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Day 14 All 6 are still around. They've been moved to a new space where they will finish up. Cleaned up a lot of the lower growth. It seems I have a purple pheno among them. Also added some predatory insects I was gifted by @GreenGrow Garden Route I don't have any mite issues but prevention is better than a cure I guess.

Taken from another forum: The true origin of UK Cheese I recently went on holiday to the Canary Islands, a friend of mine gave me a copy of Weed World magazine to read while I was there (issue 56). To my surprise, was the article by Big Buddha Cheese? On reading this I decide to tell the story from the beginning. Back in the late 80’s early 90’s, a friend-of-a-friend of mine came back from the Sensi Seed Bank in Amsterdam with some seeds. Most of the plants were males but 4 of them were girls – 3 of the 4 were wankers and one was kind of OK. This plant was cloned and passed on to 3 or 4 different people who grew it alongside some Northern Lights and Silver Pearl plants in their well built grow rooms. I am 45 years old now and have been growing my own weed for about 25 years, 10 of them outside in the wild. My best friend and I decided that we would build ourselves our own grow rooms but didn’t see the need for getting too technical so, we made them out of anything we could lay our hands on – we called them “orange crates” coz that’s what they looked like. As for lighting, we went on a commando raid to a local disused cement factory and helped ourselves to some Sodium and Metal Halide 400’s. We made our own shades from some aluminium sheeting from a local scrap yard. Now all we needed was some nice cuttings. I managed to get some N/L and S/P plants and also one of the Skunks. Most of the other growers concentrated on the N/L and S/P because they are good all rounders. I think one of the Skunks went to Crewe and another to Cornwall. I quite liked the Skunk so I kept it going. Now over the next 7 or 8 years of constant cloning, the Skunk started changing – don’t know why – it just did. It started to get really smelly – I mean really stink. The smell would get everywhere and I was often creosoting the fence to try and mask the smell (a little tip there for Cheese farmers, creosote or burnt toast). Cropping was a nightmare and I wouldn’t even go out because people would often say “you stink”. I was giving some of this weed to my close friends and they all loved it and, as the taste was changing it seemed the strength was too. This weed had become so strong and so smelly that it reminded me of something I had smelt before, but I couldn’t think what it was. Then one day the penny dropped. When I was 17 or 18 and living at home with my parents, I would go out a lot with a friend who worked in a food essence factory. Some days I would see him and he would stink of all different kind of things: fish, beef, vanilla etc. He would bring me small test tubes of concentrated liquids home and use them in my fishing bait (the carp loved the vanilla). One day he put one under my nose and said “smell this one, its called blue cheese, and it’s a real minger”. This was the smell I had been trying to remember. The weed smelt just like it and so she was born. I gave the weed the name “Cheese”. The only cuttings I let out were to people who were incapable of doing their own cloning and only wanted a plant for their own garden in the summer months. Another close friend of mine, known as “Of the Hill”, came to me one day and asked me if I would do him 21 cuttings as he was building a big lab for the Exodus people in Luton. I was a bit unsure of this as I didn’t know ay of these people but, I did it for him because he is a good egg and has dug me out of plenty of holes over the years. Anyway, off he went with his cuttings and I didn’t here too much more about it, other than a good harvest festival was had. “Of the Hill” arranged for a cutting to make it’s way to a coffee shop in Amsterdam in 2003 (Home Grown Fantasy). It was cloned and put on the menu as ‘Cheese’ and went on to claim 3rd place in the cannabis cup in 2004. I recently met an American at a Hawkwind gig in London who had heard of the Cheese in Washington. He had come to the UK to see Hawkwind and smoke Cheese. His face lit up when I pulled a big fat Cheese straw out of my pocket! It’s kind of annoying really – I wish I could have put a patent on the word “Cheese” in the context of marijuana but, it’s kind of difficult when things are illegal. All over the place now I hear people calling all sorts of weed “Cheese” and I say to them “no mate, this is Cheese”. As for Mr Big Buddha? I have plenty of respect for him, but the Cheese is not yours no matter what you call it and, as for crossing her? She does need help –over the years she has started to show signs of stress. Growers will notice that some plants get brown spotty leaves during growing & flowering that results I leaf drop. I don’t know what the cause is, it’s not the soil, the water, the food, or the air quality (possibly a virus of some kind), so I suppose a cross of some kind to introduce some new vigour to her would be a good thing so, like I said, respect to Big Buddha for trying. So for nearly 14 years, the Cheese was living at only a couple of places but now it seems to be everywhere for people to enjoy. I don’t know what she has become – some sort of mutant freak, but she sure hits the spot and everyone who smokes her loves her to pieces. So there you have it – the truth about the origin of Cheese. You can all rejoice that I kept her going for all these years and now you all know how it came about its name. In the grand scheme of things it’s not very much, but I wanted to set the record straight. Wing Commander Blue

I put some bends on her last night as she was getting so tall. She reacted nicely.

Speak of the cheese, and the cheese will appear Bursting to be in this world, OSG Cheese and Barney's GZ.

What's happing growmies, not much to report except this is the final week before the ladies get the chop 🗡 I have changed my light schedule down to 6/18 from the start of the week (testing a theory that 6/18 can produce more trichomes by tricking the plant into thinking its close to dying) will also follow up with 3 days of complete darkness... So Just a couple of bud shots, will have a more decent update of the ladies once we harvest Blue Dream: Aurora: PPP:

Day 40 - 16 Days Before Flip The One is nearly ready for LST, just waiting for a little bit more length on the branches before beginning. It will definitely be in the next update. Otherwise continuing with the same nutrient regime as stated before, fed once since last update. 16 days until the planned flip so I think I will have just gotten the training done in time.

The two QB75's have been switched on. The @Light It Up 240W (centre stage) is set at 160W. The two @growopz QB75's (riding shotgun) is set at 135W. If I understand correctly I have just shy of 300W on the plants, correct? Using two phones and three different apps the screenshot pictured gives an average reading with the light 550mm above plants. I'll be playing around till Sunday on the light heights and settings on the 240W. I say Sunday cause Sunday I decide on biting the bullet and consider training.

So I have tepotted #3 into a bigger pot and have decided to let her to get more light in, have her a little water and that's where I leave her for a while. I will repot the other 2 on the weekend.

Quick update on the ladies. All looking very happy. The yellow colour is fading now. I think I'll look at topping two of them next week.

Here is a summary of what he says, copied verbatim: "Yes my friend. 87 is a title that refers to when those seeds were obtained by the person who selected them. Not the date I received this cut. The UK Cheese cut came to me in the early 2000s." To me that clears up the confusion.

Twix, let me get some clarity on this directly from the breeder and I will post his reply here. I can tell you that he is highly regarded with guys like GG Strains, Lucky Dog and Karma. People that talk out their ass about what they have usually get caught in their lies sooner or later, and he has been in the game for a while. I've run his OSG Glue, and that came out fire with plenty of glue dominant leaners. Anyway, that is besides the point. Let me see what he has to say...

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So I just had to get a vege area and what better time than the now. The girs get a new home and I have somewhere to keep some cuts and seedlings.. Need to build a stronger light but for now it works..

There's also a video on YouTube somewhere about HAZ Manor and Exodus. @Golden-Goose Sensi seed bank didn't exist until 1991. In 1991, Ben bought the Seed Bank from its owner (another breeder who received the US genetics in the Eighties) and the gene-stock of the two companies was merged to form the Sensi Seed Bank we know today. This person is called Jim Brightside and if I read that weed world story correctly, that would bring it up to 1998/99 when Brightside gave the cheese to Exodus. They made their own crosses and gave them out and then the Exodus collective disbanded in 2000. Some of the popular exodus crosses still around are called Nelly, Jah, Windows, Suicide and Psychosis. They used pollen from other Sensi strains like NL, NL#5 x Haze, Shiva Skunk to make their crosses. @Golden-Goose

Better picture of Kindergarten and strain update with new additions Wedding Cake Slurri No.2 and No.3 Zsweet Insanity Sherbet Cookies Crescendo Gorilla Glue RooiBaard Juggling Canon balls Mad Berry Silver fields NEW Peanut butter breath Cookies and Cream

seems as though he is out! if he doesnt want to try harder then i guess we gotta call it sometime ey capn? @420SA

It was more a tongue in cheek comment due to the ridiculous nature of all this pseudoscience bullshit in the weed community. I've never tested ethaline on my plants because rotting Banana's gross me out, but they do help with ripening of other fruits.

yup that's exactly what i did. bought totes for under 300 bucks each (279 at westpack) , drilled some nice fat 20mm holes in a nice symmetrical pattern and use the lids as saucers.

Well. I recently sold my house and will begin my new grow room in my new house. My previous grown did okay but I hope to improve.

Hey All, I know that I hardly post my grows (logs), and this I want to change. So I've started this thread on room 2, and this will be where I bring my clones and seeds to life. Getting them ready for room 1, the flowering tent. There are a few strains in here at the moment, and some fancy clones from all over, and will keep you up dates on this thread as time grows. My next line up to come Soon as some of these plants and clones are at their new homes, room 1, 3 and 4. Thank you and hope that everyone will enjoy the grows and learning with me.

The bra send me updates everyday, he's got two plants alive and well. But needs to come update himself. *Pic removed, Juandre needs to update himself.

Hey @GreenGrow Garden Route, I only saw this now... For me smell was an issue too, when it came to decarb, but I found a way to decarb with next to no smell. Take your trim/bud, grind it down a bit. Fill it into one of these 1 liter consol preservative jars with those 2-part lids (screw-on ring and lid). Don't fill it up completely, maybe 80%. Flip the lid upside down and screw the ring on loosely. Meanwhile bring you oven to the desired temperature. Take a baking tray, put a towel on it and place your jar on top of the towel. The towel will prevent the bottom of the jar being in direct contact with the baking tray, which can get too hot even on a lower temperature setting. Decarb for 60 minutes and shake the jar every 15 minutes to ensure all the material will be "baked" evenly. This works for me. There's nearly no smell compared to just do it on the baking tray.

Great to see so many fellow Cannabis growers here!

Welcome to the forum. Plenty knowledge to be found here. You got some decent spires there.

One of my favourites, from lockdown too. Can say what you want about lockdowns but being at home and being able to regularly pay attention really 'poured fuel on the fire' of my interest in growing this beautiful plant. There's a ton of knowledge on this forum and appreciate all I've already learnt here ✌

Day 33 The 3 Tortonis have moved into the finishing tent and are now under the 340W lighting. Countdown is on... 17 days left to flip. Before putting the water tray of the tent back in after cleaning, I put some cardboard down underneath it, just to add some sort of insulation between the pots and the floor to try keep temp up. I plan on introducing neem oil this week as a preventative measure for nasty stuff. Just been watering with occasional activera or liquid gold microbes added.

Girls got a feed today, 1ml fish, 1/2tsp molasses p/l, 2ml biodyne, 2ml fulvic extract. 2 and a half weeks to go. Did some further topping and cleaning up.

Dont be jealous lol

In particular, me neither, but for some reason, on my journey through cannabis, am now searching for a cheese, or through the cheeses. Room 3 grew out last month, a UK Wotzit cheese, and that stuff... WAS, as you say, the correct pungent stank feet, not sweat. Smelling just like the bloody chip package as you open the cheese curls, but... The smoke was so unpleasant for me, I didnt even know what the high was from it. The smoke was like puffing of MSG genuinely, and had that salty after taste (no, it was organically grown) and that same MSG chip after taste. Very true to the chip, the taste, smell, smoke and aftertaste. But I'm not a smoker for that reason or lean that way in desired outcome of flavor and taste for my meds. The best, and ultimate cheese for me so far, for a high, is the BB CHEESE even though sweet, I like the full high. My most amazing smell so far, oh man, I'm not even playing here, as I dont when describing or giving an opinion, is that blue cheese Auto from Nirvana. Fok me, I can't stop smelling that jar and the taste, omw this stuff is orgasmic, and hope when cured, it's a good high to boot. Having more of those seeds, I cant wait for summer to come to grow them outside

I'd say that's half a gram per L. They should not have used fractions. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Dont you silence of the Hams me

A quick midweek update. It's the only girl to show so far. These are f2's of a variety called Zain, from Gage Green Genetics. Its a cross between their ghost og/ad hoc and a male Malawi, from Cannabiogen (Ace Seeds). I threw away 2 males already and am still waiting for pre-flowers to show on the other 2 plants. I got a sample of this root stimulator from the grow shop. Its high in phosphate, along with amino and humic acids. I can't work out if it means 1-2 g per litre , or 0.5 g per litre? I will give it a go with the next round of clones and compare it against the kelpak and aminomix that I use now.

So Ive made all the mistakes you can make the past year and a half and it just keeps on going. Ive got a few jars of zkittles curing for about 3 to 4 weeks now. But when I open the lids to burp the jars every now and then I get a fish smell coming out. The buds had powdery milldew on them and I washed the buds at harvest. Got Boveda packs in jars. Is the buds a dud and I have to throw it away or should I just cure it longer? PS: House next door had a male plant and offcourse Ive got seeds also now [emoji1751][emoji1751][emoji1751][emoji1751] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Im here to give credit to those that deserve it. Thank you @Organics Matterfor your brilliant customer service!Received my order, well packaged and fast delivery. This is one of the standout companies i've experienced thus far. I did thank @Aeradixalso on another thread for their super fast delivery. Brilliant! It seems to me that customer service in general is completely up to shit in this country. If i receive good service, i will go out of my way to give credit where credit is due. That's a promise. Stay blessed guys!

Heyy all im an outdoor grower in south africa loving sungrown cannabis hope you all are good and hi to all !!! I wil be showing my upcoming outdoor grow here some autos and photoperiods ✌

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@CreX you mentioned that you are using totes. Do you just drill some holes in the bottom and take it from there? Apologies for chipping into your grow thread @SkunkPharm

Oh, and I added perlite to the mix. Sent from my LM-X210(G) using Tapatalk

Here in JHB, however the old man did mention spending a lot of time in Cape Town, so @Twix Aphen's post is quite spot on.

I'm not a huge fan of cheese, although I do like super skunk and one of my all time favourite crosses is Exodus Kush from DNA. My cut leans more to the OG side though. I once sampled some cheese that smelt like stale feet and cheese curls. It was rank! So unfortunately I'm no expert on a proper cheese. I know it should be smelly, and not sweet. I'm confident in OSG though. If he says he used an 87 Exo cut then I believe him. Happy hunting bro!

Goooood morning Tortoni caretakers. After top and fun I got rid of some fan leaves to promote growth lower down , pinched just below top node also . Girls got 1 feeding and a SST in the last week . Transplanted into 15L pots with amended old soil, mixed FF Premium/Amended soil and just FF Premium Classic (Green bag) last night . Another 2-3 weeks to settle and of we go .

@CreX Just for you brother The leaves gets tucked each morning before work and again after work, I tuck in such a way that the bottom nodes are exposed to light. Tried taking this shot best I could, but you can more or less follow each branch and see they are happily climbing to the top. Also turning the pots every few days to try and keep uniformity.

Opened the tent after 2 days away and I could see I had some work to do. It was apparent that my res solution needed to be changed and upp'ed a level and that Ms Organic needed a bigger pot. Hungry ladies: I also noticed some funky growth on some of the leaves. T1 (right) had a an extra blade on one of the 5 finger leaves giving her 6 fingers and T2 (left) had a webbed duckfoot on one of her 3 finger leaves. T1's extra finger: T2's webbed duck foot: Things escalated from there pretty quickly , when I looked again I had topped T2, removed the weird growth and cleaned her up. This is an early topping for me but she looks vigorous enough to pull through quickly. Transplanted Ms Organic into her final pot: After a few hours, the girls got their colour back and were looking much happier: I'm still not too sure how I'm going to approach the training but if I stare at them long enough I'm sure it'll come to me

Welcome and enjoy your stay. Similar name, might bring some confusion to the title on some of my grow diaries. lol

Looks like the 3rd seed never popped. So only 2 beautiful ones are growing.

Closeup on the male

You can replace the power socket on the light, it is a IEC socket. They are pretty cheap from RS components and most other electrical places. https://www.google.com/search?client=opera&q=IEC+socket&sourceid=opera&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8 Then you can purchase a kettle cord from Takealot or where ever else you can find them, also rather cheap. Alternatively, connect a cable straight to the light and avoid using the IEC connector. I'd recommend soldering the cable for a proper connection.