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Hi All, Been lurking the forums for about 6 months now, I'm new to growing and it is fast becoming an absolute passion. I'm very much interested the organic growing and the soil science which goes along with it. I'm 38, and to pays the bills, I am a business owner in the cloud and hosting space, but my passion is definitely in cannabis and the recreational industry of it as a whole. As I grow I learn and I would love to share some of these random things I discovered along the way and maybe they can help someone: - Powdery Mildew, I would swear this stuff is released by governments in mass quantities to prevent people from growing weed (Davespiracy #347). I have tried every single known treatment from milk to commercially produced Powdery Mildew sprays, and of course this damn ironman mutated powdery mildew just laughs at it like you spraying Axe deodorant. I have finally found a solution that works and works really well. This being potassium bicarbonate with a wetting agent. Potassium Bicarbonate kills the powdery mildew pretty quickly with the bonus of the potassium being absorbed by the plant as a nutrient. Pick up some Potassium Bicarbonate (https://homegrodepot.co.za/products/potassium-bicarbonate) and the Wetting agent (https://homegrodepot.co.za/products/jadam-wetting-agent) (or you can make your own). Mix 3g of potassium bicarbonate into some dechlorinated water and add 2ml /1L of wetting agent. Mix it all together and put it in a spray bottle. You will need to spray down your plants either just before sundown or when your lights are going to be turning off in your tent. You basically want to spray the plants and then let them dry in the dark. otherwise you will get leaf burn. You can also use this without the wetting agent (you shouldn't use the wetting agent from 30 days prior to harvest, well you can if you just targeting specific leaves). I use this weekly now as an IPM, and the plants seem to love it. If you have a really bad infestation and you at the point of throwing your plant away, Use 5g potassium bicarbonate / 1L water and add 30ml wetting agent. Spray your plant down entirely and drench the mildew, leave your plant in low light for 24 hours, then take your plant outside and hose it down with a hosepipe and use a sponge to wipe down all the leaves. Sure you will end up with a bit of burn on the edges on your leaves, but I have successfully brought 3 plants back from the edge using this extreme method and managed to completely eradicate the PM on the plants (they now flowering beautifully). That's my introduction -Dave

#1 old school cheese autoflower from fastbuds reversal. Almost ready to drop pollen. #2 old school cheese auto, waiting to get pollinated.

As mentioned before... PM is a climate thing. Those spores are EVERYWHERE.. really.. everywhere ^^ They only get active in certain climate situations. 18-24 degrees warm and 68-80% humidity. You have that, spores will bloom and once it grows it becomes more resistant and can endure more temp range and humidity range. During Veg i use copper soap and during flower you shouldn't go over 50% humidity.. ergo, you handle your tent climate well, PM should not be any issue at all. If you run into PM in regular intervals, you might want to increase drastically your tent ventilation. Eskom is the biggest challenge in that regard. If you can't fully backup your tent ventilation.. not sure you should start. Light is easy to backup with those cheap LED lights from PnP ^^ you just have to set em right by hand.

Welcome @DesignatedDave I use KHCO3 too, love it, but for a long time Neem kept me safe. always good to spray more than one product over long periods of time so the PM in your area don't get time to build immunity to what it is you spraying. stick with spraying only the KHNO3 for long enough you'll have the same problem. for indoor growers maintaining low RH with adequate FAE and constant air movement also helps a lot with PM. if you work with plants or in a garden a lot, also good to change clothes or even take a shower before visiting the tent. a lot of stuff present in our indoor gardens is stuff we bring there ourselves. Excited to see what you do!!

I think PM took over your introduction lol. But welcome, I like soil too

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Nice one man, thanks for the share, those grow lights must have surely seen some grows bro! Share a grow with us, Start a grow diary, lets see them girls!

So on the Alibaba thing, I happened to get all my grow lights from aliexpress there: Samsung LM281B+ LED's - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002970983869.html - I looked at the 150w lights for my Greenhouse for supplemental lighting, their design allows a lot of sunlight through for during the day. Samsung LM282B, Epistar 660nm IR UV LED's - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003274332963.html - dimable 240w, meanwell driver per light at ~R2900 scalable to 1000w. Samsung LM301H, Epistar 660nm IR UV LED's - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002547349143.html - same of the unit above, except with the LM301H LED's ~R3550. Then my lovely babies in my 1.2m tents - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003491913131.html - The 8 bar, 800w (640w actual usage) with separate Spectrum and IR/UV dimmers. I have not had one single issue with any of the above items I've ordered and all have arrived in about a week with Fedex or DHL delivery. The import duties on these are absolutely minimal, I think the most I paid on the 8bar light was about ~R300 -Dave P.S> apologies if this might seem a bit spammy for my first post, but I been lurking anonymous on these forums for about 6 months now and felt it time to share some info.

Week 3 update and the ladies are starting to pick up. Struggling abit with humidity so plants aren't peaking how I like but not looking too bad either. 2nd Pic is Beach Wedding, 3rd is Gelato 33 and 4th Tart Pops x Slurricake.

Awesome goodies on their website! Got my Santa Cruz hemp shredder from them. Speedy delivery aswell.

woah!!! also very excited to see what you been doing with those grow lights!!!

Lol don't wana say too much.....

Put most the plants out and let the cold clean the pests. Looking like a working concept. Must suck a lot to come from a cost 18-24 degrees to a nasty 7.. and the ass even sprayed the leaves with water before vaporization chill FTW. My auto tent turned out a disaster ^^ my clone tent delivered weed in quality i never managed before... those swings.. not even sure I am mad about the loss of the auto tent.. the clone tent made up in quality.. not quantity. shut down will be no option. I have to retry that to get the 2kg I need to make a break... gosh.. i smoke to much

Fighting the good fight here, these genetics are proving to be worth it, the crepes is doing things I haven't seen very often. However its actually been on the backfoot in terms of having all the nutrition, normal light hours, and proper ventilation during load shedding, will be sorting them out tomorrow with a solution thankfully. And obviously the uphill PM battle as a result, but honestly. I have the best luck with pyrol, at 20ml p/l, every other day or so, dim the lights at lights on and leave them to dry for about 30mins - 1hr. Then lights back on, being very careful not to spray buds. Just zapping the spots I can see. However it is expected, the tent is crowded a bit. Goodluck with this waVy electrics growers

cold weather can really slow things down hey, plants taking much longer to suck the soil dry so probably very little root activity going on right now.

Slowly but surely things are creeping in the cold, not much growth, but some changes I have decided to drop the Frosted Apricot, only exciting thing about my pheno is the way it looks. maybe I should try a different pheno, but since I got a heap of genetics to test out I grabbed the "next in line" trying to get 3 or 4 keepers out the bunch and drop the rest to make space for some seed batch pheno hunting. swopped the FA out with a Pineapple Chunk

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

Week 2 done and the canopy is thick! The beach wedding at the back stretched the most the others not too far behind. With loadshedding my main concern is airflow so got this rechargeable fan/light from game I keep it plugged in with a phone charger and the battery keeps going when the electricity is out so atleast I have some airflow, will look to add another one soon.

You can get some potassium bicarbonate and jadam wetting agent from pappajshop or follow the link. https://www.totemic.co.za/product-category/grow-essentials/