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Roughly the 8 week mark, and she is just cruising to the finish. Only just starting to see a spot or so of PM and removing the leaves as I see them, but otherwise in perfect health. She will go on to harvest by mid to end June I reckon. She is maturing bottom up, with bottom buds starting to swell.

So I decided to give her the chop. 2 weeks earlier than I'd have liked, but she was just klaar. The snail damage did a number and most branches started drying up. Plus our first proper cold front is rolling in tonight. I lost 4 long colas to catapillars that ate the colas from the inside out. Never the less, I'm happy. The haze vibe is there, buds are fluffier than I'd like, but she still managed to stack quite ok, despite a mid flower transplant. Bubbleberries mass of pistils has carried through, and going to dry with a rooibaard vibe.

My first grow , outdoor this year

Hey Guys, I’m G . Looking forward to meeting you all ! Just done an outdoor grow and now looking to setup an indoor one.

I'll get a whole pool for you @CreX Can't say I pay much attention to water temp unless it's warmer than 21C

Agreed. The last grow I did I only had puny 20L DWCs and they were not enough! Had to basically refill every day. Now I have these 30L DWCs and they are so much better. Only need to refill every week now in flower.

I like it! I still feel you should get a larger DWC res for next round... It really takes the edge off. Something like a 30l - 40l in that space and you will notice the difference. Currently I set my res up with hortimix up to 1 EC... Literally leave it alone for 2 months except add water that's been displaced... No extra nutes, no pH checks... And the plants explode like volcanoes.... Damn the efficiency of DWC!!!

Welcome man!! May the green be prosperous with you!! Maybe hit us up with a few highlights of your outdoor grow while you're at it

Hey G, what is your budget? What can you spend on your grow on a monthly basis? Monthley expences is a good place to start in this ecomomic situation we find ourselves in. It does not help you buy the most expensive equipment and you cannot afford to run it. Enjoy your time here. Experiment allot. We all have.

A little tester before harvest. Critical Purple Kush

Another week

Hi Please help - 3 rows of 3 pots. All a local cannabis craft soil. I have been feeding low doses of Biobiuzz nutes & stimulants through a Blumat drip system. Strain is a Purple Punch cross, ( that needs extra cal/mag and I gave a bit ) . The first row is airpots - and everything looking healthy and green 2nd two rows - locally made fabric pot - bottom big old leaves have turned a pure yellow ( now forming brown patches ) - no curling , no leaf tip burn - and newer leaves are a pale green . Difficult to see in pic one - but right two rows are the pale green ones. I narrowed down to a lack of Nitrogen, ( from what I can research ) so I have given a good feed of BioBizz fishmix. Question is - is this lack of N and why only two of the three rows with cloth pots ? Lack of O2 due to fabric maybe ? PS...There is a knat problem - but not too bad - they came in the soil Please, any advice appreciated 1

Hi, thanks for the replies . I’ve got about R7000 to get started but can add on as Months go on. I would be spending the money on buying anyway if I don’t grow my own. I’m looking to grow about 4 To 6 plants indoor at a time. My outdoor grow was pretty awesome. After buying for so long I’ve been smoking my own since January when my first outdoor auto tangematic from fastbuds was harvestEd. I grew way too much too close together that I couldn’t harvest it all on my own before a bad week of Gauteng weather kind of ended it. I grew a lot of autos to.My triple cheese and liberty haze were awesome. My phantom OG and acapulco gold got pm and I ended up tossing it. I’m currently still harvesting a Franco’s lemon cheese but she’s mostly cut down now and have one Swazi regular female and a royalI ICE that’s still a way off and I’m not sure will survive tonight’s cold. I’ve also got 2 blue cheese autos that I’ve just started. I take them out during the day and put them under 2 45w cfl bulbs inside at night. I’ve tried to chose more pm resistant strains for my next outdoor grow with short flowering times of 6-8 weeks and a few longer ones so my harvest is more spread out. I’ve got seeds for Holland’s hope, Church, Pineapple chunk, peyote cookies, S.A.D and LA confidential but might get white label master kush and Afghan kush regular seeds instead. My mind changes a lot . Anyway, nice to meet you all!

Entry #4 two headed skunk top view

Noice... I would even consider consolidation to even larger bucket... Ones where the volume of water in use is lager than currently... Do you measure your water temp separately to your ambient?

Welcome to the forum @Gee88 , best damn hobby in the whole world! Like Skunkpgmharm mentioned, quite a big layout when starting indoor, what kind of space do you have available as your grow area, usually a good starting point to evaluate costs etc.

Very nice bro, going to be some dank DWC no doubt!

Right hand is the GDP, left is RQS Royal Gorilla

But why only the fabric pots ?

For a 60 x 60 area I would grow an autoflower under a Mars TS-600, which is R2 900 at the moment with the standard 3 year local warranty fulfilled in Cape Town. Thanks @CreX

The COBs I use do not use drivers, I am aware that probably also impact my power usage. My 100w ebay chips cost me around R80 - R120 each. Used alu to build the frame and added a few fans to keep it cool. They were bought before lockdown, so importing is now an obvious challenge Sent from my CLT-L29 using Tapatalk

Entry #3 Had to get in the special forces for help me train this two headed monster.

Hi everyone. The lockdown got me growing my own bud. my entry #1 is my DIY Lockdown Growbox (this is motivation for why i need that Dark Propagator 60 lol)

It looks good. I would not be to worried this late into flower. As long as the upper leaves dont yellow. Take off the leaves as they go completely yellow.

Hey man. So there will be a lot of sold out issues due to the fact that the boards are all imports and this isn’t happening at the moment. Don’t fear because all is not lost. I have heard a little bird singing and apparently there’s a company making quantum boards locally. Also remember the pricing you see now and the pricing with the Rand dollar exchange rate change will be different. So expect things to grow In price. if you’re keen to check find out more about this, feel free to drop me a line. The company will launch soon but I’m sure we can waggle a pre launch del out there somewhere. I am sure we are also able to work with your price-point as we have gone a custom route where each client will be dealt with on personal need. Feel free to contact me if you want to know more. fyi. All warranties are local so there’s no shipping back to China if something goes wrong or any delay as we literally place the leds ourselves etc.

Winter Outdoor grow in progress with Totemic Genetics have a Choco NL and Bubbleberry going. Hoping for a successful winter grow. Helps being on lockdown, constantly moving the babies to better sunny spots.

^^ #3 The dark side of the tent and #4

Totemics Chocolope clone ''pink'' winter colours.

Yah love this place , love the pics... good luck guys!!!

always remember puff puff pass!

Not too shabby man - iv just read through this thread to make sure i didnt miss anything along the way that led to your last update. Everything looked solid, but now in this last update the plants are droopy. i couldnt quite make out how often you feeding your ladies? you said you mix 4 different ph levels to balance the feed. but not sure if its 4 times a day or 4 times a week or less. the droopy leaves indicate one or both of the following - over watering or a problem with your root zone. have you just watered or taken pics during lights off? or have you noticed any issues?

So you want purple buds huh?

My snap #2. Grown outdoor. This plant was 2 Meters tall from the ground up! Swazi Skunk. Hope you like it.

The 5 week tight nug. Sour Tangie X Bubba Kush doing its thing!

Banana daddy

Both are Bruce Banner #3, one showing a strong purple pheno. Sent from my CLT-L29 using Tapatalk

This is my PCG Cookies x Keylime Pie.

Gorilla glue fem fading out nicely Colours are insane

This is Ezekiel my preymantis He has been with me for 2 grows either he's loyal or he loves cannabis?

Trudging along slowly, little bit of progress every week the smell is becoming more and more pungent

Some mainlining Sent from my CLT-L29 using Tapatalk

Another week, and she's starting to fill out all the space in her buds. About a month left. She is maturing bottom up, and foxtailing pretty evenly. Her terpene profile has also completely changed on me. Hardly any bubblegum, but citrus and chocolate.

Not sure if it's just the pics but looks like you need to do another defol. Quite a Bush you got going there. I did a defol on my plants last night and adjusted them a bit, will see how it's looking tonight once they've adjusted and take it from there but light penetration is already much better. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Entry No. 2 The indoor Sun

Another week, some progress. She is still pushing pistils like crazy...got to wonder when she is planning on finishing. She's practically only just past half way now. Have a snail infestation that is literally ringbarking this girl, so I made a copper collar around her base. Hopefully it'll keep those bastards I couldn't find away. I'll be hunting daily now for the next few weeks.

Thanks man, going to do an update tomorrow and show off some preflower The great and powerful @PsyCLown hooked me up with this particular 250W QB. So far loving the performance and it's up to this point comparable to my experience with using 250W MH/HPS. I will make my overall opinion once I get that sweet sweet smoke into my eager face Strange that you are getting different results from the three QB's do they all use the same diodes and driver?

Another week and she is going on really well. Been an absolute nightmare scanning her for nanners every morning, but all her new growth is healthy and normal. She is pushing pistils like crazy still...

I had to make a decision as I simply cant water her twice or 3 times a day. She got too big for this pot in organics, and more damage is being caused because of the frequent watering, and pH issues. I will run her again in the ground or in coco, but she still has way too long to go, plus minus 6 weeks. This also is a good stress test. I doubt she will hermi from the transplant as her root ball wasn't damaged, but let's see. She displayed no transplant shock, and is already after 3 days looking much better. I wont be using this white pot again unless I bury it. I dont like the algae that it caused. Algae robs the roots of oxygen. And third day after transplant...her leaves already pulling up.