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Hey all, Been battling with some issues and not 100% sure what it is. History/details etc. 1.0 I have a main tent compartment running 12/12 flower cycle and currently with one GG4 in her. She did have some thrips not so long ago, so I sprayed Vegol (https://biogrow.co.za/products/vegol/) as it was sold as a spray today eat tomorrow and a better version for 'fruit' bearing plants. As the GG4 is about to start week 7 of flower I didn't want to use Pyrol. There are 2 issues with her. 1.1 She has these spots on her leaves, but there is nothing on the underside, and overall she seems happy. My thoughts are it was when I sprayed her, and the lights were still on. Does that seem right based on the pic? She also seems to have a bit of what we see in issue 2.0....but maybe I am looking at this too much. 1.2 The other issue that she has is the leaves look a bit nute burnt. I am growing in Freedom Farms soil with BioBizz Grow and Bloom nutes. Been sticking to the regiment. Tonight I fed her plain un ph'd compost tea. Hoping that may flush her a bit, but confused as to it being too much nutes? Is it just a strain that doesn't like the normal dose? 2.0 In my seedling area (small veg area of the tent, blocked off of course) my plants seem to be having all these small black dots on them. They do not seem to be mites as they do not move. But they are killing leaves. I feel like it is a nutrient uptake/soil thing? Seems to have affected multiple plants, making me think it is a disease or a pest? Found a few threads on the net about this and how guys all have the same thing and all believe it is NOT mites. Any thoughts would be appreciated. The one RQS Sherbit Queen I planted seems fine, although some lower leaves are looking like it. She seems the strongest, the rest of them not so much. Thanks a mil in advance, not something that I have evere dealt with, so I am a bit out of my depth here. Pics: The small seedling (lucky packet) is the issue 2.0 that I am speaking off. Rest is related to issue 1.0 Thanks!!

Thanks for the confirmation! Its good to know

I was going to say the same. Starts at R420 an hour I think (as per the site) but that is for 'consultations'. So I don't know if they charge per G or if you can press X amount in the hour. I think they haven't defined it enough. Might go see them, if I do I will report back

Welcome and awesome stuff you got there! I saw your pic on soil. What all have you put in there? I see compost, just make sure what you use doesn't have a lot of bark in it. I see a lot of first timers (myself included when I started ) using cheaper compost or potting soil and it has a lot of bark. From what I have read and experienced myself first hand, cannabis plants don't really like that. Good luck with the grow, looking forward to the grow diary

Awesome peeps, good luck!!

Some epic tunes there

Every now and then I need some rap + 5 for the peep who knows where I no doubt got this from

Ah okay, from the previous comment, I thought you were considering it maybe Would be interesting to compare. Looking forward to following this grow

My vote goes for LST also. I think you can get a lot more out that way. Attached is my Critical Auto from Victory Seeds I just harvested 250gs wet on the scale, so will see when dry. Been struggling with this kak humidity, so I ended up wet trimming a lot of her (after these pics)...not my usual MO. Good luck with the grow, will be interesting to watch. I do like the idea of comparing xmas tree to LST on the same strain, but I guess it can be strain specific as to what each likes.

Nice set-up there! I really like the idea of the box fans. I should add that to cool the light down a bit and circulate better.

Haven't heard of it till now. Did a 2min reccy on their site and see something about 14 months release. I need to look more. This is what had me more worried about Talborne organics. 1. Too long of a release as far as I understand it, but then I know some organic matter can also take that long, and 2. their NPK values don't seem to add up to what I would normally look for. Thanks for the feedback! Any idea if this was maybe first grow woos? Howe much did you feed/mix in of each and at what point? Yeah I agree on the enhancer, not really worth it. Although I see Fulvic is quite expensive.

Haha indeed! The champ himself. I really am trying to embody the simple and easy growing with good results. I have already learnt there is so much more to that in terms of the experience, but I continue Keen to try, but the price is just really high, hence me asking around. Seems like some good reviews on it. Depending on how this goes, I may just wait for my BioBozz nutes to finish and then try some. If I do, I will definitely report back

Didn't know about these competitions. I will try take some nice pics in future

Hey peeps, I have been using Freedom Farms and BioBizz (Grow and Bloom) nutes exclusively. There is a grower I follow on YouTube and he uses slow release nutes to the likes of Gaia Green, which of course we don't get here. So I have been hunting for something similar. In the shops I have mainly found pellets for slow release, which is obviously not ideal. So I have been thinking of the Biogrow (organic) line from Green House. https://hydroponic.co.za/hydroponics/green-house-powder-feeding-biogrow/ https://hydroponic.co.za/hydroponics/green-house-powder-feeding-biobloom/ https://hydroponic.co.za/hydroponics/green-house-powder-feeding-bioenhancer/ Any one had any experience with these? The rest of their line they mix in with water, same as 'bottle' nutes. This line, you pre-mix in the soil and then top dress weeks later, same as Gaia Green. This is very attractive to me as I don't need to mix nutes every watering. Would appreciate to hear if anyone has tried this. Thanks a mil!

Welcome back and I am happy to see you! I ordered once from you guys last year and was blown away by the good service. But then this was before mid year. So I was sad to see you go, but understood the issues. Looking forward to trying you again

No stress bud, happy to help. I am satisfied with the overall build and quality. But I have seen there are a few like mine around, so you may get one from another supplier, not 100% sure. Everything looks robust and string, and I personally would not spend the extra on the Mars, unless you have cash lying around. Is this one as good as the Mars, most likely not. But I can see it lasting a good while. Depends how you use it thought too. I only open the tent once maybe twice a day. So if you are zipping all the time, it will last a shorter period of course. Usually the zips are the first to go on a tent.

Oh and here is the seedling/veg area.

Hey Hey, sorry forgot about the pictures last night I have attached. Questions answered below: Yes, top right veg, bottom right equipment. I haven't Yes, the divider is fully removable. It attached with a stronger than normal velcro (on mine at least) to hold it up). Its not meant to be used how I am using it, but I made a plan. Sure. You would just need to reverse what I did Still playing with it. I just set it up last week and haven't run anything yet. I think I could probably only get 2 full size (veg) plants in there, or 4 smaller ones. So my inital attempt will be to just cut out 4 weeks of veg (from seed to 4 weeks) in the veg section, then move them to the flower section and continue veg for another month, then flip to flower. This way I shave off a month hopefully. I do need to get a better light in the veg area, but I am playing with that still. I usually start seedlings in a jiffy pellet, then to a solo cup (you get the red american style ones at some tops spars and other places), then a small pot, I think its a 2l litre, then 20l fabric. Sometimes for photo's like my big WW that is currently running I still did another transplant to a 40 litre. This is because she came as a clone. Trying to basically do a small perpetual grow yeah. No mothers yet, not enough space for that. Ideally the end goal would be a whole other tent, a mother and veg area in there. Soil is FF (green bag), BioBizz nutes, Ph'd water even though I am growing 'Organically', Light is a phoenix sky 200 that puts out 240w. Using compost teas also and thats pretty much it. I like to do some auto's also, and usually try time it with my others. So like in this tent now, I have a Critical Auto which is 1-2 weeks from done. Rock hard nugs so far which is great as it is my first grow with this light, a GG4 which has caught up to the WW clone. If you get it right you can often manipulate the plants and grow to sync there timing. I will attach an image of nov or dec where you can see how small the GG4 was and how big the WW. But with some simple things I managed to get them both to a good size and ready to flip together. Oh and then I run an automated wifi switch system to control everything. In the pics you will see the shelf and division. In the pic with all the plants, the auto is bottom left, GG4 bottom right, and WW at the back. And I also added the pics from way back where I started this grow with the auto and WW. With it empty you can see better.

So I actually bought one of these tents last year. I looked and looked and this ended up being the best option for me. Mine is a 90x90 area by 180 I think. And then the partition is 90x30x180. What I really liked about this, is that my light flowers a 80x80 section. I took the divider, and only blocked off the top shelf of the "seedling" section. In the bottom half, I have my fans, humidifier etc. This means that I have the FULL 90x90 area for plants. Before I was running in a 80x90 DIY which still had to house my fan, heater, humidifier etc. so I lost out on grow space. Then literally this week, I have been light proofing the seedling section, as the lighting is not perfect with the velcro seals, and obviously with how I ran the divider half way. I installed some small lights and my bathroom extractor from my last tent. My hope is to just shave off 4-8 (probably more like 4 because as mentioned the plants can't get too big in there) weeks. Just to reduce the time between harvests. So for those 2 purposes it really made sense to me. This is the one I got: https://happyharvest.co.za/product/multi-chamber-grow-tent/ I will take a pic later of the set-up once lights are on.

Great topic. Been wondering about this too as we have also had high RH this week (Jozi). But makes sense what you all say re air exchange. My tent is in a garage and I pull and vent air from the outside mainly. Sometimes from the garage (if I keep the flap on the side open). So it is largely weather dependent. Air exchange is either constant or on a 15min on/off cycle. So to dehu. that air and then vent it outside is a 'waste'. What does everyone else do in these summer months?

From my experience yes (depending on breeder and strain), but this one does seem very small. I guess as Organinc. says, might as well grow her out and see what comes of it.

Yeah, looks like the pistils are already showing. I would take it up with them considering the "lie" of a service you already got. They should be more upfront with it then.

Dammit, beaten to it by a better one

I literally just looked at the elements and thought of this maybe: Phosphorus - Has 2 'P's" so think P Potassium - Has 1 'P's" so think K - P**S Klap

Great suggestion. I already use this in winter (added heat from lights to help with cold nights) and I didn't think of it for summer to take advantage of the colder nights vs days. Will be doing the same Thanks