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Yes, fungus, but also bacteria as well. Yes, mycorrhizal fungus like Glomus aggregatum and Trichoderma reesei but also bacteria like Lactobacillus and Bacillus licheniformis. There are a bunch of others too, but you can usually find products with a mixture of all of them. The nice thing is the...

I'm not sure if you're adding microbes on a regular basis. But, you could try a once a week microbe wash on the top of the soil and see what happens. It won't hurt anything. The upside is the microbes will help deliver whatever the plant is missing if they are in fact not getting something. I'm...

This happened to me with one of my plants in my last grow. I fought it a bit with no success thinking there was some deficiency. After the grow I realized it was just a fast finisher. My guess is it will slowly change over the remaining time in flower. You might end up with a very colorful plant...

There should be a shutoff valve already provided with your system, so you shouldn’t need to buy the valve. I wouldn’t recommend pouring liquid nutrients onto the top of the pots. It sort of defeats the purpose and you’re going to wash nutrients down into the water reservoir where it could...

I Amended the pots today with a topping of compost, worm castings and BioLive. That should get me through flower. I had to change how I hang the light to squeeze 6 more inches for head height. I did notice the tip of the buds closest to the lights starting to bleach. Turned the light down too...

Did you see they sell 7 gallon Autopots? I used the 4 gallon and found them too small, especially if you want to go with an organic grow using dry organic nutrients. I tried the 4 gallons with a hydro grow using salt nutrients and the salts built up way too fast in the pots and stunted the...

I’m out of room unless I rework my light hang points and maybe get a bit more space. I could have grown one Lemon OG and been perfect. Now I know. They do seem to be slowing, crossing my fingers. I’m glad I took the filter out.

Nice well trained canopy... very even. I vegged for 4 weeks. That Lemon OG on the right has stretched like crazy. The Critical Cure is much more compact and better suited for my head height. They seem to be okay that close to the light so far. The biggest difference was going from the 250 Watts...

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Week 3 flowering. I think the stretch may be over. The flowers are starting to bulk up.

Simple answer is if you are using plain water and adding your nutrients to the soil, then yes they are. If you mix nutrients into the water then you’re using it as a hydro system. Complex answer, some designs are considered more “SIP” like. They have a wick that hangs down into the water and...

Cool, I figure as I maintain a high VPD it sort of negates the filter. The carbon doesn't work as well when the air is humid. So, I don't know how much it is working for me anyway and it will be good to get that monster out of the closet.

Off topic, but those in legal states... do you use a carbon filter? I do, but I'm thinking about pulling it out to get a little bit more head height. The extra 4-5 inches would help me out on this grow.

There is a little plastic bubbler (Dewey Mister) that suction cups down to the bottom of the bucket. You hook it up to a small air pump with a hose. Then add distilled water up to the fill mark on the mister and it bubbles away... constant moisture without rotting the stems. I smeared the...

I’m trying out one of these Dewey Misters for cloning and... success.

Yeah, the larger plants may crowd out the smaller ones. Once the larger ones stretch they can maybe fill up that open space?

It’s a balancing act. Trying to get energy to the flowers rather than fan leaves, but also leaving enough fan leaves for the energy. I remove fan leaves below the screen not getting much light and some of the larger fan leaves shading bud sites. All others stay on.

My Lemon OG is stretching like crazy. The Critical Cure is a bit more compact. I’m almost at the end of week 2 and hoping the stretch is over. I’m running out of room. I could have maybe done a one plant SCROG with the Lemon OG. Did some defoliation to open things up a bit.

Yes, I think it’s possible to over veg a plant in a SIPs depending on the size. It’s harder than a regular pot, but still possible. But, with a large SIPs, probably unlikely. I think a root bound plant is going to have a harder time developing robust flowers.

Thanks. I’m definitely doing my outdoor SIPs veggie garden again this year. I started the potatoes last weekend. Not sure if I’ll do any cannabis outdoors. My yard doesn’t get quite the right light to get really good quality outdoor buds. But I have a few clones from the current indoor run and...