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Hahaha aaah you guys stories made me amped to tell mine. So I'm gonna start wish a short back story.... I grew up in a very religious household, and was quite a religious brewskie for most of my youth... So drugs of any kind were just never mentioned, and when they were... It was always depicted as life ending and pretty much a one way ticket to non salvation.... Anyways, i was eventually kicked out of the place because I liked girls... I found out my ex had a moment of clarity and confessed her sins lol... So I lost all my 'friends' and people who I thought had my back... And was like fuckit.... Screw you guys... And I started making a new life for myself... I took up ice hockey and thoroughly enjoyed it and made quite a few friends from that time that I still talk to and keep in touch with... But they were quite a bit younger than I was, mostly still in school. I seemed to gravitate towards the rebels and the misfits and the bad apples... Because hey... Am I not a bad apple?? I figured these guys I could relate to... So I started joining them in the car park when we had shift breaks for ice rink marshaling duties, where they would smoke cigarettes... And one day Gage whips out this nasty looking joint... And says.. Who wants to give this a go... They were 16/17, and I was 19/20, and not everyone was keen to participate... Maybe only 4 out of the 8 or so peeps that were there... Being the newborn rebel that was me... I decided to give this shit a go... It tasted horrible... Burnt like shit... But man... I was wowed... You just gotta smoke alil and you feel like this!!? I got high... But... That stupid goofed high you get from smoking jut lol haha hahaha... I loved it. I wanted more... So I asked Gage where can I get some more, and he showed me a little sweets stand that sells bankies of weed or prerolls... This is in 2009ish guys... I was buying R2 bankies, yes twee Ronds.... For a gram bankie of crushed leaf powder... I was again blown away... My first illigal purchase of this salvation ruining DRUG... Hard drugs man... I remember thinking this is it... I cannot be any more condemned than I currently am... So I took it home and smoked it... And then went back for more... 2 bankies now... 4 bucks of my hard earned money... Going home getting blasted with Gage and Chez lol blowing smoke rings with the hubbly and laughing our asses off for no good reason haha, good memories... And while I stayed in Durban... That is pretty much the quality I knew... I had never even seen a weed plant alive until I moved to jhb a few years later. Moved to Jozi with my dad and he also smoked, and he laughed at me when I told him what I smoke hahaha, and he graciously showed me where to get more weed... This time I'm now paying 20 bucks for a banky... But my oh my... It had formation!! It was real weed!! And for 20 bucks... It was gooooood... Way better than the shit trim leaves I was used to... But still wet behind the ears when it came to weed... Made some friends through my dad's work, and so I entered the punk rock party scene... I liked it... More people who I thought I could relate to... Social outcasts, misfits...black sheep... And it was fun... I was going to plenty gigs and this is where things start getting good.. I met so many stoners!! Like... Literally everyone smoked... Or was super chilled with smoking, and more importantly, had contacts for some A grade Cron... all the good stuff, greenhouse, indoor, medical, which to my knowledge back then was like a step up from indoor... And it was delicious... Eye opening... Magical... Beautiful... Emotional... Compelling... Glorious lol... .... Fucking expensive I got contacts for a guy in the south of jhb that sold only indoor... I used to spoil myself like once every 3 months to a gram of his delectable delights... Im talking about 'cheese' that smelt like cheese, tasted like cheese, aftertaste of cheese, fucking cheese my guys... 'Blueberry' that was literally more delicious and flavourful than a mugg&bean blueberry muffin with all the blueberry nuances... 'bubblegum' that left me thinking that there is just no fucken way it can be real... But I smoked it... It happened... Trust me, I was there lol And at this stage I had still never seen a cannabis plant and figured you needed to be a chemical scientist to cultivate such a plant lol. I didn't have much access to the internet growing up or after, so I only knew what I saw and what I read in the limited books I had access to.. Years went by and my knowledge grew and so did my salary, but so did my rent and petrol and everything fucken else... So I was eventually caught between a rock and a hard place where I could either smoke at home and not go out... Or go out and not smoke... I decided to just bite the bullet with a mate and buy a light. I bought a 400w HPS with interchangeable MH bulb for 1200 bucks and started my journey. My very first plant was pure beginners luck if ever I ever saw beginners luck lol... It was a mystery bagseed plant... But guys when I tell you it was a pheno of a lifetime... It was literally, and still is, the best smoke I have ever had.... 72g off her and I thought my fuck... This would have cost me thousands of monies!!! I was ecstatic, I bought more stuff... I did my research and decided that I am gonna do hydro... And I realized how little I knew when all the wheels started falling off and my grows were dying and problem after problem after problem... I was even on the verge of giving up... Throwing in the towel... When I stumbled across forums online.... I was like what is this? Answers to so many questions I have had! Fixes! Methods on my madness! LO and behold my plants were growing again! I couldn't be happier... I decided to sell my ice hockey kit and invest in a decent light... The way of the future, LED lighting! Using the power of HPS and Blurple tech, I managed to start growing some decent dank on the regular, enough to cover the needs of me and my GF and the occasional friend who came over hehe. And that pretty much brings us to the legalization of the cultivation of this wonderful plant we lovingly grow and admire on the daily, I wanted to become part of something larger than myself, share my knowledge with people and help as many people as possible cut out a few years of struggle that I had to endure. And so I joined this fine establishment... I get to hone my skills against some of the best in the country, get tips give tips... Share my knowledge and experience and really just give back so that everyone can fully enjoy the fruitage of their hard work and effort by growing the best they can. PS - here's a potato for the long post

Nice thread idea @PsyCLown! In my school days I was largely against it actually. I had a few friends that began to smoke it quite a lot in grade 11 and 12, they used to head out on a scooter to the local taxi rank and grab a matchbox of jut from the taxi washer there. Twas more seed than bud! Even though I partook at times, and enjoyed myself immensely, I was still for the most part against it and stupidly worried that this "drug" would take over me, get me hooked, and send my life on a downward spiral....Idiot About 6 months or so after finishing matric I gradually started to indulge more and more with my mates, and as I grew to enjoy it more and more I started researching about it more and began to learn that what I've been told about cannabis simply wasn't true and that it's in fact safe to use, more so than booze. It's hard to pin point where it became the norm with me but one of the big factors was music and how much I would enjoy it while high, I also remember realising how it was shifting my perspective on things... the natural world and how everything is more connected than I'd previously realised or bothered to take note of ... I just enjoyed the way it made me see things. I still do 12 years later and I'm a solid every day user. Have I thought of quitting at times? Most definitely. Sometimes I feel I depend a little too much on it but I do feel that it helps me. I have a mild form of A.D.D and cannabis definitely helps to calm my mind and help me focus. Teachers in school strongly advised I go on Ritalin and I'm forever thankful my dad told them to fuck right off. Eventually I found the natural solution and being a person that sits at a PC all day, I can't bare to think how I would manage without it. So as far as that's concerned it's a medicine for me. Sometimes it makes me a little anxious but that stems from a current mindset. I know that because it doesn't always make me anxious. It's also strain dependent so there definitely is validity in finding the strain that works for you. I reckon everyone can attest to the fact that we all need those few hours of just not giving a fuck and cannabis does wonders for that. Bill Hicks sums that up beautifully with his line about waking up at noon and playing the citar if you haven't seen Bill Hick's standup then make sure you do! Pretty boring story but its a story nonetheless

Title: First indoor grow , growing Nirvana genetics White Widow ,Girl Scout Cookies ,Master kush and was gifted a revegged clone of Fruit spirit (white widow x blueberry) by royal queen seeds in coco perlite , under 400w HPS/MH I also have a supposedly swazi gold bag seed that is still growing from the test run I ran. Medium: Coco coir and perlite at a 80/20 mix Size of Grow Area and number of plants: 1.5m x 1.5m x 2m , and 4 to 5 plants depending on if i keep the swazi gold bag seed plant Lighting: a dimmable 400W electronic ballast with MH/HPS in a cooltube Pot Sizes: starting in seedling pots and then transitioning to 10L bags for veg and 20L for flowering Nutrients: General Hydroponics Flora trio , and a mix of epsom salts and part b hortimix at a ratio of 4:5 Plan for the grow: Planning on mainling and LST on the plants , the fruit spirit im going to take clones off keep and let the mother grow throughout summer when it gets a bit warmer. I currently have the light 30 cm from the germinating seedlings and dimmed downed to 200W, and the beach sand is for the fungus gnats that i encountered during my test run .Thee grow i tried to do as cheap as possible as little project to keep me busy during lockdown , but hopefully i grow out some beautiful trees The revegged Fruit spirit clone ^ The swazi gold bagseed at day 16 The seeds germinating in jiffy pellets^ The newby setup , I decided to not vent the hot air out of the tent as the temperatures are low but will do so when the temperatures get warmer , i do have a fan blowing the hot air out of the cool tube though .

Haha the first time I got properly goofed, Sepia vision describes its all , though I was gonna die, Uncle type friend David, asked if I could just keep a joint for him as he had some business to attend to, I was 12/13 at the time, I joked with him gesturing that I was gonna smoke it, he just looked at us and smiled with a fat grin and said go ahead, we were on holiday by a lake, hazyview, me and buddy decided he would row a canoe and I choose a paddle boat we paddle about 1 km to opposite bank to find a safe spot, now the joint looked like a rat turd it was a small fishlips type joint, we lit it smoked, coughed and coughed some more, it tasted nasty, we waited a few mins nothing.... so we decided to go back.... as we started paddeling everything vision wise went sepia and my voice sounded like echoes, I was thrown into another realm, that paddle back felt like all eternity, we got back and I thought I was dying, so went to the cottage to lay down, all I remember is my buddy periodically slapping me on the face to wake up and said I would fall into a coma if I feel asleep, many hours later I was woken up by Uncle David laughing is head off, all I said to him was I think I had this really weird dream lol :) was too scared ever again to try until I was about 17 !

First of all: Awesome thread! I really enjoyed reading your stories, so I feel I have to share mine. On a sidenote it's interesting to see that the mayority of us growers started off smoking quite early. I grew up in Germany and smoked for the first time when I was 12. I didn't feel anything, but it still sparked my interest. You must know in the late 90’s most of what you could get in Germany was hash as it was easier to smuggle from Marokko to Europe than actual bud. We had to mix it with tobacco and smoke it through a bong. It was baaad stuff but we didn’t know any better. One day my brother, who also smoked got me some very good super skunk which was the first actual bud that I smoked. Me and 3 other friends smoked it through a selfmade pipe and boooom that was the first time it really hit me. I couldn’t stop laughing for 3 hours or so. From that day onwards i met with my friends everyday in the woods to smoke. I think most of out pocketmoney has been invested in weed lol. Just on a side note the friends I used to smoke with are still my best friends even though I don’t see them that often anymore these days. But I think our little secret has made us some kind of “weed brothers” in a way... I am sure a few of you know the movie “half baked”. The beginning of the movie pretty much describes what we experienced those days. And yes, it makes everything more enjoyable. Not that I don’t enjoy life without cannabis but with cannabis it’s even better so why not using it. Only later I figured out that Cannabis also makes me feel more balanced in a way and that it has many medicinal properties that helped me getting though some rough times in my life, be it mentally or physically. At some point I started my traineeship as a metal constructor, had my own flat and decided to give homegrowing a go. There was just too much weed circulating that was laced with something else those days. Also it got quite expensive and it’s just nice to know how it was grown. Besides that I always felt like I have a green thumb and had an interest in botany. So I read up on cultivation, ordered seeds and gave it a go. That was around 15 years ago. Then about 8 years ago I came to this beautiful country. At that time I stopped smoking cigarettes and weed for 4 years and met my significant other. After a while I found a job in a callcenter which is basically modern slavery but I didn’t have other options. One day when I came home totally exhausted and stressed my wife said more in a joking way “why don’t you just get a joint to relax.” That’s what I did and you can surely imagine how that blasted me away. It helped such a lot dealing with the stressful job. That’s when I found a bag seed and just gave it a go. It turned out nicely and my supply was sorted for a year. I am so grateful to be in a country that legalised growing your own. Even though cannabis doesn’t get me a psychedelic high as the first time I smoked it, I still enjoy it sooo much. It has become a part of my life that I don’t want to miss. Hopefully I will be able to still smoke/vape when I am old sitting in my rocking chair on the veranda... Sorry for the long post, but I hoped you enjoyed my story.

All very good stories! Many similarities to mine. Also grew up in a very religious household, and still am very much religious. more so than before I reckon. I was quite a late bloomer, started at a mates 17th birthday. Had a bong of chronic as it were to start my experience, and what an experience it was. I thought I had entered the realm of hard drugs to be honest lol. Most vivid sort of a trance I've ever had, and it didn't help with my mates flickering the lights on and off while making weird noises (back when I thought demons came from weed) but I was soon to find out where the real demons were actually lurking. Man i'm loving all these positive messages. So yes! I too have been around all kinds and i'm a real advocate of how good this humble plant can be for people, I found that during my struggling times for me and my family, the simple goofed evenings brought me a new found understanding of religion and painted a way better picture than I could on my own. Some would call that blasphemy, I would tell them to get ducked. All this being said, I have also come to believe all things in moderation. So I have always smoked weed in teeny tiny amounts, because "DAM some shit is straanggg''! Smoked dabs once, and never again. each to their own. I started growing my own weed because I noticed some weed taste good and other weed didn't really. So here I am on the journey to create the tastiest weed I hope. Very happy heart'd topic @PsyCLown

Was a beautiful morning for a farm visit. My chocos have a great head start for the season and I'm sure are going to turn into trees. There are way more females than anticipated buy that's not a bad thing now is it. All the females are strong but there are a few that already stand out. These are about 3-4 weeks in flower, and quite probably will start revegging soon. There is another batch of 100 being planted now for the summer in case they decide to finish up.

I started, My neighbor in EL, used to smoke it, around age 15 or 16 and had on a few occasions smoked with him, but it was never my thing and actually used to think to myself, "why am I smoking, or why are they, who wants to feel like this?" So never caught the habit. A few years later, had a huge open house party in EL and someone brought good weed, not the previous type smoked above, and like Psyclown explained too, this was sweet smelling and home grown obviously, and was mind blowing back them, 1993 side. Later when leaving school, and partying with mates, they all had now switched to coke and E, and I was the person who wasn't in and sat alone with my cannabis, while others looked down on it. Then I started to off the rails, to much party party, and to much chemical good times... If anyone tells you cannabis is a gate way drug, they lying to you, this stuff got me clean from Crack, Coke, Ex and cigarettes. Now I grow as I was on the chance and hunt for years to find better and better, and then just decided to grow what I was after, and haven't had a days regret. This plant is my calling, seen it do amazing things, cancer and all.

@1000Hills Nursery thank u very much for the visit this morning and an even bigger thanks 4 the seeds u dropped off, cant wait 2 get them into the ground and start growing was awesome meeting u so cool 2 know guys are willing 2 share with fellow growers, hats off 2 u my friend, u gave me enough 2 start my own farm.

Been smoking since High Schoo (Probably started like 17-18 years ago.. How time flies!)l. Smoked everyday for years. We used to smoke 6 joints in the morning before school between 3 guys and after school we used to smoke until it was dark.. every day... Then i used to go home and smoke again a bit. I probably went through a good few years where the only time i wasnt high was the early parts of the morning lol. I never smoked too much "Indoor" as it was always too expensive and i never really noticed TOO much of a difference tbh so i always just bought "Greenhouse" . I even went through a spell at my first job where i used to buy "location zol' or 'ma-jut' from the hawkers outside which was full of seeds and shit quality.. so used to smoke it with DIY bongs and the high was terrible but intense if you smoked alot! but i kept smoking it anyways even though i wasnt enjoying it, or in the best place mentally lol.. . I literally didnt smoke a joint for that whole year and was just smoking whatever i could from a bong. When i did roll a joint, i used to put it in the bong and pull half the joint in one hit lol.. Been through alot of other drugs also but am clean of all those now. Long story short, those days are long gone and ive actually been smoking on and off for the past 3 years or so.. Been stopping and starting again in Holidays, December etc. Ive actually even stopped smoking cigarettes now and snoke only weed (Smoked cigarettes since i was 10) Then.. the lockdown came and ive been smoking full time again ever since. Bought some good quality stuff just before lockdown and started to build an appreciation for the good quality stuff. Problem was that the good quality stuff is a bit pricey.. so i thought that i could start growing my own batch with some of the extra T5 HO lighting i had around.. plus i also had a decent LED light (Gonna use it as a supplemental light when my babies start flowering).. Started doing some research and ended up here. Wanted to start off with what i had with little to no extra capital.. but here i am now like 8K+ later, hoping i can grow some good bud lol. Im enjoying the growing so far though and learning alot.. just very unsure on training methods etc. and whether i should be training.. what method etc. considering my space. Just topped last night, so im going to leave it like that and see what happens.. Maybe theres small inputs i can do here and there as the plants grow.. will see how it goes.

Yeah, the first few times were certainly more intense sometimes felt a bit trippy. Like the colour of everything going a bit sepia in a way and having the giggles. Why does that stop? Why does it go away? The stuff I was smoking back then cannot compare to the quality of the stuff which I am growing now. Is it tolerance? Does one get use to it? Are the strains we're growing and smoking now just missing something?

Bru you dont need a lot of space to breed. Granted pheno hunting takes way more time, but if you have space for a male and female, you can breed. If you do find a line that produces good offspring, there are many growers out there that will help you pheno hunt.

Shiiiiit. Mine goes back to about high school aswell. Having a few not permitted drinks in a local area. Meet a few older people smoking absolute shit(now) but strong stuff(then) a few pulls here and there now and then. Get elevated. No lie though. Always felt like sleeping or going to sleep. Then u like. Nah. We need to do this shit on it own. Without the drinks. Get a few mates. Stay over at another friends house for the weekend. Parents on holiday. And we start the journey. And man did we start some shit. We were like. Lets try it with a movie. Lets try it with playstation. Lets try it listening to music. And the list went on and on. And fucking hell. Everything was better with it. Alot of people said its better to study with and focus. That shit didnt work for me. Definitly not. I was too baked to do serious shit. And then as time goes on u start to hear shit like higher grade and hydro and greenhouse. And indoor . And then theres names and pics and prices were crazy. U try to upgrade ur smoke as much as the pocket allows. But then u become such an experienced smoker. That ur tolerance demands more quality and quantity. Which kind of leads u right to the path of growing. But grow also just seems fun and rewarding and a journey. Getting high on ur own supply. But its also circumstance. When u are able to grow. U start. Never had the time and commitment to really start something proper until covid had me caged up at home. #Certifiedstoner #stillgraduatingfromgrowing

Pineapple Express. My high school friends and I couldn't get enough of that movie when it released. We only knew of one guy in our grade that regularly smoked weed, although we were only 16 or so at the time. We decided as a group we would meet up at one of our houses over the weekend and get absolutely blasted off this thing called marijuana. I was tasked with obtaining the weed. I kindly asked the loner stoner for some of his boonj which he happily provided to me one day after school. I then took a stroll to the nearest tobacco store at my local mall and got a short, neat little glass bong. We met over the weekend, each had about a solid bowl, sat in a room with a massive hubbly in the center and just blommed passive. We attempted to order pizza, which we ended up only waiting 5 mins after ordering to decide to go wait for the guy at the street. Waited like 40mins outside for no reason and experienced for the first time a group of stoned guys silently eating pizza together, only to realise the silence and erupt with laughter. We also tried this neat little trick where you target a heavily stoned individual, place an "imaginary" bucket over their head, and then everybody pretends to speak to each other but in mute, creating an illusion to the stoned person with the "bucket" over their head that they've suddenly lost their hearing. Classic shit. Since then marijuana has pretty much been right along side me. After many years and many sources of obtaining my lovely smoke, I got really really pissed off one day at how much I was paying for the quality I was getting as well as the amount. So I decided to spend even more money than what I would've gotten if I had just bought more weed and decided to start growing my own. The rabid unemployment was also a major factor

Hey all, So I thought it would be cool to state how / why we started smoking weed and then why we started growing it. I guess I will start... I started smoking it, well, I was curious as to what it was like I guess and had a few friends who use to smoke. I have never smoked cigs, first time I tried was with a friend and it was what I would not classify as cheap shit. Full of seeds and frost was not a thing back then. It was a joint, fuck me it was harsh. My lungs felt as if they were on fire (I think I had the last few pulls from the joint too), I literally only had one or two very very small pulls. Felt quite euphoric and had a bit of a body high which was pleasant. Back then I typically only smoked if I wanted to try sleep or if I was with friends and wanted to chill. How I started growing, well, I thought I could perhaps grow better weed than I was buying and I had been wanting to grow for a while but the risk put me off for a long time to be honest. Eventually I was like fuck it! I also really wanted to know exactly what I was smoking and see how much of a difference there is between the effects of different strains as well as taste and smell. I also wanted to see how CBD is and whether it really is as magical as some claim it is - so I started growing some strains higher in CBD and then strain which is mostly CBD and less than 1% THC etc. etc. So what about you guys? @420SA come on, share your story with us!

I was a late bloomer, but caught on quick. My first puff of homegrown swazi was at the age of 24. At a friends braai and he showed me his wardrobe full of drying branches. The smell of that cupboard was something I will never forget. He loaded a bong and told me told hold it, for as long as possible. I thought he meant to hold onto the bong. A soaring high hit me and it was love at first toke. I have never been anywhere near as baked, since that evening. I could hardly drive home from laughing so much and when I got into bed I couldn't sleep either. There were whirling mandala patterns spinning behind the lids of my eyes. The next day, i picked out the seed from a branch he gave me, found a big pot and sowed all the seed, in one go. Planted them in July and harvested the following May. 10 months later I had a few spindly buds and it was terrible to smoke, harsh as hell and the effect was non existant

@PsyCLownI don't think it's the Strains we're smoking these days. I have the hypotheses that with everything we do for the first time we also create new pathways in our brains and this makes the first experience a unique experience. I am not just talking about cannabis or something similar. Remember when you were driving a car for the first time? It was special and now it's just something you do without really realising it. Once these 'pathways' have established in your brain they only get broader the more often you use them. So it's basically not a new experience for us anymore. That's just my idea and it could be total BS though

Joh. 28 years ago I had my first joint at age 12, on and off through high school, and then my 20s came..They were RUFF..Now that's a story on it's own though... Ffwd to 2010 and I end up in a bike accident that practically destroys my left foot. Had a mate visit me once a week for the 6 months I spent bed ridden, and he always bought along a bankie for me for the pain. Started growing from there and the rest is going to go up in smoke.

So this is a bit of a spin off thread from the one created by @CreX over here: Basically there are 3 measurements one can use to provide efficiency in terms of lights, space used and then to give the people an idea as to how this was achieved the actual watts used (per sqm). I thought it would be cool to get an idea of what other peoples grows are like. I know @Prom managed to achieve a very good grams per watt figure on one of his harvests. Grams per watts Grams per sqm Watts per sqm To get these figures are quite simple Grams per watts - dry weight divided by the total amount of watts example: (50g dry with 1000w = 0.45g per watt Grams per sqm - dry weight divided by the total sqm of your tent(s) or grow space example: 50g dry from 0.5sqm = 100g per sqm Watts per sqm - total watts divided by the total sqm of your tent(s) or grow space example: 150W in 1.2sqm tent = 125W per sqm I will start with figures from my last grow: Grams per watt: 1.55g Grams per sqm: 373.33g Watts per sqm: 240w I feel I could have done better as I could have made better use of the space by having an extra 2 plants in there and I feel I could have improved on the yield by running strains which had a higher yield.

Nice thread bro. Okay to start off, I'm running a COB fixture that has a 120w veg, and 240w flower mode. So keeping in mind the older tech, here are my numbers. GPW: 0.85g GPSqm: 416g WPSqm: 489w With better training I think I can raise the GPSqm a bit more, although I would like to upgrade to some QBs to raise the GPW & lower the WPSqm. Feel like I can pull off some nice numbers with the newer tech. Edit: with QBs I'm pretty sure I could cut the WPSqm in half, which would double my GPW... I'm aiming for closer to 2gpw with QBs in the near future. Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

What up Fam. Small unrelated update. So got lekker and excited and pumped on Saturday - 01-08-20 I had my last auto out of 3. So i germd the sucker. Hoping for a mid week potting. Unfortunatly 4 days later and it aint growing a tap root. The shell has cracked open. But no root. (It was a very tiny seed to begin with) Gelato samba - bulk seed bank From biltong and budz. Germd it exact same way as all seeds i have germd. Shot glass. Sink. Paper towel. Baggie. Some heat. Feel really disapointed that 2 of the 3 autos i bought didnt germ. Also @Naughty.Psychonaut has the gelato samba from the same place. And his is looking fire currently. Could be tons of reasons From luck to genetics to size maybe n so on. Sucks coz they were some banger seeds and the 1/3 autos is growing amazingly. As seen on this grow log. Anyway. We cant be dwelling on the past it is what it is. Come too far to be discouraged right now. So after some chatting to @CreX and @TheUltimateNoob and @ORGANinc. and @Fridgedoor on the weekend. i needed to get me some seeds for the next grow. Which needs to be germd to start getting a monthly harvest. Purple purple purple. Dont get more gorgeous then that. Shopped around. And wanted to try a different supplier to start getting a good feel for genetics and shit. Ordered on Sunday. And they came knocking today. Side note. Welldone on the packing .

A phenotype is a variable expression within a strain. While a strain is an expression of the genotype. So when I'm pheno hunting, I'm looking for the best phenotype in that population to carry the genes to the next generation.

This is a excellent idea @PsyCLown I just feel like im getting to know each and every person sharing a story. I feel like we all buddies now. Awsome guys. Only thing left is a Post lockdown smoke meet and greet. (Probably have to do it in major cities though. To accomodate around SA

Topped last night

Flower day 47 Daily check ups, Seems the Blueberry is finishing up with some rather small buds, but they're plenty. Wondering about what could have gone wrong, but she just didn't respond at all to the last two feedings I gave, so I started flushing her. Not gona risk is and rather have a smaller harvest. This is the same plant I had ph problems with in the beginning of its life, that's all I can think of that might have caused this somehow. Got another seed sitting in the fridge, so excited to see what happens with that one! Blueberry Super Lemon Haze Cheeze Banana Hammock

Week 3 flower under the @Liontree Supernova 320 (60%) Cleaned the girls thoroughly, so a bit more light penetration for these pistols.

Lol I just hit a small bong of a dry popcorn nug before typing the reply and I forgot the pics... Pretty intense for freshly harvested bud I must say . Anyway, here they are. I'm still picking the best trichome shots to put up after this.

It's something new I'm trying... Trying to make some cash to keep going... Everyone I've shown the designs to so far said that they would buy one... So fingers crossed. Edit: only issue is that I'm based in Durban Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Bro, I'm currently in the process of developing my own brand with an online store. It's items with all custom designed prints (designed by me). Will be launching it on Instagram by hopefully months end. If you're still interested in supporting some local businesses by then, I reckon they're gonna be hit items. So we could talk about setting up a distribution point as well when it comes to it. Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Awesome. @GGG @afternoon blazer @SkunkPharm @StickyD420 Thanks for the replies guys. Much appreciated. I'll manipulate the fans a bit and just water pH 6.5 ish then hit it with the bloom when they go into flower. On a side note...the sour diesel auto is started to frost up. Week 8 ends this Saturday. Slow start but she's looking good. Couldn't have done it without the valuable input from this forum.

My 3 plants close to my fan, non oscillating, had that wind burn, and came right after I let the fan oscillate again, in my veg section. Most likely that. RH high or low, or pH and few other things could be to blame, but as you mentioned the fan was close and doubt it the other things as your other plants are good. Added, all the side that get hit by the floor fan are all drooping and sad, looks like wind burn, caught early enough so just sort the air flow out.

At the moment I am using grams per watt, just cause. I haven't really thought about it since learning how to grow. The gold standard that's usually plastered everywhere is to achieve a gram per watt, but I find myself now trying to achieve awesome buds over quantity, so I haven't paid much attention to it. When I gear myself towards quantity, most likely from my next grow onwards, I'd probably start using gram per square meter. I'd like to fully utilise my space so it feels like the right "gauge" to use. I'm easy mahn

Aaah, I just did a 1,1G/W but only 375g/SQM sooo I would like to get to 1,5G/W and 500g/SQM, lots to improve on. I'm trying a scrog now to see if I can get there. Sent from my F5321 using Tapatalk

I by no means have enough experience to even begin to judge which way to decide that. But I thought possibly per meter m2 because that takes all limiting factors out of account. But yeah I read some guys doing insane m2 yields. Surely everything has to be spot on when breaking the 500 mark, Or that could be easy for some. Like I say, not an expert. But love to hear what people think increase the success ratio the most. To answer the question because I went way off topic. I would say I would be happy with growing something that makes me proud I guess and progress from there.

Small side note When i first heard the term Hydro in relation to weed. I was like, holy shit. That weed grows under water.

Thanks buddy. To much info is always good unless you discussing bedroom tactics. Sent from my DRA-LX5 using Tapatalk

For a good light, you want an even PAR coverage and decent PAR in the corners while maintaining a relatively warm temp over the period of use you intend (my modugrow unit sponsored by TELEC for review runs warm to the touch even after 18hrs). An advantage would be to have a spectrum specific to what you're using it for (higher K spectrum maybe with blue for vegging and lower k with deep/far/infra reds for flowering). Deep/far/infra reds and regular red diodes are really advantageous to have in a flowering tent as it helps the tree induce certain hormonal changes that go along with flowering. UV diodes are heavily debatable - I personally prefer them on my fixtures as it gives me piece of mind by helping prevent PM on the upper most leaves (UV harms mold - I know its UVC that's most harmful, but UVA helps also, trust me). The effectiveness of these UV diodes and whether they work at all is what the debate is about right now. UV is said to also increase trichome production, which is why they're included in some lights, but it's debatable as to if they work when you just use 4 diodes in a 240w fixture - which is why they aren't included in a lot of the other lights. Of course the total power drawn out of the wall socket will also have a big say in whether the light is good or not, which is where the efficiency of the LED chips being used comes into play... The more efficient the chip, the more usable light you'll get per watt drawn from the wall. This is subjective and everyone prefers different things although QB tech is becoming more widely adopted due to its even coverage, less severe hotspots and better corner coverage, as well as its low inputwattage. COB chips are, in practicality, really small quantum boards. They can have as many diodes as a regular sized quantum board and be a fraction of the size which means that they're a concentrated point of intense light and generally create an intense hotspot directly below the emitting diode. To give you a bit more insight on the power draw and why QBs are such a craze... My COB fixture runs at 240w from the wall in flower. I think that I could've gotten the same yield with a 150w QB fixture, or slightly less, spread out evenly over my space. I can see why people would choose either one, and I would use both as well - in different applications. I'm sorry if it's a lot of information you can use, but hopefully you can make sense of it and it use it to help you find a good light. Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Also, here are those trichome shots... I took some new ones of a nug I'm speed drying to test the high.

Vry niice!

Makes everything better When someone new to smoking asks me, "have you ever watched a movie stoned" lmoa Ya, only every movie in last good 15 years There isn't anything better to you, than your own grow... Well for me at least, till I met you bloody people who grow more so like a pro. Added, @Ill_Evan my movie was Friday, and then Next Friday, also smoked red eyed mofo

On your marks... Get steady... Go...

A new grow... A new hunt...

Buying clothes , looking to support my local cannabis industry, anyone need support or know who to support?

Well you can do that with the pheno you choose. But what I'm doing here is breeding one strain to IBL(Inbred Line) or F10 generation. F generations (F for filial, meaning inline...crossing a male and female from the same strain and same generation). Each time you do this, you move up an F level. This generation is the F4 generation, and taken me 6 years to accomplish. Why do I want to do this? Stabilizing genetics. Creating true breeding plants that will breed true plant after plant. There is still variation but many traits become locked in. From a breeding point of view the Chocolope NL line is the foundation I am now starting use to outcross(creating new strains) So out of this population I will choose the best female(s) and they will breed the F5 generation. I am also out crossing to a ghost train haze male, which will be a new strain.

For my first cross when I do start, I want to use Exodus Cheese and Afghan Kush... If anyone wants to do it, I have a name for the strain also. Osama's Cheese Lol Let me in on developments if anyone's gonna do it [emoji1377] Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Think we are done here. I doubt @Cannabist would ever reply here again, their vendor section has ended and this isn't their site.

Oi, what's going on in there I swear, I'd be lighting up my neighbor's house like a Christmas tree if I didn't keep these curtains closed while I opened up the tent at night Anyways! Did some more all-round trimming, mostly just chopping big fan leaves and exposing bud sites. I also decided to go ahead and do that little panel heater project. The tent is getting to about 14C at the lows and I want to bump that up closer to the 20's. I've attached a standard Goldair panel heater to a wooden frame and just slapped the Sonoff onto it. Call it a day. But what of the power led's on the heater and the Sonoff? Well I've covered the heater power led with ye olde duct tape, and the Sonoff now lives in a sock.