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Harvested, trimmed and weighed. No smoke report yet will be running all these again, not happy with my trip up right before the finish line. Grape Diamonds Ethos Genetics DaggaFarmacy cut, terrible expression due to my fuckup so not best representation of this pheno. will try again. Heavy grape terps coming through still, straight grape no other smells, love it! 90g buds in jars about 15g popcorn along with the sugar leaves in the hashbags. Platinum Silk Inhouse genetics cut from a friend, bud in the photo is the polyploid mentioned earlier. same story, not satisfied with expression. will try again, fun thing about photos you can run that exact pheno again. Chem terps, kinda gross how much like actual glue this shit smells, sticks to your fingers all day gona be a hard hitter. 88g in jars and also about 15g popcorns. chek the alien bud lol Peanutbutter Breath ThugPug Genetics DaggaFarmacy cut. This is a keeper, anyone getting clones from DF do yourself a favour and try their PBB. haven't smoked it yet and can already tell it's a keeper. It's got ALL the terps, it just smells like straight up DANK weed. Got savoury notes, fruity notes, gassy/chem notes.... really hard to describe this deep rich terp that makes me high just smelling it. smaller yielder, but makes up in terps 75g buds in jars and no pop corns The winner for this round - Garlic Sherbet Inhouse Genetics cut from a friend. Name makes the terp clear, candy garlic and it's very clear hahahah stink up your whole house offensive smell but you wana keep smelling it! She was the smallest plant of the bunch with only about 5 main colas, but she made some heavy rock solid buds. had I vegged her for longer and given her more space she will knock the PBB yield way out the park, cause with only 5 main colas she gave me 68g, no popcorns. Group photo Next round is in Forbidos Inhouse Genetics Dagga Farmacy cut. Forbidden Fruits x Dosidos. tent is on 18/6 till she fills the space then flip. 1 plant 60L pot. first time I do avo tech cause I got worms, spring tails and isopods moving around and I believe the pot is big enough to play around like this. Soil treated over a long period of time with all kinds of SST, LABs, FPJ and AACT. mixed with my own worm castings and jamies elemental blend that's it for now blessed week for all, smoking more helps to stay warm

damn more than half a year, a lot has changed... since building my own soil and moving away from bottled nutes things have been looking different. got a small batch of 5 different phenos of the Strawberry Sugarcookie by our local master @Totemic will be cloning them all, looking for the best out the bunch, after this gona dig to find a good male to knock up a lady with. time to start crossing, also got sts long time ago to do some reversing, gotta pull my socks up and get busy! plant is about 30 to 45cm high and throwing leaves bigger than my hand. one finger one one of the girls leaves made a duck foot, not the whole leaf, just one finger bottom left finger

Howzit everyone, I'm Ky, an experienced Horticulturist from the Ornamental Green Industry since 2014 I'm very excited to be on a local forum, and hope I'll be able to learn plenty from fellow growers I've only been growing Cannabis since December 2021, mainly for research purposes, and inevitably I became captivated by this fascinating genus! I've managed to grow a couple proper harvests and have been hired to apply my expertise at my place of work, which is pretty aweskme! I'm hoping to bring something of value to the table when it comes to the local scene, or at least gain awesome plant knowledge that I can use on my botanical collection! And, of course, I am eager to make a couple friends along the way!

So the girls got the chop. Nice dense nugies with a awesome terpene on all three. The Boo Berry I must say has a very sweet terp. Sweetest I have ever encountered. A definite keeper. I would say about a 20g dry per plant. Was a joy..

You are correct. In fact I am not sure how I have gotten away this far with the bottom feeding autopots with no runoff. Maybe because there is no excess at all due to each pot being independently regulated so each pot only gets as much as that specific plant needs. I also have oxygen pumped to the bottom of each pot so it doesn't really just "sit" in the nutrient feed. I also agree that the medium should remain relatively moist for coco/hydro growing. I've managed to finally get that right with the autopots by developing the root system substantially before switching to the reservoir for the bottom feeding. It causes a wicking effect which draws moisture all the way from the bottom to up the pot. I will say though, reusing the medium was a major fail last time I did it, most likely because of the salt buildup.

One more pic before she gets the chop. Choc gelato from @Totemic your genetics are always phenomenal Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Just note - the most important roots sit right under the surface of the topsoil, the "feeder roots" as they are called do most of the nutrient uptake and should be more active in a cultivation setup for production purposes, roots that go downward are "drinker roots", plants will still grow but nutrient uptake is less. for synthetic growers it's advised to keep the whole soil media moist at all times, it dries much much faster than soil and if you got an active plant you'll have to water a lot more frequent than organic growers, but to avoid salt build up from residual unused nutrients drying up and turning back to salt around the roots. (salt build up = root burn) you need runoff to flow away when feeding synthetics cause everytime you feed the old nutrients should be flushed out and replaced with new. not sure how the bottom feeding works with this, cause it's kinda how the ebb n flow setups work, flood and drain.... but the thing there is that it drains, the plants soak up what they can and the rest gets drained, it doesn't stand in it. if you look at the professionals who grow with salt in rockwool cubes you'll see they cover that cube as much as possible to keep it from drying out at all. only the bottoms of the cubes are exposed to do the soaking up and then the rest drains away. I know mr.Third Evan the master grows with salt, maybe he can confirm this or tell me how far off I am. either way I know that a big factor to using synthetics is auto drip and watering systems that'll go rancid with organics, but auto watering system will make it that much easier to avhieve perfect moisture levels. organic media dries out slower than hydro media, but for organic growers it's a must to not let the topsoil dry out at all, so we mulch and cover crop and what not, cause the most important part of the plants rhizosphere is the finer feeder roots. that's where all the action is, we topdress and most living organisms thrive there cause of all the organic material and the desired balance between oxygen and moisture, and because oxygen is just as important to the roots as water we can't saturate the media each time or it'll sit in stagnant water, suffocate and cause other root problems. so what we do it water juuust enough to actually keep just the top soil moist, (almost the same way a drip irrigation system works for synthetic setups) what amount of water goes to the bottom of the pot is enough for the drinker roots. and this way we don't flush any life out of the soil.

Welcome Ky, please share more about your experiences… you sound like you have quite a bit of valuable information and if you have plants growing start a grow diary

Nice mulch

I think most important part of breeding with autos is knowing how stable the parents are. just remember F1 = highest number of recessive genetics. F2 = fewer recessive genetics F3 = even fewer recessive genetics It's only really when reaching F5 where you lock in traits, or you gotta select the chosen one and BX it to lock traits. recessive genetics can come from anywhere up the lineage, could be parents of the parents' parents genetics coming through here. The parents, where they stable or also just F1's? breeding with F1's is almost the same as pollen chucking cause you not really working with genetics that's been "worked" or "stabilised" so the genetic pool you unlock is vast.

The symptoms I observe is, stems going purple, very short stumpy new growth with lots of side branching. This is read as stress from my end, seems to be attempting to create more shade for itself. This is confirmed for me as I have twice tried to run all light on, which results in above observations. To be honest I corrected the issue with Epsom salt and less light, and above update does unfortunately only flex the healthy part. Should have documented the stress response and how I corrected it as it may help future readers. Will be sure to document it this time as I'm about to start running all light again, just needed plant to recover al look 100%

But my one was a lot more sativa looking with thin leaves. Thinnest of about 20 I’ve grown out so far Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I am wondering if the autoflower gene could be missed in some plants. The one I had that went about 7 weeks without showing did flip when I changed light to 12/12 with my photos. Would think the gene should be locked it as both parents were auto. Keep it going and let’s see. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Preferably with a chelate solution like FlashKleen. Do until runoff shows low enough EC. I'd recommend adding a little fresh coco anyways though if reusing.

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Would a Blumat work in this case? I figured that just like with autopots it would then be better to have clones, rather than different seeds/phenos, as they all have different nutrient needs. The appeal of convenience is there, having a constant moisture kept in my coco so the top doesn't dry out. But I wonder whether the synthetic nutrients I use would cause a salt buildup overtime in the Blumats, or if it would even work considering I'd need to make one feed that would feed 6 plants with different needs. When a grow is done, should you rinse heavily with just balanced water to clear out the coco of any residual salt buildup? That makes sense, but then I imagine you would also need to buffer it again (with calmag) before starting the next grow.

Hello Ganja Gurus Thank you for taking your time to read this! One of my auto fems didn't pop, so in order to replace it I managed to get my hands on a sick little bean (Bay Seeds Vostok and Fastbuds Pineapple Express ) made by our very own @Pants Tis indeed a regular seed, and as a newbie for the life of me I can't figure out whether its shown its sex or not. It is Day 36 (Week 5) and all my other plants the same age have shown pistils. This one doesn't scream male or female to me. No pistils, but no little balls starting anywhere. Late bloomer? Any help would be appreciated!

Thank you for your responses and feedback! @Naughty.Psychonaut Your insight is always great to read! My choice to use synthetic nutes stemmed from two things. 1.) I got them for free with my setup 2.) My entire plan was to follow along the week by week guide from SeedToStoned he has here, and that is what he used. If you have time, check it out. His run seemed to go incredibly well, but he is far more experienced. He grew Amnesia Haze and Critical Plus 2.0 Autos in this run, which is pretty much identical to what I have (Copied him for a reason). He also skips the TriPart Grow in this run. I think that may have saved me because I have no idea what the PPM of my tap water is, and adding grow may have caused it to be too high and cause lockout. Coincidentally, the guy I got my setup from followed the exact same guide, from the exact same YouTuber xD Hence only the CalMag, Micro and Bloom coming for free with the setup. Had I not gotten the nutes for free I honestly may have gone soil/organic, instead of coco/synthetic But that is to be experimented with further down the line. With regards to stunted growth, before this week I was only feeding the plants 2.5ℓ each, to avoid runoff and mess. In hindsight, that is probably way too little. Since I now learnt have my runoff tray and use a vacuum, I give each plant a whole 5ℓ as I'm not scared of the runoff. It's only been a few days since the larger watering and the little stunted ones seem to be way happier already. All the plants seem way happier in general. Keen to see how they will respond and look a week from now. The reason I chose autos was also because I was going to follow the guide step by step, and to avoid having to stress about load shedding and light schedules. My next grow, I doubt I will do autos. I'll probably do photos or even clones. Thanks again for taking the time to respond! @LitItGrown Your plants look great man! Appreciate the response and sharing your personal experience. The "fishbone" style of training you referenced, is literally what I did with my older plants. I started LST on all my plants at Week 3 or 4, very eagerly. In my case the main stem is bent like 80 degrees lmao, and then the fishbone. All the other main stems coming off were then also kept low, and I tried to keep everything growing in a sort of "circular" fashion around the pot as best I could. Although the plants are low to the medium, I feel I did a decent job at least keeping all bud sites even, and maintaining even light to every site. I hope my plants stretch up more and get some fat buds, just like yours are! I'm a few weeks behind you, and will be keen to see how they look when they reach the same age yours are in these photos. Definitely going to swap to the green rubber coated soft ties when I can, glad you could share your experience with the metal stuff. I've also had some slight brown impressions in some places using the DIY metal ties. Thank you again for taking the time to respond! Much love to all of you following and helping!

You will have to wait a bit longer.

And a little update. Could harvest the full no pot tray and the result, for mostly stage 6 flowering, Okisch. The Hella Jellies are also flowering.. but not sure they are done end June.. that is when they would hit 7 weeks flower... and again.. stage 6 most of the time. Ginger Tea (Left undressed, right dressed) Very smooooooooooth.. zero throat irritation.. tastes like Ginger Tea, hence the name The Hella Jelly's are mid flower.. after schedule they reach end June 7 weeks flower.. and that should be it.. but they also endured stage6 for most of the grow. Don't think they are done end June.. or they would do a miracle transformation the next 3 weeks Didn't put em in the sun as they have dark right now, just cleaned out quick for the picture. Right now I do not care to much.. I decided to leave and not find out what stage 16 will do to a country. So not in a good space... rather sad.

just keeping my threads alive, haven't been able to post as much gave them 2 waterings with 2ml/L fish, looks like we're back on track, new growth on the girls all looking good returned to normal green. stripped all the damaged fan leaves, looks like I did a preflower defoliation, going back down to 1ml Fish as there is less biomass now after the strip. will post photos soon