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My budget is effectively zero... The seagrow is already going to be a substantial investment! Give me some ideas, though. I might be able to scrape up enough R5 coins from the couch. I have a "slow" compost pile where we chuck all our kitchen waste, it's got a giant (6m by 1m canopy) granidilla growing out of it, so I suspect that it's 100% good stuff. When they were in the tiny milk-bottle pots they were growing in nothing but that, and they maintained vigourous growth for weeks before getting seriously rootbound and growing some algae. Maybe I can build from that? I should also note that the pictures aren't showing the colour of the leaves properly. They are all quite a bit darker than what the last "group photo" is showing, though I think the individual photos are representing the colour fairly accurately. I'm inclined to agree with you anyway on the judgement that the soil isn't delivering. Their growth hasn't been very impressive since transplant, they've each only put on about 3 to 5 nodes on the main stems since the beginning of Jan. EDIT: Also, I spotted the first pair of white hairs today!

I have been suspecting a magnesium deficiency for so damn long! The soil is a 1:2 (by volume) mix of coco-coir : compost. The compost was partly store bought (it was on sale, got it home to find it had a slightly unhealthy smell) and partly made at my house. I mixed a fair amount of kelp from the local beach, as well as a bunch of garden waste (e.g. nasturtiums, leaves from trees and shrubs) in there and recomposted for two weeks. Everything but a few of the larger pieces of kelp and the (extremely fiberous) nasturtium stems were completely broken down. I'll definitely be resuming my epsom salt foliars , and hopefully pick up some Seagrow soon. Not too sure how much of a benefit kelp tea would have when I think about the amount of kelp that was composted, I think it was perhaps 4kg of dry kelp. (EDIT: Just to be clear, not all of that ended up in these pots. I only used about 2/3 of the final compost.) Question: what kind of dilution rate should I use for the epsom salt foliars? I was using 1 teaspoon per litre last time and felt it may have been too litle... Also, Is a foliar feeding necessarily the best way to use the epsom salts?

Wow.. been a while since I last updated. Today I've gotten the my first sexed plant. It's a definite duder! I'm gonna girdle him tomorrow because I'm curious to see what will happen. If any white hairs appear on other plants before he dies from the girdling, I'll either chop off all the sacks or just end his suffering there-and-then. Most of the plants have got at least one branch that has begun alternating nodes, so the preflowers are inbound! Some of the plants are developing purple stems. The ones from the one seed source (codenamed EL) all are going purple fastest, but there's one from another seed source that's got a mild tinge. Anyone think it's a deficiency? Hope everyone's having a good January so far ;P

All great pics, Growfo! I really like the nepali cross, such a lovely shade of green on those leaves. I have a bit of a soft spot for dark green, hehe.

Just isolate a sample and leave it for a week. If it grows, it's mold. Otherwise, you're fine. EDIT: A clarification: I mean you should pull out a bud you suspect has mold, then leave it somewhere in a sealed container (like in an old bank bag) for a week.

Hey all, I found out that Attitude has a pretty great deal when you spend more than 40 British pounds via Bitcoin. Here's a screenshot of all the freebies: (I had regular freebies selected, the feminised UFO freebies are Dinafem Critical 2.0+ and Blimburn Tangle Auto. These would replace the top two freebies in the screenshot.) Thought maybe this would be of use to someone considering buying seeds this month? Have a good day, everyone

Hein[/member]: No need to be sorry at all! I think I've done things much worse on forums, hahaha. Barticle[/member]: Nice job on the planter. Your stuff is totally welcome here ;P BTW, I have a question for any of the LST pro's out there: When do you like to stop your LST'ing? Toward the beginning of flower? A few weeks into stretch? EDIT: Just to be specific, I mean like at what point do you stop forcing branches to grow horisontally.

Yeah that guy does extract some real nice looking stuff! I've seen these live rosin extracts on Youtube being almost completely clear except for an ever-so-slight green tinge. Apparently it's really great, flavourful stuff, but can't be stored for very long and has problems with moisture content.

alemo[/member]: Why say that? Rosin is pretty much the same as solvent-based extractions when done properly. (Of course, whether people around you are producing good rosin is not something I can comment on.)

Welcome to the forum, Growfo! I'm super keen to see your press build. I hope to give making rosin a try out after I harvest, but I will probably be using a hair straightener and not a real press, lol! Have you experimented with using fresh frozen material for making rosin? Do you usually press hash or unprocessed plant matter?

Barticle[/member]: The bags are indeed flimsier than oupa's shlong, but they are temporary. I plan to build wooden pots from pallets, I just don't know when I'll be getting the pallets. Hein[/member]: I mentioned building pallet pots earlier in this thread Hahaha

Howzit everyone! I transplanted on the 1st and 2nd of Jan. I did 4 plants per day because I was too stoned to calculate the amount of soil I needed properly even though I have a damn degree in mathematics (I somehow just divided by 2 somewhere...), and I just didn't have the energy to mix more compost/coir after the first 4 pots. Anyway, I decided I'd take a few update shots. The three plants I took solo pics of are my favourites, as they have reacted best to the LST and are generally growing the best. I left them untied for a couple days since they had just been transplanted. Just put them back on the rope a few minutes ago. They got a Kelpak + corn SST + milk + epsom salts feed yesterday. They're all really perked up after the transplant, I'm very happy! Hein[/member]: I only saw your post after I transplanted, lol! I was considering using hessian for some pots a while ago actually, but my bank balance was literally in the negatives after Christmas so I had no option but to use things I already had in my house, hence the black bags.

Reminds me of the pictures I saw of a "black afghani" strain that Sannies' shop sold. Congrats on that beautiful plant, mate!

Shot for the response, Hein! Unfortunately, I'm running this op on a student budget with a grand total of R0 at the moment, so I can't just go out and buy some pots. My plan is to build 80 litre wooden pots from untreated pallet wood, but I don't know when those pallets are coming through. (I'm getting them from a family member who, in turn, doesn't know when he'll get them.) I know they aren't going to last long-term, but if I can get one or two seasons out of them, then I'm chuft! Anyone get any ideas for cheap, improv pots? Was thinking of tough plastic bags (I have a roll of them handy) held in shape by some reeds which are very similar to bamboo.

Welcome to the forum, man!

I've been researching the symptoms my plants are experiencing a bit more. Seems like Mg defficiency? If anyone know much about this, I'd very much appreciate the input. Symptoms in order of occurence: 1. Leaf finger tips yellowing, curling upward, then dying, starting at leaves near the base of the plant and advancing upward. 2. Leaf finger tips "canoeing" and developing brown splotches 3. Whole plant slowly going yellow (again, starting at base of plant and slowly going up.) I'm gonna do a foliar with some Kelpak and some Epsom salts tomorrow, if no one says anything against it.

Assuh people! So it finally actually happened. It's a weird thing to be growing at home. I've failed at 5 consecutive years of attempting guerilla grows. I've kinda been delaying posting anything because I always end up fucking up and having to stop my thread, but so far I've actually been okay. So hopefully this thread will actually make it to the finish line. Basically the plants are in little makeshift "air pots". I suspect these are causing some problems. Some of the pots are double planted. I did it because some seeds looked like they wouldn't make it, or in case one got nailed by insects. But then time stretched on and I could never muster the strength to just fuckin' kill one. I felt like I couldn't kill a plant without righteous cause, and my cause just wasn't righteous enough, you know? I'm guessing these plants are getting one or more of these: 1.) Root rot (there's algae visible on some pots) 2.) Nitrogen deficiency 3.) The after effects of underwatering (watering gap of 3 hots days last week) Sad times. The time is nigh to transplant into better soil with proper pots, or a raised bed perhaps... I'm trying to do a hot compost pile using minimal water. It's going pretty well, but it still needs some time. Have a lekker post-christmas chill, everyone

I suspect the black grid is the table on which the pots will rest, and not the "scrog net"

As far as I know, so long as there are healthy stigma present, the underlying bud (EDIT: I believe the proper word is ovule, not bud) will be inseminated. Just because a plant is usually harvested at a certain point doesn't mean it's 100% necessary to do it then. It probably would be best to let the inseminated buds mature for as long as possible, but yeah... maybe wait for someone with actual experience in this topic to answer you.

I ain't no expert, but how could you possibly go wrong here?

Looking good, dude. Have you transplanted from those styrofoam cups yet?

Dude, I'm in love with that fade.

BTW, does anyone know what's happening with the WCHC appeal thing? Like, what happens next? Are we just waiting for the supreme law-peeps to say yea/nah?

Should we refrain from discussing illegal drugs other than cannabis in general? Or just growing/making/etc? It's an understandable position either way.

Only just saw this thread now, so it'll be a bit useless to you, Gnome, but hopefully others might like this info: There's a subreddit called "sporetraders", www.reddit.com/r/sporetraders. There's a bunch of guys there that sell spores for Ps. cubensis, as well as other Psilocybe species and gourmet edible species as well. I ordered cubensis spores from the user "mushies81" (who posts on that subreddit quite frequently). Print costed about R100 (free shipping in a simple enveloped letter). The first one got lost in the mail, and he sent a second one at no cost after I told him I hadn't received it after about 4 weeks. Second one arrived 21 days after it was sent.