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Below find the beginnings of the Master List of topics to research. You will notice that some of these already have been assigned to moderators, but the rest are open.

Efforts will be made to assign specific topics to member volunteers who declare a preference. First come, first serve.

Also included in the list are suggestions for particular forums to search; this should allow you to narrow your searches down so they'll take less time.

Finally, this list is in no way complete, so if you notice holes in coverage or topics you'd like to see immortalized, post suggestions to this thread.

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INDOOR GARDENS

1. I Want To BuIld An Area Indoors To Grow Weed.
- How BIg An Area Do I Need?
- How Much Space Is Too Much?
- Do I Need Seperate Area For DIfferent Stages Of Plant LIfecycle?
- How Much Space In ProportIon To Each Stage?
- What Is ThIs Gonna Cost?
- How Do I Calculate Square And CubIc Feet?

Forums To Search:
Indoor
Grow Room ConstructIon

AssIgned to: TokaJay

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2. ElectrIcal:
- How Do I WIre Up LIghts And TImers
- ProvIde Power For Fans And Heaters -- PossIbly WIth Thermostats.
- How Do I Calculate Amps/Watts/Volts?

Forums To Search:
LIghtIng
Grow Room ConstructIon
TheorIes?

AssIgned to: TokaJay
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3. What KInda Weed Should I Plant?
What's the difference between Indica and Sativa? Which is easiest to grow?
- What Are The Pro's And Cons Of Each?
- What Is The Most Potent?
- What StraIn Is The EasIest To Grow?
- What Smells The Least?
- What Grows The Shortest/Tallest?
- Should I Use Bagseed?
- What Is Schwag?

Forums To Search:
GenetIcs
PropagatIon
TIkI Lounge
TheorIes

AssIgned to: Rockclimber
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5. What Soil Should I Use?
- How Should I Prepare The Soil?
- Can I Use Outside Dirt For An Inside Grow?
- Is It OK To Use Preferted Soils?
- I Want To Learn About Building Soil For An Organic Grow.
- What About Worm Castings? Should I Put Worms In My Pots?
- How Do I Make Compost?
- Are Perlite And Vermiculite The Same Thing?


Forums To Search:
Plant Food & Nutrients/Organics
Outdoor

AssIgned to: Organic/3hounds/Brindie
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6.What Size Pots Should I Use?
- Should I Grow In The Biggest Pot I Can For My Space?
- Should I Transplant?
- When Do I Transplant Into Larger Pots?
- Is It Important For The Pots To Be Dark Colored?
- What Happens If The Pot Is Too Small?

Forums To Search:
The Nursery
Germination
Growth

AssIgned to: shooter
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7. What Temperature Should I Keep The Box/Room?
- For What Stage?
- Effects Of Temp On Plants?

Forums To Search:
Nursery
Lighting

AssIgned to: plainsman1963

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8. What Types Of Ferts?
- How Much?
- When?
- Effects/Symptoms Of Too Much/Not Enough.
- Nutrient Primer (Delta)
- The Importance Of K
- What's The Difference Betwee- Fertilizers And Soil Amendments?
- Are time release ferts good?
- What about plant spikes?
- If I use preferted soil, will I have to fertilize?
- Miracle gro: good, bad, or from the devil?


Forums To Search:
Nutes/Organics
Theories
Nursery

AssIgned to: REALTR33, Guerilla_Farmer
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9. What Kind Of Lights?
- For What Stage?
- HID Comparison: HPS/MH/MV/UV
- Using Fluoros
- How Much Light?
- Is There Such A Thing As 'Too Much Light'?
- Where Do I Find Them?
- How Much Do They Cost?
- Schedules/Photoperiod Per Stage.
- Calculations And Lumen Tables.
- What's the optimum light cycle? (18/6; 20/4; 24/0)

Forums To Search:
Lighting

AssIgned to: Agent86
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10. PH Requirements And Methods Of Control.
- What's the optimum pH for growing MJ in soil?
- Effects/Symptoms Of Out Of Range.
- pH nutrient availability chart
- methods of raising pH
- methods of lowering pH
- pH meters & test kits - where to find, how to use

Forums To Search:
Nutes
Nursery

AssIgned to: Sweetleaf1964
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11. Water, How Much-How Often.
- Methods,
- Effects/Symptoms Of Too Much/Not Enough.
- How Do I Know If My Plant Needs Water?
- Do I need a water meter?
- What's worse for the plant - overwatering or underwatering?
- Should I use distilled/RO (reverse osmosis filtered)/mineral/tap water?
- How can I remove chlorine from tap water?
- Is there any benefit to deliberately underwatering?
- Flushing to correct overfert
- Flushing before harvest
- Flushing with sugar/citric acid solutions

Forums To Search:
Nutes
Nursery
Theories

AssIgned to: sweetleaf1964
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12. HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning):
- How Do I Support The Optimum Temp?
- Heating, Venting, Timer Schedules Or Thermostat.
- Relative Humidity (Rh)
- What is the Ideal humidiy
- effects of low/high on plants
- effects of low/high on ferts regime

Forums To Search:
Lighting
Grow Room Construction
Theories

AssIgned to: TokaJay
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13. Beans:
- Where And How To Get Them,
- Security & Gotchas,
- Bargain Genetics,
- Good Genetics,
- Feminized.
- Can I Tell A Female Seed By Looking At It?

Forums To Search:
Genetics

AssIgned to: xjo
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14. Germination & propagation
- Mother plants
- Cloning
-cloning in water
-using rooting hormone
-humidity tents/enclosures
-optimal lighting for clones
-advantages of cloning
- Root Pruning
- Re-vegging
- Methods of germination:
-paper towel method
-germinating directly into soil
-jiffy cubes
-alternative methods
- Should I start a seed/seedling in the pot I intend to finish the grow in, or should I start in a small container and transplant?
-pros and cons of each method

AssIgned to: 'eadStash
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15. General Security Related To MJ
- Odor Control/Ventilation
- Light Security.
- Methods Of Stopping In/Out Light Leaks.
- Postal And Web Site Security.
- Shadow Email Addresses.
- Proxy Servers For Surfing
- FLIR -- what about it?
- purchasing supplies at growshops and conventional stores
- Electric usage--what about it?
What are my state's drug laws?

Forums To Search:
Security
Tiki Lounge
HC.com

AssIgned to: plainsman1963
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16. Organics
- Organic Primer
- Soil Building Series
- Worm Castings
- Kelp
- Blood Meal Tea
- Alfalfa Tea/Triconnatol
- Compost
- Dealing With Fungus Gnats
- Organic Insecticides/Predatory Beneficials
- H2O2
- Flushing Organic Soils
- Where Can I Find Organic Nutrients Online?
- Fish Emulsion
- Bone Meal/BSE
- Mineral Amendments
- Paramagnetism
- Organic Teas
- Humic Acids
- Compost Tea

Forums To Search:
Organics
Theories

AssIgned to: organic/3hounds/Brindie, Selene35
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17. Recycling
- Making Hash
- Cooking With Pot

Forums To Search:
Recycling

AssIgned to: Hash_Brown
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18. Harvesting
- How Do I Know When It's Time To Harvest?
- How Soon Will My Crop Be Done?
- What's The Best Way To Harvest?
- Harvesting 101
- How Do I Cure My Buds?
- Can I Dry My Buds In The Microwave?
- Why Should I Cure?

Forums To Search:
Harvesting, Drying & Storage/Recycling
Theories

AssIgned to: Slim
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19. Training
- topping/FIM
- LST training
- ScrOG
- SOG
- Should I prune?

Forums To Search:
SOG/ScrOG/Training
Theories

AssIgned to: Plainsman1963

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OUTDOOR GARDENS

1. Where should I grow?


2. What about the soil?
Do I Need To Prepare The Soil, or can I just pop a seed into the ground?
- What's the best way to prepare the soil?
- What's good to put in the soil?
- How do I make compost?

3. What about fertilizer?
- Can I use the same amounts I would use for indoor growing?
- Chemicals or organics?
- Can I flush an outdoor plant?

4. How do I avoid problems from insect and animal pests?
- Fencing?
- Animal repellents
- Slug remedies?

5. I want to guerilla grow.
- What are good places?
- How can I avoid getting caught?
- What about public land, like national/state parks and forests?
- Is it OK to cut down trees and lots of vegetation to grow mj?

6. How am I going to keep the plants watered?
- water retaining polymers
- wick systems
- packing in water

7. What's the earliest/latest I can plant in my area?
- USDA Zone Maps

8. Should I start from seed or seedlings/clones?

9. How do I successfully transition an indoor plant to outdoor life?

10. Are there other plants to help camoflauge my mj?

Assigned to: Selene35, Fgid1, Guerilla_Farmer

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HYDROPONICS

Please see next post for the list of Hydroponic topics.

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For those working on Hydro, this is the list to work from


The MkI Hydro Master List

HYDROPONICS
1. What is hydroponics?
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2. Aeroponics
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3. What types of Hydroponic systems are availible?

Flood & Drain or Ebb & Flow
- Open tray
- Inverted bottle plumbed pipe system
- Comercial F & D systems
NFT - Nutrient Film Technique
- Open Tray
- NFT Channels
- Comercial NFT
DWC - Deep Water Culture
- 5 Gal bubbler bucket
- Comercial DWC
SWC - Shallow water Culture
- Bubbler
- Comercial SWC
Dripper Systems
- Auto watering systems
Simple hand watered systems
- Example

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4. General hydroponic system construction
- What materials are good for system construction
- Why is it important to lightproof the res
- What size pump is required
- What size reservoir is best
- Air stones, pumps and power heads

Assigned to: weedchiller
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5. Flood frequency - how often should the pump:
- Flood my Ebb & flow table, and how high
- Flood my NFT system
- Water my dripper system

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6. Medium

Rockwool
- Cubes
- Slabs
- Flock
Pot based medium
- Hydro clay
- Lava rock/pumice
- Perlite
- Gravel- how to test Ph suitability
Mediumless
- What size net pots are best

Assigned to: hash_brown
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7. pH in Hydroponics - What is pH

What is the best pH range
- What happens when pH is too high
- What happens when pH is too Low
- Why is my pH rising
- Why is my pH dropping
How do I measure pH
- Types of digital meters
- Digital pH meters - how to calibrate
- Liquid chemical indicator tests
- Paper indicator kits
What influences pH stability
- What is a pH buffer
- How can I raise pH
- How can I lower pH
How can I use pH to my advantage

Why can't I keep adding pH up & pH down until the desired pH is reached

What nutrients are available at different pH levels

Assigned to: sweetleaf1964
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8. Hydroponic Nutrients (nutes)

Commercial chemical Nutrients
- Where can I get nutrients
- Brand specific

Raw salts
- Where can I find raw salts
- How do I mix raw salts

Organic Hydroponic nutrients
- Organic V Chemical nutrients
- Can I make my own organic nutrients

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9. Nutrient Management in Hydroponics

What is the best level of nutrient strength for:
- Clones/cuttings
- Vegetative stage
- Flowering
- What strength nutrient does everybody prefer

How do I manage my nutrients
- When & How do I top up the reservoir
- When & how should I change the nutrients/reservoir
- What do I use to measure the Nutrient levels
- What is PPM - TDS - EC
- What effect will a low strength nutrient have
- What effect will a high strength nutrient have
- How does the nutrient effect pH
- What is the correct relative humidity level (RH)
- What effect will low/high humidity have on my nutrient regime
- What is a good routine for reservoir maintenance
- What is salt biuldup

Flowering
- When should I change to flowering or bloom nutes

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10. Flushing
- What is flushing
- Why and when should I Flush
- What is Leeching
- How can I add flavor during leeching
Clearing solutions
- what do they do and when to use them

Assigned to: xjo
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11. Foliar feeding
- Is foliar feeding useful in Hydroponics
- What products are available

Assigned to: xjo
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12. Nutrient Burn in Hydroponcs
- What is nute burn
- What are the initial, and chronic symptoms of nute burn
- How can I prevent nute burn without nutrient deficency
- How do plants recover from nuteburn
- What action should I take when I get nuteburn

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13. Flood frequency - how often should the pump:
- Flood my Ebb & flow table, and how high
- Flood my NFT system
- Water my dripper system

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14. Tap Water Quality
- what is Hard water
- Whats is the highest ppm acceptable for Hydroponics
- What makes hard water nutes different from softwater nutes
and what is the highest ppm that is acceptable for use with hardwater nutes
- How does my waters ppm effect how I measure nutrients in the res
- How can I treat my hard water for hydroponic use
- Alternative sources for water

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15. Reservoir temperature
- What is the ideal temerature range
- What size aquarim heater is required
- How can I cool the reservoir
- Effects of low/high temp & rapid changes in temp

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16. Nutrient Addatives and suppliments (& how to use them)
- Silicon
- Growth stimulators
- Organic supplimets and Biological cultures
- Alternatives to comercial suppliments
- whatever else you can think of

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17. Dissolved Oxygen (DO)
- Why is dissolved oxygen important
- How can I test O2 levels in the reservoir
- What are the symptoms of low DO
- How can I increase DO levels
H2O2
- How much H2O2 should I add and when
- Where can I find H2O2 and what strengths are available
- What is the downside of H2O2
- What are the symptoms of H2O2 overdose

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18. Germination & Propergation for Hyroponic gardens
- Germination in rockwool
- Cloning in Rockwool
- Introducing clones to pot based media
- Water cloning

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19. Mold, bugs, Slime & algie you don't want in the res
- bugs
- Pythium & slime growth
- Algae

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20. Automation
- how can I automate the grow room
- how can I automate pH control
- what can I use to keep the reservoir full

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21. Misc (this section will no doubt grow)
- How can I introduce soil based plants to hydroponics
Aquaponics
- What is aquaponics
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Assigned to: HydroSan, Agent86

Message from HydroSan:

Grab em while they're hot chaps

Anyone working in teams on a subject, PM the rest of the team with what you're doing, or leave a note at the bottom of your submissions to indicate same so we don't overlap

Anyone see any glaringly obvious things we've missed in the list, post em at the bottom of your submissions


We need more volunteers for Hydro!!

If you are interested in volunteering, please post to the Library Volunteers thread

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envision75

i would think wetting agents could also be added to section 6
it seems to me that if used with poly crystals they would provide a uniform absorbtion rate coupled with a uniform moisture content over time thus reducing wet/dry shock between rains outdoors and reducing the need to visits gardens as often
(mj loves consistant enviroment)
i also would like to see a tread that addresses the effects of nutrients released over time via poly crystals
organic vs. chem
poly crystal makers claim root growth into the crystals,will it burn?
effects on ph as nutrients are released,ph adjusted up or down before hand to compensate for the effect of the nutrient release?
also the benefits of mycorrhizal fungi ie. plant success or mycogrow

keys to an outdoor oasis?

...................................................hmmmmmmmmmmm?
envision75