Agw
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I am new to growing. I started with a couple 400 watt flourescent lights and a couple deep water buckets(home made). I made every mistake I could and grew and learned along the way. This was six month ago. Today I am using a custom built cabinet with two sides. Each side is about 3.5x3.5 with the flowering side being a little bigger. Each side is equipped with an adjustable 600 watt digital light with a cool tube. I have each light hooked to a carbon filter and fan(1 inline to push air on each light and one 440 cfm on top pulling air through and out of house). I have two fan in each side for air movement and one oscillating fan out side that is on when the doors are opened. The veg side is MH and set to 75% which if my math is right is 405 watts, and the flowering side is HPS and set at the full 600 watts. Along the way I felt it was in my best interest to go soil and organic instead of chemical nutes and hydro., so I switch to a start to finish soil. The first round I tried a couple different soils and the first round though with this water only routine was suspect to say the least with each plant yielding under an once(the smoothness and flavor were unreal!!). I believe the culprit to be the wife though, it seems the light was turned to 50% for a decent amount of time during the most critical time(this was due to the fact that we are selling and had to com seal the plants). This time around I settle on m3 or michigan made mix as it did have the healthiest plant in the second round. Also I started to use a guano tea. It's a high p bat guano, some fish emulsion, molasses and Epsom salt bubbled overnight and applied in weeks 3,4,5, and 6 of flower with strait water the rest of the way. So far so good the plants look healthy and the bud sites are numerous. I love the organic way and will continue to improve, which brings me to the point here. I have read every grow bible there is and am currently finding and reading organic gardening books, any suggestion on books would be nice. I started to look through some organic forums and realized the info to be very fragment, so I thought I would start a thread for some great tips on organic gardening, what are some simple things that I can incorporate that would make a big difference?