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Howdy Greenies [emoji41] Day 40 into flowering and I'm happy with how the girls are enjoying themselves. No issues and my Sonoff for humidity is helping, no PM yet as per previous grows. The smell of the OKC is amazing, buds are dense and loads of thricomes. GSC is big but not as dense yet. Sapphire OG is also dense and I like the lighter brighter green she shows. Temps drop to 12 one night when I forgot to readjust the Sonoff higher [emoji39]. Sent from my F5321 using Tapatalk

very interesting... @Totemic I wouldn't say the additional oxygen from microbial life would be that useful in the medium but the ability to dismantle Reactive oxygen species into h202. Very similar to Superoxide-dismutase, which keeps coming up. This enzyme is the first line of defense in a plant. This can also be achieved with the right amount humus and kelp, administered best through the respiratory system. When plants have these enzymes available, stress tolerance increases drastically, growth, blooms and the list goes on. 10 year study done by Virginia tech on specific bio-stimulants. Plant respiratory increase that was noted that of the opening and closing of the stomata too, plants opened wider and breathed more deeply as if they had was would be the equivalent to a shot of Adrenalin. Also another added benefit both Lacto and compounds increasing Superoxide dismutase - an increase in the Systemic stress response. Puts the plants on High alert and when they are in that mode, not much can become systemic, including PM. But that's while the plant is happy and thriving, when dying off towards the end of the plants life its a different story.

Broke out the 'ol tripod ( @TheUltimateNoob, @afternoon blazer ) and took some trichome and bud shots to see where we are with harvest. The outside lady (Skywalker OG) is one dirty girl dust and bugs will definitely be on the flavour profile if I don't do a wash. Will be the first time I do a bud wash so that will be interesting. I rate in terms of harvest, I think I will begin the flush, do that for a week and harvest sometime closer to the weekend. Inside we are still maybe looking at harvest at the end of the month. Buds are getting orange hairs and the aromas just keep getting better. The sugar leaves look insane and I am very happy with the progress. Pink Mango Gelato: Skywalker OG + Aurora Indica (Top left of the potted plants)

Decided not to top again, I have 6 colas on each plant which I think is fine. Transplanting next week to it's final pot then will transition to flower a week or two after.

With drying you do not need a monster air flow. Just enough to regulate your humidity and temp inside the dry box. No direct fan needed at all, just the tent fan, low entry and top exit. There are many recommendations how long you should dry.. the longer the better. What is sure, to fast drying and you get hay smell and the typical chlorophyll taste. I remove all fan leaves to dry, but not the sugar leaves. If you are in a wet area, you might want to snip more, if very dry, might even keep the fan leaves on the plant to slow down the drying process. I try to keep my drying material between 55 and 60% humidity. Beginning I prefer more around 55, end more 60. If you are dry before day 5 has passed, you are to quick. If you are in a arid area, put a pan of water in your drying tent and point air flow on it depending on your humidity reading. Also try to stay out of the +65% area.. to wet can cause monster problems. Temperature.. best taste results I have with 18-20 degrees and 7-14 days dry time. Growing a plant is one part, I even think the easiest part. The result of the smoke depends on your drying and curing procedure. Most people ruin their material in the last 2 steps.

Bokashi bran everywhere lol, and i like using small amounts of washed rice water, asian folks been growing everthing green with that for thousands of years , my granny born on the pescador islands next to Taiwan, i can remember all the farms there had mutant veggies growing in the land, the were quadrupal in size to anything i had seen before, my gran always said rice water and all the farmers i met siad the same.... folks tale probally , that islands volcanic ,mineral and nutrient rich soil was probally the answer hahah

Yeah I would definitely advise against that. That was something I couldn't keep up with myself. Thinking the runoff was massively high meaning I would need to flush to get it down somehow, but in actual fact there are salt left in the soil yes, but many inert mediums are also buffered which means reading runoff would have to be inclusive of that too. I would usually only feed nutes every third feeding and the rest water, then you making all the nutrients that builds up as salts in the medium soluble with every watering ensuring you don't have build up. This can be increased to nutes every other feeding and water the rest for flowering. That's just how I would do it. Try remember, there really is only so much nutrients a plant can take in at any given time. These salts are the first form for Ion exchange. The purest form. There is no scenarios where bigger is better.

Hey there 420sa community! Hope you guys are having a FANTASTIC day! I recently started a YouTube channel where I'll be doing some grow series videos... I'm currently busy with a Dutch Passion Auto Daiquiri Lime grow series and have an Auto Euforia grow series lined up as well. Link to my channel: GoodGrow on YouTube Please check out my Instagram account as well, you'll get a sneak peak of the Euforia grow there and I'll be adding some pics of the Daiquiri Lime grow at a later stage as well. GoodGrow on Instagram So that covers the intro, I hope you all have a blessed day! GoodGrow

Screw this tripod business, I just raised the shutter speed and put flash on. So much easier.

Trying out my first outdoor grow with bag seed (Swazi/TK cross) before forking out some $$$ for 3x Black Diamond, Glookies & Platinum GSC beans to test out this season. Planted very late (April)

I'll use this for my next grow: https://www.jamiesgardenshop.co.za/shop/cannabis-microbial-consortium-cmc-750ml-r125/ Can't say if it'll any good to my plants but it surely sparked my interest. Other than that I add passion and dedication to everything I grow.

Thanks man, yeah its the LactoBacillus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus_plantarum Interesting from that link (this correlates to what you said about large veggies) - 'Lactobacilli are unusual in that they can respire oxygen' -< Thats basically an airline in your medium ? lol - I could see how that would supercharge growth! So @Roasty basically to make it, leave rice water by a windowsill for a few days.Thats what I do,then dilute with water to prevent clogging spray pump.

Latest update :) Getting ready to do the second (and probably last) topping, started LST on one plant 2 days ago and going to start on the other tomorrow

@CreX Its a picture of a shopping cart list to show you can buy it for under a R1000. Not my setup. Im growing with a 1000w led setup. You should watch lex blaxers video on light elitism.

No need to apologize dude, its all in good fun. And yes your probibly right. I would choose led's over cfl's any day. The point was a sub R1000 diy. I grow with led's.

It's real sad to me that we are so quick to floor somebody else.. I really think some more appreciation and les criticism is the way to go.. Im not taking sides here and I am a new bee as so many others... Sometimes we need to be straightforward and to the point but this guy did not want to sell a 4k light for 10k.. Come on man.. Represent... don't go over the edge just because you can... Have the 420 spirit for Pete's sake...

Welcome @GoodGrow! I'm sure you'll have a good time here.

Huge benefits to adding microbes. Wish I could better understand all the different species of which there is soooo much! All with different characteristics and traits. That’s something I would love to learn.

i dono man, every bone in my body just cringed at the thought of 35x15w of outdated inefficient lighting. you could get ready built ACDC flood lights that have a better spectrum, lower heat output, better canopy penetration, better efficiency per watt.. https://www.acdc.co.za/products/220-240-150w-cool-white-led-alum-flood-light-ip65?variant=32751529689165 150w for under 400 bucks. and sure, 150w is very shy of your 525w, and 400x4 is quite a bit heftier than your sub 1k light. but please bruh, trust me when i say i would rather bet on the 150w LED fitting to outperform the CFL setup. 2x 150w light fittings for 800 if you want a landslide victory.

You need to do what Prom said and plan your drying according to ambient temperatures and your actual bud. I just dried my f skittles last week, for a full 7 days.Here was my process: My buds were extremely dry when I harvested(as it should be, because you left the plant in darkness for 3 days without any watering right lol ;) Now, with the temperatures climbing into the 23's and RH decreasing , I had a problem, these buds were going to dry out too fast because I dont use anything special to dry,just hang em up in a dark room. What I did was, a budwash(water->bicarb->h202->water), and then a small soak for 5 mins in clean water. I then sundried on brown paper for around 10 mins a side until there were no water dripping.The buds gain some weight in water - then I hung them up. This slowed down my drying process and I only had snappy branches on day 6.The bud as been curing for a week now, and its smells like petrol cookie dough my gawd! I came up with the above because i fucked up my entire Fuel OG harvest last year, buy hanging up buds that were already dry and hadnt been washed, the buds dried in 3 days flat and the smoke was harsh cos of chlorophyl.An epic waste of money,time

Do you need to cook the rice or use uncooked rice in the water?I use cooked rice water to treat PM and it works wonderfully.

So I think the higher EC run off is likely due to the fact that the coco you're using isn't plain coco so out of the bag the EC is likely on the higher side. When growing in coco, I do not water until run off. I know a lot of people do recommend it, but fuck that is a mission. Also flushing coco, its an inert medium so you need to feed with nutrients otherwise there wont be any for the plant. I also give nutes with every feeding and since using the automatic watering the plants get nutrient water multiple times a day, based on how quickly the medium dries up... So this leads me to over watering with coco. I feel its more difficult to overwater a plant in coco than it is to overwater a plant in soil, a larger plant in a 20L fabric pot I feel is practically impossible to overwater in coco. I can water it until run off and the plant will remain perfectly happy. When a plant is smaller, I guess it could become a problem but I usually drench the medium (entire medium, I hate only watering around the plant) and then leave it for a few days until it actually dries out a bit but I also dislike leaving my plants until the medium is very dry. When was still using soil I found this lead to slower growth, so since then I started to water more frequently and push nutes with every feed and growth increased and plants have remained happy. I personally feel people put too much emphasis on overwatering of plants. Don't do it everyday with smaller plants which cannot consume the amount of water but no need to wait for the medium to be completely dry before feeding your plants again. I do agree that generally we tend to feed our plants way more nutrients than they are able to consume, although I have not tried to lower the dosages and see what the results are.

When I grow up, I want to be like @StickyD420

She's about ready to come down, stellar plant, looking foward to run her this season outdoors as well as indoor. The smoke will have to be hella dissapointing not to keep her around as a clonenonly cut. Still smelling like diesel berries with that chem funk

GERMINATION: My first three seeds went into baggies on the evening of 9th September. The first popped on 11th and the remaining two popped on 12th. They are in cups in Western Cape coastal, mountain soil, and the first has popped it's cotyledons. The remaining two look set to pop cotyledons later today or tomorrow. The weather is now suitably above 13 degrees most of the time, so the sprouts will be able to metabolize. Spring has sprung and new leaves are starting to show all around the garden. Of our local landraces, I favour the Transkei. It has a beautiful clean high, creative, sociable and euphorically energizing. I am hoping to do a comparative grow with a different batch of Transkei origin seed and if I get lucky I might get a male out of this grow. I have tried harvesting pollen and it is not easy for me, but I hope to get it right this season if I am lucky enough. I am going to grow in the dark loamy soil in the garden, which is on a mountainside overlooking a bay. I am strongly considering Hugelkulture with some homemade amendments. I will take some Myccorhizae samples from the fynbos and inoculate my soil before transplanting. Last season I developed my own basic kasteel combo bug control juice, which I will treat the leaves with as a preventative measure. I will feed with Lactobacillus, kelp, castings and chicken poop. I will also mix in some bokashi bran when building my pile. If I can get hold of a small quantity of alfalfa pellets I will mash some of those in too.

Hey all, So how about sharing some of your secrets, wondering if any of you guys have special mixes of stuff you like to use on your plants which you feel make a difference and how do you use it? I know some of the common stuff is kelpack, silicon, various nutrients via foliar spray, Triancontanol etc. Then you get the stuff like trichoderma which can help keep roots happy and mycorrhizal fungi as well which you'd generally mix in with the medium or apply via a "soil" drench. Your various bloom boosters, which is generally MPK. Curious as to what you find works for you and how you apply it.

Hi fellow gardeners just a simple question we're can I buy seeds as I don't really like the whole online buying thing or am I shit out of luck

Howzit good people That time is coming now. So wana just check my options and get organised. So after harvesting. Im gona hang dry until the branch snaps. Then final trimming and jars with boveda packs. So lets say im gona dry in a 50x40x30cm box. 50 being the height. I have a high powered computer fan. ( for either intake or extraction. Humidity needs to be about the 50 percent mark. Im not drying alot at a time. 2-3 40-50cm tall plants. Is intake or extraction a better option? How big of air vent would i need?

Snap that does look like a nanner shot for the spot! I can't seem to find any more at the moment but I will look out for any developments.

Sweet dude welcome. I hit you up with a follow there on IG. Looks like you have made it to harvest with a few plants! Also looks like you have come to the right place to up your game to the next level! The sunshines that grace this platform will be more than happy to guide you on your journey on growing the greatest herb.

Yes, I was actually thinking about getting a good microscope to be able to see them working, identifying them and so on.

Wow wow wow

Likely it's just instability, iffy genetics. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

100% that sounds like some solid advice. That makes alot of sense and I'll do it that way moving forward. So glad I don't have to worry as much and flush as often - rather water more without nutes and give the plant a chance to uptake the nutrients you gave them before instead of flushing them out. Thanks alot :)

Thats a fine ass lady u got there sir.

Amazing bro. Also im sure that tripod is a freaking legend. Need me a mini 1.

Personally, all the mycoroot, definitely tops. I even go as far as to rub my seeds with mycoroot before planting, and then again for every transplant going forward. Additional silicon during veg, especially when topping more than once, I find very useful. EM Pro-soil I add to every feeding. Otherwise, I try not to add anything else whether I'm using BioBizz or GHE nutes. Apart from the above, I trust these nutes to be sufficient.

Yeah don’t stress then. Let them dry up now. Shouldn’t be a problem with the rise in temps. Pick them up first until you notice they are super light, you much rather under water than over water And then get a feel for the weight after watering. I would also suggest trying to get run-off only when absolutely necessary. Smaller plants really don’t use a lot of water

#1 - Some bottom buds, sugar leaves doing the most.

Aweh fellow horticulturists. Been a bit busy cause spring is around the corner. 1-2. Chocolate Gorilla This lady is getting the chop today. Pushed her an extra week to ripen up some more, now we paying some tax with a dash of rot. But her buds are rock solid. 3-4. Seedsman Lemoncello haze She built a good strong structure to carry her treasures, now she just has to put on some weight in all the right places. 5-6. Purple Stilton Went the same route with her as the Lemoncello. Only topped once and upsized the pots. Starting to get a bit of frost. 7. Purple Pineapple She is doing well, stem terps are strong and funky, but it's still early days. 8-9. Swazi Gold Bagseed from a previous grow, she might not be 100% pure, but she grew well and hasn't skipped a beat at all. Putting on some good weight now, but she has a few seeds. 10. Purple Pineapple Trying to reveg this lady, need a few clones as her buds were sweet, funky and smooth. And the jar is almost empty. Trying out Biobizz Grow, Bloom and Fishmix this season as well as SST's. The mung bean and mielie tea's have gone down well so far and fit in well with the smoothie feeds.

Some awesome things happening in this mans tent.

Just for the fun of it ^^ #1 "Lighthouse" (Royal Gorilla Automatic) #2 "Ladies abused by Eskom" I agree that the picture wasn't hard to take.. getting those 8 Blue Cheese Autos to this point, a real effort grow Not there yet 1,2 weeks to go

[emoji108] DAY 28 of flowering Stretch is over and they settling in, now its building bud time. Feeding was the same as last week and the GSC back left has stretched the most, think it's because I didn't punch her stems at the net when flipped. Looks like the light hight just made it and no cm to spare phew. Sent from my F5321 using Tapatalk

One word comes to mind when I see this: perfection.

Been a while since the last update, still building on the initial flower production. Things have been pretty breezy so far. I didn't quite get the flat canopy between the two bigger plants that I wanted but ey The Outdoor Single Fat Ladies Skinny Chicks Potted Babies Le Overview 16 Fingered Groot @StickyD420

Your lucky you did not run sluricaine. It nearly streched through the roof.

Since we've moved over to the updated platform it's become a private, invite only club. Once you've hit 30 posts you can request an invite by sending me a PM. I've invited you

Weed chat WhatsApp is so dodgey , at the very least use telegram.

Agreed, swapping/trading seeds instead of buying would be the way to go. Having a well established and trusted trading network would be great, provided the laws permit it. I think we may have to just hold on a bit until we gain clarity on what can be done and what cannot, right now there's still a lot of grey areas. The worst part is that the legislation has to run through parliament :'( I think there's a mass of South Africans out there right now who have planted seeds thinking its a relatively straight forward process. Once they hit the inevitable issues that beginners go through they'll be here. I hope

The way i see it, is that once we are clear on whats allowed and whats not legally, it would be great to trade seeds (possibly swop as opposed to buy.) There is going to be so much variety available that sharing it freely becomes a real possibility. As to how to do it. Its a community thing and I would like feedback. Actually strange how quiet the forum is considering...go figure.