Recent content by Vytas

Are you using tap water or RO? If RO, then you may need Calcium and Magnesium. Also what is the PH of the nutrient solution and are you sure the meter is accurate? If you are not sure, get test solution and check it. I had a PH meter fail this year and give faulty readings and the leaves...

Hmmmmm, unsubstantiated opinion from someone who saw something on YouTube, now THAT'S the sort of useful information I can really use!

That is old thinking, from before cheap 60x magnifiers were available at Radio Shack. Why make a guess when you can actually look and see the ripeness of the resin glands (trichomes).

I was curious how much care and pampering you give your garden. For example I have a friend who has given the plants and even the budded out branches names, and she spends at least an hour a day doting on her 4 or 5 plants. On the other hand, I try to open the door of my greenhouse every...

If it was me, I would try to get my PH down to 5.8: 6.3 to 6.5 is outside of the ideal range of 5.2 to 6.2.

The shade cloth seems to keep the place cooler by blocking most of the light energy, UV and IR that gets to the interior. I hooked up a small evaporative cooler when I built the greenhouse that keeps it at whatever temp I want. This year it has been set to 9O degrees F. There are also automatic...

We have a 9X16 from Santa Barbara Greenhouses that I built from a kit for our orchids. This year I have done my 1st grow. One advantage not mentioned is the ability to induce blooming by using shade cloth to restrict the amount of light hitting the plants. I have learned that rolling the shade...

I am doing a greenhouse grow a dozen miles north of you using natural light and I have found that I can trigger flowering with just shade cloth. I put in clones and seeded sprouts in April and had the clones flower almost immediately, rolling back the shade cloth sent them back into veg. A...

So where do I get 1/2cup of tobacco juice? I am sure not going to expose my mouth to a carcinogen and chew my own......

Does anyone know the minimum lumens or foot-candles for the plant to recognize it as sunlight? My plants went into flower prematurely due to a combination of shade and days of morning overcast and next time I want to supplement the natural light with artificial to extend the effective day...

Do you have LA city water? I do and my ppm is 120 going into the RO and 5 to 10 coming out. The funny thing is that our house has a water softener and the output is 250! I called the water guy and he said the softener removed the calcium that screws up the soaping and rinse ability and replaced...

Finally got to the bottom of my problem: the PH meter was defective. It would calibrate perfectly at 7, but in 4 test solution read 6.7, thus I was acid burning the plants. Dumped the nutrient solution, replaced my RO membrane to get my base PPM down to under 20 and refilled to correct PPM and...

After some research, I suspect that I am over feeding, a net PPM of 800ish is probably too much too soon. I will flush and dilute down to a net 600 or so and see what happens. I am also going to an every other hour cycle too. What do the experts think? Btw this is my first grow since...

I am running 6 ebb and flow buckets in a greenhouse in the SFV of CA. Put clones in on April 1, using FloraNova grow. PH is between 5.5 to 6.0 usually 5.7/5.8, flow is every hour with a 15 min cycle. Water is RO with PPM of 120, nutrient PPM is 920. humidity is 60% and min temp=60f max temp=85f...