1000Hills Nursery

@PsyCLown what's aqsf? @Smelly Joe what's acv? Thanks guys.

Triacontanol is available from a company called inteligro. It's about 700 for 1ltr. The dosage is crazy low. 8ml to 100ltrs. Yes it definitely works. Speeds up growth and really bushes out a plant. I've physically noticed a difference in a week. I aggressively leaf stripped 2 of my GG clones. The plant sprayed with triacontanol recovered and grew all its foliage back a lot faster. Atm I'm testing higher doses on some clones I've got outdoors, my guinea pig plants for testing everything. I'm checking to see if higher doses can cause any mutations. I have not noticed a difference when mixed into Nutes but definitely with foliar feeding. I don't know the difference between the 2 sulphurs as yet. But I'm on it. And no I don't spray anything in flower. The latest I've ever sprayed was day 14 and that was only once and it was an emergency.

It's probably in its genetics to stretch. I would recommend bending all those tall branches so that you can get your canopy even. All those lower branches will catch up and you will be able to have your light at a decent height so everything gets sufficient light. A small scrog net over your plants will give you tons of tops just judging by the amount of nodes those branches have. Try not position the stretchy plant directly under your light, keep it to the side so when it goes through the crazy preflower stretch atleast you will have some room to play with.

Can see someone doesn't like dem larfies. Quite interested in seeing how that grape diamonds flowers out now that you've focused all the growth to those tops.

Not sure if you guys watch the gml show but they have actually mentioned once that it comes from the grape industry. I'm pretty sure they could do 25kgs or maybe 50 kg bags. I'm guessing it's quite cheap. Thanks I'm going to look into it.

the disadvantages of being south african keep adding up

Very interesting. It might be similar. At that price it's worth a buy. Thanks dude.

Well you could do it often like every other day with great results. I use to alternate, some days I use my standard nutes other days calmag. And then atleast once every 2 weeks hit her with a silica spray. Just remember your leaves are very sensitive. They cannot handle what the root zone can. So go with mild solutions. Nowadays I just don't have the time to do it all often enough. The few sprays that I make sure I carryout are silica atleast 2 times during veg. Triacontanol once a week or so. IPM 2 weekly or so. I spray kelp a day after a heavy pesticide spray. And then the last spray I do is on around day 10 flower and is a nice heavy copper soap spray. The product I'm really interested in trying is called wetable sulphur. It's used a lot in the states. It's basically a pesticide that kills almost everything and is not systemic. But every time I go ask for it at a nursery I get told there's no such thing.

They must love you for foliar feeding them. Add a little Epsom salts to the water, give them a treat. And when you really feel like spoiling them add some kelp to the spray.

Good stuff... Just not too light because that can be worse then over watering

True but autos have earned a place in our community. Many scenarios people just can't grow photos. Like right now for instance... If I needed bud asap, I would grow a couple 60 day autos. Or if my yard was heavily light polluted by street lights or neighbours lights I would have no choice but to grow autos. The flip side to being put in this position would be you probably gonna have mediocre end results. Although some breeders are putting crazy thc numbers on their autos so who knows maybe someone on this forum is gonna meet up with a Fire pheno and show us all something new.

And the best way to know when to water your plants is still the weight test. Feed her when she's light and you will have explosive growth.

@Nikkel beautiful plants brother. I would just get rid of the leaf miners cos they can get out of control. Remove the leaves they in already and try get some neem or something and do preventative spraying

Changing the res was the correct response to your issue. You fixed 2 issues... too high Ph and unbalanced toxic nutrient ratios. I've mentioned this before and I know you have taken plants to harvest without doing this but it's best to change your res weekly for a few reasons but mainly because if you just top up you are changing the npk ratio in the res because you have no idea what your plants have eaten and what's left behind. Now you topping up with fresh nutes so what you actually doing is adding extra of what the plant is not eating a lot of. Eventually as the weeks go by you sitting with a solution that's all locked out. Especially calcium and phosphorus. Big cultivation centres have to equipment to measure what's in the water and are able to top up with only what's needed. And don't just feed your plants micro. That will cause BIG deficiencies. Everything needs a balance. One thing I can tell you is your nutrient strength was not too high. There are no signs of nute burn and nute burn doesn't initially cause leaves to droop. Please don't get me wrong I'm not telling you what to do or questioning your growing skills cos I know you can grow just by the advice you give others. I myself have joined this forum to broaden my knowledge and to have people to talk to about my favorite past time. I hope this comes across as humble as it's meant to be. All the best brothers and happy growing...

There are many factors to look at in your situation before blaming the seedbanks. Sometimes you do get dud seeds. It's best to 1stly always buy seeds in sealed breeders packs. I've used both of the local seedbanks you have had issues with. GSR for many years and BnB since they 1st opened up. The only issue I've had was with GSR with their in-house genetics. The plants were nothing close to what they were supposed to be. Sometimes you do get dud seeds. I've ordered from international seedbanks and found that a lot of times the freebies don't pop or they take a long time to germinate. (that's if my parcel is not confiscated by our local bubu's) If I were you I would relook at my germination techniques and 100% rule that out before blaming the seedbanks. There are just to many variables. A lot of these seeds travel the world prior to reaching our shores. Poor handling and storage by all involved play a huge role in the viability of the seeds. As a rule I always try germinate all the seeds I buy in each batch and cull or give away the extras. Just keep it simple and don't lose hope.

You need to get an ec pen like yesterday for your type of growing. The cheap R115 takealot pen is all you need. So how do you know how much your plants are eating? You supposed to be checking your ec daily. If it rises it means your plants are drinking more water and less nutes(too strong solution).If it drops it means the opposite. Once you get it to stay almost the same... It means you have dialed in your plants without having to use the tip burn method which I currently have to use in coco. You already rocking very good yields but you still 100% need to get an ec pen. It will also help you diagnose your current issue.

Here in kzn we have a little extra cloramite in our water. Our Ph is close to 8 & our ec is around 115ppm. It takes about 3 adjustments to stabilize Ph for long storage. @Bakstein420 run an airstone in the water for an hour(this is besides declorination). It's gets the Ph to rise quickly so that you can adjust it again and stabilize. Useful during flush when you not using nutes with buffering agents

Sorry I probably misread that you add nutes. Yeah it's a strange 1 then cos you have already ruled out what I've mentioned. Let us know what you find

You don't want to really balance the Ph. You want it to gradually swing up

@CleanGreen yeah 2 weeks is too long. And you not supposed to be adding Nutes during the week because in dwc the ratios of each of the nutrient elements changes according to the plant feeding. They eat what they want and not equally. So in other words there could still be enough phosphorus in the solution and now you adding more by putting in more nutes. That extra phosphorus can drop the ph. Always top up with just plain water. Make notes of the ppm. If the plants are showing they need stronger Nutes dump that res and remix a fresh res. And wash your airstones everytime you change the res. The slime that grows on the airstone will also mess with ph and cause root problems. Hope you come right so you can flip that switch with confidence... Just on a side note so I know. Have you grown in dwc before or is this your 1st crack at the turbocharged form of growing weed.

Yeah I would start over. You still have time. I think you started the plant too early so they went straight into flower. I don't agree with the bag seed though. Buy some seeds and try again. And most of all don't be discouraged from this. You become a better grower after every failure. And if you live in kzn. I have plenty extra clones for you now that Mr cannabist has reappeared and says he dispatching my seeds on Thursday.

You sure it's the purple haze causing that. Have you changed the nute ratio. Maybe you started adding the hortimix MKP or have you already ruled out it's not related to Nutes. My nute solution used to always have a swing from 5.8 - 6.2 in a week until I got some root rot. That's when the Ph used to drop. Next run elevate those totes a little so that you can drop the totes to have a look at the roots every reservoir change. Unfortunately we don't have all those beautiful products we see the guys on YouTube have to kill that slimy bacteria. Hydrogen peroxide keeps it at bay somewhat. I apologise if you are experienced with dwc and I'm just chirping in when you already know what's happening in your garden. Just thought I'd share my experiences with you. And I made deadly mistakes in dwc. When I upgraded single bucket system to rdwc(3 buckets 2 plants) in week 2 flower I poisoned my plants to their death overnight. I was too anxious to do the switch after building the new system that I didn't run the system with just water for 24hours to remove all that poisonous tangent residues.

Great stuff there. DWC is still my most favorite way to grow. It costs the least in nutes. You use far less water. I haven't read through your whole post but I can imagine trying to do a reservoir change with the plants all scrogged up must be a lil tricky. When I 1st played around with dwc I grew in those black 20 litres buckets. Checking the ph and ec of each individual bucket became a real pita until I made it rdwc. How do keep the temperature of the nutrient solution down? And what Nutes do you use? You have 1 rocking garden...

100% agree... the transplant might be tricky considering the size and shape of the existing pot coupled with the health of the plant.

Or it could be one of the things fewer growers suffer from. He let it dry out too much and then fed it with Nutes. Usually you see damage similar to that like 3 days after.