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SNAPSHOT OF THE MONTH JANUARY 2020 Sponsored by www.thehighco.co.za www.greensmokeroomseeds.com www.freedomfarms.co.za What's being given away this month? 1st Prize Sponsored by TheHighCo A TheHighCo Kingsize 420 Mystery Box valued at R995-00 Winner can choose between a 420 or 710 focussed mystery box 2nd place wins Sponsored by Green Smoke Room Seeds 10 Green Smoke Room Seeds Brain Damage Fem Seeds 5 Green Smoke Room Seeds Grand Daddy Grapple Fem Seeds Royal queen seeds tray GSR Stickers GSR Lanyard 3rd place wins Sponsored by Freedom Farms 1 x Organic Classic Soil 1 x 30L Freedom Pot 1 x Microlife soil conditioner 1 x Fire Juice How to enter? Simply reply to this thread with your entries. Attach the images to your reply or embed the images from a 3rd party website Snapshot of The Month Rules: Original images only please. If your entries are found to have been pulled from the internet your entry will be void. Members can enter a maximum of 5 images each. Images entered this month may not be entered in future competitions. Members can submit photos and/or graphics designs of their own Entries will be narrowed down to 10 nominees which will be placed in a poll. The poll will not be the official decider of the winners though. Members can only come first in an SOTM once every 12 months or 2nd or 3rd twice every 12 months. 420SA and its moderators will decide the winners Entries are judged on: Overall originality - What sets the image apart from others. Wow factor - does the image get attention. Quality and clarity - Is the detail in the image decent. Is the photograph clear, well focused and not blurry. Effort - was there a good amount of thought and effort that went into the image Entries close 31/01/20 Winners Announced 05/02/20 Good Luck! -------------------------------------------- Here are our SOTM January nominees in order of submission: @CreX @Kato @DankFiend @Vinxjo @Jtdipp @Valhalllafarms @Chris Jay @Tamjee Rusty @Kyle Pienaar @Dimitri_JK The poll will be up now and will run till Saturday 12PM. Please note that the poll results will not be the official results. GOOD LUCK!

Hi @Meepmeepza Luckily that culterra soil is only R30-R40 a bag so rather set it aside and use it for something else besides cannabis. I haven't seen a single happy plant in culterra's potting soil and countless other growers will agree with that. Rather get some soil that has been tested and proven with cannabis. We can steer you to many good names. I'd hate for you to get all despondent and think you're a kak grower when it was the soil's fault all along, which can easily be the case.

Here are the December 2019 Snapshot Of The Month winners! 4th Place @Tasha_onelove420 3rd Place @Camille 2nd Place @cape.chron 1st Place @High_grade.420 Well done guys great pics as always! I'll be sending you a PM today to get your details for delivery. Side note: I noticed some previous winners entering. As mentioned in the rules from this month and onwards. Members can only come first in an SOTM once every 12 months, or 2nd or 3rd twice every 12 months.

UPDATE Entries will close at 8PM tomorrow night and the winners will be announced on Thursday morning.

Sorry I'm chiming in so late on this... but for future reference what you had there appears to be potassium def. It tends to show up towards the middle or latter stages of flower if the soil/medium hasn't got enough of it. K def is somewhat similar looking to Ca def but Ca def is more "spotty". Potassium def looks like the plant has been burn't, it starts to yellow on the outer edges of the leaves and those cells quickly die soon after

I've finally decided to open up the Grow Reports area. It's not 100% complete but its ready to start taking reports. A little explanation of what grow reports are: Grow Reports are not the same as grow diaries. It's a record submitted of a grow you have completed with a specific cultivar. Basically a summary of the grow and how that specific strain responded in your growing conditions. As you'll see when you add a new grow report, there's a bunch of criteria for you to submit. It's all self explanatory and it'll all make sense once you see it. You guys will essentially be beta testers so please let me know if you encounter any errors. Also please lemme know if you think there is more we can add to the grow reports. Always open to suggestions Here's the link to the grow reports page https://www.420sa.co.za/grow-reports/ You can also find the link in the main menu under the browse tab. You can also find an option to create a grow report under the "Create" or "+" button NOTE: GROW REPORTS AREN'T AND WON'T BE AVAILABLE ON TAPATALK

No need to worry over that these days Psy. Those days are long gone

@morgancol welcome!

Looks absolutely epic! Will you ride this race medicated @Bakstein420 ?

Thanks bud. This is the stuff... https://ppplastics.co.za/product/bidim-non-woven-geotextiles These are long ass rolls though! 75m-150m! I do remember now that someone mentioned that you can only get this stuff in a huge quantity not really viable for home DIY use. Unless we organise a collective purchase on the forum and split it

Has anyone been able to find a source of geotextile? The same fabric that FF uses for their bags

Hey guys this will be a shorter SOTM this month to accommodate the festive season. There will be no poll held this month as the winners will be announced on the day the comp closes

SNAPSHOT OF THE MONTH DECEMBER 2019 Sponsored by www.thehighco.co.za www.sacredseeds.co.za www.freedomfarms.co.za www.pachamamaseeds.co.za What's being given away this month? 1st Prize Sponsored by TheHighCo A TheHighCo Kingsize 420 Mystery Box valued at R995-00 Winner can choose between a 420 or 710 focussed mystery box 2nd place wins Sponsored by Sacred Seeds 5 x 1 Pack Seedsman Somango Fem Seeds 3 Packs of Seedsman Kingsize Papers Seedsman Acrylic Grinder Courier fee at winner's expense https://sacredseeds.co.za/product/seedsman-somango-3-pack/ 3rd place wins Sponsored by Freedom Farms 1 x Organic Classic Soil 1 x 30L Freedom Pot 1 x Microlife soil conditioner 1 x Fire Juice 4th place wins Sponsored by Pachamama Seeds 2 x Bob Marley Fem Seeds 2 x Jack Herer Fem Seeds How to enter? Simply reply to this thread with your entries. Attach the images to your reply or embed the images from a 3rd party website Snapshot of The Month Rules: Original images only please. If your entries are found to have been pulled from the internet your entry will be void. Members can enter a maximum of 5 images each. Images entered this month may not be entered in future competitions. Members can submit photos and/or graphics designs of their own Entries will be narrowed down to 10 nominees which will be placed in a poll. The poll will not be the official decider of the winners though. Members can only come first in an SOTM once every 12 months or 2nd or 3rd twice every 12 months. 420SA and its moderators will decide the winners Entries are judged on: Overall originality - What sets the image apart from others. Wow factor - does the image get attention. Quality and clarity - Is the detail in the image decent. Is the photograph clear, well focused and not blurry. Effort - was there a good amount of thought and effort that went into the image Entries close 18/12/19 Winners Announced 18/12/19 Good Luck! --------------------------------------------

Give it go! I'm keen to see the results

If that is the case then PH is gonna be your biggest enemy and will continue to be I'm afraid. Coco perlite from the onset generally has a high PH so you would correct this by feeding with salt ferts at a PH of around 5.8 and stick with that every single feed/watering. The thing with adding organic ferts to an inert medium is you don't have anything in that inert medium such as lime to buffer the PH which can easily go all over the place when adding organic ferts and compost teas. Even if you PH a compost tea, which seems quite ridiculous but most likely possible, the PH could still change considerably while sitting in your medium. Your grow can work. Perhaps it has already worked a good number of times for you. But you are setting yourself up for a not so smooth ride. Happy to be proven wrong though

Trying to understand what's going on here lol @Smelly Joe from what I understand you're growing in a 50/50 coco perlite medium and trying to feed only with organic ferts, teas, and no salts?

Can anyone verify this supplier of food grade ethanol? https://www.chemlabsupplies.co.za/product/ethanol-absolute-alcohol-999-pharma-grade-25lt-glass-bottle/ Pricing almost seems a bit too good to be true

Good taste in music @Dank! Big fan of Fortunate Youth.

I've mentioned it to a member on the forum. Selling living soils/super soils commercially is risky business with a lot of factors that could go wrong. Having a production facility that is sealed and contaminant free is almost next to impossible, maybe that day will come, but not right now. That's how the occasional batch will have fungus gnats etc. I also feel there's a catch 22 with packaging. I don't know the real science behind it but I'm worried the bags are too sealed and don't allow the soil to breathe well. On the other hand, if you allow the soil to breathe well by punching more holes in the packaging you risk the soil drying out, another issue in itself, plus you invite pests like fungus gnats etc. I think you'll need to accept a certain element of risk when buying a commercial super soil. The only way to avoid doubt entirely is to mix your own

I'm gonna get flack for saying this but if you keep going for autos your chances of duds are higher as well.

Fully concur! If you're not buying a commercial soil tried and tested with cannabis, then you need to mix your own. Like @trichomechaser says these commercial potting soils are loaded with bark plus they're not nearly as aerated as a good cannabis soil should be. Culterra and Garden Master potting soils are everywhere. Stay the hell away from them. I don't know how it is nowadays but when I was in the cape I used to mix Doublegrow potting soil with coco, some vermicompost and perlite and that did really well as a starting platform for the plants. The doublegrow soil was much less "barky" than the others

@Za Weed Lover what is your germing technique exactly? How long do you soak for? You mention a heating pad, what do the seeds go in when you move them onto a heating pad? I'm not saying you're guilty of it but I've seen so many guys go overboard when germing seeds and that's often where the problem lies. I agree with @SkunkPharm though. Stick with reputable breeders. Too many fly by night breeders with very little evidence of their genetics in action. They may have some great phenos but equally as many terrible ones (Green house seed co. also guilty of this). If you see a strain that you fancy, google the shit out of it. Look for grow diaries on forums. Don't rely on images from the breeder. Look for independent views on the strains. Seedfinder can help too https://en.seedfinder.eu/

Looks like the official number is 500kg. Such a perfect round number https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/hawks-nab-suspected-major-cannabis-supplier-in-sa-seize-r3m-worth-of-marijuana-20191111 Corruption runs super deep that's how this took so long to happen in the first place

Here are the October SOTM Winners 3rd Place @PsyCLown 2nd Place - @YourStonedBuddy 1st Place - @Grow With The Flow Congrats guys! Please send me a PM with the following details: Your name Delivery Address Contact Number @PsyCLown your shirt size please

Russel De Beer, Canapax's front man was arrested on Saturday at the Canapax HQ in Brits. According to some apparently reliable sources over 1 TON OF CANNABIS was confiscated. Police reports, unsurprisingly has listed 500kg as a number. Still a shitload no matter which way you look at it. The official SAPS Story. Article link https://www.saps.gov.za/newsroom/selnewsdetails.php?nid=23194&fbclid=IwAR10hqk-HVHo6WrJW1KgqvX18gJeC3uHl6OjKVktCIuwhWAtz72EyLpFATE Media Statement Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (HAWKS) NORTH WEST – The Serious Organised Crime Unit of the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation with members of Forensic Science Laboratory and Local Criminal Record Centre descended on a hydroponic dagga lab in Brits on Saturday and arrested the owner of a Cannabis dispensary. The suspect who allegedly also sells franchises for cannabis dispensaries is a major supplier of cannabis and related products in the country. The investigation aims to clamp down on the unlawful mushrooming of Cannabis dispensaries around the country which are purporting to be operating legally in terms of the Traditional Health Practitioners Act (No. 22 of 2007). A search of the suspect’s store allegedly revealed over 500 kg worth of Cannabis estimated to be approximately R3 million, hydroponic tunnels for cannabis cultivation, various apparatus for processing and oil extraction and other numerous cannabis products, all which were subsequently seized. The suspect will appear at the Brits Magistrate’s court on 11 November 2019 for contravening the Medicine and Related Substances Act and dealing in Dagga.