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Cool man. Following along. Are those fems or regulars?

It does feel to me that they are still asleep at the wheel. This document treats our pre existing cannabis economy that's been developing faster than a wildfire asif it simply doesn't exist yet. They also seem to be quite clueless as to where our seeds are coming from...apparently the 1000 plus breeders across the globe don't know what they are doing... I can see the next chapter in the SA cannabis industry remaining a largely underground one

They are recovering well

Thank you for the feedback. I appreciate it. Pity it turned out male. I hope the others treat you well.

Joh, I don't know man... I don't pH my feeds... Could that not be an issue? I've never had that reaction from biobizz... That's 15 different strains in the image below. All of them are on the same feeding schedule and only get 1ml/l grow with every watering(every 3rd day). They'll start getting bloom from next week only once they are on day 15 of 12/12.

Why are chemicals an issue? Only natural way is rhodelization. Thing is though, well with the genetics I choose to work with, rhodelization is one of my selection criteria. Ie, selecting for females that resist it, and go into reveg mode instead. I don't want to breed with females that throw bananas at the end of their cycle...

It's really not complicated. Isolate your grow from other pollen sources. I do this by breeding indoors and in winter

She might be adjusting to the new nute schedule. I wouldn't try and treat what you are seeing just yet...she may correct herself in a few days.

It's a longer flowering pheno, and maybe has 3 weeks left. It's flowering season outdoors now, and I'd rather reset my tent, than keep it going for just 1 plant.

#3 stood out from the start... Going to be running clones of her and putting them though some stress testing.

Yeah I've thoroughly enjoyed this small sample grow, and keen to start really hunting this line.

Day 56 And then there were three. Pheno 3 has been harvested. She could have gone another week for more amber, but I'm happy with the development after 7.5-8 weeks. While no 4, and 1 are coming down in the next few days. I might just put no 2 outside to finish. #3

With colloidal silver, getting the right ppm of silver in solution is an issue. Then the second issue is that one needs to spray the plant/branch daily for the first 3 weeks of flower... Then there is still a high likelihood that it didn't work... So no pollen. With STS, you flip to 12/12, you spray the plant once every 5 days, 4 sprays total, with the last spray on day 20, and you going to get pollen, a lot of it by day 35. So to get pollination timing right, the pollen donor goes into flower 2 weeks before the seed producers.

Colloidal silver is silver ions in distilled water. Made by elecrolosis of silver. STS, well I've said what it is. STS is the COMMERCIAL method. forget colloidal silver

Dude STS stands for silver Thiosulphate. It's a combination of chemicals that makes a female plant make pollen. STS is the commercial go to for making feminized seeds.

STS for the win man. It doesn't fail to produce a large amount of pollen

I read OG as 'original'

In its natural habitat it will experience a "flush". The biological activity in summer vs late autumn/winter. There is more biological activity in the hotter months which means more available nutrients. Flushing though is something you do when you have pH issues or salt buildup. The flush is to clear the soil. Flushing as a before harvest thing does nothing to improve the bud imo. 2 or more days of darkness also doesn't make any huge impact. At best this treatment may or may not push the last of the trichomes milky, but it isn't a vastly noticible change. I don't flush. I don't do the darkness thing, and I continue to feed right up to harvest, but you'll have a 100 others tell you to flush etc. There are about as many ways to grow as there are growers. Best way is to find what works for you. You are going to be doing a test to compare so you already heading in the right direction.

Bro choose fish or grow.... Not both. You are heading for N toxicity and lockout if you continue with both. Bloom only gets used from week 3 of flower... Are you using it already? The biobizz chart assumes a flip to 12/12 with first 2 weeks on chart equal first 2 weeks of preflower, and from week 3 on chart is day 14 of flower If these are photoperiod plants, then you stick to the week 2 part of the schedule throughout veg, but choose one of the veg nutes not both. Then from the start of your 3rd week of flower.. Day 14, then you start with bloom.. The chart also doesn't stop with the veg nutes, while I personally drop them from the start of the 6th or 7th week

Welcome back man! You've also been missed.

I'm going to be pushing these to 63-70 days, but some may want 77 days.

Yes but because they are polyhybrid F1. While plant structure may be uniform, you can expect different dominance in the floral structure and terpene profiles.

Day 49 Buds really starting to fatten up now.

I do not even own a pH pen anymore, and I haven't checked my pH ever using organics. A properly buffered medium works in synergy with the microbes to regulate pH

The only issue I have with going with salts is the need to adjust pH all the time. I started growing in coco using salts.. Results were good, bigger buds than organics for sure, but the mission that is pH adjusting has me stuck on a mainly organic approach.