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" excess water left on the floor". Yeah, get some plates under your gals so they can't siphon up whatever is on the floor. Good luck, BigSteve.

4-5 weeks for donor moms is dicey. My bottom line is moms need to be at least 5 weeks in dirt before they give up cuttings. If you can't wait use the top cola as a clone. That will give you the best chance with a young mom as well as make the plant shorter and bushier. That's a good thing, eh...

I count on at least 4 square feet for each flowering plant. Note - if you are setting up a 2 room grow you should allot 4 times the floor space for flowering as for vegging. That's what it takes me. Good luck, BigSteve.

By placing small seedlings into 3 gallon pots you are adding 2+ weeks unto your wait time. Our plants will not show hardly any activity above ground until the roots have found the inside walls of the pot. By transplanting into final pots instead of a small intermediary pot you will sit there and...

I'm an OG with a perpetual grow where I harvest 2 plants a week. Because I have a vegging room and a flowering room I have experimented with all kinds of various nutes. I use liquid nutes that I mix with the daily watering. My flowering nute adds 33-50% to bud size. Nute is LIQUID BLOOM PLANT...

Excellent question! The basics -- trichomes appear clear, turn cloudy/milky and eventually turn a burnt-orange color. Most recommend harvesting while the milky tris turn dark. Problem is that early tris are clear and tend to reflect the colors around them. I used to use a 30x jeweler's loupe...

My electric bill is increased $100 per month with my set-up. I run one 1000W HPS at 12/12 - one 400W MH bulb running 24/0 - and 2 100W bulbs for cloning, etc. Good luck, BigSteve.

I was living in San Diego in the early 1970's and was selling Mex weed to navy guys when they got to port. I was buying "mini-bricks" of Mexican dirt reefer for around $120 per brick and they weighed 35+ oz. The guys in Mexico used a home-made trash compactor to squeeze 35 ounces into a 12 x6 x...

I got the impression that Attitude was feuding with the CC issuers. I talked to a lady at Attitude and she gave me the feeling it was a UK-US thing. PS - How does an OG get to be an administrator? Hit my first joint in 1964. BigSteve.

Few new growers spend the time to actually make a plan. Good go. You have chosen "smallish" pots so that should speed up the length of time between germinating and harvesting. Generally, I figure one gallon of pot dirt properly services a plant for one month. So you should plan on harvesting...

Delicate care needed here. You want the proto-leaves to be moist but you don't want the leaves laying on wet dirt. I use toothpicks to elevate seedling caps to keep them from laying on the soil. Good luck, BigSteve.

I placed an order as usual with Attitude and got stalled right before the "order successful" confirmation page should have popped up. I checked the "my account" page and saw my order was termed "awaiting payment". The order never got paid for. To make a long story longer I emailed them and was...

I use the paper towel method of germinating and one day while checking my latest crop of germ'ers it occurred to me that the water in the paper towels was ice cold. I use heat mats under my cloning domes so I set a mat under my paper towel set-up. Bingo! Helped my germination success rate to...

"Taking clones from the top of the plant is always going to be more vigorous when rooting and when they take root". That's one theory. Another says that the rooting hormones are nearer the bottom of the plant so it is best to take cuttings from near the bottom of the plant. With a perpetual...

A rule of thumb is to go to 12/12 when your vegging plants are one-half as tall as you want them to be at harvest. So look at your flowering set-up and figure how close to the light your plants would be if they double in size. Most of my veggers go from 24/0 to 12/12 at 20-25 inches. I know they...

You want the clone mom to be at least 6 weeks in dirt. Younger moms are a lot less likely to throw off viable clones. Good luck, BigSteve.

"Also, Perlite...." Perlite works best when it is 10-20% of the soil. MiracleGro PM is 10% and the Fox Farms I use is 15-20%. Good luck, BigSteve.

Clone-donor moms should be at least 6 weeks in dirt before you take clones from her. If you use a younger mom your rooting success will be much lower. Try to find cuttings where the stem is big enough to have a hole through it. You'll have better luck. Good luck, BigSteve.

The lower, larger fan leaves will start to yellow just about the same time the flowering plant stops growing vertically. Plants will continue to add height for the first 2-3 weeks at 12/12 as the plant switches from veg to flower mode. Try measuring your gals as soon as they go to 12/12 and see...

This argument has been ongoing for ages. Some observations.... I've used both methods as well as others such as floating seeds in a glass of water first, etc. I ended up using the paper towel method exclusively when I realized that many seeds that went straight into dirt had problems with...