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[LowGrow]

Hi I downloaded this massive grow faq a while back and I found alot of posts that look like the ones on here from og. I have almost the entire faq I clicked on alot of the links and only had a couple bad ones. I don't know how to put it up tho will someone help me It is a very extensive faq with a lot of good information I haven't seen touched on here.

 

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Here is the index
GrowFAQ : GrowFAQ Basic Topics
Organics
Worm Farming

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Feeding the worms - Diet
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Worm farm mainteinance
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Starting a worm farm
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Worm Farming Reference Data
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Harvesting worm castings
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Using worm castings

Electrical & safety

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How do I convert watts to amps and amps to watts?
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The circuit which goes to my grow room only has two wires, but my light has a 3 prong plug, what should I do?
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GrowFAQ Electrical Safety Hazard Warning, The Physical Effects of Electricity
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How many lights/watts can I put on a 15 Amp service?
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What is an AFCI and why should I install one?
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How do I electrically map my place?
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How can I offset the energy usage of my grow room?
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Why has my timer switch failed and what should I do?
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When do I change my ballast components?
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What is a GFCI?
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Basic wire sizing guide for US 120 and 240 volts
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How do I build a short-range timer?
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How much power does my lamp really use?
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How do I wire a UK ballast?
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Do I need to install a GFCI in my grow room?
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How do I install a GFCI?
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How to turn a PC fan into an exhaust or intake fan?
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Can I use a dimmer switch to control the speed of my fan?
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How do I convert watts to amps?
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Basic electrical safety guidelines
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How safe are these MH and HPS lights?
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How do I wire and connect an in-line duct fan?

Getting started

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What books, magazines, and discussion forums will help me learn more about growing?
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Should I start my grow from clones or seeds?
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Do Roots REALLY grow in the dark?
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What should I know about ordering seeds and clones thru the mail?
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What is Marijuana and what effects could it have on me?
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What are common mistakes made by first time growers?
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How much will i yeild?
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What are the different types of high associated with Indica, Sativa and hybrid strains?
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How do I choose a strain?
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How do they get strains to taste different?

Choosing your first system

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Hydro vs. Organic
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Should I buy a Phototron?
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Why should I grow using medium filled containers?
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Why should I grow using aeroponics?
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Why should I grow using hydroponics?

Growroom design and set-up

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Fan controler for under $30
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Is there a simple and cheap way to maintain water levels?
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What can I use to increase reflectivity?
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How can I vent through the sewer?
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How should I select my grow space?
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How do I add ventilation to my grow area?
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What range should I maintain for my growroom humidity and temperature?
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How do I design a fan powered cooling system for my growbox?
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How much ventilation do I need in my grow room?
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What are the different growth characteristics associated with Indica, Sativa and hybrid strains?
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How to dampen noise from PC fans
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DIY: How can I build a compact hood with an intergrated light trap?
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Should I choose a round or square pot for my plants?
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I've read that cannabis plants smell, what can I do about this?
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Where can I buy growing equipment and supplies?
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How do I power 12v computer fans?
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How much co2 should I add?
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How do I install a duct fan to operate most efficiently?
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Building your own inline fan
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What do I use to measure the nutrient and ph level?
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Stickydank’s basic CO2 method
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How much light do I need?
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What type of timer do I use with my lights?
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How do I rig an Electric Float Switch Reservoir Controller?
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Should I use a light mover?
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Growroom electrical & safety information

Seeds

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Why are F2 seeds less expensive?
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Should I start with bought seed?
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Which seeds should I buy?
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Marijuana seeds - Where can I buy marijuana seeds safely?

Lighting

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What is a suncircle? (circular light mover)
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GrowFAQ Electrical Safety Hazard Warning, The Physical Effects of Electricity
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How do I convert a common home security light into a remote ballast grow light?
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What are compact fluorescents and how can I use them for growing?
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Jackerspackle's Lighting Coverage Primer
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What do all of those lighting terms mean?
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How can I hang an adjustable reflector in a box-grow?
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Basic info on fluorescent lighting
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Can I use foil on my florescents?
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How can I add a glass shield to a reflector?
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What are light cycles and how do I use them?
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How do I build my own Cool Tube?
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PAR for plants, Lumen for people.
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Should I use a light mover?
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How can I improve the air flow in air cooled light hoods?
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Can blacklights be used for growing?
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How do I manipulate the photoperiod for larger yields?
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Metal Halide safety and fixture recommendations.
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How to read light level with an SLR camera?
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What distance should my light be from my plants?
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What is photosynthesis?
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How much will it cost to run my light?

Ballast information

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How can I build my own HPS or MH light system?
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Building and buying an HPS system
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Does the bulb have to match my ballast?
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What is a switchable ballast?

Identification and Comparison

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What is color temperature of a bulb?
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H.I.D bulb information
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Can I grow using halogen lights?
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What are Compact Fluorescents?
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H.I.D Light description
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When should I replace my lamp?
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What is a conversion bulb?
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HID vs. Fluorescents
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What type of lighting is best?
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How can I improve my indoor lighting?
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Close-up of MH and HPS bulbs.

Product information

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Bulb information and specifications
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Where can I buy MH/HPS lights?

Reflectivity

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How do I position a rectangular hood in my rectangular garden?
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All you need to know about Mylar
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How does hood orientation relate to efficiency?
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Can I use foil to reflect light?
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Is a dimpled or polished reflector better at reflecting light?
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Are mirrors good for reflecting light?
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What is black and white poly and how do I use it?

Fertilizing & feeding

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What are Macro-/Micro-Nutrients, and what is each responsible for?
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The never ending abuse of Phosphorous to enhance flowering
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How do I mix up my nutrient solution?
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How can I properly maintain my hydroponic nutrient solution?
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What do the three numbers on the fertilizer label stand for?
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How do I apply hydrogen peroxide?
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Will my nitrogen source affect the PH?
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What is the difference between synthetic and organic fertilizers?

Foliar feeding

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How do I foliar feed?
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What is Earthjuice catalyst and how do I use it?
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What is Spray-N-Grow and how do I use it?

Nutrient deficiencies

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Plant Abuse Chart and Photos by Nietzsche
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Nutrient Disorder Problem Solver by Jackerspackle

Sick Plant Symptoms

Changes in Colour of Bottom Fan Leaves

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Are the leaf tips curlling up, do the leaves have yellow margins or tips with green veins
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Are the leaf tips curling down, do they have yellow margins which are turning into dark dead spots
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Do the leaves have an inter-veinal banding appearance
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Are your leaves light green or yellow in colour
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Do the leaves have an overall dark green color with a purple, red, or blue pigmentation

Changes in Colour or Growth on the top of the plant

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Iron (Fe) deficiency
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Are leaf tips yellowed and curled down?

Crispy Dead Leaves

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Do the leaves have burnt blotches on them?

Are the bottom leaves dying out and burning up?

Nutrient formulations

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Standard nutrient flushing (clearing) formula
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MisterIto's beginner nutrient flushing formula

Bioponic

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MisterIto's bioponic beginner nutrient formula
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Why should I grow using hybrid bioponic nutrients?

Chemical

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Bunzboy’s flora feeding schedule for soil growers.
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MisterIto's chemical beginner nutrient formula
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Frenchie's salt fert formula
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What chemical based fertilizer should I use?
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10k's suggested beginner chemical nutrient formula
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Why should I grow using pure chemical nutrients?

Organic

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MrSoul's Guano Tea Method
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What is an Earth Juice/Maxicrop recirculating res?
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How do I produce my own Worm Castings?
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How do I make guano tea?
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Five Most Asked Questions About Earthworm Castings
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Why should I use worm castings?
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What organic based fertilizer should I use?
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MisterIto's organic beginner nutrient formula
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What about Earth Juice?
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Why should I grow using pure organic nutrients?

What are the best ratios for General Hydroponics 3-part?

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BD97's recipe
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Highgrade's recipe
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The 1-2-3 recipe
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Lucas Formula
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Lothar's recipe

Nutrient Product Comparisons

Outdoors

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Do I need fertilizer?
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What are some different fertilizers?
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Organic fertilizers, NPK values and amounts to use
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How can I improve my soil outdoors?
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Can I foliar feed outdoors?

pH / EC / TDS / PPM

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What are the pros and cons of buying a combo meter?
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What is the difference between ppm and EC?
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How do I tell if my PPM/EC is too high or too low?
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What is a good ph/EC/TDS meter?
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How can I raise or lower the pH of my soil mix?
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Are the liquid type Ph test kits accurate?
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What pH level or range should I aim for?
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What ranges should I maintain for my hydroponic nutrients pH, TDS/EC and temperature?
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What is pH?
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What is a pH buffer?
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PPM-EC-CF Chart
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How long does the seal last inside the probe?
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What does pH mean?
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What is a TDS meter and what does it measure?
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How do I figure out the ppm of my fertilizer mix?

Watering

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Is it safe to use pet-shop preperations, that are sold to remove chlorine from my tap water?
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Can I use water from the dehumidifier?
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How much water do I give my clones & seedlings when in rockwool?
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What is the "lift the pot" method?
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Why is my reverse-osmosis water not pH neutral?
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How can I tell whether my drooping plant is overwatered or underwatered?
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About wet/dry cycles
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What is the best type of water to start with?
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Is tap water ok for my seeds and plants?
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How do I determine my watering schedule for container plants?
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Why do my plants droop after flushing or heavy watering?
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How do I water my hard to reach plants?

Organic propagation

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How do I start a compost pile?

Liquid Organic Fertilizers



Organic Soil

Soil & soilless

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What is nutrient lockout?
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How can I measure the pH of soil/soilless runoff?
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What are Water-Absorbent Polymers and how do I use them?
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Maximizing root growth in soil containers
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What is the Soil Food Web?
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Treating old soil
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What size pots should I use?
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eugene's soil mat planting method
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How do I use capillary matting with an indoor grow and why does it help?
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If I change my soil grow to hydro, will it taste bad?
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What is a fortified medium?

Soil & soilless mixes

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What are soil amendments?
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What is Soil?
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How can I test for soil texture at home?
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Using Coco as a Substrate
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I'm a beginner and need a simple and easy soilless mix.
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Soul's Soilless Mix
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Vic's Super Soil recipes & notes
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What is loam?
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~shabang~'s worm casting method
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Bongaloid's Corruption of ~shabang~'s Casting Method
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Aallon's quick & simple soil mix
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Kumquat's deluxe potting soil and manure tea
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What is Soil Structure?
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What do you mean by soilless mix: what is it?
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MR_NATURAL420's perfect potting medium
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What is Sandy Soil?
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What is silt?
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What is Clay Soil?
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What is Soil Texture?

What is root-bound?

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What is root-bound?

Hydroponics

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Can I add stuff to the reservoir to change the flavour of my bud?
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Should I use Lavarocks or Expanded Clay?
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What are the differences between aeroponic misting and fogging?
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What is this green slime on my rockwool?
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What is nutrient lockout?
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How do I Build a Bato-Bucket/Dutch-Pot System?
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How do I sterilize and disinfect my system?
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How can I keep my reservoir cool?
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How dow I use Oxy-Plus in my nutrient tank?
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Simple Hydroponics, The Wick System
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How should I clean my grow rocks?
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Is pH important?
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Can I use industrial grade rockwool for my hydroponic medium?
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What is hydroponics?

Bubblers (DWC)

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How can I grow a whole garden full of bubblers easily?
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What is a bubbler/DWC?
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At what level should the nutrients be in the bucket?
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What kind of pump should I use?/How much air does each bucket need?
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How can I build a DWC cooler tub?
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Where do I set the water level for new clones?
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How can I build my own bubbler?
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How do I start seeds for DWC bubblers?
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What should the pH of the nutrients be?
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What kind of airline should I use?
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How can I get rid of slimy roots?
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How often should I change the nutrients?
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How large should my bucket/container be?
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What kind of airstone should I use?
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What nutrients should I use?/How much nutrient should I use?
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How can I stop algae from growing in the bucket?
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How do I build a bubbling bucket? (Deep Water Culture)

Ebb and Flow (E&F)

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How are the salt buildups flushed out of the planters in ebb & flow?
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Is there anything better than the standard planters provided with most ebb & flow systems, and How can I modify the system to give maximum yield and root mat growth?
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How Do I Prep My Ebb & Flow Table, using big rw cubes?
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How often should I flood the tray? (flood frequency)
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How long should I flood the tray? (flood duration)
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Can a megagarden be converted to Deep Water Culture (DWC)?
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How do I grow single cola style, sea of green Ebb & Flow ?
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How high should I set the flood level? (flood depth)
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How can I heat my reservoir solution to keep it in the correct range?
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How should I go about transplanting the minicube into the rock filled planters?
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What is a Megagarden?
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How should I maintain the reservoir, topping off changing solution etc.?

Transplanting

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What is root-bound?

Hydro to soil

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How do I go from rockwool to a soil mix?

Soil to soil

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Why do I need to transplant?
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How do I create root growth lengthwise?
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How can I transplant my plant into a bigger pot?
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How big of a pot should I transplant into?
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BOG\'s double potting technique
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Nomad's tansplanting technique
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How will I know when my plants need to be repotted?
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When is the best time to repot my plant?

Plant trouble

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Nutrient Profiles and Deficiencies by Mr. HIGHway
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Nutrient Disorder Problem Solver by Jackersparckle
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Plant Abuse Chart and Photos by Nietzsche
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Plant moisture stress - symptoms and solutions
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Do I have Bad Room Syndrome?
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How can I get a better diagnosis of my plant?
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What are some causes of slow plant growth?

Seeds, germination & seedlings

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Desiccant and its uses
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Soil germination problems
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How can I get my plants to produce femenized seeds?
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The merits of transplanting seedlings deeply
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The germination process of a dicot seed
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How can I tell if my bag seeds are healthy?
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How can I make my seedlings stem stronger?
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Why are seeds different colours?
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How do I use Oxy-Plus for seed germination?

Growth after germination

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How can I gently fertilize my seedlings with guano?
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Why do my seedlings stretch?
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Why are my Seedling's Stems Purple?
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When should I fertilize my seedlings?
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How do I fertilize seedlings outdoors?

Seed germination techniques

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Vapour's Rockwool germination technique
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Vegemite's seed germination technique (rockwool)
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Germinating Cannabis Seeds (for Bio Growers).
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Preparing seeds for easier germination
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How do I germinate seeds?
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KiDKiND's germination technique
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Is there a faster way to germinate seeds? (Scarification)
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How do I germinate seeds in soil?
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What is an idiot proof way to germinate seeds?
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joe's seed germination technique (in rockwool)

Vegetative growth

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How does plant nutrient metabolism work?
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How many hours of light do I need for veg growth?
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How do I improve outdoor air exposure and yield, to also reduce chances of mold?
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Do Roots REALLY grow in the dark?
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What is Vegetative growth?
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How can I tell if my seedling is male or female without flowering it?

Training/Pruning

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Smokinrav's supercropping technique
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How can I train my plants for a lower profile?
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Show me how to do early vegetative pruning and FIM ?
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How do I prune and start supercropping ?
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How do I paperclip train when not using soil or media?
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How do I tie down my outdoor plant?
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How can I tuck leaves to increase light penetration?
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What is the FIM pruning technique?
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What is the paperclip training technique?
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How do I pre train my plant for a ScrOG grow?
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Should I prune (top) my plants?
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I topped my plants, why is there no new growth at the nodes?

Sexing

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What are preflowers?
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How can I identify a female by seeing its pre-flowers?
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Flower Biology
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How can I determine the sex of seed plants with clones?
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How do I sex using a paper bag?
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After 10 days flowering what does a male look like?
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Should I force flower my plants to determine sex, then revert them to complete vegetative growth once the sex is known?
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What does an emerging MALE preflower look like?
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After 10 days flowering, what does a female look like?

Cloning

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Can temperature affect how well my clones root?
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How can I package clones for shipping when customs will not be involved?
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How can I root quicker using cutting scarification?
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How do I make my own Rooting hormone?
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What is a wick cloner, and how do I build one?
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How do I clone plants? Smokinrav's simple water-cloning method
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Got any tips for hard to clone plants?
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Leaf's cloning method
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How long should my clones take to root?
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How do I take multiple clones from the whole branch?
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Are humidity domes or tents important?
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Why are my clones wilting?
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How can I clone using rockwool?
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How clean does my cloning equipment need to be?
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Can I take a cutting from a plant in flower?
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DuctMAN's cloning advice
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What is air layering?
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How and where do I cut my clones?
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Treating RockWool & Misting cuttings with Oxy-Plus

Care of mother plants

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What should I feed my mothers prior to cloning?

for Hydroponic systems

Bubblers & misters

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How can I build my own bubble cloner?
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What is the Cheapo-Aero cloning tub?
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How do I build my own aeroponic cloner with misters?

Perlite & vermiculite

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How do I clone in perlite & vermiculite?

Rainforest 242

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How do I clone in a Rainforest 242?

Rockwool

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Mr. HIGHway’s Cloning Method In Rockwool
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Snoofer's illustrated rockwool cloning technique
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How do I clone using rockwool?

The Cheapo-Aero cloner

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How can I test my new cloner to see if it is working properly?
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Building a Cheapo-Aero cloning tub
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How should I transplant rooted aero clones to soil?
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How should cuttings be prepared for aero cloning?
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Take a look at some of the variations of home made aero cloners

for Soil or mixes

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Slowhand's Oasis cubes in soil, cloning method
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Crazy Composer's Soil Cloning Method
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Dowzer's peat pellet cloning method
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How do I clone in perlite & vermiculite?
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How do I clone in peat pellets?

Layering

Timing your clones

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Clones in Stasis
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When should I take clones from my plants?
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Can I put rooted clones directly into flowering?
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How can I hold clones in stasis? (the fridge method)
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Can I have mature clones, without wasting the time invested growing the seedlings?

Blooming & ripening

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How do I determine a female sex plant from a male?
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What does a garden look like from the initiation of bloom to the harvest?
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How many hours of light do I need for blooming?
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How dark does the dark cycle need to be?
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Growing Consensus Synopsis Paper: Should Fan Leaves be Trimmed?
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What do I do if my plants are growing too tall after flowering?
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What is an hermaphrodite?
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How can I find the exact harvest timing for my strain?
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Is UV important for blooming?
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How can I manage a tall lanky sativa indoors?
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What is stretch and how can I minimize it?

Harvesting & curing

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What are trichomes? Trichome 101
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How to build an odorless bud drier
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Does curing affect potency2?
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Fake Pot: What's the deal with these Marijuana Alternatives?
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How I detect and prevent budrot?
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What is the best way to dry and preserve the cure for smooth, sweet buds?
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Drying, Curing, and Storage (paper bag method)
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Does curing affect potency?
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How Can I Tell When My Buds Are Dry Enough To be Cured?
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How do I properly dry and cure my harvest?
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How do I cure my harvest with glass canning jars?
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How do I regenerate/rejuvenate/reveg a plant after harvest?
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How do I quick-dry my buds?
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What is the "Dry Ice Cure" (Freeze drying) ?
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How do I manicure (trim) my plants?
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How do I re-moisten dry buds?
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When should I harvest my plants?

Enjoying your harvest

Cooking with Cannabis

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How do I make Frozen Ganja Custard?
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How do I cook with Cannabis & program in C?
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How do I make Hashish fudge?
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How do I make hot buttered bhang?
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How do I make avocado dip?
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How do I make Cannabis Cinnamon bread?
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How do I make chocolate cannatruffles?
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Hacksaw’s tasty CannaButter recipe
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What is POTKA, and how do I make it??
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How do I make cannabis cooking oil?
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Panzanella salad
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How do I make cannabutter?
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How do I make a Marijuana Tincture?
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How can I make storable cannabis cooking oil?
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How do I make scooby snacks?
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Firecrackers
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How do I make marijuana pancakes?
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How do I make a Canna 'Omelette?
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How do I make apple pot?
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How do I make nips?
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Bhang
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How do I brew cannabis beer?
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How do I make banana bread?
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How do I make Marijuana Spaghetti Sauce?
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Tabouli
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How do I make Grilled Canna-veggies?
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How do I use cannabis in my favorite recipes?
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How do i make pot brownies?
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How do I make smooth & creamy cocopot ice cream?
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How do I make Barbecued MJ steak?
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How do I make hash butter popcorn?
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Pesto
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How do I make baked turtle cheesecake?
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How do I make MJ salad dressing?
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How do I make cosmic hollandaise sauce?
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Spinach Dip
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How do I make MJ chilli con carne?

Cookies

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Leaf's Monster Cookies
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Grace's lemon cookies
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MJ Fudge crinkle and Butter cookies
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How do I make cookies?
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How do I make chocolate peanut butter cookies?
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How do I make Moravian ginger cookies?

Smoking your harvest

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What are some homemade pipes I can build?
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How can I stop the smell of my smoking?
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What are bong percolators and diffusers?
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How do I clean my glass pipe?
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How do I build a simple but effective lightbulb vaporizer?
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How do I cure my pipe?
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How do I break up cannabis for smoking?

Rolling

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How do I roll a tulip joint?
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UncleBen's dollar-bill joint rolling method
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What kind of rolling papers should I buy?
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How do I roll a no spill pocket joint?
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How do I roll an *Astral Weaver* joint?
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How do I roll an Inside-Out Joint?
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What is a blunt?
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Overdose’s sure-fire joint rolling method
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How do I roll a European-style joint?
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Nomad's blunt rolling method

Storing your harvest

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How do I store my harvest to maintain quality?
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How do I store seeds?
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How do I build my own stash box?
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How can I easily store my freshly made Honey Oil?
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What can I use a dessicant for to help drying?

Outdoor growing

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How do I grow outdoor in northern countries?
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Which types of mulch are usable?
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What about poison ivy exposure?
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What is Guerilla Growing and what do I need to know about it?
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How do I choose an outdoor growing location?
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How do I keep my well chosen outdoor plot secure?
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What are the benefits of mulching?
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When are average first and last frost in the U.S. and Canada?
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How do I prepare my outdoor plot?
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What are the advantages of growing in a greenhouse?

Pest control

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How do I control Grasshoppers?
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How do i protect my outdoor grow from deer?
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How do I deal with Bears?

Odor control

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How do I control odor with ozonators?

Glossary of common terms

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Progeny testing
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SCROG
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Female

GrowFAQ Advanced Topics

Breeding

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How can I contribute as a sativa breeder?
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How should strains be named?
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Can I use dessicant for seed or pollen storage?
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What is colchicine and how is it used?
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Soul's Selecting breeding individuals for marijuana production
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Uncle Ben's pollination method
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Selecting males

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How can I make ice hash for less than $5 outlay?
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Mesh sizing and kif screening
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A summary of hash extraction methods
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How can I make a cheap trichome shaker?
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What is hash and how do I make it?
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Bunzboys 10 steps, for the cheapest way to make hash.
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How do I press lower quality resins?
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Simple Soap Purification
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How to Make Butane Honey Oil

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All you need to know about Mylar
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ChristianKungFu - Fertilizer mix examples
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Can I give myplants extra nitrogen?
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Microorganisms and organic compounds in the solution: Is filtering useful?
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What is EDTA?
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ChristianKungFu - Basic Elements and Nutrient Balance (long)
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ChristianKungFu - TDS, PPM, and EC
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ChristianKungFu - pH
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Chemist's Salt Fertilizer Recipes
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ChristianKungFu - Salts, E.C. and Leeching
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A critical look at preharvest flushing
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MisterIto's nutrient flushing formula

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Plant Abuse Chart and Photos by Nietzsche
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Doc's CarbonMax Bloom Enhancer
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[pedrodepaco]

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[LowGrow]

no I swear I have the photos and all fully working inside Mozilla with links i just don't know how to upload such a quantity of info.............help needed lol

 

[LowGrow]

OMG this is overgrow....

 

[LowGrow]

Feeding the worms - Diet
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~Feeding the worms - Diet~

Aallonharja's recommendations for trouble free wormy diet

Plant-sourced material only. Wastes from fruit, vegetables, berries, tea bags, paper/cardboard/tissues. Not only do these contain a lot of nutrients like P and K, but it seems to me that worm castings made with this kind of feed make for sweet vivid taste and high trichome content!

Know your limits! Experiment with 'new' foods.


Do earthworms need a complete diet, or can they survive (and be productive) on a single unbalanced source of food, very high in N, P, or K?

I think that composting earthworms can survive on a single food source, BUT that food source must contain at least minute amounts of the minerals they need.

For example, only paper or only cardboard would support a worm population very well. But they do need a bunch of minerals just as we do to survive. I'm guessing nitrogen, calcium, phosphorus and magnesium would be the most important ones just as they are for us.

Earthworms do not actually eat the food materials themselves, but the BACTERIA that are feeding on the materials. These bacteria do the work of extracting the minerals and making more complex organic compunds for the wormies, like amino acids and vitamines and what not.


What foods need to be avoided?

Salt. Salt kills worms. Do not add any foods with high salt content into the bins. Often breads and processed foods contain high salt.

Cat and dog manure. Humanure. These can act as a vectors for human diseases, such as toxoplasma, the brain cell parasite, and thus may not contribute positively to your health in the long term. Manure from livestock should be safe to use (ie. horse/cow/sheep/poultry manure).

Generally it is thought that worms can process ANY organic material, given enough time to adjust. From pH 2 wineyard waste to actively 'hot' decomposing horse manure - but they will need time to adjust to the conditions, and the worm farmer will need to create suitable conditions. Experiment carefully.


Does the material have to be partially decomposed already?

Not at all. While in commercial operations the waste material is often 'pre-decomposed' or 'pre-composted', it is perfectly ok to add undecomposed organic waste such as fresh vegetable peels in a worm bin. One just has to watch out not to create a thermophilic compost that heats up and cooks the worms.

While the earthworms can only 'eat' material that has already started decomposing, usually adding fresh veggie waste, for instance, poses no problems whatsoever, especially if buried in the bedding.


My question is should I run my kitchen waste through a blender before adding it to the bin, or can I just chop it finely with a knife.

If you run the kitchen waste through a blender it will be consumed much faster - but chopping with knife would work quite well. I think blending the waste might halve the time required for decomposing.

I dont process my veggie waste, just throw them in there. I have 3 main bins with 8 month cycles, 6+ months of feeding and 2 months or less of settling. Once the cycle is through, the worm caste is dark brown muddy pudding that sticks to everything.


Whatabout adding sand? My kitchen waste contains no sand!

Sand - and grit - important, but also not a absolute must in my humble opinion. It helps the worms digestion, and it helps breaking down the organic matter.

For sand one can, in my opinion, substitute eggshells, perlite or dolomite lime. Sand is basically broken down inert, hard, rock-like material, so I suppose anything inert and hard would work. Do not use metals or plastics.

One doesn't need that much grit, and note that sand will concentrate on the bottom of the bin due to weight, so the top layer wouldn't have that much sand. I would say that sand content of one percent would be just fine.


There are all kinds of critters in there!? Can I harvest or should I wait?

A worm bin or a worm farm may support many kinds of creatures, mostly useful ones. But the fact that you can see that other decomposers are present usually means that the feed/waste has not yet decomposed very well, and needs some more time to become worm castings (unless worm compost is what you are after).

Usually critters like mites, springtails or tiny white Enchytraeid 'potworms' are feeding directly on the foods present. Unlike composting worms, they cannot survive by eating the bacteria present in the worm castings, and thus they will die off as soon as the foods have been decomposed.


Could I possibly add my soil fertilizers like kelp, alfalfa, and guano to the worm bin to up it's NPK. That way, my worm shit would be the only thing I needed to use for fertilizing, make a tea for every watering. - Bobby digital

Yes, very much so. But with some ingredients its best to only use them for the final soil-mix because of their cost or composition. Kelp and guanos are both very very costly to be used as worm food.

As to using worm bins to process different food-wastes into different nutriens like veg or bloom nutrients, it works quite well, but often nitrogen and magnesium supplementation seems to be a requirement.

Worms like alfalfa meal, but one must not use too much at once as the high nitrogen content might cause heat-composting or even fermentation.

I think perlite that has spent some months in a worm bin would have lively bacterial cultures on its surface - yet another benefit..

Last modified: 08:15 - Oct 02, 2005
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faq:1725 "Feeding the worms - Diet"

 

[LowGrow]

WOOOOOOOOOOOT i have almost the whole thing I am walking on air help me someone I want to get this out.

 

[FreezerBoy]

If you downloaded it, that means you have a link. Post the link in either or both of these Link-O-Rama or Library of Links and if their caretakers deem them worthy, maybe they'll make the front pages.

 

[BIOJenn]

kids stuff

 

[LowGrow]

i can't just post the link I have an offline archive of OverGrows faq I downloaded it in torrent form. Overgrow is not on the internet anymore so all of the data has to be manually posted. read the list and if there is anything they want posted let me know.

 

[LowGrow]

that is just the index each one of those is a link to the info...... Is there anyone computer literate enough to understand what i am talking about?

 

[Longhair]

If you downloaded it, that means you have a link. Post the link in either or both of these Link-O-Rama or Library of Links and if their caretakers deem them worthy, maybe they'll make the front pages.

Hello,
There Is No Link. He Downloaded The Info Using A Torrent. If You Don't Know What A Torrent Is Google For It. He Wants To Upload It To ICM, But There Is So Much Info It Would Probably Take Days? He's Asking For Help! There Are Ways To Do This But You Have To Know How To Do This. He & Myself Don't Know Exactly How To Upload This Much Info Quickly To ICM.

BioJen Why Don't You Help Him Since You Know How? The Info Would Help Allot Of People & Maybe You To.

Thank You
Longhair

 

[Lord Doobie]

I would start a grow log and upload one whole topic to it at a time being careful each is complete. Add each topic's pics to your album. It will take some time to get each topic and it's corresponding pics to display properly. This way, everything will be on the ICMAG server and, when each topic is submitted to the DIY section for review, be easily linked.

 

[LowGrow]

I have posted a couple.

 

[FrankRizzo]

No offense to you, but there isn't anything there that hasn't been covered here. That torrent has been around for a while. Don't let that stop you from posting, just sayin.