hey i started a plant about a month ago, and i was wondering if i could switch the kind of light i used during the grow? any adivce would be great, thanks.
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hey i started a plant about a month ago, and i was wondering if i could switch the kind of light i used during the grow? any adivce would be great, thanks.
yes, you can switch
he's completely right but what type of light are you switching from and to?
just curious...
right now i have flouresnt bulbs (80w) and i am switching to HID 150w
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Thats great, just dont burn the little lady by putting that HID too close and you should be golden.
yeah i read that it should be anywhere from 12"-48" , just have to put your hand over the leaves and see if its hot. and another question how will i know when i need to fertilze? i used a miracle grow soil with a lot in it, nutrients that gradually comes out, over watering protection, etc...
Hmm..
That is prob beyond my expertise. I actually started out with MG soil and quickly got away from it due to the info available here about much better soil options, that and that I found a local hydro shop with Fox Farms that was actually cheaper than the MG when I got it. Go figure...
What I would do today with MG pre-nuted soil? I'd flush the living hell outta it at least once before I added anything else in the first 6 weeks or so.
BTW there is a few around here that use MG soil and claim to have used it for years w/o any probs, maybe one of them might chime in with help.
Also, I have used MG for quite some time for veggies and houseplants. Never had too many probs but since I've started messing with cann I've even got away from MG all together. My wife's African Violets seems to do better in FF than MG but we aint talkin cannabis here either ;)
what do you mean by flush?
and this is my first attempt, when should i bring the time down to 12/12? how long does flowering take?
You need to run a lot of water through the soil to flush. 3x the amount of soil. So if you have a 1 gallon pot you would need to run 3 gallons of pH corrected water (no nutes) through the soil to literally flush out any nutes or other chems that are trapped in the soil.Quote:
Originally Posted by beefyberg
This is usually done to flush out the bad stuff that fertilizers leave behind. Over time adding nutes will cause the soils pH to start changing and a good flush is done to nuetralize this prob.
If you wanna feed now you might run into probs. If that soil is pre-packed with nutes adding more may cause nute burn.
I cant give you an exact answer on this. Indica's finish flowering in less time than Sativas do. Do you know what you have?Quote:
Originally Posted by beefyberg
When to flower is another thing though. You can basically force the plant to flower when ever you see fit to do so. Cannabis tends to double, if not triple in rare cases, in height while flowering. So if you want a four foot tall plant come harvest you'd wanna switch to 12/12 when the plants is around 20-24" tall.
to flush the soil would i have to take out the plant or just over time it will happen? and the seed is either bubba kush or deep purp. they got mixed up so i dont know which it is.
and as far as nutes go, i was planing on getting bat guano. im going to start feeding her at 6 weeks. is that all i would need? or would i need those bloomer nutrients also? sorry for all the questions. just trying to figure out the best way
Nah, don't take the plant out.
And I'm not saying that you deff need to flush. You could just wait another two weeks or so to be safe and SLOWLY introduce the nutes. Start feeding every third watering with a mix thats 1/4 the recommended dose of what ever nutrient you're using and work your way up from there.
IF you flush pour the water very slowly through the soil, dont saturate the hell outta if or you'll super pack the dirt in and then the plant will have a hard time getting oxygen to the roots.
Bubba Kush is an Indica. Deep purp is Indica dominant.
Look it up but I think Indica is done flowering around 6-8 weeks and Sativa is 9-12 weeks in flower.
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