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You want to try get the best pheno, ideally. Although if you are happy with a lucky packet each time and variances, then not essential. Even with feminized seeds, there is still pheno variation and one needs to find that keeper pheno(s). The best way to grow, in my opinion, is to grow with cuttings of specific phenos. That way you know exactly what you are getting and are able to achieve consistent results (more or less, there is often still variables with feeding and climate / environment etc.) If you wanted to pheno hunt, you'd need to label them in a unique way (even with numbers is fine), take cuttings and label the cuttings, flower out the plants and see which ones you want to keep and then just continue with those. For example, maybe #3 and #5 are the best from all your seeds, then you could kill the other cuttings and just keep #3 and #5 and grow those two out.

So basically, it is easier to drown a plant in a smaller / shorter pot compared to a bigger / taller pot, even when both have had water added to them until run off? Any idea how this differs between coco and soil and the mixes with added perlite etc?

How much of a difference does it make? Has anyone done a side by side? Pampering one plant with RO water and feeding the other plain old tap water? Same soil, same amendments, same nutes, same cutting etc? See what difference there is between the two plants during growth and we could even go a step further and do a blindfold smoke test and see if anyone will notice the difference. I do not think so. @CreX Your tea still develops, the bacteria multiply and the air will help rid of any excess chlorine a lot quicker than letting it stand undisturbed. I feel people get sucked into the nitty gritty which IMO does not make a big difference, little to no difference end of the day. Salt nutes kill bacteria. Tap water kills bacteria. Too dry medium kills bacteria. Do the bacteria die off completely? How much of a difference is noticed? I know that @CreX was a big fan of teas with his hydro grow, made a big difference yet I believe that was tap water and he was using salt nutes. Must we all get JoJo tanks to water our garden or only let the rain water it? Avoid using tap water for out garden? Do people who grow outdoors let their water sit before giving it to their plants or do they just reach for the hose, open the tap and be done with it? I feel there is too much separation between the two. Tap water and salt nutes seen as the devil, they have no place when one wants to use some microbes, fungi, teas etc. I do not feel this is the case. I feel it is blown out of proportion at times. I do not feel one needs to be soo pedantic about this. When we wipe down counter tops in a kitchen, we don't use tap water alone - we use cleaning detergents as well to kill the bacteria. EDIT: To be clear, I am not saying it does not have an effect on the microbes and whatever else may be in your medium but it certainly does not wipe them out.

Soo very cool. Growing mushrooms is quite fun, in the way growing weed is fun. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

100% Misinformation and bro science. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Yes, it is safe to do so. Take a look at my auto flower grow, I did some serious leaf defol on some of my auto plants and I feel yield has been very good. I got around 100g dry from the LSD-25, have not weighed the others yet and still need to finish trimming them. EDIT: By now your auto has already formed the bud and it's either going to fatten and mature, or perhaps just mature. So I do not see any harm in removing some of the fan leaves, I do it all the time with my photoperiod plants from veg and all the way through the stretch / pre-flowering phase and even in flower and towards the end of flower.

Not sure I would trust that soil PH 3 in 1 meter thingy if you stick it into the coco. You could try adding a bit of calmag to your nute mix if you wanted, otherwise if you are really worried about the ph in the coco then run a few liters of nute feed which is PH'd through the coco - perhaps 6L and let it pour out and this should help "flush" any excess nutes in the coco. So best to do it in a bath tub, shower or outside. As for light penetration, remove some of the lower fan leaves and the dieing ones.

I wonder if one would still get the benefits if you were to mix it into the medium as opposed to sprinkling it on the top? At the moment I only use a myco & trich powder which I add when potting the cuttings or seedlings.

Long carrots being the 9" ones? Short being the usual 5" dripper carrots?

I think I get it now, saw the different ways to have it setup. For me, where its per pot I think a single carrot makes sense. Sorry for the thread hi Jack, let me know if I must clean it up and remove these off topic posts. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

80 is low, I think you mean 80ppm - which sounds about right. When I last tested my tap water it was 79ppm. Interesting, malted barley. So I assume it would not actually sprout as it is malted, although it contains beneficial fungi still. Where did you source it from BTW?

So ideally one of those distribution drippers inbetween the carrot and the hose, then adjust the distribution dripper with the hanging drop method to "calibrate" the setup?

@ORGANinc. how does one accurately adjust the flow from the carrot when using that tape? I know with the carrot, you meant to adjust it until there is a water drop hanging off the end and then can fine tune after a day or two and by monitoring it - although with that tape one cannot see how much water is flowing? What is the best way to adjust it so that it provides just the right amount of water and at the right time (not when the medium is too wet or too dry)? Also where did you source yours from?

Oh man, how have I not seen this drip tape before. I need to get me some! I see the blusoak is being replaced by rootsoak (their v2.0 basically). Might as well get some of that.

How did you make that attachment? Looks like a DIY halo dripper of sorts, how well does it work and how did you make it? Keen to maybe do the same for my blumat setup. Importing lights can be cheaper, however make sure you use a reputable manufacturer as it is known that some supply fake diodes and claim them to LM301 diodes and you're actually getting some other diodes which look the same but are not and sometimes do not perform the same. So reviews are important and trusting your supplier is important too. When I say reviews, I do not mean on their website - places like Reddit or Rollitup etc. and preferably from more reputable members or multiple sources even.

@BroMo come and join the comp again!

Looking good. @SkunkPharm I am also curious, but it looks like plain coco to me. Nothing wrong with that though, I know a few peeps who prefer their coco without perlite.

LM281 - Around 80% of the efficiency compared to the LM301 diodes apparently. LM561C - old, a little less efficient compared to the LM301 but still a good diode. Probably won't find stock anymore due to its age. (5.6mm x 3.6mm) LM301B/H - Great, this is the standard for grow light diodes now. A little more efficient compared to the LM561C and the LM281.

Outdoor being how / where it has been grown. Also it will vary a lot from grower to grower. My friends and I only smoke indoor... because we only grow indoor. The only time I would smoke some outdoor is if someone gifts it to me and this actually happened this weekend, got some outdoor from a friend - it's pretty good stuff actually. If you were to ask people what strain(s) they are smoking, you'll likely have multiple answers from many people as we all like variety and tend to grow multiple strains. I have my stash of bud which consists of multiple strains, so when the grinder is empty I decide what to smoke next and I keep changing it up to keep things fresh - I still have strains I have harvested but not tried myself yet so those will likely be on my list of smoke for the next while.

Well typically when I put the plants into flower but no reason not to use them in veg if it will work with your setup. I had it setup in veg once, but then I had multiple plants in veg at different stages so wasn't working as well. When I set it up again, I just set it up in flower. I want to look at setting it up in veg again though for convenience going forward and then running all plants in veg from cutting or seed at the same time and therefore same stage. So not have a mix of new seedlings or freshly rooted cuttings with bigger, more mature plants.

I use the Blumat tropf carrots, so the blumat drippers basically. Works really well, I have a pump connected to it - so not gravity fed.

I typically have my plants trained before flower, however I have continued to train during the stretch / pre-flowering stage. Depending on the strains, I'd say train with LST right up to you flipping to flower. The In House Strains I have been growing stretch like crazy and there I would continue to train and pull down after flipping due to how much they stretch and I do not like ending up with plants taller than I am. lol Not sure I understand what you mean by the spring loading though.

There we go, looking better. Now just gotta check the trichomes with a microscope / loupe to see what colour the heads are and then harvest accordingly

Geez, what a long thread. Have not read all of it, but coco is king. Simple as that. @Dookie69 I have never used autopots or taken a look, I have a rough idea as to how they work. Not sure why you'd want to flush though? However nutrient build up is something you want to avoid, I never flush my plants in coco and I always feed with nutes and not until run off because it is messy and I do not find I have a need to do so. What I do to try help tame the build up of nutes over time is I reduce the strength of the nutes I feed and slowly reduce it slightly throughout flower - in veg I do not do this as the plants are not in veg for long anyways and EC in veg isn't as high as EC in flower. As for never let coco dry out, well, you can let it dry out but ideally you never want any medium to dry out - be it soil or coco. With that being said, dry coco is easier to rehydrate compared to dry soil. Dry medium with roots in that section of medium, if it stays dry for long enough I think the roots would die off and in essence reduces the volume of medium you have which the plant is and can actually make use of. Freedom Farms F1 has amendments in it as well, it's not just pure coco with perlite. Next time perhaps give a pure coco and perlite mixture a try and see how it compares, as then the only nutes the plants are getting is from the nutes you are feeding it. Bioleaf is pretty good and well priced compared to the other imported brands and very convenient as it comes ready prepared and mixed in a 60L bag. I believe it is buffered as well, I have started using Bioleaf and do not buffer and my plants are happy. Also my growing method isn't true fertigation, as I use the Blumat carrots - so the coco is hydrated to a certain point and only once it has dried out past a certain point. In veg I typically water by hand as I have never bothered to setup automatic watering as I have often had veg plants in different stages in my veg tent and I typically do not feed newly rooted cuttings with my normal veg strength nutes. I prefer to start them on a lower EC.