what is the best way to hide your IP address are anything else that leads back to you?
Use
Tor if you're paranoid, but make sure you strip EXIF data from images you post... and unlike at least one
compleat moron on this board, don't put your face in imgs you post.
do you have to hand water for a couple of days until the roots find their way down into my nutrient soaked pellets? If so, should I just water around the rockwool cube into the pellets?
If you are flooding the pellets up to within 1/2" below the RW cube, they will be damp enough in that 1/2" gap for the roots to find them. However, if it makes you more comfortable, you can handwater the pellets around the cube as you suggest.
Would it be alright to presoak say 100 cubes at a time for 24 hours in 5.0ph water and then store them until ready to use?
No. Once you wet the cube, you make it hospitable for pathogen growth. Once soaked and drained of the soaking soln, they are ready for use and should be used ASAP.
Also I read you used denatured alcohol to sterilize your equipment when taking clones. Could one use 35% H202 instead, as I'm not sure where to find denatured alcohol?
H2O2 would definitely sterilise your scalpel, but doing cannabis cuttings leaves some rather oily plant sap on the blade, which H2O2 will not shift. You've seen it, kind of a purplish goo that accumulates on the scalpel as you work. Denatured alcohol aka methylated spirit is 95% ethanol and dissolves oils while it sterilises. It's also great for cleaning your bong. Denatured alcohol aka methylated spirit is found at hardware stores or in the cleaning products area of a grocery store.
Hey Al I was wondering where you find the sulfur burner you use and the sulfur and how it works? I an starting to get a white powdery substance on my fan leaves on my Bubbas I think is what you said the burner would help with.Thanks for your time
I got my sulfur 'burner' (doesn't really burn, rather evaporates sulfur) from a hydro shop. The sulfur powder itself came from the local hardware store's gardening aisle. I run my 'burner' 2x/day for 8mins, 1h after lights-off and 1h before lights-on. A sulfur burner will completely stop powdery mildew.
when I last tried to use them my speed was so drastically reduced I just couldn't warrant it.
yep, proxies slow you waaaaay down. It's a calculated risk whether or not you use a proxy; how much do you have to lose? Are you a big enough fish for LEO to go to the trouble of jumping through the numerous hoops necessary to get an IP on you by subpoenaing RIU, then subpoena your ISP for your identity from that IP? I've been using pot boards since 1995 or so, usually without proxies. I guess I'm not a terribly big fish.
Will I damage the roots if I move them at a later point?
Arranged as they are, yes.
Should I look into putting some hydroton in a netpot and put the rw in that to make them easier to move around?
yep, but not a netpot. Use a standard solid-wall pot with drain holes. This will contain the roots within the pots so they won't knit and can be moved at will. Eliminate the pellets from the tray.
System is Ebb and Flow. Cubes are 6 inch cubes that I halved, so somewhere around 6x6x3.
I don't think I'd have used the large RW cubes. I'd have put the 40mm cubes directly in pots of pellets, 1/2" above the flood level. Shouldn't matter now that you have roots out of the larger cubes, tho.
hey albf
I heard its bad for the plants if its colder during lights on then lights off.
When my lights are on my temp is about 74 but when lights off its about 78
because i set my lights to be on at night and its alot colder here at night. Is this ok? Or it shouldent be colder during lights on
Thanks
I've never heard of any difficulty with warm lights-off and cool lights-on. A thermostat controlling your exhaust blower will solve this 'problem,' but I'm not entirely sure it's a problem. 26C (78.8F) is as warm as it should ever be; your ideal range is 24-26C. Set your thermostat for 25C.
Do the buds themselves need to be in the light...???
Or is it the leaves that should be in the light...???
Both, actually. However, fan leaves are mainly responsible for vegetative growth of the plant. Once you're past about 4wks into flower, the fans are not working very hard. You probably could remove fans after wk4-5 of flowering, but I have not tested that theory.
I ended up buying a few more lights locally...
2 x 70 Watt HPS
1 x 100 Watt MH
on top of the
1 x 35 watt HPS
and an assortment CFLs...
Replace them all with a single 400HPS, ideally in a cooltube. You're already using close to the 465W that a 400HPS pulls out of the AC mains. You'll get MUCH more luminous intensity, less heat and better bud density as a result.
It's algae, of course. 
If you are not having root probs, Rhizotonic is probably extraneous... and it's hugely expensive. 
