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We launched out new look and feel and totally re-did our site. We had some funnies with duplicate orders and silly things so thought it would be best to migrate the products, clients and orders on to a fresh install. We have tried to put local seeds upfront and will be loading stock for the rest of the day. We have also dropped all the marketing and analytics tools so we are just focusing on word of mouth and a happy client base. No one likes to be tracked However will still use email marketing. Would really love some feedback, the good and the bad - In return will be giving away some local seeds to 3 randomly selected folk that give feedback. Will also be running a local seeds special next week.

These are my DIY QB lights I can run them full power with no issues. Quite expensive to build, but I like the reliability of passive cooling.

We will tidy up the site tomorrow, mainly the breeder logos, some styling and mobile view Have uploaded around 80 percent of the stock, mainly international. Hopefully by end of tomorrow all the local stock we have now will be up and getting motherland genetics sometime is the week aswell. Also happy to report that we are a now a monthly donator to Fields of green for all - just need to send them our bio and related to be up on their site. Wanted to hold off till new site is sorted. Have an epic night guys.

@Budwizer thanx bro much appreciated. I am already busy with the second grow on my strain journey. Got the next batch germinated and will run a new 6 strain diary shortly. Running some @Totemic Palomino and Tortoni alongside some TH seeds Bubblegum, Garden of Green Girl Scout Cookies, Braincake by Ripper and Twisted Helix by Inhouse. Then on to some old school genetics supplied by @Golden-Goose for the next run. For the love of growing

So for many years I've been growing in soil and using mixes and matches of nutrients experimenting with good results. Decided a year ago to give biobizz a go and been doing well with the range. Last week though, the sobering reality that Biobizz, the bloom specifically is sold out and fast selling out across the country. What a bummer... There are issues at DAFF and the re-registration is causing an import delay I guess. This puts me back where I'm going to be using a blend of products again once I run out of Biobizz. With so many that are going to be facing the same issues I thought I'd share the blend here so you can also mix your own should you want to. But first... All the disclaimers This is not an all organic fertilizer blend. The bulk of the phosphates and potassium are derived from MKP. (I know all the strictly vegan okes are screaming now... I don't have time to ferment bones and fruits etc... P is P, and K is K to me, and using MKP in very low doses works in organics.) This is a blend of already registered and readily available products. It's going to set you back about R400, and will last a long time. There is nothing special about this blend. I have literally taken each of the suppliers recommended dosages for 1000l, and combined them with 830ml distilled water. So this 1l treats 1000l water, or 1ml/1l. What you need: 20ml Amino mix 40ml Elixer humates 40ml Elixer fulvates 40ml Sea Rock 30g MKP 830ml Distilled water All of the above blends to a dark liquid, with no precipitation reactions, and provides roughly (based on supplier supplied data) 0.3g/kg N 10.7g/kg P 10g/kg K Plus the aminos, humates, fulvates, hormones and other micros. I have used this blend in conjunction with any fish hydrolysate and mollasses with great results. Edit: After recently getting feedback from a grower who measures his input EC to his organics, found his EC reading was lower than usual so he bumped up the EC using only the bloom blend. That quite simply locked his plants up. This bloom blend does not work on its own. You have to use a fish hydrolysate and mollases. This blend being partly salts, is meant to be used as follows: 1ml fish hydrolysate, 1ml molasses, and 1ml of this bloom blend per 1l of water, with every watering. It's a matter of constant micro fertigation to sustain a healthy plant.... Being over eager and over feeding does not mean a yield increase.

I don’t like having anything in the grow tent that doesn’t have to be there The QBs are 480w total, split in two fixtures I mount the drivers on a board outside:

not much to update, but thought I'd show the girls very happy to see the 2 that started stressing is getting their colour back and looking better every day. few burnt tips here and there. definitly too much N for all of the girls. I'll give them numbers as in order of apeal, they all got all the same nutes and only two reacted so strong, so might just be weaker genetics. Zkittly Zizi #1 top view structure Zkittly Zizi #2 top view her structure - growth was also stunted Zkittly Zizi #3 top view her structure - also stunted a bit here is the Sour Lemon OG her structure will probably give them another 2 weeks then put them all in 30L pots then tie them back a bit more

Week 10, flower week 1. Not much to add, defoliated to clean the bottom up and removed a few leaves from the canopy too.

Nice going man

@Budwizer hey brother. Thanx for the shout out. Finished up the trimming of the Crescendo RBXV2 this weekend. She was the last plant to get chopped at 71 day flower with a 12 day dry. She yielded 99 grams... Humidity went Karoo style the last couple of days in Gauteng. All in all ended up with a 320 gram dry trim weight. Will post an update on dried bud pics and smoke report shortly.. here is the Crescendo we finished up with just now..

Yo John What was your total dry yield in the end?

Just finished week 4 of Flower! The Grand daddy purple fast is starting to pick up weight nicely and has some purple tones coming along, she should finish. The Buddah Cheese and Twisted Helix are not too far behind on the stacking but look frosty already! The Jilly bean is the futher behind in terms of bud development but she's a 12-13 week strain so she should pick up weight abit later as advised by @Dr. Greenwho I got the clones from. Still got a long road ahead and had slight bug issues but I got some preditor mites from @Dr. Greenwhich seem to sort it out. The rain and low Temps has thrown a curve ball with the humidity but I've managed it fairly well with a sonoff sensor connected to my exhaust fan and turning it on and off when needed.

Day 56 And then there were three. Pheno 3 has been harvested. She could have gone another week for more amber, but I'm happy with the development after 7.5-8 weeks. While no 4, and 1 are coming down in the next few days. I might just put no 2 outside to finish. #3

This Totemics Chocolate gelato F2 male has pollinated every plant in my yard and two other locations. It looks rough because its been moved around alot and we break off and collect the pollen of about half of the pollen sacks. You simply break them off into a glass jar. Dip a paintbrush and paint pistils. Every single white hair sees the brush. Every other plant is female. Being crossed with. lemon jedi f2 Master lester - Dr Grinspoon x lemon jedi f1 Strawberry cough. Glamberry x lemon jedi f1 - no name X Æ A-13 x lemon jedi f1- no name yet mandirin cookies v1 & v2 x lemon jedi - no name yet. Royal AK X Lemon jedi f1 - no name yet Area 51 x lemon jedi og - lemon attacks. choc mint og x lemon jedi og - no name yet. strawberry cough x lemon jedi og - no name yet. t1000 strawberry kisses and skunk#1 Indoor is 3 x omg , 1 x braincake, 1 x frisian duck , 3 x sick strawberry coughs and 1 healthy one. Doing a cross with the duckfoot. Hopefully

A bit late in the fray here. Somehow, the email notifying us about this awesome forum got stuck in some loop - but, are here now and will make great use of it (by responding to any questions and complaints our peeps (patrons) my have What a great forum @StickyD420 and thank you for creating a page just for our products! We will NOT be posting any promotions or competitions here, and leave that for our affiliates working hard in promoting us. They are our pride and joy, and we appreciate their efforts greatly Just popping in to let everyone know we will be monitoring this page weekly if any of our peeps need some assistance in any way And above all else, thank you for all the great praise and doing such a brilliant job in raising your girls

Haven't used a pen or any Ph up or down for a very loooong time and not planning on making my life more complicated. I like things easy and simple Have a stock of 12 liter each.. Grow and Bloom.. I hope they re-register before I run out

Its a book, called how plants work by Linda Chalker, Yes they kill them like a bacterial pesticide, The quantities which you are using definitely makes a difference like with everything. So if you have amendments in your soil made up of mineral and organic matter, you will likely have microbes come in from thin air, and set up shop on the food source regardless, you may hinder the system but do the benefits outweigh the downs. And they will continue to operate and regulate ph etc. Inert mediums, complete different story.

I do not even own a pH pen anymore, and I haven't checked my pH ever using organics. A properly buffered medium works in synergy with the microbes to regulate pH

This is something which has intrigued me, unfortunately I do not have the means to see what is actually happening with the microbes. Do you have a link to the article? Is it the nutes themselves which have a negative affect on the microbes or is it perhaps the lack of a food source for the microbes?

So you do not PH your feed with BioBizz? In coco, one certainly wants to adjust PH and there is nothing to buffer the PH unlike in most soil - but you know this already. What makes life easier for me in terms of adjusting PH is my automatic watering system and when I mix nutes, it is in larger quantities and then the full quantity of nutes gets PH'd and lasts a few days before I need to do it again. Does not take particularly long to adjust the PH, but it is an extra step. About an extra 60 seconds to adjust the PH. If adding silicone though, it can throw things out of whack a bit but just requires a bit more PH down. When I was growing organically, I ended up with PH lockout and had to start adjusting the PH of my nute mixtures. So for me, I have kinda been doing it regardless of whether its organic or not. I have said it before in other threads, for the average home grower who does indoor grows. I do not see much benefit in growing with organic nutes and in soil. I know it is the most popular way for the average home grower, but I do feel marketing is partly to blame for this. I won't be going back to organics anytime soon, not for my indoor plants and currently I do not grow outdoors.

Ya this is something. I've come to realize that many people are using microbial inoculants religiously with salts (mixing it together before application) haha just imagine that, a Washington state professor of horticulture described how salts take out microbes, she said it was like swiping your creditcard at a shopping centre... really microbes do nothing in Coco with nutes. Don't waste your money.

The only issue I have with going with salts is the need to adjust pH all the time. I started growing in coco using salts.. Results were good, bigger buds than organics for sure, but the mission that is pH adjusting has me stuck on a mainly organic approach.

I've never done synthetic nutes and soil, or even considered it, but I suppose it should be similar to synthetics and coco although the coco should drain and dry faster than the soil. Thinking about it now, if you are using pots, you could maybe mix in some perlite with the soil then use the synthetic nutes. But if your tree were stuck in the ground, would you ever consider synthetic nutes?