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Anyone have any experience with avo's? I've got one started, only 2 inches or so tall right now. Just wondering if they have any special needs. If they have a veg/flower cycle or just 12/12 em the whole way thru?

You'll be fine hand watering too if you want. When I did rockwools I just flooded the trays when the cubes got light. Definately ready for a transplant as well if ya got roots coming all out the bottom. You'll be glad you got the 600 watt, prb wish you had a 1000 after a couple harvests. Good luck.

hydro shop or online for the mylar and fans. For support you can do all sorts of things, if you keep em small won't really need it. I use yo yos, google hydrofarm yoyo.

Rockwool worked wonders for me for years. Yes the tops may form algae. Never hurt my plants, you can get little covers to keep light from top of cube if the algae really bothers ya. Hydrotron couldn't hurt just saying not nessecary.

They easily drink up 3 gals each from the bottom. I'm concerned that the top 4 inches of soil is still dry. These huge pots makes watering a pain. I'm used to using rockwools. :o

I used 1 Tbs per gal entire life, thats 14.79 ml per gal. Other than that I see potus is in here looking. He's sure to have a more in depth answer.

With advanced nutes I've always used a 1:1:1 ratio throughout the entire life cycle with excellent results. 1 Tbs per gal of each. Good luck.

So I've been watering my 25 gal pots from the top for their entire life. I'm now finding with as much as the girls are drinking, watering takes several hours every other day or so. Flooding the trays would make watering much less time consuming. My concern here is hurting the root structure by...

Very interesting information Lotek. Thank you, I will be adding this to my favorites list.

I've heard of enzymes you can use to break down old root stuctures. I plan on reusing my medium using this method. Would there still be nute deficiencies if using nuteless medium then adding chemys?

Aren't nematodes roundworms? What do they do?

I've pyrethrum bombed twice in the last two weeks and been spraying with safers soap inbetween. Now just released 5000 of em. Very little mites left so hopefully these things can take the rest of em down or at least keep them at bay. Phytoseiulus persimilis is the species. My shop guy described...

Well off to the shop to buy some mite preds. The shop owner assured me after they eat the mites they'll die off. One of my main concern was getting rid of one bug to just be replaced by another.

PP your avatar makes me smile everytime. What a kodak moment. Reminds me of the traveling Gnome commercials. I can just imagine that ad. :D

Each one of my girls drinks 2 gals a piece every 3 days :eek: :eek: I can't wait to see the root system on these after harvest. They sure are pretty though. Its seems the sativa drinks a little more heavily than the rest for me.