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My name is Jacky and I am a novice grower hear to learn and catch on tips and tricks... I have my own farm where I plant cannibis in a greenhouse.. Im a 22 year old new to the growing game. I am growing for my Moms who need cannabis on a day to day basis . The attatched photo is one of my super skunk plants.

Small update, not too much to show. Still focusing on building the manifolds of the DWC plants. The two on the left are struggling to catch up to the bigger ones which are begging for the 400W bulbs but I don't want to increase power until they are somewhat more similar in size. At some point I'll have to just make the flip. Soil ladies doing real nice. I did take one Skywalker OG and started flowering her outside and take her inside for the evenings so she doesn't get too cold. I felt like having 5 plants under a single 250W QB was one plant too many.. plus I didn't feel like repotting her also just curious to see what happens.

I just sprinkled ground cinnamon on my soil for the gnats a week ago, still see a few but need to do it this week again, if I understand correctly the cinnamon stops/kills the fungas that the gnats eat. Will give feedback in a week again Sent from my F5321 using Tapatalk

Hi Y’all! Sorry I’ve been out of it for a while, life’s just been uggg here’s an update on the gals, 2 of the autos have started budding!

I have noticed that they tend to show up when the top soil has been wet for too long.

No worries, DE with the addition of stickystips (even upside down duckttape) in the grow area should keep them in check.

Like... F#@ker 1 F#@ker 2 And so forth lol I dont mind a few, but keep them in check with Neem.

Weddingcake cut painting some nice purples. Exodus Cheese also doing her thing.

I raise my plants out the tray when watering, then discard of runoff before putting my pots back in the tray.

Hey brother, I believe the best is to not have the runoff touch the pot again, almost a gap between them if possible so that the old salts and such, dont go back into the mix and cause trouble. As soon as you see it stop flowing, best to remove it.

Then there were 5. Transplanted to 5l. Three of them have gone outside. They not liking the indoor environment, and have been battling since germination. Looks to be solid Indica pulling through.

High So fnnn amped that bubble bags are being produced locally by a very cool gent indeed. Sad to say I have not pulled my act together and made hash yet, party party party. Already had agony from the "original" bubble bag man about this bags, cause the po*s has the patent on bubble bags. Pot politrix. But even he complimented the bags design and development. Anyway. Fullmelt filtration bags are unreal, best bags I have ever seen. I have used about 3 different types of bubble bags in my life. So amped to use these, dont know what is stopping me. But here is the intro I made for the company. No this is not sponsored content was lucky enough to get sample bags because reliased I knew this guy since he was at varsity, used to help him out with his studies . So glad he decided to do this and make something much needed in SA. These bags are really the real deal in concentrates and extraction. The world is coming back to bubble hash and its only getting better. Got some unreal cherry bomb bubble hash from a mate up the north coast recently, you could smell it from a mete away. The owner is a young dude, new into cannabis but has been investigating and blowing himself up for years. I will post the final product once I have pulled my head out my arse. PS any of you guys remember my Powerpoint presentation from about 15 years ago using stockings. Would love to find it. The joint in the PPS took 20 minutes to smoke. power malawi hash was made.

I've picked up a bad habit from my succulent growing. I tend to agitate the top of the soil (2-3mm) for moisture reasons. Anyway, I do this with my plants a day after watering firstly for looks. I like the look of freshly turned soil. Secondly, the process exposes eggs and larvae to the lights and elements and kills them. I've been doing this for years with succulents, maybe that's why I don't seem to have gnat problems. Or is my grow environment incorrect that I don't attract them. Just a thought to throw out there. Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

Ok so sadly, these are not so much stable as they were Ethos clones from cannaclone.To be 100% honest, I was only impressed with Ethos Crescendo but I didnt manage to save a cutting from her Currently flowering Forbidden skittles (inside)and Sweetz insanity (outside) - will take some cuttings to save if they should impress. I want to pheno hunt the correct way, much like what @1000Hills Nursery is doing on his thread, but baby steps.Seems my ez cloner is working now that i added a water heater!

yeah, I bought the seeds from a hydro store that stocked them, I normally would not buy seeds this way I added the packaging pics above now. I hope I can save other people some $$$$$

I have found Cinnamon doesn't work, probably better at dampening off issues than gnats. 2 weeks in, still got the odd one flying around. Neem in a spray bottle, and spraying the surface of the soil every other day, if you want to preserve the Microbes, or a drenching if you dont and really want the gnats gone. Works 100%

Give them names...the gnats that is. Karba dust, sticky strips, neem soil drench if you must. I dont personally worry about them as I grow in organics and they are always around.

Sorry bro I cant comment on this, I have only ever put cinnamon on my pancakes.

Yes it does take sometime, but I just hang the bag up and sway it around every now and again. It does take time. Its important to clean your bags to, those holes can get clogged up quickly.

Very impressive trichiome production across the board.

Oh yes, myself staying away from toxic things for my soil, and keep to the most natural environment as possible, glad you practice this too. I did only now read further than just look at the label, which is deceiving at best. Haha. They even make reference to, uneducated people or animals...what the hell? And again, in the soil DE is amazing for the silica benefit, is amazing stuff, as adding silica in bottle liquid form doesn't or can't get absorbed by the plant. The only thing is its mentioned often as a good pest control, but have yet to see that myself or found evidence thereof. Thank you for the invite too

One of the new kids from my FruityPuke daddy (A Kush Hybrid from California). Being winter and she is outdoors i chopped her a bit earlier, i dont want any PM on her

Winter weddingcake flowering out oraait, doubt ill get her to full maturity this round, removed some leaves with PM spots, keeping a close eye, hopefully i can get her past week 6.

Little bit of winter sifting to check out what my new seeds are like. This plant is fire. Will drop some pollen i got frozen on her, same daddy, so will be a BX to the dads line.

Blueberry Kush #3 ,the muffin pheno, sticky icky

Hello All, New to the grow game, Id love to introduce you to my little Garden Busy growing 3 Gelatos, 1 Jack Hair and 1 Bubblegum Extra, I cant wait to show yall the grow!

Good progress, all looks to be in order. Its just the tree in the 2nd last pic doesn't look like she's having such a great time... How's your air circulation in that portion of the tent? Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Oeps this is both totes, same day as last pic on previous post Sent from my F5321 using Tapatalk

Samsung LED LM301H + Epsitar deep red Expandable and dimmable 5x 140w boards running at 120w each Power: 0-600W (Actually I got the upgrade - 2 x 320W Meanwell drivers Spectrum: 3500K Voltage Range: 48V System Efficiency: 3.0J/W Dimensions of boards:1110mm x 55mm x 15mm Dimension of tracks/frame : 940mm Driver: HLG-600H-48B @StickyD420 Not sure if I'm allowed to post links? but got it from Online Grow Shop. Thankfully before they had their price increase!

I can vouch for this device. Works very well. GLWS

@Fridgedoor register screens in Marine Drive have got the mono filament nylon mesh. I used tent canvas to make my bags with.

Outdoors they aren't noticed much as there are plenty of predators that keep them in check plus everything else nature throws at them. Indoors with no predators + the fungus rich soils we use they breed like crazy.

This was the first time I bought seeds this way, school fees paid The main aim of this post is to create awareness and hopefully save people some $$$$$ Many thanks I attached the wrong files. Absolutely.

Thanks bro, but I don't feed this water back to the plants. If the soil hasn't absorbed it a day after I've watered, I pour it down the drain.

Your soil might be too wet, whats is your watering like?Are you allowing it to dry between?

Here ya go bro : https://www.420sa.co.za/profile/1453-batista/?tab=node_gallery_gallery

Howzit bro. Just a heads up. Dont think u should be re-using the run off water. As this may un balance your salts and ph. As the run off is never consistent of nutez. It probably contains old salts and nutez and new salts and nutez.

There is a company called LEApH selling pH pens and TDS meters on Facebook if you need them badly.

Probably abit irratating having these bugs around. Bugs are annoying in general. Thats just my personal opinion. In terms of damage to the plants. I have no idea. Havnt gotten that far yet Just tryna figure out solutions before i run into issues. Preparation is golden.

Thanks for bringing that up. I use it as I saw it was recommended to another forum member. Will stick with DE in the future

Loving the colour of the wedding cake

Welcome to the forum @PeeWee They most likely come from your soil. U can use diatomaceous earth as a topdressing during veg, as well as stickystrips. I say veg cause it will provide silicate which can cause a dark ash when used too much in flower. Some growers cover the tops of their pots with silicate sand or perlite, this sjould also keep them away. Good luck. Edit, forgot to say, karbadust is toxic, i wouldnt use it in my garden.

They look much happier now, The spots on the leaves are from lockout of the watering, and are Calcium deficiency from not being able to feed through the roots. You'll be okay, just keep it slow on watering and they going to do perfectly.

Reading through your post and thinking about it. it makes sense to have an entry fee. You get respect for it, I am talking about the people paying the entries. It can be used for the distribution costs, so you dont have suppliers letting you down. Free does not work, people dont respect free. Throw the entries into a kitty of sort and make the winnings bigger or lets donate that as a community to the Dagga Couple/ Fields of Green for All. Afterall they are the reason why we can grow in the first place. I dont think you should eliminate newbie growers, but of course they need to be active in the community. Just want to say keep it up. I won 3rd prize in a comp on here last year, never expected anything and received my prize very quickly. Great community!!

Do you measure your fertilizer, when you give it to the plants? Or do you just guess how much to give? I think growing went into the next league with measuring your light and applying what the plants need and not what you think they have to get. We measure water, fertilizer, time to grow.. but not the amount of light we give the babies... why? Is it worth it to spend on a quantum flux meter? That is your own decision.. I grow for that long, I know I can grow.. but how much I get out per sq or watt.. that is my challenge. I wanna hit 1kg per sq on every harvest I do. Would love to see how close I get to 3g/watt, if I go as perfect as I can go. I learned a lot.. really.. more than in the last 10 years, just by using a stop watch to clock my lap times. Without, you just guess your lap times.. I post one pic and that explains all.. Same strain, same time glassed.. different light intensity. 250mmol are recommended by Apogee.. what a result with just different light setups. No, you do not need a quantum flux meter to grow a plant.. if you wanna reach the limits.. yes, you need one. The plant with more light.. didn't perform better.. wuuuppppssssss.....!!!!!!!!!

Biggest new grower mistake, I too made this mistake myself, so I know all too well... Is over loving your plant to death with water.

@Saurus Hey bud, yeah I’m quite ambitious with these ladies just doing my best to not over love them and fuck em up. But holding back on lst for about 1-2 weeks I want some longer branches to play with

@Saurus Hey bud, so one of my plants was dropping and others had nutrient burn. So flushing them helped and then I also realized I was giving them a bit too much water so that was the other issue. I was trying to LST too early because I was quite excited but I’ve gotten a knack for it now and feel confident about this grow!

Blue cheese and WeddingCake aerial view.