1000Hills Nursery

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I hear you, one statement was promising though. "...We are however not going to marginalize the ordinary south african, everybody will have the opportunity..." or something to that effect. All we can do is hope for the best...

https://www.iol.co.za/mercury/news/r23-000-will-get-you-a-license-to-grow-your-own-weed-38113025 How much truth to this?

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It's going well. Found 2 hermies but they have been removed before causing any significant damage. Today is Day 31 flower... Almost halfway there. Buds are looking good. Eish but the smells are cracking. In desperate need of a scrubber. Had a couple hiccups... only got around to major Defoliation at day 20 & scrogged afterwards and damaged some white hairs. This stress triggered the 2plants into throwing nanners. I was a bit glad it happened then cos it's hard to find nanners once the buds start bulking up.

Using EC definitely avoids confusion but it also does make adding flowering additives in small amounts a bit tricky.

Can see you got some good practices and you like smoking weed with no Nutes in it. Keep us updated on how that Just cannabis medium works. I want to eventually grow organically cos I think I think long term it could be the more cost effective way to grow and it requires less frequent watering. I wouldn't worry about raising red flags. As long as you don't deal, you can stand for your right to grow. I actually want to go to the cop shop oneday and ask them how I'm supposed to protect my grow so I don't ever get busted for something I'm not doing. Hope you find a way to keep the temps down... before I bought an ac I used to run intake and exhaust fans on full speed and aircooled hoods, it was always a battle but the plants grew and rewarded me.

500 scale is kind of the standard especially with GH products. It all depends on what tds tester you have. So it's better to talk in ppms cos it's the same thing across both scales. Just some math's required. Booster is definitely better than MKP. MKP is just the cheapest way to supplement P and K. It doesn't have any amino acids, fulvic acids, etc. Ripen is only used at the end before flush to assist those trichs in ripening. It is not compulsory. But because it's relatively cheap it's a good addition. I use nothing after day 50-55 (depends on what the plants are showing me). Just flush the medium with florakleen and then plain water till harvest.

With dosing. I prefer using tap water. Our water quality is good. 120ppm out the tap. In order: Epsom salts 0.5g-1g/ltr veg to flower +-80ppm. Late flower 1.5g/ltr to boost the sulphur. Calcium Nitrate 1.5g/ltr +-200ppm Iron(flower only) I use like 10g in my 200ltr reservoir. I'm usually at around 400ppm at this point including the start water ec. Then I dose the base Nutes to my target ec according to the ratios I gave in previous message. When in flower I would then add +-70ppm of MKP. And then the last thing is to set ph. I check final ec and note it down. Then randomly between feeds I would check runoff ph and ec.

Yeah I was referring to the GH floracoco. I know they actually called grow and bloom. Guess cos I've used almost all available Nutes and got use to calling them Part A and B. I've found that their dosing chart doesn't give you their stated target EC. I eventually stopped referring to their charts and just did 2:1 Grow:Bloom in veg 450ppm-750ppm early veg to full on veg. 1:2 Grow:Bloom in flower 800ppm-1000ppm day1 flower to flush. I don't measure how much I put in of each. I just pour and use a tds meter to know how much. The bloom can be deceiving at times at how it increases the ec. The best advice is next time buy only flora micro and flora bloom. Calcium Nitrate from hortimix. I buy the 25kg calcium nitrate at the local nursery for 250. Same exact thing. Then Epsom salts and MKP. GHFC calcium gets expensive quickly but it works. Just know all this is specifically for coco. You going to have to tweak it a bit for your medium.

Hi GGG. I use floracoco nutes, but I use them in coco. The thing with floracoco is it's supposed to have enough calcium and magnesium that it doesn't need supplementation. It's fine for veg but when it comes to flower when we cut back on the grow part which contains the calcium, straight away there is not enough calcium in solution. So before you add any supplementation there is already more N then required in flowering. By using hortimix calmag you are increasing that N ratio and also hortimix calmag is not chellated so it locks with the extra phosphorus from the bloom part b. This whole dillema causes Ph swings and throws the ec off. So this is what I've found works. Epsom salts 1st, then chellated calcium from greenhouse feeding, chellated iron from builders and then part A. Mix reservoir for at least 5 mins and then add part b. And then MKP. Lastly Ph and feed. Fault finding would be to check ph and ec of runoff compared to what you putting in. You not suffering a deficiency, it's a lockout. Hope this helps. When your nutes are finished go to floraseries 3 part. Just the micro and bloom. It's easier to use and hortimix calmag works with it

@PsyCLown Mutations use to be a rarity... have you noticed how common its become. I see you gonna chuck some pollen at those autos. Does the autoflowering trait pass on successfully to the offspring?

Thanks cannabist for your attitude towards what it means for us to get the real FIRE genetics to work with. If your supplier can order from empire breeding company, we don't need to look any further. Expensive but they stock the best of the best. Proper breeding stock. They even stock Loki's gear. On Friday I will be placing an order for a pack of darkhorse genetics original Bruce banner. It's the real deal. Too bad you don't stock their strawberry diesel f2, Bruce's mama. On average a 10pack is providing like 4 keepers and a choice of good studs. All my info is coming from private grower friends in the states that have become cannabis celebs since I've known them. These are the lines they currently working and the offsprings are off the chain. They not into breeding to sell seeds. They in it to be ahead of all the huge cultivation centres that are monopolizing their market. Just to avoid confusion I need to state that I haven't breed any seeds as yet in my growing career. I've come a long way as a grower, grown in many different styles. Since legalisation I started uping my game cos I love having 20 different strains to smoke. Variety is the spice of life. Run after run has always been about improving yield and quality. Nowadays things run on autopilot for the most part. I'm honestly tired off buying seeds and being disappointed with the mediocre results. My friends think I'm crazy and that my quality is up there but I know in my heart it's nothing compared to the real FIRE. It's lacking those exotic terps. So I've decided that I want to start making some seeds just for personal hunting and maybe share it with other local breeders if they interested. The one thing I'm proud off is my grow set up. I now have the facility in place to make seeds, pheno hunt and if need be, take seed making into proper breeding. Who knows where this leads too. Sorry for yapping guys... Peace

@CleanGreen Always good seeing happy thriving plants. Looks like you going to need to put a net on top of that canopy to hold all those 100s of colas up so that you can have some support and penetration... It's going to be the difference between an okay yield and hitting it out the park.

Fabric pots are great. Just judging by the way the roots grow its clear it's superiority over plastic pots. In saying this it is an expensive exercise regardless of you getting a small discount. One option is to make your own. It's actually quite easy to do and works out really cheap. In saying all this I've moved away from fabric pots because the dry out times are a lot quicker and when life gets in the way you have very little room for error more especially when using coco. Proper plastic pots are not cheap either. The cheapest way for you to provide a big enough pot is quite dependant on your intended grow style and plant size. I personally buy used 25ltr plastic drums at the local plastic recycling centre for R10 a pop, cut the top off, drill some drainage holes. What I like about them is they are square in shape and really allows you to optimize your floor space.

Wow I can't imagine moving house... I would make sure I grow enough bud to last me a year coz that's how long it would probably take to set-up again. Will let you know when I get some pollen... sharing is caring...

Thanks for the response. So maybe what I should do is keep the males in my flower room till they just begin flowering and then move them to their 400W cupboard till I collect sufficient pollen. Okay so that's the plan... exciting times ahead... watch how I only find females now that I want males... Murphy's law...

If you had read the sulphur discussion you would know that one option is to import the correct product, not sure why you would offer your opinion if you were going to state the obvious.

Do you guys flower your males indoors or outdoors? If indoors how critical is the light intensity? I have a 400w hps for them but would t5s be sufficient? Sorry for all the questions... But last 1... how many weeks on average do you flower your males? Till you have enough pollen or till the end so that you can complete your logs on its traits etc. Thanks in advance.

I hear you. I have the space buy I don't want to add unnecessary additions to my already full schedule if it's not compulsory. I don't really plan on doing any back crossing so if I needed pollen again I could probably find a male from my F1s and chuck it at other females from different lines or just look for another male from future seeds I buy. Atleast I can scratch cloning my males now if I sex them before I have to take clones of everything.