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Hey guys

The number of entries in our past few SOTM's have been disappointing... so perhaps we should have a look at running our Plant Of The Month competition again. How do you guys feel about that?

Or perhaps something entirely different?

Please let me know with your vote in the poll or please reply to this thread with your comments and/or suggestions. 

The poll options are as follows:

1. I'm keen for a POTM, I have plants going at the moment and will enter the March POTM
2. I would prefer we continue with SOTM
3. I would prefer we continue with SOTM but would like the management of the competitions to be more structured. 
4. I'd like something something completely different
5. The standard of prizes at the moment is not enough motivation for me to enter

I'm of course fully conscious of the fact that at times my running of the comp has been far short of professional. With late winner announcements etc. If this puts you off entering comps please do let me know as well and I will do my best to find a way to run these comps smoother

Cheers 

Sorry guys! I moved houses at the beginning of the month. Been a wild ride securing an internet connection.

Here's our winner

@John Stonedwell

Congratulations! You'll have received your coupon code from me by PM

Entries closed!

1 hour ago, Chris Jay said:

running out of places to use their Agent Orange, South Africa was ripe for the picking.

Did they use Agent Orange in SA??

4 hours ago, Ill_Evan said:

Dude we'll be like Simon and Oscar spinning and hitting rocks while being completely blasted on ganja 

Ya that was kak funny 

5 hours ago, Ill_Evan said:

Also sad to know that our government were spraying poison so haphazardly for 18 years. Where's the commission on that? 

Wouldn't hold my breath for that commission.

I think the emergence of activists such as the Dagga Couple and the Dagga Party, coupled with social media put that BS to an end. Somebody needed to stand up for those people as they had no voice for themselves.

Just watched all 3 now and really enjoyed it. Awesome to see all the fields along the Umzimvubu and what kinda genetics they hold. So much history and legacy that sits with those growers.

I must say that rafting trip they took is serious bucket list material

 No linking to social media posts please

Snapshot of The Month Rules:

• Original images only please. If your entries are found to have been pulled from the internet your entry will be void.
• Members can enter a maximum of 5 images each. Images entered this month may not be entered in future competitions. If you enter more than 5 images, the last 5 images you posted will be considered.
• Members can submit photos and/or graphics designs of their own.
• Once entries close, entries will be narrowed down to 10 nominees which will then go to a private poll with the forum's Competition Voting Panel
• Members who come 1st in an SOTM are only illegible for a prize again in 12 months
• Members who place other than 1st place may only win a prize twice in a 12 month window.

Judging Criteria:

ENTRIES CLOSE 31/01/22

GOOD LUCK!

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420SA hasn't been active on Instagram for quite some time now so it may not come as much of a loss but nevertheless without warning, Instagram decided to delete the forum's page in December. No reason given, no email received. I think the page had accumulated around 2.5k followers before it was taken down and hadn't had a post in months.

I believe a large number of cannabis related pages also got taken down in December as well so it clearly was part of a recent campaign. 

I personally have no intention to start up another page unless the need really arises so for now there will be no 420SA page on Instagram. Fortunately the Facebook page still exists...for now. 

Has anyone else had their pages banned or know of any big pages that got deleted recently?

Hi guys

This may be a slight inconvenience to some but 420SA will soon no longer be accepting the use of your Display Name (Username) to login to your account. You'll need to use the email address associated with your account.

This is purely a security measure as your display names are displayed publicly on this forum, which is a security risk and does allow a hacker to hammer away with your account until they may possibly come right a password. Of course, with a community such as this, the risk is very low for something like that happening but better safe than sorry. This is about the safety of your account first and foremost.

This change will take effect on 10 January 2022. 

If anyone is unsure what email address is associated with their account. Just drop me a message.

Cheers

Happy new year guys! Wishing you all a successful year

Let's hope that 2022 will be a little less  and a little more 

On 11/19/2021 at 8:57 AM, PsyCLown said:

As for your signature, not sure if PHP will work in a signature. Possibly only BB code.

@420SA Perhaps you can confirm?

@Ponica love the idea and would be great for guys to be able to track your grow in real time. Unfortunately we don't allow PHP in signatures for security reasons

1 hour ago, Weskush said:

Adding to that. I am more than willing to contribute to a membership fee or donation to support this forum. Don't know how the other members feel about this. Scamsters will hopefully look elsewhere if it ain't free.

 I have pondered over the idea of a "Supporting Membership" with an annual fee but wouldn't want to keep any helpful info behind a paywall, but rather the membership would give access to exclusive giveaways and such from vendors etc.

The community however is still too small and it wouldn't make viable sense for giveaway sponsors I don't think.

Sorry for the recent bursts of totally random but very baitworthy threads being thrown out by certain "seed companies"...

There is one guy, or bot, that is signing up under a multitude of different seedbank names and trying to get traction by using commonly searched keywords in his topic titles.

He's proving to be quite persistent as he continues to sign up under more accounts. Unfortunately we cannot ban his IP as his IP is continually changing as well.

Please bare with us as we try to handle him. He should give up eventually. If you spot any suspicious baiting topics please report the topic immediately

Howzit guys

I did do a small background check on them and could not find any reason for them to be considered as suspect. 

Trust pilot reviews - https://www.trustpilot.com/review/stickyseeds.co.uk

They have also been around for a few years now. 

If you guys find any causes for concern that you would like to raise please do.

I totally understand your point of view @Weskush but advertising helps to keep the forum running. We do not endorse or oppose the advertisers on this forum. If they appear to be trusted then we have no reason to not allow them to advertise here. 

Thank you @Light It Up for sponsoring the headline prize! 

Can all winners please PM the following details to me

• Name
• Delivery Address
• Contact Number

And here we are finally...

It's been an agonizing wait for many of you, for some of you the wait will have been worth it. 

This growoff has produced many quality grows, many more than our previous growoff and big up to all of you who made it till the end. I would gladly smoke bud from any of your trees!

Without any further blabbering let's get straight to the point and announce our winners 

Please note that winners of overall prizes are ineligible for the category prizes

Category Prizes

The Fattest Cola

@CreX

Best Grow Diary

@McMan

DIARY LINK

Best Trained Plant

@Prom

Overall Prizes

3rd Place

@iGrowDagga

2nd Place

@SkunkPharm

Our Champion

@mantis

1st place was a VERY tough decision to make for us. Mantis and Skunkpharm both produced superb grows. Both with differing appealing qualities.

What it ultimately came down to was which grow had the least flaws and @SkunkPharm I'm afraid your small thrips infestation is what counted against you and tipped the scale in favour of @mantis. It was a margin as fine as that. As I say though, you guys both produced two very solid grows.

The simple way to put how we judge this competition is we are looking for the grow that is the most "Pro". Would the grow be accepted according to an indoor commercial grow operation standard. Those are harsh but necessary standards, and the same applies here in this comp. Meeting the criteria is key.

Thank you to all of you who came along for this ride.  Congratulations to all our winners 

Thank you to our genetics sponsor

Thank you to  @Totemic for sponsoring the genetics that I feel did really well overall this comp. Very promising for the future indeed! 

And of course our generous prize sponsors

 @Light It Up 

@Aeradix

Green Smoke Room

@Cannabist

Green Grow Room

@ExploGrow

@Golden-Goose

@THCSA (TheHighCo.)

@Futurama Hydroponics

Till next time!

2 hours ago, GGG said:

That move was after the cut of date , I just kept the diary going.
All good @420 , no worries

Sent from my Hisense Infinity H50 using Tapatalk
 

When did you flip? Before or after the 3rd of July? That cutoff date only applied if you flipped after the 3rd of July

Nevertheless, if you declared your grow ready for judging on the 7th you'll remain in the running then. Sorry for the confusion

On 9/18/2021 at 3:47 PM, GGG said:

I moved these girls outside the last 12 days , looks like the enjoyed it.

@GGG this very move has unfortunately cost you a chance in this competition.... 

It is clearly stated in the rules that you are not allowed to have your plants under the sun for an extended period of time, other than to take photos. I'm afraid we have to disqualify you. We simply cannot judge your plants after they have spent 12 days under the sun. 

Please remember to read the rules carefully in the future. Else it leads to harsh realities such as this.

On 10/9/2021 at 6:16 AM, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

I remember another contestant getting dq for not updating as the rules dictate, what is the case here? I see it's been 2 weeks?

Just checking, I know a bunch of stuff changed in regards to the end date / judgement day thing.

Yes he is DQ. Just finding out what may have happened

@ChefDylan what happened with your grow? Have you pulled out?

No "smoked moderators" here. If members repeatedly and knowingly break rules they'll get banned. Very simple

In this case it's clear Wondergom was not banned. He was approached by a member in their personal capacity who is not a mod. Perhaps threatening to have him banned, I don't know. 

We have nothing to do with this supposed banning, neither did any banning actually happen. We see no reason at all to have the member banned

We finally have our winners decided!

In 2nd Place

@Pants

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1st Place

@Green Leaf Organics

Well done guys! Will be giving you a shout by PM

4 hours ago, CreX said:

i think i am ready! i just have to finish the trim and weigh - is that necessary for the comp? sort of like a smoke report of sorts? or where do we stop

Anything that is shown post harvest is irrelevant but always nice to see of course