Naughty.Psychonaut

Niiice yeah please do update us with photos! I wonder if they didn't have any Psilocybe Cubensis, the common Golden Teacher, they're by far the easiest when it comes to home cultivation. I've had my struggles with getting Alacabenzi to fruit. I've had it 100% clean and healthy, it would colonise substrate within 2 weeks, but then didn't matter how much I tried to perfect fruiting conditions, off maybe 5kg of substrate I got like less than 5g of dried mushrooms. I get full flushes off my GT cultures. I make substrate trays of about 0.5kg and I pick about 15 to 20g dried mushroom off one block. recent harvest - All love and respect brother just to clear up the terminology, inoculating is just the act of introducing your culture to your substrate, once you've done that it goes into incubation, this is the period where the substrate turns white, the process is called colonisation or colonising. once the whole thing is white it's reffered to as colonised and then you wana leave it for another week at least for a process called consolidation, because if everythings white around the outside it doesn't mean everythings white on the inside, so that last week is just to make sure the mycelium consumed all the substrate. if you have uncolonised subatrate you will without a doubt be facing contamination comes fruiting time. Goodluck man, hope the Alacabensi does better in your hands

you didn't get this one?

That looks a lot like a male, but not 100% clear. give us a few more photos in a few more days. first seed you got in sealed Nirvana pack, was this one also in a sealed breeders pack. if you got 2 males from 2 different sealed packs I would call this the worst coincidences ever. could be environmental, I am sure you said this is a photoperiod? photoperiods need a whole lot of stress to make them hermie, but have never heard of a plant completely change sex cause of stress. I don't see any female flower parts, yet. I would not get from MSSA again, write back to them, let them send you replacements and then get somethig else from somewhere else. skunkpharm gave a good recommendation

I appreciate the kinds words brother yeah just keeping on keeping on for now I am super glad to see more and more people gaining interest in mycology, not sure how others feel or think about spirituality, but I firmly believe that mushrooms are the flesh of the "gods" and they hold the true elixer of life which can be seen as spiritual, but it's also very physical. Have you watched Fantastic Fungi on netflix? Paul Stammets, godfather of mushroom knowledge, saved his own mother from cancer with mushrooms. and there is dead silence on the matter... we all kinda owe mushrooms a lot of research and I can feel the universal shift for the paradigm every second or third person I talk to wana or have grown some shroomies, can't wait till it's every person I talk to who wants to grow them @Weskush have you recieved your replacement batch brother?

Well done @John Stonedwell !! those mushrooms look nice! did you do the inoculation yourself or did you buy one of those ready to fruit bags? Regarding my grow setup, we hit a huge bump in the road with the electrical team. Now none of the buildings have any electricity!! there's some major headbumping and finger pointing going on at the moment between the comercial facility agents, the building contractors and the governments electrical department and it seems it's going to take a while still. The area of land belongs to one person, the building is a add on to a already exsisting establishment, when the government team came out to change the load capacity of the nearest power box to accommodate the establishment with all the different commercial facilities, they found a whole bunc of illegal wiring going on, so naturally they just cut the wires without regards to who they're cutting off. Turns out the previous building contractor who built the first part of the establishment had a long battle with the government and ended up going the illegal route, now we have to play blown nose kiss ass with the government and clean up after other idiots anyway, taking baby steps, because that's the best our government can do on the side I am busy with new commercial agents looking for a whole new facility, because this is a joke, just using that place as storage now. luckily I am not and have not been paying a cent

Update DS finally pushing pistils only beginning of week 5! Note to self: try to not grow the stretchiest of strains right next to the most compact of strains without taking necessary measurments now I got the most uneven canopy ever and it looks bad, the Blueberry Hashplant is gona finish sooner than the Deluxe Sugarcane, but it's right at the back and the DS in front is creating a wall blocking the BHP in, harvest time gona be a bit of a struggle. they're under a net too fuk

Goodmorning, hope all is well and in good health! These ladies been living on nothing but 500ml clean water every second day, there should be more than enough food in the soil to not have to add nutrients, I am trying to keep them from growing too much as my flower tent still has its ways to go! still have a few spots on the leaves here and there, only thing I did that was out of the ordinary, I added some garden phosphate to the soil before transplanting so that's my main suspect at the moment. French Macaron Blueberry Hashplant Frosted Apricot Super Cheese Chernobyl

welcome to both of you great forum to be part of, lots of information flowing around! @Jman420SA you busy with a grow or not yet? @Vivid Dreamer how bout an introduction there from your side with a few photos of what you busy with right now? we love to share and help wherever we can and if there's no help needed, there is always room for improvement unless you at the top of your game, in which case we would all like some information from you

do you know how stable the genetic is? If it's f2 they may have a bit of a difference in end weight when looking at it like that, otherwise you can only look at overall health and general reaction to the unknown media. if they're only f1 or 2 I would try to look at each plant individually, but if they're f3 or 4 they have higher chances of growing more similar.

are they different phenos or same cut? if they are clones, I vote the small one in your known soil and the bigger one in the test soil? if they're different phenos I don't think it matters too much, because structure and expressions will differ even if everything is on point.

yeah, this is true! if you know to keep adding microbes and not rely only on salts as feed in organic situations and keep adding organic compounds to keep the microbes alive and create that prolific symbiosis, you'll be fine. the salts can basically just act as "addatives" when growing in a pot and in the earth is also a big difference. I worked on many different farms, 2 biodynamic farms, even they use salt nutes, because it's still natural when you use it in amounts the soil can still break down. all the synthetic nutes we have on the shelves all come from the earth anyway, they're just concentrated and combined in unnatural combinations. when growing in a pot, the amount that can cause harm is significantly less, because the microbiome inside a pot is not nearly that of which is in the earth and is harmed or disrupted much easier, but for people with a background in agriculture and mycology, with a quite comprehensive understanding of how microbes operate, it's easy to draw a picture. why I moved away from salts completely is because I have a bigger problem with how they source these compounds, the production of the compounds and the complete dismay of organic growing, because of these products. we've all seen the indoor FMCG farms, growing masses of vegetables that look like they where 3D printed, to feed the already over populated planet, essentially trying to solve a problem by creating a bigger problem. now I just stick to stricktly organic and the "less is more" approach

My very first indoor grow was FF green bag with hydroponics A,B,MKP nutrients. I called it beginners luck, because it turned out great, but literally everyone and their aunties soiled themselves when they heard I was mixing organics with synthetics. like that was the worst thing a grower could ever do. Everyone had their reasons, random people would come out the boendoes standing behind the seasoned growers, calling me out for defending what I was doing. I stated it was my first real indoor grow, so people jumped to the conclusion that I knew nothing about anything plant related quite a few people didn't like the fact that I didn't wana listen to their seasoned advice, but yeah this is how we learn who to take advice from These days companies like GreenHouse Feeding and quite a few others actually make nutrient lines that combine the two styles of growing and it seems to be much more accepted these days. As time goes on we will se more and more of this. Lekker fingers crossed for no losses and better results than anticipated!! with a ph and ppm pen, you really can't go wrong. run off tests and slurry tests have saved my crop quite a couple times.

that's spot on for argument sake, you'll have better results vegging a plant under a flower light than you would when flowering a plant under a veg light.

excited to see how this turns out! how long you cooking the medium before using? I am very careful with dolomite these days, luckily I use it for the mushrooms aswell so always have some on hand. Having it on hand turned out to be both a blessing and a curse lol long long time ago I saw early signs of CaMg deficiency, so I thought the dolomite will work perfect as it's organic and a source of CaMg. I topdressed each plant with 40g of dolomite, the plants reacted rather quickly for an organic situation, took about 3 to 5 days for all plants to look right, but then just as quick as my problem was solved the pendulum kept swinging and another 3 days later I had severe toxicity/lockout. this was before I had a ph or ppm pen, so I never tested if it was a ph swing causing lockout, which is very possible with dolomite, or a ppm problem. I see you got 4 different Ca sources in there. Calcitic Lime, Gypsum, Bonemeal and Dolomite, you used quite little of each so hopefully you don't run into the same problem I did. also a whole different scenario when you mix it into the medium and you know what you doing. I clearly did not

woah that's a good deal actually... 2.8k for 240w samsung qb, not bad at all is this thing second hand? from 5.5k to 2.8k is quite a drastic price drop so I would just check with the seller what's the reason for selling and the history of the light. how long has it been running, all that stuff. would you still be able to choose a spectrum or you just have to take the one the person is selling? they give 3 options - 4000Kelvin - more of a veg light 3500Kelvin - could do both, but flowers will do better under even lower spectrum 3000Kelvin - more of a flower light

niiiiice that's a good design!! you could possibly still use the frame for the new light. cobs used to be the hot shit, but the tech is outdated now. it came and went like a wave. there are some good ones, but the blurple LEDs may aswell be discontinued as grow lights and I wouldn't complain don't get me wrong, they still have their place and I know from experience what they can do, but I guess there's no such thing as unnecessary school fees as long as you learning something I still owe my parents the fees they paid while I was skipping class like an idiot it would just be sooooooooooo much easier if there wasn't such a big variety of things dictating that there will br a "best of them" and the "worst of them". idealy we would all like to live in a world where everything it a quality product doesn't matter where you bought it or for how much. but that's not the case that's a crazy wiring situation!!! luckily it was earthed hey, but was the wire exposed where it made contact with the frame? not sure what LED strips you used, but what's cool about these new school smart LEDs with all kinds of different functions is that they have wire inserts instead of the old school exposed soldering or open wire connections. reducing the chances of running into that same problem they look like this.... you expose 5mm of wire, slide it into the little insert till the insulation touches the housing then you know you safe if you make use of wago connectorts you also won't have any exposed connections so no wires can touch anything.

while we're waiting for him, I see you say you can stretch it another 2k? giving you 4k total. heres my order from digikey, it's in your budget! those components all under 4k. then you just need the odds and ends, might be pushing the budget a little here, but can also work out good deals if you working local, can also get these things over time. Aluminium T-strips = R400 Wires = R200 Wire Connectors (wago) = R80 Plug = R30 weatherproof double sided tape = R80 small cable ties to make the wiring neat = R30

well @greenkush said you should be fine with those lights you got there so hopefully if he doesn't drop the link, atleast he'll teach you how to use your light correctly?

hopefully @greenkush gona sort you out!

cool cool, thanks bro I was just saying that because I was told recently I should check how I speak to people yeah you can get good deals for sure, but 3k is not exactly cheap. I said to stay away from cheap china stuff not every single thing from china why not link OP with the details so he can get himself something nice like you? he's already really close to 3k so it's possible

didn't mean to upset you or step on your toes about your alibaba light brother but technically, what I said was "if I may advise, stay as far as you possibly can from any cheap china stuff" with emphesis on the CHEAP. if it's cheap it can be made wherever in the world it would probably still not be advisable.

lol I ordered my stuff off Digikey and they in China too maybe I should've rather said to stay away from local china shops? or just the lights the FOYU brand produces?

if you go with the light skunkpharm recommended you still left with some cash to put into savings towards that DIY project that's gona drastically change the game for you. when it comes to growing weed indoors, your light quality is going to be one of, if not the biggest factor contributing to your success.

the suggestion made by skunkpharm is probably gona be the best thing for your situation right now. best bang for buck. it's 85w of proper grow light, I am willing to bet that light will outperform all your FOYU lights combined. if I may advise, stay as far as you possibly can from any cheap china stuff, especially when it comes to growing weed and you're focussed on quality. I would rather suggest using the sun as a light source than spending any of your hard earned money on china crap. you just shooting yourself in the foot forking out unnecessary school fees. once you ready to spend around 4 to 7k on a light I may be able to help you a little better, with a budget of around 6k you can easily import all components and build a light worth 10 to 15k. it's really easy as pie, like monkey puzzle for school kids, you follow the diagram, connect red to red, black to black, there you go. BOOM, BIG LIGHT just look at her go!!! that light cost me 4k to build myself.

Is it the GG#4 ? if it was was up to me I'd go with the GG, because of the lineage even if you don't get the best pheno it's bound to have a nice terpene profile and on the higher side on the THC count, but like I said that's just me, different strokes for different folks.