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Oh. I understood that if I adjusted light time, heat, humidity and air flow, I could grow in any weather or season, indoors. Am I wrong ?

Thanks very much, PsyClown. That's very decent of you. I'm thinking of setting up a small DIY tent and will just wing it with some LED bulbs I've got in the garage. Can't do any harm, can it ?

Hello everyone. Apologies for having gone AWOL. I resigned my job in the middle of lockdown last year (my good mate was my boss and my sales were non-existent) and started my own fuel quality business. I've been head down, bum up ever since. Due to the distraction of having to pay rent, buy food and clothe Mrs. H2Ou and myself, I gave up trying to grow my own puff and resorted to supporting a young local fella, who has provided me with some reasonable smoke in the interim. As is my custom, I like to make a little number each evening and whenever I found pips in my bud, I just chucked them into the micro garden bed outside the garage back door. Imagine my surprise when one day, whilst pulling out a huge tangle of cherry tomato vines, I found a full 10 litre flower pot with two seedlings about 6" tall, growing together. I sent a pic to a learned friend upcountry and he suggested I should apply some intensive TLC and see what happens. Lots of lugging the pot from one side of the garden to the other, gradual soil improvement, adjusting water PH, homemade compost, banana tea, Seagro, some fertiliser and a bunch of luck.....well I cut the girls this morning at 06h30. Very little in the way of buds, but the two colas look yummy. (I did buy a loupe).

Ah....hi everyone. Got a little distracted. Had multiple disasters with my various plants. They all died, except for two. One was male. Wow ! I had no idea what pollen production would be. lol. With great sadness, for some reason that died too. Leaving me with one plant which sprouted in early autumn. Tomorrow is the winter solstice. Should I harvest yet ? Got one serious bud. And a bunch of littluns.

Thanks @PsyCLown That was very interesting and I learned a lot. Well done !

Right...Thanks for that @PsyCLown. I will be getting me some pots today, then. With regards to re-potting, I had thought of the careful use of a box-cutter/Stanley knife. The cotyledons have done their job and there is now revealed the very first signs of serrated leaves.

This morning, she has her first leaves.

Transferred the one sprout to a re-purposed spring water bottle yesterday.

Still only one bean that has sprouted of the five. It's been cool, hereabouts. Waiting....

To the subject of structured water. We pay respects to Viktor Schauberger, Dr. Masaru Emoto and most recently, for having brought structured water to the attention of many folks in our world today, clif high of Half Past Human and Jerry Durand of Durand Interstellar. Official advisory. I'm a friend of Jerry's and sell his product's both here in SA and in Oz. clif is an aquaintance and uses some of my products, as well as Jerry's. However, in the spirit of fourtwentydness, I'll show you how to make your own structured water device. For a couple of Rand. We are large, wobbly bags of jelly, comprising some 70% water. If we put dead water into our bodies, our bodies will react accordingly. They will die. We need to enliven our water and this is where the field of structured water comes into play. Many of us live in cities and our water, after having been forced through miles of straight pipes, arrives at the spigot depleted of any energy. If you are wealthy enough, you might drink spring water. But so often, this is packaged for long periods of time in plastic bottles, which is not good for us. In an effort to revitalise my water, I structure every glass I drink. I only drink rain water or spring water. I'm eyeing out the lovely river some 1km away, which runs out of the unpopulated mountains behind us. TBC

No, @stretchy, some very positive stuff. Good for humans... But, before we go to the subject of structured water, some of my favourite music. A track from the classic movie "Easy Rider". The Band, with The Weight... Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper and Jack Nicholson, smokin' some gooood stuff....

If I may ? Don't know if this is correct etiquette hereabouts ?

Ah, @PsyCLown, please allow me to take the entire forum down the rabbit hole of structured water.... If you would be so kind ?

Hi All. An update today. We've had cooler weather this week and even though @Bospatrollie2 had said that they might take more than 2 or 3 days when it ain't hot, I was starting to get a little concerned last evening as there didn't seem to be anything happening. I just went out to the garage with a rollie and a cup of coffee and.....we have a sprout ! Woohoo ! There's another showing a bit of white on the one end, so I think we should have another sprout today. Sorry about the kak pic. I carefully placed my phone in a puddle of diesel earlier this year and sort of melted my camera lens. So I only have the "selfie" lens to work with until I get my new phone in the next few weeks. (Boss man tells me it will be one of those new-fangled eyefone things, so it should take semi-decent photos.) BTW. I forgot to mention that I intend using structured water to irrigate my plants. I'll be interested to see if there's any obvious benefit, bearing in mind that I know nought.

And thank you, also, @Stoukie Learning, learning, learning....

Thank you @PsyCLown

Cool doco there, @Ill_Evan. It brought back some fond memories of smoking vast quantities of Swazi Gold in December '83. We jumped into Linda's Kombi on a Friday afternoon and headed out of Joeys for Mbabane. The moment we crossed the border (along with hundreds of other fellow South Africans) there was good herb for sale. We watched Peter Tosh perform his Mama Africa concert Saturday afternoon/evening. Great music, great crowd. It's the only time I've ever seen a copper, in uniform, toking on a joint. Good times.....

Cheers @Stoukie I've been noodling on a very small cart with two wheels, a front foot and a slip-in, removable handle. Bog simple. Angle iron frame with recycled pallet wood platform, with the wheels made from 25mm x 4mm flat bar, around 300mm diameter. I'll weld some 8mm round-bar spikes on the rim, so I can aerate the lawn as I maneuver the 20 litre pots with the sun. This will prevent yellow patches forming under the pot as well. Wind is not a big factor in my micro garden. We had a big blow on the weekend and the trees around us were whipping around, but the garden walls protected us and it was just a mild breeze out on the micro lawn. Thanks for the soil/fertiliser advice. Will go looking for some when next near an emporium. Not too sure what you mean about the auto flower. I'll need to do some more reading here. (Problem is, the bloody customers are keeping me so delightfully busy, I don't get time at "work" to research my favourite herb. Lol.)

Right...never thought about possible bleach contamination. Good job these are the donated "Transkei" seeds. I'll swing by Woolies and get myself some bleach free and a pair of ladies eyebrow whipper snippers. Thanks @PsyCLown

I grew some Moringa saplings from seed in Oz, using the wet paper towel method in a Tupperware container. I would just take a pair of scissors and cut around the seed and root and plant the whole thing in some nice soil in a small flower pot. I'm thinking that would work here as well, to protect the tap root. ???

Good day @Bospatrollie2 Cheers for that. I sorta knew that the rectal discomfort was going to be on the right hand side of the meter, but you confirmed it. Lol. One must do what one must. I guess it will save me a bit on gym fees. Having read a bit elsewhere here, I've put 5 of the donated seeds in some wet paper towel in a ziplok bag. Any suggestions on how long to keep them in the bag ? TIA

Hello @PsyCLown Helderberg region outside of Cape Town, is where I'm based. I appreciate your offer of guidance, having never done this before. So, I have a micro garden, which gets some limited sun each day. Fortunately I work from home and was thinking of getting some big heavy duty bags with handles which will allow me to hump my girls around as the sun moves. I don't know if that is feasible. I just know that I need to provide them with lots of sunlight. Pleasant young barkeep at my new local passed a small bag of about 20 seeds over the counter to me today. So I might just practice with some of them for the time being. It was a nice gesture.

And so my new life learning course begins. I was kindly pointed in the direction of a very pleasant young fella hereabouts. We chatted a bit and I explained my total lack of knowledge, tight budget and limited garden space. He graciously gave me some pointers and then like a magician without a wand, transformed my little stash of cash into these two beeyooties...

Thank you @420sake. Yeah, I see the whingers regularly disrupting the economy "to get ahead" here, on the N2 and other byways. Nothing changes....I was chatting with a young lady from Uganda last week. A beautiful person and although we were two very different tones, we immediately got on like a house on fire. She just wanted to get back there because of the "complainers", as you so euphemistically put it. I felt for her. I'm not sure you need to quite achieve a 3 on the Moh Scale for ones under tackle to live in the land of Fosters and flies, but it does help one's cojones if you apply some level of tongue biting when conversing with the locals.