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Scotty 420

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Just wanted to say what's up. A few people may remember me from thc farmer, but I was pretty new over there too. Started noticing that most of the quality people started disappearing. (and I also saw why, which made me start looking for somewhere else to go as well) I popped in here & here are all the familiar names that have been missing. :cool:
 
Welcome. I don’t think we ever crossed paths what is your grow style?
We did just briefly (in the MO thread I'm also from the StL area), but I had just joined when you left.

I'm super new but I'm growing in soil using the CannaGranny method. I just started growing in Feb, had a bit of a hiccup due to some bad soil, so I wasn't able to get anything really growing until like mid April. But I'm up & running now & things are going pretty well so far *fingers crossed*

1st 2 are 21 days old the others are 16

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A few of us here from the area.

I’m about to start my first soil grow so not too far behind you.

With the rash of bad soil lately I’m thinking I might sterilize first in an autoclave. Did you have bugs or imbalances?
 
It was mold, at first it just looked like a light layer of mycorrhizae. I was using Happy Frog so I didn't think too much of it until I had tried everything else & started suspecting the soil to be my problem. I went into my soil tub because I wanted to check the soil ph when I saw this:
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Fogged the entire area with bleach water bought a new bag of Happy Frog & have been off to the races since. Honestly after looking back I think I got a bag that had been sitting around a while.
 
Just wanted to say what's up. A few people may remember me from thc farmer, but I was pretty new over there too. Started noticing that most of the quality people started disappearing. (and I also saw why, which made me start looking for somewhere else to go as well) I popped in here & here are all the familiar names that have been missing. :cool:
Welcome!!!!
 
Welcome.
A few of us here from the area.

I’m about to start my first soil grow so not too far behind you.

With the rash of bad soil lately I’m thinking I might sterilize first in an autoclave. Did you have bugs or imbalances?
If you have a decent grow shop nearby, that stores their soil indoors, you're probably OK. The problems I've had with soil materials stemmed from poor storage outdoors. If they have a stack of FFOF on a palette for example, sitting out in the elements, the bags near the bottom can stay waterlogged for extended periods and lower pH drastically. The bags in the upper part of the pile might be leached of N.

Outdoor storage is also how soil becomes gnat-ridden.
 
Welcome.

If you have a decent grow shop nearby, that stores their soil indoors, you're probably OK. The problems I've had with soil materials stemmed from poor storage outdoors. If they have a stack of FFOF on a palette for example, sitting out in the elements, the bags near the bottom can stay waterlogged for extended periods and lower pH drastically. The bags in the upper part of the pile might be leached of N.

Outdoor storage is also how soil becomes gnat-ridden.
Yeah that was my problem. I got the last bag in stock in February (before grow season has started for most people) at a general garden shop, not grow shop. Pretty sure it was leftover from last season.

It's kind of a funny story. There's a couple grow shops within about 10 minutes of my house, I popped my 1st seeds on Super Bowl Sunday. I had everything I needed except soil. I planned to get it Sunday & the day got away from me (OK I probably got stoned & forgot). No big deal though I'll just pick it up Monday I wasn't planning on using it until Monday after work anyway.

I knew one of the shops by me was going to be closed, so I popped by the other one, also closed. Well that sucks now I'm going to have to drive a bit, but there's several more grow shops within a 25 mile radius. So I start checking online & literally every grow shop within 20 miles is closed on Mondays. But one about 25 miles away was open. So I headed down on my lunch, they were out of Happy Frog. The only other things I could find open were close to an hour one way. I got of Fox Farms website to see who else sells & found a garden shop that was open.

The sad thing is I would have been better off to just let the beans keep marinating for another day & worse case if they went too long just start over with new seeds. I burned through so many seeds & wasted so much time trying to get that soil to work, lol. But we live & we learn & now I know what to look for when buying a bag of soil. :)
 
What grow shop are you closest to?

I use these guys


And I'll be there Saturday getting myself set up for a dirt grow. About 10 minutes from home for me.
That's where I went that was out of Happy Frog. They also have a location in Warrenton, like 2 miles from my house that is closed on Monday. Moral of the story don't try to buy anything from a grow shop in this area on Monday. I was looking at going to damn near downtown St Louis to find something else open.

I talked with the owner for a while when I was in there, seems like a real nice guy & seemed pretty knowledgeable. Even had a cannabis plant growing in the tent in the store he showed me.
 
What grow shop are you closest to?

I use these guys


And I'll be there Saturday getting myself set up for a dirt grow. About 10 minutes from home for me.
They seem to have a good supply of Roots organic nutes, for after the soil runs out of them.

If you transplant a couple of times during veg, using their Coast of Maine Platinum Blend, you probably wouldn't need nutrients until flower. But keep an eye out for light burn. Every soil is different in whether they'll be able to supply nutes fast enough for powerful LEDs.

Hey, sorry to hijack your thread, Scotty. I'll behave now.
 
They seem to have a good supply of Roots organic nutes, for after the soil runs out of them.

If you transplant a couple of times during veg, using their Coast of Maine Platinum Blend, you probably wouldn't need nutrients until flower. But keep an eye out for light burn. Every soil is different in whether they'll be able to supply nutes fast enough for powerful LEDs.

Hey, sorry to hijack your thread, Scotty. I'll behave now.
No worries man, this thread can go wherever the conversation takes us. Plus you're just bumping my thread for me :)
 
They seem to have a good supply of Roots organic nutes, for after the soil runs out of them.

If you transplant a couple of times during veg, using their Coast of Maine Platinum Blend, you probably wouldn't need nutrients until flower. But keep an eye out for light burn. Every soil is different in whether they'll be able to supply nutes fast enough for powerful LEDs.

Hey, sorry to hijack your thread, Scotty. I'll behave now.
OK good advice. That's what I'll buy.

Scotty since you are so close feel free to hit me up for clones or whatever, I almost always have something cloneable.
 
OK good advice. That's what I'll buy.

Scotty since you are so close feel free to hit me up for clones or whatever, I almost always have something cloneable.
That's super cool of you to offer, I think I may have bitten off more than I can chew now anyway (or more than my tent can reasonably hold might be a better way of putting it) depending on how many females I end up getting. But next grow I may take you up on that.

Also should have mentioned this earlier, I work in HVAC. Used to be a service tech, now I work sales almost exclusively, part of my job entails running load calcs for AC. So if anyone has a grow room they want sized out just send me a drawing of the room & what's going in it & I can give you a good idea of what sized AC unit you need. Also be glad to try to help anyone mechanically inclined enough to try to fix something themselves.
 
Welcome! This site is so much better. That other site almost ruined my entire med grow do to clones with bugs. Then I got banned for bringing it up🙄.

My only complaint about this site is the black background and white words are very hard for my old eyes to read.
 
Welcome! This site is so much better. That other site almost ruined my entire med grow do to clones with bugs. Then I got banned for bringing it up🙄.

My only complaint about this site is the black background and white words are very hard for my old eyes to read.
Holy shit bro they banned you. That's insane. I saw both threads, in fact that's what I referenced in the OP as far as seeing why people were leaving. I get deleting the thread because quite frankly it made the site look REALLY bad. They were basically telling users that if they have an issue with anyone selling on their site that they will 100% support the seller & pretty much give the middle finger to the buyer. I mean I get not wanting to run down sponsors but the unprofessional way staff was posting in that 2nd thread was unlike anything I've even seen. And when you make it so clear that sellers get special treatment over buyers you're going to drive buyers to other sites & guess what those sellers won't be sending you money when all the buyers leave.

You literally said nothing wrong but asked why you never got answers & what happened to your thread as you were still searching for answers. The crazy thing was usually when you post a problem people are quick to jump in with advice, but no one seemed to want to touch that topic with a 10 foot pole & it's no wonder why after seeing what happened to you just for asking where your thread went. Crazy stuff. I honestly had planned to stay around there & post here as well, not sure I can in good conscience continue providing content for that website.
 
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Welcome Scotty 420! I'm Bandit 420. I'm sure we're related somehow since we both have the same last name so again, welcome Brother.😋
It's very enjoyable here. No awkward and cagey infomercial vibe. Just good people growing good pot✌️
 
Welcome Scotty 420! I'm Bandit 420. I'm sure we're related somehow since we both have the same last name so again, welcome Brother.😋
It's very enjoyable here. No awkward and cagey infomercial vibe. Just good people growing good pot✌️
Yeah I'm noticing that already, it's also nice not having half of the page covered by ads
 
Welcome! This site is so much better. That other site almost ruined my entire med grow do to clones with bugs. Then I got banned for bringing it up🙄.

My only complaint about this site is the black background and white words are very hard for my old eyes to read.
Garbage, we will making changes in the near future to allow us to choose the background. That too was my first suggestion. Stay tuned
 
Holy shit bro they banned you. That's insane. I saw both threads, in fact that's what I referenced in the OP as far as seeing why people were leaving. I get deleting the thread because quite frankly it made the site look REALLY bad. They were basically telling users that if they have an issue with anyone selling on their site that they will 100% support the seller & pretty much give the middle finger to the buyer. I mean I get not wanting to run down sponsors but the unprofessional way staff was posting in that 2nd thread was unlike anything I've even seen. And when you make it so clear that sellers get special treatment over buyers you're going to drive buyers to other sites & guess what those sellers won't be sending you money when all the buyers leave.

You literally said nothing wrong but asked why you never got answers & what happened to your thread as you were still searching for answers. The crazy thing was usually when you post a problem people are quick to jump in with advice, but no one seemed to want to touch that topic with a 10 foot pole & it's no wonder why after seeing what happened to you just for asking where your thread went. Crazy stuff. I honestly had planned to stay around there & post here as well, not sure I can in good conscience continue providing content for that website.
Yeah I didn’t think I was out of line at all. It’s too bad that happened. I have no hard feelings about it and I understand why they did that but like you say, very unprofessional. I think they should have addressed the issue with the seller and corrected it. Kill the bugs before you send clones! If I was that seller I would have taken that thread as advice and stopped selling until the bugs are dead. And you are correct. They will never see my money again lol.
 
Yeah I didn’t think I was out of line at all. It’s too bad that happened. I have no hard feelings about it and I understand why they did that but like you say, very unprofessional. I think they should have addressed the issue with the seller and corrected it. Kill the bugs before you send clones! If I was that seller I would have taken that thread as advice and stopped selling until the bugs are dead. And you are correct. They will never see my money again lol.
No you were not out of line at all. You said nothing negative about the sponsor. All you did was had the audacity to ask for help with plants you got from a sponsor. But the fact that the results might not look good for one of their sponsors means they go on attack. I work sales & that thread should have been archived as an example of how not to handle a small PR issue.

If you're going to delete the thread & ban the OP anyway just do it. Or make a post telling you to take it to DM with the seller & offer to mediate & lock the thread. You can tell the buyer to pound sand & ban him behind closed doors if you really want to go that route, and anyone else reading see's that when a buyer had a problem on the site you appeared helpful. What they did was ran their own name through the mud, costing themselves customers in the process (I can't be the only one that looked elsewhere after that thread) & then deleted the thread. But the damage had been done at that point.
 
Welcome! This site is so much better. That other site almost ruined my entire med grow do to clones with bugs. Then I got banned for bringing it up🙄.

My only complaint about this site is the black background and white words are very hard for my old eyes to read.
On the bottom left corner of the page it says carbon.
Hit the carbon and this will pop up
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Hit default style and the page turns white with black print.
I am not sure if that limits anything but it is how I have been posting and reading since almost the beginning.(y)
I can't do the black by choice either.
 
My only complaint about this site is the black background and white words are very hard for my old eyes to read.
I feel like I need to take that slacker under Steam's avatar and put it under mine. I suck, I know lol.

We have another template picked out that has both a dark and light mode that the user can select. It's just going to make me change a bunch of other stuff that we worked to get set up on this template, so I've been procrastinating.

I'll try very hard to fit it in this weekend. I need to set aside a few hours to do it and deal with the issues that arise from the change. Maybe I'll postpone the dirt grow to get this done instead, enough people have asked for it I just need to do it.

I wish I could buy more hours in the day!
 
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