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Well no and yes. That's just the genetics. The dominant gene for this is as you state, but their is a recessive state gene where the plants have no problem pushing pistils from young in veg, as soon as sexual maturity has been reached, while males always carry the dominant gene and trigger on the light cycle only.

From my experience with line breeding, my observations have been that a true F1 hybrid(both P1 and P2, are vastly different genetically and past F3 in their own line), these plants display a very uniform phenotypical expression. From a breeding point of view there is no point going through a selection phase from such a true F1 generation. Any male and any female will do to get to the F2. F2 Generations where there is a recombination splits the line into two distinct or polarized phenotypical groups. The one group leaning toward the P1, and another from P2. Somewhere in the middle is the hybrid expression from F1. Working down the F line each generation you thin out and reduce the variation. From F4 you can start to consider the phenotypical expressions to somewhat stabilise to about 5 phenos. Fems it's very subjective, and as @Danksaid, is it just an F1 on top of an F1. Well then that's not an F1, or S1. It's an F2(S2) I.e. all the variation youd expect from an F2 generation. True S1 hybrid Fems, display only 2 phenotypes. Man it goes a lot more but I'm rambling now. Hope it helps.

I totally understand where you are coming from, but you are setting yourself up for disappointment. 1. Bag seeds. Its random and has an extremely high chance of being a hermi. So trying to save R100 on a seed purchase, to spend all that money on electricity for at least 2 months before you realize this, will cost more. 2. I mentioned the minimums with regard to light as its crucial. You are trying to emulate the Sun indoors. Plants have minimum requirements to grow, and giving them any less is again a waste of electricity, and the plants will fail to thrive and die or hermi. We all have to start somewhere, and it's a bit expensive to startup, but skimping now will honestly just be an expensive disappointment. I started out with just a small veg area, and utilized the sun as much as I could. I still do this. I have plants veg indoors, and flower them outdoors this time of year. You can do this in summer to if you are keen on a non negotiable routine of carrying them indoors and out daily at exactly the same time. That way you just need a ventilated darkroom as a start...just a few suggestions, as there are many ways to skin a cat.

Yeah if you want to attempt to use lumens as measurement, aim for minimum 30k-50k lumens for veg, 60k-120k for flower. The sun as lumens is about 1k on an overcast day, 20k in the shade on a sunny day, and max about 120k lumens in midday summer sun. Again not much is useful as it's not PAR we're talking about, but to give you an idea just how much more lumens you need.

Nope only the store. The forum is fine

@420SA the sites SSL expired last week. This one too.

A few leca pellets will do the same. Can add or remove marbles as necessary

What medium are they in? Looks like a hot medium, causing nute burn...

Due for a small update. Sadly none of my GTH seeds sprouted, but I'm hoping for a female clone from the source to include in this winter's run. 11 May Well over 200 of my F4 beans sprouted on a farm neither here nor there. Haven't been to visit since, but going through this week. So excited to just get out there and away from the suburbs. I want to go and remove all the males and do some other thinning. All these little ones have since been planted in the ground and well on their way. Will update on the visit. Then I have 2 of my F4 girls here, chosen from 20. I finally have a female with morphed phyllotaxy. There have been hundreds but never a female. These two, are destined to be treated with STS and will be my Choco pollen donors that are pollinating clones taken from the farm. These are in soil I got from @SkunkPharm, and they are loving it. Thanks for helping a brother out when lockdown was at high tide. I haven't fed once, and these were transplanted to 15l pots from 5l this morning in the same soil, so giving it a proper test.

Im afraid they are not autos. I only work with regular and feminised photoperiod plants.

A week of drying, and I spent the entire weekend trimming all this up. Lost about 170g to bud rot, caused mainly by the massive Caterpillar damage. Managed to manicure 260g that's in the bottles and about another 50g hanging. Really not a bad smoke at all considering the harvest was a bit early. I'll grow one out next year again, but in the ground.

Early morning sun after a week of miserable weather.

Ok, so if you are going for a 300-400g grow @ 50g a plant, then have a look at a 480w LED from @Master_G, or a 600w HID. But that's just what I'd do. I myself am shopping for lights and it's a toss up between these 2 options for me at the moment.

What do you want out of your 6 clones in terms of actual grams of bud? What is your budget for the light? What is your monthly electricity budget? Answer those 3 and it's easier to decide / give advice.

You still need a ballast and reflector for that bulb. It wont work on it's own. Starting out a new indoor grower, a 600w system is going to cost a lot of electricity while going through the learning curve... Youd be looking at something this as a start if you really want to go in at 600w https://www.futurama.co.za/wing-reflector-grow-light-combo-600w/

For clones and early veg you could put together a 150w MH light. https://www.acdc.co.za/products/150w-ballast-for-hps-mh-lamp-230v?variant=39944165644 https://www.acdc.co.za/products/35-400w-ignitor-for-hps-mh-lamp-3-wire-1?variant=30469680972 https://www.acdc.co.za/products/hqi-ts-metal-halide-lamp-150w-rx7s?variant=30481831116 Will be about R800 To grow them out as in flower them...you gonna need 400w minimum

It will be fair after a cure I guess. This was not a smooth a grow as I wanted, and the plant suffered from early flower. A smoke is a smoke though, and will see me through until the other plants are ready for harvest.

Looking awesome bru. Glad to see you fully on a roll again.

Roughly the 8 week mark, and she is just cruising to the finish. Only just starting to see a spot or so of PM and removing the leaves as I see them, but otherwise in perfect health. She will go on to harvest by mid to end June I reckon. She is maturing bottom up, with bottom buds starting to swell.

So I decided to give her the chop. 2 weeks earlier than I'd have liked, but she was just klaar. The snail damage did a number and most branches started drying up. Plus our first proper cold front is rolling in tonight. I lost 4 long colas to catapillars that ate the colas from the inside out. Never the less, I'm happy. The haze vibe is there, buds are fluffier than I'd like, but she still managed to stack quite ok, despite a mid flower transplant. Bubbleberries mass of pistils has carried through, and going to dry with a rooibaard vibe.

Gee I dont know hey. 40g is little. Fair for a single small plant no trianing... How many months did he wait? How many R1300 payments were made to get that 40g? 4 months worth? If I take those payments as my running costs of my tent, then over a 4 month period, I'm looking at between 400-500g I'm a heavy smoker. I need quality and quantity.

At the stroke of midnight, we lost our free trade rights to sell CBD. https://www.tnha.co.za/cbd-exemption-expires-where-to-now-for-cbd/ Consumer’s continued free access to CBD without a prescription under threat. On the stroke of midnight on Friday the 15th of May, over-the-counter Cannabidiol (CBD) containing products which have been freely traded in South Africa will revert back to being Schedule 4 medications requiring a doctor’s prescription, despite there being no registered (legally approved) prescription CBD medicines in South Africa. This situation is due to the 12-month exemption notice for certain CBD products expiring without an extension or a permanent exemption despite an impeccable safety profile. This places importers, contract manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retailers which CBD products in a precarious position, not knowing if they may continue to sell CBD products legally or not. CBD now reverts to being a schedule 4 substance in terms of the Schedules of the Medicines Act. Selling unregistered medicines is a criminal offense under Section 29 of the Medicines and Related Substances Act (Act 101 of 1965). The entire CBD product value chain now requires pharmaceutical trade licenses or pharmacy licenses to sell CBD products legally. In May last year a special exempted category of CBD products was created after our organization took the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) and Minister of Health to court. In a last minute round-table meeting between the SAHPRA and the TNHA’s legal representatives, a historic agreement was reached to exempt CBD from the schedules under specific trade conditions. These included: The daily CBD dosage of the product could not exceed 20mg. The amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) could not exceed 1 part per million (0.001%) by volume. The product labels and associated marketing materials could not contain health claims for diseases or serious symptoms, and could only refer to approved low risk ‘well-being’ claims. In a short space of a year under the liberalized exemption framework the CBD marketplace in South Africa has grown considerably. There has been a plethora of new local and imported CBD products entering the market, and a healthy and vibrant marketplace has ensued. This brought about many entrepreneurial success stories and employment opportunities. The public have enjoyed the freedom to choose CBD products freely and gain many benefits from them. To date the SAHPRA has not conveyed any reservations about the safety concerns, or raised any compliance issues with industry bodies. The TNHA are not aware of any reported harms relating to CBD containing products in South Africa which warrant the substance being tossed back into the legal basket of high risk medications requiring a doctor’s prescription and supervision. The only stumbling block for the local CBD industry over the past year has been the reluctance of the National Department of Health’s Food Control Directorate to approve CBD as an additive in foodstuffs and beverages, bringing us into alignment with other countries who have developed ‘edibles and drinkables’ markets. WHERE TO NOW FOR CBD? The SAHPRA has received various regulatory proposals for CBD and hemp seed oil from representative industry associations leading up to the expiry of the exemption notice. With the expiry date of the exemption notice having come and gone our organization will now urgently attempt to engage with the SAHPRA and Minister of Health to seek the reasons for the lapse. With the regulator’s heads wrapped up by COVID-19 and lockdown creating logistical challenges it is possible the deadline was an oversight, or the result of the SAHPRA and Minister not having the time to consider extending the exemption according to stakeholder proposals. The CBD industry and millions of CBD consumers need clarity on the future status of CBD and its continued access Now! Many people now rely on CBD for the maintenance of good health, and will undoubtedly suffer without continued free access to it. Other users may have experienced the reversal of serious health conditions. The harm created by arbitrarily removing the product from the free market without cogent scientific or risk-based reasons could result in being deleterious to health and place people’s health at risk. A risk which we believe far outweighs any potential risk of the substance itself under the existing low risk exemption framework. Should no answer be forthcoming from the SAHPRA and Minister of Health in the near future, the TNHA will have no choice but to proceed with the court case we launched before the exemption.

It really comes down to terpenes I guess. Combination work. Sativas tend to carry higher amounts of certain terpenes while indica another that is higher. The most popular and sought after strains nowadays have extreme terpene profiles compared to the standard lemony sativas and spicy hash smelling indicas of the 80s. They were pretty flat boring profiles compared to today.

Yeah with parliament non functional, and the shit that is yet to hit the fan in a month or 2, this ruling will lapse it's time. I wonder what that will actually mean for us. Could the status quo be reverted back?

Jip. I battle to get any sativa dominant above 16%ish. More indica influence needed to go beyond that.