Organics

Worm Farming

• Feeding the worms - Diet

• Worm farm mainteinance

• Starting a worm farm

• Worm Farming Reference Data

• Harvesting worm castings

• Using worm castings

Electrical & safety

• How do I convert watts to amps and amps to watts?

• The circuit which goes to my grow room only has two wires, but my light has a 3 prong plug, what should I do?

• GrowFAQ Electrical Safety Hazard Warning, The Physical Effects of Electricity

• How many lights/watts can I put on a 15 Amp service?

• What is an AFCI and why should I install one?

• How do I electrically map my place?

• How can I offset the energy usage of my grow room?

• Why has my timer switch failed and what should I do?

• When do I change my ballast components?

• What is a GFCI?

• Basic wire sizing guide for US 120 and 240 volts

• How do I build a short-range timer?

• How much power does my lamp really use?

• How do I wire a UK ballast?

• Do I need to install a GFCI in my grow room?

• How do I install a GFCI?

• How to turn a PC fan into an exhaust or intake fan?

• Can I use a dimmer switch to control the speed of my fan?

• How do I convert watts to amps?

• Basic electrical safety guidelines

• How safe are these MH and HPS lights?

• How do I wire and connect an in-line duct fan?

Getting started

• What books, magazines, and discussion forums will help me learn more about growing?

• Should I start my grow from clones or seeds?

• Do Roots REALLY grow in the dark?

• What should I know about ordering seeds and clones thru the mail?

• What is Marijuana and what effects could it have on me?

• What are common mistakes made by first time growers?

• How much will i yeild?

• What are the different types of high associated with Indica, Sativa and hybrid strains?

• How do I choose a strain?

• How do they get strains to taste different?

Choosing your first system

• Hydro vs. Organic

• Should I buy a Phototron?

• Why should I grow using medium filled containers?

• Why should I grow using aeroponics?

• Why should I grow using hydroponics?

Growroom design and set-up

• Fan controler for under $30

• Is there a simple and cheap way to maintain water levels?

• What can I use to increase reflectivity?

• How can I vent through the sewer?

• How should I select my grow space?

• How do I add ventilation to my grow area?

• What range should I maintain for my growroom humidity and temperature?

• How do I design a fan powered cooling system for my growbox?

• How much ventilation do I need in my grow room?

• What are the different growth characteristics associated with Indica, Sativa and hybrid strains?

• How to dampen noise from PC fans

• DIY: How can I build a compact hood with an intergrated light trap?

• Should I choose a round or square pot for my plants?

• I've read that cannabis plants smell, what can I do about this?

• Where can I buy growing equipment and supplies?

• How do I power 12v computer fans?

• How much co2 should I add?

• How do I install a duct fan to operate most efficiently?

• Building your own inline fan

• What do I use to measure the nutrient and ph level?

• Stickydank’s basic CO2 method

• How much light do I need?

• What type of timer do I use with my lights?

• How do I rig an Electric Float Switch Reservoir Controller?

• Should I use a light mover?

• Growroom electrical & safety information

Seeds

• Why are F2 seeds less expensive?

• Should I start with bought seed?

• Which seeds should I buy?

• Marijuana seeds - Where can I buy marijuana seeds safely?

Lighting

• What is a suncircle? (circular light mover)

• GrowFAQ Electrical Safety Hazard Warning, The Physical Effects of Electricity

• How do I convert a common home security light into a remote ballast grow light?

• What are compact fluorescents and how can I use them for growing?

• Jackerspackle's Lighting Coverage Primer

• What do all of those lighting terms mean?

• How can I hang an adjustable reflector in a box-grow?

• Basic info on fluorescent lighting

• Can I use foil on my florescents?

• How can I add a glass shield to a reflector?

• What are light cycles and how do I use them?

• How do I build my own Cool Tube?

• PAR for plants, Lumen for people.

• Should I use a light mover?

• How can I improve the air flow in air cooled light hoods?

• Can blacklights be used for growing?

• How do I manipulate the photoperiod for larger yields?

• Metal Halide safety and fixture recommendations.

• How to read light level with an SLR camera?

• What distance should my light be from my plants?

• What is photosynthesis?

• How much will it cost to run my light?

Ballast information

• How can I build my own HPS or MH light system?

• Building and buying an HPS system

• Does the bulb have to match my ballast?

• What is a switchable ballast?

Identification and Comparison

• What is color temperature of a bulb?

• H.I.D bulb information

• Can I grow using halogen lights?

• What are Compact Fluorescents?

• H.I.D Light description

• When should I replace my lamp?

• What is a conversion bulb?

• HID vs. Fluorescents

• What type of lighting is best?

• How can I improve my indoor lighting?

• Close-up of MH and HPS bulbs.

Product information

• Bulb information and specifications

• Where can I buy MH/HPS lights?

Reflectivity

• How do I position a rectangular hood in my rectangular garden?

• All you need to know about Mylar

• How does hood orientation relate to efficiency?

• Can I use foil to reflect light?

• Is a dimpled or polished reflector better at reflecting light?

• Are mirrors good for reflecting light?

• What is black and white poly and how do I use it?

Fertilizing & feeding

• What are Macro-/Micro-Nutrients, and what is each responsible for?

• The never ending abuse of Phosphorous to enhance flowering

• How do I mix up my nutrient solution?

• How can I properly maintain my hydroponic nutrient solution?

• What do the three numbers on the fertilizer label stand for?

• How do I apply hydrogen peroxide?

• Will my nitrogen source affect the PH?

• What is the difference between synthetic and organic fertilizers?

Foliar feeding

• How do I foliar feed?

• What is Earthjuice catalyst and how do I use it?

• What is Spray-N-Grow and how do I use it?

Nutrient deficiencies

• Plant Abuse Chart and Photos by Nietzsche

• Nutrient Disorder Problem Solver by Jackerspackle

Sick Plant Symptoms

Changes in Colour of Bottom Fan Leaves

• Are the leaf tips curlling up, do the leaves have yellow margins or tips with green veins

• Are the leaf tips curling down, do they have yellow margins which are turning into dark dead spots

• Do the leaves have an inter-veinal banding appearance

• Are your leaves light green or yellow in colour

• 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

• Iron (Fe) deficiency

• Are leaf tips yellowed and curled down?

Crispy Dead Leaves

• Do the leaves have burnt blotches on them?
  

Are the bottom leaves dying out and burning up?

Nutrient formulations

• Standard nutrient flushing (clearing) formula

• MisterIto's beginner nutrient flushing formula

Bioponic

• MisterIto's bioponic beginner nutrient formula

• Why should I grow using hybrid bioponic nutrients?
  

Chemical

• Bunzboy’s flora feeding schedule for soil growers.

• MisterIto's chemical beginner nutrient formula

• Frenchie's salt fert formula

• What chemical based fertilizer should I use?

• 10k's suggested beginner chemical nutrient formula

• Why should I grow using pure chemical nutrients?
  

Organic

• MrSoul's Guano Tea Method

• What is an Earth Juice/Maxicrop recirculating res?

• How do I produce my own Worm Castings?

• How do I make guano tea?

• Five Most Asked Questions About Earthworm Castings

• Why should I use worm castings?

• What organic based fertilizer should I use?

• MisterIto's organic beginner nutrient formula

• What about Earth Juice?

• Why should I grow using pure organic nutrients?
  

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

• BD97's recipe

• Highgrade's recipe

• The 1-2-3 recipe

• Lucas Formula

• Lothar's recipe

Nutrient Product Comparisons

Outdoors

• Do I need fertilizer?

• What are some different fertilizers?

• Organic fertilizers, NPK values and amounts to use

• How can I improve my soil outdoors?

• Can I foliar feed outdoors?

pH / EC / TDS / PPM

• What are the pros and cons of buying a combo meter?

• What is the difference between ppm and EC?

• How do I tell if my PPM/EC is too high or too low?

• What is a good ph/EC/TDS meter?

• How can I raise or lower the pH of my soil mix?

• Are the liquid type Ph test kits accurate?

• What pH level or range should I aim for?

• What ranges should I maintain for my hydroponic nutrients pH, TDS/EC and temperature?

• What is pH?

• What is a pH buffer?

• PPM-EC-CF Chart

• How long does the seal last inside the probe?

• What does pH mean?

• What is a TDS meter and what does it measure?

• How do I figure out the ppm of my fertilizer mix?

Watering

• Is it safe to use pet-shop preperations, that are sold to remove chlorine from my tap water?

• Can I use water from the dehumidifier?

• How much water do I give my clones & seedlings when in rockwool?

• What is the "lift the pot" method?

• Why is my reverse-osmosis water not pH neutral?

• How can I tell whether my drooping plant is overwatered or underwatered?

• About wet/dry cycles

• What is the best type of water to start with?

• Is tap water ok for my seeds and plants?

• How do I determine my watering schedule for container plants?

• Why do my plants droop after flushing or heavy watering?

• How do I water my hard to reach plants?
  

Organic propagation

• How do I start a compost pile?
  

Liquid Organic Fertilizers

 

Organic Soil

Soil & soilless

• What is nutrient lockout?

• How can I measure the pH of soil/soilless runoff?

• What are Water-Absorbent Polymers and how do I use them?

• Maximizing root growth in soil containers

• What is the Soil Food Web?

• Treating old soil

• What size pots should I use?

• eugene's soil mat planting method

• How do I use capillary matting with an indoor grow and why does it help?

• If I change my soil grow to hydro, will it taste bad?

• What is a fortified medium?

Soil & soilless mixes

• What are soil amendments?

• What is Soil?

• How can I test for soil texture at home?

• Using Coco as a Substrate

• I'm a beginner and need a simple and easy soilless mix.

• Soul's Soilless Mix

• Vic's Super Soil recipes & notes

• What is loam?

• ~shabang~'s worm casting method

• Bongaloid's Corruption of ~shabang~'s Casting Method

• Aallon's quick & simple soil mix

• Kumquat's deluxe potting soil and manure tea

• What is Soil Structure?

• What do you mean by soilless mix: what is it?

• MR_NATURAL420's perfect potting medium

• What is Sandy Soil?

• What is silt?

• What is Clay Soil?

• What is Soil Texture?
  

What is root-bound?

• What is root-bound?
  

Hydroponics

• Can I add stuff to the reservoir to change the flavour of my bud?

• Should I use Lavarocks or Expanded Clay?

• What are the differences between aeroponic misting and fogging?

• What is this green slime on my rockwool?

• What is nutrient lockout?

• How do I Build a Bato-Bucket/Dutch-Pot System?

• How do I sterilize and disinfect my system?

• How can I keep my reservoir cool?

• How dow I use Oxy-Plus in my nutrient tank?

• Simple Hydroponics, The Wick System

• How should I clean my grow rocks?

• Is pH important?

• Can I use industrial grade rockwool for my hydroponic medium?

• What is hydroponics?

Bubblers (DWC)

• How can I grow a whole garden full of bubblers easily?

• What is a bubbler/DWC?

• At what level should the nutrients be in the bucket?

• What kind of pump should I use?/How much air does each bucket need?

• How can I build a DWC cooler tub?

• Where do I set the water level for new clones?

• How can I build my own bubbler?

• How do I start seeds for DWC bubblers?

• What should the pH of the nutrients be?

• What kind of airline should I use?

• How can I get rid of slimy roots?

• How often should I change the nutrients?

• How large should my bucket/container be?

• What kind of airstone should I use?

• What nutrients should I use?/How much nutrient should I use?

• How can I stop algae from growing in the bucket?

• How do I build a bubbling bucket? (Deep Water Culture)
  

Ebb and Flow (E&F)

• How are the salt buildups flushed out of the planters in ebb & flow?

• 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?

• How Do I Prep My Ebb & Flow Table, using big rw cubes?

• How often should I flood the tray? (flood frequency)

• How long should I flood the tray? (flood duration)

• Can a megagarden be converted to Deep Water Culture (DWC)?

• How do I grow single cola style, sea of green Ebb & Flow ?

• How high should I set the flood level? (flood depth)

• How can I heat my reservoir solution to keep it in the correct range?

• How should I go about transplanting the minicube into the rock filled planters?

• What is a Megagarden?

• How should I maintain the reservoir, topping off changing solution etc.?

Transplanting

• What is root-bound?
  

Hydro to soil

• How do I go from rockwool to a soil mix?
  

Soil to soil

• Why do I need to transplant?

• How do I create root growth lengthwise?

• How can I transplant my plant into a bigger pot?

• How big of a pot should I transplant into?

• BOG\'s double potting technique

• Nomad's tansplanting technique

• How will I know when my plants need to be repotted?

• When is the best time to repot my plant?

Plant trouble

• Nutrient Profiles and Deficiencies by Mr. HIGHway

• Nutrient Disorder Problem Solver by Jackersparckle

• Plant Abuse Chart and Photos by Nietzsche

• Plant moisture stress - symptoms and solutions

• Do I have Bad Room Syndrome?

• How can I get a better diagnosis of my plant?

• What are some causes of slow plant growth?

Seeds, germination & seedlings

• Desiccant and its uses

• Soil germination problems

• How can I get my plants to produce femenized seeds?

• The merits of transplanting seedlings deeply

• The germination process of a dicot seed

• How can I tell if my bag seeds are healthy?

• How can I make my seedlings stem stronger?

• Why are seeds different colours?

• How do I use Oxy-Plus for seed germination?

Growth after germination

• How can I gently fertilize my seedlings with guano?

• Why do my seedlings stretch?

• Why are my Seedling's Stems Purple?

• When should I fertilize my seedlings?

• How do I fertilize seedlings outdoors?
  

Seed germination techniques

• Vapour's Rockwool germination technique

• Vegemite's seed germination technique (rockwool)

• Germinating Cannabis Seeds (for Bio Growers).

• Preparing seeds for easier germination

• How do I germinate seeds?

• KiDKiND's germination technique

• Is there a faster way to germinate seeds? (Scarification)

• How do I germinate seeds in soil?

• What is an idiot proof way to germinate seeds?

• joe's seed germination technique (in rockwool)
  

Vegetative growth

• How does plant nutrient metabolism work?

• How many hours of light do I need for veg growth?

• How do I improve outdoor air exposure and yield, to also reduce chances of mold?

• Do Roots REALLY grow in the dark?

• What is Vegetative growth?

• How can I tell if my seedling is male or female without flowering it?

Training/Pruning

• Smokinrav's supercropping technique

• How can I train my plants for a lower profile?

• Show me how to do early vegetative pruning and FIM ?

• How do I prune and start supercropping ?

• How do I paperclip train when not using soil or media?

• How do I tie down my outdoor plant?

• How can I tuck leaves to increase light penetration?

• What is the FIM pruning technique?

• What is the paperclip training technique?

• How do I pre train my plant for a ScrOG grow?

• Should I prune (top) my plants?

• I topped my plants, why is there no new growth at the nodes?

Sexing

• What are preflowers?

• How can I identify a female by seeing its pre-flowers?

• Flower Biology

• How can I determine the sex of seed plants with clones?

• How do I sex using a paper bag?

• After 10 days flowering what does a male look like?

• Should I force flower my plants to determine sex, then revert them to complete vegetative growth once the sex is known?

• What does an emerging MALE preflower look like?

• After 10 days flowering, what does a female look like?
  

Cloning

• Can temperature affect how well my clones root?

• How can I package clones for shipping when customs will not be involved?

• How can I root quicker using cutting scarification?

• How do I make my own Rooting hormone?

• What is a wick cloner, and how do I build one?

• How do I clone plants? Smokinrav's simple water-cloning method

• Got any tips for hard to clone plants?

• Leaf's cloning method

• How long should my clones take to root?

• How do I take multiple clones from the whole branch?

• Are humidity domes or tents important?

• Why are my clones wilting?

• How can I clone using rockwool?

• How clean does my cloning equipment need to be?

• Can I take a cutting from a plant in flower?

• DuctMAN's cloning advice

• What is air layering?

• How and where do I cut my clones?

• Treating RockWool & Misting cuttings with Oxy-Plus

Care of mother plants

• What should I feed my mothers prior to cloning?
  

for Hydroponic systems

Bubblers & misters

• How can I build my own bubble cloner?

• What is the Cheapo-Aero cloning tub?

• How do I build my own aeroponic cloner with misters?
  

Perlite & vermiculite

• How do I clone in perlite & vermiculite?

Rainforest 242

• How do I clone in a Rainforest 242?
  

Rockwool

• Mr. HIGHway’s Cloning Method In Rockwool

• Snoofer's illustrated rockwool cloning technique

• How do I clone using rockwool?
  

The Cheapo-Aero cloner

• How can I test my new cloner to see if it is working properly?

• Building a Cheapo-Aero cloning tub

• How should I transplant rooted aero clones to soil?

• How should cuttings be prepared for aero cloning?

• Take a look at some of the variations of home made aero cloners
  

for Soil or mixes

• Slowhand's Oasis cubes in soil, cloning method

• Crazy Composer's Soil Cloning Method

• Dowzer's peat pellet cloning method

• How do I clone in perlite & vermiculite?

• How do I clone in peat pellets?
  

Layering

Timing your clones

• Clones in Stasis

• When should I take clones from my plants?

• Can I put rooted clones directly into flowering?

• How can I hold clones in stasis? (the fridge method)

• Can I have mature clones, without wasting the time invested growing the seedlings?

Blooming & ripening

• How do I determine a female sex plant from a male?

• What does a garden look like from the initiation of bloom to the harvest?

• How many hours of light do I need for blooming?