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What is the best surfactant for wetting a peat based soilless mix? Is it yucca extract, cocowet, or maybe Agri-2 wetting agent? Going by price cocowet is the clear choice but Agri-2 is claiming a 40% more effective formula. I'll be using a drip system into 7 gallon pots.

Is one better than the other for trace elements/minerals? Should I use both?

If I want to find a desirable mother plant how many seeds should I start with? With genetics its a crapshoot but on average half will be male. How many females is adequate for a good selection?

I want to prepare a soil with the following ingredients: Sunshine Mix#4 Azomite Agricultural Gypsum Kelp Meal Alfalfa Meal N Bat Guano P Bat Guano Worm Castings I want to be able to feed lightly with MaxiGro and MaxiBloom in a microsprinkler system. How much bat guano should I add per gallon...

Is it true that a F1 hybrid cross of two true breeding strains such as Northern Lights and Skunk #1 will produce offspring with identical phenotypic expression? If I see variation in my females can I assume that they were not a F1 hybrid of Northern Lights X Skunk#1?

This is my plan: Sealed room, 120 square feet, 6 X 1000 watt HPS (air cooled), Motorized track lighting rails, CO2 bottle injection, humidistat, A/C closed loop, air king wallmount fans. Numbers are an issue so I need larger plants. Anywhere from 12 to 36. I want to grow in smart pots...

I have a few questions, Ive been getting hazy and contradictory info. 1. How soon after watering with a chemical fertilizer such as Tiger Bloom will the nutrients be active in soil/ available to the plant? 2. How long will a chemical fertilizer like Tiger Bloom release nutrients into the...