TheRoach
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Hi Weaselcracker
Hope all is well in your world.
Thanks for asking for clarification regrading non-sponsor products. Our guidelines are really quite simple but they do rely on our members using a bit of common sense. Let me deal with the generalities first, then your specific questions.
We urge everyone to please read our Guidelines and specifically the section dedicated to non-sponsor LEDs. This, as you may be aware, is the strictest non-sponsor area which we police assiduously. Reason being is that the LED market is rapidly growing and attracting some businesses who adopt underhand tactics, sock-puppets and spammers to try and get free advertising on 420 Magazine. As a result we do not allow discussion of non-sponsor LEDs. It's a real shame that a few bad seeds have spoiled the fun for the rest of us and that we cannot allow wider discussions, but these companies use tactics which are misleading to our members and unfair to our Sponsors, the income from whom pays for this website.
More generally when it comes to non-sponsor products, we welcome reviews and have no problem with the occasional mention. Here's where common-sense kicks in. There's a difference between what we call "reference" and what is considered "promotional" aka spamming.
Reference: Members want to help each other by sharing what they use to grow and where to find it, especially when helping someone with a problem. This is completely fine and needed, in order to maintain such a large community of growers sharing and helping each other.
Promotional: A first post that bumps an old thread to post a link to a site selling a product is usually a sign of a spammer who came to promote their products without paying for advertising, which we call "sidestepping". Repeat recommendations to the same site and/or product are also regarded as spam and are dealt with as such.
So in specific answers to your questions:
"Can I review/or even mention a pair of non sponsor (Lumii) grow room sunglasses. Where do I draw the line with using/mentioning/reviewing products on 420?"
Of course you can talk about and review the sunglasses. Obviously if you mentioned them in every post then it would be spamming, but legitimate product reviews are welcome as a great way to share knowledge. Especially when it comes to safety.
"If we are posting about a product which is not in competition with any 420 sponsors, is that ok in the name of the general pursuit of knowledge?"
Absolutely.
"What if there is a similar product? It was pointed out that Method Seven glasses are made by a sponsor."
A case for common-sense! We are not going to restrict reasonable mentions of products like sunglasses which are relatively low-ticket items and sold as one of a range a goods from general supply shops etc.
"What if I look at the list of sponsors but have no way of knowing whether they make such a product, since the sponsors are listed alphabetically by name and not by product?"
Understood, although strictly speaking ignorance is no excuse in the eyes of the law! Of course we'd encourage all our members to familiarise themselves with our sponsors, but items such as sunglasses, glass, grinders, pots, nutes, fans and all the paraphernalia are rarely a problem in discussions.
I hope this answers your questions. Please feel free to PM a Moderator if you've any further queries or need clarification. We are happy to answer such questions, always via PM - doing so in-thread creates discussions which usually end in negative energy.
Thank you for your understanding and support, we are truly grateful.
Sending you lots of love and positive energy.
Teddy Edwards
good activated carbon can boiled for 30 minutes, sun dried, and then ground up some (I crush it a little in a few plastic bags with a piece of wood and a hammer) to expose additional cavities required to capture the undesired particles. Don't pulverize it all to dust, but do crack the larger pieces into smaller pieces. A cheap alcohol rinse doesn't hurt for the non-water soluble particles that are captured in the medium
Canoeing like that is mainly heat stress related WC. First signs are the jagged edges of the leaves pointing up like they've been folded then the leaf curling up like a canoe.
Those brown, crispy ends of a lot of those fan leaves are toxic salts buildup, aka, nute burn tho. This condition is made worse by heat stress. Happens to organically grown pot as well as hydro.
Plants nearing harvest really don't need any feeding and can get all they need by stealing from the older growth to finish up and if fed just right the older fan leaves are mostly yellow and soft come harvest time while the buds and smaller leaves still look green and healthy.
So many factors come into play when growing pot and it's a real juggling act to make them all work together to get the best results. If it was as easy as falling off a log we'd all get bored pretty quick and that wouldn't be any fun.
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The guys are probably right Weaselcracker, but when I saw the picture I thought "That's the Tacoing the HB guys are always talking about!" They always tell each other to water with a tablespoon of Epsom salts per five gallons of water for a few waterings. Now please, novice gardener, never dealt with any deficiencies myself and no ego to worry about, so take it with a grain of salt. unintentional pun
Oh, and yeah, I type in the emoticon codes too. You can tell a lot of us do, because we make mistakes all the time too.
Very cool info on the carbon. Report back on how it works out, if you can tell a difference! I too have read about heating it up in a kiln or something, but many don't have access to them. I heard about the smells too, but never stinky water!
My first thought on the curling leaves was that it was due to a pH issue, but 6.5 doesn't sound bad at all for 'soil' as you call it... The odd thing is that the temps don't sound too high either, but maybe that WW is just susceptible to heat? My pH was way off during my first grow, and I got some similar "canoeing".