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I commented on their Facebook page & was called within 5 Minutes. This was a mishap & they are working to resolve now.

Ok so this Freedom Farms soil is not all that. All the plants except the front right plant is in FFarms soil. That one is in Orgasoilux. This is the first time in 6 months that I fed soil. malted barley, molasses and microbes. They have one more week then I want to switch to flower. But that probably won’t happen with the slow growth on some of them.

Cheers on outdoor season

i have my meters outside my tent, and they have become an indicator as to weather the tent is on or not because i dont always want to open the tent to see whats up!! This has saved me a few times already

Good day and a well day to all you garden people of SA. I wanted some variety to smoke and I thought it would be good to see how the soil works with different genetics, so I’ve decided to grow these plants in the soil mixed and partially assimilated above, now the new homes of GG #4 Sherbet crasher Animal cookies Quattro kush and one Jelly bean outside to flower i must make a note and inform all that of the 60l of soil above, +- 30 have been added so a third of used soil from the dqxslurri, The soil might need some help towards the end but in all likely hood not as the worn out soil was pretty much on balance with a lack of calcium. This was solely because I wanted a new home for all genetics, and with the short veg time the plants will do well in something less nutrient dense, however, plants would do fine in 100% concentration, but then the ideal situation would require a longer veg, which won’t be the case as we will be flipping in 2 weeks or so I let this soil sit for 2 1/2 weeks in total. the plants were needing the repot.

AntZilla going to sleep as the full moon rises on the West Coast. This little one is surely testing the elements out here. High temperature. Low to no humidity. Strong hot winds. Me forgetting to water. Only the ants feeding the soil.

Awesome, thanks for the update dude. I think that settles it, I'm gonna give it a go

So the temps are up up up the last couple of days. At least the humidity is under control. This weekend the 3 blue kings is coming down. And some unknown strain stil a couple weeks off. Also the top of a @Bay Seeds Mc purple x lemon Jedi from yonks ago flowering out and co formed female Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd like to add here as well. Growing in pots in our heat has disadvantages, you have to manage this enviroment for your plants. I believe mulching may assist your growing efforts. Its got mulitiple advantages. 5cm of grass clippings or straw will help with moisture retention as well as keeping your soil surface cool in the heat. Its essential in the hotter areas of RSA as cannabis plants has lots of fine roots near the surface. It will also benefit the micro organisms in the soil and in turn they will benefit your plants, it will also add organic matter as it breaks down and you can easily just top it up. On the north coast 30-40deg C is common in summer, some of my seedlings have burned to a crisp. I add a layer to all my pots and even my 2x growbeds and I can see the benefit just in my watering schedule.

Maybe I'm wrong about this. I just repeated a rumour I heard. Wow you seem to know my garden/genetics/conditions much better than me. My other (non-Leb) plants aren't flowering yet. Semi-autoflower plants are supposed to flower early. Who else has outdoor plants that are flowering at the wrong time of year?

@Weskush, I've come to realize that most/many modern popular strains are not pure sativa because breeders try to reduce the long flowering period. Also: Dutch Passion's website claims that Durban Poison is a "Durban X Unknown Indica". ACE seeds is a trusted breeder that has many pure sativa lines.

Sounds a lot like the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.. If the tent is closed, the lights are both on and off

Bat Quano, bone meal, Vita-fruit and flower

I have some other things I will add. You think they would better the recipe????

Greetings. I have more positive growth now!. I will insert photos with this post. Please can anyone give me thoughts on my progress. In order; A) Autocreeper 21 days from seed. C) Autocreeper 21 days from seed. D) Borderline (Photoperiod) 30 days. E) Borderline (Photoperiod) 30 days. F) Jamaica Pearl ( Photoperiod) 26 days. G) Borderline (Photoperiod) 26 days. H) Jamaica Pearl (Photoperiod) Jamaica Pearl ( Photoperiod) 26 days. I) Borderline (Photoperiod) 26 days. Some look quite good???? but some not so!. Comments welcome. I have made frame for area. 1) extra shade for those hot days and 2) Tarpaulin for heavy downpours. 3) Scrog net system to be 'laced' should any of my girls decide to grow more......................and I live in hope!.

your reply is an understatement - the plants LOVE the space and i have never grown better meds since the move to totes!

The thought has crossed my mind more than a couple times. lol, Half a tote full of soil, still have the ease of moving around conveniently, and plants go wild.

aaaaaaaay!! i saw the tote and then got excited that someones growing in totes as well!!! then i saw the next pics haha - you must really give it a try some time man!!

You can find more info here: https://www.aceseeds.org/en/libanostd.html https://www.icmag.com/forum/icmag-vendor-forums/ace-seeds/349127-lebanese

yeah I guess then make fire under them, keep reaching out and make the situation public as it is your right to do so and tag them, hopefully they have common sense. hope you don't get swindled!!

I ordered on the 23 Dec, I didn't follow up until recently to give grace for holiday period. Website had no close or reopen notice. I've sent an email in addition this morning, just a response with ETA would be fine.

These are semi-autoflowering landrace Sativas that express both THC and CBD. The semi-autoflowering trait causes them to start flowering after about 6 weeks, or if they become root bound, or if they detect that the photoperiod is shortening.

You cant cage a free spirit - (or whatever other quote is fitting for this pic)

Hello Garden folk! So I have decide to do a new and improved soil recipe that i'm going to make at home out of easy purchase ingredients. These ingredient will be in the ratio of what I believe will have really good results given the system is taken care-off, I'm typically going to put this soil in 2 x 40L pots out-doors..., I have not picked the strains yet but I know I need more soil so why not try something new. I will cut the nonsense and get straight to it. The recipe. per Cubic foot (28L of soil, might be closer to 30L but its not super precise) 5L sphagnum peat moss + 5L Coco 5l perlite + 5l vermiculite 8l Wormcasting (wermbosch) 1/4 Cup biochar 1/2 Cup alfalfa meal 1/4 Cup kelp meal 1/2 Cup calcitic lime 1/4 Cup dolomite lime 1/2 Cup gypsum standard grade (ground chunchy) 1/2 Cup Garders Gold dust gypsum 1 1/2 Cup basalt Rock Dust 1 Cup bone meal 1/2 Cup insect frass 1/4 Cup Humic acid 1/2 Cup (malted barley blended as fine as possible) 1/4 Cup Soft Rock Phosphate. This is quite a heavy mix but its what it takes to get those numbers up, so only water and inoculation will do for a while. I will be doing a check at what needs to be purchased and update accordingly, I'll be mixing about 100L which is easy enough as it will only require 1 decent size tote, I might consider splitting it up in 2 for easy of mixing and better consistency. Give me some time to get the ball rolling asseblief but I'm keen to have the soil mixed and cooking by the end of the weekend. I'm excited to have the changes made above and see how this new recipe results. LEKKE!

This is the antifragile. Suppose to be seed to flower with water only. I only fed the tea this morning. Was away for 2 weeks. They were on water only.

Yeah, the weather is brutal for sure. Your method makes perfect sense. Thanks for the input.

Those plants are flowering, because of the same reason everyones outdoor cannabis is flowering at some random time this year.

How are you liking that bat guano?

I know that stoner problem. Do the lights go on at 6 or did they go off at 6. Mmmmm? Sent from my S40 using Tapatalk

Ah yes......GROW........being the optimum word . Some of my girls look a bit iffy.

you can keep the plants in veg outdoors, put floodlights up. I see this is slowly starting to become the new norm for outdoor growers everywhere.

Yes brother. That guy is nogals a guru. Hope this file works. Safari - 15 Jan 2022 at 18:02.pdf

You guys are Disconnected the potentiometer and BOOM, back to 240W Somma took the pot off the lights on the opposite side of the tent as well. Don't use it much anyway Super stoked!! My Friday is made!! Thanks for all the help guys!!

The spirits leaving the seedlings.

faqme bru you lost seedlings you already popped? usually it's with the seed pop most people have trouble with and from there it just gets easier. can we have photos of how they looked when you discovered they where dead? this will be a tell tale to what went wrong as with seeslings there can really only be a few things that went wrong... important question here - you growing autos or photoperiods? if photoperiods I would advise to use smaller pots when popping seeds and don't saturate the medium. if autos, same pots, but don't saturate the medium. just going off photos you showed thusfar it looks like you got a 10L pot or bigger with a seedling in it and the medium looks completely saturated - this is already bad - then I see you still got a humidifier in there pushing the RH up and not allowing the pots to dry out even furthering the problem. chances of underwatering in your case is probably very slim. you say you just using buffered coco with tap water, so shouldn't be a PPM issue. and with the seedlings that young it shouldn't be a PH issue either unless you gave them straight acid. this doesn't mean you don't have to keep ph in check, especially for you growing in coco. I am leaning towards damping off the seedlings, too much water, but I really can't tell without more photos

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7 December. Since these plants are semi-autoflowering, they showed their sex quite quickly. I chose to grow out the three most vigorous females (pictured below) and placed each in a 114l smart pot. One of the females were already flowering. Two strong males were kept for seed production.

Changed the angle and added my old diy light for some extra vooma. With the temps 26/27 I am managing to get the hum to just Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Mr Bonsai going full tech! Nice work bru

Mixing very soon. better late than never

Rheg soos n rhoer my bru Just keep an eye out for those gnats while cooking. Maybe add D Earth as preventative

No camera in the veg space yet, so here’s an update Tortoni #2 and her clones Charlottes angel and her clones 3 blue kings clone happy 2 unknown revegging that just smelled amazing And some tomatoes [emoji534] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is cool, I also want to set up a camera but I'm too lazy and I need to buy one first

Btw got the temp on the vpd Calc I am subtracting 2, which seems to be easiest till I can get a lazer temp gun to find the lead temp Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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So things are almost stabilizing. Plus the bonus being 600 km away from the girls I can still take a look at them. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Temp gun next time. Currently seeing how far I can push this. The temp sensor is the little white box on the orange pot. At least now my temps won’t drop to 17 and hum hopefully far away for 70 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thanks for the input. After a long day of not focusing on work and reading g up on vpd, I came to the following experiment as I understand it. This is for the flower box, according to the charts. Early flower is 0.8-1.2. Late flower is 1.2-1.6. After lots of trial and error I managed to get the shortcuts to do the vpd calculation!! The fan heater also dries out the air, so a win win, as I usually sit 60-70. I’m a little Box the heater took it from 21&70% to 30&32%. Using the vpd calculated from current temp and hum, the fan heater kicks on when it drops to below 1 and off when it reaches 1.5. Let’s see how it goes Only problem is when to trigger the shortcut? Well I settled on a hack. As there is a small usb fan on 24/7 and the leaves move….. the camera can pick up movement as a trigger. BOOM Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk