Just ordered Rockwool Cubes and..........

[jadeius]

The only thing I can recommend is getting some white contact paper and cover the walls inside the thing, or paint it (but air it out good before growing). If you cover all the walls with white, it will reflect in every direction. You'll need a lot of bright light with that, or get mylar which is supposedly very reflective.

[masterg]

Jadeius i have taken your advise on the wall reflection, i have also descided that i am going to use rockwool cubes instead of buying soil cause to tell you the truth i cant afford nothin apart from the fertilizers now, (i am broke), is it true that all i need is like a grill peice or or some type of gauze stuff so i can let them drain, and if so how many times shall i water and fertilizer? cheers again

[jadeius]

well, here's my setup, and it's MINIMAL...I'm not growing hydro, I'm using soil, it's balanced and intended for african violets, promotes their flowering...I got it at wal-mart because it was very cheap...my little babies grew right away in that shit...I'm growing 2 plants under ONE 42w flourescent light, I'm pretty sure it's cool white light...says it looks like 200w incandescent...one has grown over a foot tall in less than 5 weeks...I've been using miracle-grow, which I really shouldn't because the soil has slow-release nutrients...I recently flushed out the soil because I was suspicious of too much ferts, and now they look great...the other is a polyploid (grows 3 leaves instead of 2 at a time)...they're really doing good, growing secondary branches at the nodes, and I've topped them...I just keep them in a corner in my room behind a guitar amp where the white walls reflect light...they seem to love it...

[masterg]

Special thanx 2 all yall,
mellow mood
tedcun
jadeius
llamaman666

Cheers 4 your help.

[montyd]

bio bizz all mix soil is great 100% organic used with bio grow/bloom/topmax you carnt go wrong.
i use envirolites and am very impressed with them..

[Lucas03]

hi im growing white widow, it's 2 feet tall and has 2 big top grow tips. i'm not shore if im using the correct fertilzer im using african violet which has an npk of 12,36,14. If you do have any advice could you please email me on [email protected] many thanks

[Lucas03]

and im in the flowering phase i forgot to tell you lol

[IthoughtIknewitall]

MasterG, Hydro should be grown after soil. PH is extremly important in Hydro as well nutrient levels. Do soil first.

[jadeius]

yeah, there's no way i would have gotten the results i have with my first grow with hydro, it take a lot of your time and care and patience...

but to answer lucas03's question, i used soil for african violets on my first grow, still using it actually...it was like a dollar for a bag of it, so cheap, but it works, keep it loose, repot at least twice during the plant's life because that soil will compress and deprive the roots pretty easily, keep the soil loose in other words

you could get some miracle gro if they're flowering now, there are nutrients in that soil, but i used miracle gro along with it with good results, just feed it pure water the last week or two before you harvest to get all the plant food taste out...my first shit was DAAAAANK mo'fuckas!