Search results

  1. desertrat

    10+ weeks into flowering, plants dying, Harvest?

    i think we're having a semantics problem. i am not suggesting Spetznaaz did the right thing - he must have stopped feeding sometime in the fifth or sixth week of flowering, and probably hasn't added much nitrogen in over two months - way too early even if you subscribe to the theory that it's...
  2. desertrat

    cfm question

    you definitely don't want two 170's but the right answer for you might be a larger exhaust fan rather than a smaller input fan. depending on the size of your space and your ambient air temps you may not need an input fan at all. for smaller grow spaces a simple hole (to be fancy, a "passive...
  3. desertrat

    100W cfl will increase my light bill up to how much?

    to slow this train down a bit - is that 100 actual watts or 100 equivalent watts? a 100 actual watt cfl bulb would be about 9 inches by 3 inches - really big - whereas a 100 equivalent watt bulb is only 23 actual watts and is a little bigger than a normal incandescent bulb. i'm betting you have...
  4. desertrat

    cfm question

    l o w e r. you want to create negative pressure in your grow space to control odor. if your input fan is higher than your exhaust fan then smelly air will be forced out of your grow space through whatever cracks exist.
  5. desertrat

    how to make my plant flower?

    you need 12 hours of continuous darkness for each 24 hour period for 8 to 11 weeks to finish flowering.
  6. desertrat

    how to make my plant flower?

    the plant needs 12 hours of continuous darkness each day to flower. some people just cover outdoor plants with a cardboard box overnight and for 12 hours total.
  7. desertrat

    2nd week flowering first grow ,Help my plants are growing too fast!

    don't cut, gently bend the cola and tie it down lower with string. look up Low Stress Training or LST.
  8. desertrat

    Is 100 watt MH and 4 27w(100w equiv) ok with these 4 plants?have a pic

    you're ok for light now but you will need a lot more for flowering four plants. at least a 400 watt hps or equivalent amount of lumens in cfl, which is tough to do. you'll need to add an exhaust and fan to keep your temps down with the extra lights. also, keep the cfl's within a couple of...
  9. desertrat

    URGENT HELP NEEDED BIG PROBLEMS plants in an Airoponic 36 pot systerm

    check out your system to make sure its distributing water evenly to all plants. you may have to adjust the misters to get to some of the roots. also, some of your plants may be more sensitive to ph variations than the others, especially if you're growing multiple strains.
  10. desertrat

    Newbie here. Young plants in Veg. and Clones in Veg. under cfl's

    your plants are either autoflowerers which sounds unlikely or the change in light at night is significant enough to trigger flowering. in any case you need to set up a light proof area that you can keep completely dark for 12 hours of the day or you are going to have a hermie farm. you need to...
  11. desertrat

    Topping plants

    note that most people top to increase yield - two or more main colas in place of one increases yield considerably
  12. desertrat

    Gettting my grow ready for my first grow op

    yw. think about repotting also
  13. desertrat

    Fox Farms Ocean Forest & Perlite mix ratio

    i add about 25% to 33% perlite.
  14. desertrat

    10+ weeks into flowering, plants dying, Harvest?

    re-read the first post. he stopped nutes because he knew he was going to have to harvest by the 30th. he stopped nutes a couple of weeks early but other than that and temperature has no problems. the plants don't look heat-stressed so no issue there. it will definitely not kill the quality of...
  15. desertrat

    10+ weeks into flowering, plants dying, Harvest?

    to reiterate, your plant is just fine, that's what they look like when they're a couple of weeks from harvest and you've decided to stop feeding. yes, you could have kept it green with nutes, and some people swear by doing that, but just as many leave the plant alone in the last couple of weeks...
  16. desertrat

    Anybody Want To Double Their Yield?- Desertrat's Top and Prune?

    ub's the expert on topping, you might want to post in his topping stickie or pm him.
  17. desertrat

    My first grow room

    a cloner is a mini hydro tub. if you have something like vermiculite in place of hygroton it wicks water a little better, but clay will work.
  18. desertrat

    Outdoor Grow Beginning to Curl and Harden (with Pics)

    the hose won't effect ph. leaves get crispy with nute burn, if it were sun and wind causing loss of moisture the leaves would wilt. no worries at all about direct sunlight, especially with your temps - more light the better. only water when the soil is dry a couple of inches down. no matter...
  19. desertrat

    My first grow room

    ok, technically he's right, but practically speaking i don't know of anyone who sticks their new clones in dirt - it's so much harder to get to work than sticking them in a glass of water. rooting solution, a water glass and a week or so and you'll have lots of roots to get your clone going.
  20. desertrat

    New grower's light question

    note you don't typically use autoflowering strains with this set up. but that opens the door for more options of other lowryder-like plants. even so, any height you can add to your grow space will give you a lot more flexibility in choices of strains and lessen requirements to train your...
Top