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- Grow FAQ
- Grow FAQ - Basic
- Organics
- Electrical & safety
- How do I convert watts to amps and amps to watts?
- The circuit which goes to my grow room only has two wires, but my light has a 3 prong plug, what should I do?
- The Physical Effects of Electricity
- How many lights/watts can I put on a 15 Amp service?
- What is an AFCI and why should I install one?
- How do I electrically map my place?
- How can I offset the energy usage of my grow room?
- Why has my timer switch failed and what should I do?
- When do I change my ballast components?
- What is a GFCI?
- Basic wire sizing guide for US 120 and 240 volts
- How do I build a short-range timer?
- How much power does my lamp really use?
- How to turn a PC fan into an exhaust or intake fan?
- Can I use a dimmer switch to control the speed of my fan?
- How do I convert watts to amps?
- Basic electrical safety guidelines
- How safe are these MH and HPS lights?
- How do I wire and connect an in-line duct fan?
- Getting started
- What books, magazines, and discussion forums will help me learn more about growing?
- Should I start my grow from clones or seeds?
- Do Roots REALLY grow in the dark?
- What should I know about ordering seeds and clones thru the mail?
- What is Marijuana and what effects could it have on me?
- What are common mistakes made by first time growers?
- How much will i yeild?
- What are the different types of high associated with Indica, Sativa and hybrid strains?
- How do I choose a strain?
- How do they get strains to taste different?
- Choosing your first system
- Growroom design and set-up
- Fan controler for under $30
- Is there a simple and cheap way to maintain water levels?
- What reflective materials can I use for my grow room?
- How can I vent through the sewer?
- How should I select my grow space?
- How do I add ventilation to my grow area?
- What range should I maintain for my growroom humidity and temperature?
- How do I design a fan powered cooling system for my growbox?
- How much ventilation do I need in my grow room?
- What are the different growth characteristics associated with Indica, Sativa and hybrid strains?
- How to dampen noise from PC fans
- DIY: How can I build a compact hood with an intergrated light trap?
- Should I choose a round or square pot for my plants?
- Where can I buy growing equipment and supplies?
- How do I power 12v computer fans?
- How much co2 should I add?
- How do I install a duct fan to operate most efficiently?
- Building your own inline fan
- What is a good ph/EC/TDS meter?
- Stickydank's basic CO2 method
- Jackerspackle's Lighting Coverage Primer
- What type of timer do I use with my lights?
- How do I rig an Electric Float Switch Reservoir Controller ?
- Should I use a light mover?
- Seeds
- Lighting
- What is a suncircle? (circular light mover)
- How do I convert a common home security light into a remote ballast grow light?
- What are compact fluorescents and how can I use them for growing?
- Jackerspackle's Lighting Coverage Primer
- What do all of those lighting terms mean?
- How can I hang an adjustable reflector in a box-grow?
- Basic info on fluorescent lighting
- Can I use foil on my florescents?
- How can I add a glass shield to a reflector?
- What are light cycles and how do I use them?
- How do I build my own Cool Tube?
- PAR for plants, Lumen for people.
- Should I use a light mover?
- How can I improve the air flow in air cooled light hoods?
- Can blacklights be used for growing?
- How do I manipulate the photoperiod for larger yields?
- Metal Halide safety and fixture recommendations.
- How to read light level with an SLR camera?
- What distance should my light be from my plants?
- What is photosynthesis?
- How much will it cost to run my light?
- Ballast information
- Identification and Comparison
- Product information
- Reflectivity
- How do I position a rectangular hood in my rectangular garden?
- All you need to know about Mylar
- How does hood orientation relate to efficiency?
- Can I use foil to reflect light?
- Is a dimpled or polished reflector better at reflecting light?
- Are mirrors good for reflecting light?
- What is black and white poly and how do I use it?
- Fertilizing & feeding
- What are Macro-/Micro-Nutrients, and what is each responsible for?
- The never ending abuse of Phosphorous to enhance flowering
- How do I mix up my nutrient solution?
- How can I properly maintain my hydroponic nutrient solution?
- What do the three numbers on the fertilizer label stand for?
- How do I apply hydrogen peroxide?
- Will my nitrogen source affect the PH?
- What is the difference between synthetic and organic fertilizers?
- Foliar feeding
- Nutrient deficiencies
- Sick Plant Symptoms
- Are the leaf tips curlling up, do the leaves have yellow margins or tips with green veins
- Are the leaf tips curling down, do they have yellow margins which are turning into dark dead spots
- Do the leaves have an inter-veinal banding appearance
- Are your leaves light green or yellow in colour
- Do the leaves have an overall dark green color with a purple, red, or blue pigmentation
- Iron (Fe) deficiency
- Are leaf tips yellowed and curled down?
- Do the leaves have burnt blotches on them?
- Nutrient formulations
- Standard nutrient flushing (clearing) formula
- MisterIto's beginner nutrient flushing formula
- Bioponic
- Chemical
- Organic
- Guano Tea Method
- What is an Earth Juice/Maxicrop recirculating res?
- How do I produce my own Worm Castings?
- How do I make guano tea?
- Five Most Asked Questions About Earthworm Castings
- Why should I use worm castings?
- What organic based fertilizer should I use?
- Organic beginner nutrient formula
- What about Earth Juice?
- Why should I grow using pure organic nutrients?
- What are the best ratios for General Hydroponics 3-part?
- Nutrient Product Comparisons
- pH / EC / TDS / PPM
- What are the pros and cons of buying a combo meter?
- What is the difference between ppm and EC?
- How do I tell if my PPM/EC is too high or too low?
- What is a good ph/EC/TDS meter?
- How can I raise or lower the pH of my soil mix?
- Are the liquid type Ph test kits accurate?
- What pH level or range should I aim for?
- What ranges should I maintain for my hydroponic nutrients pH, TDS/EC and temperature?
- What is pH?
- What is a pH buffer?
- PPM-EC-CF Chart
- How long does the seal last inside the probe?
- What does pH mean?
- What is a TDS meter and what does it measure?
- How do I figure out the ppm of my fertilizer mix?
- -- Watering
- Is it safe to use pet-shop preperations, that are sold to remove chlorine from my tap water?
- Can I use water from the dehumidifier?
- How much water do I give my clones & seedlings when in rockwool?
- What is the "lift the pot" method?
- Why is my reverse-osmosis water not pH neutral?
- How can I tell whether my drooping plant is overwatered or underwatered?
- About wet/dry cycles
- What is the best type of water to start with?
- Is tap water ok for my seeds and plants?
- How do I determine my watering schedule for container plants?
- Why do my plants droop after flushing or heavy watering?
- How do I water my hard to reach plants?
- Soil & soilless
- What is nutrient lockout?
- How can I measure the pH of soil/soilless runoff?
- What are Water-Absorbent Polymers and how do I use them?
- Maximizing Root Growth in Soil Containers
- What is the Soil Food Web?
- Treating old soil
- What size pots should I use?
- eugene's soil mat planting method
- How do I use capillary matting with an indoor grow and why does it help?
- If I change my soil grow to hydro, will it taste bad?
- What is a fortified medium?
- Soil & soilless mixes
- What are soil amendments?
- What is Soil?
- How can I test for soil texture at home?
- Using Coco as a Substrate
- I'm a beginner and need a simple and easy soilless mix.
- Soul's Soilless Mix
- Vic's Super Soil recipes & notes
- What is loam?
- ~shabang~'s worm casting method
- Bongaloid's Corruption of ~shabang~'s Casting Method
- Aallon's quick & simple soil mix
- Kumquat's deluxe potting soil and manure tea
- What is Soil Structure?
- What do you mean by soilless mix: what is it?
- Mr_Natural420's perfect potting medium
- What is Sandy Soil?
- What is silt?
- What is Clay Soil?
- What is root-bound?
- What is Soil Texture?
- Hydroponics
- Can I add stuff to the reservoir to change the flavour of my bud?
- Should I use Lavarocks or Expanded Clay?
- What are the differences between aeroponic misting and fogging?
- What is this green slime on my rockwool?
- What is nutrient lockout?
- How do I Build a Bato-Bucket/Dutch-Pot System?
- How do I sterilize and disinfect my system?
- How can I keep my reservoir cool?
- How dow I use Oxy-Plus in my nutrient tank?
- Simple Hydroponics, The Wick System
- How should I clean my grow rocks?
- Is pH important?
- Can I use industrial grade rockwool for my hydroponic medium?
- What is hydroponics?
- Bubblers (DWC)
- What is a bubbler/DWC?
- At what level should the nutrients be in the bucket?
- What kind of pump should I use?/How much air does each bucket need?
- How can I build a DWC cooler tub?
- Where do I set the water level for new clones?
- How can I build my own bubbler?
- How do I start seeds for DWC bubblers?
- What should the pH of the nutrients be?
- What kind of airline should I use?
- How can I get rid of slimy roots?
- How often should I change the nutrients?
- How large should my bucket/container be?
- What kind of airstone should I use?
- What nutrients should I use?/How much nutrient should I use?
- How can I stop algae from growing in the bucket?
- Ebb and Flow (E&F)
- How are the salt buildups flushed out of the planters in ebb & flow?
- Is there anything better than the standard planters provided with most ebb & flow systems?
- How Do I Prep My Ebb & Flow Table, using big rw cubes?
- How often should I flood the tray? (flood frequency)
- How long should I flood the tray? (flood duration)
- Can a megagarden be converted to Deep Water Culture (DWC)?
- How do I grow single cola style, sea of green Ebb & Flow ?
- How high should I set the flood level? (flood depth)
- How can I heat my reservoir solution to keep it in the correct range?
- How should I go about transplanting the minicube into the rock filled planters?
- What is a Megagarden?
- How should I maintain the reservoir, topping off changing solution etc.?
- Transplanting
- Hydro to soil
- Soil to soil
- Why do I need to transplant?
- How do I create root growth lengthwise?
- How can I transplant my plant into a bigger pot?
- How big of a pot should I transplant into?
- BOG\'s double potting technique
- Transplanting technique
- How will I know when my plants need to be repotted?
- When is the best time to repot my plant?
- Plant trouble
- Seeds, germination & seedlings
- Desiccant and its uses
- Soil germination problems
- How can I get my plants to produce femenized seeds?
- The merits of transplanting seedlings deeply
- The germination process of a dicot seed
- How can I tell if my bag seeds are healthy?
- How can I make my seedlings stem stronger?
- How do I use Oxy-Plus for seed germination?
- Growth after germination
- Seed germination techniques
- Vapour's Rockwool germination technique
- Vegemite's seed germination technique (rockwool)
- Germinating Cannabis Seeds (for Bio Growers).
- Preparing seeds for easier germination
- How do I germinate seeds?
- Germination technique
- Is there a faster way to germinate seeds? (Scarification)
- How do I germinate seeds in soil?
- What is an idiot proof way to germinate seeds?
- Seed germination technique (in rockwool)
- Vegetative growth
- How does plant nutrient metabolism work?
- How many hours of light do I need for veg growth?
- How do I improve outdoor air exposure and yield, to also reduce chances of mold?
- Do Roots REALLY grow in the dark?
- What is Vegetative growth?
- How can I tell if my seedling is male or female without flowering it?
- Training/Pruning
- Smokinrav's supercropping technique
- How can I train my plants for a lower profile?
- Show me how to do early vegetative pruning and FIM ?
- How do I prune and start supercropping ?
- How do I paperclip train when not using soil or media?
- How do I tie down my outdoor plant?
- How can I tuck leaves to increase light penetration?
- What is the FIM pruning technique?
- What is the paperclip training technique?
- How do I pre train my plant for a ScrOG grow?
- Should I prune (top) my plants?
- I topped my plants, why is there no new growth at the nodes?
- Sexing
- What are preflowers?
- How can I identify a female by seeing its pre-flowers?
- Flower Biology
- How can I determine the sex of seed plants with clones?
- How do I sex using a paper bag?
- After 10 days flowering what does a male look like?
- Should I force flower my plants to determine sex, then revert them to complete vegetative growth once the sex is known?
- What does an emerging MALE preflower look like?
- After 10 days flowering, what does a female look like?
- Cloning
- Can temperature affect how well my clones root?
- How can I package clones for shipping when customs will not be involved?
- How can I root quicker using cutting scarification?
- How do I make my own Rooting hormone?
- What is a wick cloner, and how do I build one?
- How do I clone plants? Smokinrav's simple water-cloning method
- Got any tips for hard to clone plants?
- Leaf's cloning method
- How long should my clones take to root?
- How do I take multiple clones from the whole branch?
- Are humidity domes or tents important?
- Why are my clones wilting?
- How can I clone using rockwool?
- How clean does my cloning equipment need to be?
- Can I take a cutting from a plant in flower?
- DuctMAN's cloning advice
- What is air layering?
- How and where do I cut my clones?
- Treating RockWool & Misting cuttings with Oxy-Plus
- Care of mother plants
- For Hydroponic systems
- For Soil or mixes
- Layering/Timing your clones
- Blooming & ripening
- How do I determine a female sex plant from a male?
- What does a garden look like from the initiation of bloom to the harvest?
- How many hours of light do I need for blooming?
- How dark does the dark cycle need to be?
- What do I do if my plants are growing too tall after flowering?
- What is an hermaphrodite?
- How can I find the exact harvest timing for my strain?
- Is UV important for blooming?
- How can I manage a tall lanky sativa indoors?
- What is stretch and how can I minimize it?
- Harvesting & curing
- What are trichomes? Trichome 101
- How to build an odorless bud drier
- Does curing affect potency?
- Fake Pot: What's the deal with these Marijuana Alternatives?
- How I detect and prevent budrot?
- What is the best way to dry and preserve the cure for smooth, sweet buds?
- Drying, Curing, and Storage (paper bag method)
- Does curing affect potency2?
- How Can I Tell When My Buds Are Dry Enough To be Cured?
- How do I properly dry and cure my harvest?
- How do I cure my harvest with glass canning jars?
- How do I regenerate/rejuvenate/reveg a plant after harvest?
- How do I quick-dry my buds?
- What is the "Dry Ice Cure" (Freeze drying) ?
- How do I re-moisten dry buds?
- When should I harvest my plants?
- Enjoying your harvest
- Cooking with Cannabis
- How do I make Frozen Ganja Custard?
- How do I cook with Cannabis & program in C?
- How do I make Hashish fudge?
- How do I make hot buttered bhang?
- How do I make avocado dip?
- How do I make Cannabis Cinnamon bread?
- How do I make chocolate cannatruffles?
- Hacksaw's tasty CannaButter recipe
- What is POTKA, and how do I make it??
- How do I make cannabis cooking oil?
- Panzanella salad
- How do I make cannabutter?
- How do I make a Marijuana Tincture?
- How can I make storable cannabis cooking oil?
- How do I make scooby snacks?
- Firecrackers
- How do I make marijuana pancakes?
- How do I make a Canna 'Omelette?
- How do I make apple pot?
- How do I make nips?
- Bhang
- How do I brew cannabis beer?
- How do I make banana bread?
- How do I make Marijuana Spaghetti Sauce?
- Tabouli
- How do I make Grilled Canna-veggies?
- How do I use cannabis in my favorite recipes?
- How do i make pot brownies?
- How do I make smooth & creamy cocopot ice cream?
- How do I make Barbecued MJ steak?
- How do I make hash butter popcorn?
- Pesto
- How do I make baked turtle cheesecake?
- How do I make MJ salad dressing?
- How do I make cosmic hollandaise sauce?
- Spinach Dip
- How do I make MJ chilli con carne?
- Cookies
- Smoking your harvest
- Rolling
- How do I roll a tulip joint?
- UncleBen's dollar-bill joint rolling method
- What kind of rolling papers should I buy?
- How do I roll a no spill pocket joint?
- How do I roll an *Astral Weaver* joint?
- How do I roll an Inside-Out Joint?
- What is a blunt?
- Overdose's sure-fire joint rolling method
- How do I roll a European-style joint?
- Nomad's blunt rolling method
- Storing your harvest
- Cooking with Cannabis
- Outdoor growing
- How do I grow outdoor in northern countries?
- Which types of mulch are usable?
- What about poison ivy exposure?
- What is Guerilla Growing and what do I need to know about it?
- How do I choose an outdoor growing location?
- How do I keep my well chosen outdoor plot secure?
- What are the benefits of mulching?
- When are average first and last frost in the U.S. and Canada?
- How do I prepare my outdoor plot?
- What are the advantages of growing in a greenhouse?
- Pest control
- Odor control
- Grow FAQ - Advanced
- Breeding
- How can I contribute as a sativa breeder?
- How should strains be named?
- Can I use dessicant for seed or pollen storage?
- What is colchicine and how is it used?
- What is the nomenclature of Cannabis?
- How should I store my seeds?
- What is the difference between an F1 and a hybrid?
- What is a phenotype and what does phenotype mean?
- What is an F1, F2, and IBL?
- What is the probability that I will have a female plant given X seeds?
- What is the history of Northern Lights?
- Can I breed effectively indoors?
- What should I look for in an IBL?
- What are gametes and zygotes?
- What is linkage?
- Breeding strategies
- What are the different types of crosses?
- How important is male selection when cubing?
- How do I create a true breeding strain?
- Soul's Selecting breeding individuals for marijuana production
- How do I stabilize a clone hybrid?
- How do I backcross my special female?
- What is recurrent selection?
- What is cubing?
- What is convergent improvement?
- What is selfing?
- What are all female seeds and how are they created?
- Does it matter which line is used for the male?
- Pollination
- Selecting males
- Hybrid vigour
- Hashish and oil
- How can I make ice hash for less than $5 outlay?
- How can I easily, cheaply and quickly press a small amount of hash?
- Mesh sizing and kif screening
- How do I make Ice Hash?
- A summary of hash extraction methods
- How can I make a cheap trichome shaker?
- What is hash and how do I make it?
- Bunzboys 10 steps, for the cheapest way to make hash.
- How do I press lower quality resins?
- Simple Soap Purification
- How can I make my own hash tumbler?
- Salvaging Moldy Buds & Making Trichome Butter
- How to Make Butane Honey Oil
- Growroom efficiency
- How do I measure temperature correctly?
- How do I accurately measure my Grow Room Efficiency?
- What range should I maintain for my growroom humidity and temperature?
- How can I offset the energy usage of my grow room?
- Can I use dry ice to provide CO2 for my plants?
- How can I improve my light efficiency
- How can I effectively hang and clean Mylar?
- Is a dimpled or polished reflector better at reflecting light?
- Hood orientation as it relates to efficiency.
- What reflective materials can I use for my grow room?
- All you need to know about Mylar
- What is black and white poly and how do I use it?
- Is there a similar substitute for Mylar?
- Can I use foil to reflect light?
- Improving your yields
- Nutrient formulations
- How do I find out what's wrong with my plant?
- What do the different nutrients mean to Cannabis?
- What levels should I maintain for my hydroponic nutrient, temperature, pH and TDS/EC?
- How do I figure out the ppm of my fertilizer mix?
- Why add silicon to nutrient solution?
- Should I use hydrogen peroxide in my nutrient mixes?
- Chemical
- ChristianKungFu - Fertilizer mix examples
- ChristianKungFu's Salt/Chemical Fertilizers (Introduction)
- Can I give myplants extra nitrogen?
- Microorganisms and organic compounds in the solution: Is filtering useful?
- What is EDTA?
- ChristianKungFu - Basic Elements and Nutrient Balance (long)
- ChristianKungFu - TDS, PPM, and EC
- ChristianKungFu - pH
- Chemist's Salt Fertilizer Recipes
- ChristianKungFu - Salts, E.C. and Leeching
- MisterIto's chemical nutrient formula
- Why should I grow using chemical nutrients?
- How do I adjust the pH in chemical solutions?
- Flushing
- Nutrient deficiencies
- Organic
- Product information
- Pests & disease control
- How can I get rid of these whiteflies?
- How can I make up a Nicotine pesticide?
- How Do I Use Neem Oil Without Getting My Plants All Oily?
- How to clean your grow room after harvesting?
- Kunta's spider mite advice
- What biological controls are available for fungus gnats?
- Chimera's Journal on Spider Mites
- Common insects - Id and control
- Are there alternatives to chemical pesticides?
- I've got spider mites, now what do I do?
- How to make your own neem extract solution
- How do I deter slugs and snails without using chemicals?
- Indoors - Diseases
- Outdoors - Pests
- Pest identification
- Growth regulators & hormones
- Propagation techniques
- What is air layering?
- How do I regenerate/rejuvenate a plant after harvest?
- What is the perpetual harvest propagation method?
- What is the Sea of Green method?
- What is grafting?
- What is tissue culture?
- What is trellising?
- Air layering,Bonsai,Cloning
- Can temperature affect how well my clones root?
- How can I package clones for shipping when customs will not be involved?
- How can I root quicker using cutting scarification?
- How do I make my own Rooting hormone?
- What is a wick cloner, and how do I build one?
- How do I clone plants? Smokinrav's simple water-cloning method
- Got any tips for hard to clone plants?
- Leaf's cloning method
- How long should my clones take to root?
- How do I take multiple clones from the whole branch?
- Are humidity domes or tents important?
- Why are my clones wilting?
- How can I clone using rockwool?
- How clean does my cloning equipment need to be?
- Can I take a cutting from a plant in flower?
- DuctMAN's cloning advice
- What is air layering?
- How and where do I cut my clones?
- Treating RockWool & Misting cuttings with Oxy-Plus
- Screen of green (SCROG)
- Supercropping
- Hydroponic system construction
- Is there a simple and cheap way to maintain water levels?
- How do I rig an Electric Float Switch Reservoir Controller ?
- Aall0n's hydroponic system construction principles
- How do I make an ebb & flow hydroponic system?
- MrSoul's rocks and tray system
- How to build a self watering clone Stealth box
- Aero-cloners
- Aeroponic
- Bubblers - How do I build an External Reservoir and Control Bucket?
- Ebb and flow, NFT technique
- Slab and tray systems, Slow sand/rockwool filter
- Where do I get the bacteria to ripen my slow sand/rockwool filter?
- How small can I make a slow sand/rockwool filter?
- Will a slow sand/rockwool filter change the pH of my system?
- What will happen if I construct my own filter using maximum suggested flow rates and minimum suggested media depth?
- Will a slow sand/rockwool filter out my hydroponic nutrients?
- How do I work out the surface area of one end of a 4-inch storm water pipe I am going to use as my filter housing?
- Can I use any other hydroponic mediums as my active system media instead of sand or rockwool?
- How can I build a wick system to keep my plants in stasis?
- Utility, conversion charts, formulas etc.
- Electrical Wire Guage Conversion to Metric
- Metric to English conversion chart
- Converting Fertilizer NPK ratings to PPM and Teaspoons per Gallon
- What temperature will my growspace get and how much ventilation will I need?
- How do I determine the number of gallons my container holds?
- How do i convert between EC, CF, & PPMs?
- Marijuana photography
- How do I take microscopic quality pictures, the easy cheapo way?
- Which digicam features should I consider?
- What is macro-photography and why should I use macro mode?
- How much should I spend on a digicam?
- How many megapixels should my digicam have?
- Digital Camera Glossary
- How do I clean my digital camera?
- My images won't upload, what's going wrong?
- How do I select a tripod?
- Digicam glossary
- What lighting do I need for macrography?
- Memory-card information
- Is zoom needed?
- Home
- Grow FAQ
- Grow FAQ - Basic
- Organics
- Electrical & safety
- Getting started
- Lighting
- Fertilizing & feeding
- Soil & soilless
- Hydroponics
- Transplanting
- Plant trouble
- Seeds, germination & seedlings
- Vegetative growth
- Sexing
- Cloning
- Blooming & ripening
- Harvesting & curing
- Outdoor growing
- Odor control
- Grow FAQ - Advanced
- Breeding
- Hashish and oil
- Growroom efficiency
- Nutrient formulations
- Pests & disease control
- Growth regulators & hormones
- Propagation techniques
- Hydroponic system construction
- Utility, conversion charts, formulas etc.
- Marijuana photography
- Medical usage
- Marijuana Seeds
