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Can't believe Calcium sulphate aka gypsum didn't even make it in here... Calcium sulphate is a more beneficial calcium source being paired with a sulphate vs the carbonate as in eggshells It is practically pH neutral(slightly over 7), where the calcium carbonate can potentially push the pH up to 10. Plus its super abundant and really cheap. Last price I got was R400/ton or 40c a kg... Gypsum has been my go to calcium source in my soils.

@LitItGrown Ok, first, if you can state something "factually", then so can I. You are not above anyone and neither are your opinions. I also then merely stated a fact and I'll do it again - it takes longer for the egg shell to break down and it takes longer to become available to the plant even if powdered. I never said it doesn't work at all, I said the approach people take is wrong, because of where they get this information and how it's presented (half assed information coming from cocky people who think they know way more than they actually do - the same way your one liner hit) best place for egg shells is your compost heap or worm bin. and that's a fact. If you wana be smart, the smartest thing you could have said then was "oh, I didn't know that, thanks for the tip" but nooooooooo, you had to do this whole whatever thing trying to save your feelings. One thing you'll learn about me is I don't positively affirm everything to try and spare peoples feelings. It's tough love or nothing. I say shit the way it is. Second, you just opened a whole new box of frogs that I sadly wont be able to deal with. You have been wrong about a lot, but that load of you just layed out there is just.... I don't even know what to say dude... You clearly know way too much for there to be any room for any personal growth. I guess all I can say to you is - If you're doing it then you're doing it, goodluck with that some people have money to spend on school fees and never learn, the rest of us wana graduate at some point. Sorry for trying to help you dude. I wont waste my time like that again.

Your results thus far look awesome and speak for themselves. We need more South Africans involved in proper breeding....for the love of the herb not chasing $$$. (That will come in its own time.)

So we are growing again, and this is the first run in the new greenhouse from a SA company called easy greenhouse, https://easygreenhouses.co.za/ very helpful and delivery didn't take long. Still a few more tasks to tackle namely, extraction and circulation fans, but for now, we have power and spotlights for extra veg time, blumats installed and digital soil moisture meter. a few wasted days/weeks however, as the environment is still being dialed in, and so is the soil, from the colour of the cover crop and plants, the soil is in well need of nitrogen and other basic dietary needs, which I have top dressed and watered in about a week ago. Whats growing... - 1 x Chimpancheese (first plants nearest to the door) - 1 x DSCxbrucebanner - 2 x Grandpa stash (in the 20litres) - 1 x Sky stomper reg(in the 15L) there is another one but it got fried after a couple of IPM sprays - 1 x Tortoni - another 1 x DSCxbrucebanner Cheers, lets see how easy or kuck hard it could be to grow in this greenhouse. Temps and Humidity shoot to absolute extremes despite the current season, so cold and wet at night 99% humidity, but really hot, 38 sometimes 40 degrees in the day, and 20% humidity. Don't think this will be feasible during summer. However ventilation is on the cards. Whole new ball game.

I partnered up with a friend a couple years ago to start our breeding journey. While we'd both played around with some pollen chucking, with Loud Chasers we wanted to do things properly. So far we're about 2 years into the work, but we wanted to make sure we created something we felt was truly our own before selecting a male to work with for when we hit our keepers and dig into the progeny. We started the process by hitting a few of our best females with a gassy lemon OG male that had some of the most potent sisters we've come across. We then ran through about 50 beans from the resulting crosses and made two selections to take further. One was a very special Sour Power OG cut and the other Death Row, a CSI:Humboldt strain that has Black Death in it, a lesser known cuf from Bodhi. It is a selection of Sterling Skunk. Above: Death Row x Champawat #8 We then ran these two select cuts several times to get an idea of how they express in different environments. I'm now in the process of crossing another OG dominant male into the mix. I want to retain the dark hues and stank of the Death Row #8 we ended up keeping, but also add some pure OG fuel in. I don't mind doing a bit of an incross here to strengthen the OG traits. Above: Sour Power OG (CapeTownLoud Cut) In the other (SPxCH) selection we made, we're also looking to add some of the resin that the Race Fuel line tended to exhibit. We're still a good while out of our final crosses for release and stuff, but at least at this point we're quite far into finding something that feels ours. Hopefully we'll have our final stud selected in the 6 months or so.

I am so jealous of that greenhouse, I been eyeing them out for a while now, they really awesome, interesting you mention that about the heat, my plastic tunnel was like that. what you need is a door on the front and back so air can move through it

I'm done

Hahah I alluded to it here... just didn't wana complicate things for the guy too much.

Grape Diamonds - Ethos Genetics, taking her time, slowed down a bit by excessive K she seems a bit more sensetive than the rest. Platinum Silk - Inhouse Genetics, throwing a polyploidy Garlic Sherbet - Inhouse Genetics Peanutbutter Breath - Thugpug Genetics

If one reads anything about the news, corruption, we can conclude that Eskom is the cashcow for funding corruption and the "revolutionaries" lavish lifestyles. I am sorry that they are screwing the economy in its p''"s and wish one of our fake leaders had the balls to remove the well known skelms. Time to get off the grid, got two huge batteries today, and buying a new invertor on my way down to the East Coast Cannabis Cup.

Time to get rid of the ANC... they clearly have zero intentions to fix the problem.

Appreciate the love guys. Haha, didn't know that was you. But yeah man, I'm always keen to chat genetics and breeding. That's not a bad way to start the breeding journey in my opinion. For us the first step was establishing a library of females that we really loved over the years. Some of the cuts were found over 5 years ago and have kind of been waiting for their time to shine. The biggest challenge is running through enough seeds to find the things you're looking for. I used to grow 6-8 plants a run when growing for smoke, but now that I've been focusing a bit more on breeding, I'm scaling down the pot sizes and yields and focusing on just looking through as many genetics as possible. I'm fitting around 25 plants into a small tent at this point to run through, out of those there will probably be 3-4 females that get a second run from cut before narrowing down selections. For me, I love hunting through F1 and F2 populations, especially F2 for the recessive traits that become exposed, if you're able to look through enough plants to find them (or get lucky).

Following! Nice

Insipration That's a beautiful cross you made! I've been thinking in the F1 group it's almost better to end up with 1 keeper instead of a bunch. even though this means the genepool is very diverse, now you have the traits you know you wana lock in moving forward. I am at the very start of my breeding journey, been here for a while, can't seem to find a female I like enough to work with. I am also not 100% focused on it, it's been a background project for way too long now, I need to network more and get on the new stuff, I am still growing out old clones over here I got a reg pack a while back planning on just finding the best male or two in the pack so I can get do a pollen chuck or two. just to get the feeling Nice to see you posting here again bro, blast from the past! Coincidentally I was told to chat to you about breeding about a week ago by your SO on instagram, hoping this is the same person? instagram handle of the person who told me is serial puffs, you know them or am I talking to someone else right now?

very nice

Think I've beaten the worst of the early blight. Here's hoping it doesn't make a comeback anytime soon. Just finished up some LST on the plants. I would like a flat canopy as much as possible. Some plants are showing more stretch than others so some additional attention will be required to keep everything gucci. I am still watering from the top for the meantime. I want no doubt that the roots are well established before switching to the reservoir and bottom feeding. At that point I will also activate the air pump for the airdomes in the pots.

This is cool, your diaries are always amazing

I hope we not scaring you away from growing the auto's Maybe check out these guys pages @SkunkPharm @DamDave @Bay Seeds @Prom @Pants - These are just some of the people on the forum with good auto grows, Prom grows a lot from Nirvana if I'm not mistaken hopefully he has grown a few of the same strains. Defiantly check his page out