Naughty.Psychonaut

@SkunkPharm Very exciting, always get the "kid in a candy shop" feeling when starting some new genetics! All the best with the grow, brother! If you don't mind me asking, what's the glad wrap around the pots for?

Thanks man! These ladies are doing a whole lot better than my previous grow. Got tons to improve on, but this is only my second grow. Also got myself a loupety loupe Soooooo, you all know what that means!!! -still getting the hang of it, but this is just my phone cam and the loupe This is the pic I get Then I zoom with the phone and get to this

Update: Not much has happened except the plants grew some more.

G'day mates! Got some eye candy for ya'll, switched off the blurp so I can share their true beauty. Approching the finishline slow and steady. Flushing all except the SLH gona get one last feeding. Super Lemon Haze Cheeze Blueberry Banana Hammock Here's a canopy shot Did a defo and found this golden leaf. Thinking of framing it.

What's gooooood!!!!! Join the circle, boet

Zoinks, Scoob! How'd I miss this one?? Lookin gooood, Here, have a scooby snack pack

I wana know how many of these have sold!? I don't think a one man band can make enough music to fill that space, if you know what I mean... Would have to quit your day job and employ a staff team!

@Stinger96 No worries!

Otherway around brother. The craft soil is the white bag. The green bag is premium classic. Once the seed popped you can plant it into the green bag for sure. Guys with autos that wana keep away from transplanting even pop their seed in that soil. @EthWal Winter time slows everything down, the colder it gets the slower things go. You got a dstv decoder or perhaps a modem or something that's constantly giving a bit of heat? You just wana get out the room temps, so pop that whole wet paper towel in a jiffy bag, grab 2 plates you would eat from and put the baggie between the plates ontop of the modem/decoder. Plates are there just so your seed is not directly on the device so you don't toast them and it acts as a little heat mat. Also, plates should be inverted ontop of eachother so the sides you would eat off faces eachother and the seed inbetween - so you don't crush the seed.

Jeeeebus. How does one pick his favourate rainbow? I haven't found seeds of this plant, was lucky to grow out a clone and it came out just as I wanted. Will fill up my space with it next time I find it. Elvis. Cross between Skunk #1 and AK47 and absolutely amazing. It's a sativa dominant hybrid that you can smoke all day and it fucking knocks your socks off, but doesn't make you wana sit down for hours. Frosty buds like you would not believe and the skunky skunk lineage makes for that super loud smell and pungeant taste. Another plant making the realms, being kept alive by someone supplying clones of it to the whole cape, is the famous Big Buddha Cheese. Always big pleasure getting my hands on some of that and will grow it out every chance I get. Those are two from my growing experience, from my history of smoking there's a few names that come up. Mostly the crowd favourites because, well... why else would they be crowd favourites? GorillaGlue#4 GSC is right up there Gelato And many many others

Now that she's standing, be carefull of water logging and damping off. I'm sure the foam cup has holes in it for drainage? Let the medium dry a bit more and only give a shot glass of water every few days. Don't saturate the medium. Make the roots go look for the water. Once true leaves come out back under the 240w. You gona mix anything into the FF soil? Or else I would suggest biobizz as mr. Dank has before mentioned.

This is how I tie my branches down. Are you using plastic pots? Kinda looks like terra cotta?

Oh wait, it's not organics matter soil, it's grow station. Have not heard of many people using that as their "go to soil". The contents look right though, it's not barky? Just for the sake of experimenting, maybe give the ff premium mix or the just cannabis bags a go next time? Maybe check if you can see anything on the forum about people growing in that soil and see what they experienced..

@PeeWee Yes, if you got lots of space both sideways and up the dicision is all yours if you wana top or not. Once you're flowering you'll notice that the buds closest to the light will look the best, they'll become bigger than the buds elsewhere on the plant, sometimes frostier too! If you have a christmas tree shape plant you gona have one big cola right by the light and the rest of the plant too far away and hidden away under the rest of the plant. Some guys have great success with christmas trees, but I prefer a uniform yield rather than few big buds and lots of mid quality buds. I am trying a scrog for the first time right now, but my canopy is uneven as fuuuck In a little while when I get home and my lights are on I'll show you how I tie mine down. Super easy. Few paper binders from the write shop and garden wire from any nursery even some checkers and spars and those big retail shops have garden wire. I have no experience with organics matter soil myself, but have read lots of good things about it here on the forum. I would highly recommend getting some microbial inoculant such as mycoroot, trichoderma, biodyne, explogro. To keep the microbes thriving keep a bottle of molasses on hand. Always. That soil has everything cannabis plants needs, but also good to maybe keep a few biobizz nutes on hand. They really help alot when plants act up in living soil. About the ph meter, I can highly recommend the bluelabs equipment, all of it hahah! Got their ph and ppm pen and never given a hickup. Only had it for about 2 years now though. I have heard and seen people using that yellow one in the second pic, but they say they're like throw away testers. They last a year or two and when they start giving trouble with calibration and to get them fixed would cost the same as getting a new one. So this is one of those times where buying cheap will cost you more, but this is only really so if you're a hydro grower that need use ph and ppm pens much more often. As soil growers we need a soil ph probe. I was asking about the probe, cause you can test what the water is when you give it and thest the runoff and that will kinda indicate what the soil ph is. Although it should regulate itself, being a living soil, it can swing for many reason. It should be between 6.3 and 7.3. About the drainage, do you water till run off each time or only with the clean water? Do you let the plant sit in the run or do you throw it out?

@PeeWee So the garden stones won't be a problem and will defs help with the bugs. I like that you didn't use bark or some kinda decomposable matter. The pyrol I would suggest only spraying when you see a fungi outbreak or insect invasion. It's good for curbing those kinda problems in the early stages, but I don't think it can be used to wipe out infestations of any kind. Also should not be sprayed if there's nothing wrong with the plant. For preemtive care I would suggest BioNeem, which is the milder version of pyrol and wont do any harm, it also acts as a immune booster and a mild foliar feed. Which pyrol does not do. But on the other hand, if you have invasions or outbreaks the neem wil not be strong enough. What medium are you growing in? Does it drain well, no water logging? Do you let them dry between each watering? Do you have a way of testing ph? What's the table of contents on those bottles? NPK ratio? With nutes like those (and obviously depending in the growing medium) I will feed the plant nothing untill I see it needs something, then start feeding at recommended dosages. No less. You can go even bigger than the 27cm pots. Just remember, bigger pot bigger plant. So if you want small plants, that's your choice, but just keep in mind for future purposes. I think those 27cm pot only hold about 10L of medium. You can go one or even two nodes down... once you top her, you have to open the side branches by tying them down, so the light can penetrate the plant and make more than one cola for you. Topping a plant helps it bush out, so it's up to you. You wana grow a christmas tree shape or a bushy bush shape?

Welcome back man! Back problems is not a joke. I hope the surgery will be a success in the long run!!! Be careful man, remember to lift with your legs! Luckily we got our meds sorted.

Kill them with kindness, that kinda vibe? Hahahah! I am not the most intelligent, but surely they can be more clear on what exactly is concidered "a flowering plant equivalent", because honestly with the education of our officers these days I wont be suprised if they mistake my mother for being a flowering plant equivalent.

Nice! Welcome @Biltong and Budz I'm always looking for beans, now I know where to place my next order!!

What's good, bud! Seems like some discolouration on the leaves of the big girl there? Maybe a deficiency, perhaps root stress. Deficiencies are caused by lack of nutes, or it could be that excessive nutes harmed the roots and now they block out that nute completely resulting in the plant showing the same signs as deficiency. You feeding them? If so, how much? If not, start. What's the white stuff on top of the soil? Make sure whatever it is, it's not leaching compounds into your soil. I would look into sorting out that before investing all the time and energy to get the plant to flower and then turn its back on you later on. Big impact on plant size is pot size, if the roots can't move neither will the plant. I agree with @TheUltimateNoob, top them, wait a week, open them up by tying them down. The big girl I'll chop a bit lower, at the 4th node or so from the bottom should be good. Make a cutting from the top you cut away.

Is this what they mean by "flowering plant equivalent"? Yeah, the whole "grey area" situation awlays seem to play in their favour. Fucking pigs. We just have to be "extra careful" and not try our luck, I guess. I will try find out more about this, but then again if it's grey to us every second police officer will have a different understanding of it too. They'll choose in the moment if what they find is penalty worthy or not. I don't plan on harvesting more than 4 plants at a time, but I need to be able to harvest more frequiently. Probably still won't ever have more than 600g on me, but will need to veg 4 at the same time as flowering 4.

They say 4 flowering plants per adult. Does this mean I can have another 4 in veg and about 10 clones too? All at the same time? Or only the 4 in flower?

Aha, I see, I have misread that part about the amendments! Apologies, Sir! I do not use nutes. I grow in ff premium mix, to keep the soil alive I add mycorrhizae and a bit of trichoderma to the soil. I add a bit of dolomite lime to add cal and just help a bit with keeping the ph stable. Then to keep the microbes thriving and the medium fertile I brew teas, mostly with ff prem mix and a bit of soil from the mountains and I add liquid vermipure and molasses. Should start adding more stuff soon, waiting on a order to arrive. I also spray weekly or every second week during veg with bioneem, bioampilo and phyta. All organic shib, I do not use a bottled nute with a schedule and all. If that's what you're asking. I test ph every here and there, mostly for interest sake. Had a ph scare, almost lost a plant. In the end didn't know what was wrong, had to dump the soil, cleaned the roots and made a full recovery! I need a soil ph probe, but for now I test run off from time to time. Here's where it might not be so organic, when I pour clean water from the tap and put my ph probe in sometimes it shoots up to 9. So I feel a little shit giving that to the ladies and end up bringing it down to 7.3 with a chemical ph down. Should probably start a seperate thread on this haha

I agree, don't think taste is gona be a difference. I am aware that organic slows things down a bit, but shouldn't be the reason why my gpw is so low. Just as a side note, I am only doing my second grow at the moment. Still getting to know the ropes. What we are discussing is all based on my very first grow. I think "going organic" should be much more of a thing in the farming industry. I am on a big farm, we're trying to move away from synthetic nutes, cause pumping them into the earth at the rate we do completely changes the chemical composition of the soil and over time you destroy the environment for the plants. For a plant in a pot you only gona grow for 4 months it really isn't doing anything other giving the plant exactly what it needs. I am missing something here though. How does ammending the soil before planting differ from ammending while growing? And how does organic make the split between the two? Even mixing earthworm castings in your "medium" before planting means you've ammended the "medium". Organic dry ammendments are added to the "medium" before planting and then you just give water whole grow through. Would you say this is organic? Because, it is. It doesn't really matter what you call it and you've already ammended the "medium", which according to you makes it not organic.? I am lost. Yes, it is. It's the Apollo 8 from futurama. I have the light raised 40cm above the canopy and the plants are not reaching the sides of the tent. Can't raise it more (for better spread) cause then I'd be losing the last bit of intensity. Hence the new light coming together as we speak. With both my first and second grow I've had 4 plants in a 1mx1m space. Tried to max the potential. I mentioned that I could do better with the tea brewing, I had troubles sourcing potassium rich ingredients for my AACT in time, so I think I ended the grow a bit too early actually. Think that had a big impact on the end total. Aswell as the light. Will update my statistics once I have them.

@PsyCLown Is 0.8gpw too low? Does organic grow style generally yield less than salt based? Or what's your hypothesis?

@PsyCLown Well, my grams per watt is 0.8 and this is under a cheap blurple. Not too far from 1g, which would make me happy, but just seeing people achieve bigger yields and investing much less is what gets to me. You can call it organic, yes. I could defs do better with my AACT brews next run and will also have a bar LED with samsung diodes. My previous grow was organic with the adding of a synthetic nute here and there.