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12 June.. Autos doing what Autos do ^^

Pollination in full swing.

I like boobs. Firejuice is biological. Smells horrible. Don't be tempted to smell it, you will forever remember it. Trick your friends.

Keep me posted ^^ it sounds a bit like the promised land.. you know, boobs everywhere I only work with Fish-Mix and Bloom right now.. add molasses myself with the Amino Pro amino acids. Doesn't look to bad either ^^ Is Firejuice biological or chemical? Would love to give em a little boost now they really push flowers.

No doubt, Mr Canuk gave me the idea for a organic soil, worm castings and fertliser amendment plus water only grow... don't forget the mycorrhiza So this is what you do, you get the Organics Matter Living Soil, then you get the worm castings, Talborne vita grow and Talborne vita fruit/flower from Leroy Merlin. You mix 1/4 worm castings, 3/4 living soil, scoop of vita grow for when you transplant seedlings into their final pots, plus myco. Just add water. As you flip, you chuck in a scoop of vita fruit and a touch of vita grow on the top. Just add water until harvest. Do this and you've pretty much got a Mr Canuck style grow. In my opinion, you watch the progress of flower and maybe chuck in some additional Fire Juice or an AACT mid-flower and maybe some probiotics or Em-Pro soil throughout the grow. When my Biobizz is done, I will play with the above.

My outdoor lot really off to a slow start. Condition's not ideal but I wanted to see for myself. Will be updating that thread soon. As far as growing autoflower, this is what I've learnt planting close to 100 if not more seeds thanks to @Bay Seeds. Start with tried and tested soil. Plant 3 seeds per 10l pot. Humidity dome for the first week. Only spray for watering, no watering soil directly. Nurture those futhermuckers. Tried LST. All those plants ended up smaller than the ones left alone. Once the plant is strong enough I water maybe once a week. After a month or so I stick my finger in the soil every day to judge watering times. Occasional molasses. Male's aside I've harvested about a third of the plants. So that gives me about 30 plants that were flops. Sent from my S40 using Tapatalk

Fire Juice is Freedom Farms and Talborne you can get from Leroy Merlin. Mr Canuk uses Gaia Green products.

I have maybe one more grow left where I can still use the full Biobizz range but after that I am just going to just use the Fish Mix, Gro and Bloom with maybe the addition of some Fire Juice during flower. Then after that I am going to try the Talborne route. I think we will collectively all have a very good idea about Biobizz within the next year I rate.

I miss TopMax but what can you do if there is none ^^ Very happy when this experiment is over. Doable, but there is nothing relaxing growing that tent. Added another fan center top down.. simply needed but also a few more kwh on the bill. Had out every single plant yesterday and did a clean out again. I had a small spot on a Blue Cheese, PM, so all plants got a spray with Serenade. Should sort any further issues but I also did something I wouldn't have done otherwise, I cleaned out the lower parts, removed the weak nodes. Lets see if they show me the finger for that. Other thing I learned are the pots.. i hate them. Couldn't get my old design (why do they always swap pot design anyhow? ^^). Asked at the grow shop for 10 L square soil pots. Got handed this. The guy in the shop uses them himself, they work awesome. His words. I had the fear to have to much run off but the 2cm raise also wouldn't let em stand in the soup. Oh would I have finished the thought, wouldn't have bought those pots. As long as the soil is moist, it kinda works, but as soon as it gets rather dry.. i like to do that from time to time, those pots don't work anymore as is just way to much running through the pot. That much, that you have to feed more often in smaller steps. A lot more work.. double at least. Usually never have to clean up the tray.. with those pots i have to. The more air on the bottom was just too tempting but doesn't work once the soil is dry. Hydro setup with expanded clay pebbles i see them work perfect. Would go Fabric pots before I use those pots again.. and don't like them as you need 2 hands to handle one fabric pot. Plastic pots I can handle 1 with 1 hand. And as there is no TopMax.. very curious if I reach the desired dry amount pre square meter area. If I do.. might have wasted some money the last years the stuff isn't cheap.

Been playing with an idea I stole off ig. Plant is a mC purple x lemon Jedi was gifted by @Bay Seeds quite a while back. This is from a cutting, rooted in a pot for just over a month. Transplanted over and given another month before exposing the roots and flowered out. Skull is thanks to my 3D printer. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Both Gg#4 dried and smoked, happy with both, no massively noticeable differences, except experiment one was a bit rougher on the throat, may need to cure, also shorter high, but that could also come with longer cure. Gg #4 control So the experiment has come to an end, just cut both sugar widows and they ended with very similar structure Sugar widow control Sugar widow experiment (fed nutes) I’m most impressed with the sugar widow strain, they both stole the show out of the lot I was growing, will update with yeilds. so far it’s looking like experiment plant will be yielding higher

I don't know.. he really convinced me to try it.. just importing your own fertilizer is a freakin mission. I prefer to got to a store when i need it.

You do get N-P-K fetilisers here such as Talborne, but not in the specific ratios that Mr Canuk uses, just slightly different. I wouldn't use or even do exactly what Mr Canuk does because frankly his video editing is better than his growing.

Do you get the stuff in SA now? Checked 2 years ago into it, is the stuff MrCanuk, or how ever he is spelled, is using, or?

Thanks! Those Gaia Green products you don't get in SA?

Winter grow is smaller.. Autos don't turn into 4 meter trees. The bigger the pot, the taller the plant. If you stick to a 10L pot, the plants will hardly reach 75-90cm during summer. Winter temp/weather wise, less big anyhow. Bending the main is about as radical as LST can be done. As you do not care about canape outside, i would just LST the side nodes to have sun as much as possible without getting shade by any fan leaf. Autos you avoid removing anything... tug away the fan leaf if needed, don't remove it. Autos love no stress ^^

My intention is to do some very, very basic LST, mainly starting with the main stalk after about 3-4 weeks and bending that one down to the opposite end of where they are going to be planted, and then maybe doing a few other of the main branches depending on how it goes from there. I've read up on the method you describe as well, but this seems to be a more prevalant method with shorter, stubby plants with a thick main stem that cannot be bent. Anyway, I'll see how it goes and adjust accordingly. I want to do LST for a few reasons: a) to attempt to maximise any yield during already trying conditions b) to grow shorter, wider plants that's hopefully more inconspicuous and has a higher resistance to wind c) because it seems like a fun thing to do Absolutely, I only intend to do a few steps of it and I'm trying to keep the rest of the plan quite basic. If I've learned anything from the countless hours of videos and whatnot I've watched and stuff I've read, is to try and keep the process simple.

Depends a bit how you do your LST.. if you bend the hole plant over first, off center isn't a stupid idea.. but i usually just pull the side branches to the outside. Training is usually done to indoor plants to keep the canape even. Indoor light is not the same as the Sun, fades with distance very quick while the PAR you measure in sunlight on top or bottom plant is still the same reading. Outdoor training is done to maximize harvest, indoor training to reduce fluff buds. If is your first grow.. I wouldn't go to complicated.. the more you add to your first run.. the easier you run into a fuckup. Starting to drive with a F1 car Setup will not make your life easier as a beginner. Normal car is fine.. then add step by step more complexity to the menu. As LST says.. light STRESS training. Still stress... learn to grow the plant, autos are cool. But over all you will want to run a few photos too, so you can learn their behavior too and the combined knowledge will teach you how to grow cannabis.

Another question, is it advisable to plant slightly off centre if you intend to do some LST? I see mixed responses on the subject.

I ended up buying it and I also spoke to the company that makes this product on Friday. He suggested about 1 teaspoon. Thankfully it doesn't look like you can overdo it. Yes, based on the discussion I had with the company I bought it from, the plan is to mix a teaspoon or so into the Orgasoilux's top layer, most likely distributing most of it more or less where the seedling will go, and water about 20-25% or roughly 2l. Then let that sit for a good couple of days before planting. That way, hopefully when the seedlings reach the soil it will already have some good stuff going on and not be too harsh on them.

Thanks, I thought as much. Going to be tricky to do that on the roof. Along with the fabric pots I also bought some plastic pot raisers to prevent any water from pooling. Thanks, I still need to do a bit of reading and research on EC and what it means. I know what it stands for and what it respresents, but haven't really assembled any information on what constitutes a good or bad EC. In my case the pots are quite small (10l) and they will only really be moved to a potentially high rain area once they're about a month old, hopefully by that time the leaf coverage will be more adequate. I guess I could just make a small makeshift raincoat for the pots out of a plastic bag if it gets really hectic. Thanks, that's the plan. I aim to test a few controls as well to see how accurate it is. But at this point I will most likely use the tap water filtered through the carbon filter in the fridge.

The old lady got the chop. New batch of @Bay Seeds mixed auto's in the overnight cabinet. 7l pots this time with 3-4 seeds per pot. Almost ready to give the Anastasia 99 regular auto's a go.

@Bay Seeds mixed auto pack. Strawberry Cheesecake, Lemon Larry OG or both will forever be the question.

Ill let you in on a little bit of a secret, the best version available is gotta be Biocult Mycorrhizal from Hydroponic, it has a few specialized species that I've had my eye on for some time. I have not purchased it yet as I still have my trusty generic granular version from hydroponic. But a little fun fact, apparently people have done some microscope work on how the different grades of mycos spores populated and the powdered forms have the amazingly better hit rates. But why would that come as a surprise, we all know about surface area by now surely. Anyway its not cheap either. there are other more affordable granular version there too.

Like would this be a good option and, more importantly, enough for my 4 autos? https://www.takealot.com/plantmatter-s-myco-plantmatter-mycorrhizal-fungi-substrate-250ml/PLID70922347

Any specific version of this product you can recommend? Also, how and when is this applied?

Ok great, thanks for the tips.

Ya then poor about 2l of water through the soil, plant some cover crops while you do that. What this will do is lower CEC in the soil, like how @Naughty.Psychonaut explains if the TDS is too high it definitely wont be beneficial to start a plant in that soil. Now we know for a fact that which ever way the inconsistencies fall in Orgasoilux, none of that matters, it will always be Jam packed with nutrient, as it is a super nutrient dense soil. Now when a soil oxides, and has many nutrients, they are more pronounces, because the soil is dry. For seeds and young plants, you want to cushion the initial nutrient blow, by doing what I suggested. There are more advanced steps one can take before plant that make it even more favorable for the roots, like watering with humic and fulvic acids, they are not nutrient dense so don't think about it like food, but more like the master keys in gardening, they allow the chelation of literally hundreds of nutrients, basically enforcing everything to place nice, almost like the cops who direct traffic when the robots are broke. Then also innoculating with Mycorrhizal. This is scientifically proven to be the biggest dollar return investment a farmer can make at initial planting as the benefits are astronomical. As the roots grow a vast colony of beneficial fungi grow with it increasing root growth exponentially. Then even trace minerals can be added, but not with Orgasoilux, too much nutrient there. Just a few to mention

SlurricaneXDreamQueen: Day 60 of flower. Slightly problematic grow, but always learning. Plus I don't think it would be as exciting if I didn't fear failure.

The two bigger ones are more stable genetics the other ones are for fun all F1s this is the chemscout Sent from my SM-A528B using Tapatalk