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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.

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

Aweh greenfingers, 1-2. The Purple Pineapple F1 is doing well, she is putting on good weight in the right places. Had a bit of an issue with whitefly and spidermite, but thats sorted for now. Been feeding her alernatingly with Biobiz bloom, Fishmix and Ecobuz, keeping it light at 2-3ml/ ltr. Plants get a feed, then plain rain water and then a AACT 'feed'. 3. This little swazi lady is pushing to the amber side of things. She's showing some spidermite damage, but pulled through and will be harvested soon. 4. Still revegging this Chocolate Gorilla, hoping to cut some clones in the next few weeks. Her spicy profile was quite unique. 5. A duo of Bubblegum girls, they are vegging and toughening up outside and will go back into the greenhouse later in flower. 6. Another Purple Pineapple lady growing outdoors in a 30lt material bag, she was abit shy, making me wait for some pistil action. Cleaned her up a bit and came away with 1w clones which all rooted 100%. 7. A friend sponsered some Habanero seedlings, ran these 2 in my cannabis soil just to see, now got about 10 more going. Chillis and tomatoes like the amended cannabis soil. Cheers and enjoy.

it would be...if they ever get around to releasing the damn game hahahaha

Just a quick update on the cannabis leaves and papaya peel Kombucha Fermented Plant Extract (think I'm going to start calling it KFPE?) The scoby culture continues to grow and thicken. It behaves very similar to a normal kombucha scoby, even though it looks alien. The smell is also getting stronger, still very fruity and sour and you can smell some familiar kombucha notes as well. I've started to apply the 1:40 diluted foliar application to some mint, basil and marigold plants as well and they also seem to respond positively. The swazi female that I'm using as a test subject shows very green and healthy new growth with increased praying leave angles. So far it looks very promising. One thing that I want to add to my KFPE foliar application, is some photosynthetic bacteria. That is still one type of bacteria that is very beneficial, but won't get cultivated with kombucha. Luckily, there are other ways. So, next mission is to cultivate some purple bacteria...

Decided this morning to transplant all the seedlings to slightly bigger pots with a better medium. I'm not happy with the BO Hemp soil as a medium for seedlings. It's too hot with too much compost and "barky" material and too little coco and perlite to use for seedlings. Maybe this will save someone else from going through the same frustration. The nursery, one of the biggest names in Pretoria, sold it to me as a germination mix. It's not. It's a good compost, amended with some coco, vermiculite, perlite and worm castings. Good for mature plants that can handle rich organic matter, not for seedlings. Bought some Gorilla Mix and transplanted all the DG seedlings to this medium. From Left to Right: 4 x DG African Buddha 4 x DG Candy IV 6 x DG Gardeners Delight

@BluntKnife @Ill_Evan morning gents. Nice thread going here. Have you guys checked the new Cyberpunk 2077??freaking insane open-world first person shooter game.. Looks unreal

Greetings all.Weekly update time. On the weekend I pruned again. Each plant can tell a story. Some of the plants had some severe leaf miner damage, so I took the leaves off and I added neem to the usual pesticides. The affected plants have recovered nicely. I gave them all another pruning yesterday and training will begin with my little DWD.I'm still feeding them the teas I made, Seagrow and Envirofarm's Epic 5:2 Biostimulant. The Seagrow and SST goes with everything and occasionally I throw in the banana tea and the bacteria juice. I have given them the biostimulant twice. I am not sure how often it is done as that instruction is not on the tin. I need to contact them and find out. Is it a once off, or something ongoing?Despite some bad insect damage, wind damage and the near suffocation of two of the plants by a garlic and oil spray, I am happy with their overall growth and progress. The pics in order are as follows:Double Wild Durban (landrace)Polly (TK origin)Wedding Cake clone (thank you @Fridge)LC-18 x Transkei (TK landrace)Molly (TK origin formerly fimmed by locust)Mystery Purple (bag seed) already going purple in the stemsI took a couple of cuts from the DWD and they are in my make shift cloner.

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very nice info mate! i have just been battling with time to go through it all...but it is good info

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

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

Hello, I need some help with my current indoor grow. I'm using 2 x 220w LED boards using Samsung LM301B diodes(pretty popular light these days) and burnt my plants from them being too close. I've since moved the lights up and the plants are starting to respond to it better. Have you used said lights/diodes before, what advice or lessons did you learn about the growing period, i.e. distance for the lights, number of plants grown, yield, grow space etc. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, PS: I'm not a new grower, started growing about 6 years ago outdoor, then moved to a CFL indoor grow the next year as well as outdoor and stopped for about 3 years. So I'm getting back into growing and first time using LED.

Do appreciate that

Hey ORGANinc. Thanks so much for the info. This is very helpful indeed. I look forward to having you along for my journey with these plants. I feel confident they are going to flourish with the help of the Epic 5:2. I'm still so chuffed that I won this awesome product!

Yeah, that game does check awesome. But I have learned not to get all hyped over a game before it is actually released. As many games have failed horribly once released XD

It all depends on the heat the light puts out. The actual light that is emitted will not burn the plants. I have plants 5cm away from my light no issues.

Hey Milie! Welcome to the forum. I also use Quantum Boards with LM301B diodes - excellent lights! I love mine You can burn your plants with LEDs if the lights are too close to the plants. As for the hanging height, there are lots of variables and your growing conditions might differ from mine so it is hard to say unless things are evened out. The watts you have your lights dimmed to will affect the height significantly. Also you may have fewer plants and therefore are happy to run them lower and at a lower wattage to ensure light is not "wasted" by ending up reflecting off the side walls of the tent type of thing. Typically 30cm to 45cm is a decent height to have your lights above your plants, you can move them higher up too if you need a better spread but the further away the light is from the plant, the lower the concentration of the light is which the plant receives. I for one prefer to run my lights rather close to my plants and have on multiple occasions run them lower than 30cm above the plants. If you give us a bit more detail on your setup, such as how big your tent is and whether you are using the full space of the tent, then perhaps we can provide you with a bit more specific recommendations.

Is a hybrid.... more info you will hardly get. Would be very cool, if you could identify the strain over the leaf You might grow something nice, or might be a total waste of time. It bares advantages to know what you grow

Looking great! These ladies are in coco as well? Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

That is how it should look like very sexy Ladies you got there!

@Ill_Evan Awesome Yeah, Escape from Tarkov is one epic hardcore game. Really enjoy it and the gun fights are so intense, if you dont die in 1 shot XD

From the very few autos I have done I have thoroughly enjoyed the Fastbuds Strawberry Pie Auto. Just from that I would 100% go for another Fastbuds strain, and based on what the mighty @Prom rates I would go for the Gelato from Fastbuds. Fastbuds is really coming out to be a winner Auto breeder.

Welcome V. This the place too be man. U will enjoy it here.

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

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

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...

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.

Also... my local source of Plant matter bags has sold me 5l bags instead of 10ls. Been in to complain once and left thinking I was wrong. Am double sure this time and going back today again. Wish me luck. What a cock up though. 10l was already on the small side. Having them in 5s instead is almost a waste of time perhaps? Half bag of 30l FF soil left after filling 3 x "10l" pots. Also pots inside 15l bucket. 2l coke for comparison... Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

4 weeks to go

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.

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Props to @Daggafontein Genetics ... I'm stoked you had a positive outcome bro @Candyman

I was super stoked this morning when my package arrived from @Daggafontein Genetics. Not only did they resend me a pack of Gardener's Delight seeds, they also send me a pack of African Buddha seeds and some coir pots as well! That is 5 star customer service right there! Thank you Bob and Daggafontein Genetics. You guys rock! To top it off, all 4 Gardeners Delight seeds that I have planted on Sunday 15th have germinated and are going along happy and strong. No action from the 4 Diesoline seeds that I planted the same day. I also planted 4 Candy IV seeds from Daggafontein on the 16th and 2 of them have germinated and are breaking through the soil. I've made some extra space and the African Buddha will make a very welcome appearance as well... DG-GD #1-5 DG-GD #6 DG-CANDY IV #1-2 DG - African Buddha - Planted 2020/11/20 6 Swazi I decided to keep from the 13th

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Everything was captured on Nikon D90 1. Bag Seeds 2.Bag Seeds 3. Lavender Best Auto(biltong & Buds) 4. Durban Poison Auto(biltong & Buds) 5. Jet Fuel (Unknow)

@Ill_Evan brobeans. Please update the supercrop lady abit often if u can. Would love to see how it turns out. Very handy tool.