Naughty.Psychonaut

That's one sexy hothouse As with most things I do, I DIY mine, she's about 5 years old now. UV protected polyprop, will last forever as most poly materials turn yellow and change the light filtration or gets brittle with age. I don't grow weed in mine, I keep my sacred rare cacti collection in there Notice the roof, probably the biggest factor to keeping it cool in summer. Structure is stainless steel industrial wire channels, the tables are the same material but wiring brackets they use in factories.

"You" as in the general sense of the word, not anyone in particular, but everyone, myself included.

Theres no information that can help @LitItGrown he already knows everything, he's just "experimenting" with the wrong stuff bringing up CaSO4 wouldn't even have helped at all. The question OP asked - what nutes it takes to make seeds? - was already answered long before that guy came with his egg shell shit. So the discussion was more based around how and why his suggestion was not the best one and that there are many better options to go with. Then even goes on to tell me I must go check my facts then he goes on to compare egg shells to kryptonite out of the blue like we're at 3rd grade recess. I honestly can't take how people positively affirm everyone for everything they say just to spare some feelings. This is a growing forum, people come here to learn. If I knew a little and came across this forum and read kak like put egg shells to make better seeds then I run for the hills, cause clearly it's a forum that then supports bullshit fake information and doesn't check its members or doesn't allow for any actual growing. And I mean in life too. If we wana learn and grow in life we need to know how to put our feelings aside. In 2023 if you want people to pussy foot around you and not be constructive at all, if you need an echo chamber of people around you to tell you everything you say is right, then you'll never grow. In any kinda way. You need to be positive to see the positivety in what I just said and use it constructively. If you think what I just said is negative it's cause you're already thinking negatively.

Hahah I alluded to it here... just didn't wana complicate things for the guy too much.

@LitItGrown Ok, first, if you can state something "factually", then so can I. You are not above anyone and neither are your opinions. I also then merely stated a fact and I'll do it again - it takes longer for the egg shell to break down and it takes longer to become available to the plant even if powdered. I never said it doesn't work at all, I said the approach people take is wrong, because of where they get this information and how it's presented (half assed information coming from cocky people who think they know way more than they actually do - the same way your one liner hit) best place for egg shells is your compost heap or worm bin. and that's a fact. If you wana be smart, the smartest thing you could have said then was "oh, I didn't know that, thanks for the tip" but nooooooooo, you had to do this whole whatever thing trying to save your feelings. One thing you'll learn about me is I don't positively affirm everything to try and spare peoples feelings. It's tough love or nothing. I say shit the way it is. Second, you just opened a whole new box of frogs that I sadly wont be able to deal with. You have been wrong about a lot, but that load of you just layed out there is just.... I don't even know what to say dude... You clearly know way too much for there to be any room for any personal growth. I guess all I can say to you is - If you're doing it then you're doing it, goodluck with that some people have money to spend on school fees and never learn, the rest of us wana graduate at some point. Sorry for trying to help you dude. I wont waste my time like that again.

Grape Diamonds - Ethos Genetics, taking her time, slowed down a bit by excessive K she seems a bit more sensetive than the rest. Platinum Silk - Inhouse Genetics, throwing a polyploidy Garlic Sherbet - Inhouse Genetics Peanutbutter Breath - Thugpug Genetics

Holy shit I mean you're not wrong about everything in there, but again so much additional information that has more impact on what you said before. 1st point - The Ca content from egg shell to egg shell will differ from chicken to chicken, from bird to bird, from species to species, because it's a natural thing, it's not made on a mamufacturers production line, they're not identical. Like with every other natural occuring thing. Powdering egg shell will leave you with a mix count of different stuff each and every time, cause of that very fact. an egg shell is not pure Ca carbonate, I think we all know that much? You seen a hard chicken egg shell and a thinner one? This is based on the chickens diet and the content of Ca carbonate will differ in both. Where ever you go for your info, don't go there anymore. Brother, all you need to know right now is we are here to help you just gotta be open to it. few tips for ya - I see you using some cheap generic commercial potting soil there with the wrong composition for cannabis plants? Crazy amount of bark I see there, cannabis plants do not appreciate barky soil. Not at all. Also no cannabis specific feeds I see there, just cheap generic commercial nutrients. Same stuff we all used to use before we knew much about growing cannabis. Why would you use that soil if you know so much about soil? If you can build a soil the right way wouldn't need any nutrients anyway. Just clean water. First you gotta know a little something about living soil, but for people still buying cheap generic potting soil most of the information on that topic will go right over their heads. I build my own soil, because I have been doing this long enough to know generic potting soil shouldn't even make it onto my property. My ladies drinking only clean water, no need for bottled nutrients, cause I know what I am doing. I see you also using white pots? How many people you see using white pots? You know about rule#1 - roots want blackout darkness. obviously. (under the ground is black out, no light gets there) if you can see the level of the soil line through the side of the pot then your roots don't like that pot. generally if we know what we doing we steer clear of white pots, cause such a little thing can make a big impact, but you knew that right? I see you also just bought a LED light with a design from the early 2000's? You could have gotten something of muuuuuuuuch better quality in output and design for a better price, had you just asked us. I built my own LED, go have a look on my page. You really could do with some guidance, you just gotta realise it first. Don't just go right off the bat thinking you're here to teach us, you're clearly not that guy. Like the old saying goes - the more you learn the less you know - that's cause the more you learn the more you get to know how much you didn't know before and how much there still is to get to know. the vastness of information dictates you can be wrong a million times, but you can be right only a few times. that leaves us with just saying stuff to say stuff you probably going to be wrong. have a lekker weekend

Sounds like a recipe for disaster. People who learn from one liners don't learn much.

here you go

dude, go to the post I quoted you in first then scroll up one post......... you wrong in the first answer too. and I did answer the dudes question. go read carefully. edit - infact I answered him BEFORE I went on to make a comment about what you said. and I made a seperate post for it. so what now? still just a rant at your one liner? perhaps, don't drop one liners?

biggest difference between a potted plant and something planted directly into the earth is the symbiosis. the way things work in a pot and in the earth is not the same. you'll have areas where even when adding eggshells to the soil directly in the earth it's still gona take long to break down. certainly longer than any of the Ca sources I mentioned there. Even in a compost heap hardened sources of calcium such as eggshells and bone is some of the stuff that takes the longest to break down. now when you powder it, it certainly does speed up the process, but you gotta remember it's powder now so you just don't see it in a big chunk anymore, but it's still there bro. Just cause you can't see it doesn't mean it's decomposed already and much less so providing the plant accessible Ca. It takes longer dude, this is general knowledge for gardeners. a healthy compost heap is the top of the tier list when it comes to decomposing organic matter. now you work your way back down that tier list and a potted plant will be at the very opposite end of the spectrum. egg shell take reeeeaally long to release any Ca, probably won't even really start decomposing in a pot cause there is way too little activity. you can do the tests yourself

Bro, the gem of a town I grew up in is beyond fucked. The mainroad looks like a dump, garbage everywhere. The entrance to the Spar stinks like piss and shit, because of all the cultural richness empowering some individuals so much they couldn't even turn to their brother/sister/friend and say "hey, don't kak here where the people must walk"... Better not leave it up to a white person to have an opinion about it, they may aswell just go burn in hell, cause for a white man to point out that any other race is doing anything wrong in any kinda way, is the biggest crime out there today. no matter the fucking lights can't come on and the majority of the country is way below the poverty line, there are fokol jobs, half the people in the country are immigrants. no matter none of that, as long as you keep your mouth shut while the ANC give fucks us all. even their actual "fellow south africans" same like zimbabwe, couple years down the line and starvation runs the show, "leaders" begging farmers to come back I'll sit down a little later and type you out a nice DM bro, I see all these get rich quick schemes these guys are pumping your way, forget about all that bro. there is no real get rich quick scheme.

hahah alright bro, I'll check my facts for ya. while I'm at it, can you please point me out or make up a good reason why you would compare eggshells to kryptonite just cause I said they take much longer to break down??? we leave our feelings at the door my guy. I am not trying to have a back and forth with you bud. Everything I say here is with good intention and simply because I don't appreciate the general misinformation people promote in the gardening community. It happens way too often that my granny takes some gardening advice from facebook and now her plants aren't doing well and I have to fix the problem. Well the problem wouldn't exist if it wasn't for people going around saying to put eggshells in their potted plants If you know all the extra steps you didn't mention before and shit that needs to be kept in check for breakdown of eggshells to make Ca available to the plant what are you trying to dodge here? You playing both sides bro, saying I am wrong but explaining the same shit I said. Did you read what I put in parenthesis literally right after mentioning the dolomite, that a very little bit goes a very long way cause it's very potent stuff...... yeah, that means don't over do it...... it's only when you over do it that your PH will swing, not just if there's too much in the soil for the plant to handle C'mon man? you know about the buffer in soil? cation exchange sites? a balance? Ca needs to be present in many different forms to balance the soil.... I'm talking bout Ca nitrate, Ca carbonate, Ca acetate, Ca chloride and the list goes on.... It's really not just as simple as "eggshell has calcium, put it in soil, now soil has calcium".

brother.... you know how long it takes egg shell to release Calcium into the soil? not a viable option for providing a plant with accessible source of Calcium at all. this is old lady mumbo jumbo life hacks you see on these youtube family channels. you can put egg shells in your compost heap or worm bin to add Calcium to your final product, which will be ready in a few months only and only IF conditions are right. in a potted plant soil mix breakdown takes muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch longer heres something you can really do with your egg shells to make it of any kinda value directly to your plants. If you looking for a quick fix lazy way, you gotta go with some kinda natural lime such as dolomite (finer the dust the quicker the breakdown, very potent Calcium source, very little goes a very long way) agricultural lime mix, gardeners gold dust, bonemeal...... so many. but egg shells? Not gona do a thing unless you start to build your own soil and give it months to break down before actually using the soil.

@TheLazyFisherman hope you are well brother the best seeds come from a healthy plant. a healthy plant does not require more of a certain thing at a certain time. a healthy plant requires a well balanced and maintained life cycle. when doing things the right way you will only need clean water from begin to end. if you're using nutrients it's cause your soil is lacking and unbalanced. (not gona touch on growing with synthetics cause I don't mess with that, you start with 0 and work from there, in which case you will have to adjust your regime) Keeping things organic, when a female plant makes seed you get a bit of a lack on the resin production side, female cannabis plants "instinctively" make the resin as a form of protection against natural pressure like the sun, bugs and animals. When they go unpollinated resin production will slightly increase to provide more protection in fear for being able to pass on their genetics. If they get pollinated they know their genetics will carry on and the plant will automatically use the energy that would have gone to the resin, now goes into making the seeds. You just gotta make sure the plant is as healthy as can be, and the rest will fall in place by itself. It's not exactly the "one specific nutrient" to make better seeds situation. that's some stuff you hear people say at the grow shop. - the absolute worst place to get growing advice. the best seeds comes from a healthy plant. and to get a healthy plant takes almost the exact same every time - a well balanced regime, not X nute more during certain times. unless you growing with salts then adjust adjust adjust is the name of your game anyway

Sadly a couple of battaries is not gona fix this problem. Off grid just means with due time who ever "leads" will find a way to benefit more from it than you as an SA citizen ever will. You live in SA and show yourself to have any kinda spending money you gona loose, just a matter of time. Saving my money on gimmicks. We've reached a point where being positive about the future of our country is being ignorant. First move I'll make is getting off this continent. Not only away from SA. The "richness" and the forced respect for the "culture" and the "pride" of the people down here is the problem. The inability to face the truth and make a change is the problem. The clown politicians who we see on the tv are just there cause they're dumb enough to show their faces. They just come to deliver a speech, but we all know bigger hands are at play. There's very little to absolutely no impact on the circus if you think about changing out the clowns for different clowns. The music and the show will stay the same. The problem is much muuuuuuuuuuuuuch deeper than just the "leaders". It's the majority of the followers too. And it's not just their status' as leaders or followers. It's the collective mentality. The ego. The "african" roots has run rotten to its core. Literally the exact same kak that happened in Zimbabwe, word for word and step by step, is happening here too. Steep downhill to banana republic. Getting away from here ASAP, watch the shit pile burn from a far. Less than no hope for this sad place. You can be however optimistic in your views and say my view is whatever you feel or think it is, point is - thinking it's never going to happen to this country is ignorant, because we're much muuuuuuuuch closer to shit hitting the fan than anyone cares to realise or admit, but still people will be patriorical and argue with stupid phrases like "I was born here, I'll die for this country" thinking there is some turning point we have already passed the point of no return somewhere around 25 to 30 years ago. SA citizens just gave the benefit of the doubt for the longest time, cause there are some actual good people, but it has proven to be a fail. Being a good person in SA - the land of all the cultural richness - means absolutely fokol. Infact it counts against you and you'll be walked over. It's wakey wakey time, we're all from earth, we're allowed to enjoy life. No one should keep struggling like this. If the people from this country wana be proud of their destructive ways, then so be it, you really can't help anyone who doesn't want the help and that's a problem on our part - thinking they know they need help. We should help ourselves, not the "fellow south africans". They know everything already can't teach these leaders anything. Afrika se ma se poef there is nothing here to be proud of The nature is mooi, but that's nature, people didn't make that. The constant struggle is not worth the view. and that's my

Insipration That's a beautiful cross you made! I've been thinking in the F1 group it's almost better to end up with 1 keeper instead of a bunch. even though this means the genepool is very diverse, now you have the traits you know you wana lock in moving forward. I am at the very start of my breeding journey, been here for a while, can't seem to find a female I like enough to work with. I am also not 100% focused on it, it's been a background project for way too long now, I need to network more and get on the new stuff, I am still growing out old clones over here I got a reg pack a while back planning on just finding the best male or two in the pack so I can get do a pollen chuck or two. just to get the feeling Nice to see you posting here again bro, blast from the past! Coincidentally I was told to chat to you about breeding about a week ago by your SO on instagram, hoping this is the same person? instagram handle of the person who told me is serial puffs, you know them or am I talking to someone else right now?

Girls getting nice and thiick

What's good my dude, you use pudo for shipping? most expensive package cost is R50. I've sent some big boxes with them, they're legit. I'd like to grab some of the bloom, but maaayybe able to hook up a similar deal this side if I drive about an hour and a half. obviously I'd rather save on the time and effort and get it from you, just wana check if you would be able to send with Pudo, obviously I cover the cost. let me know

@Sticks I don't mean to answer for the guy, but it's pretty clear what he is saying. By possibilty of one person buying all 4 he will look at working a discount on the total. Indicating that the 2500 is not the total of all 4. I really doubt anyone is gona sell 4 x 120w qbs for only 2500 and then give discount too he also mentions that they're brand new... the discount will come in when you take all 4. alternatively if it was 2500 for all 4 then a single would cost 625, which would then be his selling point, though you probably only gona get a flood light for that price. these lights cost a little more than normal lights. with all that said I might still be wrong

PeanutButterBreath PlatinumSilk GrapeDiamonds GarlicSherbet another shot of the GS

With HID you also have to replace bulbs and ballasts over time, you get a few good grows then quality starts to go south. I know a guy some money, not endless amounts, though he switched to LED cause in summer he wasn't able to run the setup without having an aircon run together with the lights doubling running costs. if you run LED you still get some heat at the canopy. it's just the roots that might slow down a little bit, but if this reeeeeaaally bothers you it's very easy and cheap running a small fish tank heater in a 20L bucket where you mix your nutrient or dechlorinate your water before giving it to the plants, get the water to the 25-30°C range before giving it.

if you wana breed you can start with anything you want, first F1 batch you gona hunt the best pheno and part of that is not selecting the one that gets pm everytime or hermies for no reason... that kinda stuff. and with each next generation you select the one with the most resistance. when people get into stabilising a genetic you have to torture test them every now and then, the one that remains the closest to what you looking for is the one you breed with, this way you select for resistance each time. but for someone that just wants an easier time at growing in SA, it would be suggested to start off with local genetics as they have already done the breeding and selecting, well.... locally... so the genetics carried in their strains are obviously already more adapted and acustomed to our local environment in terms of wind, heat, frost, indigenous fungal spores, pathogens and pests... all that stuff. on the other hand someone who's just starting out I wouldn't suggest breeding right away from the first grow and then also I would say go for any genetics, because you're going to have to familiarize yourself with an religious IPM regime either way. at some point, same as all of us, everythings gona be 100% one day an the next day your plant is covered in PM or RSM... not enough regret in the world to explain loosing a whole crop to skipping one simple IPM day... trust me brother, IPM is a must must MUST. so going for local genetics as a way to get around that would be to shoot yourself in the foot. at least you could do with local genetics is still make yourself used to do one spray a week during veg. every week.

Thanks man! first batch from start to finish in my own soil eeh good question hahah I haven't been logging or keeping notes as often as I should, but they went for anything between 2.5 and 3.5 months. I can remember going a whole lot longer than planned cutting them back quite a bit when they where in the veg tent, because of my previous grow that was in here. took too long, actually still growing on that batch I just moved them outside. good time of the year now I'll have two batches harvested almost at the same time