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EMS-240 - @200W | 80cm tent. Crazy Haze: Flower Day 65. Totemic - Sugar Widow: Veg.

Yeah, that seems a little crazy.

I like the NutriGold nutrients, they work well, This Gold Label nutrients caught my interest, I'm using their coco 70/30 grow medium which is Kiwa certified and from what I understand, their main market is medical cannabis facilities and are branching more consumer stuff. If you go through their bottles, its interesting that they include additional things like Silicon, Amino acids, Aloe Vera, Enzymes to break down dead root mass into nutrients, etc. It seems like a lot of R&D has gone into this nutrient bundle and I'm really keen to see the results of them. I buy a lot of stuff from GreenThumb on a monthly basis, It would be amazing if they could start stocking these Gold Label nutrients. Currently its being sold by 1 grow shop (Canna Kingdom @ Hillfox Shopping Center, JHB) and because of that, I believe it's marked up rather high.

Dear Diary, It's been almost a month since I last posted and a lot has happened and changed. About a week after I my last post, my indoor plants took a dive, they yellowed out on the new growth like an iron lockout from a PH issue. Considering these plants were 100% until I went and spent 4 days in cape town and forgot to open the reservoir tap before leaving. That coupled with a 36 hour power outage, a heatwave, 7000+ PPM of co2 and these were screwed. I initially I thought I could save them, but their growth was becoming deformed and I wasn't in the mood for a warped difficult grow, so I decided to trash the entire indoor grow and buy new clones and start over. So now we have a full ripper seeds grow: 2x Criminal+ (Critical cheese) 2x Gelato x Kmints x Runtz 2x Zombie Bride (Wedding Cake x Zombie Kush) 2x UK Cheese x Zombie Kush I also decided to switch out my nutrients from Nutriplex (NutriGold) to trying the Gold Label CoCo Nutrients with their Stimulators & Boosters - https://goldlabel.nl/nutrients/ - (I get that it's all just NPK `n shit, but lets give it a run and see, since I don't think there is anyone on this Forum running these nutrients). I acquired the clones on the 7th November and these are how they are looking today on the Gold Label Nutrients: Then on the Organic Outdoor side - these plants have been going great and getting big, I am considering changing their pots to 48L pots. I did a defoliation last Saturday and they seem to have recovered nicely. Still feeding them Biobizz Fish-mix, Calmag, Molasses, Enzymes. Blueberry Sunset Chempie x Purple Punch Zombie Kush that's it for now.

Dear Diary, Today I decided to finally start this diary and share my growing with other community members. This diary will cover my indoor and outdoor growing, but lets start with the Indoor Grow Room. After much effort and time I finally finished off my indoor grow room: You can see the full YouTube video tour of my Grow Room HERE To explain what you are seeing here: The space itself inside is about 3.2m x 3.2m x 2.3m high. All walls have been covered in Diamond Mylar and sealed with Aluminum ducting tape. I'm using the tent pole frames of two 1.2m x 1.2m grow tents. In the far back corner, I have a 12000BTU aircon connected to a Inkbird ITC-308 Wifi unit and vented through the ceiling. This unit controls the aircon based on the temperature under the lights, It's set for 25 degrees as optimal. When it reaches 29 degrees, it turns on the aircon and brings the temperature back down to 25 degrees. This leaves me with average temperature of about 27 degrees on the leaf surface. On the back left, I have a GMC Air Purifier with a medical grade HEPA filter, this is used to filter the air on the Grow room and remove things like Powdery Mildew spores. It can cycles the rooms air one every 30 minutes or so. How much of a difference this is actually going to make in the room is still questionable, but I'm trying it out. In between the grow lights hangs three senses. One for the Temp / Humidity sensor on top of the first light ballast. The 2nd sensor is for the Inkbird controlling the aircon. The 3rd is a Inkbird IBS-TH3 Wifi provides me with the temperature and humidity readings on my cellphone with reporting. For this grow, I bought myself some Sunplus Sundro 700W lights (https://plantliving.co.za/products/700w-led-grow-light-lm301h-8-bar-quantum-with-uv-ir-sunplus-sundro), these are connected together and linked to the Touch Screen LED master controller (https://plantliving.co.za/products/sunplus-master-led-controller-touch-screen). These lights run their Blue, Red/Far Red and UV on 3 different channels so they can be controlled individually.. from the touch screen... Like Sunset and Sunrise... this shit is like cool. Currently the plants are vegging under 70% blue, 20% red, 20% UV for 18 hours a day. Using 3 Wild Spirit CO2 bags, the keeps the CO2 around 2000ppm for the most part of the day. However when the Air conditioner kicks in, it extracts a lot of air from the room, lowering the CO2. I'm not to sure how to get around this since a wall mount split aircon can't be connected the Inkbird Wifi controller. Any suggestions welcome? The 8 plants are using the Autopot system and are Feeding off an 85L reservoir sitting in the front of the room. The grow room is connected up to a 3kVa Inverter connected to a 4x massive battery UPS . The exception to this being the Aircon and Air Purifier which are on normal power. When there is load shedding, I drop my lights to use 15% power (Well I press the "Cloudy" button on the touch screen controller, fucking worth every cent yoh). The UPS can hold the grow room like this, my Internet, PC and girlfriends PC for about 2h30m. If its a 4 hour load shed during the day, I can remove the towl from the window and get sunshine into the room which provides more than enough light. As for the indoor plants themselves, these are all clones from cannaclones.co.za and we: 2x Terple - InHouse Genetics 2x Zweety Inzanity - Ethos Genetics 2x Critical Cheese - Unknown 2x Dozi Killer - Jungle Boys Genetics I'm currently feeding these plants NutriGold (Nutriplex) hydroponic nutrients, with Silicon, Calmag and Fulvic Acid and the plants are planted in the Atami High Porosity Coco. Then for my Outdoor Grow for this year, so far we have: 2x Planet of the Grapes - Ethos Genetics 2x Mandarin Cookies v2 - Ethos Genetics 2x Blueberry Sunset - Unknown 1x Chempie x Purple Punch - Ripper Seed Genetics 1x Zombie Kush - Ripper Seed Genetics These little guys are planted in freedom farms green bag and chomping on Biobizz fish-mix for the moment. They spending the day in the Sun currently and the evening/night in the Tent to make up the 18hours of light. In November, I will plant them out into their 25L/30L pots using the Freedom Farms Green Bag amended with the Elemental Blend from Dirty hands. From here they will spend 100% of their time outside. I will be using a combination of Biobizz and Dirty Hand liquid nutrients, alone with some top soil amendments, Bio Boosters and all the Organic goodness you could ask for from an Outdoor grow. Well that's it for now, I will update again once I have some more content, let me know if you have any questions.

That would be awesome because the full set of bottles for "maximise growth" comes to about R6000 for the set (From Canna Kingdom), While I understand this was R&D'd for medical grade cannabis, I don't believe it should be that expensive (or maybe I'm wrong, but everything in their shop is marked up crazy... their pre-rolled joints are good though).

Interesting. Thanks for that feedback Dave. I'm going to see what can be done about Goldlabel nutrients. My biggest concern would be DAFF registration. It's a bit of a bitch to get done, and can take as long as 18 months. I'm keen to see the progress of your grow my man.

Fantastic setup Dave. A pity about the earlier cock up, but life happens. I'm also using NutriGold and calmag.

Hi there! I'm new here! I'm Jo, and this is my grow. I grow indoor, in soil, and lighting setup consists of 3x Citizen CLU048 and 1x Cree CXB3590. I hope to learn and share in this forum, and also super keen meet some of the awesome and talented growers in SA Video updates on my grows are on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClLQh2cKB2R/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Yo, thanks for the kind words mate, much much much appreciated! I know, I love training too, just have to dial it back a few notches! I just get carried away sometimes, especially if it's been a rough day. If you know what I mean. Yea, clones weren't very happy from the start either, they were close to death at one point. Just have to dust myself off. Going to try setup/ghetto fix the 80cm with the broken zipper, and use as veg or a perpetual auto grow.

Training is so therapeutic though.. and your canopy building is excellent. We have had a rather wicked humid summer so just a bit of bad luck. You still own every inch of space in the tent and that's commendable. Keep on trucking bro.

60cm tent. Crazy Haze: Flower Day 55. Oh yay...bud rot. Going to have to stay vigilant til harvest. Yes, it's my fault, I'm guilty. Buds all mashed together because I'm a serial trainer apparently.

80cm tent. Flower Day 46: OG Mandarin Cookies, Frozen Fuel PH5, Ginger Tea. Looking like a Frankenstein situation over here. I really trained them to death, then had to defol like crazy, such a shame. Note taken! Hopefully get a few good nugs out of it if I'm lucky. Heck, maybe they'll improve a bit by harvest time. Found a small spot of bud rot in the Crazy Haze earlier, smdh, I feel like I have to apologise to the herb gods for multiple counts of aggravated HST/ Training with intent to harm. Just have to stay vigilant. Will leave fans on high, Eskom willing.