Recent content by ChippyMalone

@vilca11 It looks like you have the best help from the best experts here you could hope for here, so I will not offer one bit of advice. But I do want to tell you that your life has touched me and inspired me in some meaningful way tonight as I struggle with my own medical issues that are...

I called Fox Farm on the phone, as they are actually really nice. And I asked them what the difference was between the two kits because I was reading information that made them seem the same but noticed the two different product numbers. Anyway, the nice gal on the phone told me a bunch of neat...

You are doing just fine. Honestly, the first few sets of leaves basically sacrifice themselves and run themselves ragged just trying to make sure the plant survives enough to grow instead of die. They always crap out once the plant gets going and always show every little scar they endured in...

Here is an example of my heavily trained plants that are vegged for about 7 weeks before flowering. All of the low branching and short stems between nodes is due to LST and not anything weird. Sure, it takes a little longer and a lot more training effort to grow plants like this, but I think the...

Re: Help: Plants look sick, diagnosys needed For the most part, the only thing you want to look at when diagnosing nutrient deficiencies that are happenning right now is to look at the new growth. From what I see, your new growth is bright green and healthy looking. As a plant matures, the...

We have soft water here, so there is nowhere near the amount of calcium and magnesium present in my tap water that I used to count on. Knowing this, I added the large granular Dolomite lime to my soil to act as a slow release source of the missing minerals. To date, I have not no problems and...

I know yoy are excited, but if you look at them all the time, it actually makes it harder to notice changes. If you only go in once or twice a day, then you've had enough time in between observations to be able to recognize that it looks different. Good luck.

First thing I would do is pull up that carpet, roll it up, and put down something waterproof. You are asking for a moldy disaster growing in a carpeted room. Nobody is going to notice a crappy job reinstallng the carpet in a closet or small room like this.

Whatever you do, do not try to increase your watering schedule so that you can use the fertilizers twice a week. You have good enough soil and your plants won't be harmed by a more conservative fertilizer schedule. I will not use fertilizers twice in a row, and if it takes 5 days between...

I use a heater traditionally called a "Milk house heater". They were originally designed to be safe to use while milking cows. What is nice is that they are solid metal construction, put out a good bit of heat, but not so hot that anything can burn and the surfaces of the unit are cool to the...

As a plant matures, lower leaves,which were critical to the plant when it was young, become shaded and lose their ability to provide more energy to the plant than they are using themselves. When this happens, the plant reabsorbs any nutrients from the leaf's cells and then voluntarily drops that...

Lively discussion. I tried three 7 gallon smart pots. I do like the concept, but I don't like random shaped bean bags that are difficult to move and arrange in a small space. I'm probably going to put these pots into my standard square foot plastic pots with panels cut out of the sides to make a...