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    What do you like to do while tending your garden?

    After a fat zoot I too sit and stare, drift off into a quiet place and plan my next upgrade. The missus thinks I am a wierdo, 2 hours every night of just me, my girls and a few smokes. I know we shouldn't smoke in the sacred room but I just crank my extractor up and everything is chicken soup...
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    is plant rotation really necessary?

    I have just employed this model myself with a view to a perpetual system, 2 plants in and out every 2 weeks. I have 3 stacked 600's in cool tubes but only ever have 2 running at any given time(Lets not get into the cool tube thing here) with the added bonus of an extra bare 600 with a hood on...
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    Vertical Bulb Placement ?

    Now thats just fukin greedy lol. keep us posted.
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    Vertical Bulb Placement ?

    What you are saying is true in relation to horizontal. Vert has very different rules. With horizontal, every inch your plant grows, you have to push your light an inch further up. Your main cola will grow (as it does for obvious reasons) at a quicker rate than the rest of the plant and the...
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    Stunted growth? or just a dwarf strain? I am confused!

    I am going for drowning in water and under fed nutes. That pot size should only need feeding at most once a week, probably longer. Perlite and coco have no nutrients and therefore should be given a low dose of nutrients. Why are you using perlite?? No need with coco. If it was me, I would feed...
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    Vertical Bulb Placement ?

    Stretch and train, maximise your foot print. once stretched you can bend the branches at the back of you plants around and into your cage. If done right, your cage should be pure bud by chop chop time.
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    Pure afghan week 4 flower help !!!!

    In my world, red stems on ya fan leaves are a sign of stress, the darker the red the heavier the stress. Looking at the top of your plants, minimal stress although a bit heavy on the leafage. Mid plant is stress signs big time. So it looks to me like your damage was done a while ago and she is...
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    Do you flush? Do you kill the lights prior to harvest?

    No science, just a taste test....... Ok so it was rigged but never the less. I invited 2 friends who do partake in the fine art of flushing. They are getting on a bit (mid 40's) and have been doing it their way for time, resistant to change and even struggle with a smart phone. I prestented them...
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    Aeroponic vert mini-sog

    curling single leaves...... sounds to me like they have revegged
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    My bare bulb journey!

    The carbon in filters is very expensive, Australian carbon even more so and one way to save on construction is to be tight with the carbon. On that note, I prefer to stay with the branded filters which may be a bit more expensive but you know what your getting. Just sayin.....
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    My bare bulb journey!

    I am still experimenting with distances from the bulb. While 12" from the bulb increases the overall bud size it also creates a tight wall of leaf reducing light penetration and significantly reduces the overall canopy surface area. Also if my finger tips were getting burn't I would get a bit...
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    My temps way to high i think !!

    FFS...... with your 600 up high and your plants down low temps shouldn't be an issue. I bet a Q that your takin ya temps from up high rather than down where ya pots are. Heat rises and cooler air sinks so have your fan/filter up high and your passive inlet down low. Unless of course your in a...
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    Aeroponic vert mini-sog

    http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Original-Hedgehog-Gutter-Brush-Guard-Products-Multi-Listing-All-Sizes-Clips-/181107657275?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item2a2adb8a3b This could be the answer to your potential root problem and stop all your roots grouping up on one side of your pipe. Might even...
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    600w HPS Vertical Coverage?

    I only use CFL's because it suits my schedule for a perpetual grow. CFL's are slow but the timing is just right for me to get from cuttings to flower. In answer to your question, HPS (horizontal) will give much faster growth but be careful putting young cuttings or seedlings under HPS can be...
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    600w HPS Vertical Coverage?

    Arrh I missed the 3 plant part and am workin on my own grow. I have 8 plants, veg them until they are about 12-18" tall under CFL then flip em. week 1(under reguler HPS) I should get a good 12" stretch if ya plants are healthy, then into vertical rig. The plants will continue to grow with some...
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    600w HPS Vertical Coverage?

    With 24" ,Ya plants will chase the light and ya canopy diameter will have reduced by anything up to 10". When the canopy is that tightly grown, there's not alot of light penetration to develop the rest of the plant, I like to have my finished canopy well spread and allow some light through,if...
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    600w HPS Vertical Coverage?

    As you can see from the pic, circular vertical give much higher canopy cover but if you are going for the stadium then you don't need the regular horizontal light for first week as stretch will not really help or increase yield. If your going for the circular grow then yes, keep the light up...
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    Aeroponic vert mini-sog

    OP.... if your planning on running many of these, ya might want to consider tweeking the feed system a little and use a central res that feeds each pot using Archimedes principle, ie the level of your main res will be then same is all your surrounding pots. No extra pumps required and will give...
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    600w HPS Vertical Coverage?

    I have aquaponics experience, running a 400g, goldfish fueled, hybrid ebb and flow/NFT system. I have to ask how this works. Think carefully about how you are going to maintain your pots, once your plants scrog themselves into your nets it becomes very difficult / impossible to move your pots...
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    600w HPS Vertical Coverage?

    e 1 light will only produce approx 90 000 lumens, 2 lights produce 180 000 lumens. higher electricity bill but also higher yield. It similar to the difference between CFL's and HPS.
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