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[MEGA]Community Growing advice, tips, tricks, & experiences Part 5 (2012-2013)

lucsdc said:
Should I put worms in the soil? You know, to make humus?
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Buy or build a wormery to make your own vermicompost or worm castings. Then dig it into the soil with a gardening fork.

If I were you I would just get some well rotted (composted) manure. It really doesn't have to be any more difficult than that. This isn't a criticism but I wouldn't try and make it more complicated than it needs to be be. You'll get really good results just keeping it as simple as possible. If you're dead set on squeezing a bit more yield out then you could always just plant one more plant. The only other thing I would do is get a soil pH testing kit (the chemical not the electric probe version) and decide whether you need to add a bit of dolomite lime. If you do don't add it at the same time as fertilizers or manure.

lucsdc said:
Ok, so I wanna know your opinions: Sativa, Indica or Hibrids?
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It's highly individual and depends on the person. You need to actually try all three to decide rather than relying on the opinion of others. You may think you will prefer one over the other only to find out in reality it's the reverse.
 
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Ok, so I will put the seeds in a cotton until it germinates, and then I will do as you guys said me. Thank you guys, and feel free to visit my beautys any time soon!
 
lucsdc said:
Ok, so I will put the seeds in a cotton until it germinates, and then I will do as you guys said me. Thank you guys, and feel free to visit my beautys any time soon!
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I wouldn't use cotton as you could damage the tiny seedling trying to pick the root out of it. I would plant straight in your seedling compost or if you want you could use paper towels instead. Good luck!!
 
You can just poke shallow holes with your finger in potting soil too...cover em over and they'll....Of course if you paid for expensive seeds, youd wanna be more careful
 
lucsdc said:
Ok, so I wanna know your opinions: Sativa, Indica or Hibrids?
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As far as growing goes I would say a hybrid if you have to choose only one, if not why not grow some of each?
Pure sativas take longer to finish and some times pure indicas don't yield as well and some people don't like the high.
For smoking it's a personal preference thing if you prefer sativa then you wont mind waiting the extra month or two. Most strains should do just fine in the subtropics.
 
Damn, you really didn't research this at all huh? lol...

The males if they're not picked before they flower, will pollinate the females and you'll end up with seeds...They could possibly get pollinated anyway outdoors,
 
^ and that's bad because sinsemilla weed (sinsemilla means 'without seed') is much stronger than weed that contains any amount of seed so growers growing weed to smoke have to separate males from females. Destroying them (not just putting them in the trash) is best because cannabis pollen has been shown to travel hundreds of kilometres in distance.

That is not to say males are completely bad. People tend to give males a bad wrap when without good breeding males you would not have good strains in the first place. Some would say that for breeding purposes they are even more important than the females. And of course you can't make seeds even as an amateur without a male.

But growing outdoors having to deal with males is even more of a pain in the ass than indoors. This is why I prefer to use good feminized seed outdoors. That said both feminzed seed and regular seed do have their place. Unfortunately people favour feminized seed over regular seed too much because they don't realize this and as seed companies can't make money selling regular, non-feminized strains they often eventually just drop them from their catalogues. This is tragic, because the people that actually need and want regular seed for breeding purposes can't buy them and use them as a result and so the strain cannot then easily be improved or used to make new genetics. We all have a responsibility to keep the market for regular seed going because we all grow and smoke cannabis and want good strains and in order for us to have this privilege someone has to do the breeding in the first place. It's not as if good new strains just fall out of the sky!
 
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Artificial Emotion said:
^ and that's bad because sinsemilla weed (sinsemilla means 'without seed') is much stronger than weed that contains any amount of seed so growers growing weed to smoke have to separate males from females. Destroying them (not just putting them in the trash) is best because cannabis pollen has been shown to travel hundreds of kilometres in distance.

That is not to say males are completely bad. People tend to give males a bad wrap when without good breeding males you would not have good strains in the first place. Some would say that for breeding purposes they are even more important than the females. And of course you can't make seeds even as an amateur without a male.

But growing outdoors having to deal with males is even more of a pain in the ass than indoors. This is why I prefer to use good feminized seed outdoors. That said both feminzed seed and regular seed do have their place. Unfortunately people favour feminized seed over regular seed too much because they don't realize this and as seed companies can't make money selling regular, non-feminized strains they often eventually just drop them from their catalogues. This is tragic, because the people that actually need and want regular seed for breeding purposes can't buy them and use them as a result and so the strain cannot then easily be improved or used to make new genetics. We all have a responsibility to keep the market for regular seed going because we all grow and smoke cannabis and want good strains and in order for us to have this privilege someone has to do the breeding in the first place. It's not as if good new strains just fall out of the sky!
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This information^^^^^ is extremely important...
 
Fire&Water said:
A dozen red-worms is a great idea if you are growing in and moving a plant around in a 5 gallon bucket
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I've done this before accidentally when taking worm castings out to bulk up potting mix. I tend to find the survivors languishing at the bottom of the pot- perhaps that is where its most moist. I'm trying it on purpose this time as I have to give up my worm farm due to a move, I've put a couple of handfuls of adults and juveniles into my mix which has a decent dose of aged manure in it. Its a 50cm pot not sure what that is in gallons. Will see how they go but I think they are better suited to compost.
 
Just got my 1000w hps today for flowering. Is there anything to gain from running an 8 bulb t5 at the same time?
 
justsayknow said:
I've done this before accidentally when taking worm castings out to bulk up potting mix. I tend to find the survivors languishing at the bottom of the pot- perhaps that is where its most moist. I'm trying it on purpose this time as I have to give up my worm farm due to a move, I've put a couple of handfuls of adults and juveniles into my mix which has a decent dose of aged manure in it. Its a 50cm pot not sure what that is in gallons. Will see how they go but I think they are better suited to compost.
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You have to keep food for them in the top couple inches of soil, so they migrate up, down, around - a bit of ground up veggies etc...when you water works well.
Drill many small holes in the bottom & line the inside bottom with stones, but securely nylon screen the outside (or even better, the inside bottom) so they dont come out looking for water

So, holes drilled in the bottom nylon screen secured, with a layer of stones/lava rock - growing medium

Oh yeah...If you are using a "bucket" you should test the PH of the run-off every 21 days.
I wish I had the picture of the 4 ft diameter x 4 ft high Jamaican sativa I trained with fishing sinkers that I grew in a "5 gallon bucket" It had about 200 2 inch buds on it.
 
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^Might try that way next time if I get a chance. Worms and their castings are definitely good fertiliser. Before I started using liquid organic fertilisers I grew this thing with mostly just sand and worm castings it got to about 7 foot.

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justsayknow said:
^Might try that way next time if I get a chance. Worms and their castings are definitely good fertiliser. Before I started using liquid organic fertilisers I grew this thing with mostly just sand and worm castings it got to about 7 foot.

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I bet the neighbors were loving it ;D

Any one know about my lighting situation?
 
Its for my flowering room. Or do you mean area as in size? If so the room is probably 8 x 6 x 7, and I have the lights right next to each other.

Do you not think that the alternate color spectrum would help?
 
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