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So they were flattened the fan and needed some help. They are looking good though. strong.

Close ups of the little weedlings.. Nr 3 coucht up with 2 quicker than antisipated and I'm now glad for keeping her going..

Naaaaa ^^ let them grow a bit ^^ They responded well to the increase of light.. i decided to increase it again a bit. 26 May 535 micromole PAR Dang.. forgot .. 75cm distance to the Plant

So, Got my girls some explogro last night - 5ml into 600ml water ph 6.0 Looks like they responded well as they are bulking up quite nicely.

I struggle to grasp the idea that Seedbanks would refund you for seed that didn't germinate. Why should they? Their side of the deal was complete when you received your order nicely packaged and in good time. The germination process is completely out of their control, how can they be responsible? The cannabis industry is the ONLY instance I've come across where people expect refunds for seeds that didn't germinate under their own conditions. There is no way to look at a healthy potentially viable seed to determine it isn't going to germinate. Seedbank: I'm sending this potential failure to Hardcoregrowerman011 just to fuck with him. Ya, I'll show him. I've said it before on this forum, buying seed is a gamble you take. Suppliers cannot guarantee the outcomes, in fact nothing is guaranteed. The way to get the exact same outcome is to use clones. The CPA... Lol! you are joking, right?

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Day 17 Seeing as I haven't yet given a breakdown of my setup..... It's a fairly straight forward setup with some gear that is getting on a bit now. Veg Tent 1.5 x 1.5 GTHydro tent 250w (early veg) 400w(late veg) MH Bulb 8" Extractor Fan (functioning as active exhaust) Flower Tent 1.5 x 1.5 GTHydro tent 400w(early flower) 600w(late flower) HPS Bulb.... or possibly 2 x 400w HPS throughout 6" Extractor Fan (functioning as passive intake) 40cm Wall Mounted Fan ---------------------------------------------------------- The pic below illustrates how the ventilation process works. The 8" inline fan in the veg tent is exhausting out the tent through a window behind the tent. The 6" inline fan in the flower tent is bringing air into the tent from a different window behind that tent. The tents are then linked with an 8" duct indicated below in the pic. Fortunately, as these tents are two different models, the bottom duct outlets are very close to each other. Keeping the duct short and making it easier for air transfer. When both tents are zipped closed, by pure luck really, a perfect equilibrium is achieved and both tents maintain a steady negative pressure. As the veg tent is sucking air straight from the flower tent, it's ambient temp varies between 1 to 3 degrees higher than the flower tent, when the flower tent's light is on. Which is an added bonus in winter when you want your veg tent to still hold the higher temps.

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All 3 are peeking out the soil, checking out their options, one in particular more than the others but all in all looks like it's going to be a 3/3 germination here

An update on the babies. I’ve made a few small changes, nothing drastic. Fan and new light installed, gone with a 240w quantum board, in an effort to save on electricity. Eskom are ruthless. They are probably going to get a dash of something nice tomorrow. Possibly microbes, epic and molasses. Continuing on without fish for now. Humidity is around 70% Temp maintaining between 20-24 Dicondrah planted and waiting to sprout

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Every time I do my rounds you've already beaten me to it.

no bad rep for you at all man! but with coco and synthetic nutes - it would then be exactly opposite to what you said. coco is so light and noncompact, that even fully saturated to the point of runoff it has a substantial amount of oxygen in it. the reason that you are supposed to water till run off in coco, is to eliminate the salt build up. From your previous feed, you put in say 500ppm, but not till run off. now you know your meduim has 500ppm of nutes in it.... there is no way in the world any weed plant is going to consume all 500ppm out of the meduim... might only use 100ppm for example, so now when you water again at 500ppm at your next feed, also not till run off... you can expect the ppm of the meduim to go way higher than 500...and thats why you water till runoff in coco. next thing is when the coco dries out... the water is now less than when you watered it...naturally right? with this info, and the info about the plants not eating everything you give them each feed, what you will find is that the PPM starts to rise withing the water to the point the water can no longer hold all the nutes... and those nutes precipitate out of the water and become a salt again. so when you water till runoff, what you are actually doing is pushing out a lot of the high ppm solution and replacing it with fresh nutes at the right ppm level. this doesnt happen to such a great extent in soil and organic nutes as the nutes need to break down before they are available to the plant. So you are correct in saying you are kinda just pissing nutes away... but you are actually pissing away a high ppm solution which is bad for your plants anyways and then you get fertigation, which is constant feeding...and honestly...i have never seen amazing weed like @PsyCLown has grown in fertigation... i think you think coco and soil are similar...were they are in fact nothing alike.

Hi everyone just a quick update: My last seed also popped last Sunday but it seems to me she is struggling, hope she will be ok, other one also a slow grower but the Giraffe is doing fine and already planted in her permanent home yesterday, just added some support for the fragile stem and a small "greenhouse" till she is strong. The soil has been flushed with water a week ago and is still moisty, no nutrients or water up to date but believe she will need some water in the next day or two. Happy growing !!

Awesome idea. I print odds and ends. Busy printing signage for my wifes practice. I have attached some of my work. But a great idea to print stuff for our grows if anything is needed. Here are a few pics of things that I have done along with my setup.

For one of my grow projects I wanted to exhaust my tent to the outside and also pull outside air in. So I removed the glass window and replaced it with 4mm plexiglass, I chose a cloudy plexiglass that only allows 30% light through. I had the plexiglass lasercut to the ducting diameters and also clearance for my bolts. I then drew up and 3D printed the louvers on the one side and the duct attachments on the other.

The girls are all three now almost the same lenth.. Stretchy.. Nr one still has the best wing span though.. I'll have to heat up the room more.. Currently 56RH and 23C during the day but it drops to 15 and RH OF 70 at night..

Try Totemic... Heard great things... Good value for money and it's local fire.. Why wonder if you got the real deal if it's right here under your nose.....

Jooooooh this takes me back. I thought I could get away with a 400W HPS in a 80x80 tent when I first started and that also gave me a big hiding. If you are rolling a 600W I'd go as big as 1.2m x 1.2m with maybe an air-cooled hood/tube.

Whats up man! dont forget you need to update your diary by midnight tonight.

i dono... you should not need any staking on your seedlngs... which means your light is likely not strong enough i would give them more light

god damn,, good thing I moved away from coco then hahah yeah no, I see I see mr. @CreX and thanks for explaining! as I said at the beginning, it's more a question from my side as an organic grower, hopefully I asked something that might have been a problem for others too my understanding was that when you feed/feed/flush you kinda lean on the flush after the two feeds to get rid of the excess. so here's another question, if you guys don't mind? if you feed 1L at 500ppm and the medium goes to 500ppm (just as an example), does this mean if you water same medium with 5L ppm there are more nutes in the medium or about the same amount? because if it's the same amount I don't see any point in mixing 5L of nutes when 1L will do. that's wastefull. but you're saying giving new nutes pushes out old nutes. how does this work? do they signal to the nutes to make way for new ones? to my understanding, the plant can't make use of all 500ppm, like you said, now the medium dries out and can you imagine what happens with synthetic nutes when they dry up on a surface? this is what salt build up is, well to me. this burns the root, causes lock out. when you feed again with 500ppm you feeding a damaged root, it's not taking up nute, nute stays till soil dries out, forms more salt. and then, I also don't see how 1L of feed/feed/flush can lead to salt build up quicker than 5L of feed/feed/feed? that don't make no sence to your Old Uncle Naughty

And remember that watering pushes out old stale air in the medium and sucks in new fresh air . Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

Just my 2cents When I did 50/50 Coco/perlite that has more drainage than just coco (I think) I fed in veg when needed . I use to let it dry out till leaves was drooping and then feel the weight of the pot and then I knew where it doesnt need to be , def keep pot of the ground for fresh air underneath. When plants got bigger and moving into flower I gave 1 Litre per day feed. When EC got to 1,5-2 I flushed with a EC of 1 properly once a week , like 3 litres and slowly so build up can desolve and gets squeezed out properly. The reason I flushed with a lower EC is I read that in some way you shock the plant with no feeds and then again feed and plant needs to adjust and you loose Abit of time....... Made sense to me at the time. Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

I got the seeds from the Pacific Seed Bank.. like the fake Charlottes Web. Never heard of "black" Pineapple... not sure what they send me for the freebees. Tent doesn't drop below 19, at no time.. interesting plant.. rather skeptical it will have a Pineapple smoking flavor Also very Sativa oriented.. the other "Pineapple Express" are not. I take that Seed Bank off my list for sure.. Canadian.

Thank you all for the helpful advice and discussion. From here on, this is what I'll be doing: 1. Lifting the pot off the ground so that it doesn't sit in any runoff. 2. Reduce the amount that I water to 4L at a time. 3. Gauging whether to water or not by lifting the pot and weighing it + using the first few cm of my finger to check if the top layer of soil is dry 4. Would you guys recommend watering with plain pH'd water every 2nd or 3rd feed? From the sounds of things, this is a good idea to prevent salt/nutrient build up around the roots. I've never done this and my plants never showed any signs of stress that could be related to salt buildup, by my standards at least. That may be true but it might not have been optimal even if there were no signs of stress and I don't want my plants to be acceptable, I want them to be exceptional, which is why I'm talking to people who know better than me Also, would it be okay to update this thread in a couple weeks, after we can see some potential changes? I don't know if I need to go to a different section or something.

Such a good idea with the heated bed, can’t believe I haven’t been doing that with mine

Is not a good idea to let the pot stand in run off for over 5 hours. Empty and clean the tray if needed. Lifting the pot will tell you if you need to feed.. no guessing, what is the really helpful part When you can talk "plant" and can ask her if she needs water.. best way.. but if you do not let the root dry up in regular intervals, they become weaker and your plant more stressed. You have to fear overwatering.. it takes a really dry pot to let them hang their leaves.. but just 10 mins after watering, they will be back to normal. If you swamped your roots.. that will take a lot longer to fix, days to weeks. Fear overwatering not underwatering. Addon I give my 22L fabric pots 2L per feeding. Usually takes 2 days till they need again.

All 3 little guys sank so this morning I dipped them in 401 and put them into peat pellets. I set put my 3D printer's heated bed on to 30deg and put my dome on top, hoping to get a temp of +/-25-27deg in the dome, so I'll adjust every now and then as needed.

WOW!! So 2 days after transplant and I walk into this. Did not expect such a big difference. The game is on now, Hahaha

Week 2 - Day 14(21/05/2021) Since transplanting, no new growth has been noticed. Starting to rearrange the tent abit to make sure the plants are getting all the light. Whilst moving around, my clumsy ass self dropped the HORTIMIX COCO plant. Think I tore a few roots. Didn't want to cause more damage by checking, placed her gently in place and added some new coco. Watered with Hortimix nutes at 0.4 EC and 6.1PH. Started to raise humidity now to 60 - 70%, plants are old enough to not lose them to damping off.

Sorry to jump in here; I understand perfectly what you are saying and I also need to adjust my feeding method. What is happening when you water every 2nd day, and the feed/water drains out of coco immediately? Some strains obviously need more water but i have a few that when they are due for a feed, i would say i can feed only 500ml before seeing runoff at which point I stop as I don't want the roots sitting in water Conversely, when a plant seems like it isn't absorbing any water (bag is still heavy after 2/3 days and a feed of 1L) would that be a good time to flush? (Florakleen)

240W QB Gang.

Thanks guys for the reminder, will be updating soon

I cannot stand these flimsy nets Hand made scrog net @CreXstyle is this weekends project lol

whats up man! Dont forget that you need to update your diary before tomorrow night!

seems you still missing the point i was trying to make... so because the coco is not a fluid meduim... and because water flows toward the earth, when you pour a feed on... it sinks and gets soaked up by the coco... and then the plant drinks in the feed from the suspended feed held by the coco... when the plant drinks the water... the top of the coco becomes dryer while the bottom of the pot is likely still damp or even wet. so now you add the next feed. back to the point about the coco not being fluid... if you pour the feed at the top... it does not reach the bottom of the pot until it sinks in... so the new nutes do not mix with the old nutes very well... so when you pour the feed onto the coco... it like... pushes some of the old nute solution out of the bottom of the pot. leaving your meduim with mostly only newer nute solution. what burns the roots is when the coco is over full with water...and the only way that happens is if your pot sits in the run off...roots then suffocate and die. your EC needs to be very high to burn your roots... i have seen EC's of over 4.0 and the plants were okay...ish... the uneaten dissolved salts crystalize again when the meduim dries out, and gets washed out when you feed to runoff. when i test my runnoff, the runnoff is typically always higher than the input feed... unless the meduim is starving and then the runnoff may be lower... but you would know very soon if your plants are hungry... so it is less common. and perhaps you misunderstand how coco and the nutes work together. a quick one you should know is about the cation sites in coco? they get filled up with calcuim and potassuim mostly and leave little space for any other nutrients to get absorbed. Coco is considered an inert meduim that has no nute value to a plant. the synthetic nutes kinda like... float in the meduim... they are held in suspension by the saturated coco. so when a new feed gets fed... it just pushes the old stuff out.... kinda like making a triple layer jelly? you put the first colour in and let it set (1st feed) then the second colour you make it and you need to slowly pour it over the back of a teaspoon so that the colours dont mix... same in coco... the spoon is the coco which spreads the new colour evenly over the old colour and that would force the old colour out the pots...- if that analogy makes any sense Shortly... no.. you would have given a 5th of the feed in this case. and if the pot is a 20l pot...1l is greatly underfeeding it... the pot will take 4.5l of water before it starts running out the pot. so you will need 4.5l of correctly mixed feed to saturate the whole meduim. and honestly... if you are using liquid synthetic nutes... you put a few ml into your feed... the % of nutes in the runoff is so negligible ... hardly even a few rands... i wouldnt call it waste either as it manages an important part of a synthetic grow... the runoff is important if you dont have the correct tools to measure your substrates condition. keep the questions coming man!

Hey brother, there are actually ways to make plants more resistant to diseases. carbohydrates in different forms of sugars. maybe @Totemic can give a few pointers here? although, I would say focus more on a weekly regime with Neem and AQSF. Neem will help curb the germination of mold spores on the leaves and stem. but the spores might be present the whole time, AQSF is living organism, if you buy this product keep it in the fridge. it's a parasite that feeds on powdery mildew, so spraying this will help kill off any of the spores that do make it to the leaves and try to germinate these two products and good environmental conditions, guarentee you be golden addon very important to grab a surfactant aswell to help the spread and uptake of the products sprayed any surfactant will do, aslong as it's nonionic. carries no metals or other minerals.

Sure. He was the lead singer of the “national rugby team naked young women” stays here in Fishhoek Larry. Was the cap on that surreal 420 week when I did the exhibition as well. Let’s do a thread and get this one back on track Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

AQSF from Jammies.

Lemon haze auto at 65 days. Definitely the tightest nugs I’ve grown Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I print slot of cosplay stuff as well as signage. Whatever is needed at the time.

And to document a change I just did.. the QB came down to 85cm distance over the plant in the Veg tent.. 468 PAR Humidity is 54% and the tent temperature is 27.5C

Liquid silica, is best and most used in organic, as a foliage spray only. Helps with PM and keeping the leaves free of pests. But it's not for the vein walls of the plant doing it this way, and liquid isn't a organic soil additive.

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Nice one bud... Glad you still here..

So Brix seems to affect the plants resistance to disease and pest and this can be applied to both organic or synthetic grows via multiple methods. Slight stresses can be introduced in a variety of ways, some of the easier ways are perhaps with some substances which are not really organic or some which are organic and can be sprayed onto the plant or fed to them. There are many other ways as well, even with lighting. Hard to gauge and tell whether it is making a difference or how much of a difference it makes though. I do agree with you though that an organic grow can be a lot more time consuming and doing everything for an organic grow is a lot more effort too. However on the flip side, it can also be done in a very simple manner (think of outdoor plants). Or a proper super soil which is self sufficient. Not easy to achieve and often the results are better with fertilizers (organic or synthetic) being added and fed to the plants as well. Especially with cannabis during flowering. Like @CreX and some other growers, we might use coco and synthetic nutes but we also use a combination of other things which are more commonly found in organic and/or soil grows. I really see not reason why not to as I agree that it does make a difference and leads to happier and healthier plants. With that being said, I am sure there are people doing organic grows who do not use these products though. lol Just because one does not use organic nutes or soil, does not mean they do not use other natural products and organic products. Mycorrhizal fungi and trichoderma are two which I really like to make use of and inoculate my plants with and I feel it does make a difference. Those are just 2, however I know that @CreX has used teas in his hydro with synthetic nutes and has had great results back when he was growing DWC. Microbes can be very beneficial, even if one is growing in coco or hydro and using synthetic nutes.