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Great article. Urgent request to stop arrest and a few comments on the draft masterplan. ''Zoning'' - respectfully just don't https://www.cannabiz-africa.com/halt-cannabis-arrests-while-legalization-debate-underway/

Cool man! Yeah plants love lots of fresh air, major nutrient people forgot, CO2 Good luck champ! Weather will be great for them

Frosted apricots

White widow

But yes could be hard to breathe in there for those plants as it stands bud

Howzit bud! Nice one ! Can’t correctly diagnose what’s wrong with that one plant, the others look fine to me, it looks like damping off, that’s usually a fusarium attack on your roots, happens with young roots, tricorderma is a goodie for root diseases. There are a few strains of inoculant products that help with seedling support. I wouldn’t worry too much about those because I see you using adequate microbial support with the cannabis consortium

Strategic procrastination... lets hope there's a shift

Its unfortunate and definitely not the way people want to live. Maybe this High court application by haze club catches some traction.

And how exactly do you imagine the regulation would work regarding a coffee shop? Just from your understanding?

Implementation of Pillar 1 - Effective regulatory system - signing off of the Private Purposes Bill into law. The Department of Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural development invited a few stakeholders to a virtual meeting at 10am yesterday, they probably outlined the the aspects of the masterplan, seems nothing has changed, and plant counting is a go. Pillar 4 - Producer Support Systems - bla bla bla about education and support for small scale/informal farmers (wonder how they going to support them while putting them in cuffs.) Suit up or be excluded.

Hey man! Sounds like you have it all figured out, should have good success. Just made me realize I forgot to mention malted barley in my mix. The barley seeds will sprout if broadcast over the soil or mixed in, So I wouldn't stress too much about that, you want to add a decently layer of mulch for it to benefit your soil as a ''mulch'' so just keep that in mind. Also having a thicker layer of mulch makes you more susceptible to over watering issues, so just be careful there. Inoculating with beneficial would be best practice every month or so, this is only to make sure there is an abundance even in the case of dry downs, which in my mind would only be in very seldom scenarios. Pot sizes make a huge difference, especially in amended mixes, 20L is a good place to start, but I would advise against repotting more than once. So if you planting seed, straight into 20L, if you getting clones (what ever they coming in) straight into 20L. I've learnt with much trial and error that potting up (in living systems) almost always works negatively, probably largely due to stress but more so due to the substrates having the majority of the exudates and regions of the soil colonization, majority happening during the veg period, after that a significant amount of relationships lapse and sugars are pushed into the fruits. Organic practices do not have a guideline/chart, going by feel is essentially what you would have to do. So just remember, achieving the most nutrient cycling is what you want to do, that soil has a bucket load of nutrients. Good-luck and keen to see the grow!

Hahaha thanks bru glad it was a good scroll

Couldn't agree more! Cheers man! And thanks for that lekke comment!

Thanks man, do appreciate that!

Hi @420SA Yes this was the first soil I mixed, its about 8 months old. Its remnants of my soil from July 2020. The soil has been reamended over time by feel which is completely the wrong way to go about it, Soil testing is a must in future. I couldn't agree with you more, I thought I'd be getting some of the same effect from the grit but not nearly as available as dolomite/limestone in the medium. Yes I cook the soil for about 1 1/2 months.

Dankie my maat! Doesn't seem like many people have the time to understand plant nutrition, but why would you want to if there are so many easier ways around it. Ill be the first to admit there are way too many flaws in this soil, the potential for living soil is so huge! So ill be ever so slightly reamending these pots and growing chillies and tomato's and some other veggies outside. Mixed up a sphagnum peat moss based living soil that I'm dead eager to plant into soon.

Cool man, there is so much I don't know too. Just sharing what I've learnt.

On week 12 today, had much fun with this grow. A few branches are laying on their side but managed to support the majority. Either ill be harvesting over the weekend or next weekend, thinking best to leave them be another week. The soil I'm using is made up of the following - Coco peat / Perlite / Vermiculite / Vermi-compost / Activated Charcoal / Alfalfa meal / Kelp meal / Soft Rock phosphate / Rock dust / Humigro / Bone meal / Seabird guano / Bat guano / Bird grit / Aloe meal / Diatomaceous earth / Mycorrhizal mix / Insect frass / Neem powder - Topped dressed a few other amendments to correct deficiencies along the way. The only issue with having more sources of nutrients in your soil is that it complicates the final balance and potential synergistic relationships you are trying to achieve with the microbes. Needless to say, I'm glad the plants/microbes were able to overcome my imbalances with a little bit TLC, and a few tweaks here and there to achieve a balance. Hope the pics are a little better, been slacking on the photo-graphics Have a champion weekend farmers!

Yeah but very interesting concept! Over doing it in a living system is veeeeeerrry easy! Been there done that. But it would be because of the sheer amount of nutrients available. @GreenGrow Garden Route Sorry for all this gibber gabber on your thread bro.

This is exactly it. If we eat shit all day long, we can’t expect to be healthy. On the other end of the spectrum if we want to be healthy and strong, we must eat a balanced ratio of carbohydrates, proteins and fats. Theres a fine line there, even if they’re daubed healthy foods, if in high enough excesses will cause more harm than good.

Quite right, plants with a brix of higher than 13/14 seldom have problems. Bees don't waste their energy on plants lower than 6/7, so it goes to show

Oh no I’m referring to your specific comment about plants attracting unwanted bugs, only scenario I see that being possibly is if the plant is sending out those stressed signals. Well documented phenomenon. This is all. Otherwise, healthy plants attract beneficials.

Howzit bru, Okay I must jump in and comment here, the prevalence of many deferent parasites, pests and diseases are closely related, if not directly related to plant health and finally production of secondary metabolites, lipids and fats. All of these things ... flavonoids, terpenoids oils and waxy layers on the surfaces of the plant tissue will dictate the palatability relative to the consuming organism. Some people believe that plants are just sometimes susceptible to certain pests regardless of the health of the plant. First off, its hard not to see it that way, because some plants just look healthy and get attacked anyway. Looking at the back end of things and not just on the surface, is that plant really healthy and happy? This connects closely to holistic nutrition. Are there any excesses or deficiencies? Are there any missing gaps? There are 118 elements they focus on in chemistry, they can make plant growth in excess with less than 17. Plants most certainly have very effective defense mechanisms - recent studies suggest, but are all the enzyme co-factors available to kick that switch into gear? Not only that, are there also any imbalances that might also interfere with the highly complex domino effect of these enzymes, many of the time not. Here is a key example, Plants convert nitrate to ammonia and ammonia to various amino acids that it then uses those amino acids to build proteins. The first step should be completed in less that 24hr give or take, So if excess nitrates are left over, they are stored in the vacuoles waiting to be moved through the system, apparently aphids love nitrates. Regarding the addition of bugs in the system to counter the bad bugs, this is possible, however very much swinging in the dark. Also adding a few more layers of potential complication. Microbial life from bacteria through to the macro arthropods and worms are very selective regarding the environment they choose to make home - if there is enough food, a suitable environment and little competition they will appear or disappear.

Ya that's blatant, and they just look so irreversibly tainted by doing shit like that. If you going to buy seeds for the purposes of resale, put some effort into it, grow some out, take some dope pics, understand what your customer is getting and if they would be happy with the resultant bud. I have had a experience with both GSR as well as President seeds. Here's the thing though, and I'm not saying this can't be done, however I may have just had bad luck with it. The president seed - gelato bin ladden auto I grew, being auto's, I assume they are sensitive to the touch. So I didn't do anything drastic at all, but noticed it started flowering around 3 weeks in, Still TEENY TINY... So in the bin it went. I only noticed later on that I had made a switch in lighting, Cool White tubes - 240w Quantum board 3500k to make for a more speedy veg, which was the intention. Soon after seeing all my plants a little too close to flowering, calyx busting, 2/3 pistols quite pronounced, I made the change back to the LED Tubes. Could the Qb's color temp caused early flowering in my Auto, most probably... But is that also where you draw the light with pissy strains that break down in tears if you look at them funny? Most certainly. GSR gelato grew so promising, but then the buds were full of air unfortunately.

Nice new OPTICS! What light is that bud?