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  1. bartow

    Anyone clone with peat?

    There is no way pure peat moss will not kill those cutlings. If you don't get them out of that they are going to die no matter what. Chances a clone will live if not covered with something clear are very slim. The only lights that have given me problems in cloning are LEDS.
  2. bartow

    Biden vs Trump

    To legalize marijuana, lawmakers have to give up too many of their sponsors. Big pharma is one of them as is the private prison industry. Organized crime wants it illegal. Legalization will come slowly. One way to speed up the process is to remove incumbents and replace them with persons who...
  3. bartow

    Being on the right side of an unpopular issue when it matters

    Government does not have the means to do the things that Bernie ostensibly would do if he was president. His issues might get him elected. Who gets what from government is determined by political power only. Dialog during campaigns is just fluff on which to get elected. It is a mistake to put...
  4. bartow

    Mylar vs White

    What are current thoughts on which is better for growing mylar or plain white. I have used both and don't detect a big difference.
  5. bartow

    Nirvana seeds are junk! Don't buy!

    When I have used Nirvana I have found no relationship between what I ordered and what I received. Some of it was not bad but none of it was what I ordered.
  6. bartow

    DC Seed Exchange

    I am a customer. The only difficulty I have is finding exactly what I want to grow. I am familiar with the names of classic strains. It would be nice to know things like which strains are good for what without doing hours of research. All of the names are unfamiliar. That being said, I ended up...
  7. bartow

    Big news for Texas legalization!

    Political activism is not popular these days. If people worked together and organized it would go a lot faster. To change things demonstrative action is what matters. Talking to reps does no good. Everything in politics is accomplished by force. Don't misunderstand, cannabis may very well become...
  8. bartow

    Trump Strikes deal

    There is one good reason why Trump will go soft on marijuana. That is to win the election in 2020. Someone will grab this issue and it will help whoever does. Legalize is a hard issue for most lawmakers to support. They all owe their souls to big pharma and big pharma is the biggest obstacle to...
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    What LED is the best value in terms of cost/yield/service life?

    I can tell you what I do but I am not a world class grower. For vegetative I just put plants under two Chinese lights that claim to be 1000w. Of course they don't draw nearly that much. Basically, I use 1 light per plant. That sounds extravagant but each one of the lights total costs not more...
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    What LED is the best value in terms of cost/yield/service life?

    There are folks who use cheap Chinese Led lights. I am one of them. I have used them for just over a year. My take on them after having used them is that they are much better than their critics say they are. For vegetative they are extraordinary. I did have a small problem with them in...
  11. bartow

    More About LED Lights

    I have made some real progress in figuring this out. As unlikely as it seems, I need to give plants in flowering more water. I started add a little peat moss to soil to bring the acid level up. That works great but it makes the soil more absorbent. I harvested one of my plants yesterday and was...
  12. bartow

    I'm in desperate need of help!

    One harmless thing that works as general pest control is nicotine water. I grow tobacco and boil a few leaves and spray it on plants. I don't know how it would work with nats specifically but it generally makes pests go somewhere else. It doesn't have to be homegrown tobacco. Anything will do.
  13. bartow

    More About LED Lights

    What I would like to figure out first is why lights which do a tremendous job in vegetative do not do a tremendous job in flowering? If there is a reason for that, not just with my lights but with lights in general, I would like to have input on that. There is a good reason why I don't give a...
  14. bartow

    More About LED Lights

    Those really do look good. Do you have a link where I can read about that specific light or one close to it?
  15. bartow

    More About LED Lights

    The question I have for you is, how much research did you do to determine just how bad cheap blurple lights are? The problem I have with people telling me things is determining whether or not they know what they are talking about. That is why I depend on trial and error more than anything else...
  16. bartow

    More About LED Lights

    I appreciate that. I am bombarding these plants with LED light. The temperature always stays around 70 degrees. I will eventually will upgrade to some better lights to the degree I can determine that they are actually better. I learned years ago that just because something is expensive...
  17. bartow

    Leaf problems?

    I would check the PH first even if it might be o.k. just to make sure. When PH does got to the alkaline side leaves can look like that. I have found if PH isn't corrected immediately, some damage is not reversible. Rule that out first. If the water or soil is too alkaline, just throw a little...
  18. bartow

    More About LED Lights

    Sometime back I switched from T5 CFL lights to LED both in vegetative and flowering. The results in vegetative have been amazing. Although LEDs in flowering are adequate, the results turn out to be no better or even possibly worse than with the old CFL's. I am putting beautiful almost perfect...
  19. bartow

    Can we have a discussion in 2019 about how home growers should be processing?

    Given the expense of growing, since it just about doubles the potency, the machine has easily paid for itself.
  20. bartow

    Making oil out of rosin pucks

    We use coconut oil. We use it because the coconut oil itself adds health benefits on top of the cannabis. It also works very well. I don't know who else uses a magic butter machine. I find it to be extraordinary. We get twice the potency we used to get with a crock pot. I have been making...
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