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Flip day. Mid term report. Firstly sorry for the overload of pics. 55 days since seeds put in water. 49 days since seedlings have been in soil. So I planted directly into a 10l pot and stunted growth due to soil still being waay to wet in my opinion. I carefully removed plants and repotted into smaller pots. Soil in 10l pots I spread out to dry then added extra perlite. It seems to have helped but I think the soil still stays on the damp side for a long time. Plants recovered somewhat after two weeks in the smaller pots and were repotted into the 10l pots. They still seem to be battling though. Temps max: 28.6 min: 16.4 RH max: 71 min: 39 Water 750ml once a week or so. Feed & nutes: Tried Epsom salts in the water a while back. The second last water I gave a half dose of GHE tri part. Bio neem spray every two weeks. Not very happy at this stage but on the bright side I can see a root or two popping out the bottom of the pot. I think that's everything covered.

Day 1 Week 9 Update Get nothing today both are in flower now.. Sisa Tarryn

Winter colours We should have lab results in the next 2 weeks for this stain. It's going to be interesting to see it's terpene profile and potency

So flip day, noooooo. The girls are loving the upgrades. Just another week cap’n So the runt, #3, has shown the most growth and will be moved to the flower chamber. #1 and #2 will be pushed a couple more days to see how much more growth I can squeeze out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And some pictures from the Tent ^^ Delux Sugarcane Pineapple Express Gelato (one of the plants comparing Bio Heaven with Amino Boost) my winning pheno from the hunt

June 23 - July 2:

Hi everyone. This is my first 'real' grow. My pilot grow was bag seed and under only 60W for most of veg. Strains: Green House Seeds - Franco's Lemon Cheese. Barneys Farm - Gorilla Zkittlez Setup: 2 x 15 litre pots in a 1m x 0.5m cupboard conversion with a 240W QB from @Light It Up. I have the dimmer set to 120-180W through veg and then 240W during flower. Soil: Freedom Farm, green bag. Amended with Dirty Hands elemental blend and some extra goodies, kelp meal, insect frass, mycoroot and some earthworms from the garden. Mulched with alfalfa straw/hay. Nutrients: During veg I use Kelpak (first few weeks only), Biobizz Biogro (half-strength), Biobizz Activera and calmag(alternate weekly with Biodyne). During flower, I include Freedom Farm's Fire Juice, replace Biogro with molasses and give calmag more regularly. pH adjusted to 6-6.5 (shout out to @The_StonedTrooper for the pH pen!) Currently on day 32 of flower. I topped the zkittlez once and lemon cheese twice. I was hoping to fill out the screen but the zkittlez is much smaller. It didn't respond as well to supercropping and took longer to recover from the transplant. Also, I think I topped it a bit early and could've used another week in veg. Could be the strain, could be the seed, could be me. Can't complain too much though because those flowers smell and look amazing :) Flower day 12: day 26: day 31:

The soft switch deadline has arrived and before I miss it I have then officially flipped The One and made space for her in my already pretty full flower tent! Plans were made and I have found her a space. I did a final little clean up of the lower branches as with this training technique I have found in the past that keeping the lower branches has always resulted in airy buds, so I'd prefer the energy being diverted to the tops. Otherwise, haven't changed much. I will do one more feed at 1ml/L of the Gro/Micro/Bloom and thereafter start with the preflower nutes, say in a week or so. Before After

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Morning my fellow Grow Offers.. So it's flip day.. The girls are looking all perky this morning and nr 2 will go into Flower on Monday only though.. Will push my luck a wee bit.. Just want to get about an inch of extra growth on her.. I'm kicking myself for not having them under a propper light from earlier on. Have a flipping awesome day..

Yep, for Autos you don't really have to put a backup light in. They don't care and follow their timer. Autos are the easy work around to load shedding. Even stage 6 or more, is annoying, but doesn't stress the plant. If there would be a way to clone autos.. would only grow those. Looking very good.. just go on with what you do.. you do it right

The first few that went into flower early are almost ready . Well done again @Totemic I am well impressed and can't wait for the rest and the first smoke test

My tent has been flipped to 12/12 cycle, 7AM - 7PM The flip is upon us wow that went quick!

So new update: Flip day!! Woo hoo it's time people. So I have done some defoliation and training for maximum light penetration. Watered with ph water with a solution of vermigrow. Let the race continue.

5 seeds, 4 plants, and all 4 grow completely different. I got the fake Charlottes Web from the same seed bank.. and as one of the plants is going black.. what a Pini shouldn't do.. I think i got 18 fake seeds from Canada. I wrote Pacific Seed Bank my opinion.. never heard anything back from the guys. I finish and see.. right now. I grow the plants with not a lot of enthusiasm

for autos and load shedding the stress will come more from there not being airflow. but that's the same in all cases, not autos only autos don't grow according to light cycles. you can even flower them perfectly fine on a 18/6 cycle also if you got PM or any other mold spores floating around in the tent already the 2/3hrs of no airflow may allow them to settle and find a spot they like.

Wow thanks man, I am halfway there, expanded a brick, washed it outside with the hose for about ten minutes. I will test the runoff to see if I need more rinsing. Then over night into calmag :) Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk

Day 42 - day before the flip This week a did small amounts of defoliation every 2nd day. Thinking I might need to do some more though, T2 is looking mighty bushy. Here's where we're at. T1: I did the most defoliation on T1 so far. Nice canopy forming, still think I could trim a few more round the bottom edges. T2: The leaves are twisting in an attempt to get more light. I think I need more defoliation on this girl. T3: This girl is looking good, nice big fan leaves. I've let her go Christmas tree in hoping she sports a nice fat cola. Lastly a pic of the whole tent. I'm also growing a Dinafem Gorilla Auto at the back.

Sneak peek. Full report tomorrow morning.

July 2 - 49 days since seeds got wet and the lights switched off this morning to mark the end of the veg light cycle of 18-6. Later today the lights come back on and will begin their 12-12 cycle to the promised land. Its FLIP Friday! Let's turn these little pot plants into bouquets of flowers I've added 2 rods under the pots to increase air-to-soil in the hope that will speed up consumption of water and therfore drying up of the soil in these cold and humid times. Will probably find something else to serve this purpose more effectively over the weekend.

Day 7 Week 8 Update They got 1 liter each of 1/2/3 ^^ 1 Grow, 2 Bloom, 3 Bio Heaven (ml/liter). Temperature hovers around 24 degrees, 50% humidity.

Pleased to present to you the 1st and 2nd place trophies 3rd place is on the way

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This Dream Queen seedling has a weird leaf mutation.. While inspecting, is it just me, or is it way to hairy for her age? Two weeks from germination.. I just need to mention it again @Light It Up This QB240 has me hooked for the space I have.. Anny and all beginners need 1 or 2 or 3 or or.. Another one is definately kicking al the other tech required down my priority list.. I'm in love.. DQxS- Dream Queen x Slurri Reg DQ - Dream Queen Reg GG- Grape Gorilla Fem CG- Chockolate Gelato Fem DS- Double Sunset..

Um do we get participation trophies[emoji23] Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk

well that has to suck, the reliability of these things are going out the window with the whole new legislation happening around the world. every second guy trying to get rich quick and sell off anything as long as they selling. hope you find something worth your time!

Sexy setup, very healthy plants.. nice job so far!

Taal.

I got an ec of about 0.5. Added about 30 ml liquid calmag to 15 l water, might have to dose again tomorrow. Will measure the runoff and see. Ph is around 6.8, a bit high but plan on bringing that down with my fertigation. Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk

I mixed a full batch again, giving the silicon several hours to dissolve first and as soon as I added the A mix in the water still went cloudy. Then I remembered that when I purchased the new silicon at the beginning of the year there was a not about it on the hydroponic.co.za. I just checked at its still there "As from mid October 2020, we have witched to a new supplier of Silicon Plus...". So I think its reasonable to assume that the new supplier's silicon is reacting with the A due to some difference in some way and that has been the actual issue. Possibly with some bacterial issues as I mentioned above. I should then be ok using only the A+B+MPK from now on. However I've decided to give GHE FloraCoco a try in the near future, thanks for the push @PsyCLown:) I've still got some other plants in hydro outside, I'll continue using hortimix there. I'll note in an update here when I switch these plants over to GHE

Will it be just the one plant under the 600? Of so or if not, I would chuck the 240w led in with the 600w and see which side of the tent does better... Like a side by side

Shot buddy, they will be coming out soon. I will send you a tin with @GreenGrow Garden Routewhen he comes past. Sorted

Hi guys, so we harvested the Strawberry Cola auto at the first signs of amber on wednesday. She is absolutely packed with dark large seeds and has that classic old school cheese terps. Im so exited to start some Strawberry Vostok Regular Autoflower seeds. Thats what we decided to call the cross. Hope you guys like the new packaging. The rest are going well and the Russian Fuel will be getting chopped tommorow. Lots of purple autos are on the way. BTW we need testers who would like to push these indoors. Pre orders on the strawberry vostok's @GreenGrow Garden Route

Also A small cleanup under them legs

This was outdoor winter cultivated with nothing but some good soil and dry ammendment

Morning growmies. So a day before flip and I decided nr 2 will be flowered and the other two I will play around with till I'm happy to flip them.. They seem healthy and happy for now..

Day 50. This grow has honestly been one of my favourite in years, it's reignited a spark in me and rekindled my love to grow from seed.

Heading into day 3 of flower. They are loving the new light they are under.

Beautiful growth this wee. Very happy! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

And my name is not Brian ^^ I just came here, looked around and suddenly i have all those people following me. OK, here the new thing.. NO update today I wasn't in the mood to get up. My first trip went to the shop to get electricity. Had 20 units left.. they increased price.. again.. 880 units for 2000 bugs. All pots in the flower tent.. except the 2 Tortoni's.. got a full feeding. Lights just went out when I finished.. didn't went to fetch the cam.. tomorrow next picture. Competition plants got nothing, enough moisture in the new soil. have a fun day, guys.. I go play poker now.. and get very very stoned in the process

Last update in veg Nothing much to update , girl got one feed with FF Microlife and then just water , with this weather it's 2 waterings a week , plants still smallish and lots of medium for them in the 15L pots .

Update: Week 7 of veg I've been trying to see what combination of the nutrient mix was causing the white precipitate. So far nothing . I'll keep those for a bit longer to see if anything changes. I'm beginning to wonder if it was not just the silicon that I had not let stand for long enough before mixing in the A+B. Then the cloudiness a few days after the mixing could simply be a bacterial bloom. I usually clean out the res, but I've not been cleaning the airstones. This could be an issue as they are ideal places for bateria to grow. I've bleached them and will try a new res later this week to see. Feels like some progress at least, seems unlikely its a bad batch of nutrients at this point :) The plants are looking good, filling out nicely now. T3 is still the smallest of the three, so I think I'll keep that for clones and only flower the other two.

A mate reminded me I should have the fans aimed at the canopy. Sometimes I overlook the most important things. I ended up defoliating selectively in order to maximize canopy surface area, aka a bit of both.

Judging Criteria Plants are judged on their condition when the grower states they are finished, however other factors are considered in the process as well, such as: How consistent was the grow - minimal hiccups along the way How well the chosen training technique was executed Maximum utilization of light General good growing practices Plant Condition Judging Criteria Bud size and condition Plant colour Minimal burn Minimal leaf clawing Minimal leaf cupping Minimal pest infection Lack of deficiencies Number of bud sites No signs of stunting Plant size - this plays a roll but plant size must be accompanied by quality. As varying training techniques will produce varying sized plants. The size of a plant won't weigh heavily in judging. No excessive stretching Judging Panel @Totemic @PsyCLown @420SA @Green Leaf Organics - a late but very welcome judge addition

@ORGANinc. this bra won't be back for another week, so I'll answer you in the meantime The Terra Aqua is next level btw, I'm also using it mixed with worm casting.

Here's one for ya. Thoughts on removing the lowest fan leaves in an attempt to increase airflow/encourage energy to focus on the top, or would I just be removing beneficial energy reserves and it's better the way it is?

I normally use a 100L pot for my mother's. They say 40L bags but I can put 60L

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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.