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01/07 - Day 66 - Day 4 C - Day 25 New seeds They have moved in a bigger home once again , the final 10L fabric pot, they are doing well except for the Dance world who is still busy dying. Cause was still unknown. 05/07 - Day 70 /Flower Day 1 - Day 5 Clone - Day 29 New seeds Time for switch to flowering, from today they will be on a 12/12 schedule, unfortunately from this day onward they will be "unattended" or sufficiently taken care of to survive by someone else. The following picture will be updates recieved. The DW has been removed from the room, it was in no shape to recover, autopsy revealed hundreds of tiny little white creatures that were living in the soil , it might have been fungus gnat but it is still unknown to this day. 10/07 - Day 75 /Flower Day 5 - Day 9 Clone - Day 34 New Seeds Growing into their new pots. 14/07 - Day 79/Flower Day 9 - Day 13 C - Day 38 NS Look at that, 9 days later. They are stretching well, although the canopy is getting slightly irregular. 01/08 - Day 97/Flower Day 27 - Day 31 C - Day 56 NS Little moe than 3 weeks and the stretch is over, the buds are now starting to form. 07/08 Day 103/Flower Day 33 - Day 37 C - Day 63 NS Growing nicely along with a Snap Dragon from Checker's or pick'n pay or something. 12/08 Day 108/Flower Day 38 - Day 42 C - Day 67 NS The trichome production seems to be lacking behind, and some signs of heat/light stress are showing up, notice the top leaves pointing upward on some colas, and possibly a slight over watering; leaves curling strangely. 17/08 Day 113/Flower Day 43 - Day 47 C - Day 72 NS Resin is arriving, getting frosty. Heat/Light stress seems to have dissipated but possibly sign of N excess , leaves clawing, or might still be related to overwatering. But buds are swelling nicely. The second Dance World from seed in the back grown into a manifold and that needs to be tied down and opened up. The one in the middle is the chocolate clone going for a freestyle training The Chocolate Haze from seed in front growing wild. It has been topped early but the growth resulting from the cut were deformed, it was an amazing long awaited mutation ! 3 branches emerged instead of 2, the 2 stems on the one side had the mutation, each stem was made of 2 stem fused together. the one might have had more. it has been observed in nature and it creates crazy growth. You can imagine if instead of having an alternate nodding you suddenly have a double alternated nodding , it will make for some very strong thick colas and the top buds could end up huge. Unfortunately both were topped by mistake... but what came out of it (this is in the next dew months) is not a bad thing the one branch sent 3 stems and the other split into 2 and each sent 3 stems. It makes for a very long wide spider plant. 27/08 - Day 123/Flower Day 53 - Day 57 C - Day 82 NS The Nursery is going well, homemade humidifier with fan and water in the bank to keep the ladies happy and a little LST here and there to open them up. 29/08 - Day 125/Flower Day 55 - Day 59 C - Day 84 NS Buds fattening up but the lemon haze is in a bad shape, the stems are loosing strength and buds are needing support, a potential cause could be to much heat making them sweat out too much potassium making them loose strength and dow the line affecting calcium, magnesium and messing with nutrient intake... a theory... 04/09 - Day 131/Flower Day 61 - Day 65 C - Day 90 NS Its getting worse by the day it seems but help is on its way, back to take care of them soon... 13-14/09 - Day 140/Flower Day 70 - Day 74 C - Day 99 NS Back, Back , Back ! Finally, lots of work to be done to get everything to max efficiency. Lots of training on both flower and veg. Flower needed colas to be adjusted on cages, heat issue needed to be fixed, lots of feeding to do, tea is brewing, pots have been top dressed with vermicast and insect frass to try and trigger and immune response and boost the lest stretch. Nutrients issues such as potassium, calcium, magnesium but all will get better soon. The nursery is the fun part now, they all need a serious tie down and a little haircut. They look healthy but they are getting hungry. Another tea, let's go. The little one one the floor at the back is the clone, its isn't very bug for it age but it hasn't been transplanted and need a larger home. It has been decided it will be a hempy bucket with all organic soil. It will be interesting to see if she can catch up to the others. Open up ! Fill your space, grab the light. 18/09 - Day 145/Flower Day 75 - Day 79 C - Day 104 NS Everything is coming getting back into order. The environment is back to its normal condition, a sweet average of 25 overall. The Happy room is looking happier by the day, the tea and top dress is slowly showing effect, the life in the pot is coming back. The veg is booming after the tea and top dress and the Clone is loving her hempy, she is growing at an exponential rate ! 22/09 - Day 149/Flower Day 79 - Day 83 C - Day 108 NS The DW on the left is growing thick, bushy and evenly. She does sometimes throw a few strange leaves like her predecessor, possibly a genetic instability. The Chocolate at the back is growing like advertise, filling her space and sending long colas at a fast pace. The Chocolate Clone Hempy on the right doesn't have as many colas as the Choc seed but the few she does have are growing super strong and catching up with the other plant very quickly, the hempy is working very well so far. One thing that will be improved on the next hem pies will be a lot more drainage in the organic soil such as perlite, lava rock, rice hulls, etc..., The drainage is quite slow and the rate at which the root drink the water from the perlite compared to the rate at which the soil dries up doesn't match. Higher water/nutrient intake could be achieved if the soil would allow watering more often. 24/09 - Day 151/Flower Day 81 - Day 85 C/Flower Day 2 C+NS - Day 110 NS ---------- 1xLemon Harvested - 5 months total - 2 month 10 days Veg/2 month 21 days Flower First plant harvested. The smell is beautiful, a mix of lemon and melon. Unfortunately like the others they have been stunned to early in their growth and have not had time to develop into big enough plant to sustain a large yield. In addition the issues they ran into while away have seriously impacted the yield. Anyway the smoke will still be very enjoyable, after all it is organic. The other 3 Ladies are out of the nursery and into the happy room. They are growing to quickly and the Hempy will be taking over quite soon and a flat overall canopy will be hard to maintain. Also impatience might be a factor. Let's wait for the stretch! 28/09 - Day 155/Flower Day 85 - Day 89 C/Flower Day 6 C+NS - Day 114 NS Some Lemon drying, manicure was a pain due to all the burnt leaves encrusted in the buds...It will make the reward even greater. 1/10 - Day 158/Flower Day 88 - Day 92 C/Flower Day 9 C+NS - Day 117 NS The stretch is on ! They are starting to shoot up overtaking the already flowering plants. Since there was no more plant in the nursery at the moment the 400W MH was moved in the Happy room to have a lovely round 1000W for an extra kick! A slight Thrips siege on the older flowering is undertaking and hopefully won't jump to the new flowering, Although completely unrealistic and naive as thrips have wings... They will be taking care of with canola oil and garlic in the next few days. 3/10 - Day 160/Flower Day 90 - Day 94 C/Flower Day 11 C+NS - Day 119 NS The plants won't stop anytime soon, they are eating up the space. The older flowering one need to get out and make space. The flowering Ladies are being pushed a little further than they should, having gotten a second breath of life they have gone back into production but their time is almost up. The calyxes are swelling a lot ! Trichome production is up, let's keep pushing. Some purple started appearing on the Lemon mainly , particularly on the spots that were burnt by the light. The chocolate had a tiny bit as well showing up, not sure of the explanation, possibly the plant inner clock telling her it is getting close to the end of its cycle and starting to have autumn leaves. 7/10 - Day 164/Flower Day 94 - Day 98 C/Flower Day 15 C+NS - Day 123 NS ---------- 1xChocolate Harvested - 5 months 2 weeks total - 2 month 10 days Veg/3 months 2 days Flower Chocolate was harvested today, she looked optimal and ripe for the taking. In the closet she goes. The chocolate is a 9-10 weeks flowering strain, 5 month grow and 13 weeks flowering for such a small little tiny plant, if you can't see the humour in that...Growing can be frustrating. Anyway those one will have full attention and will be spoiled as much as possible ! A perfect triangle plant. (Hempy Clone) The plants have been sprayed with canola oil and garlic, robertson's spray. the pots were all wrapped in plastic bags to avoid contamination prior to foliar drench. Done after lights out. The next morning no more thrips or at least none that have been found yet. Pesky little things. 9/10 - Day 166/Flower Day 96 - Day 100 C/Flower Day 17 C+NS - Day 125 NS ---------- 1xLemon 1x Chocolate Harvested - 5 months 16 days - 2 months 10 days Veg/3 months 4 days Flower One of the worst nightmare of all grower as fallen upon the Happy room.... Bananas...Crappy bananas... They have sprouted on the remaining 2 older flowering plant. They were pushed for too long...Their internal clock triggered a one last attempt to produce seeds for next season by self-pollination...Damn ! Luckily it was caught early and only 1 site had fairly developed bananas the other 2-3 spots were very early barely formed ones. they were removed with utmost precaution like defusing a time bomb. Obviously this time bomb had already exploded as bananas are exposed stamen which is the male organ that produces pollen, as soon as they appear they start releasing the pollen. The 2 plants were urgently taken out and harvest. Hopefully the damage doesn't extend too far or slows down the growth of those promising new plants. And worst case scenario a cross between chocolate and lemon haze seeds supplied in large quantity wouldn't be a terrible thing either. Win win ? 10/10 - Day 101 C/Flower Day 18 C+NS - Day 126 NS The stretching is slowly giving away to the budding. Now that they have full use of their space they have been trained outwards to lower canopy and cover larger area. The dance world on the right is growing quite short and stocky, with dens canopy and bushy branches. The nodding has been pretty crazy and she has sent secondary branches all the way to the top of the canopy. She has barely reached twice her size during the stretch, what an interesting little munchkin.The 2 chocolate are growing vigorously with a clear difference between hempy and fabric, the hempy has much thicker body , healthier and more vigorous growth, with long tightly nodded and little elongated colas. The Fabric does have a lot more colas meaning a bigger spread of resources but it still grows in a less vigorous way which is probably a good thing otherwise her stretch might have been out of control. The Chocolate fabric has been transplanted into a hempy yesterday. A bed of perlite was made in a bucket, the bottom of the fabric pot cut off and played on the perlite, some light soil was fitted around the fabric pot and the velcro opened in order to allow root to explore further. Funny looking thing. Looking forward to see the result and if there is any changes in growth that makes her resemble more of her sister's growth. 14/10 - Day 105 C/Flower Day 22 C+NS - Day 130 NS There we are, all caught up on the past of this Forever Green Room. There we are in the almost present. The buds are coming along nicely filling up the stem slowly. The resin production is pretty impressive for this early in flower (D22). Especially considering it took the previous generation around 35 days to have decent flowers starting and 42 to start having a noticeable trichome production. The plants were given a foliar feed this morning before lights on. The foliar feed was bubbled for 20h and was made up of Humic, Fulvic, Kelp,Molasses, Soft Rock Phosphate, Alfalfa, Kelpak, Aloe Juice Ice cube, Alfalfa Sprouted Seed Tea Ice cube and vermicast. Aloe Juice, like coconut water contains Cytokinin which is a great growth hormone and Alfalfa SST has Triacantanol and auxins which are also very efficient hormones. Let's see the results. On the right is an improvised Spar cake packaging propagation dome. Inside are 14 chocolate/DW clones busy trying to establish themselves. 3 have already rooted and a couple more look like they are on their way. They are under the 85W CFL. 15/10 - Day 106 C/Flower Day 23 C+NS - Day 131 NS There we go, today , the day this post is being written. If you made it all the way to here Welcome again and I hope you will enjoy what the future will bring. After a bumpy start in this new environment things are finally settling down and falling into places. I am sure I will get tons of valuable info from you guys and will teach me a few things, hopefully I can return the favours so any comment,questions,critics, feel free I am all ears Here is a snap of the little workstation with foldable table in the nursery room to get crafty with some teas and various mixes also one of the way every detail is captured for further reference on the Grow Calendar. One of the top improvement you can give your Grow, a nice bug one. It will help track so many little things, for further reference, that you think you wouldn't forget but always do nonetheless, look at the plant you are growing after all ;) Cool, Happy grow everyone!

one week to chop, Barney's - Peppermint Kush Ill post another image with a handwritten tag.

The camera kept focusing on the paper, so apologies for Mary Jane being a bit fuzzy

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Good day All My name is Richard and I am from Richards Bay (but I am not that Richard). So yeah, after 45 years I am for the first time excited about starting something. To date I have not even grown a Cactus but when it was announced that we can now legally grow Cannabis my world changed. I was saving to buy a Ski Boat but that was just so I could go smoke without having to be paranoid so I took the money and bought a lot of growing equipment and 18 strains of seeds. I have a lot to learn and cannot wait to start my Diary on this site and share my frustrations and Joy and to share the lessons I learn. I am very scientific in my approach and the Big Dream is to become known as a specialist in the field so any knowledge that you are willing to share will be greatly appreciated.

Well I've seen good things about Seed Worx and Trophy Seeds, they both local

Sorry to see the hermie, maybe try some autoflowers in a 10 or 15L pot. For auto's you just need one pot, transplanting might shock the plant and slow down growth. Any of our local Sativas would also survive the African sun. Also have a look at Freedom Farms, they've got some great soil for cannabis.

You do indeed im afraid. Cull that tranny Sent from my SM-G950F using Tapatalk

I think you might be a bit too harsh on your efforts so far, especially with this being your first grow. Can you tell us more about how you started up this grow etc ? Thanks!

I saw the power plant strain on their site as well, keen to try but first I'm going to breed me a serious supply of Maui Waui beans. Sent from my EVA-L09 using Tapatalk

Pineapple Dew - Seedworx

Final entry, last night before harvest.

Chop day - Happy chappy.

Those seedlings damped off , it's a fungal infection that is caused by the medium being to wet . Seedling dont need any form of nutrients until they start showing that they need food , usually about 3 weeks in or about they first set of true leaves .

That's the easiest, these plants tell you exactly what they need or have too much of. Here's a handy chart that will get you on your way. Sent from my EVA-L09 using Tapatalk

Howzit Guys A wee update since becoming "Legal" they have been in flower for two weeks now. Strawberry Kush Crystal Gelato Lemon Haze Big Buddha Cheese AK47 Swiss Cheese Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk

Definitely lower that PH to between 5.5 and 6 as Jimmy said, can see a lockout going on there. Bit of mag def and N def