Naughty.Psychonaut

you know, I am gona have to buy mycos soon and this is a good deal to not miss out on! I'm down to clown, brother!

hahah I swear the same shit happens to me, everyone always want something untill the day I wana give stuff away then I have to announce it 100 times and no one seems interested! If I was any closer to your side I would've jumped for those seeds and mycos, 2 things you really can never have enough of. crazy that there's no takers for this!

and thanks for the heads up on Pacific seed bank lol, will stay clear!

well that has to suck, the reliability of these things are going out the window with the whole new legislation happening around the world. every second guy trying to get rich quick and sell off anything as long as they selling. hope you find something worth your time!

oooh riiight, fuuuuh... ck have a looksky, not sure if you seen this, when the biobizz bloom shit hit the fan the main man himself gave us all some cheat sheets for getting around the DAFF bullshit with our precious bloom nutes! these products should all still be available, and easier to find on another note, I can already clearly see a big difference in those plants man!

I like the look of that PE pheno, lots of little calyxes densely packed and quite a frosty one! I remember you mentioned you're looking for a noticable pineapple taste, you getting the right smells from this one? what's your take on her so far?

for autos and load shedding the stress will come more from there not being airflow. but that's the same in all cases, not autos only autos don't grow according to light cycles. you can even flower them perfectly fine on a 18/6 cycle also if you got PM or any other mold spores floating around in the tent already the 2/3hrs of no airflow may allow them to settle and find a spot they like.

oooh man, I would have to refer to one of the coco gurus for that question!! mr @CreX, I know we had an in depth discussion bout the stuff a while back and made me realise how well you know the stuff! would you be so kind as to advise us on this?

hahah yeah not saying you trying to fool anyone so for the sake of this thread/grow I will just count day 1 same as you, May 13, the day the first post was made? no competition here

yeah hahah well we are discussing on how to compare this correctly, because you mentioned I should consider the time it took him to root and all. I guess in all situations before comparing anything that differs so much and has endless variabilities you should standardize things or find common ground between the subjects atleast. otherwise you be making poor comparisons.

yeah everyone pops seeds different, and clones may differ in size and all that. I would say, to ease things out and make it fair, look at both sides and what would denominate the main factor, which would be getting a plant started. So in a sense, if you didn't do "that one thing" there would be no chance of there being a plant. In my opinion that would be, in the case of growing from seed, taking the seed out its package and placing it in the medium/ shot glass/ paper towel/ whatever it may be, the important part is you are getting the seed going. that is Day 1 with seed. to me. day one for clones should be the day you slip that freshly cut wound into the medium it's gona root in/ bubble cloner/ coco pellet/ rockwool/ whatever. because this would also be "getting a plant started" and I feel this should be looked at the same as putting the seed in the medium...

wow fok those are nice results bud!! not gona argue with that you can totally disregard what I am saying, because I am agreeing that you get good results, but remember "the exception proves the rule" and there is probably a good reason why we are all not using vinegar and why you got asked why you using the stuff. the air bubble hahah I try not even shaking my pen when I clean it and stuff just to save the tech inside that little bit longer. my pen came with a book with instructions and a box of stuff to maintain it, it cleary states don't shake the pen too vigorously or hit the sides of the pen against anything., though people say the one they have is indestructable, that again is an exception and it proves the rule, you hear WAY more stories bout them going to shit for no reason. lay them down without use for too long, fucked. swing them around, fucked. drop them once, fucked... they are quite sensetive little toys and the people who make them clearly warn a person to look after the thing as if it's a baby. I keep mine upright in a jar at all times, so the storage liquid don't run out. gets new storage liquid weekly. literally 2 drops, easy. gets cleaned and calibrated once a month or so. done.

yeah, I get what you mean, but if you wana get technical, he didn't come in with an unrooted clone, he put an already rooted plant into a bigger pot to start off with. I take it as he got a clone from somewhere, be it his friend, his other tent, his aunty or whatever but the taking of the cut and the rooting of the clone wasn't shown as part of this grow. this is actually a valid topic of discussion hahah, if you get a clone from somewhere and go straight to a bigger pot and you are out giving reports on how long to veg a plant, do you tell people the included cutting and rooting time or do you just give the duration of time since you got it? cause in this case, and many others, I have seen the clones quite big already and can be concidered a month old plant already, so if you veg them 2 months to fill a space you should be saying it took you 3 months? so mr. coolJ is actually at 8/9 weeks veg and not 6 weeks? add on - if we pop a seed and it's at 1 month we don't disregard that 1st few weeks as part of the plants life, but we do with clones? or should we start counting Day 1 of Week 1 only when we can start feeding it and call it a plant already?

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duuude fuck yeah that is awesome, you're doing a heck of a job promoting youself here as I am also looking into buying some mantis pots for myself!!! they so sexy man! what will be the product lines of focus for you? more equipment than nutes and stuff? I see you got your know how on those nutes man, plants are exploding with growth! all the best brother and may your business thrive just like those beauties that you got thriving there!!! add on - looking at the mantis pots that freedom farms sell, I can't find the ones with the big cannabis leaf on. I am looking online so maybe just not spotting them. Do they have the ones you're using?

oh yeah the "hybrid hydro way" will speed things up a bit yeah. good on ya mate, excited to see the rest!!

uh oh.. was the tip burn before repot? I would say hold back on the calmag man. your medium should really have enough. give microbes just once a week. rest of the time. clean water. it's veg and you're in organic soil that claims it's fully loaded, first signs of def you should run into is N and your plant will turn slightly yellow, this should only happen well after a month of giving just water. only then you can start adding stuff, I would say some Biobizz fish and grow, alternate between the two 1ml/L. but you gona have to flip those ladies soon, sooo.... just plain water for you, once flipped you can do 1ml/L of biobizz bloom, wait about a month before adding any N or any CaMg

Vinegar can actually be used to kill some unwanted weeds in the garden, it's suggested to spray them, because getting vinegar on the soil will even be bad luck for the plants wanting to grow there in the future. so you're kinda using a herbicide to feed your plants unless you're a real sciency guy and wana know a bunch about compound analysis and chemical interactions and put in the time to study the products you giving your plant, don't refer too much to alternatives. stick to using products that are made for plants, even then you'll have to study your products carefully so you don't mix the wrong stuff and what not. this will teach you the dicipline and importance of knowing what's going in your plants. only then I would say to allow yourself to dabble with alternatives and try to save a few rands here and there. first you gotta pay the school fees man.

just a heads up, there's been a few reports about that soil being a bit too hot, so keep your eyes open for burnt/curled leaf tips. keep feeding dosages low and increase slowly over time. although for the first month in that soil you should be good just giving clean water, no feed.

hahahah it's a nice coincident, hope he keeps milking it, looks like he's one of their ambassadors or something I got a whole bunch of those stands myself, love em, but they don't make my plants look like that I was thinking maybe the pots will help!

yeah got the man kit out with storage solution, 2 x calibration solution and ph up and down. hopefully he will put in the effort to look after his antiques

@mantis the guy certainly knows something we don't!! I got a question, maybe its been asked before and maybe it's just so obvious that I'll be making a fool of myself, but hey I take notion in the whole "there's no such thing as a wrong question" thing do you have anything to do with the mantis brand? I like those pots!

awesome! now when watering in future, just pinch the material pot between thumb and index finger, give a slight tug as to pick it up, but what you're actually doing is just checking the weight. top soil should be dry about 12hrs after giving anything, plants leaves will still be perky when medium is light and close to completely dry, you could even wait till you see a little bit of droopyness before you water again and this would be healthier on your roots than keeping them wet. although, idealy you wana water right before they go droopy also just checking, did you perhaps add some myco life to assist the roots? not talking bout root stimulators or phosphates or "root juice" or any tipe of feed for that matter, that would do more harm than anything right now. just some microbial life to help break down the soil and ease the transition for the already compromised roots into their new environment. I always keep mycoroot on hand, or well in the fridge... I also keep some eco-T around, or anything with Trichoderma species in it. Explogrow and Biodyne also good options.

interesting story here, I have a friend who dusted off some probes his grandad had in his garage, must've been the shit back in the day, cause it had this leather covered box with the name written in gold, some german or swedish name we couldn't read. shit looked expensive even for today. each pen still takes one single AA battery, this guy pops it in some calibration solution and I shit you not 100% accuracy, took a minute to get there as the tech was a bit delayed, but hey, it worked!!! I almost burst out in laughter but then realised it's not even funny, how the hell....? even when it turned on when putting the battery in, blew me away! this thing must have been in storage over 10 years, maybe muuuuch longer, the plastic even looks like it's going brittle, the probe was onviously drier than a you know what.... and the rule of thumb with the probes are "if it dries, it dies" this thing was on point with both calibration solutions.. luck certainly is a factor here, cause in a production line up where millions of the same thing gets made repetitively, you're bound to have that one in each 1000 or so that will be put together better than the others. it's the same with a defective slip up, sometimes you buy something and it only lasts a month, because of a slip in the production line, but sometimes the slip up may result in a better end product.