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    First grow!!! HELP!!

    At the time I had 2 tents in a room 1 intake for the lights from the main house and exhausted that back out of the room, then I just controlled the rooms temp/rh and pulled through the filter and exhausted that out of my old chimney stack. To account for the negative pressure I used the closet...
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    First grow!!! HELP!!

    Ah yeah, the smallest I've ever done with a hood and filter was 4x4 and it was pretty cramped. I've also always ran separate fans for my carbon filter and my hoods so I'm sure that helped more that I thought too.
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    First grow!!! HELP!!

    Should try to minimize those turns in the line. I forget what the rule of thumb is but like every 90 degrees you lose something like 10% of your cfm. The guy that told me this isn't exactly an hvac professional but the physics make sense and it seems to make a difference for me.
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    New here, just need some pointers please

    Unless you plan on using homemade natural ph up and down you should order one of these too. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000BNKWZY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_QBFUzb0VWZAC0 Handy to double check against your meter in case you think something is fishy. Be sure that it's calibrated properly too...
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    New here, just need some pointers please

    1 until they're in bloom probably, I use a similar tower fan in one of my tents. 2 tends to give me wind burn, I found that 2 fans in opposite corners has always given me great circulation and kept my ladies happy. Also if you're not properly ph'ing your water youre going to run into some...
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    Flush because nute burn

    You shouldn't even be feeding 3 week plants, especially if they're in a soil similar to ocean forest or the like. Personally I might feed them something like seaweed extract, I used to use just this and rely on whatever microbes I had in my mix but now I plan to use a compost tea like...
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    New here, just need some pointers please

    You have to add cal mag to ro water, or I'm pretty sure you can also use a foliar spray to feed them it but I don't have much experience with that. The point of running an ro filter is to have pure water with nothing in it. Tap water normally has small amounts of calcium magnesium etc. Some...
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    P.h Meter Reccomendations Please...

    I've used a similar meter and when it says the soil must be wet to get a reading it means it essentially needs to be drenched. We used to just put it in dump a cup or two of res water over the area and give it like a minute. I was always skeptical of its readings though.
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    Why do they refer to Cannabis as a weed?

    Drill a 3/4 or 1" hole about 6inches deep into the stump the vines come up out of and either buy poison stakes from a landscape supply shop or pick your favorite herbicide and top up the hole every now and then. I had to do this to several nasty grapevine as they had become infected by something...
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    New here, just need some pointers please

    I wouldn't worry about not having floranova grow. Ffof has enough nutrients to get you to bloom usually. Might need to add some cal mag though starting around w4 of veg if you go that far. You can use floranova bloom for the entire grow if you want too, I've done it in a hydro set up and it...
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    Are Fabric Bags Safe?

    They're fine, plants actually grow better in them. You don't get those huge rootswirls In the fabric pots. Not sure if you actually end up with more roots necessarily but they seem to be more efficient.
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    compost tea vs bugs?

    There is a bacteria in them that eats that larvae at least. Look for BTi (bacillus thuringiensis subspecies israelensis). Dunno if it works on the mites, but it will work on fungus gnats larva. It's in most tea inoculations great white/mycogrow/orca etc. Just saw that you said it didn't work...
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    What type of bug does damage like this?

    Kind of looks like the waxy stuff aphids leave behind. Are your plants droopy and clawing often? Have you been fighting a mag deficiency the whole time? If so and you have gnats as well be sure to check to soil for root aphids. They look very similar in mature form. Gnats fly lazily, while...
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    Thought it was fungus gnats.... root aphids?

    So myself and the fiance recently had a few days that we weren't able to check on the garden and through our own stupidity humidity was an issue. So we came back to gnats, no big deal start prepping to deal with them and neem the plants/soil. Then she said she saw something moving in the soil...
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    New to microbes need some help.

    Shes back home now, doing much better. Yeah I have 2 floor drains I'm going to need to keep an eye on. I already shut the water off the to the toilet and drained it since we don't use it anyways. It's across the basement and sealed off but I wanted to be safe anyways. My grandfather owned a farm...
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    New to microbes need some help.

    I'm in Michigan so gw is pretty cheap here but amazon still is better. Also I think that orca and great white have the same microbes orca is just liquid? Not sure if the liquid makes a difference or not. Also the expiration date on this orca is like 3 or 4 months from now. I'm pretty sure I'll...
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    New to microbes need some help.

    Good to know about the N and misting, really only had issues twice with misting. once was our fault completely, our first grow it got mixed way hot--think like 2tbs instead of .5tsp and I'm pretty sure it wasn't ph'd at all and I assume it base killed a ton of foliage. The second she mustve...
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    What to do.... What to do

    At 20 days to harvest I don't know how strong it'll be, in my experience if it's more than ~10days from harvest it's too premature to be considered "good" for much of anything. But that being said you should be able to get a few cookies if you really wanted, I'm just not sure you'll get the...
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    New to microbes need some help.

    So I know I'm taking the easy way out and not brewing a tea for now but I need something simple for the meantime until I can set up a space to brew, which includes building an entire new room at the same time. Now I'm looking to specifically include 3 products that a few grower friends of mine...
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    Using a co2 diffuser as an airstone?

    Wort chiller with a pid controller, temps and my current DO are working fine. It's just my curse to forever be a tinkerer, I was just wondering if these would give me more DO than a traditional stone.
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