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These girls are really not happy with all the load shedding going on, spraying IPM about every other day now and added another extraction fan. The colour is coming back though, looking back, I think the soil would have been better suited to be re-amended before the round instead of thinking it could just be used again no problems, however the plants did get a better start in it being less nutrient rich, I co0uld have been a bit cognizant of doing regular top-dresses , so again, things I can improve on. But other than that, the buds and the frost are coming out to play. Slurrixwilson pushing the most triches, she is a stubby short and stacked lady that smells much like caramel. Crepes by lit farms is starting to get there, she stacked beautifully, sites everywhere, excited to see how she progresses GG#4 Still in the game, just like all the others, she got a solid topdress and feed, so hoping to see some solid nuggets Then the Wilsonxlotushead, very strong plant not my favourite smoke, must be super high Thc levels. gives me palpitations. Then the group PIC Have a lekke start to the weekend YO!

in the same breath, how many of us has had incredible looking weed taste like nothing or worse, taste like plastic or just not a pleasant smoke at all? I've had quite a few, not sure if the growers fuck it up, but for example, I bought into the slurricane hype when it just popped up, thought I would smoke some before growing it.... I never grew it, smoked maybe 5 different slurricanes. now I know the hype couldn't be based only on looks... cause that's all I got from it. my mind tells me out of a batch of 100 seeds you gona find between 1 and 10 favourable phenos depending on how stable the strain is. the rest is poopoo even though it still got the looks. and unfortunately that's what most of us end up with... otherwise "phenohunting" wouldn't be such a big thing.

if this helps at all, I would nudge you to decide against this. don't use synthetic nutrients with living soil. synthetics harm microbes and they're your saving grace when growing in living soil. so using synthetics defeats the purpose completely. if you wana use synthetics get yourself some buffered inert medium and you good as gold. if you wana use organics you stick with the soil you got, but change over to biobizz range. Grow, Fish & Bloom is all you need and you not even gona use it the whole grow. you sow the seed with clean water and keep giving clean water till it asks for food, cause it's living soil and packed with nutes. with synthetics in inert medium you don't have any nutes present and can't just give "clean" water, you need to PH it and try not give "clean PH" water for too long, cause there's no food so you start feeding when the first set of true leaves show. the two growing styles are very different and should be kept seperate for the best end results.

A pretty bud is a pretty bud....aesthetics are important, like on a picture for advertising, but personally...bag appeal doesn't mean much to me if I'm going to be grinding up those "beautifull" buds, because dammnn... I want to smoke those flowers.

So I kind of lost motivation after being hospitalized due to COVID last year resulting in my previous grow dying completely, but I'm down to my last few grams of OG Kush and I'm tired of friends smoking that roadside kak, so I'm finally starting another grow after almost a year Strain Girl Scout Cookies Auto https://www.nirvanashop.co.za/girl-scout-cookies-autoflower-cannabis-seeds.html Medium 2:1 FF Premium : Orgasoilux Nutrients TerraAquatica TriPart (still need to decide as its been a while since I've grown in soil) Equipment 60 x 60 x 140cm marshydro grow tent 240W Quantum Board x2 20L FF Fabric Pots Training LST Germination Started 3/06 but I can only see a tiny tap root on one seed, so I popped another and put the paper towels in a bakkie under the router.

Well, you don't want the most potent weed that taste like You got good advice there, Prom will provide you with truth, the man got all the cheat codes for this game with this discussion we can look at the whole indoor VS outdoor thing. Outdoors = You got the clouds sometimes blocking the sun, you got birds flying through the air and potentially your plants, you got higher presense of all living things, you got all kinds of dust and shit covering your plant, some days you got strong winds other days no wind.... a bunch of minor things all contributing to a generally inconsistenct growing environment. Indoors = No clouds, no birds, less insect life, less dust, wind stays the same all season through, grower gets to easily manipulate environment to suit the plants needs. This directly translates to the difference in overall quality. the reason I put the "overall" there it doesn't mean increase in potency. sometimes you can make a fuckup and end up with something more potent, tastes or looks like shit, but has higher resin production than a plant grown in favourable conditions. to understand this, you need to know why a cannabis plant produces resin in the first place. they do it as a form of protection, this is why you can see the correlation between stronger lights = better resin production and vice versa, weak lights = weak resin production. let's look at torture test, when breeding and you finally got your new strain you wana stabilise, you gona start selfing that plant to lock in desired traits and everytime you get offspring you wana find the strongest, most prolific, pest and disease resistent plant amongst the new generation so you can carry those traits through, how do you find these traits? you grow the batch in unfavourable conditions. strong winds, never IPM and leave in a high RH area to check if it catches anything unwanted, too much light intensity and then too little light, all that shit you can do to stress the plant without killing it. through this kinda experiment you'll find a plant can produce more resin when stressed just the right way, but obviously not always and more ofthen than not you fuck up the plant in many other ways. so it's like I said, you don't want the most potent that taste like shit. you want everything environmentally to be perfect so you can get the full expression of the plants potential. you want the plant to express its terpenes to its fullest, this will make your weed way more enjoyable than just focussing on the potency.

I remember buying weed from a friend he would always have a good laugh at me trying to pack all my buds nicely in the jars without damaging them, he would say "you gona smoke them before anyone gets to see them" then proceed to snap the biggest buds in small pieces and shoves it all in without care. so I just got more jars, fuck that irritated me sooo much these days it's out of the question, I got little time to waste and it's true, I smoke all my weed quicker than I can show it off or compare with friends and looks really mean so little when you start growing. I had a Sour Lemon OG by Emerald triangle, no bag appeal at all, very sativa-like looking, airy buds with a lot more sugar leaf than calyxes, not the frostiest... but for damn sure one of my more favourable smokes. got about 20g left and I am savouring it like I'll never get it again.

why under? is it too hot ontop? heat moves upwards so if you wana catch some heat off the router you gona be better off placinf it ontop, you can also place a cloth or little towel over it to trap the heat from escaping upwards. 28°C is your sweet spot.

Be carefull of cellphone apps measuring par/ ppfd or mmol/sec, they will not be accurate as they were never designed for that....period. But they might give you a ballpark figure rangewise when compared to natural "sunlight". Most of our outdoor averages around 12-16%, but last year we had one Seedsman Lemoncello Haze pheno that kicked butt at 22%.... put me flat on my ass...Genetics play a big role in potetial terpenoid levels, but you as the grower has to "enable" the potential.

Potency, like Terps, are genetics. You make it as cozy for the plant as she likes it most, she will reward you. You can be a grow guru and still not be able to turn shit into gold... the breeders give you potency level indications. GSC is in general given as 18% THC content... we even reached on one batch 18.6%. So there is also a little space upwards. Also to mention, the average potency test result in SA is 12%... what brings most people back to reality rather fast. Growing weed is one thing.. growing really potent weed needs perfection in every way. My preferred weed.. Gelato.. gets set by the Breeder at 26%.. I haven't reached that even close. 19isch I get, but 26 i am very far out.. but I creep slowly up in potency too.. learning the strain takes time. Next factor of potency is how you dry, cure and store it. Wrong way and you reduce potency. So to make it short, if you keep all parameters from Germination, Veg, Flower, Harvest, Dry procedure, Curing procedure and Storage in the green areas.. you will get rewarded with the potency the plants genetics have to offer. Anything else.. Veg to dry, flower to wet, Temps out of range (18-25 i see as sweet spot range), dry climate off, cure humidity to low or to high, ... any pest hindering the plants development, any feeding lockout or deficiency, light strength, leaf sugar content.. every factor will reduce a bit potency from the max to reach. You want max potency weed, you have to be perfect yourself.

It took me 4 grow runs to produce a Slurricane worth the name. The strain likes it a bit more humid then the average strain out there. Is no easy to grow plant.. but when you get it right.. very aromatic weed and packs a punch. Still pity the smell of the plant is nowhere near the flavor you get when smoking. Have friends calling it their preferred.. so the reputation comes from somewhere. Is very easy to ruin your weed during dry procedure.. I got last year from a trade in pack some weed, gave my Gelato. Weed looked good, smelled ok, nothing you go WOOOOW.. but smoke was bitter and rather tasteless. The guy said he has sleep issues and need some remedy. I helped.. but not sure to trade weed again Would say he harvested to early, dried to fast and didn't do any curing at all.

a good way to explain why good terpenes are just as important as good resin production is the "entourage effect" when you smoke weed you're doing thousands of things, you're experiencing smells and those smells cause chemical reactions in your brain. when you out smelling perfume or flowers with the lady, there will be certain smells that excite you certain smells that make you wana throw up, certain smells that make you think of your gran, certain smells that make you think of a time when you where a child... all these are highs that we experience from the terpene profiles that perfumes have and when we smell it, it stimulates your senses. everything has a terpene profile, "terpenes" are fancy lingo for "smells" when you get a weed that stimulates your sense of smell, taste, visual and all that fancy stuff, then you get higher off it than the dude next to you who doesn't get stimulated off those same things. and it's never just one thing. it's like a million things. to find the right one for you is the fun of it all.

Dropped the light till the ppfd showed around 650 on the PPFD Meter app I know, it's an app but it's all I've got. It's now a metre above the tops of the plants.

Thanks Prom, my knowledge is still heavily influenced by a book I bought around '95 or so: Mel Franks Growers Insiders Guide. I seem to remember him saying a perfect grow will get you maybe 10% stronger smoke than if you did an average grow so I've always gone off of that. The book is still relevant however, it's incredible how little is dedicated to curing. A few sentences really and the advice is literally: leave curing to tobacco farmers

Pumping!

Added 2 x 75w to the tent just so I can maximize my canopy looking forward to see if I can hit that 400g

awesome. thanks for the input. I don't know what half those things are or rather, I've read of them but I haven't put the time in yet. Will do that when I get a chance. Last time I grew indoors it was a 1000w hps, a single fan, no extraction just the door open, regular feed not cannabis specific, and the walls were painted black. Grew some very fine weed in those conditions. Not sexy weed but got me very caned! I wonder how much difference in potency a perfect grow makes. Terps, flavinoids etc I understand, growing conditions are essential but potency?

all good thanks, got the extraction fan arriving tomorrow so I can close the doors. doing some electrics today but other than that it's good to go. I'm looking forward to closing the doors the room is unusable with the doors open and such strong lights. I'll update soon as I have it fixed up better!