Naughty.Psychonaut

Lookin reeeal good!!! remember to clone them before flowering them out, high probability you gona wana grow them again or at least the winner pheno!

I'd be down to clown with yous just gotta time it nicely as I got my space full and backlogged as fuuuug, but can easily make plans if I got enough time. More than happy to do a outdoor thing if it falls during the outdoor season, realised my outdoor winter veg setup sucks ass everything is on pause

Yew, bro that looks great Well done!! The suagr leaf amount differs form genetic to genetic and from plant to plant, but when the weed is just for you then bag appeal doesn't really matter all that much. I know a dude that jars his buds with very very minimal trimming just cz he figures thats how he likes it. Buying indoor you expect to find a solid dense bud with big fat resin coated calyxes instead of a bunch of leafyness, but you notice now as you continue to grow that those "perfectly formed buds" are all mostly phenotype related and then your condotions and how you look after them play a smaller roll. When pheno hunting one of the key factors people hunt for is the plant that offers the least trimming work when, big chunky buds with very little leaf. Not every genetic will make "instagram worthy" buds, but even out of the gene pool that does make perfect buds there will be a phenotype that makes better looking buds than the rest. 2 big players in bud density will also be your lights and overall plant health, but if the genetic phenotype don't allow it, you can put it under the best light with the best health it'll still just make airy leafy buds.

Yeah, I also don't think it's a race thing - like I said here but also, huge difference in the word "culture" and "race". I talk about both individually. Though, to be very clear, as soon as a person highlights the issue and that person happens to be white, then it becomes a race thing, through reverse racism. which in turn is a perfect example of corruption. I am not saying it must be that way, I am just saying that it is already like that. can't deny it. You've seen the Bheki Cele vs. Ian Cameron videos? Even if a white man wants to protect a black child from being raped = racism........ The problem - white man tells black man "what you are doing is wrong" = racism (reverse racism) where as black man tells white man "what you are doing is wrong" = normal. That's not the way it should be, but sadly it just is, because there's a live nerve that's extra sensitive and exposed. If it so happens that a black person gets offended by the truth that was told to them by a white man immediately they will ignore anything you said and throw the race card. race doesn't even have to be mentioned. It's 2023, these days it's just common place for white people to "know their place" and "know what's OK to say and what's not OK to say", everyone constantly walking on eggshells, cause we trying to avoid having anyone thinking that you're racist, based on their own level of ignorance and it being perpetuated by the masses, but again, sadly it just is that way already. You can loose all your credibity being labled a racist in the public eye, and trust me you will be labled like that just cause of the sheer amount of racial hatred in SA, it has happened MANY times before. That's kinda what got us to the point of having a braindead muppet for a president in the first place.... don't you think? and in all other factions of our country it's this same shit. schools dropping passing rate to below 30% cause there's a certain ethnic group that believes maths and science is racist and it hurts the ego of the "culturally enriched" so rather let the WHOLE country go backwards just to spare the feelings and egos of a shit-for-brains idiot who can't even read. The problem runs much deeper than "the president is corrupt".... It's not really as much discouraging as it is just plain sad. The fact that the majority of African citizens can't really comprehend what racism actually is. Now, because of constantly blaming white people and not adressing the real problem there are many suffering under their own "wisdom" and too proud to admit it and they will vote ANC again... lets not forget there's also shit happening way below the ANC, there's a massive EFF following in SA aswell. The root of SA has run rotten to it's core. Not all, but a lot of EFF followers are indiginous SA people, to even fathom the idea that those people will see the point a white man has to make is way too far to reach, because there's a threshold in their minds they created themself and now they cannot cross it. any mistake within their own community is directly a white mans fault, so all they do is kap another black lable and loose stuyvesant and make more babies, then when there's nothing to eat again it's white peoples fault. So yeah, it's defs about race to some degree. I am not saying it should be about race, but denying that it's racial is just as silly. The ANC Just masks it a bit better than the EFF. same horse different saddle. Our "leaders" literally lead with racial hatred, trying to "take back what belongs to them" You're right, it's not a race thing, but do you really think our "leaders" think it's not about race? Have you noted the ethnic diversity of the ANC? It's sad, but it's true. so yeah, like you said, we have to adress the problems not by colour but by behaviour, sadly the people you have to voice your concerns to don't see it the same way. they just see your colour. Doesn't matter how I see, or how you see it, or how William or Dick or James or Harry or any individual sees it..... infact seeing it in any certain kinda way will not dictate how it really is so I can see it as not racist, does that change anything in reality? Still the leaders and masses of followers thinking it is about race, that's what needs to change first. the people thinking it's a race thing and sadly those are the leaders... perfect definition of catch-22. a mirror of confusion. Just to add a little footnote here for those who made conclusions already - I am white and my SO isn't.

Yeah we gotta learn to stand together, no point in telling the people who wana adress the problem that they are the problem Protesting when the time calls for it, petitioning and filling out petitions, raising concerns on public forums, filling forms that's presented to governing bodies, local groups and forums for the fight against the governing bodies. We can say vote, but the options are always between enemy1 and enemy2, not about voting anymore really. It's about eliminating the enemy. like they say - better the devil you know. What we have is bad, but we know this, what comes after might be even worse. We can say it's not a race thing either, because the reality of it is that there's a large number of SA individuals that share the same cultural background as these corrupt leaders, and even they don't agree with what's happening. When race gets involved is when it's a person with white skin pointing out the problems. What needs to happen is we need to group together and have the people who come from the same demographics point out their problems. There's a video that went viral a while back of a Xhosa whoman sitting in a parking lot recording from her car, not filming anything in particular, but she was talking about how pre-1994 you would go to the traffic departments / health departments / home affairs department - basically every government run institution and you would be back out of there within an hour or two, you would have someone help you with ease and compitence. things where just in better order, even for those under the apartheid regime say things where run better back then. these days you literally have to take a day off work if you need to go to any of these places and you would probably have to come back, cause theres 10 desks but only 2 of them have employees behind it and they swop out once the one comes back the other one gets up, fuckall gets done, every 10min there needs to be a 5min food break with a extra 3min leisure time. I am sure we have all dealt with this, but just you - as a white man - dare point out the problem and it blows up in your face and you become the problem. I stand around looking at all the other individuals that share the same ethnicity as the POS behind the desk, and they all standing there with their heads up their asses thinking that there's no way they could ever be capable of doing anything wrong, because "this is their country", then they turn around and completely neglect their own brothers and sisters crying for help that's incompetency to a new height. can't even do corruption right so corrupt, the corruption is corrupt...... every chance they get they blame Jan Van Riebeeck for our current situation, now they are over shooting and doing reverse racism against their own kind. gotta suck to be that dumb. White all over the world can call for change in SA, sadly not untill more of their own bothers and sisters stand up against them will they listen. These SA politicians still getting waaaaaayy too much support and sympathy from our citizens.

Nah, not nearly the same problems brother lets quickly leave the WEF and WHO out of this, as you know the W stands for "world". we can discuss this also, but I feel it's got very little to do with the problem here in SA, plus I'd much rather deal with those problems sitting on another continent than be stuck here dealing with trying to pay attention to 100's of different problems, once you pay attention to one problem the others flairs up. We gotta learn to pay attention to the problem at hand, no point in even thinking about moving to the moon, though it may be a solution that's obviously not the only option either and no one should allow themself to think that way. First you tackle and try change what you can, the problem right infront of you. Taking it step by step, no use in trying to reach to either side of the extreme end of the spectrum, let's just talk like normal people. I am not trying to "save the world with one sentence", I am just adressing problems, calling them like I see them. At this point what seems even more ridiculous is the people being blissfully unaware of a thing called "the middle ground". As soon as someone wants to point out a problem then people wana call them negative and jump on the "don't come with problems, come with solutions" high horse.... well, duh, obviously you can't reach a solution if you haven't succesfully identified the problem first. The only reason to see someone pointing out a problem as negative is because you're being negative yourself. Pointing out problems is half of the solution, but only the positive people will be aware of that. so let's keep moving forward. Life isn't finite, change is the only constant. We CAN change this, but definitly not with the shoulder shrug and the "well we've gone too far already" attitude. that's also part of the problem. We're being forced to accept a culture that base its pride in corruption and masking it with "richness" of not moving forward as a collective community and play the victim card at every opportunity. The whole world has tried to help Africa, not only South Africa, the whole Africa. Send food, send money, send education, send farming infrastucture and resources and its the same shit everytime - it's run straight into the ground, shit gets wrecked and not looked after, farming resources is seen as a food rather than a source to farm to make more food, free schools are being broken and burnt down and taken advantage of... right now we begging for electricity, while we got Koeberg just sitting pretty on the coast there.... so much talk about Eskom I bet lots of us even forgot the name "Koeberg".... Don't give me "that's the best they could do under circumstances" bullshit. Eskom was a powerhouse of a entity in its early years, when it was run right and with competent leaders who atleast knew the answer to 1+1. Now it's a steaming pile of and no one is to blame?????? hahahahah yeah right, that's like when I was 6 and broke someone elses toy, then say it was like that when I found it, and when someone calls me out on my bullshit I wana throw a fit. Let's take a closer look - Even on a more primitive level the tribes in the amazon live more communual and better lives than the central african tribes. there's a misnomer when it comes to cultural richness. those tribal amazonian kids may seem inferior to you, but they're warriors, know a lot more about survival than we do as grown ass adults with guns and the internet... Where as unclothed African children just die of starvation cause "there's no food", and in African logic the only way to combat that problem is to make more babies and do even less farming and then the victim card comes up. Like there's never been an attempt to help them and the whole world owes them something. Need I remind you of all the ethic groups that has faced oppression in the past? Literally every ethnic group has faced oppression, Africans are the only ones that seem to not be able to rise to the occasion. Don't get me wrong, I know there are still diseases and other problems that these indigenous "tribes" haven't dealt with, but you also know those kids don't get a cold or flu as easily as we do, and that translates much importance to those who know. Their immune systems are stronger than ours, they got a much more diverse and natural diet than us. Their tiny muscles are capable of much more than the modern gym rats. With all that said I am sure a bunch of you still gona think this way, so let me be clear and say obviously I don't mean we need to go back to the year 1 and start eating rats and bathe once a year without soap. let's get back to what I said before -middle ground- there are ways to take steps backward and it still being in the right direction, we don't need to hike to the fucking moon to resolve earths problems, who the hell actually thinks that way? We just backpedal a bit, we take concepts from both sides of the spectrum and incorporate them, find balance. At the moment with the "you owe us" mentality of our leaders and the "everything is fine" mentality of our citizens are the two major problems to tackle. First if ALL SA citizens wake up to what's wrong the leaders wont be able to lead anymore. It's people like my mom still thinking ramapoeskop has her or my wellbeing of in his interests, just because he said "my fellow south africans" and she chooses to be a part of that. She knows he lies about like 90% of what he is saying, but when he says how he is there to help us then she believes him. That's the problem. Not the WHO or the WEF, though that's also a problem, just on a grander scale. It's a different topic though, I do chat with people about it and we can't look at it through the SA lens. If we in SA can change this "cultural pride" back to "competency" we already making strides, if we can stop saying "this is fine" we already making strides. if we can stop being positive about negative shit we making strides. if we can just adress the problem head on we half way there.

Hey bud, hope you are well. You can just ignore all this if you wana, but I gotta say R5500 for 150watt is reeeeeeaally steep, no matter how you look at it, just to give you a few points. •the qb style is outdated, anyone spending more than around 3k on a light gona lean more away from old qb style build and rather go for a bar style. design / layout of the build can make a huge impact on growing environment. •for around 3k you can get a locally built LED qb samsung LM301h/b diodes and a Meanwell driver - currently top of the line diodes and drivers for growing plants, compiled by a team of horticultural engineers, much better diodes than osram got out. (source: https://ledgardener.com/diy-led-strip-build-designs-samsung-bridgelux/ ) •local builds sell better cause if anything breaks you can easily have it fixed in way shorter time than having to deal with imported products. and quality really is key here. if somethings imported I expect it to be cheaper or at least quality has to make up for spending so much more. in this case there are higher quality local options for cheaper. that "imported" tag shouldn't make it more expensive as it doesn't add anything to the light itself. it actually turns people away from buying it. (few options: https://www.greenhouston.co.za/products/quantum-board-led-125w ) if we looking at spending upwards to 5-6k on a qb we looking at more around 250watt. and then it's gotta have samsung diodes + it's locally made. eg. even within the line of samsung diodes there's a price differences in the LM301H and the LM261C and all the rest, and that's based on their output/efficiency. some are just better than others, I can sit here and explain to you till I am blue in the face, but I also did drop the LEDgardener source for you to have a looksee, all the info is there. people used to lean towards importing cause SA is stuck in 1950 when it comes to accessibility to top of the line products, but luckily the cannabis community don't wait on no one, we push till we make it and these days people are stocking big names locally, Migrow, Nanolux, Fluence.... those kinda brands, besides that there are plenty of local LED manufacturers that make use of the top of the line products, we even have one here on the forum, Mr.E. builds some of the craziest LED bar lights you can find locally, I come across a few others, I know LEONLED used to be popular, not sure if he is producing anymore....but yeah man, that R5500 for just 150w is like..... it's just way out. juuuuust a few pointers, all love and respect brother

when is a good time to say "I told you so" quite a bunch on here still gona sing the same old song been ready for that civil war for a while now though if it doesn't happen soon SA is loosing a soldier. would much rather high tail out this fucking hellhole, never been a patriot kind. plus they say the grass is greener where you water it, so just remember to keep watering wherever you move to and you be good. can really play with metaphors

5 seeds = 3 clear different phenos, with notable differences in structure, size and leaves - got 2 tall girls with slight variations between the 2 of them, then another 2 medium sized that look identical very very little variation between these two and then one odd girl very compact short bushy babe. slight variations on all morphology, though there's more uniformity that can be noted than variations. Same smells coming off all except 1 of the taller girls got a more chemical leaning smell - almost like the kiddies strawberry flavoured toothpaste, sweet but chemical kinda smell. cut the first 2 clones off each girl yesterday, here's to hoping for at least 1 of each to root. Family Photo - 1 through 5 left to right Close ups 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - that's all for now folks, next update we will be looking at bud morphology.

I vote dry trim all the way

Yeah that'll be the best way, I usually have one or two clones I've taken from my indoor plants and just leave them outside to do their thing, but when septemer comes we move into veg time so then you can't take a plant outside to flower it. Gona be tricky now if you start a plant and give it one to two months veg, then we in veg season outdoors anyway, then you gona need to keep her indoors to flower The months kinda represent the seasons, but for outdoor cannabis it's spring season = sowing season, summer = veg and then fall and winter = flower, but this is all based on the hours of daylight and the solstices, when a certain area hits longest day and shortest night and vice versa, that's a better indication of the changing of the seasons and sometimes it hits different areas at different times. it's always been kinda changing little by little as nature does and every year it will fall on a different day, but has shifted quite drastically in the last few years so a lot of outdoor growers have experienced strange flower cycles. you can easily just google the sunrise and sunset hours in your area and you can also monitor your yard to see what area gets the longest period of direct sunlight in a day, but this also changes in summer and winter so then placing of your outdoor grow becomes important. My yard sucks for outdoor cannabis growing, doesn't stop me from having plants outside, but they do all kinds of strange things. basically no part of my yard gets direct sunlight for long enough to make a good veg spot and there's stray lights all around the house, streetlights and outdoor lights so always got plants going into flower way too early from not enough sunlight hours during the day then they foxtail from getting stray lights all night stuff to keep in mind

Man, these local genetics grow too fast I was planning on having the flower tent at least halfway done before even thinking bout flipping these. gotta clone them asap then flip I guess Will take them out the tent to photograph individually and note a few characteristics I am picking up in during veg, but we all know it's the end result that matters most

Threw the net down, just recovering from all the bending and manipulation then flipping this babe hope everyones having a lekker weekend

@Simeon Ayy, don't forget the claw! The claw is early onset signs of excessive N. Though the claw would sometimes be more of a "sudden bend" instead of that gradual curl. Have you been feeding the plant? Transplanted recently? Any way she's suddenly getting more nutes? The spraying during darkness is usually way waaaaayy more important than just spraying as a means to and end. I am not sure why that bit of info always gets left out, but there are 3 big reasons why it's such a no no - most spray applications, even stuff like wormjuice or compost teas are degraded by UV (this is why, with organic media the very top soil is always the least "alive", even on earths surface, most biological activity happens under the ground in complete darkness away from direct UV. this is why we can clean water using UV) so spraying organic stuff while the sun is out degrades the stuff you spray, and with organics being that sensetive you'll be surprisde to know chemical sprays are even more UV sensetive.... and in a much more sinister way. chemicals exposed to UV can turn into other chemicals... then ontop of UV degrading the applied product the droplets on the leaf surface can form a magnification effect and sun rays or light might actually burn that spot. Lastly, and I think most important there is, surfactant... let's get into it. These "pores" we talking bout, scientific name is Stomata. They're the mouth part of the plant that "inhales" and "exhales". Now when we spray, doesn't matter what we spray, we have to mix it with water. Water has a surface tention (when you have droplets on a surface the droplet will be in the form of a drop, the sides of the water is the water tention keeping it in that shape. stuff like soap and oil breaks the water tention and cause the droplet to spread out) when we spray stuff it's recommended to always add a surfactant to break the surface tention of the water. this will help coat the surface of the leafs better aswell as allow for better uptake of whatever you sprayed as it's hitting "more of the plant" instead of forming droplets and leaving residue on the leaves with a potential to burn, residue means it was too much for the plant to uptake. now, surfactant makes whatever you spray more oily and that's a good thing. not a bad thing. so I am a bit hesitant to believe that the oil part of the neem oil is not allowing the plant to breathe. I am religious bout my neem spray, always got full organic surfactant and only spray in complete darkness, none of my plants have ever shown this reaction. Once took a plant from a buddy, didn't see the spider mites till it was on my property, kept her in quarantine, hit her with neem one week, pyrol next week, then neem again and by the second time I had to spray pyrol and the mites still put up a fight I made the neem 1.5 × strenght, straight up burnt the fuck out that plant, 90% of the plant turned to a necrotic crisp, so I am not totally against the idea that neem may have caused this either, but I guess the given condition of the plant and the strength of the application and the time of day all that stuff comes into play. but it could very well be a soil issue, just gotta check what's the what what around your feeding/watering been lately?

Second to harvesting the prep phase is probably my favourite, also most important! Starting a new thread, that's up to you I guess if you like things organized and just wana make it easier for people to find certain info through searches instead of seeing an introduction thread people won't really think there's much usefull info in the thread, but if you make a new thread that relates more to the topic of questions you wana ask it'll just be easier to spot for people looking for some info. also probably depends on if it's just a couple of questions or like ongoing conversation, but yeah still up to you we still reply no matter the thread topic I would vote for indoor, but I see lots of indoor growers going back outdoors as SA is such a lovely place to be in with all the loadshedding buttfuckery, at least we have good sun! Just not good time right now to start outdoor grow as it's flower season till September/October.

Awesome! I'm excited to see what you gona do there's a lot of hype around the local breeders, I see a lot of their stuff on instagram and it looks like some local guys giving the US breeders a run for their money! Some names I see - Nocturnal Genetics, Headhoncho, Black Flag, Senpai and then we all know Totemic, and there's a whole bunch more. Check out this site with all the locals https://owlsroostsa.com/bird-seed/

Welcome Got any grows going at the moment?

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Only a pleasure bud Hmmmm Short answer is no, but I may have to try explain things a little different. You see, what I was trying to get at with the wormcastings as topdress is that you wana achieve a balance, not exactly feed the plants and ontop of that any liquid feed, no matter where it comes from or how it's made, will always cover less of a spectrum of "stuff" than most wormcastings. So the worm juice is nice as a balance keeper, but again you can never look at any liquid input as the basis of your grow, not even worm juice. That's more like a compost tea, it'll just restore the balance in your soil. It's not a feed at all, neither is wormcastings. Wormcastings, worm juice and topdressings are all just "essentials" to balance your soil. Nutrient feed comes after that. It's two completely different things. The black soil you collected will surely help bring IMO to your soil, it will help, but even less than the wormcastings in the way of "feeding" your plants. I'd rather add that black soil to the worm bin and let the IMO populate like that. In small pots like you have there, with a soil media that doesn't offer much for the IMOs to stay alive, you'll be adding that black soil only to have the IMO die out anyway. You see, you can reach a point where the soil is so well balanced you can give clean water right from seed all the way through to veg, but that's really only possible if you been building, conditioning and cooking the soil before you planted. Once you have to topdress you already missed, same with feeds, and you can never topdress or add stuff to soil while you are growing in it that'll ever bring it close to a well rounded soil. Basically, by the standard of your soil demanding ongoing maintenance, because it's not a well rounded soil, it'll mean you have to way more to upkeep the plant health than a person would who made good soil to begin with. I also mentioned that there are even better stuff than wormcastings to use as a topdress, cause worm casting is just a broad spectrum fertilizer and every batch differs from the next so you don't always get the same results. The more you rely on "just one thing" the more trouble you creating for yourself. Which brings me to the next point, the moringa in the worm bin, it's an awesome addition to the worm bin for sure, but the secret is balance and diversity. moderation of everything. when you get into KNF you'll see that you even add fungal shit and all kinds of fish juice and fermented fruits and grain juices and shit. there's a saying in organic cannabis growing that goes - stink in stink out, but obviously what kinda stink? obviously not rancid sour chemical smelling stuff. It's not always what you think it is or what seems the most straight forward. If you read somewhere about moringa, that's cool, but don't focus on it. Growing a moringa tree will take kak long before you can actually harvest from it sustainably. Infact the secret to a healthy worm bin is a healthy Carbon:Nitrogen ratio, not moringa. If you focus on moringa you may throw out the carbon to nitrogen ratio and create more harm than good. Some dry amendments out there are nutrient power punch products, you take clean coco/perlite add a hand full of the stuff snd it turns the soil into rich well balanced soil, thought that's not going to be the cheapest stuff on the shelf and to use stuff that strong you reeeeeally need to be ontop of your game, not for beginners kinda stuff.

Hahahah nice, yeah Ripper does proper work. What made you decide on them? I'm now leaning towards upping plant count in my small space and downscaling plant size, been itching to get a breeding project going more focussed on the craft than the seeds, but yeah space always the limiting factor. yeyeyeee what you got planned?

Awesome, glad you didn't use that ph stuff Now you just let them dry out till around 50% moisture (you can still use the probe thing for that) Once they reach better moisture levels and not stunted anymore they'll start to pick up speed, you'll notice the moisture levels in the soil fluctuating a lot more as the plant starts to grow faster and drinking more and more. Pro tip for these cold times, especially with smaller pots - I got a small fish tank air pump to aerate my water, also got filter water here, but I catch rain water when I can and it's been pouring down like a bitch down here so I got a lot now, but with it standing outside it gets cold as piss and even that'll stunt your plants, the smaller the plant the more affected by the cold, what I do is take a 20L bucket, fill it half way as I would with the filter water, but together with a fishtank airstone I submerge a fishtank heater to warm the water up to 30°C. your plants will do a happy dance for you The reason we saying get ready with the feed stuff is, well you can grow that plant in very low nutrient soil with just water all the way through but the plant will have a shit expression. You gotta be on your toes now, not to just feed the plant or pump as much nutes in it, but rather to maintain the balance ahead of time so the plant never reaches a point of having to show you that it needs something, while also not overdoing it Relying on bottled nutes, some people do it, but it's basically just a matter of time before you hit an imbalance. There is no single one nutrient to do it all on this earth, no product any man could ever make and put into a bottle would be "good enough" to maintain a natural balance. and we gotta remind ourself plants aren't machines so they don't act the way we program them, it's the other way around. They all eat different, one plant will use more N than the one next to it, as for the P and the K and all the rest. that's why when relying on bottled nutes you end up with a whole collection of 100 different bottles, couple R1000 deep. when the problem is actually just balancing the soil before even thinking of bottled nutes. You can get a nice balance with wormcastings, but then you gotta look at the quality of the worm casting too. I used to get the Wormbusch stuff but last couple times I got from them it was like 60% sand and looked absolutely nothing like wormcastings, so certain reputable brands aren't even consistent... I make my own worm castings now, so I don't know who got the best stuff these days. I would actually recommend Dirty Hands Elemental Blend as a top dress over anything, but if you can only do wormcastings then you can lean more on that, rather than the bottle stuff. What wormcastings you using? Sometimes best to use more than one kind of wormcasting to hit a wider variety of trace minerals and micro organisms. those are the balance keepers. you'll see once the balance is in check your NPK uptake becomes so easy to monitor, plant will already be thriving cause of the soil conditions and then only as the plant is eating and growing like a healthy plant should, you can give the bottle stuff that focuses more on the NPK and will keep up with the demands as the plant will be depleting the soil of those first. this is gona be tricky, I wish you goodluck bro it's hit or miss anyway, like with any rule of thumb, it's not to say things will go wrong every single time.

Oh shit yeah then you are lucky, but I do have to say that you're selecting good breeders too Have you ever tried, or thought of trying any Biltong and Buds, Victory Seeds, Bulk Seedbank or any of the more generic cheaper seeds? Reason I am asking is cause I've seen guys doing their first run with some biltong and buds seeds and hit a winner right off the bat, but I've been through quite a number of these cheaper seeds only to end up with pure It certainly is all about the luck of the draw, but the chances of luck goes way up when selecting the right breeders too. You plan to make any of your own seeds with those genetics you collecting?

Plants already looking much better brother! Just double checking, you say it's the first time growing autos, so I am assuming you grown photoperiods before? What made you go with autos this time? These last 2 to 3 years I have seen a massive influx of new growers going straight for growing autos. what is this all about? Growing autos is playing the game on expert mode, it really isn't for the beginners. I've been growing serious for about 5 years, but growing on and off for most of my life, never even tried an auto as I am 100% sure I'll fuck it up and even if I don't and get a perfect grow I'll still yield less than that same plant as a photoperiod PLUS I can clone photos so I don't completely waste money by having an underwhelming harvest, autos are one and done seeds, PLUS with photoperiods you can make fuckups and turn it all around, autos don't play way. PLUS photoperiods you can repot and fuck with the roots and change soil when you like and and and...... Makes the next bit so much harder, as someone already suggested you repot them, I was going to suggest that too, but they're autos..... some of the auto experts may have to jump in here, your best bet would probably be to continue on just like this, no repot, but always aim for 50% moisture in the soil. This is gona be tricky, coco doesn't wana dry out ever, it'll become negatively charged and basically become hydrophobic, coco needs to be kept wet at all times with your plants being in pure coco it seems logged and struggling for oxygen, you can't really open up the soil and add perite now, bit too late. so you have to now back off with the watering, BUT not let it dry out too far. around 50% moisture is when you water, but then you only water about 3 to 10% of the amount of the media (eg. 10L pot = 300ml to 1L, obviously depending on size of plant, small plant gets more around 300ml and big plant more around 1L, if 1L gets sucked up in less than 24hrs it's time to repot as plants are rootbound). If at any point your plant media doesn't go below 50% moisture in 24hrs it means you giving too much water. You aim for the 50% mark and aim to keep it there by giving minimal water every day. Your biggest problem right now is over saturated media and because of that also a lack of oxygen. Let them dry till around 50% moisture. Next watering you gona need to add organic material and microbes. Get some nice good quality wormcastings (not the first and cheapest bag you can find) for a topdress and any kinda microbial inoculant. Then look into a good nutrient line for that soil you got going there, but for future - If you new to soil building it's good to get some premium soil for your first grow as a control to see how things should look, also once done with the grow you got a good blend for a base to build on, you'll be left with a coco/perlite/organic blend that you just need to reamend, instead of having to building from zero as I am sure you have now seen that it's not as straight forward and that composition, texture and consistency all play a huge roll in soil building. eg. what you use to aerate, perlite and leca do the same thing, though there are different kinds and one works better than the rest, small details like this make huge impact in your soil, same as what kind of coco you using (cheap coco will give you what you pay for) so next time you're out of some ingredients, rather than shruggin your shoulders and thinking the plant has to listen to you and be happy with what you give it, instead you gotta think about the plant first and what it needs to be happy and what you need to do to make that happen. rather stand back, don't be in a hurry, makes for a much better experience over all. Just haaaaaave to say this - These two things you got here are doing you more harm than good - The 3way meter is helping you "van die wal af tot in die sloot". that thing will misslead you worse than the SA government. You can trust the moisture reading, then there's the light/dark thing..... so they could have just made it a single prong, they're out there too, but then again the PH reader is the most important part. I used to have one, can guarentee I fucked myself more than anything using that thing. Got proper bluelabs pens now, compared the two, where the blue labs gave 7.5ph reading, the prongs gave a 2. waaaaayy out. Thought both the things I'm using is wrong to a degree, had a buddy bring his ph pen, plus I bought the ph-reader drops - 3 readings giving 7.5 range and the prongs giving 2 still. on the way to the bin I broke the thing in pieces so no one goes digging in my trash thinking that's a good device to use. a good rule of thumb with the majority of tech stuff, the more that one appliance can do generally means the more gimmicky the thing is. You get digital PH readers that can also read the ppm and and and.... trust me, those aren't accurate either. they're more accurate for sure, but with PH where 0.1/0.2 can make a difference you really don't wana leave any room for mistakes. - never buy a mini fridge with a built in dvd player that can also toast your bread. you buy a fridge seperate, a dvd player seperate and a toaster seperate. good ph pen will cost you a bit, I can go on and on till I am blue in the face, but you can do the test yourself. get 2 people with cheapies that can do ph and ppm, then get 2 guys with proper tools, you can run the tests yourself and see why I would cough up a couple 1000 more just to have the good tools. The ph down is for hydro growers, if you're in an organic setup you use organic inputs to control ph (bakin soda for ph up and vinegar for ph down) though you basically never want to do this it will only be the last resort when your soil media is locked in an undesired ph range. Using this chemical ph down with organic media is a bit counter-intuitive as this stuff kills microbes, and microbes are looked at as the "nucleus" of organic growing. The straw that stirs the drink.

I keep missing whole threads Plants are looking great man, excited to see how they turn out!! Wish I knew about this back in 2018. My first time buying "reputable" seeds was from Trophy. All seeds in Trophy tins with a paper inside and the seed info hand written on the paper. Went from over excited to blood boiling as all I have been hearing is the first dodgy activity to look out for when buying seeds is that it should be sealed in the breeder packs. Got Ethos, Barneys Farm, Dutch Passion and Seedsman. Contacted them, they asured me if I buy 10xseed packs I get original breeder packaging, but cause they're singles they have to open bulk packs and repackage them. Couldn't argue that till I saw what the weed looked like, the seeds I carried through to harvest turned out to be legit without a doubt so I always gave them good word of mouth. Out of 9 seeds only 2 of the Ethos didn't pop. Scrapped up the duds to my own level of experience, since it was my first time working with seeds that came from somewhere else in the world, I convinced myself the more expensive seeds demand for more maticulous environmental conditions, cause of their higher standards they been getting used to in the breeders setup. I should have just asked for replacements