see that the trichomes look to be at peak?" Looking at the pictures you took I...

I can't tell if you are asking how to trim it, or when to trim it. If the latter, usually you wait there's some amber trichs, and more often than not most of the hairs will have turned red/brown. If the former, besides the above, it's really up to you. Some people only remove fan leaves, some...

don't look ready to me either. You should check out the harvesting and curing section, it's dedicated to topics like when to harvest, how to do it, how to dry/cure, etc.

perlite is awesome! I use 1/3 of it in my soil mix and never have had compaction issues. The roots seem to breath really well too, and it holds moisture well. The fork idea is pretty good, I used to use sand on top of the soil to combat gnats, and it would get like rock after a month or two...