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My first experiments with kombucha fermented plant extracts involved taking a kombucha scoby from my scoby hotel and cultivate it on a sweet tea made from 30% black and 70% green tea and molasses. After two generations of fermentation I deemed the molasses kombucha ready for use in phase 2. Separately from this, I also made a rum wash from molasses. This rum wash is identical in the way I would make a rum wash for distilling rum, with the only exception being that I did not distill it. I capped it to use as an ethanol containing nutrient source. Based on my experience making these washes and the yeast that I used, I estimate the rum wash to be in the region of 10% ABV. This will be used in small quantities to assist in plant fermentation and extraction. The use of ethanol in this process is basic, but care should be taken as most microbes cannot handle ethanol in high quantities, so use sparingly for this purpose. After I had the kombucha cultivated on molasses and the rum wash fermentation completed, I started the kombucha fermented plant extract. For this, I had the peels and seeds of 2 papayas and about a cup full of chopped young cannabis leaves I wanted to use. Cannabis leaves will probably be a base substrate for all my kombucha ferments. To this I also added 1/2 cup of sorghum malt. I made a fresh batch of sweet tea for my kombucha using the base ingredients of molasses and black and green tea. I then placed the plant material into a fermenting vessel and filled it with half of my new batch of sweet molasses tea and half of a well fermented molasses kombucha. I topped it off with 25ml of the rum wash at 10% abv. and covered with a paper towel. The fermentation was closely monitored and all went well. The right notes of sour fermented fruits formed and after fermentation was completed, I strained the liquid from the solid matter and bottled in a mason jar. After 2 days of standing, the kombucha "scoby" formed on the surface layer as expected, but what was not expected, was the structure of this scoby. I have seen some weird shit in my life and brewed up some weird shit as well, but nothing ever came close to looking like this. The smell quite the opposite of how it looks. It smells quite wonderful actually. You can definitely smell the kombucha signature notes, but it's much more pungent, sourly and fruity than normal kombucha. Here is the molasses kombucha and it's scoby for comparison. I started to use this plant extract at a ratio of 1:100 as a foliar application on a test female plant. After no initial detrimental effects were witnessed for the first few days, I upped the ratio. For the last week did a foliar application at a ratio of 1:40 every morning at 05:00 and every evening at 19:00. The test subject is a female swazi from my selection of bag seed. She is about 14 weeks old and is in a 20L pot using soil. Initially, I thought she was an auto, seeing as all her siblings were autos. She went into flower just a little bit later that the rest of them, but whereas they completed their flowering cycle, she started to re-veg again... So, she is now the subject of testing and experimentations... Any advise on how to care for her addionally will be welcomed. I cannot let her get huge as she has to stay hidden behind a wall, hence the training going on here... This was her this morning after a week of twice daily foliar feeding on my experimental kombucha fermented plant extract. I must say, I looks promising. She isn't getting any other food or special treatment. I'm going to keep to a ratio of 1:40 for adding to water in the soil and start doing this for the next week when watering. We had a lot of rain recently, so I haven't watered her in about 10 days time. I will continue to post my progress and findings here. For my next recipe, I delved a bit deeper into proper sour mashes, like when making whiskey, using sorghum malt and banana peels. This one is currently busy fermenting and will replace the papaya and cannabis leaves extract when it is done.

A friend ran his first grow on HPS, got it from a friend for free. Works, they stretch way more on HPS. And need 60 to 90cm distance or you run into problems, the high radiation heat made his plant go foxtail, when he ran out of top space. Not sure what you want to test... we know HPS works... we know LED works... and LED wins by advantages for home growers... also known

About a R1k a month on electricity for starters.

GSC is a bit a swingy plant. Still one of my preferred smokes. But i prefer when they pheno direction Durban Poison. Friend of mine is also complete fan of the Fastbuds LSD25.. is still on my list to grow. But seeds got confiscated by customs, got a letter from SARS i actually had to giggle. Not sure they took the seeds because wrong declared or cannabis seeds. Like we scratch out head if the seeds i declared just didnt got checked at all. Keep in mind, all you order from outside is very slow due to Post Office... not sure they deserve the name anymore. Snail Office fits better. And after waiting 5 months, might get confiscated.. order local or check that if you get visit from europe, check they can bring you some seeds order local is faster and saver. I guess my seeds ended with Zuma's son, heard he has a monstrous grow operation going

I had a really great result with Canuk's Auto Girlscout Cookies. A really smooth and uplifting smoke full of flavour. Great bag appeal too. The phenos were fairly uniform. She flowered faster than the other strains, in just over 8 weeks (all flowered more or less at the same time with this strain) Equally as good was the LSD25 from FastBuds. Bag appeal off the chart with those purples. The vibe is even better. Good yielder. Total winner. Question - Which local online shop/s in SA would you guys say, is the best importer/s of seeds at the moment? I'm very happy to stick with Canuk and FastBuds. I am unable to get through my old channel at the moment.

It's the same thing in the end man... The only difference is the glass they use for the bulb may allow extra UV light through it. Not enough to pay a premium for the horti range imo. You get dual spectrum bulbs that are more worth while buying, but also pricey... Why are you asking about it though? Do you have an existing hps system? Or building one or what?

What up 420 Update time. End of week 6. These ladies are doing great. MA1 and MA2 are around 65cm tall. MA3 is about 57cm tall MA3 is abit of a late bloomer. But overall really happy with growth. Pics are MA1, MA2, MA3

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