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Hey Irish, if you use pot size to decrease plant size, does it negatively effect yield?

Say one is going for 1 oz per plant. How big of a container would you use? 8" pots? 10" pots? I would like to use 6" but I am afraid it's too small to handle a good nug.

What's your take??

The update looks good bro! They are looking real nice like!

_GO
 
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go green said:
Hey Irish, if you use pot size to decrease plant size, does it negatively effect yield?

Say one is going for 1 oz per plant. How big of a container would you use? 8" pots? 10" pots? I would like to use 6" but I am afraid it's too small to handle a good nug.

What's your take??

The update looks good bro! They are looking real nice like!

_GO
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i do believe the bigger the pot the biger the roots their for the bigger the yield. that is a subject some will disagree on. i dont go buy inches of pots but gals of pots.

the rule of thumb i was thought by a OG was a gal on pot for every foot ur plant is. so a 3ft plant in a 3 gal pot or a 5ft plant in a 5gal. i do think if you go root bond it will decrees yield.
 
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Sorry Irishboy this question may have been answered earlier, I apologize if it was, but have you tested the runoff from your plants? Any idea of the PPM's or pH? Just curious because I've been getting some nute burn just using Happy Frog soil and 6.5 pH water with my latest LED experiment. Inquiring minds what to know...
Thanks a ton,

A
 
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atlashomeric said:
Sorry Irishboy this question may have been answered earlier, I apologize if it was, but have you tested the runoff from your plants? Any idea of the PPM's or pH? Just curious because I've been getting some nute burn just using Happy Frog soil and 6.5 pH water with my latest LED experiment. Inquiring minds what to know...
Thanks a ton,

A
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i dont check the ppm and once in a while if their a problem i check run off. its around 6.0 or so. i have never used happy frog only FFOF. i can realy say any info on that stuff.
 
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Hey Irishboy, just curious, but what do you pay per bag of Sunshine #4? Reason I ask is because I just got word from an AN bigwig that it's the best non-hydro medium to grow in. Thanks, A
 
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atlashomeric said:
Hey Irishboy, just curious, but what do you pay per bag of Sunshine #4? Reason I ask is because I just got word from an AN bigwig that it's the best non-hydro medium to grow in. Thanks, A
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i only buy it in a big bail. it last forever. i believe i pay $40-45. i am telling you that stuff rocks. ive tried allot of different mediums and Sunshine is my faviort by far. i do add extra per lite, because i like to get good air to my roots. but its cheaper then FFOF and many others. i just buy it in a big bail.
 
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hey irish do you think that sunshine #4 is better than ffof or about the same? some times fox farm ocean/forest is a little hot, mostly when transplanting. do you buy it locally or online?
also a company called hemptraders sells hemp hurd/fiber as hydro and garden mulch i think i might try that with some of my plants instead of perlite on my next grow.

cant wait for the next set of pics
 
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How's it going my irish laddy?
Here's some info on the medium your using that some might be interested in.....

How about the Sunshine #4 mix that we mentioned earlier? Actually this is a very, very good medium. When it
comes out of bogs, it has a pH of 3.5 to 4. This is actually too low, so dolomite lime is added to it to raise the pH. (We'll
talk about adding dolomite a bit later.) This brings the pH of the Sunshine #4 to 5.8 to 6.3 for a 6 week period.
More About "Sunshine #4" And
How It Can Make Your Life A Lot Easier
So what's Sunshine #4 mix made of? It's made of 60% — 70% peat and 30% — 40% perlite. This is the combination
you want and gives you excellent aeration which you'll need for great big thick root development. And as hundreds of
university studies have conclusively shown the bigger the root system the bigger the yield. And that's what we're after
isn't it. BIGGER YIELDS.
It also has a starter charge of fertilizer that gives it an NPK ratio of 6-5-11 meaning it has a ratio of 6% nitrogen
(N), 5% phosphorous (P) and 11% potassium (K). All you have to do, then, is add a bit more nitrogen to the mix and this
would be a near perfect medium for growing your plants. Sunshine #4 also contains a wetting agent (surfactant) to ease
surface tension and allow for better initial water penetration to the growing medium.
 
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falcore said:
hey irish do you think that sunshine #4 is better than ffof or about the same? some times fox farm ocean/forest is a little hot, mostly when transplanting. do you buy it locally or online?
also a company called hemptraders sells hemp hurd/fiber as hydro and garden mulch i think i might try that with some of my plants instead of perlite on my next grow.

cant wait for the next set of pics
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i will always chose sunshine over FFOF for sure. ur plants will never get burn unless u do it with nutes. their nothing really in sunshine
 
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irishboy said:
i will always chose sunshine over FFOF for sure. ur plants will never get burn unless u do it with nutes. their nothing really in sunshine
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something else

If you use Sunshine #4 growing mix, you don’t want to add limestone as it already has sufficient limestone in it, and
adding more will increase your growing medium’s pH.Be careful...if you’ve been using limestone in your Sunshine #4 mix you might end up with your pH going high. You
might even cause your nutrient elements locking out in the growing medium. However, if you use fully chelated macro,
micro and secondary nutrients, this won’t happen.
 
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ledtester said:
How's it going my irish laddy?
Here's some info on the medium your using that some might be interested in.....

How about the Sunshine #4 mix that we mentioned earlier? Actually this is a very, very good medium. When it
comes out of bogs, it has a pH of 3.5 to 4. This is actually too low, so dolomite lime is added to it to raise the pH. (We'll
talk about adding dolomite a bit later.) This brings the pH of the Sunshine #4 to 5.8 to 6.3 for a 6 week period.
More About "Sunshine #4" And
How It Can Make Your Life A Lot Easier
So what's Sunshine #4 mix made of? It's made of 60% — 70% peat and 30% — 40% perlite. This is the combination
you want and gives you excellent aeration which you'll need for great big thick root development. And as hundreds of
university studies have conclusively shown the bigger the root system the bigger the yield. And that's what we're after
isn't it. BIGGER YIELDS.
It also has a starter charge of fertilizer that gives it an NPK ratio of 6-5-11 meaning it has a ratio of 6% nitrogen
(N), 5% phosphorous (P) and 11% potassium (K). All you have to do, then, is add a bit more nitrogen to the mix and this
would be a near perfect medium for growing your plants. Sunshine #4 also contains a wetting agent (surfactant) to ease
surface tension and allow for better initial water penetration to the growing medium.
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i always thought sunshine didnt have any foods in it? i usaly use a 1:1 mix in the colder winter months. 1 part perlite and 1 part sunshine. to get the medium to dry out faster and have more air to the roots. seems to work out great so far. but next time i think ill use a 2:1 2 part sunshine and 1 part perlirte since its starting to warm up now.
 
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wat up irish.. wondering if u cud help out wit sumtin!! im in ireland myself and was wondering how much roughly a month it costs to run a 250w hps light over here.. tnx in advance
 
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Do you know how much you pay per kilowatt hour of electricity?

a 250 watts = 0.25 kilowwatts

So you use 1/4 of a kilowatt per hour.

If you run 18/6 in veg, you use 4.5 kilowatt hours a day or 135 kilowatts hour a month

At $0.10 per kilowatt hour that's $13.5 US$ per month.

That's 90 kilowatt hours a month during 12/12 or $9 US$ a month

check your power bill and adjust from there based on how much they charge you for power ;)
 
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