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I can share it here in the forum but I’m not really looking to start a seedbank. I just feel we have to preserve what we have. And not spend our hard earned cash on expensive seeds.

Greetings everyone ! - I know this topic has been posted before but I have felt like reviving it. Please note any book related to cannabis goes (growing, breeding, extracts, cooking, soil management) ! I'm actually trying to find something other than your average all in one grow bible if that makes sense articles are also welcome ! There are a lot of books I can't think of right now but I'll start off with: Marijuana Botany: An Advanced Study: The Propagation and Breeding of Distinctive Cannabis by Robert Connell Clarke Cannabis: Evolution and Ethnobotany by Mark Merlin and R. C. Clarke Hemp Diseases and Pests: Management and Biological Control: An Advanced Treatise by J. M. McPartland & R. C. Clarke & D. P. Watson

True living Organics was one of the first books I read when I went down the rabbit hole. Then all the Teaming books by Jeff Lowenfels. The other book that keeps eluding me is Science and Agriculture.

This was a quick last minute call, had to be done, the sprayer that hooks up to the tracktor just stopped working bla bla bla ...long story short, a moerse drone was used to spray about 4ha of wheat. this was more of a selective herbicide to kill the canola in between. the chemical consultant worked out a recipe, we got all the products from PW Lanboudienste, the drone guy owns the thing himself and does up to 30ha on a day if things run smoothe so this was small job for him. the runs on batteries, it lifts up to 65kg, the tank for whatever you're spraying takes 30L. Here you can just about make out the mist it makes. the spot below it that looks like it's being pressed down is the spot being treated. takes longer for the computer to map the spray area than for it to actually spray the area. what a treat it was to watch this thing fly around! hope you all having a lekker week so far!

Some of my projects dont always go as planned, but still stuck on the chillie plan. Seems to be going well.

I will contact you when they have rooted. Made an extra cut. But still have the mother.

This is actually the big Buddha that won the Betty boob cup a couple of years ago. The Exo is the cape town Exo and the super cheese is the 20 year old cut. This is a preservation project. Gonna hit all of them with a stankonya male from fresh coast seedco. Which is a GMO x Secret Cheese. GMO is Chemdog x GSC. Not really for growing this for flower it is basically a side project. Preservation of seeds we want more off and then I got sidetracked and got all the cheese I could get my hands on. I have made cuts if you want.

Some more cuts made there way into the tent. I don’t know how this happens all the time. Big Buddha Cheese Exo Cheese chimpancheese super cheeese Rainbow belts karels dank Black cherry gas any way I am going to stop soon I am sure.

You got no hanging instructions with the light?

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.

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.

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.

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