250w HPS Club And Help Guide

giggles26

giggles26

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Hettyman said:
Here a couple of pics of some of my clones that I threw in to fill in the gap, they were only a couple of inches tall when I put them in there on 12/12...and they have exceeded expectation. Oh yeah, and thanks Giggles, these were the first plants I used lime in the soil, and while I think I was a little too cautious and didn't quite use enough, they are growing a much better green colour, with only water and the nutes in the soil. Correction their last watering had 2 drops per litre of Fox Farm Big Bloom in it, just to get the plants used to them.
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Awesome bro!! Glad I could be of some help :D
 
giggles26

giggles26

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Grazzmon said:
Questions about soil growing..

I harvested everything I had flowering, I was using Pro-Mix/Coco and I'm ready to try soil. The past few grows were good (100% coco then pro-mix/coco) but those little flies that seem to come with the coco drove me nuts, I've removed all of the mix that the flies liked so I should be ready for a fresh bug-less grow this time around.
I'm not ready to make soil so what are my options in pre-mixed soil by the bag?
I have some clones and seedlings ready to go..

Grazz
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There are a lot of soil mixes that are great out of the bag, you've got FFOF, hapy frog, black gold organic, vigoro, jungle growth, just to name a few.

I can answer any question you've got about soil bro.

Just make sure you add in some perlite into whatever you mix and some lime.
 
Grazzmon

Grazzmon

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giggles26 said:
There are a lot of soil mixes that are great out of the bag, you've got FFOF, hapy frog, black gold organic, vigoro, jungle growth, just to name a few.

I can answer any question you've got about soil bro.

Just make sure you add in some perlite into whatever you mix and some lime.
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Local store has FFOF.. what's the ratio of perlite and lime per cf?(I don't know the bag size)
 
giggles26

giggles26

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Grazzmon said:
Local store has FFOF.. what's the ratio of perlite and lime per cf?(I don't know the bag size)
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When doing FFOF I do 3 parts FFOF to 1 part perlite.

The bags of FFOF are 1.5cf

I'd put at least like 10 cups perlite in and lime you want 2tbsp per gallon of soil.
 
Sr. Verde

Sr. Verde

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If you have a problem with flies, you can use 2 inches of sand on the top of your soil and that gives them a very very difficult environment to thrive in. They don't like the dry grainy sand. They like moist, damp, moldy places..


Make sure you sterilize your sand in the oven before you use it though.

Personally though I keep a clean environment, and use ffof with perlite and have no problems so far *knocks on wood*.. :peace:
 
PersonalJesus

PersonalJesus

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the only bugs I've ever found in my coco were little silver bugs with small wings... the closest picture I came across said they were a natural enemy of mites and thrips... and I even found some info to suggest that some companies purposely put those little bugs in there to combat the harmful bugs...

like everything else, I could be completely wrong
 
PersonalJesus

PersonalJesus

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from what I've heard... Subcool's recipe was based on Vic High's recipe... Subcool has just had the last ten years to improve it.

I'm not gonna follow the recipe exactly, I got a few amendments I'm gonna try myself... such as potassium sulfur powder for a potassium boost and a little sulfur is good for flowers from what I know
 
giggles26

giggles26

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PersonalJesus said:
from what I've heard... Subcool's recipe was based on Vic High's recipe... Subcool has just had the last ten years to improve it.

I'm not gonna follow the recipe exactly, I got a few amendments I'm gonna try myself... such as potassium sulfur powder for a potassium boost and a little sulfur is good for flowers from what I know
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To each their own, I make my own soil mix and I love it and so do my plants so all you can do is try it and see if it's for you.
 
PersonalJesus

PersonalJesus

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Thats a great attitude... better than bashing people over the head just because two people don't agree.

Whats the low down on your mix? Or is that a trade secret?
 
Grazzmon

Grazzmon

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Sr. Verde said:
If you have a problem with flies, you can use 2 inches of sand on the top of your soil and that gives them a very very difficult environment to thrive in. They don't like the dry grainy sand. They like moist, damp, moldy places..

Make sure you sterilize your sand in the oven before you use it though.
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I tried sand, it didn't seem to help me. Not sure if it makes a difference but I'm using smartpots.
Encouraging to see that you are using FFOF ;).. I've seen some awesome pics posted by you sir..
 
Sr. Verde

Sr. Verde

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i'm giving her another week to ten days... gonna let them ripen out a lot.. I need medicine that can put me down ;).
 
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