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Yeah but very interesting concept! Over doing it in a living system is veeeeeerrry easy! Been there done that. But it would be because of the sheer amount of nutrients available. @GreenGrow Garden Route Sorry for all this gibber gabber on your thread bro.

I see what you saying. but what I meant by "if we like it or not" I kinda refer to the thing you mentioned that bugs can be attracted to even healthy plants. and we obviously always aim for a healthy garden, but nonetheless still end up with unhealthy plants. you can be top of your game and still get a bad clone / seed or just send a full happy healthy plant down the poopshoot cause you do one thing with a certain intent only to have it blow up in your face. in the name of science ofcourse, soooo kinda "if we like it or not" hahah but yeah plant health plays a drastic role in it's favourability to pests and diseases, no doubt about that. I am pretty sure that's a thing with all species, though, across the board. even with us humans

You guys rock and thank you so much. Definitely a come back of note and really embracing that first bit of great service I received last year. Its great to see.

Quite right, plants with a brix of higher than 13/14 seldom have problems. Bees don't waste their energy on plants lower than 6/7, so it goes to show

Oh no I’m referring to your specific comment about plants attracting unwanted bugs, only scenario I see that being possibly is if the plant is sending out those stressed signals. Well documented phenomenon. This is all. Otherwise, healthy plants attract beneficials.

Thanks @Live Canna, really appreciate the feedback. All the guys that have commented so far will be getting a special package Will pm all for details

The Northern Berry Gold has been chopped, bud washed, and is currently drying. Tried a tester nug of the Glueberry Og and it had nice heavy effects, for some reason it tasted like a Watermelon Jolly Rancher on the exhale from a vape to me, hope it keeps that taste after the cure. The three Congo, three Ortega, and two headbanger have sprouted properly. I dug around the last headbanger and it has a long tail so I nudged it more to the surface and I just hope it takes. The tester seed that survived seems to have decided to disappear, I dug around and couldn't find it at all, which makes no sense but whatever. Just need to transplant the White Afghan Skunk to a bigger pot soon.

hahah yea best not to have them around at all, but if you wana see some happy critters going around maybe try building an insect hotel? you heard of those? basically a pile of scraps that you pack to look nice, like a little hotel, and some small perennial flowers to attract pollinators. few ideas, you can build them small, but takes longer for the hotel to become known you can build them quite big obviously, this first big one can be seen at Babylonstoren here in Franschoek. might actually build myself one soon, but I also said this a while ago, still nothing

@Chris Jay remain humble and ignore ‘trolls’ as much as possible sometimes these things can be used for positive growth. When I was 14, my friends and I were caught smoking weed. As I was the one who bought the weed, I was blamed although we all smoked. Anyway, the chatter among the parents was that I came from a broken home(because my father died when I was 8 and my mother remarried), and later (18) was told that I shouldn’t study law. Anyway I took that and completed my LLB before any of my friends completed their 3 year degrees/diplomas, on top of that the person saying I don’t have what it takes to be a lawyer called me a few months ago to draft a business proposal. I took all that hate and turned into personal growth. we all still best friends and all their parents see me as the one with his head screwed on correctly. A complete u-turn which brings me joy, confidence and security with myself

I assume that this is a male..?

Digging the new site dude. Amazed at the comeback achieved... when I joined around here things were not hot. Happy to see a brighter tomorrow! Yirre some of the new stock... trying to bankrupt a bro on payday still [emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787][emoji1787] Order incoming [emoji106] Sent from my SM-N960F using Tapatalk

Cyber bullying is a relatively new thing so not 100% certain on what the procedure would be but In guessing it amounts to harassment and likely would have to report it to the Police. whilst the police are investigating, you could probably open up a protection order against the person you feel is harassing/cyber bullying you. I think you’ll be provided with a temporary protection(you’d need the accused full name and address in order for this to issued) instructing the person to refrain from the unwanted actions until the matter can be heard before magistrates court. Although you’ll appear in the magistrates court, it’s not necessary that you’d require an attorney for this, the court will appoint like a maintenance officer to hear the matter so can be quite informal where the maintenance officer plays more an active role in hearing with relaxed evidential burdens so you’d need not to worry of legal costs The tricky part to this would be proving the harassment and as you say the person changes and creates different profiles and likely anonymous online and even thereafter if it’s granted, how would you actually stop the harassment? As it would be so difficult to prove as the burden of proof would therefore change as it would now be a criminal matter. On the cuff I’m thinking you’d need have IP addresses to actually prove the person you claim is indeed the same online person harassing you but that’s a whole different story and not sure how that would even be done. I used to work at one of those legal insurance places where we offer members advice and ‘mediation’ and 9/10 times harassment cases could be halted with simple warning letter instructing the person to stop or legal action will be taken. May try this approach to just nip it in the bud, but I guess the letter drafted on a legal company letterhead probably more likely did the trick, but something less energy draining so you could give it try.

hahahah yeah sorry bro, hope you guys keeping the garden pest and disease free in all cases!

What an extremely kind gesture, and this speaks volumes for the companies future endeavors. You have my full support and best wishes.

very true that hahah as I am experiencing with my grow now. even in organic situation, too much of a good thing is still too much!! I am also not saying we should completely misdiagnose our situation and just build a bug hotel and think we solved the issue. so the point you're making is that it is in best interest to know why the pests/diseases are showing up and what to do about it? I agree with this 100% hahah I fucked my ladies good with waaaaay too much biobizz and battling to get them back in good health, luckily no pests or diseases here so far!!

This is exactly it. If we eat shit all day long, we can’t expect to be healthy. On the other end of the spectrum if we want to be healthy and strong, we must eat a balanced ratio of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Theres a fine line there, even if they’re daubed healthy foods, if in high enough excesses will cause more harm than good.

sorry, not sure if that's what you meant by this here... even if you plan on having a healthy garden, it doesn't always work out that way

yeah. that's some in depth thinking before anything, the idea of an insect hotel is not to get more insects onto your plants. it is to invite predetors that help keep unwanteds away! that is the whole point. if you worried about each individual plant, you can grab a refractometer, squeeze a drop out a leaf, get a % reading of how healthy your plants is. low % they will be palatable for most unwanted critters. high % they will be unfavourable. however, adding a insect hotel to your garden will not cause more harm than good, if this is what you're trying to say. overall, an insect hotel doesn't mean you gona have more aphids in your garden, in turn you'll have more spiders who will eat aphids. (just a broad example) if you worry about inviting unwanted live ones you can carry on with organic pest deterant, such as Neem, that will not disrupt any of your gardens symbiote. all it does is increases the plants % on the refractometer and giving the plant a better chance to fight for itself. (by focussing on all those things you went into depth about) also, keeping a healthy garden, like you said. I just don't think that was a problem here hahaha I just think the dude wanted to see some live stock patrolling his plants.

Howzit bru, Okay I must jump in and comment here, the prevalence of many deferent parasites, pests and diseases are closely related, if not directly related to plant health and finally production of secondary metabolites, lipids and fats. All of these things ... flavonoids, terpenoids oils and waxy layers on the surfaces of the plant tissue will dictate the palatability relative to the consuming organism. Some people believe that plants are just sometimes susceptible to certain pests regardless of the health of the plant. First off, its hard not to see it that way, because some plants just look healthy and get attacked anyway. Looking at the back end of things and not just on the surface, is that plant really healthy and happy? This connects closely to holistic nutrition. Are there any excesses or deficiencies? Are there any missing gaps? There are 118 elements they focus on in chemistry, they can make plant growth in excess with less than 17. Plants most certainly have very effective defense mechanisms - recent studies suggest, but are all the enzyme co-factors available to kick that switch into gear? Not only that, are there also any imbalances that might also interfere with the highly complex domino effect of these enzymes, many of the time not. Here is a key example, Plants convert nitrate to ammonia and ammonia to various amino acids that it then uses those amino acids to build proteins. The first step should be completed in less that 24hr give or take, So if excess nitrates are left over, they are stored in the vacuoles waiting to be moved through the system, apparently aphids love nitrates. Regarding the addition of bugs in the system to counter the bad bugs, this is possible, however very much swinging in the dark. Also adding a few more layers of potential complication. Microbial life from bacteria through to the macro arthropods and worms are very selective regarding the environment they choose to make home - if there is enough food, a suitable environment and little competition they will appear or disappear.

I'm feeling what you're dealing, but still seems a little backwards to me. I've never done an outdoor run so please take my comments as from someone with zero idea.

nah bro, I've seen these in action, they're housed with predatory insects such as spiders and mantis dudes, they'll make extra sure there's no pests in your garden lol you not attracting unwanted insects. that's what the plants already do by themself, if we like it or not. big idea behind it is to create a symbiote and minimize the pestecides and shit we spray outdoors, that harms beneficial bugs in a lot of cases. this is a win win win mybru, just if you can't make it look real nice you gona have a lump of a sore eye in the garden, that's bout it.

Yeah definitely. I was just envious when I saw your plants but its true what you say regarding genetics. Keep up the good work.

True that... I might not have enough food for them... a good thing then.. I don't want any aphids or mites at the moment..

Evening growmies... so the second girl got some this morning.. The first girl is all ready showing signs of seeds developing.. The 3rd and 4th girl is now pushing pistels and developed allot further than the others before starting.. My battle with WPM is evident in this pic.. luckily I think I have it under controll.. The forth girl is more stretchy and leans more to the Sativa side. I'm not sure yet if I will pollinate her..

I'll wait forever for bud to form if they look like that... They honestly look awesome.. Lots of stacking to come I presume.. Next week this time some of us will be drooling.. Nicely done..

Thanks, although I really do feel that strain makes a big difference and breeder too. You can clearly see the other 2 autos are quite small and growth has not been on the same level despite the same conditions. Once again, at this point, the autos cannot compete with photoperiods in terms of frost. I can see that the structure also isn't on the same level as some of the photos I have grown. It's a known fact that auto flowers typically have a lower potency compared to what one can achieve with a lot of photoperiod strains. 24% is really high for autos, around 30% is really high for photoperiods. You're unlikely to achieve these figures with just any strain as well, so on average potencies will be lower. What I am saying I guess is that you should try grow some photoperiods, you may have a better experience and get some better bud too - just ensure you get some quality strains from good breeders. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Got yourself some awesome beans bru, really keen to see what you do with them. For interest sake, where did you get Mephisto from?

I am going to start growing tonnes of chillies in the new year. Pretty, tasty, grow easy and can be used for many things. Actually cant wait to grow chillies, lots of chillies, potent, colourful and delicious. Also look at the weeds in your garden, kakibos is a good plant to keep aphids/fleas away.