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

    you're welcome still expecting to get the last laugh in about 6 weeks. you had to have done something else. no way cutting off five or six fan leaves and topping/fimming will kill a plant. post the details of your grow and some pics and i or someone else can help. where? pics? yes, it...
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    Just bought my first clone, now what?

    welcome to riu themda. bookmark the first two links in my signature below - they are two of the best threads for noobies from this site.
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    hi peeps all help and advice much appreciated

    welcome to riu. check out the first two links in my signature below for a couple of great threads to help noobies get started from this site.
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    How long would you say i have left?

    six weeks or more.
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    help with light distance

    very easy - use your hand at the top of the plant as a temperature gauge, lower the light as far as you can with your hand being comfortably warm, not hot.
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    My Lovely Female became Male?

    you probably saw preflowers that have gone away. you most likely won't see real flowers until fall when the nights are more than 12 hours. no worries.
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    Sealed Room 3k lights need A/C advice cold climate

    here's a detailed ac calculator from consumer reports - it even lets you include appliances (ie lights) and their heat. http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/a...heet/index.htm
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    Never saw this before, any ideas?

    do not change what you've been doing unless you want your next post to be about how to fix the problems you started here. i'm sure one on the resident botanists on site, which wouldn't be me, can tell you why the number of blades change, but i would bet a good yield it has nothing to do with...
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    Hello all!

    welcome to riu. check out the red links in my signature below for some good info for beginners.
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    Droopy leaves after watering???

    it sounds like your soil is not draining well because weed doesn't like constantly wet roots. did you add perlite or sand to your soil mix to improve drainage? does your pot have holes in the bottom to allow excess water to run out?
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    oops - fatal? Paper towel method for germ, dried out :-(

    i had that happen once and have since put the paper towel in a slightly open plastic sandwich bag and have never had to add water again after the first time. note where i live, too.
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    when should i start flowering?

    wrong right
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    Soil Grow Question from Seed

    the general point is right but the math is wrong. it's worse. the intensity of light drops as the inverse square of distance, so if you have 3,000 lumens per square foot at 5 inches you have 3,000/4 = 750 lumens per square foot at 10 inches. it's really important to keep cfl's within a couple...
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    Soil Grow Question from Seed

    it is a really bad idea to grow more than one plant in a single container. competing roots, inability to treat one plant without affecting the other, bad karma. and i assume you have a timer for your lights and you have done something to get adequate ventilation and odor control. is that 260...
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    CO2 and Scrubber

    at least one fan. it's very important to have lots of room air flow to mix the co2 with the air in the room.
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    How do a change my avatar?

    go to my rollitup at the top of the page, then go to edit avatar on the left side of the my rollitup page
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    how far away should a 600w hps be from 3 week old 8inch tall clones

    could be lots of things. ph off, too much fertilizer, too little - check out the diagnose problems link in my signature
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    transplanted a budding plant?

    have you fertilized?
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    How you think my plants are doing

    looking like a good start. what you're going to want to watch for: 1. you will need to transplant to a larger container within the next couple of weeks. when you do, add 1/3 perlite or sand to the potting soil - weed likes soil that drains well. 2. make sure your pot has holes on the...
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    how far away should a 600w hps be from 3 week old 8inch tall clones

    if the clones are already rooted then you can get the light as close as you can without excessive radiant heat. put your hand at the top of the plants and lower the light as low as you can with your hand being comfortably warm but not hot. if you have an aircooled hood you should be able to...
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