Naughty.Psychonaut

Goodmorning @Michelle Venter it's all about trichomes. when asking about harvesting there should be a bell going off in you head "TRICHOMES TRICHOMES TRICHOMES" 

what is a trichome you ask? well, it's the sticky cryatally sparkly things that look like sugar on your weed. they contain the compound that make us high and really is the focus here. 

Yeah that plant has its ways to go still! by the looks of it 2 to 4 weeks also wouldn't cut it. I would say you're only at around week 4 right now, those buds still have some stacking to do. you should think about 10 to 13 weeks in total. Don't look at pictures of other weed and hope and wait till your plant gets to looking like that. you'll wait forever. what you should be looking at is trichomes. 

where you growing that plant? with indoor grows it's easier to guesstimate a flowering time period, because you control the environment. outdoors things can be a little different as the way the plant performs is completely dependant on light cycle and other environmental factors. sometimes outdoor plants can take a little longer to finish, but what you've got there is a bag seed so this throws us dead in the middle of a guessing game. 

golden key - bag seed is cool for learning to grow, but if you looking to grow good weed easily, generally stay clear from bag seeds.

You're a grower now, you should get yourself one of these, this should take some of the guessing out of the game for you. for now.

https://hydroponic.co.za/hydroponics/microscope-loupe-40x/ 

then you need to study trichomes, they're your guide to when you should be harvesting. 

Clear Trichomes - Too early - early harvest can cause racey highs and may cause some people anxiety

50% Amber Trichomes (inside buds) - Ready to harvest 

Majority Amber Trichomes - Too late - late harvest can result in couch lock weed, even if it's sativa it'll make you feel sedated like indica.  

anyone ever had a bud that could only be described as "super weed"? I know I know it's a very corny thing to say, but one of the guys I used to buy from used to have moon cheese, he still gets it sometimes. the buds literally looked like moon rocks, but it was just normal bud, it looked like there was no way it came from a plant. smoking it tasted like dab or some really really good hash, but the high lasts as long as 4 to 5 hours. 

with extracts I can smoke a fat dab every hour or so, it just vibrates my brain and makes my toes curl, but dab don't keep me high. some flower I can only smoke 2 or 3 joints a day. 

If I come across weed like that I'll buy it just to treat myself

I've asked the guy many many times to get me a cutting, but it's the same as with the hitler strain, clone only and is kept private.

2 hours ago, ORGANinc. said:

So at the end of the day, all said and done, I like my weed best, If I go to another province, id much rather smoke my own weed than paying for premium grade weed somewhere. So I take it with me no matter what.

 

13 minutes ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

Hi bud, hope you are well! 

How much did you pay for that light? 

First I wana say I am not an LED master like some of the other forum members on here, but a short story is in order ...

I started out with a blurple light (blue / purple / red / pink) and it served me well for atleast one grow. I had buddies growing with all kinds of tech, the HID light grows still take the trophy for bud profuction, but because of the running costs it has become a thing of the past. LEDs made a wave when they came out with much less running costs and much less heat coming off the lights. Better all around, and for a while horticulturalists thought that having light in specific colours that do certain things for plants will be the best way to grow, but that quickly changed.

the idea behind using a blurple is giving the plant only the essential spectrums it uses during either veg or flower, but what time and countless experiments have shown, is that removing the non essential spectrums you are removing a very important part of what the plant needs. it's sort of like feeding the plant only macro nutrients without any micro nutrients, same concept, but not as diar.

the best light for plants is a full spectrum horticulture light. white light LEDs are a mixture of red blue and green/yellow light, that the human eye sees as white. mixing those colours at the right ratio will give you any colour you want, so in a sense by giving them white light you're giving them all colours. those are the best lights. 

check this out 

without anyone telling me I had my own experience with weed grown under my blurple and the same cuts being grown under my buddies HID lights. the difference was enough to make me think about going over to HID... 

this was when I started doing some deeper research and found that the new tech LEDs such as the samsung and the bridgelux horticulture LEDs are closing in one the production value of the old school HIDs. they're quite pricey when compared to blurples and even some HIDs, but when concidering the running cost, the environmental improvement, the lifespan and the end product the innitial price you pay will be well worth it. 

the reason I asked you what you paid for that light, is because my 300w blurp cost 6k at the time I got it, local brand so I can get it fixed easy and cheap. when researching blurps and doing PAR tests on the lights you'll find that the actual Wattage is significantly less than what is advertised. they blow up the numbers for marketing, but in reality my 300w blurp tests more around 240w.... for 6k .... keep that in mind... 

I built my own LED with samsung horiculture diodes, tests 310w, white light all for less than 4k. 

the design needs for no integrated fans or heat sinks for active cooling, because it's a bar style light and all parts are seperate so it never heats up. I can run the light for 12hrs and wrap my hand around the diodes and keep it there for hours. the heat is so little it's not even something to mention. 

my design also allows for much better focus, coverage and spread, because the whole canopy has diodes everywhere right above it. this and the fact that there's no heat means I can also hang my light a little closer to my plants with less stress and if I want a little less focus and intensity I hang the light right at the top of the tent. 

you can also put a potentiometer on your light to allow you to dim the light. I didn't do this, because I use my light just for flowering. so I need all the powa  

to sum this up 

I got a shitty 240w blurple with false specs and a shitty design that grows very airy weed in a 1x1 for 6k

I built a much much much better 310w white light with an amazing design that can easily light up a whole 1.2x1.2 and grow some golf ball buds for 4k

it's a no brainer, right?

my conclusions:

- you got a light that can grow your weed

- you going to need more light to light up the whole 1.5x1.5

- avoid blue/purple/red/pink lights in future

my advice: 

- use that blue light for the small tent (blue spectrum is more for vegging, so I don't know how well it will work for flower)

- get into researching some more about LEDs. 

here is a good place to start  

https://ledgardener.com/ 

The light I built was a step by step guide from this very website. very very very helpfull to those who want the help

Hi bud, hope you are well! 

How much did you pay for that light? 

First I wana say I am not an LED master like some of the other forum members on here, but a short story is in order ...

I started out with a blurple light (blue / purple / red / pink) and it served me well for atleast one grow. I had buddies growing with all kinds of tech, the HID light grows still take the trophy for bud profuction, but because of the running costs it has become a thing of the past. LEDs made a wave when they came out with much less running costs and much less heat coming off the lights. Better all around, and for a while horticulturalists thought that having light in specific colours that do certain things for plants will be the best way to grow, but that quickly changed.

the idea behind using a blurple is giving the plant only the essential spectrums it uses during either veg or flower, but what time and countless experiments have shown, is that removing the non essential spectrums you are removing a very important part of what the plant needs. it's sort of like feeding the plant only macro nutrients without any micro nutrients, same concept, but not as diar.

the best light for plants is a full spectrum horticulture light. white light LEDs are a mixture of red blue and green/yellow light, that the human eye sees as white. mixing those colours at the right ratio will give you any colour you want, so in a sense by giving them white light you're giving them all colours. those are the best lights. 

check this out 

without anyone telling me I had my own experience with weed grown under my blurple and the same cuts being grown under my buddies HID lights. the difference was enough to make me think about going over to HID... 

this was when I started doing some deeper research and found that the new tech LEDs such as the samsung and the bridgelux horticulture LEDs are closing in one the production value of the old school HIDs. they're quite pricey when compared to blurples and even some HIDs, but when concidering the running cost, the environmental improvement, the lifespan and the end product the innitial price you pay will be well worth it. 

the reason I asked you what you paid for that light, is because my 300w blurp cost 6k at the time I got it, local brand so I can get it fixed easy and cheap. when researching blurps and doing PAR tests on the lights you'll find that the actual Wattage is significantly less than what is advertised. they blow up the numbers for marketing, but in reality my 300w blurp tests more around 240w.... for 6k .... keep that in mind... 

I built my own LED with samsung horiculture diodes, tests 310w, white light all for less than 4k. 

the design needs for no integrated fans or heat sinks for active cooling, because it's a bar style light and all parts are seperate so it never heats up. I can run the light for 12hrs and wrap my hand around the diodes and keep it there for hours. the heat is so little it's not even something to mention. 

my design also allows for much better focus, coverage and spread, because the whole canopy has diodes everywhere right above it. this and the fact that there's no heat means I can also hang my light a little closer to my plants with less stress and if I want a little less focus and intensity I hang the light right at the top of the tent. 

you can also put a potentiometer on your light to allow you to dim the light. I didn't do this, because I use my light just for flowering. so I need all the powa  

2 hours ago, Ill_Evan said:

Le plan. 

no doubt you could do it with some of the weed you grow man

45 minutes ago, THCSA said:

Only the selected entrants will need to send in their 50g.

No. The 10 best will be selected. If some one enters after the selections they will be too late, unless the herb is worth making an exception for and adding. 

 

aha  

how does one go about getting nominated? and who judges that? 

the 100 judges also first come first in and any ol' Joe can enter, like my uncle who never smoked weed before? 

33 minutes ago, THCSA said:

I don't use words like "best" as it may offend someone.

people getting offended by everything, we are way too soft these days! When it's a competition there shouldn't be a problem with those terms, if a person wants to get offended when placing themself in a judged-by-the-public situation, they will just have to get over it and learn from the experience. hopefully it helps them grow and rise to the occasion so they can better themself. those that don't learn naturally gets weeded out over time, because no one likes a overly emotional person with a bad attitude.

we all get offended by different stuff, but who cares? we can't all bend over backward everytime someone gets a little butthurt about their feelings.

2 hours ago, ORGANinc. said:

Or maybe this isn't really the place for finding participants and that's already sorted, we can count on a pre-selected bunch of A-grade growers, all 10 of which are some of the best in SA  All you gotta do is go smoke some bud and confirm such!

there is such a huge hidden network of big time growers right under our noses. every corner I turn I hear about some big time grower I never knew about. it's safe to say that Cape Town has some very serious growers. the likes of which this forum doesn't see too often. 

I sometimes forget that people have been growing and selling super dank weed around CPT for years and years and years and those growers or their children are still around doing big things. they just don't care to make themselves known. 

looking at some of the other grow competitions I see people and names I've never heard of, always asking myself "where did this guy come from all of a sudden" forgetting that every big time grower has a number of years of experience behind them, but what they do right is keeping quiet. operating in silence. 

then they wait for competitions like these and just pop out to steal the show

23 hours ago, THCSA said:

Only 10 cultivars will be entered and they will be selected before the event. There will be an element of first come first in for entrants. But quality is the top priority when making our pre-selection.

does this mean some people will be sending you 50g with the chance of not being selected for the comp? 

or are you guys taking the first 10 entries no questions asked?

poor dr.phil doesn't even know the worst of it! or should I say, "mr.phil"? since he's not a real dr.? 

lol he should look into some metaphysics himself, maybe he can resolve some of his own issues that way too

I see you yeah there shouldn't be conclusions on these types of discussions cause we wheren't part of the team who wrote the books or "rules", these are all opinions

I can't speak on institutional religions, because my perspective of it is that it's the worst thing that has ever happened to anything and everything on earth and that is pretty much set in stone, so I don't talk about it much because of that whole "unpopular opinion = truth" thing.

accepting death can be something beautiful, just remember without death there would be no life and no magic trick has ever really been done. the mind is easily tricked, though it is capable of all kinds of magic, within itself.

but yeah, respectfully ending my string of opinions here ✌  

have a lekker day brother!! 

@Righteoussower what's goooood bud  

just checking, what are you doing with the smaller tent at the moment? those lights in the big tent, what are their specs and did you get hanging instructions with them?

with those 2 small lights it might be better sticking those plants in the small tent with both those lights. you'll get the reflection from the sides of the tent wall instead of loosing that light. you got fans and everything in the small one too?

it seems you are either doing LST or topped some of the plants, just note that the younger the plant when implimenting any stress the more severe the stunting will be. especially with autos. 

the 2 extractor fans in the big tent are fine. as long as you're not hurting your tent by creating too strong of a negative pressure. you might wana turn the smaller extractor around to rather push fresh air in and having a active FAE instead of creating a vaccuum with a passive FAE.

in my lifetime I have gone through a whole bunch of phases, I have been complete different people at different times in my life, my name has never defined me and it never will. it's just an easy way to call me out from the crowd. 

I believe the metaphysical realm only exists to humans, the power of words people speak of, they don't exist to any other species on earth. Humans created that power in their own minds. 

the true power is the mind itself. 

call your dog over, shout at him that you love him and a angry tone and watch his reaction - he'll get scared. now tell him you hate him in a loving tone and see how he reacts - he'll show loving affection. this experiment alone shows you only words only effect humans a certain way because we create that power for them to do so in our own minds. 

same situation with plants, you know how plants react to music? you can literally play deathmetal lyrics in symphonic melodic no harsh tunes and the plants will be loving life. same with vice versa, play loving lyrics with a deathmetal tune the plant won't like it very much. because there are no power in words. only in the metaphysical realm, but that also only exists in the human mind. 

10 minutes ago, ORGANinc. said:

FUCKen Chernobyl was a horrendous event that should never be carried over as a weed strain name for Shit, dam, Fuggits sake!  

But in all honestly, I do believe there is power is words and names. Ill put it this way, i'm not in anyway inclined to go out of my way to find Mr Hitlers strain or Chernobyl.

either way keep on keeping ooon!

well, shit... you're missing out man those are two amazing strains you turning your back on! if you do dna sequencing on those plants it wont say hitler and chernobyl, they'll give a code number/name. the generic names really have very little to do with it. the name is just a stupid lable to be able to easily identify it amongst others for the general public it's easier to remember something like hitler or chernobyl, than to remember something like "PX12JFMS976" 

not trying to change anyones mind, but honestly you wouldn't even know if you where smoking those strains till someone told you what it is and just going off that fact alone it's kinda hard to understand what the hate is all about. both hitler and chernobyl are amazing strains.

smoking or growing or naming strains those names doesn't support the events in any kinda way it's not like we are sending money to the institution of Hitler by indulging in that strain. it's not even his strain, it's just a strain. 

shock value is a marketing tactic. you know the strain called lambs breath? it's not quite chernobyl or hitler, but it's offensive nonetheless. or do people really like the breath of a lamb? same with stuff like gorilla glue, garlic sherbert, herijuana, AK47, trainwreck, god bud, cat piss, skunk, amnesia, durban poison... who really wants to smoke any of that stuff or even be thinking about those stuff when smoking? those are all terrible things in general, but ask yourself why do they make such good weed names? cause they're offensive. 

do you get reminded of what a joyfull even a trainwreck is when you smoke trainwreck or is it the smell of a trainwreck that is nice? maybe because people like sending money to make more trainwrecks happen? just imagine you actually lost a loved one in a trainwreck, and the best medicine for you is in trainwreck weed, but you don't want the healing cause you don't like the name very much. kinda funny and again shows how little the name has anything to do with the weed itself. ✌ 

still stretching, DS the taller ones, BHP in the back right cathing up to the rest and FA in the middle, rest is all DS  

these plants may have been stunted, from the previous photo it's clear to see that they where a bit hungry, it took them a few days to settle into the soil, but they got their roots in now and it seems growth has finally kicked in. better colour on all the leaves aswell. I am happy

one plant in this run has changed, got a Chernobyl cutting, TGA genetics, it will be replacing the Deluxe Sugarcane for this run as I have some DS buds in jars and another 3 plants in flower so I will have a load of DS for a while, keeping a mother around for sure  

haven't smoked Chernobyl, have only heard good things making me think about the Hitler discussion from a while back

anyway, here they are, only the 5 in the bigger pots

Yeah the fat leaves are completely normal

another note of interest, not sure if you watered right before photo was taken, but the medium looks quite saturated and that little plant is very young still, it's easy to cause stress or stunt root growth on a young plant if there's a lack of oxygen at the roots. if you're growing in organic medium it's quite important to let the medium dry before watering again and when you do water to not completely saturate the medium, but rather just give what the plant can use. for small plants like those I usually go around 250ml to 500ml only when the medium is dry. the roots must do some work to go looking for the water, the more you get the roots moving the more the plant will grow up top.

what would work even better, is a still air box. now that you growing mushrooms, you should look into this, gona change the game. 

the tub I mentioned above, it can be a real big one. infact the bigger the better. if you can get the biggest tub, do it, then cut 2 holes for your hands in the side. then you never have to lift the tub at all, you just stick your hands in and do everything inside there. remember to still wear mask and gloves and spray and wipe down everything. 

but like this.... took a photo from google

1 minute ago, Ill_Evan said:

Wishing you the best of luck my man. I've actually low-key been checking on MyShrooms and the PF Tek methods and such for a little while now and am watching your journey from a distance. If it goes well I might jump on it too 

Do it! Do it! Do it!  

I believe mushrooms have way more health benefits than weed, and if you can grow a psilocybe you can grow a whole bunch of different mushrooms. the understanding is mostly the same, just the resources that's gona differ. such as the substrates different mushrooms prefer and different environmental conditions.  

once you get the hang of it, it can be extremely cheap. way cheaper than growing weed and takes less space.

31 minutes ago, Weskush said:

@Biltong and Budz are sending me a replacement. Prompt response and service from their side

Will give it another go

That's awesome of them, excellent service! I wonder how many times they'll send you a replacement? Till you get it right hahah this actually gives me confidence to order from them have ordered many of these syringes and never got replacements! 

before you get started this time. do you have a pressure cooker? if not you can use a normal pot, but I would suggest steam cooking your BRF cake before doing anything. and get 70% rubbing alcohol for this, works best for many reasons. anything higher will evaporate too quick to kill anything. I use 70% wintergreen rubbing alcohol from dischem. 

prep your area, close all windows, wipe away all dust, then spray 70% alcohol and wipe down the surface where you gona do inoculation. get a big tub you cac put over your brf jar and syringe, spray and wipe down the inside of the tub. spray the brf jar and syringe both so they're dripping alcohol, put them on a paper towel and put the tub over them so that no dust falls down on them. 

this is a good time to put on a mask and some gloves, grab another few paper towels, spray and wipe down your gloves and fore arms just outside of the glove, grab a paper towel and carefully lift the tub an don't create a wind with your arms or hands as you move. like you doing operation, you got a mask on also not to breathe germs onto everything. so be sure there is no air moving around. wipe down the brf jar, carefully lift the tub back up, put the brf jar back under the tub, leave a alcohol soaked paper towel ontop of the injection port, as you take the syringe out from under the tub and wipe that down aswell. now lift the tub again carefully and set it aside, take a lighter and flame sterilise your syringe needle, take the alcohol soaked paper towel you left ontop of the brf jar and wipe it down nicely, as you lift the jar you slide in the needle and as you inject the liquid you move the syringe around so you can spread the liquid in the jar and not inoculate it all in one place. 

here is a video on the pftek kit from MyShrooms. also a good step by step, but there are few things I would do differently. 

That video is just to show a little of Alans workshop setup.

Here is a nice video on the PF tek, youtube has quite a lot. 

only thing I do differently, I don't use my lids I just use tin foil.

there are instructional videos on the myshrooms page aswell. 

first thing that comes to mind, first time I smoked obviously one never parts with that memory, but there's no big story around my first time. 

second that comes to mind. the highest I have ever been, I have a couple stories, but a hand full of them start with smoking a chillum with some rastas. especially those hash chillums.... dear god.... puff puff puff puff puff till you get a big cherry going then take the biggest hit of your life, will make your vision blurry for a few seconds as you try with all your might to not cough and let the smoke out slowly and little bit at a time, otherwise you risk a cough you gona cough for hours. 

seriously, fuck any extract or any "pure" whatever, smoke a chillum with the rastas you'll forever know what being high really means. when you have to walk away from the crowd to get fresh air, you turn back to look at everyone and it's like you lost your perception of depth and you seeing double, almost feels like you could pass out at any moment. couple deep breaths of fresh air and a sip of water you'll be good and higher than you have ever been, no doubt. 

I remember watching the Ganjier on youtube, they discuss all kinds of things for Cannabis connoisseurs. The host Derek Gilman had Frenchy Canoli on, THE hashman! Frenchy packed a hash chillum, this is the only episode Derek actually had a time out after the hit he blew out the smoke and immediatly handed off the chillum! that man was wobbling in his seat feeling like he is about to fall off the side of the planet. hahahahah I am telling you guys, if you have not experienced a proper chillum smoke, it's a bucketlist thing. you'll have a new respect for cannabis and how powerful it can be. 

Dereks chillum hit at 22:30

I had a look now on B&B and it turns out the "PF classic" is actually a strain, that was named after the pf tek, that was made famous by the same man who named it. I learn something new every day  

I know when I look up Psilocybe species nothing of the sorts comes up, no mention of PF classic as a species of psilocybe. 

If you wana know everything there is to know about any psilocybin containing mushrooms, even the few of those outside of the psilocybe genus group, check out Allan Rockefeller. Dude is currently the lead mycologist in the world with a focus on psychoactice mushrooms, pushing out the most information ever on mushroom mycroscopy than anyone has ever before. and it's just him doing it alone and he is doing it from a lab he put together himself. didn't study a thing. check this video... 

notice what he said at 19:30

"if any of this shit is flying over your heads don't worry about it, you hear these words enough you go read up about them. you can use the internet to look at pictures of butts and food or you can use it to teach yourself something"  

and at 26:20 

"no, I didn't go to school, I just started doing it"

shits inspirational hahahah

@Weskush brother, I am sorry if I missed it, but do you still have anything in the syringe? did you empty the syringe ino the tub, or you saved a few drops? 

8 minutes ago, Weskush said:

Shot bru. It was PF Classic spore syringe and PF Tek kit. I used everything. From B&B's site by The Mushroomry if i stand correct. Will dispose and start over.

They lable them as spore syringes, but they're actually liquid culture syringes. That's because the already germinated spores and culture form of the mushroom awell as the mushroom itself is all illegal, so they have to say they're spores. 

I had to dig up an old email from 2020, discussing this with Dave from MyShrooms, he confirms it. 

here is my email to him

here's the reply 

but no stress, it's actually better that way. if you still have a few drops of culture I could possibly still save you

you must get directly from myshrooms. I've gotten a few clean syringes from them. 

https://www.myshrooms.co.za/product-category/psilocybin-mushrooms/

there are all their different strains available. 

PF tek means Psilocybe Fanaticus technique, it's not a strain, it refers to the technique a person uses to grow psilocyin containing mushrooms. usually talking bout the old school method of using brown rice flour and vermiculite as a substrate and making "cakes" also known as BRF cakes. 

this is what you where doing, but the strain of mushroom you grew must have been given to you at some point during the exchange, usually psilocybe cubensis.