Quote Originally Posted by Chronic Chrissy
After flowering the plants that grew all summer I lwearnt how inefficient tall plants were and how much you really waste on them. The new goal was to have plants no taller than 2' from the souil after flowering was done.
The genetics are the same whether it's kept short, or allowed to develop.
If you pull the lights closer, transplant into final pot a week before switching to 12/12, use a MH bulb when first switching to 12/12, and restrict nitrogen just prior to switching...your internode spacing should tighten-up, making it a tad stockier. The further the secondary buds are from the light, the more they'll stretch, the loser the bud, and the trichomes won't be as mature as the ones closest to the light.

Quote Originally Posted by Chronic Chrissy
That brings us to the water issue. you would figure with 3 feet of snow on the ground water would be easy to come by. well it's not! My current and the most efficient system I have it filling a rubbermaid contaier with snow and setting it up on buckets(other wise it will neve thaw with the cold coming through the floor) and waiting 3 days for it to thaw and hoping there is enough for everyone.
So once again my problems lead back to my water situation(and still do because I am still experiencing restrictions that wouldn't bee there if I had a good unlimited supply of water available to me). My water supply affected everything to the point where I was spending money and time treating things that didn't need attention to try and make up fo r the things I couldn't provide.
Do you by chance know the ph of the snow? Or the general hardness? Or the contaminates in the snow? I'm guessing that with all those plants, a Britta filter is out of the question...but a R/O hooked-up to the bottom of a 40 gallon trash can, (using an aquarium bulkhead) or something similar might help. I'm pretty sure there would be enough water pressure at the bottom, to drive the R/O filters.

And, have you tried an aquariom heater (100w - $20.00 or so) to melt the snow?