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Ok so today is day 63 of flower. They are pretty much ready to be harvested but I will push them one more week.

Day 104 59 of 12/12 Little bit of size gain , less than i was hoping for

Here's some pics with the lights on.

Tuesday 31st August : week 9 of flower. Orange pistils all around, even the phone camera detected the plants as fireworks when taking the pictures. Lol Fireworks is no lie. The ladies are looking hot!!! Super frosty all over too, and smelling amazing! T2 is my top performer out of the topped plants. Admittedly, not the fattest of buds but I'm super happy with the grow. They survived one of the coldest winters we've had in a long time. I think it's time to take the microscope out to have a look at some trichomes.

Busy tent day ^^ took the mains from the Lemon OG haze plants to hunt and 2 Cream Caramel mothers got prepared too to get processed soon. Took quick some close ups from the Tortoni's too

I see a lot of horror stories starting with "I went away for the weekend", so naturally I was rather worried about my ladies while away for 4 days. I had a friend go through and give them some water as I figured they'd be dry by day 3. I came back to the plants all overlapping each other, had a growth spurt of note! So it was time to get my 2nd light going and time to spread them a part a bit. Tonight I'll start with some LST before topping

Ahoy @PsyCLown, @Naughty.Psychonaut, @Weskush, @GGG... Thanx for popping in. No this is not to sterilize the soil. This is purely a added extra for the soil. When done it will add millions of good bacteria into the soil helping it stay alive and thriving. I found the recipe on the "Unconventional Farmers" website and saw it in video format on youtube from the "Weedy Gardener". Go check it out. Jip that is exactly what my goal is... No not to worried at all. In fact I'm brewing it again due to the success I had last season. I used a few added supplements but the Lacto was one of them from the start and will be part of my arsenal. I use it for feeding the soil and to foliar spray. Keeps PM away for sure. The BB and GSC is from last season that i had left over. Great strains and yields was insane... When I found it I was skeptical, but the end product, the smell, the things that can be done with it apart from gardening. I even drink it when i have made some...

Day 4 of Week 17 Update They got nothing and fading now Tarryn Sisa

Went on leave today so i got some stuff ready for the grow season. Cleaned my measuring jugs, checked nute stock and what needs to be bought, picked out my seeds and went on to start the Lactobacillus Serum. The seeds has been put out into separate glasses and tomorrow morning, 31 Aug, i will drop them in water. PROBIOTICS : I started off with 1 litre of tapwater which i left to stand for 24 Hours to get rid of the chlorine. Then I added 500g of white rice, stirred it up for a bit and strained the rice water into another glass jar. I covered it with paper towel and set it in a dark place. It will stay in the dark for 7 days, depends on temperature. After the 7 days I will add 1 litre of full cream milk and then its almost done....

Sorry I make some more... have my Muse over Friday then we check what 'interesting' shots we can produce. And a on the smell.. those ladies have a intense one

in doing the one you're also doing the other I guess, well you got a good question then cause how would I know what his intention was and I would also like to know the answer from our smelly friend and if using for sterelizing the soil how well does it work? and if you growing in sterile medium wouldn't that be like growing in coco?

Lactobacillus is a beneficial bacterium that helps sterilize soil and remove byproducts that can build up and create a harmful environment. The presence of lactobacillus limits the undesirable organisms in the soil. This creates a more balanced environment that is able to support plant life.

Definitely the BudBox but I have yet to press that big red BUY button

if the plant doesn't seem stunted by this and is continuing growing on healthy like normal you can defoliate. Though, I think what you sprayed is inside the plant already, even though it's a contact treatment product it was obviously a bit too concentrated and the plant took something in that wasn't meant to. it does not look like surface damage. for this reason I would advise not to remove biomass otherwise the stress will just translate to what good growth you have left. you may just wana step back and not do a thing right now. if a leaf is past 50% of necrosis or falling off by itself you can remove it. if you don't see healthy new growth, don't defoliate. only once you see healthy new growth you know there is minimal stress remaining from the damage then you can go ahead and defoliate.

Good evening , most probable the second last update before the chop the weekend. Have them the last Fire Juice 5days ago and just water now Al the way to the end . I think another week would have done them justice , still clear thrichs now. This was a realy nice comp thx to the forum and all involved [emoji120]. Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk

31 August 21 Forgot to take pics the weekend, due to some partly dried Lemon AK, worth it Here's what the baby girls like today... For Scale: 2 Litre O O O Oros bottle

Day 30 (batch 1) and day 27 (batch 2) from seed - 3 confirmed males, 1 with purple sacs early (pictured). At this stage it looks like there will be 5 females and 4 males from the 9. The other pic is the boss male

Been waiting weeks for these closeups

Ja the evidence are on the leaves. I eventually got the nematodes and applied it last week. I can already see an improvement. Will keep updating on those.

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It wouldn't be completely sterile, at least I do not think so. It is outdoors and bacteria can live in an array of different conditions. @Smelly Joe What says you?

Howzit oaks. So a couple of days back I was surfing through facebook and up comes a post from the SAPS. Usually I see tons of people getting arrested for growing, possessing, dealing, transporting etc. of the cannabis plant we all love so much. It is depressing, I know, but also gives me an idea of what I have to deal with if something happened blah blah blah. So this was just a regular post (for them) about some "dagga" that they had confiscated and charges and sentencing and extremely scarey stuff. I do understand it is a huuuuuuuge amount but they referred to the Cannabis for Private Purposes bill. Here's the post. And here's the bill: B19_2020_Cannabis_for_Private_Purposes_Bill.pdf So a few things I understand or might understand: You can only have 4 flowering plants per adult in a household, and not more than 8 flowering plants per household. 2 vegetating plants count as 1 flowering plant. You can get sentenced if you smoke infront of your children or if it bothers neighbours etc. Seedlings measurements may not exceed 15cm height and width (above that is considered a vegetative plant). 600g per person, up to 1.2kg per household dried product. 1g dried product is 5g wet product. In public may carry 100g or 1 plant equivalent. And plenty more. So is this the bill that is in question tomorrow according to the sms you recieved? @Chris Jay I must be honest, this bill is absolute shit. There are still incriminating factors of the use of cannabis and therefore it is not "decriminalized" as I am sure that is what we are asking for (minimum)? I am not at all clued up with law and this stuff so please correct me if something is wrong in the post. I would love to know more. There are way too many issues with this bill and I agree to scrap it completely. Is this hopefully what happens tomorrow? It would be impossible to grow perpetually or have any mother plants as they would be taking up the so called flowering quota. This is extremely bad for our local strains, right?

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beautiful man!! truly magic bro!! just a pity about them thrips, but they dont seem to have slowed you down in the least!!

Week 3 veg and I going to be honest I have not seen growth like this with organics in awhile, so far I'm really enjoying the autopots with organics. The synthetics seem to be building salt on top of the coco and the growth somewhat seems slower compared to organic. I believe it might be due to the organics having a dosage of tricantonal which has been proven to boost growth Some of the ladies also got FIM, topped & LST Nothing else to report Zkittlez GG K-2

@Naughty.Psychonaut I do not have a rosin press, yet at least. So never pressed them. Popped seeds as @greenkush said, busy narrowing down the phenos though. In House Genetics put out some serious Not the cheapest seeds, but really worth it provided you get a good strain from them (not all of their stuff is the same). Their morphology is quite low in comparison and unlike a lot of other breeders, you typically do not need to go through multiple packs to get a great pheno... Or perhaps we're just extremely lucky. I don't think we can be this lucky though considering how many packs we bought and seeds we've popped.

We popped the seeds.

I think he is adding beneficial bacteria, creating micro population

Oh!! An I also have a surprise for everyone haha!! One of the fan leaves felt a bit left out and decided to start growing some bud on it I'll keep it and cure it for a sneaky pipe sometime

Greetings canna fam! Time has come for the next update in this grow! Tortoni is starting to fade and fill out well... If she keeps this up I may even become impressed

So the latest pics are up. I have counted and she did 7 weeks of veg roughly and is now in week 9 of flower as I flipped on the specified date (Week 16 overall). The other day I top dressed the soil, and she has been getting mainly plain RO water since. The buds are starting to fatten up a little which is nice. The frost is everywhere though and she is smelling good Had a quick look at the trichomes the other day also to see where we are sitting and most are expectedly still clear.

Day 109 of the grow 4th day into week 9 of flower On the home stretch now. Inspecting trichomes with the loupe and on the buds they are milky and clear but mostly milky. Only finding a few ambers on the sugar leaves. Think we might be on track to chop at 10 weeks which would be 10th September. Let's go! #1 #2 purple all round now. Bud shape distinctly lankier than #1 and #3 which seem to be more similar to one another than this odd ball. 3# Been keeping an eye on the lower branches where things are a bit more cluttered (my baaaad, its one of the many things I've taken note of from others in this grow off that I will do a better job of in future)...and at risk of jinxing it... so far the buddi all rounder spray is doing what it says on the bottle despite my laziness with defoilation! Been a cold week, dipping as low as 13°C, the humidity spikes are from me taking the sensor out the tent to reconnect to network when I was playing around (neek rond) with the WiFi. It's just a fan leaf... but the colours [emoji7] flush mode, blush mode. Day 20 since I started with COVID symptoms and my taste and smell are returning which I'm very thankful for - shit is smelling fantastic in here. I almost wanna say it smells like almond essence?

It's going well, they all flowered on queue with 24/7 lights. Removed 3 males but decided to keep the rest. I know keeping multiple males is frowned upon because I'm not breeding to stabilize the plants. I'm simply looking at the Strawberry Vostok males as the autoflower gene needed to pollinate the auto moms. SVF1 X SVF1 , SVF1 X Cinderella jack, SVF1 X lemon larry og. And looking at Strawberry Vostok females being mostly indica leaning, I'm very happy with the result. The girls are keeping up with much pricier genetics. Growing autos in these small pots and trimming them constantly to fit in this 1.2m is really not the right way to grow autos. They need a 20l fabric pot at least. I'm just trying to get as many auto hybrid seeds out of the space as possible. Fun times. Upstairs all SV's in 60l. The stones are to deter cats from digging. Started new seeds today. 1 X cinderella jack, 1 x strawberry cheesecake, 3 x auto duckfoot.

yeah that's what I was thinking and that it's more a situation of adding than sterilizing here.. a whole list of lactic bacterias are all well known bio fertilizers and to a certain extent it kinda acts a little like silicates in where they're both a growth stimulant but can also protect the plant. although it's more likely that these things are used as a addative rather than using it for IPM

Yea I saw that, bummer it's too wide for me. I have a 3m x 3m space and I also want to keep my other 2 tents for vegging and drying, but that is a good deal though

I have seen hollow stems before, but I think I typically cut once they have filled in... I dunno.

@Smelly Joe Are you not worried some other bacteria or fungus might get in that starch solution and contaminate it? I assume the BB and GSC are the original ones grown out previously?

O fuck dude.... I feel your pain...

Wel done bud.. They look tasty..

Good one.. Thnx.. I think my arsenal is stocked correctly.. As they say, your climate is the main problem as advice given to me also here.. So i need to finish up this grow.. Clean up the room and start over.. This is the fun part of the grow off.. One tend to get far more educated.. Thanx for that dude.. At least it confirms my to do list.

suuuuuuuper resinous phenos you got holy fuuggin shit you press any of these or prefer the flower? I am assuming these where hunted or did you pop seeds and just got lucky?

Howzit. Do you use this to sterilize your soil?

The Jet Fuel Gelato seemed ready at week 6 already based on Trichomes not much size so I decided to chop 2 tops and let the rest go for another 2 weeks. I didn't dry it properly and cured for about 5 days, I got it tested yesterday at an event. Water content is high because of bad drying but going to be interesting to see the results of the buds harvested 2 weeks later and dried properly.

Yes purple is not always good. I feel my plant was over exposed I.e. to much light. Anthocyanin response to too much light.

Fuck me bro.. I can see you and @Dr. Green read the same grow bible Epic scrog work my man. You can be very proud of that grow

@CoolJ So this is the Twisted Helix, it went into flower around a month ago. Sorry, the light right above it made it a bit tricky to take nice pictures. I then got distracted by the sugarcane behind it, went into flower the same time as the Twisted Helix. I am glad to see the frost is being packed on, expecting to see more frost from all strains over the next 2 weeks as well as buds to develop more and get bigger. I do still have an issue with fucking root aphids, as well as fungus gnats. More worried about these darn root aphids, just hoping these plants pull throughout without taking a knock and I can harvest them before major issues appear. Honestly not sure how bad these root aphids may affect the plants - the plants in veg do not look good but I am sorting those out. The ones in veg are yellow and pale and the stems are super purple - like a mag deficiency. This is consistent with what I have read about symptoms the plants show when one has root aphids - I have seen some mention bud size is reduced and density is also not there when flowering plants with root aphids.

Those dip switch timers are the absolute worst for our applications where we need higher dependability. The digital timers with the lcd are much more reliable and if you get a decent brand, it will work perfectly for years. I have been thinking about going sonoff for my timing needs... But man it's so important to have a stable light schedule for the ladies! I am sure you can continue posting here and if you really wanna pull out, then we will just stop issuing warnings for late diary entries... No biggie. I am sure Totemic would like to see how 13 h over 12 hours makes them grow and seeing how you can work with it. Good on you for finding it!! I have actually had a similar issue at my dad's place... And I have needed to reduce the timer from 12h a day, to 10 hours a day for the remainder of flower... That should trick them into hurrying up!