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Day 67. With the load shedding and opportunistic night dweller's digging up power cables our power supply gonna be unstable for the next few weeks. So with a heavy heart I grabbed the snips. Was hoping on another week. To all the sponsors @Totemic, @Light It Up, @Aeradix, GSR Seeds, @Cannabist, Green Grow Room, @ExploGrow, @Golden-Goose, The High Co and @Futurama Hydroponics thanks for making this possible. Then let's not forget @420SA for pulling this together. Had a great time and most of all I learnt so much so shout out to all you out there. Looking back I ended up investing some on grow equipment and my little tent kitty has already been started. T3 the entrant that could have been.

Alright guys! Apologies for the tardiness, it has been quite the week... But none the less, my Tortoni has been harvested, stripped of its fan leaves, and is now drying in my drying cupboard area. I managed to get 4 decently sized colas out of her and some larf here and there.. Thanks for watching guys! It was another fun challenge thanks to @Totemicand @420SA Here comes the good stuff😁

And this bonus one is for all you sickos out there who love growing donkey dongs as much as I do😝

It's been a tense past 36 hours! Sorry for the downtime guys The website was migrated over to a better server on Sunday night which requires that the domain (420sa.co.za) points to the new server. This involves changing DNS settings and that's where the issue was. I was having issues getting access to the account where I change those DNS settings and support from the host, to get access, was painfully slow. So I phoned the host this morning and finally got them to sort me out, and we're back. My apologies to those who tried to access the site

So dry weight is in, not a massive harvest but at least some smoke I must say I was a bit lazy to trim so only trimmed the top nugs and the rest when in to the hash bin 223g for all the 3 comp plant together (top nugs only) 256g trim that turned in to 26.4g hash

We finally have our winners decided! In 2nd Place @Pants . 1st Place @Green Leaf Organics Well done guys! Will be giving you a shout by PM

Day 53 12/12. Getting excited.

6 days in the drying cabinet. 36g in the curing jar. 11g trim and popcorn for party chocolate.

@PsyCLown hey bud. The seeds were popped on the 28th of August. Early veg growth looks alright and didn't respond too bad to the high stress training. Still 2 toppings to go before I flip to flower so just really hoping that it atleast presents well in flower. I really wanted to support local and that is why I gave them a go but with all the noise around their ethical practice I wonder whether I will get what I thought I would get. Only time will tell... 🙁 Atleast I am also growing out some of that Inhouse that you gifted me so that has me happy knowing I will atleast have that and also the OSG seems to be legit... Here are some pics. Sunset Sherbet Purple Dosidos

I suppose it all depends on what price motherland supplied to Bnb. At least 100% markup is pretty much standard for a retail environment though. Seed prices are always a hot topic. On the one hand we are already at a loss with the value of our Rand, and we don't want to pay a lot for seeds. Current retail market fem seeds go for between R50-R100 on average. But this whole seed market is going to change into something else fast. It's no longer just a few of us risking a lot to be breeding for the growers. With decriminalization that risk has greatly reduced. Then Covid happened and lock down 1.0 saw us cut off from international seed sources, and even to an extent domestically. These two events drove many growers locally to take their growing to the next step. There are now many, many breeders that have come on to the scene. It's an exciting time for us to have the opportunity to reintegtate our society with cannabis. Who knows how far it's going to go...

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Here are the 10 nominees for SOTM August (in no specific order) @Legalhomegrowkzn #1 @Chris Jay @Legalhomegrowkzn #2 @thelazyfishermanza @Stinger96 #1 @Stinger96 #2 @koshaking @Green Leaf Organics @Pants @ORGANinc. Voting will now go to the voting panel. Hopefully we can wrap this one up quickly now. Good Luck!

Time for a harvest update. Not much but it’s mine, from seed Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Harves time eventually, I’m proud of my girl, real good buds Good luck to all

1,2,3 pics in order. Still only water with molasses every 4th watering now.

What's goooood my good people Here we have some training talk, this is nothing new, just a video I came across that helped me and might be helpful to some of you, some of you may already be familiar with it. What is this Kushman Chiropractic nonsens? Well, basically it's super cropping, but with less risk of loosing branches and/or damaging the plant and much quicker response times and virtually no recovery time. I've noticed on the forum the hot shit when comes to super cropping is the method of rolling a branch between your fingers slightly pressing down on it untill it subtly lays sideways, but still kinda standing on its own. This has caused me to snap a few branches in the past, having to run over to my medic kit and strap and wire shit back up to save the branch 🤦‍♂️ if it doesnt snap and I did it 100% correctly the plant will still take about 12 to sometimes 24hrs to prop all the tops back up facing the light before it can continue with normal growth. Well, here we go, no more of that for me!!! 🤠 We all know why we supercrop, so I won't go into that, but here is a video on how I found out about Kushmans Chiropractics that goes into quite a bit of detail on why we do it and all that, he also demonstrates his way and I found it to work MUCH better. snapped all my plants in about 30min last night without loosing a single branch. if you just wana check the chiropractics part skip to the 18:50 mark. he does something very very interesting 🤓

Thanks Capn! it felt like a part of my soul was wrenched from my body when i tried to log in yesterday and was greeted with the suspended page!! its good to be back -

Hi, still going strong I suppose it’s almost harvest time Good luck to everyone

Week 4 - Day26 (Flower) (22/09/2021) HORTIMIX-DWC EC = 1.7, PH =6.0 Going through 20L of water a week WPM gone for now

Pineapple Chem day 3 of 12/12 They are currently drinking 3L a day. That is impressive in 10L pots. They get fed twice a day.

So this thread also got away from me, but never the less closing it off. 6 phenos and 6 different directions this line will take going forward. There is enough seed from this run for me to continue hunting, and I will make a few available to testers.

Time has passed and i served the guys at Poker some Tortoni. It is not a taste cannon.. but over all a way over average smoke due to smoothness and the pleasant flavors you get when exhaling. They asked me if there is more coming.. I said yes and there was happiness all around the table 😉 As said, I am very sure I find a way better pheno and will do a hunt with regulars as soon as I have space. If you smokes a lot and have cough issues.. this weed is a nice solution. Buddy wanted to make a break, because of his lungs.. he is total fan of the Tortoni smoothness, had zero issues smoking it.

I used to go for the unbleached OCB papers, but now I like this pack better so I roll with them 😁

Day 63 12/12. T3. Warning - photo overload

Welcome welcome. Hope you’re not here to … [emoji12] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Sorry guys, I know we've been quiet. We've been busy with a few things in the background and with some other things on the side. Was the issue with the dimmer itself or with the connector? Regardless, we have changed the connector and we also moved over to a different dimmer. We have also finished with the PPFD charts, we just need to release them. Ideally we would like to get a few other things done and sorted first but if the delays are any longer then we will rather release the PPFD charts separately. We're still here, we're still supplying lights and are available for support if you have any issues 😄

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The last pack of seeds I purchased was Relentless Genetics - Schromptious

Great grow. 👍👍👍love the pheno. first donkey dong photo I've liked.

Sorry guys late reply. Broke my phone and lost most of the pics to update u guys. Also harvested my outdoor. Managed to make my first clones out of the outdoor. Heads were so nice I had to try do one indoor. Indoor auto is almost finished. Cloudy trichomes. The photo I've been hustling to keep down till the auto is finished before I push to flower. The WPM is all gone. Been giving biobizz bloom to the auto and grow to the photo. Led lights I have have all but halfed in power as most of the less are dead. Also mostly red less now. Looking to get a 240w quantum then eventually another. Enjoy your long weekend

After much deliberating I decided to submit T3 as my submission for the comp. Here are her final pictures. She was grown in a 10L grow bag, with organic soil from Organic Matters and fed on GHE nutrients twice weekly and black strap molasses and Epson salts on a bi weekly schedule. Thank you to @420SAand @Totemicfor this amazing opportunity to grow these incredible genetics. I had a blast. Thank you to all the other growers for the support and the competition throughout.

Shops are popping up all over and found another fairly new awesome growshop.Was in PE a couple weeks ago and managed to pop in and get a few products/meet the people behind this company. Quickbuyngrow is based in Pickering Street, Gqeberha ( PE ) . Fully stocked shop with a huge variety of indoor and outdoor growing essentials. Top service, and the staff are very knowledgeable of their products. From top seeds through to indoor lights, you can get it. Been following them online and they are running some awesome competitions anyone can enter. Check them out on Facebook, Instagram and Youtube to keep updated on new product launches and competitions.

I can not confirm nor deny, lol. Might have something to do there, and the shop does stock my products, exciting things are coming. We together did a huge give away this last Sat, huge!

She is doing very well in that 80L pot. The leaves are big and healthy and the stem is thick and hard. Looks really good so far and that Indica trait surely does show... I was thinking about doing some training, but ended up deciding to Monstercrop only. Crushed them grow tips and now its just wait and see....

Alrighty, outdoor season is upon us! 🤠 I got myself a few free seeds, just going to be playing around with them a bit, nothing serious. I have 2 big pots, 60L and 80L, ready for action. Planning to run some clones of mine, but first... I recycled and reamended some soil for my outdoor plants, but before really planting anything important in it I wanted to see if it's any good. Did a few tests, this is one of them. These are all regulars so I will be putting them in the flower tent in groups to rid out the males. Then clone all the ladies, number them, flower the mothers and select the best girl for further testing. Will probably end up with 2 plants at the most. Small phenohunt if you wana call it that, but it's not quite really. Group 1 - Hawaiian Cake in Freedom Farms Group 2 - Hawaiian Cake in reamended Soil Group 3 - Trainwreck in Freedom Farms Group 4 - Trainwreck in reamended soil (added more perlite) These plants are all between 4 and 6 weeks old, popped in sphagnum peatmoss and transfered to these pots a week after they popped. Only been getting clean water, no nutrients. The only signs of stress was the leaf damage from the few days of heavy wind that smacked their first sets of true leaves a while back when they didn't have any wind shade. They seem to be growing just fine, I have tested the EC of the soil, came in at 4.6, which is really fine for a young plant in an organic situation. I went ahead and brought out the first clone for the outdoor season, planted her in the 80L pot she'll be in till harvest. Sour Lemon OG

One needs to ensure they buy from reputable breeders. People buying seeds in bulk and reselling, putting different names on these strains, using pictures from others and not of the actual seeds they're selling etc. IMO these strains / breeders / brands you want to avoid. Rather buy seeds from a breeder who has input into what is being bred and not just from someone who buys their seeds and resells (not talking about seedbanks, but "breeders"). Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Good day to everyone!! So stoked to be part of this platform. I have recently found my new love and that is growing, Been growing for a couple months now and keeps on getting better. Will be definitely learning a lot from this platform.

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)

Hi guys, Thanks all for the valuable input. I went with the amendments my buddy suggested and just thought I'd try it out. I did the repot in plain Orgasoilux yesterday, gave plain water at pH 6.3 after calibrating my pH pen and this evening she is looking much happier.

Whoop whoop. Thanks all. Believe it or not this will be my first bong, after 25 years of toking. [emoji119] An update on how she finished, strain is hopefully 3 blue kings, gifted clone. 8 months of growing. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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What do you guy's think?

Thanks hey. When you do an apprenticeship one's success depends on the tradesman guiding you. Thank you all, I think I might just have passed although I had to do a re-write of sorts. [emoji1690][emoji109] Sent from my S40 using Tapatalk

@DamDave THE COMEBACK KING!

Last purchase... Original GG4 - Joesy whales

So I was looking at a few places which stocked a particular item to see who was the cheapest and stumbled upon @TheGroBro and I recall @Chris Jay making mention on them in another thread and he stopped by their shop. Since I am nowhere near where their shop is based, had it shipped to me but the experience was great! Shipped the same day and when it arrived, it was packaged nicely and discreetly. Today, I was looking for a particular clone dome which was out of stock pretty much everywhere I looked, except for The Gro Bro! Needed to get a few other supplies which they happened to have in stock and once again - the same excellent service I got initially. Order shipped out the same day - now waiting for it to arrive but I am sure it will be packaged well and delivered discreetly again. So just a heads up and thank you to @TheGroBro If there is something you need which is stocked by The Gro Bro, you can go ahead make the purchase and know that the order will be shipped out quickly. They also use TCG, who I find to be a lot quicker than Fastway, MDS and the other couriers.

So just a quick one.. Budlets dry and curing.. Have been medicating on scissor hash, some dry sift and fluff for the past week and I'm stoked.. All good.. Worried that the buds could get moldy but luck was on my side.. Awesome weekend to all..👌👍🌱 Left.. Fluff centre left Prime😁 Right centre Popcorn and right trim..

I just did some chiro on the plants I put I to flower a week or so ago, works really well. No broken stems by accident, unlike with what I was doing previously. Now let's see how it goes and compares. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk