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I commented on their Facebook page & was called within 5 Minutes. This was a mishap & they are working to resolve now.

Ok so this Freedom Farms soil is not all that. All the plants except the front right plant is in FFarms soil. That one is in Orgasoilux. This is the first time in 6 months that I fed soil. malted barley, molasses and microbes. They have one more week then I want to switch to flower. But that probably won’t happen with the slow growth on some of them.

Cheers on outdoor season

i have my meters outside my tent, and they have become an indicator as to weather the tent is on or not because i dont always want to open the tent to see whats up!! This has saved me a few times already

Good day and a well day to all you garden people of SA. I wanted some variety to smoke and I thought it would be good to see how the soil works with different genetics, so I’ve decided to grow these plants in the soil mixed and partially assimilated above, now the new homes of GG #4 Sherbet crasher Animal cookies Quattro kush and one Jelly bean outside to flower i must make a note and inform all that of the 60l of soil above, +- 30 have been added so a third of used soil from the dqxslurri, The soil might need some help towards the end but in all likely hood not as the worn out soil was pretty much on balance with a lack of calcium. This was solely because I wanted a new home for all genetics, and with the short veg time the plants will do well in something less nutrient dense, however, plants would do fine in 100% concentration, but then the ideal situation would require a longer veg, which won’t be the case as we will be flipping in 2 weeks or so I let this soil sit for 2 1/2 weeks in total. the plants were needing the repot.

AntZilla going to sleep as the full moon rises on the West Coast. This little one is surely testing the elements out here. High temperature. Low to no humidity. Strong hot winds. Me forgetting to water. Only the ants feeding the soil.

Awesome, thanks for the update dude. I think that settles it, I'm gonna give it a go

So the temps are up up up the last couple of days. At least the humidity is under control. This weekend the 3 blue kings is coming down. And some unknown strain stil a couple weeks off. Also the top of a @Bay Seeds Mc purple x lemon Jedi from yonks ago flowering out and co formed female Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I'd like to add here as well. Growing in pots in our heat has disadvantages, you have to manage this enviroment for your plants. I believe mulching may assist your growing efforts. Its got mulitiple advantages. 5cm of grass clippings or straw will help with moisture retention as well as keeping your soil surface cool in the heat. Its essential in the hotter areas of RSA as cannabis plants has lots of fine roots near the surface. It will also benefit the micro organisms in the soil and in turn they will benefit your plants, it will also add organic matter as it breaks down and you can easily just top it up. On the north coast 30-40deg C is common in summer, some of my seedlings have burned to a crisp. I add a layer to all my pots and even my 2x growbeds and I can see the benefit just in my watering schedule.

Maybe I'm wrong about this. I just repeated a rumour I heard. Wow you seem to know my garden/genetics/conditions much better than me. My other (non-Leb) plants aren't flowering yet. Semi-autoflower plants are supposed to flower early. Who else has outdoor plants that are flowering at the wrong time of year?

@Weskush, I've come to realize that most/many modern popular strains are not pure sativa because breeders try to reduce the long flowering period. Also: Dutch Passion's website claims that Durban Poison is a "Durban X Unknown Indica". ACE seeds is a trusted breeder that has many pure sativa lines.

Sounds a lot like the Schrödinger's cat thought experiment.. If the tent is closed, the lights are both on and off

Bat Quano, bone meal, Vita-fruit and flower

I have some other things I will add. You think they would better the recipe????

Greetings. I have more positive growth now!. I will insert photos with this post. Please can anyone give me thoughts on my progress. In order; A) Autocreeper 21 days from seed. C) Autocreeper 21 days from seed. D) Borderline (Photoperiod) 30 days. E) Borderline (Photoperiod) 30 days. F) Jamaica Pearl ( Photoperiod) 26 days. G) Borderline (Photoperiod) 26 days. H) Jamaica Pearl (Photoperiod) Jamaica Pearl ( Photoperiod) 26 days. I) Borderline (Photoperiod) 26 days. Some look quite good???? but some not so!. Comments welcome. I have made frame for area. 1) extra shade for those hot days and 2) Tarpaulin for heavy downpours. 3) Scrog net system to be 'laced' should any of my girls decide to grow more......................and I live in hope!.

your reply is an understatement - the plants LOVE the space and i have never grown better meds since the move to totes!

The thought has crossed my mind more than a couple times. lol, Half a tote full of soil, still have the ease of moving around conveniently, and plants go wild.

aaaaaaaay!! i saw the tote and then got excited that someones growing in totes as well!!! then i saw the next pics haha - you must really give it a try some time man!!

You can find more info here: https://www.aceseeds.org/en/libanostd.html https://www.icmag.com/forum/icmag-vendor-forums/ace-seeds/349127-lebanese

yeah I guess then make fire under them, keep reaching out and make the situation public as it is your right to do so and tag them, hopefully they have common sense. hope you don't get swindled!!

I ordered on the 23 Dec, I didn't follow up until recently to give grace for holiday period. Website had no close or reopen notice. I've sent an email in addition this morning, just a response with ETA would be fine.

These are semi-autoflowering landrace Sativas that express both THC and CBD. The semi-autoflowering trait causes them to start flowering after about 6 weeks, or if they become root bound, or if they detect that the photoperiod is shortening.

You cant cage a free spirit - (or whatever other quote is fitting for this pic)

The sour Diesel and Quattro Kush that I used it on came out fire.

I think the new FF soil is more suited for Flowering period based on what I've read, this may be why the plants are struggling a bit.

Ah yes......GROW........being the optimum word . Some of my girls look a bit iffy.

For it to be an auto it had to be crossed with a Ruderalis. Please tell me more about this strain. Sounds interesting.

Fast flowering?

Yes brother. That guy is nogals a guru. Hope this file works. Safari - 15 Jan 2022 at 18:02.pdf

Yeah man, I’m really enjoying tweeking my mix here and there and seeing the positive results which is cool, yes brother, your plants are on fire chom I still think the real power of organic systems are not seen often. I must commend That Jeremy guy from build a soil, saw his last grow and he had 3 20l pots. His biggest plant of the 3 yeilded 184g with minimal veg time. That’s insane. im having difficulty accessing the file, could you kindly copy and paste the recipe in here so we can have a look. Thanks brosepf

I will never go back to bagged soil after making my own soil and seeing the great results so far. I used Subcool's super soil recipe and it is fire. Here is a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13ivnUXwCGqASKO_5LNhY1r8PSdheVMlG/view?usp=drivesdk

The spirits leaving the seedlings.

faqme bru you lost seedlings you already popped? usually it's with the seed pop most people have trouble with and from there it just gets easier. can we have photos of how they looked when you discovered they where dead? this will be a tell tale to what went wrong as with seeslings there can really only be a few things that went wrong... important question here - you growing autos or photoperiods? if photoperiods I would advise to use smaller pots when popping seeds and don't saturate the medium. if autos, same pots, but don't saturate the medium. just going off photos you showed thusfar it looks like you got a 10L pot or bigger with a seedling in it and the medium looks completely saturated - this is already bad - then I see you still got a humidifier in there pushing the RH up and not allowing the pots to dry out even furthering the problem. chances of underwatering in your case is probably very slim. you say you just using buffered coco with tap water, so shouldn't be a PPM issue. and with the seedlings that young it shouldn't be a PH issue either unless you gave them straight acid. this doesn't mean you don't have to keep ph in check, especially for you growing in coco. I am leaning towards damping off the seedlings, too much water, but I really can't tell without more photos

So on day 66 Tortoni clone got chopped. Gave it a bud wash using 3 buckets (wash, rinse, rinse) then a gentle pressure spray, gave them a spin dry (standing in the garden spinning my arms slowly getting funny looks from the landlady) and hung to dry for a few moments. Then into the drying cabinet. I'm sold on this bud wash story. Looks like I'll be getting a bit of smoke from this plant after all. Was not the best clone but looking forward to the weighing.

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Nice work brother

24 December. These plants are between 90cm and 105cm.

7 December. Since these plants are semi-autoflowering, they showed their sex quite quickly. I chose to grow out the three most vigorous females (pictured below) and placed each in a 114l smart pot. One of the females were already flowering. Two strong males were kept for seed production.

1 December. All the plants were moved outside by the beginning of December. I saw a big variation in the structure and leaf shape of the different plants. In general the seeds that popped first are the strongest and grew the fastest.

Hey bud, so the Standard base would be just shy of 1/3 for base/aeration/compost, I wanted a bit less castings and a bit less coco for lower levels of potassium. Let's see how it results.

No camera in the veg space yet, so here’s an update Tortoni #2 and her clones Charlottes angel and her clones 3 blue kings clone happy 2 unknown revegging that just smelled amazing And some tomatoes [emoji534] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This is cool, I also want to set up a camera but I'm too lazy and I need to buy one first

Btw got the temp on the vpd Calc I am subtracting 2, which seems to be easiest till I can get a lazer temp gun to find the lead temp Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

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So weekend away and things are running as they should. Temperature stabilizing around 24 gives me hum of 60. Best I can do without a dehumidifier. Plants are a lot happier after a couple of days. In the veg space on top it’s running a bit Cooler and humidity around 70. [emoji20] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Temp gun next time. Currently seeing how far I can push this. The temp sensor is the little white box on the orange pot. At least now my temps won’t drop to 17 and hum hopefully far away for 70 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

from your statement about the graph, i am not sure you understand it correctly. this isnt a mix and match chart, but more of an info chart. it tells you what your VPD is by charting your CURRENT temp vs your CURRENT Rh. so by saying you need to go above 30 degrees to get a RH of 65 is wrong. an example is as follows. the early veg tent temp is a cool 25 degrees, and humidity is a bit low today at 40% - that means your VPD is 1.41, not exactly ideal for early veg, but it is what it is. if you want to change the vpd to a better veg VPD, you will need to raise the RH with a humidifier to between 60 -70% while the temp stays at 25. OR lower the temp down to 15 degrees while RH stays at 40%. so it is just a chart showing where you are, and indicating your course of action to improve your vpd depending on the phase of growth. let me know if this makes more sense to you...because it can be a very powerful piece of knowledge to carry around with you

So I looked up some vpd charts. Seems like for a ~65% humidity for early flower I need to run over 30 celcius [emoji51] So going to add a little fan heater and checking what that does to growth Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk