Naughty.Psychonaut

@SmokeyZero Hey bud, I did actually get a few cuttings of all of them, but they went rogue. When I did a cut back there where a few branches that I just couldn't toss, no tops or proper clone sized branches, but some actually pulled through! I didn't have space or proper grow medium for them at the time so all the clones that made it ended up in my greenhouse, nameless with some generic soil mix, nothing special and all in small pots getting odd nutes. They're all in flower now, 3 plants turned out pretty good, but will only really be able to judge when I get to smoke the buds! As for the new indoor grow, I made a whole new thread for that, here's the link, https://www.420sa.co.za/topic/3643-new-grow-on-the-go/

What's up Greg, I hope this will help put your mind at ease. I dropped 4 seeds on 27 Feb, all into bleached jiffies soaked in distilled water, in a humidity dome under some nice strong CFLs and on a heat pad under a towel, humidity was between 90% and 95% and temps where 30 to 35°C. All took 1 day to break surface, except one. That one only broke surface 19 days later. In my notes I already declared that one a dud and replaced it, took another week or so for the cotyledons to open. I'll tell you that lady had me rolling around at night wondering what I can do, but all she needed was time... now I just have one extra plant! Some seeds just take their time and one thing I have learnt from popping seeds is don't do anything funny, don't even try do things you think will be good for it if you're not sure it will help, most seeds or seedlings die because of over caring. Goodluck, bud!

I have washed some buds, mostly outdoor. Gets suuuper windy where I am now and I have to say when washing the outdoor it made my bud look 10x better, couldn't even identify most of what was left in the water, smoke was cleaner and for the reason of not smoking all that other crap and I guess the feeling at the back of my head having seen all the shit that came off the bud, it all made the high much more pleasant. I also notice that the water turns a pale green, now I am no expert, but does that not mean that some chlorophyll leached out? Which is what we want to accomplish by a slow dry anyway? I have heard that it also actually speeds up the drying process... I don't know if anyone has ever worked with wet/dry wood, like cutting down trees for fire wood. The way to get the wood to dry quiker is to wet it hahah actually laughed at this when I heard it, but it's actually a very simple explination not very scientific at all. Also this has to mean your drying conditions have to be up to par, hanging a wet plant or any plant for that matter in a humid environment would just mean you're deliberately trying to do something stupid. I have also washed bud grown in a greenhouse in the same windy conditions and I would say there is about 80% less crap that comes off and my experience with washing indoor was not so good. Actually made the weed look worse and wasn't even necessary since nothing came off, luckily only washed 3/4 branches. All in all, would say a wash is actually sometimes needed, not always. Depends on the grow. Don't think it should be a thing anyone should get used to, because in some cases it will cause more harm than good.

Second grow with this setup, let's see how things turn out! Seeds dropped - 27 Feb 1. Banana Hammock Fem - Ethos Genetics 2. Cheese Fem - Seedsman 3. Super Lemon Haze Fem - Green House Seeds 4. Blueberry Fem - Dutch Passion Another Blueberry seed from Dutch Passion was dropped on 10 March, because the Super Lemon Haze did not pop at first, the other 3 seeds popped up 2 days after dropping. So then I had Blueberry #2 pop up also 2 days after dropping and a week after on 16 March the Super Lemon Haze finally popped, never lost faith and 18 days after dropping she decided she's down to clown. So all and all 5 plants, but I have to choose between SLH and BB#2. The three bigger plants are the ones that came up first and are already on their 3rd feed. The medium plant in the back in the smaller pot is the BB#2 and the small plant in the middle is the SLH slowly coming along. All started off in jiffie pellets in a humidity dome on a heat mat under some big CFLs. Took them out the humidity dome as soon as they where open and facing up, potted them into 5L pots once they had first set of true leaves. All into Freedom Farms Premium Classic with some Diatomaceous earth, Trichoderma and Mycorrizhea. The lockdown is causing me to have to start mixing my own soil, luckily I have all I need for a good batch on hand, but am going to run out soon and don't even want to think about it!! The mix is basic - fine compost from Double Grow, potting soil from Reliance, coco coir, perlite and vermiculite. Added quite a bit if Diatomaceous Earth because I don't trust the compost and potting soil and like always, Trichoderma and Mycorrizhea. This is the first I will actually be growinging in this soil, so will have to report on how it turns out, don't know what to expect and because of that I also decided to plant the first Blueberry in it (that's the one in the bigger plastic 10L pot in the back), because I have two of them and if anything goes wrong, I already have a replacement! I also have BioNeemand Ampelomyces that I do treatments with all through veg. Sometimes I use the Ampelo during early flower if I feel a threat, all plants even outdoor and edible plants, can be used within 3 weeks of harvest. Anyway, here they are..

The taste of the buds still have to get there, only been about 2/3 weeks in the jars now, almost there, though.. The Elvis is knocking my socks off, fills up my lungs, smoke a bong and it feels like a breath of fresh air then you blow out and it feels like a fucking elephant sitting on your chest. I can imagine how it would be a nice plant for pressing! I've checked the Leafly info on it, thanks @Stinger96! The Black Raspberry is by far the tastiest of them all, the buds are small and super hard and stick together like .... well something that really sticks together. The smell reminds me of putting all of the skittels in my mouth at once and the taste is the same when you smoke it, makes you sweat and salivate like you're sucking on something sour!

Soooo, it's been about about 2 months since I've been on here and quite a bit has happened, thought I'd give you all a little update. Before we get into it, I just wana say I hope all is well and making the best of this whole lockdown shit. I am busy with an agriculture project so am lucky enough to continue working during this time. I have harvested the last grow and started another, need to buy a lot more equipment, but I have what I needed to kinda do a little perpetual thing. Built a little DIY veg space, that's not even worth talking about, dropped seeds and vegged for about 3 weeks before the first run was all finished up, so the day the tent was empty I did a whole hydrogen peroxide spray and a iso alcohol spray down and closed the tent and let it rest for a day while I cleaned everything else seperately, 2 days later moved the 3 week old plants over to the tent and off we go! So here are the rough summeries of each of the plants from my previous grow and some photos (photos are just randoms from the last pics taken, they're probably not in order, and some bud shots) - all these where clones from a buddy all grown in 20L material pots in Freedom Farms Premium Classic mix with the salt based nutes from hortishop, added microbes and the liquid vermicompost every now and then and molasses during flower, in a 1mx1m tent under a 360W LED 1. Blue Cheese - 63g Easy growing, easy to manipulate, large sized, strong plant with huge colas. Wanted to take over the whole tent, but was easy to pull it back and tie it down just the way I needed it to be. 2. Super Silver Haze - 62g Easy growing, also easy to manipulate because of strong vigorous growth and responded well to most manipulation and opened up the plant nicely with many big colas. This plant also gave some nice colours, looks more like a purple haze than a silver haze to me hahah. 3. Black Raspberry - 45g This plant gave me a little trouble, branches was all floppy and even though I tied it up it would flop open and when the buds got real heavy it flopped open so wide some of the branches tore and it never produces any proper colas. Other than that it produced some very very dank buds, probably the best buds from this whole grow in my opinion. 4. Elvis - 46g Fast growing, small, strong plant. I am not sure if it was just the buds or because there wasn't proper structure given to support the right branches, but this plant also flopped open, only more towards the end of her life, but could fix the problem easily. First plant to get harvested with a flower period of 8 weeks max including flush for 3... I have to say, for 8 weeks veg 8 weeks flower and done for 46g of this bud in a quater of a square meter space, I would think of keeping this one as a mother in future. It's like that weed you're really too ashamed to smoke, don't want it to finish, ever!! If anyone can tell me more about this strain I would really appreciate it, because I can't find much info on it?

Thanks for the advice!! The only reason I asked where to get them is because I couldn't find them as easily as I hope, luckily I got 10 for only R300 online! Bovedas we get anywhere, I know all about those little humidity regulator packs, they just don't tell you the humidity. I would have to say that is the biggest reason at the moment, for me, why I'm asking for the one and not the other. We all cure differently and in those first few weeks of burping the jar I would like to monitor what is actually going on in there. I feel it's a little more reassuring. Once I pack them away for long term storage there would be no need to monitor it, by then I'll have just a boveda pack in there and take out the hygrometer and use it for the next few jars that are being burped. I'll never pack a hygrometer in a long term storage jar so wont need a 1000 of them.

If you click on that link it will take you directly to the product with all the information, it's available at most nurseries. You'll even see a picture on the box a browning conifer. I've heard two things, the conifer likes acidy soil not a lot of compost and that can be a response of a kind of root damage, or it could be because of a humidity / airflow problem and if there's like morning frost or the conifer get's soaked with water too often and the water or moisture never escapes the inside branches and they basically die of suffocation or rather lack of needed fresh air, but it's not a mold or a insect.

Try this stuff, Koinor. http://makhro.co.za/wpcproduct/koinor-350-sc/

Cool, will get some gold dust. Would probably add less than a hand full when using FF soil

I see, luckily I am in week 6 of flower and so far no problems! I'll keep some gold dust on hand and try a grow or two with it, see what happens. Haven't gotten to mixing my own soils yet, so will be using FF for a while still. If you're saying calcium nitrate does not provide a charge balance, what form of calcium do I have to be looking for that does?

If I find them at the pet shop I'll feel like such an idiot, I'm in there quite often and never even thougt of asking! Had a feeling they where right under my nose. Thanks!

Awesome, thanks man! I was hoping to find a shop that stock them, been looking for a while now and each time I get pointed at buying them online. Guess I'll just have to do it.. That's a pretty cool idea, securing the hygrometer on the lid of the jar. I'll maybe do one or two like that, but I love uniformity and got myself around 70 of the same jars and I don't even wana think about fixing them all up like that, but thanks anyway for the idea! Definitly will do atleast one like that hahah

Anyone know where to find these??

@Totemic thanks man, that's to the finest detail, but still only for coco growers? Or would you say there's a need for buffering when using FF premium mix? I am constantly feeding Calcium. Part B of my nutrient mix is a Calcium Nitrate solution.

Hahahah! I see, yeah not buffering can cause damage. Do you mean buffering the MKP or growing medium? I've heard of buffering coco coir with MKP and then also aqua buff that buffers water or nutrient solution in your reservoir for the guys using biiig automated watering systems. I am growing in FF premium mix and didn't buffer anything at all. No worries on that schedule bud, it's only a pleasure!

Woah, I don't wana cause damage! Do you mean to the plant or in terms of human consumption? I know that using salt based nutes puts one at higher risk of getting salt build up that will damage the roots. That will only happen if you don't flush the plants thoroughly during your grow, alternating between feed and clean water. If not, the plant will react by blocking out the nutes completely and you will have to go through healing the roots and getting the plant to come right from that is often where it all goes wrong. Not the same as dealing with a deficiency and just adding more of something. In that case it will just cause more damage. Also, having a healthy symbiote in the growing medium will help a little, because the living organisms feed on the excess solids and make them available to the roots, that's why I make sure I got enough trichoderma in the mix aswell as mycorrizhea that's introduces all kinds of microbes to the grow medium. To keep those microbes alive I feed vermipure compost tea. Need to get AACT system together so I can brew my own teas for them, but for now that'll do. I also try my best to keep the TDS as low as I can from the start and when I flush the ladies I give quite a bit more than I would when feeding, there has to be run off for me to feel satisfied when flushing. Come harvest time I flush for up to two weeks when using salt based stuff just for peace of mind. In terms of consumption, I've heard many many stories, but have yet to find enough information to actually keep me from using them. I love the thought of organic, I am just growing with these nutes for now, because it was all I could afford at the time I was at the shop, and I'm not switching up nutes halfway through the grow hahah Anyway, here's the schedule, it's as simple as simple could be, but I do have to mention that it was created to suit these specific nutes!

Oh man, I'm sure you get great results, but thanks for that compliment! I use a schedule that came with the nutes, I will post a pic if you would like to see? Also, using my own judgement I will make minute adjustments to what the schedule demands. Adding to that, I am not an expert and this is my first real grow, so my judgement could be far off, but I have worked with all sorts of plants throughout my life and like to think I can almost feel what they feel before they have to show me. Don't know how else to describe it. I wouldn't recommend my ways to others though, because I am just working on a hunch basically and each plant will have different demands, even if its the same two phenos off the same, they will never grow 100% the same!

Thanks man! All 4 different strains: 1) Front Left - Blue Cheese 2) Right - Super Silver Haze 3) Back Left - Black Raspberry 4) Right - Elvis They smelling just as lekke!! Will do close ups of each soon.

So, giving the stage to the ladies. I done some defoliation, very selective. Basically just snapped off the big fan leaves that where blocking bud sights and any leaves that where overlapping eachother. Some more info: 1. Today is day 107 in total and day 51 of flower. 2. Planted in FF premium mix in 20L FF material pots. 3. Added trichoderma and mycorrizhea and diatomaceous earth. 4. Feeding with salt based A, B, MKP nutrient mix from local hydroshop and alternating Vermipure liquid compost and started adding molasses during 3rd week of flower. 5. Did weekly treatments with Neem oil during veg. That's about that! Any tips, questions or remarks are highly encouraged!!

Thanks a lot, appreciate it!

What's up!! It's been a while since my first post, probably should become more active on here, this is such a great community and I don't wana miss out!! Sometimes a whole month can go by without me visiting the cyberspace and it seems hard to change that! Yeah, the fact that this is all local makes all the difference. Nothings quite as frustating as knowing something exists, but not being able to find it, because something that's suposed to be the biggest and best source of vast collective information couldn't tell you where it is and more often than not point you in the complete wrong direction. I don't know, maybe I haven't figured out how to make proper use of this "internet" thing with my little dedication to it. Anyhow, this site has definitly solved all my problems and more! I love reading about all the local cannabis related activities and all that, always knew there's a big active cannabis culture in SA, but never knew just how active! Hahah that make-shift bong and a black lable put a huuuge smile on my face! That's as local as local gets! "Black lable sê die bybel" or something along those lines, right? Thanks for the compliments, the tips and welcoming me!

Thanks bud, took a few down! Hahah yeah I remember doing that aswell and cut shapes out of cardboard or something and have them cover the whole thing!

How many pics may one enter? This is all one plant, OG kush from a bag seed, so have no idea what it really was! Also grown by the ocean, in the earth, but mixed in some of my own special soil and only organic nutes and added microbes. Pink pistils/hairs, anyone ever got them? Sadly they seemed to fade as she matured!