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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!

So took the plunge and invested in a vape. After 20+ years of smoking it’s time to give the lungs a rest. After watching a lot of entry level reviews i was thinking of the gpen pro/elite or the boundless cdc 2.0. Then I went to the vape shop. Had a lekker chat and they recommended the Utillian 421 and color me impressed. Went through two bowls and what a different experience. First time trying a vape and I’m in love. Let’s see how this develops but I can see myself rolling a lot less. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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

The only information on Sativas taking longer to finish indoors than outdoors, that I could find, was that you can veg for as long as you want indoors as you control the light cycle and push it for longer than the plant would naturally outdoors following the seasons. I do however find more information supporting the stating that the more Sativa leaning the genes, the longer the plant will take to finish. I guess that statment comes from the fact that there are lists of traits that seperate and define the genetics and this happens to fall under what represents a part of a Sativa genetic. Then there's also a lot of reference to the idea that the more environmental fluctuations the longer any given plant will take to finish. Not only cannabis. What that means is that, because we control the environment when growing indoors (again, any plant) there should be less hiccups/hurdles that would cause the plant to finish earlier. No cloudy days, minimal obstructions throwing shade, minimal external factors that can cause stress such as heavy winds, extreme high/low RH, hot/dry winds suffocating the leaves, long perdiods of rain with high RH. All these things that are ever present when growing outdoors and cannot be controled will play part in extending the time the plant takes to finish.

Lekker setup there to grow some trees

Many thanks,..........I'm on the case!. Will update on progress.

These are autos that work a little different because the autoflower trait didn't come from Ruderalis. There's a layer of wood chips above the soil in all my pots. I also added a bunch of pine leaves on top of the wood chips to further increase the moisture retention in the containers. When I top-dress (e.g., guano/compost) I add that below the wood chips.

Thats pretty standard flowering times for a photoperiod. I take it that this is not a fast flowering or auto strain then? Do you leave them outside permanently or introduce a dark cycle indoors/tarp to get them to flower so early? Normally outdoor photoperiods will only start flowering round about about this time of the year.

The stretch has finished and these ladies are now between 110cm and 140cm. The pics show a broad-leaf and two narrow leaf phenos. I got some yellow leaves on the broad-leaf plant, so I top-dressed with compost and bat guano and started keeping a closer eye on the moisture levels in the smart pots. They dry out quickly when it's hot! The flowers are releasing some lovely floral notes. I pollinated a branch of flowers on each plant with the pollen from the two male Lebanese plants.

Yup, sound advice, some patience is required here , your plant has some way to go still, bonus is those buds should still fatten up nicely

Size matters.

this is a no pro's contest hahah bet we're all equally excited to see your photos man, you should defs take part

5 days in the drying cabinet and trim time. Small, dense buds. Thumb size on average. 46g thumb buds. 23g popcorn.

Some females are showing many pistils but no smell yet. The height is between 100cm and 120cm.

I remember during my second indoor grow with freedom farms I asked around what I could add to the soil, because of problems I picked up during my first run, was told to add calcitic lime - a hand full to 30L of soil, plants got fucked even worse than the first round. lol this is how we learn I guess! for now I found the best way for me to grow in their premium classic soil is straight water till they show first signs of N def then topdress with wormcastings. I only start feeding any biobizz nutes during flower.

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Haha My dumb ass saw the video on freedom farm classic and I noticed that the Calcuim was a bit low. I decided to add some greenhouse feed calcium as I had it on hand and added 15ml to my 20liter feed. My plants didn't like it at all and took a good knock luckily they recovered in time before I had to flip to flower

Cool thanks man, The mix will probably sit for about a month in the tote, Ill probably wet the mix with some microbes and molasses. Then ill let it sit in the pots outside for a while and sprout some cover crops for 2 weeks - a month, then Ill plant .

Some of the flowering girls Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Looks good man , no hectic fluctuations Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

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

Keep on keeping on. Great work.

Another condition added. Thanks Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

If you can avoid staying around 26 degrees is best to keep Terps. Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

So as things are running and getting a great idea of the conditions that hum is still a MF Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk