__DANNY__H__ Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 2.14 metres long, 0.6 metres wide. I'll build the sides (0.4m tall) later today or maybe tomorrow, fill that baby up with some dank soil and update y'all when I'm done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hemp Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 You can use leca if the perlite is unavailable, the expanded clay balls... they'll give the needed aeration. Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hemp Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 The vanilla clone....wink wink. I must be honest, I only took it this morning so hang in there hahaha Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted February 24, 2018 Author Share Posted February 24, 2018 I'm very excited for that clone! BTW, what light cycle has it been kept in? Unfortunately the LECA things aren't even available at my local stores. Perlite, as stated, is ridiculously expensive. I was thinking of just buying some red wrigglers, they'd probably do a fine job of aerating the soil and would also help build that lekker soil ecosphere. ;P Also I could use them to start a proper vermicomposting system. I've also been thinking of making charcoal in my parents' Weber braai thing and putting some of that in the bottom of the bed. I've done an experiment on water-holding and weight. The dry charcoal of hardwoods is extremely light, 10 grams had a volume of more than 20ml, which is quite a bit lighter than most compost and natural soils. I've got that sample of charcoal soaking in water. It's absorbed 6.6 grams of water over the course of 5 or 6 days of total submersion, and still lighter than natural soil despite absorbing so much water. Even if it isn't aerating if it absorbs too much water, I think it'll have some use in the soil mix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hemp Posted February 24, 2018 Share Posted February 24, 2018 For now it 24 hours darkness then 18/6 Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smeegol Posted February 25, 2018 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Morning Danny_H_, your charcoal story sounds good, there's a guy called @conradino on 420mag uses bamboo in the same way and uses a copper collar around the stem to prevent snail and stuff I think, might be worth checking out if you thinking along those lines..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted February 27, 2018 Author Share Posted February 27, 2018 Planters finished. imsotiredsomebodykillmeplease Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smeegol Posted February 28, 2018 Share Posted February 28, 2018 Looking spot on Danny, get some monsters going boet.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted February 28, 2018 Author Share Posted February 28, 2018 Thanks hochy Today I picked my first pair of balls off HP1. Got a feeling I'm gonna be doing that a lot in days to come, sadly. On the bright side, smell and frost is starting up! Such a toxic fucking smell though, lol. Moth balls and Jik, I swear to god. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hemp Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Moth balls and Jik !! Are you feeding they grey water lol. Anything with a bit of Jik in should be pretty potent hahaha Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted March 2, 2018 Author Share Posted March 2, 2018 Okay to be honest I take back the Jik part, lol. Moth balls and... it's an indescribable smell. Very toxic, chemical-like. It smells like some type of cleaning product. They're just getting every couple days some tap water and a tiny splash of Seagrow. Anyway, today the beds were filled with soil. Due to some serious measuring errors on my part, there are in each raised bed: * 60 litres of mushroom compost * 45 litres of kraal manure * 45 litres of potting soil * 60 litres of coco coir. It only just occured to this stoner right here that this soil mix is probably a bit hot, lol. I'm gonna wait off transplanting until I am sure the soil isn't going to go into a composting process and heat up a shitload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Hein Posted March 2, 2018 Share Posted March 2, 2018 Why not some perlite for airration ? Mix sounds really good and I'm surge ladies will thrive in there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted March 2, 2018 Author Share Posted March 2, 2018 Hein[/member]: I didn't want to spend any more money, lol. Perlite is quite expensive both online and "offline" for me. I'm gonna buy some red wrigglers soon, hopefully. Everyone in the "no-till" community says they do a really great job aerating soil. Anyway, I have sad news: Pretty sure I've got a red spider mite colony on one of my plants. Pics attached. I pray to Jebus that they don't spread to the other plants. I plucked some of the leaves (all the ones that had visible mites), maybe 6 leaves in total. Gonna see if I can get a remedy tomorrow. Anyone else dealt with these little bastards before? Pics are the top and under-side of the same leaf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hemp Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 I believe they have discontinued the product but it's still available in places if you can find it. Added to that a good clean with pressure hose to wash most of the mites off first, they hate water. If you can't get the product then you will need 2 to 3 different products such as neem, pyrol and whatever else you can get your hands on because spider mites build up a resistance to neem and the like. Sorry to say but spider mites is probably the worse infestation of them all due to their resilience and resistance. Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted March 3, 2018 Author Share Posted March 3, 2018 Luckily it's only the one plant. I figure I can keep it away from the others, treat it with the "destructive" stuff and get some "preventative" stuff for the beds. EDIT: I just sprayed the infected plant. Couldn't see any left, so that seems like it worked quite well, hahaha. Of course I'll be keeping watch and am still gonna do what I said above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hemp Posted March 3, 2018 Share Posted March 3, 2018 Their final resting spot Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted March 4, 2018 Author Share Posted March 4, 2018 Just found mites on two more plants, one in each box. At this point I figured it's pointless to quarenteen the plant that originally had mites, so I just transplanted it into the box. Let's hope these mites don't spell a terrible fate for my babies. I sprayed the plants that are still early in flower formation with a soap/canola oil mixture, and probably got a few drops on the ladies that are really blooming. Pretty sure they'll be fine since it was early in the day, plenty time to dry off in the sun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted March 9, 2018 Author Share Posted March 9, 2018 Hey all, update time I rate. The mites are not going out of my control. So far. Thank god. I've been doing daily water sprays, looking under every damn leaf and shooting the little bastards off with a jet of water whereever I find them. Also done two canola oil/dishsoap sprays now, and I've ordered some neem oil online. The plant I originally saw the mites on is totally clean of them, hilariously. Only one plant had any visible mites today, and it got sprayed real carefully and perhaps excessively. I think the reason the mites were even present on said plant was because it's in an awkward spot. That is, I can't spray under the leaves as easily as the other plants. Hoping that if I stay on top of these frequent plain water sprays that they'll not be able to stay around long enough to breed to large numbers. Has anyone ever seen a plant with a main cola like this btw? Such an odd way of developing. It's looking almost like the male flowering structure of sparely placed pollen sacks on lots of little branches. It also has a lot of dying stigmata despite my efforts of literally searching the whole plant for pollen sacs and finding none. There's probably going to be a long gap between now and my next update, because life is going to amp up real fast this year. I thought about blocking all the weed sites because I have kept coming home and reading about weed instead of reading the materials of the courses I am studying. Not a good idea with two weeks til the first set of tests... P.S. Big shout outs and thanks to the good fellow Justin. I'll still be coming on 420SA until I get that granidilla to you, I'm not going AWOL like a dick. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hemp Posted March 11, 2018 Share Posted March 11, 2018 That is some of the strangest development I've seen, do we know what strain it was/ is ? Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted March 11, 2018 Author Share Posted March 11, 2018 JustinHemp420[/member]: Some kind of local schwag. It's got the magenta hairs typical of swazi, came from a bag I payed R150 for 10g. Was decent stuff if I remember correctly. The buds were quite fat and whole... not like this stringy, tiny-branches-with-sparse-calyxes growth at all. If you compare it to it's tied-down sibling on its left, that seems more representative of what I got the seeds from in terms of bud shape. I reckon I'll make some seeds with it to see if its a phenotypical expression I can duplicate, just for the hell of it, lol. Collected a little bit of pollen from the male I killed ages ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted March 13, 2018 Author Share Posted March 13, 2018 I think I might have gone a bit over-kill with my spider mite eradication program... The plant I sprayed the most was this one I've attached a picture of. The leaves are going dark, dark gren and are curling up. They're quite moist, like they're sweating. Several of the leaves have out-right died. The same effect is present on the other plants that I sprayed, but far less severe. I think I put too much dish soap in my spray. Or maybe leaves aren't supposed to get up-close blasted with high pressure water twice a day... xD Hopefully they recover quickly... On the plus side, I haven't seen a single spider mite in over 3 days, lol. I'm still keeping a very watchful eye, of course: apparently spider mite eggs take about 3 days to hatch. EDIT: For some reason I literally cannot upload files anywhere... think my browser is broken. -_- EDIT2: Yup. Chrome works fine. Firefox, why u no upload?!? Things like this will never cease to irritate me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hemp Posted March 14, 2018 Share Posted March 14, 2018 The spider mites bites will distort your leaf structure like you cannot believe. Also expect the plant to stop altogether in growth for a while, mine took over a month to recover and that was not even a full recovery. Possibly the worse thing that can happen to cannabis is spider mites. Holding thumbs for ya man Sent from my ALE-L02 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alemo Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 I'd give up here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaggaBoy Posted March 20, 2018 Share Posted March 20, 2018 Too bad bruh... Hope you have better luck with your next grow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
__DANNY__H__ Posted March 22, 2018 Author Share Posted March 22, 2018 Hahaha don't worry guys it was just the one plant that got damaged like this, the others had almost nothing wrong with them. I mean, one other one also got a bit fucked (it has lost like 5 of its bud sites, totally dead, but 4 or so are left and are doing okay) but the others are all completely untouched by this effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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