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2 weeks up for 4, 1 week, for the other 4. Zurple Punch clone bottom right.

No 1 and 3 are the same plant. They did not go into flowering at the same time. So around half way and a week before on theee other. Nice resin production in this strain, these triches stand tall! Not too sure of the total flowering time of this strain so I’m going to take it as it comes. I’ve got to say both plants boast full flavor citrusy, sweet and sour like zingyess! Onto the next couple...

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I'm starting this topic to share some of research and findings on cultivating your own microbes and nutrients for those interested. This is truly a vast field and new scientific knowledge and findings are coming at us at a tremendous rate and the benefits and symbiotic processes involving microorganisms and plants are well proven scientifically. Reference for example Endophytes and the Rhizophagy Cycle A lot of my ideas and experiments will tie back to Korean Natural Farming (KNF). At it's core, KNF is mostly taught to poor and illiterate farmers across Asia who cannot afford to buy expensive fertilizers and amendments for their crops. Thus, almost all methods of KNF implementation are designed and structured with them in mind. I'm rather interested in customizing and perfecting the already proven systems, methods and applications for my own situation as someone who lives in the city with a small garden and grow in fabric pots. Feel free to share any info on the subject. I'm learning new stuff everyday and I thought it might benefit others by putting it down here as well, not only in my notebook where it's only me that benefits. I'm going to start off with fermentations, because this is where a lot of my previous knowledge and experience comes from. Although I'm not into it anymore, I used to be a hobbyist distiller, mainly making my own rum and whiskey from a copper pot still. I managed to turn out quite a few decent batches over the years and friends and family never seemed to complain. Now, to see if my lady plants will appreciate the brews as much. Another thing I have been brewing continuously for the last 6 years, is kombucha. Me and the missus drink on average a liter of the stuff everyday. Also, some friends and family have their permanent orders put in, so I make about 60 liters of booch per month. Anyone familiar with kombucha, will understand that this leaves me with quite a bit of wastage. I also keep a 11 liter scoby hotel going, which gives me a lot of kombucha vinegar. So, I already have access to unlimited quantities of this probiotic rich drink. I had the idea of a Lactobacillus based Kombucha after reading some scientific research material and also found references to studies that used kombucha cultures on a variety of substrates and this is where my interest peaked. After proper research, it became clear to me that kombucha, which is a naturally formed symbiotic culture of beneficial yeasts and bacteria, is already doing the job that products like EM-1 and LABS are trying to do by isolating certain or limited strains of specific bacteria. Kombucha cultures changes composition and structure on a microbial level, based on the substrates, nitrogen and carbon sources provided. It's as if nature already knows exactly what the optimal blend of yeasts and bacteria should be, given any specific blend of substrates. This is why I believe that kombucha fermented plant extracts created by cultivating kombucha microbes and selecting exact and specific substrates, are superior to anything that EM-1 or LABS are trying to accomplish. I would like to be proven wrong on this account. For those familiar with the YT channel Future Cannabis Project, here is a very good piece on someone who implements KNF on large scale Hemp farms. Later in the video he also mentions using kombucha to further extract the leftover plant material after doing a fermented plant juice extract (FPJ). Put two and two together... Wildcrafting for FPJ, JHS, JLF I'm going to list a basic composition of kombucha, but take into account that this data is based on averages across multiple scientific studies, ONLY looking at using white refined sugar as sucrose and black tea. Changing the substrate from white sugar to molasses for example, will drastically change the microbial and chemical composition and so would changing out the black tea with for other sources of plant matter. So keep in mind that this list should be a baseline for what microbes you should expect to find in your booch, but it is by no means an exhaustive list when experimenting with different substrates. SCOBY (Medusomyces gisevii) - Symbiotic Culture Of Beneficial Yeast and Bacteria Organic Acid Bacteria A. xylium, A. pasteurianus, A. aceti, and Gluconobacter oxydans Gluconacetobacter sp. A4 - Key functional bacterial species Acetobacter. intermedius sp. nov - Novel nitrogen fixing Acetobacter nitrogenifigens sp. nov., and the nitrogen fixing, cellulose producing Gluconacetobacter kombuchae sp. nov., from kombucha tea. Dominant Bacteria in Kombucha - Gluconacetobacter @ 85% of Kombucha samples; Lactobacillus @ 30% of samples; Acetobacter only @ 2% Yeasts A broad spectrum of yeasts has been reported including species of: Saccharomyces, Saccharomycodes, Schizosaccharomyces, Zygosaccharomyces, Brettanomyces/Dekkera, Candida, Torulospora, Koleckera, Pichia, Mycotorula, and Mycoderma. Yeasts of Saccharomyces species: Saccharomyces sp, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Saccharomyces bisporus, Saccharomycoides ludwigii, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, Zygosaccharomyces sp., Zygosaccharomyces rouxii, Zygosaccharomyces bailii Brettanomyces: Brettanomyces intermedius, Brettanomyces bruxellensis, B. claussenii Predominant yeasts in most samples: Brettanomyces, Zygosaccharomyces, and Saccharomyces spp Ascosporogenous yeast, Zygosaccharomyces kombuchaensis sp. n. Candida sp: Candida famata, Candida guilliermondii, Candida obutsa, Candida stellata, Candida colleculosa, Candida kefyr, and Candida krusei. Torula, Torulopsis, Torulaspora delbrueckii, Mycotorula, Mycoderma, Pichia, Pichia membranefaciens, Kloeckera apiculata, Kluyveromyces africanus Organic Acids Acetic, gluconic, glucuronic, citric, L‐lactic, malic, tartaric, malonic, oxalic, succinic, pyruvic, usnic Sugars Sucrose, glucose, and fructose Vitamins B1, B2, B6, B12 and C Other 14 amino acids, biogenic amines, purines, pigments, lipids, proteins, some hydrolytic enzymes, ethanol, antibiotically active matter, carbon dioxide, phenol, as well as some tea polyphenols, minerals, anions, DSL, as well as insufficiently known products of yeast and bacterial metabolites. As a side note, the high concentration of yeasts found in kombucha, results in large quantities of dead yeast cells, which in turn provides a rich nutrient source high in B vitamins for other microbes.

Hey guys! I'm V with supermiraclesa. I'm a new grower with about a year's experience. Keen to make acquaintances, share and gain as much experience as I can in this community. Check out a bit of the Sunset Sherbet I grew outside during winter and finished off in a tent - it was my first serious grow from a clone

Thank you! I have haha, I've gone through the cure and the deed already. It was a lovely smoke

I have Fastbuds Gelato and LSD25 so will grow those out. Will try some Ethos and might try some Mephisto and NightOwl if I can find someone who have in stock locally when I am ready to pop more autos. I gave one Fastbuds Gelato seed to a friend, the end result was ok but not quite what I was use to... This was visual though, I did not get a chance to sample it. So will see what I end up with.

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.

Guys. This got way bigger than expected I think I may be sorted for a year after this Can't stop won't stop though One objective was to fill the entire 2.4x1.2 canopy. I think mission accomplished. I am very impressed with the quantum boards. When using two 400W HPS I was hitting like R1200 a month on electricity. These three quantum boards are getting less than R700 a month and electricity is pretty expensive around these parts (R2.69/kWh), so anything saved is a win. Beating the heat is also a major win as well. This time two years ago I was eating that heat with the HPS bulbs. Lastly where it counts, growth performance has been pretty comparable. I do still believe the science which says that HPS is unbeatable when it comes to spectrum and bud density/production. But damn man, I have only experienced positives so far with these QBs. The end result of the flowers will seal the deal for me. My expectations are reasonable based off the little test run I did in the last grow with the 4 soil plants under a single 240W QB, and those honestly came out so good.

Accepted! Although I have admittedly been playing a lot of COD Mobile ever since I got my new phone. I am slowly saving up for a new PC gaming rig as my current gaming laptop is starting to fall short for most games these days... still gaming on a TV monitor even @TheUltimateNoob and I jammed one night of Rust but shit hit the fan for me shortly after and I haven't really gamed on PC since then. Was just around the beginning of the first lockdown and me losing my job, basically just been catching up in life since then. When I do have time to jam on PC I usually play single player titles. I am very interested to get Escape From Tarkov, I watch a lot of YouTubers play it and I think I would enjoy it. Just wouldn't mind that new PC first.

You'll never know bud. No way of telling what a strain is by looking at it.

Anybody know what strain this is ? I was gifted seeds by a friend from Canada in June 2020, he doesn't know either.

Here is a very interesting study that was done with Kombucha fermentation of 6 different medicinal herbs. Winter savory, peppermint, stinging nettle, wild thyme, elderberry and quince. The results showed a favorable increase in preferred organic acids, higher antioxidant activity and higher phenolic and flavonoids contents as well as an increase in yeast metabolism over the traditional substrates of black and green tea.

This one is the pluto cut. Fast buds make some decent plants but I feel its hit and miss with them. The hit and miss theory is probably true for allot of autos. But I think i have found a soil recipe that works for them and I feel that 20l pots is the right size pots for them. Not allot of nutrients. Will be doing some Ducth passion auto ultimate and fast buds amnesia soon When i have space again.

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Welcome.. Enjoy amazing info if you care to read..

He didn't even let you taste it? Bambuleeeeee ^^ If you grow them yourself, rather sure you get to a satisfying result Don't go to heavy on the nutes.. they don't like it to much, they stun rather fast. I ruined a batch with my 8 week table but stressed those poor things so heavy, 4 turned into photos.. which I pheno hunt now, growing nice so far. Lets see if the 12/12 plants turn out as potent as the 20/4.

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Welcome! Looks good, it seems you have already started harvesting and chopping away at that plant too.

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

What up 420 Grow update. 2 week mark. Did a transplant. Only 9 fit in the grow box. So the 3 OG kush and 1 white rhino are going outside. I had some heat stress issues from not hardening off. But they seem to be recovering. In about a week or so i will try and sex them. Depending on growth. 1st pics are the outdoor ladies. Ok picture order got messed up. But all single pics are outdoor

Happy festive season from SUPERMIRACLESA. Here are a few of our favourite shots of the year; including bag seed, autos, outdoor and indoor grows ❄

I really want to try Mephisto and NightOwl, just really pricey for those breeders.

@Fridge B - B - B - Bingo The Gelato is about 1 mile ahead of the next ones Problem is that you have to import ^^ Customs just grabbed my FastBuds order so send the guys a msg to pack 30 seeds max, declare them on the manifest and put a letter with: free samples, value zero! hehehe and see what customs do. If it goes past, FastBuds also knows how to send into SA otherwise I ship to my German address and take em with over Xmas The mess they do with seeds.. I ordered when the draft said: unlimited seeds and seedlings you can posses. Hope they fork out the law soon, so we know what we can work with, at the moment customs them self seem rather confused. The Fedex seeds I declared.. went through zero problemo. If you look for something tasty and local available. Nirvana still have some good genetics in their selection on Autos. The Bubblelicious is a very sexy smoke, fruity and if you let it go late, kicks like a donkey. I made a "few", over 30 plants total of those, and they all ended up about the same with no heavy pheno swings. Like the FastBuds Gelato, very stable. The Blue Cheese (Blueberry Cheese, who ever gave the name Blue Cheese should get shot) from Nirvana is also a very aromatic smoke but.. you get some super tasty ones and some rather boring ones, I would say your chance is 50/50 to end with a good one, plant 2, 3 to be sure ^^. Their Blueberry Kush has some veeeeery sexy phenos in... problem, 1 out of 4 ^^ I made a few, got 4 really really awesome smelling and tasting plants, the others were just average. And autos you can't keep.. so the more stable strains are more fun to grow. HSO Sour Diesel or NYC Diesel.. is what I call proper Diesel. If I look for Diesel, I always go HSO. If you look for a Sativa dominant plant.. and you like the taste.. BINGO! ^^ Have so many people loving the weed.. I put it up, also Sativa dominant ^^ Royal Gorilla Automatic from Royal Queen Seeds. It won a cup.. you understand why, when you taste it. Is a bit a weed you don't get the taste to often and when you are done with the joint, you always ask why so fast. Very smooth silky smoke.. (edit. also very stable strain, tasted no difference per plant) Still want to sneak into Mephisto.. but that is for next year.. doing FastBuds this year.. didn't had a bad strain from those guys yet.. just grows and tastes.

I bet @Prom is going to recommend fastbuds Gelato auto (I asked him once about his favourite). Might have changed though... I have grown plenty of different autos so far. I can really recommend Dinafem's Critical auto 2.0. That plant always delivered potent bud and even in outdoor conditions it delivered good yield. Very balanced high. Dinafem has great autos in general. It's a pitty they can't operate at the moment but there are still plenty of seeds on the local market. I grow a fastbuds Gorilla Cookies auto at the moment and it looks quite promising so far. If it will turn out good I'll come back to this thread and let you know.

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Happy Birthday. Dusted off the ''rolling'' skills for a mates' birthday. Triple Kingsize blader with 6 grams (3gr Bubblegum+ 3gr Vanilla Kush) A good time was had by all.

Howzit 420 fam Grow update. End of week 5. These girls stretchd a ton. Havnt been getting much sun recently. But they doing ok. All look healthy after the defoil. Stoked to see what comes of them. MA3 looks abit light in colour due to accessive watering. (Complicated story. But i got it under control again) Been feeding plain water inbetween nutez. Now that they flowering. I will pump up the nutez.

Aweeee I've also got Rust. Let me know if you're ever keen to jam.

Haha, I have the same issue man... Finding some pretty decent games but have no company to game with... I find CSGO very limited with what modes you can actually find a match in. Majority of the players are usually on a single match mode and waiting for other matches takes over 10 minutes. Anthem had potential but honestly doesn't really hold your attention as a game for more than a couple hours. Very repetitive with not that much as you explore. Other than GTA, I recently have been killing endless hours on Rust that I got off steam. Its awesome, played with friends or alone. People have logged over 1000 play hours on the game, and the nice thing is that the servers get wiped every so often. I'm over COD for a few months, but I might get Black Ops 3 for online as the player base is still quite huge I believe. Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Honestly I will pickup anything if I can play with a mate. Recently I picked up a game called Last Oasis. Binged it a bit and now I am back to indie games like Rimworld. Was busy downloading the free-to-play COD warzone but during the download process I lost interest CSGO is an occasional play. So ja, whatever. Add me on Steam, friend code: 35041124