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Blumat's in and scrog on , tugging for another 2-3 weeks at most and then flip. Left the old soil in and topped up 18L with Elemental Blend mixed with Coco/Spagnum Peat Moss. First feeding with FF Micro and Probiotics , week later fed Humic & Fulvic Acid . Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

Update. 19.08.21 Harvest soon lol Just cleaning up... This plant survived hail and stuff

It's time for a new journey & a new diary, & let me be completely honest I was going to do this diary once I had reached harvest with pics and video and skip the all boring veg phase, but I soon found myself with a lot more work and a lot more content than Id like so I thought let me start this diary and update it on a monthly bases. OK so what are we doing this time? SETUP: We doing 15L & 20L autopots A side by side of organic and synthetic Organics are setup using 12mm lead piping and valve 5s Syntheic is setup using 6mm lead pipe with standard valves MEDIUM: For synthetics we going with perlite & coco (washed and buffered a week before potting) For organics going with coco & perlite ammended with malted barley, kelp meal, guano, frass, dolomite, biochar, aloe, alfalfa & Bokashi STRAINS: The strains will be Super Silver, K-2, Zkittlez & original glue by @Marijuana Seeds SA & Nirvana LIGHTS: This time we pulling out the Mars Hydro SP 3000 from the start with the help from the Leon 200, that's more than enough power in the hood for this grow I started off germination with some water in a cup and after 2 days potted in coco on a heat mat for 2 weeks in the dome with very light feed every 4 days 5 days later... All but 2 didn't sprout. Well.. One was very late to the party the other one never showed face so I decide to pop anther zkittlez seed At the end of 2 weeks they were ready to be trasplanted into their final pots Right side synthetics. Left side organics. At this point I had to top feed for at least 2 weeks before the roots were established in the Autopot system After 2 weeks of top feeding its was finally time to turn on the systems Some nice socks for the ladies.. Looks more like a water tube.. (well they are going for a swim after all) Zkittlez & Original Glue first week of veg

Day 6 of Week 15 Update They got 2 liters of 1/3/4 - 4 And made my first close up to check the Trichomes.. would say I am on track and in 2 weeks they should be ripe and decent amber

If there's a limit on how much 1 should post here, admin, please let me know. But I'm so happy seeing this little one in all its glory this afternoon

Some random shots to conclude this diary. Still curing so I haven't sampled any yet. GZ is getting some smell back in the jar after having zero smell after drying. The lemon cheese STANK from mid flower all the way to now, you could smell it outside my front door while it was drying in the bathroom. Gorilla Zkittlez after drying for 10 days, just before trim and jar. Ended up with 48g. Franco's Lemon Cheese just after harvest. Dried, I got 50g of decent sized tight buds and 40g leafy tiny buds

So flowering is at a steady pace. Looks like the cold weather is bringing on snow [emoji301]️ Girls getting frosty Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Um, sure, let's go with that Always consent and willing

Result of dressing 83g of dry buds (62% humidity inside the jar)

watchout for that hippy lore lol - its a VERY loose guideline for if you really cant get a microscope or a loupe. i have had plants with pistols that are 100% brown, but the trichomes were still 100% clear way too early for a harvest like that - always check trichomes a sneaky way i have checked for trichomes with my naked eye, is by moving the bud around underneath the light and looking for glitter sparkles, this gets light to enter the trichome, and be reflected off the far end of the trichome, indicating a clear trichome. trichomes that dont glitter back, are going milky or are milky - and on rare occasions when the bud is the right colour, i can make out amber trichomes.... but i dont trust my eyes that much except for the glitter sparkle check. i generally check trichomes with my microscope when i see the glitter is very low or i cant get it to glitter under the light

As deciding when to harvest is quite a decision to make. I go a bit deeper into 'detail' why I do what. And as usual, use me only as a indicator.. I can't walk over water or bend the laws of physics... yet Two sections of the bud.. lower part with sugar leaves. You find very little amber and majority is milky to clear still. Milky is the easiest to spot against the green background. If you know there is a trichome but you cant really define it.. is clear, not amber. How honest you are to what you see is a bit key. Middle part, mix of sugar leaves and calyxes, flowers. Most here is still clear and just started to get milky, no amber to be found. Those are sections from the bud of the post before. Pistils are mostly dry as you see, and if you harvest now, potency would be rather low. Just needs more time to ripen. As you remove all leaf material, also the sugar leaves, while dressing.. just makes zero sense to harvest with the sugar leaves as indicator. When the final material shows the right signs you harvest. Is a nasty waiting game

Those roots do look good, I’m willing to bet these plant will recover and thrive in a couple of days. Good luck Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That's ONE sexy bitch that, Tied down, and spread wide, just like I like my ladies

8 weeks flower will be next week Saturday so I will harvest at that point. Buds don't look terrible so there's that Until then, observe my eish;

I decided to go ahead with the repot. I started with the first 1 and to my surprise I saw what I'd describe as healthy ass roots. I left the pots quite dry on top to get rid of some of the other soil and popped them straight in to the FF. From the varying comments I imagine some will say I should have done it differently, others will say I did the right thing. The longer I'm a part of this awesome community the more I realize that although there is a definite science behind it, with loads of particulars, there are plenty ways to skin this cat. I'm here to learn and if my plants die I've got the seeds to start again, I'm learning and enjoying it. Thanks to all who have shared their wisdom thus far. I truly appreciate it.

High 420Buds, So I've never done a grow diary before or even a personal one for that matter So bear with me... I joined the discussion in the clone topic and the seed was planted by a fellow member to make a diary using clones I purchased from GSR. So, I received them on Saturday 14th August, and I must compliment the bank on their excellent customer service. Their communication throughout the purchasing process and advice was great catering to a proper newbie + amateur home grower. Enough talk, here they are as packaged 14 Aug 21. Clones (genetics): 3 X Terple (In House) 1 X Tally Man (Oni Seed)

19.8.2021 - Top right = Tally Man

PH is one of the most important thing , that's where most deficiencys can be corrected. With hydro PH check is a must , veg is different than flower also . With soil it's debatable , microbes in general sort out the ph , nature runs on rainwater ( by me it's 7,2) . But soil with lots of Coco in is another PH , some Coco buffers up and down and the soil I'm using buffers up to 6,5 , so I can give water that 5ph and it's fine but I can't really give just plain rainwater although I do sometimes and my little microbe friends helps me. I think barky soil has a low pH , correct me if I'm wrong. But there will always be different opinions if nobody knows what we grow in . Most of the fermented feedings bring ph down , I don't measure anymore , with time I know just add so much ml of this and that and all good. You on the right track with the FF Premium brother. Btw your roots look fine . As @Prom suggested they need food now . Follow his advise he has nailed BioBizz feeding down [emoji323] Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

that is a fast bounce back ^^ let them dry, then go 2ml per liter grow right away.. they need some more green Nice job, you saved em

Will be cleaning under the scrog in the coming week Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

rolled all to a long thin "sausage" and put it in the middle of a joint. Watched 'Edge of Tomorrow' after.. enjoyed the couch

Hey there guys.. I know of a grower that was growing this on a large scale it was where most of the stock in the western cape came from but I have lost you h with him as he was giving bulk stock at rediculous prices because of the hype that surrounded it when it was going around ... I must confess I'm an indica fan but when I hit the first bowl of this through glass it reminded me of a bump back in the day of really good cocaine... Now I know that'll get some people ranting but I know what I felt and that's what I can relate it to the best I was washing the dishes cleaning the flat and wanting to chat alot so what does that remind you of... Anyway that grower is in the farmlands near hermanus.... But 100k for 1kg that's absolute madness if you buying in hydroponic indoor 1kg at a time the price never exceeds R85-90k and that's next level artisanal grown hydroponic indoor R50-60k is normally what I'd expect to pay though anyway it was super dank but I think that was then nowdays that type of quality and potency is available far and wide these days I even own a online despensary with an app to download to order just like take out so things are moving in this industry since then that's for sure

Sorry about this bud. Such a kak one. What kinda symptoms were you seeing? Did you spot any nanners or male flowers? Being F1 fem seeds, the chances of this happening to a few plants are there I guess. It's a pity you couldn't spot it sooner as there's probably 1 plant that is the culprit.

Just saw this post now. Being in cannabis you learn to grow trust issues, but its a basic human requirement, trust. Without a doubt, Skunk, Durban is used as a marketing tool and probably most strains available have nothing to do with the original name. Skunk for instance became famous in the UK as it was used by police in media and generally was used to refer to highgrade indoor, Skunk/Chronic. So what happened, smokers would ask their dealers for the real skunk. You have to filter through the BS, read up on people with street cred ( Maljim, Todd McCormick, Joseph Pietri, Mel Frank, Sam the Skunkman, Mowgli Holmes ) find out about the strains and then start growing them.

Very true. And the Dp seeds that are advertised 8-10weeks flower....definitely not the real deal Sent from my VOG-L09 using Tapatalk

Batch 2 - day 15 from seed

people also rave on about DP being alive and well still to this day and you can just simply find the exact genetics at every second seed bank and every one of them claim to be legit and backing it with stories of being directly linked to the founders or whatever may be the case, sadly it's all about marketing and selling seeds. being from south africa gives a lot of our locals the idea that we have original genetics right at our finger tips, while that is true to a certain extent we certainly will be last to get our hands on the legit shit with people like Mel Frank and other big names out there. here is a video of Mel Frank himself talking bout the DP that gained the buzz back in the day, just a quick little youtube search, not going in too deep here, but listen to the first words he speaks in this video, this is very important to what we're discussing here... straight out the horse's mouth "I WISH I HAD THE ORIGINAL DURBAN POISON"... lol now if Mel Frank himself sais that, I am gona have a hard time believing some random Richard about the genetic being easy to find.

I enjoyed and learnt from this one quite a bit!!

GREAT you gona be fine those roots look good man yip, listen go back to the guy at the grow shop who told you that plant is hungry and ask him if it was his first day at the job? Don't wana be mean but in that position you cannot be telling people that crazy stuff!!! cannabis plants will grow 100% fine from the trace amount of nutrients in pure clean water for up to 2 months depending on strain before starting to become hungry. surely in a soil loaded with nutes this cannot be the case. but now that you got some FF it will be much easier to narrow down the situation. you got enough food in FF soil to last you a good while. A few good rules to follow in a organic situation is "Rather too little than too much" and "Let your plant tell you she's dry and hungry then feed her, instead of overfeeding and then having to deal with root damage". lift the pots did you water them in with 5.8ph water? with a living soil situation you gotta aim for the 5.5 to 5.9 range when the plant is young then you gradually raise the ph as the plant gets older never going over 6.5. take ph readings once everythings mixed into the water already, then adjust if needed. as mentioned the soil can buffer up from 4.5 or so, but I will try my best to keep it in range at this point. bring all these little things in check and you'll see your olant explode with new growth.

I had seeds 2 months ago, one of the Pineapples rodelized. Found the male flowers in the top of the buds all over the plant when dressing dry buds, frustrating discovery.. just sprinkled in. The rodelizing plant was absolutely unusable, that many seeds. Seeds are also dump.. even they would be feminized but no characteristic you want to keep.. seeds suck in buds ^^

Confirmed girl and she was put in the final pot.. Stoked so even if the other 2 is male I'm happy..

Attempted a few shot with this crappy phones cope.

Some real nice colors starting to happen here. Her bud is feeling nice n thick, the other Tortoni is a bit soft n fluffy feeling. Saturday she will be week 7*

18 August 21 Transplanted into 21 L pots with Coco and Perlite 75/25 mix. Used half strength synthetic feed - GT Hydro Nutriplex 3 Fabric pots - Terple 1 Air pot - Tally Man First pic on the day received - 14.8.21 Second pic after cuttings have had 2 days in their new home. Droopy medium still moist - 16.8.21 Third pic starting to perk up - 17.8.21

I tried those when I 1st started growing, the 100w cost about R110 and 50w R60 from the store nearby. They can work for Veg but that's about it, all of them I had eventually blew after 2 months and they get very hot, you can burn yourself if not careful even having a fan running on it didn't help much. I probably spent R2000 on these type of lights, ac cobs and "600w" blurple LEDs and they just didnt do it when you flower and you end up disappointed, rather save for a decent LED.

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:

No limit brother , post [emoji1787] Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

[emoji2962] 21 hours between the last pics ? Kom span !!! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Hey @PsyCLownhope you well. So for the organics I'm mainly using RO water in a 50L flexi tank. Once a week I ll turn the system off and let the plants drink whatever water is in the tray for a day I will than top feed them with some dirty hands bio boost and bio nitro, with Silica dosage also once a week and separate day from the Bio boost & Nitro. I'm not sure how the silica will mix with the bio boost and bio nitro so I decided to do it on a separate day. Will ammend again before the flip and continue using RO water in the res for organics For synthetics im using silica, umyas cal mag, and the NutriGold range (Previously Known as Nutriplex) changing the res once a week

Nice! Let's see how it goes. What nutes are being used for the two?

thanks for this man... just remember that this is a legal site and no sales or soliciting is allowed good luck on your venture - and stick around man - just dont try sell us any cannabis/products please

Awe , got it [emoji120] Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

oh my ☺ the plant kind, right?

Ja fully agree. Thats why we are trying to simulate that. The reason for me going the living organic route and home made soil is purely curiosity and saving cash. Like the idea of creating and experiencing the process. Bottled nutes, being labeled as organic or not just didn't feel right to me. Almost like steroids. I know that it works but consumerism plays a huge role in cannabis nutes and i am trying to steer as far away from that trap as possible. I know that by adding all those recommended amendments is contradicting myself but goddamn i saved 50% of my hard earned money going this route thus far...And its blerrie lekker preparing my own soil and will be even more lekker to see my plants thriving in my own soil. And to conclude. If anything goes south, i only have myself to blame and learn from the process. Live and learn brother

Thank you sir.. I wasn't sure.. But I nuked them again annyway.. Will do it again before lights out this evening. No sign of it today but I will nuke em again..

They are very legit. Great people behind the testing, who really know their stuff. Its a mom and pop business, and very professional.

Thank you sir. If I get some on the flower would it be the end of the world..?

I was listening to a podcast the other day featuring the American Autopot rep and he said it’s recommended to keep the layer of clay pebbles to no more than an inch at the bottom of the pot. Any more and your wicking is affected adversely. Mine current pots are all double that, which I will address in future grows. The air domes are great, bring extra air to the root zone.

They seem very new strains, and like someone has just popped some too...