Totemic

Luckily the area I'm in experiences shedding during my lights off.

Ok, so it's 2 weeks later, and I'm 10 days into 12/12. Her stretch is filling the net nicely. There is at least another week and a half to 2 weeks of her stretch left, so she will form the block that I'm looking for.

Ja well. This is a public thread, and I posted it here to engage them as part of our ( South Africa's ) community, and not as 420sa's community. It is sad to see that this cliquey behavior emerging. They have their own agenda's if this is their stance. With an arrogant attitude such as that, they can't expect to be taken seriously in the emerging industry. If there is any substance behind a magazine, it will be vested in its Editor. If the editor is not willing to engage part of a community, in the public interest, then there is no substance. I challenge the Editor to prove me wrong. Totemic!

Interesting. Maybe you could invite the Editor and staff to join the forum admin. While it is great that there is another initiative like BTL, who is the person behind it? What are their explicit views? Where is their moral compass? These are the things I think when I visit their site, and I can't find a mission statement or even an about us one liner for that matter. So yeah, would love to meet the people behind it.

Ok. Competition closed. We do have a winner, and that is PotPixie. Congratulations! I will however not be using the logo, as it still does not meet my requirements, but never the less, please pm me with your details PotPixie, so we can arrange to get your prize through to you. Thanks to everyone else for also taking time out to submit an entry. The new face of Totemic looks like this:

@Dutchpride That is a lovely space to work with. Can't wait to see it when you flip the circuit breaker.

Love it!

Can you tell me more about your air circulation in the space. I know it may sound odd, but if I have to describe my environment, it's a hot, dry, very windy environment.

Im using the ones from china 9 LED's and 9 600w 400v HPS, ya i think the LED's were around 30k something so budget went down the drain there lol. The room is +/- 40m2 ( its a funny shaped room ) I've just googled allot also on dutch forums and there are lots of arguments of which is better, basically it is that HPS = quantity and LED is Quality and a mixture is a little less quantity and a little more quality. therefore i wanted to test out the theory myself. Would like to see a pic of this grow room dude.

Well, the way I see it, is that this is not a chat room really, and that's possibly why people aren't chatting. This is a forum, and while still young, will serve as many different things to different users. To me personally a forum is a place I can learn, and teach. A place to store valuable information in the form of contributions by members for future reference and and and..... Forums' that are more silly chatter than substantial information are useless to the next person that is just getting into growing, and searching for information.

It's sisalation, and available in 30m rolls ,1.2m wide for about R600 at any builders warehouse or other hardware store.

Good to know.

If I may ask which breeders JH are you growing out?

So, bit of a bump here... There is only 1 week left to get your entries in everyone.

Thanks. Well drainage isn't really an issue to me, since the whole scrog is portable. When it is watering time, the plant comes out of the cab, and the pot fits neatly into a 25l bucket. I water...it drains. This also lifts the plant up, and while she is draining I take the time to clean a bit under the net while comfortably sitting on the floor. Yeah, the structure of the clone was just right I think. I think I'll definitely be yielding closer to the 150-200g mark. She is a big yielder, but I am limited in my vertical space to let her colas just go, so you might be right, and she could yield less because I need to control the height.

Hey everyone. 9 days later into veg, and here is a quick update. Her roots have settled now, and I probably have only about 2 weeks of veg left.

You've just transplanted them. I would let them veg, and fill the pots they are in, and then do a repot into final containers early January.

Don't feel bad at all for jumping the gun. It takes a few years to really get a annual calendar planned and working smoothly, and even then life is going to happen. Remember to grow the way you want to grow. 65l pots work for me, but it isn't a rule hey. The important thing I think is to enjoy the journey while growing. Even embrace the slight flops that come along from time to time.

Yeah it does save on cloning to sex, but it does set your ladies back a bit, as the hormonal changes in the plant take weeks to shift from the one side to the other. Outdoors, the bigger the pots the better. When Cannabis is planted into the ground, a huge tap root drives down to anchor and support the plant, while the feeder roots usually only occupy the upper 30 cm of soil, and spread out laterally. This is what the plant wants to do genetically. So when you plant in a container, your cannabis plant is going to want to grow out its roots exactly the same, except the tap root smashes into the bottom of a usually small starter container, and forces all focus to the feeder roots, which in turn hit the walls. and and and...you get the idea. A good general rule of thumb when planting in containers is to allow 4l per month you intend to keep the plant alive, and double that for outdoor. So for example if I am going to do a 4 month indoor grow, anything less than 16l will cause issues, but I go 25l to be sure. Outdoors, I use 65l pots, and I only plant my seeds in November. But then I don't want such huge plants. I'm just bantering on here, but I hope some of it helps.

Looking good. You do realize that they are going reveg, and not continue flowering. They should then go into flower again in Feb. Those pots might also become root bound if you are not careful.

Thanks for the votes guys and gals. And thanks to Hydro Herb Africa. My package arrived today.

Yeah smokey. I'll probably be tucking for the next 2 weeks, then flip. Let her stretch for the first week or 2, then tie her down flat on the net. She stretches for about 4 weeks and the colas need to be kept under 30 cm from net to glass. I tell you 420, I got the scrog idea from another very talented grower. Yeah, the 250 is working really well for the space, and the spread is almost perfect for that net size. It does help that the 250 can hover about 5cm above the canopy, since a 250 doesn't really penetrate well, and the sweet spot is at 14cm bulb distance.

You asked for a log so this will be the one. I was planning on running another strain, but this clone just happened to be much older than the others, so less veg time. The other part for choosing this Jack, is because I know her very well, and if I can pull off a grow in that space with her, then any strain will do just fine. Temps go as high as 29 when its in the mid 30's outside, so that's perfect. Humidity ranges between 30% - 50%. The medium is coco/perlite ( about 80/20 ratio ), flushed and pre charged with CalMag, and running Hortishop's A+B + MKP. Current concentration is 300ppm with a 2-1-1 ratio ( 1ml/l - 0.5ml/l - 0.5ml/l ), pH'ed to 5.9. The scrog net is 45 x 60cm in size, divided into 117 blocks ( 9 x 13 ).

I'll pass thanks.

Cannabis is good for so many things in my life, I don't even know where to start. I suffer from depression, insomnia, and chronic pain from serious bike accidents in earlier days. I am also tightly wound and stressed as we all are in this rat race, Cannabis really comes through in this department too. As far as what it does for my lifestyle; I dont drink alcohol at all. I'd much rather chill with a fat joint after a hard days graft, over toxic alcohol. By growing Cannabis, it has brought me back to a time in my life before there where cellphones and all this tech, so I spend hours in the garden. I grow and breed so many other plants, and that is my passion and happiness. As far as my mindset and outlook, Cannabis has definitively changed the way I perceive life for the better. Man, This list can go on and on.... It's so painfully clear that we as human beings are supposed to use cannabis!