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So its hard to take pics of the 3 plants seperately. But here they are. The mutant is the first pic. The the tall one then the normal growing one. The mutant and the normal growing one is the stinky plants the tall one not so much. I think its to be expected. The slurricane was a the tall plant not so smelly but seriously resinous. But we will see what happens later on.

Flower Day 12 Pics taken last night... Happy to say that even though the soil hadn't cooked, the plants are settling nicely. Tough to see with the colour temp of course . Next update I'll take a pic under flash or the sun #1 #2 #3

Looking a decent amount healthier this week. Cold week up ahead, but overall happier looking plants. The one that I re-topped is doing well and probably the best (back centre). But front right is also looking nice and bushy and healthy.

Things are looking hectic, I'm not convinced it's all about Zuma, rather more opportunistic crowds of people who have been at home without work for far too long due to lockdowns and businesses flopping, as well as the truck drivers pushing against foreign workers. Although there are large swaths of people who genuinely believe Zuma was imprisoned without trial, which is total bs. His foundation is spreading the lie that is he was imprisoned without trial and they should be held accountable for the damage currently being caused. With the army getting involved, I hope it doesn't come to a situation like in Eswatini. The SANDF in these situations are to act in tandem with the SAPS but with the SAPS being stretched so thin (and in some videos, even looting for themselves) the army will have to act independently, and we saw how well that went during the initial lockdown last year. Marikana 2.0 anyone? Here's wishing safety to our members in the KZN and Joburg city areas. There is talk of a state of emergency being announced due to these riots and immediate curfew being implemented. Kinda getting an Arab Spring vibe actually

Very well said man. And your analysis of the current socio-political dynamic is spot on. Hope all our members in those areas are safe.

Hi, my lady is still growing strong and looks healthy I feed her every third day Keep my temperature on average 22 and humidity 50 Yes 3/7 means 3 July, sorry for the confusion Enjoy the week everyone

So first watering today #1 recovered wonderful and is back in the lead #3 is being a runt again, seems like whatever burned those tips are still holding her back. Two more were harvested to make space. A banana monkey is really catching my nose and going to try a reveg from the popcorn left

Day 2 of Week 10 Update They got 1 liter 1/3/2/4 (Grow/Bloom/Top Max/Bio Heaven, still from the same bucket) Plus I had Upload issues yesterday.. or thought I have, just took a bit. Video Flower till 10 July.. I cut the 12 hours dark time out, so the jumps you see are those cuts. I will also not use the work tent for time laps videos again, just to often you bump the cams, what isn't helping. If I ever do that stunt again, I run it in a separate tent, like I did with the Royal Gorilla's. I had to run the video over 2 projects o speed them up enough. Running 6 times as fast as usual. 1995664479_10July.mp4

HIGH EVERY ONE Day 55 12/12 DAY 7

Opened up nr 1 a bit more with bends..

Learn by getting a happy plant first, over trying to finish on time

@DamDave A challenge means you are learning which can be fun and exciting! It means next time will be better. If it were me personally, I'd keep the plants in veg as right now you will barely get any yield from them and you've already spent quite a bit of time and effort to get them this so. So I'd keep them in veg, get them right and happy and let them bulk up and when they are ready then flip to flower - the bud you get from the plants will be worth the effort I am sure, a nice reward after all the effort you're putting in. This right here is the perfect example as to why auto's are not the best idea for someone who has just started growing. Being a photoperiod, one can take their time and get get the plant happy and right and continue - just delays harvest a bit but at least the harvest will be decent. You want to monitor for new growth, keep in mind the roots will need to get established again and colder temps will slow down growth. May take a week or 2 though, remember to PH your feed to prevent lockout.

Good evening!! Cutting it close with my pictures here!! As you can see I have staked and trellises the plants, I may just need to tighten the trellis up alil... But that's for tomorrow... Or later lol... This plant definitely outgrew her companion Bananuims but let's see the pudding

Fluster over and back to happy. Day 8 of flower. Quite exited for these, I have to say. Regardless of the competition, getting to grow this strain is satisfaction alone, @Totemic strains are better than the most expensive out there ☝ Just my opinion based on what I’ve grown

It's a week later in the flowering tent for The One and I have raised her up to get more of them photon goodness. Are you pleased now, @CreX? Do you notice me Senpai!? Watashi ga tsumi o okashitanode, senpai o yurushitekudasai!!! Ahem.. anyways.. I have not fed her anything more since her last watering when I put her into the flower tent, that being "Growing" as per the Terra Aquatica feeding chart, which is 1.8ml/L Gro, 1.2ml/L Micro, and 0.6ml/L Bloom. I am sure now that she is closer to the light she will get a bit more hungry. Next feeding will then begin with the "Preflower" as per the feeding chart to start preparing her for the preflower stage. Here are the pics

7 days into flower , they enjoying this grow space much more than the veg space . Very cold the last week in WC and they just received plain rainwater. Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

Yeah man this his outa hand.. Keep safe guys and gals..

Live and learn hey. Is it weird that I'm really enjoying this challenge though. Unfortunately I don't have a dedicated veg area yet so it's all or none. Sent from my LM-X210(G) using Tapatalk

Spent some time going through HD's of tunes this weekend. All parties featured are cool as fuck!

Don't worry to much about trichome colour , I use to stress about it but rather listen to your plant. I have had some plants never turn amber but turns out to be an amazing smoke . If it's starting to genetics foxtail it's about 7 days from done . You need to not stress so much about numbers and technicalities, every plant is different and you need to learn to understand and listen to the plant . In a week that plant will be ready to chop no matter the trichome colour . So when you chop it and check the trichomes for a reference. I always recommend people keep a written diary , there's a lot to writing down your finding and experiences and makes it an interesting read reading back through past experiences . My written diaries have helped me on many occasions to fix issues and count them as an extreanly important part of my grow experience

Weekend update. I performed a little bit more defoliation of the lower parts and did a little training to spread out a bit.

Very worrying A civil war was always on the cards if JZ went to jail but you definitely right, we've reached the tipping point for a country that's on its knees. Was a matter of time before there was major revolt, it just needed a catalyst. The Zuma situation may not be entirely to blame for all this mess but there are elements connected to him that will find ways to motivate the people to do this shit. Those very elements that allowed JZ and his buddies to flourish when he was in power... which he still holds a lot of to this day. That same propaganda engine is firing at all cylinders now This country's poorest have been looking for a real reason to release their frustrations and many reasons are being thrown at them now. Very volatile right now Next up, Malema and his "fighters"...

100 bucks to see you do it

I have been using Protek Spray Film 10, but could not find it the other day and got a bottle of Effekto G49 wetter, then proceeded to burn my plans with it as I just drizzled a bit into the bottle and did not measure properly. I found the Spray Film a few days later. The G49 is a lot more potent and dangerous than the Spray Film I am use to but works really well, might consider just using the G49 going forward once the Spray Film is finished. G49 is easier to find as well.

as long as I am in veg I am not tooo worried about residue, because I have it anyway I already account for dealing with it by washing the plants. if I add sulpher I will keep it in mind! I make a special time to spray aqsf, because it's a micro organism I would rather itroduce too many than too little, so I up the dose to 15 to 20ml/L this is why I am getting residue from the stuff

No, that is great, it is such a good opportunity to learn. I'd do whatever you think would help you learn the most. And I'm sure that everyone will keep watching long after the competition so you don't have to worry about feedback later on either.

Thanks GLO. I had this same situation with a plant from a previous grow. Waited and waited for trichomes to amber and by the time they did the plant was practically dead. Smelled amazing but lost flavour and strength. It also Foxtailed but I didn’t know what that was or realised it was happening. I do as you suggest, I’ll harvest in a week’s time. This is the type of “tweaking” advice you just can’t learn off YouTube! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

do you mix ingredients when you spray? like mix the aqsf and something else in the same spray? I use a nonionic surfactant when spraying anything at any time, except for when I am spraying aqsf. With aqsf you wouldn't need a wetting agent as you don't really need the plant to uptake the aqsf. and all a wetting agent does is help the spread of the products on the leaves, helps to keep the products on the leaves and not drip off with the rest of the water and help the uptake through the leaves. 2 or 3 days after spraying aqsf I will wash the plants, because the aqsf will leave residuals on your plant, and you just need the micro organism that you've inroduced, Ampelomyces Quisqualis, to take host. another reason why I don't use wetting agent with it. This is the main reason I spray absolutely nothing during flower, I would spray aqsf too, if it didn't leave my buds covered in brown dust. this leaves me no choice but to be almost religious with my IPM during veg.

Don't stress bud , yes they a bit worse for ware but those are not even close to not making it . They will recover fast . Never spray in direct light be it under growlights or sun , you want the plant to fully dry before being exposed to light again

Eve of day 6 12/12.. No real sign of flower yet.

Update: So I have made a grave mistake, I was spraying some plants for powdery mildew and decided to spray these by way of preventative measure and well, Bad idea causei burned them. All the others are perfect except these. I am hopi g they recover. Only time will tell

July 10 - 1 week post-flip Left to right - 2, 1, 3. Ladies got watered with a light dose bloom and microbes. Applied buddi all rounder spray yesterday and that will be the last application. 20210710_203352_1_1.mp4 You might notice the ladies got new shoes found some of those plant stands at Cape Garden Centre. not comp related but if you're wondering how the clones are going? We have life!

Week 7 Update / Flower Week 1 All the ladies are doing well and they're busy pushing out their new green shoots so there is not too much to report on. I would like to share something that I've learnt the hard way though. For a week or 2 now these plants have had me scratching my head. They were starting to show signs of deficiencies that I couldn't explain. I changed my res, my PH wasn't the problem, temp wise I've sort of got it under control by having my lights on during the night so I couldn't understand what was happening and it was giving me sleepless nights . I eventually had a look at my ventilation set up and I realised that my intake was coming in from the top and my exhaust, or link to my other tent, is going out from the bottom. I swapped that around and in a matter of hours the plants started to get their colour back and slowly the deficiencies started diminishing, they're still getting there but a big swing for the better. I was shocked at what a big impact an incorrect air flow could have. Even though there was ventilation, just having it set up wrong caused havoc. Had to share, maybe someone could make use of my lesson learnt.. I also added a submersible heater to my res to keep those low temps at bay in the root zone. So these are the girls as they are now: Heater added:

Double or nothing?

Exactly that, in my very limited knowledge of air flow dynamics I pictured the fresh cool air coming in from the top, sinking to the bottom and getting sucked out straight away without having the time to fill the tent with fresh goodness. Definitely not much of a muchness, the effect on the plants is dramatic. I think if left unchecked a improper ventilated system could prohibit growth and it would read like deficiencies.

You made the guy self consious, Now he is back to wearing shoes

what did you spray? and did you use a wetting agent? like GLO mentioned, those plants will be fine. but refining your spraying may also help. i have found that wetting agents can be quite strong if the correct dose is not used. and pyrol if mixed too strong, i have found crispy fries the ladies

12 July 2021 - Flower Week 5 Purple colour coming through.

Autos have nothing to do with light cycle , its a genetic code . Once the plants reaches a certain genetic age it will flower . No plant likes 24/7. plants need to sleep , so even though they will flower under 24/7 light there's no way they plant will ever be able to utilize all that light and go into sleep mode so you really just wasting money running lights for 24/7 . This will invariably induce a small amount of stress , I have always had best results with autos under 18/6 Just my 2 cents

I was stressing about this, planted 24 into soil. 18 showing at day 5. Good luck bud

You'd get it more from lights being too close or too hot, room too hot, or extremely bad air flow. Spraying something on the pistols, that stops growth on the bud, and must push next to that now So not a bad light or bulb / globe.

Yurusu koto wa nanimonai, @Ill_Evanchan Michi o tadoru katatsumuri wa kitto shippai surudeshou, Tayō-sei dake ga katsu Baketsu o agete kurete arigatō

Update: Week 2 of flower I moved to larger pots and did a bit of cleanup of the leaves. The two remaining plants are looking good, most of the signs of nutrient deficiency are sorted now. Its pretty cold at night though at times, which is not ideal. But I'm happy enough with how they are doing so I'm not going to worry about that too much for now. I've started using the GHE FloroCoco ferts. Its a bit too soon to tell, but lets see how they do. However after figuring out what was going on with the hortimix I've also noticed a big improvement with my mother/clone plants. As @CreX says above the GHE is a lot more expensive than hortimix. I'll also only be using it during flower and after I have an idea of how far its going to go I'll decide if I'm going to stick with it. Perhaps only use it for special grows. I'm wanting to to a perpetual grow so I'm concerned it may end up being unnecessarily expensive. But we shall see. (I'll use a ruler in the next photos. hard to judge scale here)

very good man!! damn your plants are huge! that leg room is doing them wonders!! i also find that cleaning up everything below the first layer of netting is vital, why waste energy on a stem you are most likely just going to toss at harvest anyways. similar methods at play here, clean up the lowers very early in flower, usually within the first few days of flower so i can use the cleanup as cuttings for another run and also add the 2nd layer of netting for the stretch to climb into, and then at the end of the 21 day stretch, i do another defoliation and take off all the leaves that are bigger than my palm. And thats all i do in flower until i harvest. excuse me while i go put on my big boy pants for the rest of the comp considering all these pro grows owning it!!

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Week 9 - Day61 (07/07/2021) HORTIMIX-DWC Ph was already at 6.5 this morning Added ph down (10 drops) New PH at 5.9 and EC at 1.1 Other than a couple of spots on the leaves that might have been there from the last reservoir, Leaves already starting to "pray" a bit and no signs on nute burn, so right now shes looking happy. Will continue to monitor closely.

iv found stepping back and zooming in works okay as well, and putting my hand above the camera like a peak cap, like im in the sun and the sun is hitting the camera and making shit, so i shield the sun...seems to also work a bit for the electro lines. but if you can afford an iphone you can use the long exposure settings

Day 49 - Excuse the color as I had to tweak to remove the electro lines,but she is doing fantastic! Sent from my SM-A715F using Tapatalk

The two that was LST(topped and Fimmed) stand at 25cm and the one that I left as is at 35cm from soil. They just got plain rainwater and last night with the flip they got some flowering feed and Probiotic. Veg room temps fluctuate fast between 20-26 due to the element heater , so growth stunned a little but , each winters story. But it's ok , it is what it is. Sooo here we go guys