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What up peepz. Just a update on the above grow. FAIL.. seeds didnt sprout. Did a little bit of investigating. Seems like the taproots barely grew from the time of potting. Was abit upset. But then again . They were bag seeds. Frustrations aside. We ready to go again. After some long convos with @CreX. Decided to invest abit more to get going and be less disapointed each time. So. Starting from scratch again. Looking to go the distance this time. Made some purchases. 1. 150w cool white LED light for veg. (Highly reccomended by Crex) 2. Extractor fan. 3. 2 galon fabric pots. Wann keep a small stealthy grow. ( easy to upgrade later) 4. Had the Seagro nutrient. Will stick with this to keep cost down for now. 5. Biobizz bloom. ( reccomended by the store guy. As excelent and works well with my grow medium) 6. Freedom farms formular 1. ( guy who sells it. Says propbably the best in SA. Works very well nd easy to grow with. 7. Got a hygro meter for humidty and temp monitoring. 8. Ordered a PH meter. Tds meter. Mini miroscope thingy. And a pocket scale of wish. Should take about a month or so. ( try and make do until then. Reccomendations are welcome untill then) 9. Built a small grow box. Floor area 500x700 mm x 1meter high. With inlet holes covered with mesh. Extractor fan. Led light for veg only. Wraped the inside in some foil. Oh and it is a cardboard box. 10. Lastly and i think from my experience most importantly. I got me some seeds online. Biltong and buds worked Out quite reasonable and had a massive selection. I took 5 seeds. 2 photo and 3 autos. I think with my setup and low grow requirements i am gona mainly grow autos. But lets see how it goes. Also. Before the Mrs started asking alot of questions about my spending recently. I bought some seeds and started to grow some herbs for her aswell. Could use the grow box to veg these aswell. N make it seem like im doing a little bit for her too. Marigolds. Daisyz. Mint. Thyme. Lettuce. Corriander. Chives. Tomatoe. Chilli Pics below.

My very first harvest

Wassup 420 fam. Started my first indoor grow about 2 weeks ago. Not much happening at the moment... Strain- Original Orange Bud Auto from Biltong and Buds. Medium- Freedom Farms Classic Pot Size- ± 13 L Grow Space- ± 50x50x 180cm Lighting- 120w QB from @Master_G Light schedule- 18/6 Nutes- EHG Grow, Micro and Bloom Prayer Soaked seed for 12 hours then into jiffy pellet. Germination was slow and first true leaves were a bit on the yellow side. Not sure if its due to cold CPT weather or bad genetics. I'm just happy Stella got her groove back. Watering with only dechlorinated tapwater at pH 6 every 2-5 days Entering week 3 now and she's coming along nicely. Can I start feeding nutrients at this stage or should I wait another week or so?

OH I did all the steps in my wash. Full 4 bucket system. 1% peroxide soak Bicarb and lemon soak and jiggle Warm water soak and jiggle Cold water final rinse and jiggle

@Ill_Evan haha I can so relate to your concerns regarding a fire hazard. When I still grew indoors I was always so relived to come home from work to a home that wasn't burned down. @afternoon blazer all the best to you man! Hope you'll get a nice harvest. There's nothing better than some bud grown by yourself.

Y'know, the product that says it treats PM but actually does nothing.

Is that sommer raw aluminium foil in a cardboard box? Eish brah fire hazard. The foil could cause hot spots and isn't as reflective as we think. I rate you'd do better painting the inside white or using mylar sheets.

Gave budbuddies.co.za a once over, they very new. Facebook page isn't even setup. Guys looks young. They would probably honour your order. The bar is set so low now for local seedbanks. I myself would go buy through GSR, Biltong and Buds, Overgrow or Marijuanaseeds, depending on what strain I'm out to get.

There is people that grow with salts in soil. But at lower doses than what they recomend. If you do have microbes in your soil and you feed salts the plant will stop producing sugars for them. The plant produces sugars to stimulate certain microbes to increase the size of the microbial colonies. Certain microbes breaks down phosphate ions to chelated phosphorus and others break down ammonia to chelated nitrogen. Only chelated ions can be absorbed by the plant. Once you start feeding already chelated ions (nutient salts) the plant stops regulating these microbial colonies and thus will die off as the do not have food. So decide which way you want to go.

We have a new moderator onboard! Welcome aboard @Ill_Evan thanks for helping out

Small farmer boutique style FTW!! Would always support grassroots outfits over hypermarket if I could.

Unfortunately you get corruption everywhere there’s money to be made. Dinafem is my absolute favourite as everything I grew from them turned out to be how it was described on their website. Surely I would rather support a small farmer than a faceless big company, but then again I need to be sure to get the same quality.

I just wanna see some cut-up sunvisors

You can wash off PM very good with Bicarb of Soda (Baking Section in any supermarket). Use 2g per liter of water and a second bucket with fresh water. Gentle let it soak in the Bicarb bucket, then dip and rinse careful in the water bucket. Dry as usual. If you have Serenade, get a ultra sonic misting fan. Put a 50% mix into the dry room and let it run and empty, cook a little storm to disperse it all over the room, i add 1-2 oscillating fans . Stay out of the room till ventilated. The bacteria will starve and decay after all mold is consumed. Cure the usual way. I haven't see any PM since I misted the flat a few weeks ago. Gorillas are clean clean, and that is a very dense forest

if i remember correctly - the box is in the shower at the mo hehe so all good there, let the mother fucker buuuuuuurn lol @afternoon blazer the white paint does soind like a good replacement option. any matt white paint will do the trick, sommer PVA the box hehe

Me me I don't like fire, zero chances, no ragrets

Hence the peroxide hehe... I know it oxidizes non living organic matter very well

I'm always spotting stray hairs after taking pics of my buds hopefully haven't smoked too many..

Don't really wanna plant them in the garden tbh lol but let's see.. Maybe I keep 1 or 2

Give them a chance brother, they growing roots and making home first.

And week 7 as promised. Cam position got changed. Placed the cam up on the Fan rack now. If it gets over grown there.. I have bigger issues hehehe And sorry for the skew cam, the plant close to it had other ideas how it should be pointed

There is still plenty of nutrients in that soil. I would not feed it untill it starts flowering. And get some biobuzz bloom. That is all she will need.

Goodness @oldsandals - it would be great to share some coffee and sead expressions for Natal plants. I am very keen on this project 1000HillsNursery is setting up for me to grow soil based trails to see if we cant uncover the Trophy again - DP. Check it out on the Club page - we have to find. @Prom I have 20 years' of landrace in a mix in my general outdoor sativa grow stable - not really anything else but best bag seed from each year. If it can help your cause, gooi numbers.

@StickyD420 thanks man! Second grow for me! Never had such deep interest in something

Hope I can still enter... Plant power

Hi all, Was looking at budbuddies.co.za and was wondering if anyone knows about them or has used them in the past? They seem to stock a few of the big popular breeder seeds as well as doing special orders for overseas purchases from many more breeder/seedbanks. Adios amigos

Aweh lekka ppl. Pic 4. The Fruit Punch line is on the edge of the next level. 2 best boys and girls. 2-3. Seedsman Lemonchello haze doing her thing. Smelling dank and skunky. 1,5,6,7. Fruitpunch ladies flowering out. Terpine profiles weren't impressive and the bloody Nanners in late flower don't help either. 8. Growing out some Gorilla X's and a wildcard Swazi bag that germed on the greenhouse floor in winter. It's will to live earned it a place and the vigour is clear being double the size. 9-10. The Purple Russian Express from Kalashnikof is not disappointing. Not a massive plant given the time of year, but she is more stinky spicy purple bud than anything else. 11. Some actual ''tomato'' trees bearing fruit. Staying organic with the feedings, supplementing the Seagrow and Ecobuz with banana and apple smoothies (incl wood ash and coffee grounds). Molasses and AACT keep the micro flora happy. Softsoap and canola spray for the aphids and whitefly. Had hoped there would be fewer bugs in winter. Only highlights the importance of IPM for all growers. Good growing all. Cheers.

Winterisation is a temperature reduction after the wash to chill out any surface waxes extracted. If you do a small batch - it does not really matter, makes the fluid chunky, but it is flashed when using a nail or Dab rig. 40C is the better temp to aim for when allowing any wash fluid to be boiled off. The turpenes start flashing 40 - 60C if you want to retain. Time is then the issue. Your heat source need s maintaining etc. I have just done a wash of 90g of Cerious Bud (I think it was BlueBerry ) and I forgot it on the coffee warmer at 100C for 1//2 hr while sorting out staff. I vacced it after to check, and there was zero gas in the Oil or no bubbling at all. Not too smart, but the point is proven for higher temps. Not being careful with heat just removes some of the cut in turpentine's and waxes and will change the colour to more darker shade. If you are comfortable to take a slow approach with Alcohol then it is an efficient stripper. Taste will tell how much you were able to remove. I would say a good six hours on 50 - 100C will not damage your cannibinoids and the longer at lower temps will allow more alcohol to evaporate. Trying to get a descent photie on my J5P is not helping much as I can't Macro - but this shows some wax in the oil...

I can imagine there many dubious banks out there. Completely knocking off others work. I suppose imitation IS the highest form of flattery but still I have nightmares about all this weak crap slowly polluting the cannabis gene pool. I've noticed that some of the seedbanks do mention that they outsource to different breeders. So I have no issue with that, as long as its good.

and you dont need to be in a mad rush about it. we are here to always strive for the next upgrade or next improvement and always push ourselves for more and better and thats coming through nice and strong in this thread but the honest truth is upgrades and improvements can take very long!! the plants wont die, and the tinfoil reflection i suppose is better than the brown cardboard reflection, so it will suffice for now, until month end, until you are ready

Ok sweet. Matt white paint it is.

sun visors are supposed to be made out of mylar - but you get knock off sun visors that are just a shiny material and no good in the end

for a cost effective solution - matt white paint. unless you have some visors laying around, i would rather put money into actual mylar film, which i think would work out more expensive than a few hundred mills of paint even a matt white spray can should do the trick or any surface that is white, like panda film which i think is cheaper than mylar with just as high reflection

@CreX @SkunkPharm @TotemicGreat info gents shot a lot! Im totally new to the growing game and the guys on this site has really helped me alot. Will keep the community posted on this grow. For now all I can do is sit back and let her do her thing

next level Makes total sense. Never would have thought about molasses. brilliant idea. thanks man ! interesting approach you have there. different strokes for different folks. I like that.

With that light I think he's safe... More at risk of catching fire by an electrical malfunction. Even though foil is ~55% reflective on the dull side (less on the shiny) I don't think the radiant energy would be enough to heat up the foil to a point where it begins to burn the cardboard. Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

Trophyseeds sometimes has strains you won't find on another site that delivers here. Sent from my POCOPHONE F1 using Tapatalk

I love it man. And yea, you could definitely use the grow space for anything that grows. Keep some marigolds close by your weed as a companion plant... Very good to attract thrips. The plants I gave you are recovering transplants that look like they are coming right. I would give them one feeding with the bloom nutes as that will give them everything they need to build healthy strong roots(phosphorus and potassium) ... Then you can continue with the seagrow with great results. Good job with the innovation! It will make upgrade time so much sweeter when you get there

Thanks, will keep playing around with it and see what works.. Just using some cheap extractor fans atm.. Haven't even hooked them up yet

So attached are pics of the water from bucket 1, bucket 2 and bucket 3 after a bud wash on all my plants. This was indoors with air intake filters. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

#2 Haze for Dayz.

I totally understand where you are coming from, but you are setting yourself up for disappointment. 1. Bag seeds. Its random and has an extremely high chance of being a hermi. So trying to save R100 on a seed purchase, to spend all that money on electricity for at least 2 months before you realize this, will cost more. 2. I mentioned the minimums with regard to light as its crucial. You are trying to emulate the Sun indoors. Plants have minimum requirements to grow, and giving them any less is again a waste of electricity, and the plants will fail to thrive and die or hermi. We all have to start somewhere, and it's a bit expensive to startup, but skimping now will honestly just be an expensive disappointment. I started out with just a small veg area, and utilized the sun as much as I could. I still do this. I have plants veg indoors, and flower them outdoors this time of year. You can do this in summer to if you are keen on a non negotiable routine of carrying them indoors and out daily at exactly the same time. That way you just need a ventilated darkroom as a start...just a few suggestions, as there are many ways to skin a cat.

Aweh 420SA, Been busy in the dead of winter. 1-3.Our Kalashnikof lady is getting dank and Yummy with a Capitol Y..... 4-5. Then we have an accidental clash of Titans. Chocolope x Gorilla..... 6-7. My chosen Fella to further the Fruitpunch line. Strong, vigorous, bullit proof, slow to flower, fruity mango and stanky, pukey stem terps.... 8. Fruitpunch boys and girls at 5/6 weeks Clearly showing sex and demonstrating good vigour, even in our cold winter.

Due for a small update. Sadly none of my GTH seeds sprouted, but I'm hoping for a female clone from the source to include in this winter's run. 11 May Well over 200 of my F4 beans sprouted on a farm neither here nor there. Haven't been to visit since, but going through this week. So excited to just get out there and away from the suburbs. I want to go and remove all the males and do some other thinning. All these little ones have since been planted in the ground and well on their way. Will update on the visit. Then I have 2 of my F4 girls here, chosen from 20. I finally have a female with morphed phyllotaxy. There have been hundreds but never a female. These two, are destined to be treated with STS and will be my Choco pollen donors that are pollinating clones taken from the farm. These are in soil I got from @SkunkPharm, and they are loving it. Thanks for helping a brother out when lockdown was at high tide. I haven't fed once, and these were transplanted to 15l pots from 5l this morning in the same soil, so giving it a proper test.

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Mid winter outdoor Chocolope cross.

I thought Ill add to the winter - genetics theme. Northern Jack F1 - mid winter outdoor.