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Hi there! I see comments only from experienced smokers, so I created a separate thread ahah I'm new to everything. That's why I'm here, to learn a lot from experienced growers Hope for support:)

BnB had a special on them and I was interested in the Zkittlez part of the ZxP. The ZxP was so great I tried more of their stuff. So far I'm keeping three of their strains. Probably more Ripper Seeds but I'm not sure. Maybe even get a cut from a homie of something they are rocking. I'm open to ideas.

Welcome Got any grows going at the moment?

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Only a pleasure bud Hmmmm Short answer is no, but I may have to try explain things a little different. You see, what I was trying to get at with the wormcastings as topdress is that you wana achieve a balance, not exactly feed the plants and ontop of that any liquid feed, no matter where it comes from or how it's made, will always cover less of a spectrum of "stuff" than most wormcastings. So the worm juice is nice as a balance keeper, but again you can never look at any liquid input as the basis of your grow, not even worm juice. That's more like a compost tea, it'll just restore the balance in your soil. It's not a feed at all, neither is wormcastings. Wormcastings, worm juice and topdressings are all just "essentials" to balance your soil. Nutrient feed comes after that. It's two completely different things. The black soil you collected will surely help bring IMO to your soil, it will help, but even less than the wormcastings in the way of "feeding" your plants. I'd rather add that black soil to the worm bin and let the IMO populate like that. In small pots like you have there, with a soil media that doesn't offer much for the IMOs to stay alive, you'll be adding that black soil only to have the IMO die out anyway. You see, you can reach a point where the soil is so well balanced you can give clean water right from seed all the way through to veg, but that's really only possible if you been building, conditioning and cooking the soil before you planted. Once you have to topdress you already missed, same with feeds, and you can never topdress or add stuff to soil while you are growing in it that'll ever bring it close to a well rounded soil. Basically, by the standard of your soil demanding ongoing maintenance, because it's not a well rounded soil, it'll mean you have to way more to upkeep the plant health than a person would who made good soil to begin with. I also mentioned that there are even better stuff than wormcastings to use as a topdress, cause worm casting is just a broad spectrum fertilizer and every batch differs from the next so you don't always get the same results. The more you rely on "just one thing" the more trouble you creating for yourself. Which brings me to the next point, the moringa in the worm bin, it's an awesome addition to the worm bin for sure, but the secret is balance and diversity. moderation of everything. when you get into KNF you'll see that you even add fungal shit and all kinds of fish juice and fermented fruits and grain juices and shit. there's a saying in organic cannabis growing that goes - stink in stink out, but obviously what kinda stink? obviously not rancid sour chemical smelling stuff. It's not always what you think it is or what seems the most straight forward. If you read somewhere about moringa, that's cool, but don't focus on it. Growing a moringa tree will take kak long before you can actually harvest from it sustainably. Infact the secret to a healthy worm bin is a healthy Carbon:Nitrogen ratio, not moringa. If you focus on moringa you may throw out the carbon to nitrogen ratio and create more harm than good. Some dry amendments out there are nutrient power punch products, you take clean coco/perlite add a hand full of the stuff snd it turns the soil into rich well balanced soil, thought that's not going to be the cheapest stuff on the shelf and to use stuff that strong you reeeeeally need to be ontop of your game, not for beginners kinda stuff.

Hahahah nice, yeah Ripper does proper work. What made you decide on them? I'm now leaning towards upping plant count in my small space and downscaling plant size, been itching to get a breeding project going more focussed on the craft than the seeds, but yeah space always the limiting factor. yeyeyeee what you got planned?

Glad to see the plants looking better. One thing, if you are really planning on transplanting them I would do it asap. Autos are on a timer and the plant needs time to spread its root while still in veg phase. How old are they? Autos usually start flowering week 4-5 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Picked up a couple of auto seeds from the expos a while back. As the phots are finishing up let’s start one of each. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Awesome! I'm excited to see what you gona do there's a lot of hype around the local breeders, I see a lot of their stuff on instagram and it looks like some local guys giving the US breeders a run for their money! Some names I see - Nocturnal Genetics, Headhoncho, Black Flag, Senpai and then we all know Totemic, and there's a whole bunch more. Check out this site with all the locals https://owlsroostsa.com/bird-seed/

Welcomefellow mystic May your journey be an awesome one!

very unfortunate when these things happen, growing indoor is so very hard. Well atleast that strain looks like a nice strong plant however

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Tnx allot for all the support and tips I will definitely try that thing with the watter and I actually have my own worm bin with a tap at the bottom for worm tea will that work as a feed? I am allso growing my own moringa because I want to try this thing where I feed my worms with moringa leaf powder since its the most nutrient dense thing out there and then inturn get some extremely nutrient dense worm casting and worm tea. I read somewhere that moringa leaf power works so well as fertilizer you can use it as a kelp replacement if you want to The other day I visited this place in a forest where we go sometimes to have some fun and I found this place with huge oak trees and under it a very thick canopy of leaves and under those leaves I found this pitch black soil that looks soooo good and so I had to come back and collect a few dog food baggs full of that good stuff so maybe I can use that as a top dressing?? Maybe ill test it first on some other plants

Awesome, glad you didn't use that ph stuff Now you just let them dry out till around 50% moisture (you can still use the probe thing for that) Once they reach better moisture levels and not stunted anymore they'll start to pick up speed, you'll notice the moisture levels in the soil fluctuating a lot more as the plant starts to grow faster and drinking more and more. Pro tip for these cold times, especially with smaller pots - I got a small fish tank air pump to aerate my water, also got filter water here, but I catch rain water when I can and it's been pouring down like a bitch down here so I got a lot now, but with it standing outside it gets cold as piss and even that'll stunt your plants, the smaller the plant the more affected by the cold, what I do is take a 20L bucket, fill it half way as I would with the filter water, but together with a fishtank airstone I submerge a fishtank heater to warm the water up to 30°C. your plants will do a happy dance for you The reason we saying get ready with the feed stuff is, well you can grow that plant in very low nutrient soil with just water all the way through but the plant will have a shit expression. You gotta be on your toes now, not to just feed the plant or pump as much nutes in it, but rather to maintain the balance ahead of time so the plant never reaches a point of having to show you that it needs something, while also not overdoing it Relying on bottled nutes, some people do it, but it's basically just a matter of time before you hit an imbalance. There is no single one nutrient to do it all on this earth, no product any man could ever make and put into a bottle would be "good enough" to maintain a natural balance. and we gotta remind ourself plants aren't machines so they don't act the way we program them, it's the other way around. They all eat different, one plant will use more N than the one next to it, as for the P and the K and all the rest. that's why when relying on bottled nutes you end up with a whole collection of 100 different bottles, couple R1000 deep. when the problem is actually just balancing the soil before even thinking of bottled nutes. You can get a nice balance with wormcastings, but then you gotta look at the quality of the worm casting too. I used to get the Wormbusch stuff but last couple times I got from them it was like 60% sand and looked absolutely nothing like wormcastings, so certain reputable brands aren't even consistent... I make my own worm castings now, so I don't know who got the best stuff these days. I would actually recommend Dirty Hands Elemental Blend as a top dress over anything, but if you can only do wormcastings then you can lean more on that, rather than the bottle stuff. What wormcastings you using? Sometimes best to use more than one kind of wormcasting to hit a wider variety of trace minerals and micro organisms. those are the balance keepers. you'll see once the balance is in check your NPK uptake becomes so easy to monitor, plant will already be thriving cause of the soil conditions and then only as the plant is eating and growing like a healthy plant should, you can give the bottle stuff that focuses more on the NPK and will keep up with the demands as the plant will be depleting the soil of those first. this is gona be tricky, I wish you goodluck bro it's hit or miss anyway, like with any rule of thumb, it's not to say things will go wrong every single time.

I've been a Ripper Seeds whore through and through for a long while now, all my strains are Ripper Seeds. I would like way more space and plants to do selections for breeding. I will leave it to the experts for now I actually want to buy something new soon for after my one small tent is done. I have the opportunity and space.

Oh shit yeah then you are lucky, but I do have to say that you're selecting good breeders too Have you ever tried, or thought of trying any Biltong and Buds, Victory Seeds, Bulk Seedbank or any of the more generic cheaper seeds? Reason I am asking is cause I've seen guys doing their first run with some biltong and buds seeds and hit a winner right off the bat, but I've been through quite a number of these cheaper seeds only to end up with pure It certainly is all about the luck of the draw, but the chances of luck goes way up when selecting the right breeders too. You plan to make any of your own seeds with those genetics you collecting?

I keep missing whole threads Plants are looking great man, excited to see how they turn out!! Wish I knew about this back in 2018. My first time buying "reputable" seeds was from Trophy. All seeds in Trophy tins with a paper inside and the seed info hand written on the paper. Went from over excited to blood boiling as all I have been hearing is the first dodgy activity to look out for when buying seeds is that it should be sealed in the breeder packs. Got Ethos, Barneys Farm, Dutch Passion and Seedsman. Contacted them, they asured me if I buy 10xseed packs I get original breeder packaging, but cause they're singles they have to open bulk packs and repackage them. Couldn't argue that till I saw what the weed looked like, the seeds I carried through to harvest turned out to be legit without a doubt so I always gave them good word of mouth. Out of 9 seeds only 2 of the Ethos didn't pop. Scrapped up the duds to my own level of experience, since it was my first time working with seeds that came from somewhere else in the world, I convinced myself the more expensive seeds demand for more maticulous environmental conditions, cause of their higher standards they been getting used to in the breeders setup. I should have just asked for replacements