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Good morning Peoples. So its been 3 weeks about. The 2 Apples Jax phenos got me biting my fingernails, I'm going with it and hoping for the best. If they hermie, I will try spot it early and cut them down. @Totemic Sugar cookies growing very well. So is the ginger tea. A bit of Aphid or Thrips pressure but not stressed about it. Hope you enjoy the scroll. The DQxSlurris are looking good, about 3 or so weeks into flower. I'm going to finish them indoors so they get enough dark hours, those along with the 1 of each - Jack herer and Bubalicious females I found. 0 Veggie Garden going well, was late to plant the Chillis and Baby peppers but they finally made into the soil.

Ya im pretty much ready to pull them and cut my losses. Doesn't seem positive for the pancake lines. But then again it might be worth waiting and crossing fingers. The plants could be fire.

Very nice stuff bud! Keen to see how they grow!

I use teaspoons and tablespoons Wife gets annoyed , but then she laughs because none of the shit is poisonous #win

Very unlucky man, and they were pumping! I'm currently watching my apple jax phenos closely, might be facing the same thing, just not certain yet.

Oh yes and they look swell man

Doesn’t look like you need to defoliate yet bud, I would wait to stretch settles, you can however clean the lowers leaves that you are certain are not receiving light. And then it seems you may have a magnesium deficiency. But some phenos do that even with the addition of magnesium, for instance I had the same thing happen with a deluxe sugarcane pheno. So maybe a Epsom’s drench 1/2 tsp per 5l will do okay, if no changes don’t stress about it. Maybe do it another 2/3 applications. And then you can atleast be sure they have adequate magnesium

Very welldone bro! Check at those buds!

I'm trying but shit can find anything. If I do I will brother man

I watched a youtube video interviewed by like a German news company, their place looks very legit. Suppose you have to do all that, Someone said it was 30 bar to setup. He knew some people.

Ya Im probably wrong on that one because as I said, they were growing and I did not notice any issue, could be confusing them with another cover crop or plant as well.

Hello humble gardeners, I must update the new findings on the some of these plants that received the snip over the past few days, some due to being male and one because she was devoured by the dog, well most got defoliated pretty severely by this mut. The Crazy Hazey was the unfortunate victim, but did clone her. Anyways, I put up a fence and will be done with that. onto the good news. The DQ x Slurri - ended up with 2 females So they went into 2 x 20l pot to hopefully flower/ or reveg, not counting on it but made clones so its a win. of the Jack herer and Bubalicious, I think i've got 1 of each to choose from that haven't shown signs yet, others I confirm males and one has gone composting for now. Indoors the plants have started their training, and they seem to be adjusting to their new surrounding which is good, they got some microbes and water and then plain water, will be installing the blumat once they start growing properly.

I think they are all quite beneficial except the ones that attract pest,I noramlly use Dicondra, Lettuce, Cabbage, Baby Cabbage, oats and barley always sprout because they are in the soil and the mulch, the edible flower varieties I've just put in the veg bed, Swiss chard, Arugula, Did marigold, they didn't attract any pest, but apparently you suppose to watch out for that. Brassicas are all very good as well.

Ya bud the process happens quite fast, store bought soil would be somewhat dormant I would think, once you start inoculating the soil adding food into the system, grow cover crop of different varieties, you start innoculating the soil with indigenous micro-organis that inhabit the cover crop seed from germination. Creating more diversity. Introducing mulch, the benefit of mulch are honestly enormous. Covering the soil stops oxidation in the top layer of soil, that top layer is now moist and humid, allowing for even more habitation of microorganisms more decomposition, I want to really see if I can beef up my mulch game. you want organic moist and humid

All good points to bring up as they all effect everything, but I think the best way to picture it is to look 1 sided first, understand a type of scenario and the factors at play, lets take an inert system total of X water goes in, the ability for that water to stay in the medium and not be leached out or by evapotranspiration is your holding capacity, if that X stays in for a short or long time, it directly affects the holding capacity. Now lets take a living system, of the same volume, not fresh out the bag, this needs to be said. Reason being, the system has not begun the cogs have not been greased and the organism are very much dormant. Once a bag of any soil really that contains some or many amendments goes through wet and dry cycles, according to what's growing in the medium, (ideally the same plant) that microbiome will become more and more robust, the more it goes through wet and dry cycles. increase OM and subsequently water-holding capacity. Some would think more organism more water, but not the case, microbes unlock water in the soil for roots in a microscopic part of the clay colloids that the roots cant even get too. Om really increases your water holding capacity, that and covering your soil. lots of water goes up in the air. Generally water is never servicing 100% of its purpose in soil, there is always irregular expenditure, like our government.

My experience is soil holds more water than Coco, Coco by itself or coco mixed with a few buffer ingredients here and there to help with root movement and ''some'' colonization will always hold far less water than a true Living system. Science says that with living systems you can save between 5 and 7 times more water. That's why the more microbes in your system the more prone you are to overwatering. They increase the water holding capacity dramatically, if your soils structure is a miss they will first fix that too. I think the being careful not to let your soil dry out is a huge fallacy and its causes newer growers to make the mistake of overwatering. Properly cared for plants with well mulched surfaces and environments on par will drink at most 7-10% of the container size ever 3 days or so.

This one has been on my mind for sometime, I picked up a couple of really effective methods from the The regenerative growers guide to garden amendments. Now I'm definitely going to spy this one, thank you kindly.

Nice, My first book was the university of Oaksterdam... I would have preferred something like True living organics.

This is cool, I also want to set up a camera but I'm too lazy and I need to buy one first

Welcome, There are many different avenues you can take, but all will mean something later in your grow. If you use a certain soil it will or will not need extra nutrients as you progress. I suggest taking the simplest path without introducing massive complications. If its a complete soil that could do with a tiny amount of feed during the end, I would possibly use the FF green bag mixed with Orgasoillux at ratio 1:1. Could probably do biobizz at half strength. Depending on how much nutrients are going into those bags these days, should be good for a round or 2. Hard to mess that recipe up and will have good results.

So I thought many of the members would have some good books to mention here for people to look into and learn more. If you have read something that you thought had really valuable gardening information, please share. Here are some of the my best reads I've come across. - Foundations of natural farming (Harold Willis) - The Intelligent Gardener (Steve Solomons) - The Regenerative Growers guide to garden amendments (Nigel Palmer, John Kempf) - A Soil Owners Manuel (Jon Stika) - Paramagnetism (Phillip Callahan) - Biological transmutation (Louis Cevran) Not really gardening but outlines assimilation possibilities - Quality Agriculture (John Kempf) - How Plants Work (Linda Chalker) - Grow your Soil (Dianne Miesslar, Elaine R Ingham) - The Ideal Soil (Michael Astera) And lastly obviously Teaming with microbes, fungi and nutrients (Jeff Lowenfels) There are quite a few really dense reads like Soil micro-organism and higher plants (N a Krasil nikov) and Mineral nutrition and Higher plants (Horst Marshner), Which are widely considered more academics reads, I'm halfway through the first one. Then 2 books I'm dying to read - Science in agriculture (Arden Anderson), Life and energy in agriculture (Arden Anderson)

Whookay, no going back now. So as per the last bit of information the 4 plants in the tent now are the ones i'm most happy about in-terms of structure. The others didn't really make the cut. Crazy Hazey looks more like crazy indica. Anyways both Apple Jax phenos looking very similar and prominent, Nice and tight nodes but also grabbing some height for now. Starting to push out quite a few leaflets. Ginger tea doing the same, took her a while to get happy but she doing okay. Then the sugar cookies, this plant is growing exactly like the delux sugarcane, only plant showing magnesium deficiencies just like sugarcane, also very similar leaf and plant structure. They will live out the rest of their life in this 65gallon bed, its on the second round now and been re-amended via a very careful and calculated thumb suck. Here is Crazy Indica The Jack Herers and Bubalicious regulars received some water and must face the great outdoors now until I can sex them. This is the furthest i've gotten with any other plants other than cannabis so don't laugh lol, Roma Jam tomatos, Cherry tomatoes, Long Cayenne peppers and baby peppers.

Yeah man Organic is wayyyyy cheaper, Like alot alot cheaper. I cant remember the last time I spent money on amendments, and when I finally do have to buy the odd kelp meal, lime etc. its like 50-100 buck a litre... This is why I really cant understand people saying doing full no till organics is more expensive than the bottle nutes. I can understand not wanting to stress over mixing soil and yadiya, but now with all our soil brands that offer high quality soils from the bag and re-amendment packages, it really is a win over-all, in-terms of the budget.

Hello bud, The plants are looking good, all looks pretty normal to me. Plants are very similar to humans in that from a very young phase are quite fragile in their infancy and then spring up into their adolescence getting stronger, healthier and hardier all the way through their mid life. Then once flowering comes along, during the middle or so, there is a noticeable decline in health and this is all normal everyone gets old. If you have only fed worm casting, you have given the soil more than anything, a workforce to make nutrients more available, I would definitely hold back on the worm casting for the remainder of the grow. The plants are fading back so the colour will completely leave the leaf and appear yellow until they fall, again very normal. Then you seems to be about halfway through flowering. Quite important to note the following as everything will be impacted by this, What soil are you using? There could be things the plant requires as your finish, or they might already be available and nature is taking its course in which case water will do, maybe some Aminos, humic/fulvic, Kelpak will be a great add, high potassium molasses weekly too, but tiny amounts will do the best job. Again the type of soil matters the most. Using synthetics in a thriving organic medium needs to be done with the utmost care and precision, I would advise against it as your plants look right on track.

Really we have the very best people fighting for Dagga in our country. I'm not sure if bias could be counted here, but seeing the talent and courageous actions, wisely taken from all of the leaders in SA. It make me really proud to be South African. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I like Jeremy, he is most passionate. It seems the whole bill scenario has hit quite a fender bender and calls for a write off. Jeremy really ignited that energy in the beginning of the hearing. Someone else mentioned. I suppose its back to waiting, If I have to pick a country in the world that could deal the final blow to a stigmatic colonialist thinking, it would have to be a country that is ripe and full of wisdom, some people say wisdom comes with age.