Actually the pics you see from my partnered grow show it is really a crude operation. I'm growing in containers, with p-mix, and doing slightly larger plants then I do in my personal grow. We are using this method because that is what my partner knows and was comfortable with. I hadn't grown this way in about ten years, and I now remember why I went in another direction. He has come around on a lot of things tho, including LEDs which he did not want to use when we started 10 months ago and now wants 6 more TI pro blooms.

He's also seen me prove thru actual growing, that alot of things that are common held beliefs (he had them too) are just plain wrong. Such as size of containers, length of time needed to veg, various photoperiod manipulations, that many small plants stuffed into an area will out produce a few large plants in the same space, etc, etc.

At some point I'll be putting at least one of the aero/fog ponic trays I've built into production and then we'll move to growing with no media at all. Something you might want to consider some day. No dirt or p-mix, no hydrtron, no damn RW, just 2" net pots and neoprene collars to hold the stem. Requires no strength to lift anything heavy, just the gallon jugs that nutes come in. In fact some of the trays I've built for others will grow from cuttings to flower in the same machine, and in one case the same light (well a small T5 actinic white during rooting of the cuttings is used instead of the main light)

That's my dream and my deal with my partner, state of the art growing (LED + fog) and a system that he can run efficently so I can retire my grow. He then starts supplying the groups I work with medicine so that when I pass on someone keeps doing what I've been at for many years. I'd like to think I can go on forever but I'm on borrowed timme now. I only hope we can get it all done soon, but problems have set the project back.
oldmac Reviewed by oldmac on . Selecting a Mother Thought I'd share something here about the need to grow out a fair number of plants from seed, in order to select the best plant(s) for future use as a mother. I constantly see folks here with plant problems that are simply the result of growing one or two seeds, and getting what you got and then looking for help because; 1) too short, doesn't seem to grow "like my friends" plant or 2) my plant has lots of stretch and is lanky or 3) I grew this plant and it was nice and bushy but this strain is Rating: 5