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This is from a very low experience IPM outdoor grower. I was given a product called Orobos with suggestions that it may help. First application seemed to do the trick in flower stage, as we were getting real wet conditions in the nursery with weather. Subsequently I studied the package info, noting that the ingredients were simple. Borax + Orange Oil + Surfactant So as I have loads of Borax here for plant food, I made up a solution of 1tsp Borax in 1 L spring water (heated slightly to dissolve the crystals of Borax) with 10 drops of orange oil and 2 tsp of organic dishwash soap liquid. This worked for our veg section and is not expensive to make. Battled with flowering plants late in season though. Will be doing it again this next cycle. Everybody I know suffered PM this last summer season. Maybe we can have a summer school to up the data on IPM this year?

Hi fellow grow enthusiasts, I mixed my super soil 3 weeks ago (first attempt) and all genetics I want for the coming outdoor season are on their way. Now I can't sit around till the growing season starts, so I did some research on compost teas, etc and found something that was new and quite interesting to me... Has anyone used and made some seed sprout tea? I am planning on trying it this year. Here's a link for more information on Seed Sprout Tea: https://www.alchimiaweb.com/blogen/seed-sprout-tea-sst-cannabis-plants-ok/ I also would like to know how you guys test your soil mix? I plan on planting a "test plant" and see whether it likes the soil or not (hopefully it does ). I germinated a bag seed for that purpose, which I will plant into a container with my soil mix in a couple of weeks. Is there any other way to check if all requirements are met? Thanks in advance for any guidance

Flip Day The outside plant isn't doing too badly either, should probably put her in a bigger pot though. She's already about a week or so into flowering.

I would say it is a overdose of magnesium. You just need a bucket. A small air pump or water circulating pump. Wormcastings. Some kelp meal.malted barley. Make a tea bag put all the dry ingredients in the tea bag and bubble.for 24~36 hours. If you dont have these ingredients add atleast the wormcastings.

You will only really know if there is something missing if your plant shows signs of deficiencies. Or you could have a soil sample tested. But that will be expensive. As long as you have NPK elements in you mix and all the macro and micro elements. Back to SST. I use alfalfa sprouts and mung bean sprouts. To do my teas. Also malted barley teas. Good Luck. PS send me a list of your amendments the I can see if you missed something in the soil mix

Hi guys. An update on my plants. First 4 standing on 5 weeks now. My one autoflowering is starting to flower. But is still very small. the other 3 swazi golds are also still small. I also planted another autoflower seed(3weeks currently) and looks awesome compaired to the first 4 seeds. I also did a test with untested seeds i bought with jiffy pellets. And planted them over in smaller plastic bags yesterday(2weeks now) Do you guys have any other tips for me? My watering is a lot less than what i started off.( think i overwatered them) i also took away my humidifier( warm steam) and it actually worked. Think the steam burned the leaves. Just seems like my grow doesnt want to be a proper grow

Flush the soil. To much salts. Give compst tea and wait.

@Ill_Evan I actually had that led blinking on one of my fans which I’ve covered up what I’ve done is raised the lights more and moved the fan so let’s see maybe it was that and not the nutes

The last time I read something like this, the issue was that the LED was barbequing the plants without the grower knowing. They thought it was bad nutes, to bad soil, to all sorts of crazy shit until he finally swapped out the LED and all of a sudden shit was fine again. Not saying that's exactly the case with you, just a lesson in that sometimes it's just the most unexpected thing causing the problem. Another example could be like leaving the power indicators on heaters untaped so they cause an internal light leak inside the tent without the grower knowing. Shit like that.

You may be experiencing a combination of wind and light burn that is stressing the plants to a point of stunting. Generally I don't think you can have too many fans, just as long as they are not blasting your plants directly. I usually aim mine to shoot right over the canopy and below the stems. Fans are meant to mix the air in your space so that you don't get variations in your temperature as well as to provide low stress training. Emphasis on 'low stress'.

This will be the plant I will test my soil on. It's an Inzane in the membrane cross with a mistery strain. Don't know how it got pollinated... Maybe my neighbour doesn't know how to identify males. Let's she how she'll take it.

I also started out with nutriplex, and honestly, it was really great! And cheap... You just have to familiarize yourself with the makeup of each bottle so you know what bottle has what... From there you can teach yourself to play with the schedule and fix deficiencies as you spot them. Iv moved away from Nutriplex for the sole reason that I can buy cheaper nutes... Like hortimix. But nutriplex will grow you some nice dank

All a question of the wallet Pot size matters. 20 liter for fems is little, for autos to much. If you have the money and water, go airpots or fabric pots. Fertilizer same, if you dont mind, go BioBizz and Freedom Farm Premium Classic soil. With that combo you can skip the ph/ec and ppm pen. Have 2 eyes on outdoor temp when you start. For the rest i wish you good luck! Use some quality seeds with those quality materials.. if you go bag seed. Get your stuff from the standard nursery and stay as cheap as you can. Result will be same.. cheap shit

@CreX high tea this brother up man.

Hi @Popcoen its my guess that there is a issue with your medium, did you amend the mix with anything, do you have a way to check the runoff ph and ec? Looks like severe Ca and Mg deficiency at first glance, the clawed leaves show high Nitrogen, but the plant won't be able to photosynthesize properly without enough Ca and Mg.

That fan there.. has it been blasting wind into your plants head-on?

Honestly i rather u leave each thing individually wired. With short cables about 1 - 1.5m long outside the growbox. And get an extension . Plug everything to an extension near the grow box. And have 1 plug run to the plug point. Gives u total control of each and everything. Just in case some things not working aswell or u dont like it. Or want to upgrade. Whatever the reason.

I get what you saying bro. And the light at the back does put out abit of heat. But i mounted my light on the outside of my box. So the only heat that goes in the box is from the front of the light. As mentioned earlier. At 400mm away from the light i sit at about 25-27 degrees with no cooling. I normally run an extraction fan. So it drops my temp to about 23-25 degrees. I think thats pretty decent temps. And im basically maximizing on the lumens. Giving the plant as much as she can take without burning her. (The sun is alot tougher trust me) when i leave my plant in direct sunlight for a while. My hygro goes above 38 degrees. So im pretty happy with what the light is giving me currently. My plant is 10 days old here. She has only been getting the 150w led or direct sun. 24 hours of light

I have a Ghost Train Haze cross i want to preserve. Got a few seeds from a friend, and the ones he grew from the same batch were sublime. Cannot find anything in the same league locally. Going to practice on a Durban Poison first and if it works out then I will proceed with them.

Yes, started on Saturday with the flip. There will be a couple of days between pulling out the current plants and planting the new plants into the same soil. What do I need to do with the soil if I want to use it again@SkunkPharm ? Also, I plan on running grows like this from now onwards instead of having huge plants at the end of the grow. If I grow 4 / 3 plants at a time it will give a nice variety. I wanted to veg a bit shorter but yeah, life happened but its ok. My plants get exactly 12 hours sleep a night but will definitely let them go longer later in the flower cycle. With my first grow I noticed that the sun and wind really did a number on the plants and those are things I want to avoid going further, but not yet fully indoor grow. Thanks for all of the suggestions thus far.

Sprout teas are great! Full of amino acids and vital growing blocks for all types of plants! Another tea to consider is your bokashi teas, which are anaerobic teas. And then you get your aerobic teas with oxygen consuming microbes and fungi. Check my signature out for my teas thread! I should actually add onto it sometime... Need to redesign my vortex brewer

Yea... Time is very very short... I don't think peeps can finish an outdoor grow if they flip now. Will likely try reveg if left too long. Spring is 1st of spring, but tons of shit is growing before then already. If you guys plan on using the sun much longer, you must be diligent with bringing them in at night to sleep for as close to 12 hours as possible... I'd even say you can go up to 14 hours of darkness for the last 2or3 weeks of flower

Nutriplex was the first nutes I ever used in my first ever grow. Treat the recommended doses as the MAX, keep your feeds at about 2/3 the recommended dose and you should be good.

Recommendation for soil when growing autoflowers in future. Use more fluffy soil less dense (airy) and nutrient dense. They dont need allot to become big plants. My suggestion os to either use freedom farms soil. Or 1/4 coco 1/4 perlite 1/4 wormcastings 1/4 enormous buds soil Anyway use it dont use it. Just a suggestion. I was always put off by auto flowers because I did not understand that less is more. Also the bigger your pots the bigger your plants.

If you are starting out and you want to mix your own soil there is some amendment packs availible around. One that I can think of right now is availible from Jamies garden shop. How big do you want you plant to be? The bigger your pot the bigger the plant. My last grow I used 40~70l fabric pots. Depending on your experience just set up an irrigation system then you only have to worry about filling the reservoir and you don't have to worry about watering every day. I am lazy.

No problem.Haha, it's pretty simple. Organic soil just means that it has nutrient amendments produced from natural sources - however does not mean that it contains microbial life. With organic soil you could add organic nutrients (made from natural sources), or nutrients that are salt-based (provided in their chemical salt form). Salt-based nutrients feed your tree directly. Living soil on the other hand has a ton of beneficial microbes that produce nutrients from the stuff in the soil and you would use organic nutrients or additives to feed the microbes in the soil to boost nutrient production for your tree in the medium. You shouldn't use salt-based nutes in living soil because it will eventually stop the symbiotic relationship between your tree and the microbes, eventually leading to the microbe life dying off completely by starvation. *Living soil is usually Organic, but not all Organic soil is living!* Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Some better pics of the mainline structures. just for @afternoon blazer these girls are beefy and the structure should be able to hold any sized colas they can develop, unless I get some freaks of nature that is.. we can only hope. I think I will be flipping tomorrow and throwing in the daddy 400W HPS bulbs. Also good to note, everything up until now has been under 250W MH bulbs (minus the soil plants of course, strictly speaking the mainlined plants). So you could comfortably grow 2 plants and mainline both of them under a single 250W for veg. This was secretly a little test I wanted to conduct to see if one could do it and I think the 250W bulbs get a bad rep, but if it's all you got for veg, I'd have to say don't stress

Did the problem start after the feed of molasses and epsom salts?

@Ill_Evan plants are looking absolutely gorgeous brother!

@Dank well that’s how they advertised it, to be honest not a fan of the soil it’s the first time I’ve used it. I even gave less than recommended This is frustrating cause they have been doing so well... I have moved the fan aswell so let’s see.

@afternoon blazer Thanks for the info... However, are all of those nutes really necessary to have a good grow, taking into consideration the top quality living soil being used??

@Ill_Evan so I have it oscillating on the lowest speed. Could it perhaps be wind burn?

In terms of light spectrum and bud quality, I absolutely believe HID bulbs beat LED (quantum board with Samsung LM301B/H diodes specifically). However at the cost of more heat, less light spread and higher electricity cost, all of which the average homegrower wants the opposite of.

@afternoon blazer I hear you. I was thinking just the tube lights together, separate from the 150w. But they already wired so gna just leave them

yes i did over water in the begining. But i think its doing good currently. I also do have a fan that runs 25 hours for fresh air.... Other question- the below feeding is it proper or should i use other stuff? Those im using is natural so you cant burn or over feed the plants according to the information

All part of the journey. I am sure that I will fail somewhere, but thats the fun of it. Just keep trying. I really appreciate the input from everyone.

Potentiometers are just a variable resistor... So you should be able to pick one up at builders even... Or I dono where you stay, but GT electronics in boksburg will have. Otherwise as @Jimmy-zsaid, rs components should have, but expect a bit of a buck on top of the otherplaces

Got any idea what you pH is like? They look like they were stunted. The autoflower won't do you too much I rate. The phenos could still recover over time. You using 600W MH at the moment yeah?

Why dont you contact papaj on IG. I'm sure he can help you out.

"Hey Groot, roll us a joint there bruv." *3 months later "Groot" *Displays 5 finger buds "What?"

Im very impressed brother. 4 plants under that 1 light. And they seem to be doing well. Feeling very excited about my 150w. Very promising. Keep it up bro.

STS really is the best method. You only need to spray a plant once every 5 days and only about 4 times. Store bought colloidal silver solutions are too weak. You need a colloidal solution of about 30-40ppm. But you'll have to spray every day, with no guaranteed results. Youd need to make it yourself using DC electrolysis with both the anode and cathode needing to be made from .999 fine silver. Just use STS.

Think I've trimmed to the structure that I want the plants to grow in. Rate I am going to let them recover from the trimming and then start the flip.

Time to convert 2 more cabinets. Friends helped out with cfl's and fittings lying around and I bought a few when there was change after nappies.. Tight budget. So now I had 1 x 85w, 5 x 20w cfl's and a led tube light that I juggled around over the next few days. So far the plants are still looking good, one or two have slightly browned tips. But I'm well stoked. Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

2 weeks later I transplant into pots using home grown/made soil from the farm/nursery. The soil is: Coarse sand Compost (cow, horse and chicken shit, fynbos greens leftover from the propagation operation, coir, cinnamon powder, ash, those small slow release fertilizer balls and small bits of bark) which I tend to pull out as I read it messes with the nitrogen. Now I need more space as I have 15 plants. Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

Are they auto strains or photo?... Also, I would suggest to mix in some Perlite if you plan on using the same type of medium for your next grow Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Okay.....i went back to my lighting and yes MH is currently runnig. So my mind was confused.... Im useing seedling mix i got from the nursery where i planted them in thats mixed with another type of potting material( very fine and fluffy). Didnt use small pot bags....planted them straight in big ones. They do have drainage holes I am also only watering them when they get littlw dry ontop. And then use the misting spray for inbetween. I have a humidifier running that brings the humidity up to 70%. But it fluctuate between 30 to 70.... I dont have a grow tent. Made a diy setup hahahaha