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veg tent got the same deep clean as I explain on my flower tent thread, next run is potted and ready to go 4 x Zweet Inzanity. my first time trying a monocrop. mind the scrog net

I used to also use the Sonoff switches but have since moved on to the Major Tech digital timer. Was a bit pricey to replace all the Sonoff switches but at the end of the day well worth it.

yeah, I agree, would recommend going with the battery for your fans from the start, that way you can easily plan to make accommodation for your lights aswell. if you focus on lights and go with a special timer or even a UPS just for the light you still sit with the issue of the ventilation and you wouldn't be able to accommodate that with the UPS or special timers. battery power is the future for us here in SA, generators out of the question

This covers it more or less.. you get those load shedding LED lights in the supermarkets. They turn on, when there is no power on the plug they are connected to. One of those serves easy a 1.2x1.2 area and they are 250-300 bugs, recharge once power is back. Main issue.. they don't know the Eskom schedule, so you have to set em by hand if they should turn on or not (as is dark time anyhow when Eskom shuts you down). Nothing will grow but they emit enough light to keep the light receptors happy till power is back. For stage 8 you need 2 lights you turn on when the other gets empty.. more hassle but stage 8 and ventilation is a way bigger challenge ^^ Light is cheap to bridge.. your ventilation system most likely needs 1 to several serious batteries to bridge 2-12 hours off time. Ventilations runs 24/7, way easier to sort a uninterrupted run time... just a lot more expensive to sort cost wise.

ya'll know what this means! Deeep cleaning tiiiime 1st take everything out the tent, dust down the passive vents on the outside where the dust collects. Remove the bug barrier from the inline fan, give it a good was with warm soap water. Remove the tent floor tray, give it a good wash with warm soapy water. Dust the inside of the tent out thoroughly. Once the tent floor tray is dry, put it back in the tent. Time to grab a few tools and take the fans apart. All plastic parts go in a nice soapy hotwater bath and gets a nice deep scrub. Fan motors, if you got a small dust blower / computor box cleaner / keyboard cleaner you can blow the dust out the fan motors. either way they will need a few drops of oil/lube. will help with longevity of your fans and save you money, time and headache. Once fans are good as new, put them back in the tent. Hopefully your bug barrier is dry by now, put it back over the inline fan intake. At this point everythings back in the tent, except for the light. This is when I switch on all the fans and I spray 3%H202 solution. I avoid spraying anywhere I can't wipe it down as the Peroxide will bleach or damage certain materials if left on there for too long. I make sure the tent walls are covered, before I close the tent I spray from the bottom upwards in the middle of the tent and aim at nothing so the fans can kinda blow it around and hopefully some of it gets sucked into the ducting. Wait about 10minutes, then wipe down the inside of the tent to avoid Peroxide damages. The light needs a good deep dusting on all corners and hard to reach places, as this is where unwanted pests will make their nests. Take a few earbuds, get in those areas, make sure theres no more dust. Hang the light back up and ready for the next run! wish the plants looked better, growth basically came to a complete stand still, they stopped feeding, soil stayed wet for a week did not like what I saw, did a runoff test, all the cheese plants had super low EC. waiting for soil to dry out so I can give them a nice elemental blend top dress with some mycos. they'll be good in no time thought they would be ready soon, but this is what you get for counting you chickens before they hatch, getting held back at least a week cause I wasn't paying close enough attention. this is how we learn previous batch hanging in the small storage wendy. we keep the wendy closed at all times so it's dark in there 24/7, only gets light when I open the door. sneaky peek at the Frenchy way at the back there

It's all a learning curve. Patience waiting for the correct time to plant outdoors is the name of the game. I make the mistake every year but then I'm an addict and impatient.

Been looking for a solution to this for months now. Smart home stuff is not smart enough for loadshedding unless you run your own home server. Most grow shops should have digital timers with a small battery to keep time. Work’s best imo Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Launching these beauties soon.

So been itching for an upgrade, as always. The space is coming together as some of you might know. This weekend I’m heading into the automation game. After a lot of research and being a iOS developer and Apple guy, I settled on the Aqara range for now. Got a camera+hub for R1300, temperature/humidity sensor for R350 amd switches for just over 400 each. The first 10 mins went smooth. Pairs the camera and sensor and got this with no fuss. Currently playing with Siri Shortcuts to get a historical graph. Got the sensors output to a file and into Charty, giving me this.

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

Hi, hoping a few of you pros can help me with this. I used the sonoff timer that came with my light, realized the design flaw of last state resuming and planned accordingly but made a mistake last night - loadshedding ended after 2 hours and the resume state was on when the plants should already have been sleeping. Is there a digital timer out there that is recommended? that checks the required state before turning on or off? I've looked around but can't always find if that's the case for each model. any help massively appreciated! wing

So bloody sick

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Asked an AI to generate random images of a stormtrooper smoking weed. Enjoy. These are all unique and one off's

was just gona say, a timer with a battery that keeps "real time" and doesn't stop with loadshedding will solve your problem. they're available at most hardware shops and electronic shops. quite easy to come by. however, when it comes to loadshedding you don't really have to worry about light schedule. you should be worried more about PM and keeping your fans on. when all your fans go off the RH in the grow space will spike to 80 - 100% with no wind. perfect environment for PM spores to take host. especially if you got a full tent and when you're in flower it's much more risky as buds are dense and have a lot of moisture in them already. during flower you want around 30 - 40% RH, a plant can handle a little more humidity during veg, but still shouldn't be sitting in a closed tent without ventilation for anything more than 5min at a time. otherwise you testing your luck as with PM you can never be too safe. If I had to choose one thing I need to keep running through loadshedding I would rather choose my inline fan over the light. your light schedule doesn't have to be consecutive. I thought it would be much more of a problem during flower, after 5 years or so of indoor growing I haven't had a single light schedule related issue with the whole loadshedding bullshit and I have only the cheapest analogue timers that also shuts off with loadshedding.

Shes one of the old school cheese fastbuds autoflowers we reversed. We sprayed her with sts so she produced feminzed pollen. We collect her pollen and pollinate her sister by hand with a paint brush. Its a mission to do it by hand.

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They still stretch quiet a bit after the start flowering

You can always start over dude. I actively mess up all the time, this one's not even really on you! Luckily a new start is only a pop of a seed away. Could even source a clone!

slow and steady

So the dungeon is fighting through winter. Cuttings are struggling to root, unsurprisingly. Currently some more @Bay Seeds Vostok x Fastbuds Pineapple Express finishing up One Forbidden candy trying to get cuttings off before flipping And last of the Mc purple x lemon Jedi @Bay Seeds gifted ages ago starting week 8 of flower Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

almost 2 weeks later, they got real bushy so I did a deep defoliation, I didn't like the way the net was working for now, so I raised it back up and put some clipties around the rim of the pot. they should be ready to flip in about 3 weeks.

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

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

Which doffus told you to use Up or Down on your organic feeding? You turn it into chemical feeding with a single drop of those chemicals. Use biological Up/ Down, like Lemon juice/vinegar and liquid lime stone. But once more, if you run organic in soil, you can skip the pH hassle, not needed at all. As long as you use rain water, you are good. Moment you use tap water, you run chemical again.

another week later still just running on clean water. though next watering will be second microbe inoculation and first feed of 0.5ml/L biogrow, the biogrow is not to exactly meant to feed the plant here, more of a source of food for the microbes as it has molasses in it with a bunch of other goodies for the microbes to snack on while they find their new homes in the rhizosphere. also slapped down the scroggy so I can play with them, can always move the net, I just find it easier and less time consuming than taking each individual plant out for LST.

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.

I lost room 2, and had to start again. Will be posting here again soon, thank you all.

Welcome! The forum is a great place for the local growers to gather, collect and share knowledge, so you came to the right place is there something specific you would like some guidance and adivce about right now? sheeeeeeeeesh, 25 elvis plants?? that's quite a big grow! I grew an Elvis pheno once, looking to grow it again if the pheno is the same as the one I had! here's the pheno I had how big is the setup you're doing this in and how big do you let the plants get?

Defoling here and there where I see fit, switched to full bloom nute strength and on with red spectrum.

Flipped 2022/02/28

I think GHTech has a ware house in Jhb as well. R405 for 200l

There is other options. Klassmann-Deilmann makes a variety of products that normal nurseries use. But the grow shops do not stock these products as it is expensive as it is imported from Europe and not the Far East. They make a Plug Mix that nurseries use to start seeds in. they also make specific products to start cuts in. They are all pre fertilised and pH6 so you only need to water for the first 2-3 weeks. Problem with this is they only come in 200l bags. So you have to be quite a big grower to use that much. I would like to see how Cannabis plants do in these mixes. Especially grown with salts.

A week update, growth is exploding.

So the chop today. Must say this is the biggest plant I’ve grown in my little space so far and smelling sooooo sweet Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

@donnob @Naughty.Psychonaut I Contacted @Light It Up, they have send me and email with all the information I need. I will probably start with 2 to 3 lights. I am just going to grow 4 auto flowers for now. I don't want to get a bigger tent later, I will rather add extra lights. Thanks

Just wanted to give some input here, as there's a lot of misinformation about Hitler and a lot of it is still kept very close to the circle that it originated from. I want to share some information without pissing anybody off, because the reality is that the grower who supplied most of the country doesn't want the lineage out there, understandably so, sometimes these things are worth holding close. But the short of it, is that it's likely a clone-only pheno which is held by a couple of people at most. There's been a lot of fake Hitler cuts sold and some people are still convinced they have it when they don't. I've handled a fair bit of Hitler through friends who were getting supply directly from the grower for bulk resale, and it's quite a unique flower that is easy to identify, both visually and just by the taste profile. Having smoked a 20+ grams myself, I can't say there's anything in there to suggest Cheese. Structurally, the bud resembles a lot of OG cuts, and I'd venture to guess that it's an OG hybrid. The terpenes also seem to suggest it with earthy, lime, gassy notes mostly prevalent. Again, structurally it looks a lot like OG, or even perhaps an OG x Cookies cut as there is a resemblance to some Animal Cookies phenos, and the level of trichome coverage and smaller nug size is a little atypical for most OG cuts. A buddy moved several hundred Gs of it also seemed to think it was likely an OG dominant cut as well. Smoking some Hitler hash rosin from the grower, it also seemed to carry those same muted, earthy, lime notes. Again, I've heard at least 10 versions of what Hitler is. But I think there's probably only a handful of people that know the answer to that. This type of thing is common in America, where cuts are found from seed and then renamed for marketing purposes and also sometimes to conceal lineage. Once lineage is out there, others can try and refind the pheno and take a chunk of the market for themselves. So the way Hitler was handled, was definitely very smart from a business sense. But also incredibly frustrating for those of us who love digging into lines and seeing which traits come from where. Here's an image of one of the first batches of Hitler that hit the market here around Cape Town circa late 2018 / early 2019. Just to close, I'm no authority on the details of Hitler and I respect the desire for the lineage to remain hidden, but these are just my thoughts from smoking a fair bit of it.

So the bitch hermied.. It's a bit disappointing but relieved it happened now and not later in flower..

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

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Update, I harvested a few plants, and put some from room 2 into flower, and potted up the next batch to go out soon. When I'm finished harvest next week, the 2 remaining will go to flower, and then I will plant the seeds for the next run. Starting a grow report and log of sorts. New layout of flowering plants Things are getting a lot more organized, and moving forward. Thank you

Howzit 420SA Our ''unintended'' grow is doing great. We're enjoying the varieties (who doesnt)and learning about this awesome plant, how to grow it well and the organics that make everything tick. The happy forest. 1. Swazi ladies. Looks like 2 pheno's? 2. Three big girls 3/4/5/6. Non comp Choco ladies getting dank and sticky. Terps are awesome despite their size. (They remained very short and bushy ) Ignore the thrip tracks pls. 7/8. Longest vegging Cheese auto's. 9/10. WW x Cheese lady doing her thing. Very hardy, drought resistant plant. (May have some plans for her.) 11/12. Revegging magic. 13. My Mango kush x Swazi F3's for futher breeding. Been redubbed ''Fruit Punch'' for all the best reasons. Cheers