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Some guidelines for lighting small grow spaces: 1. avoid lots of surface area that isn't reflective. Try to keep your grow space area walls reflective with either flat white paint of reflective foil. Otherwise a fair amount of your light won't bounce around to hit the plant, but will just be...

Yeah 6500K color temperature is a cool white, with a fair amount of blue spectrum, so good for veg. You'll want to go to 2700K or thereabouts color temp (warm white) if you use CFLs when you get to the flowering, though sounds like you have another light for that.

Do you have a link for those 1310 LED lights? Would help to see the specs to compare.

Definitely go full power. The more light your plant has available, the more THC it can make.

Miracle grow is not a good idea as its something of a Frankenstein product. If you want good plants, you want good soil. Miracle grow does not improve soil, it harms it, and when the nutrients it provides are gone, your plants will be at a nutrient disadvantage. Kind of a rule of thumb for...

I'm not an outdoor cannabis grower, but we have squirrels here like crazy. They do not bother our vegetable garden except for obvious predations of ripe fruits and vegetables, but have never seen them bother green stuff in the garden like lettuce, spinach, kale, squash etc. Hopefully they won't...

Quick answer to your question: Lots of light. There is a rule of thumb among cannabis growers that you should have at least 5K lumens of light per sq ft of your grow space. However, going with more light gives you even bigger buds and some growers use >10K lumens per sq. ft. Sure lights are...

The primary cannabis nutrients are nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), and potassium (K). These major nutrients usually are lacking from the soil/media first because the plants use large amounts for their growth. You do need to add these nutrients over the life of the plant. If you avoid fancy name...