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Good shielding, first rule..... second rule see first rule.
All plants require wide spectrum's of light for reproduction, mh replicates early daylight and spring, summer daylight
conditions hps replicates late day and autumn light conditions due to the sun's angle this is why the use
of two different lights. There are lights on the market that contain all necessary spectrum's of light.
The reason for 12/12 is to trigger the plants hormone production to flower and reproduce quickly this fools the
plant into reacting as if it was autumn and reproduction becomes the driving force.
The plants will flower with longer light hrs but it would take too long for our purposes.

Hello I'm new here so my uncle gave me his plant an its a about 10 inch an its have about 4 weeks of flowering to go an the buds aren't looking that big so I was wondering will they get any bigger or not

joe.jackson said:

Hello I'm new here so my uncle gave me his plant an its a about 10 inch an its have about 4 weeks of flowering to go an the buds aren't looking that big so I was wondering will they get any bigger or not

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Short ans. yes, buds get most of their size the last month of blooming.
Feed bloom nutes as needed and water when getting dry.
You have about 4 to 6 more weeks.

What type of nutes

joe.jackson said:

What type of nutes

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High in p,k low n. If you go to a hydro store try and get:
Fox Farm Tiger bloom
Fox Farm Big Bloom
Calmagic or some cal. mag. supplement
Use all 3 together. You could also use a organic flower bloom formula such as Espoma
or Peters make sure they are for bloom and use 1/4-1/2 strength.

Is there anything I can get at like a local store

joe.jackson said:

Is there anything I can get at like a local store

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Any garden ctr. will have Espoma or a comp. brand make sure the nute range is about
4-9-6 or there about, the first # is nitrogen that should be the lowest value then phosphorus
then potash (n-p-k).

Ok cool so it's not to late for it right wish I could post a pic

No, but time marches on.

joe.jackson said:

Ok cool so it's not to late for it right wish I could post a pic

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There is a good starter reference, go to greenmanspage.com and then to free library and read, read,
read this is a good start to growing.

Hello members, I live in Holland, grow weed almost 3 years now. Inside and outside, i prefer inside.
I like strains with purple pheno's in it. It's always a sort of purple pheno hunt. Mainly sativa strains are my favo too.

For my next grow in about a month i hope, im going to grow Killing Fields by Sannie seeds, Shaman by Dutch Passion seeds, Santa Maria by Nomercy seeds and a pair of clones from a purle Royal Ulduz motherplant. Let's find te ultimate purple pheno.

Greets

Cookaap said:

Hello members, I live in Holland, grow weed almost 3 years now. Inside and outside, i prefer inside.
I like strains with purple pheno's in it. It's always a sort of purple pheno hunt. Mainly sativa strains are my favo too.

For my next grow in about a month i hope, im going to grow Killing Fields by Sannie seeds, Shaman by Dutch Passion seeds, Santa Maria by Nomercy seeds and a pair of clones from a purle Royal Ulduz motherplant. Let's find te ultimate purple pheno.

Greets

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Hello Cookaap, please keep us posted on your progress with the hunt for the ultimate purple.
I'm sure you will find the Santa Maria very satisfying.

I will do that for you. Also read good things about the santa maria, happy that your can confirm that.

Cookaap said:

I will do that for you. Also read good things about the santa maria, happy that your can confirm that.

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My pleasure my friend and wishing you great success.

Any one heard of a premixed soil that mimics Subcool's Super Soil?

Thanks.

I'm a new to the site. I'm currently using bio bizz nutrients and tradition hps and mhl. I would like to know if leds or cfl would be better to upgrade to??

SF - the general consensus seems to be that HPS/MHI are preferable if you can handle the heat, but LEDs and/or CFL are lower power consumers and produce way less heat.

Look around, lotsa threads on just that subject.

Dloomis514 said:

Any one heard of a premixed soil that mimics Subcool's Super Soil?

Thanks.

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Check 420soil.com I have heard of people having good results with this.

sfdems313 said:

I'm a new to the site. I'm currently using bio bizz nutrients and tradition hps and mhl. I would like to know if leds or cfl would be better to upgrade to??

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CFL won't give you the end results you want.
LED can but has a smaller foot print (not as much coverage).
and needs to be closer to the plants.
There is a new tech. out that seems to be very good that is LEC
made by sun systems.

I'd like to thank the moderators for maintaining a great site and all the members for sharing their collective years of wisdom in growing and harvesting! My first grow was about 2 years ago in a tent in a closet and I'm starting my 4th grow now. Ed Rosenthal's book was a great foundation but all the specific and practical details I found here through searching the forums were critical to my modest success to date. I use Subcool's supersoil, started with CFL. I was a reluctant the first couple grows to switch to MH/HPS due to anecdotal posts of 5-0 showing up to investigate RF interference reported by neighbors from digital ballasts. I did switch and wrapped copper tape around the cord from ballast to fixture (made the cord prettier and gave me piece of mind if nothing else). No problems yet.

I haven't posted before because as a noob i didn't have anything to contribute and the majority of my questions were answered already within the forums

Forums like RIU are amazing resources for people around the world of all levels to share information. This allows for an accelerated learning curve for new growers. Similar to how home brewers in the mid 90s learned how to brew from chat rooms and forums. This led to the passionate and successful ones opening craft breweries, hence the beer renaissance we are enjoying in the US now.

Thanks again, here are a few pics from my earlier grows (if I can get them to post):

1. top is NYC Diesel flower from 1st grow
2. next is G13 Haze from second grow- only grew one plant, used LST
3. next 2 are from last grow- 7 plants (more sprouted than I counted on so it got a little crowded, NYC Diesel, Northern Lights, G13 Haze and Jack Herrer)