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Flower Day 26

Going pretty well thus far through flower.

The plant in the middle has been quite a stretcher so I've been having a tough time taming her. Supercropped one of the branches too aggressively and caused it to collapse quite badly, to a point that it can't right itself properly. Will probably need to stake it later on but it's fine now. She's occupying quite a lot of lateral space which I suppose isn't such a bad thing.

My favoured pheno right now is Tortoni #2, pictured far right in the below pic. She has the best looking bud development so far. 

Tortoni #2 (best pheno so far)

Tortoni #3 (stretchy one)

Tortoni #1

I watered with something a little different last night.... unfermented beer, known as wort. Beer brewing has 3 steps, the mash, the boil and then fermentation. The mash is where you extract all the starches from the malted grain and have the starch converted to sugar by keeping the grains steeped in water within a specific temp range. I had a little excess liquid leftover from the mash I did on the weekend so I thought it would be a good idea to throw this into the next watering. Plenty of good enzymes in there, plus a bit of sugar for the microlife, can only do good I reckon. Two hobbies working in harmony lol

1 hour ago, John Stonedwell said:

Is it just me or do these videos lag like crazy?   I haven't been able to check one video from start to finish..

The feature was enabled not too long ago. I'm afraid it was always a worry of mine that the site wouldn't be able to handle videos well. Hosting videos independently can come with a host of problems, especially if the hosting server isn't capable of handling it, which I was worried may be the case with this website and appears to be so.

Fortunately, there will be improvements to the video experience in the future but that will still be a while. 

Wow very sad to hear! RIP Master of Hash

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Big pharma has such a stronghold on USA politicians so will be interesting to see how it plays out

Many countries, including us, tend to lick America's arse so I think it will definitely be a step in the right direction. 

Wow. Amazing work! 

On 7/8/2021 at 2:44 PM, iGrowDagga said:

Sorry about the yellow pic, I know rules say we should avoid but my camera is going bonkers under the cobs, can't figure out what it wants to do. 

It's not necessarily a rule but rather a recommendation. It only really matters come the end.

Those pics you took though are fine anyway!

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Quick lights off update. These pics were taken last night

Our mods and I decided to judge this month's winner as our entries were pretty low this month and we're only offering the single prize.

Fortunately the decision was unanimous!

 OUR WINNER IS

@Orcanic

I'll be messaging your coupon code to you shortly. Congrats! 

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Very worrying

A civil war was always on the cards if JZ went to jail but you definitely right, we've reached the tipping point for a country that's on its knees. Was a matter of time before there was major revolt, it just needed a catalyst.  The Zuma situation may not be entirely to blame for all this mess but there are elements connected to him that will find ways to motivate the people to do this shit. Those very elements that allowed JZ and his buddies to flourish when he was in power... which he still holds a lot of to this day. That same propaganda engine is firing at all cylinders now

This country's poorest have been looking for a real reason to release their frustrations and many reasons are being thrown at them now. Very volatile right now

Next up, Malema and his "fighters"...

Flower Day 12

Pics taken last night...

Happy to say that even though the soil hadn't cooked, the plants are settling nicely. Tough to see with the colour temp of course . Next update I'll take a pic under flash or the sun

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Thank @CreX for this one!

A "Wow" reaction has finally been added! ... as well as a "Fire!" reaction

Receiving either of these reactions will add 2 points to your rank.

5 hours ago, CreX said:

pssssst!! @420SA i have needed a wow button like, 100 times just this past week, what do we need to do to make it happen 

Alright let's see what we can do 

Here are the plants prior to being moved over to the flower tent (taken tonight)

Into their new home they went. Added another 400w hps to the already existing 400w hps. Did a spot of supercropping

Howzit guys

Please can we get the numbers on who has met the soft switch deadline and who has not.

Just reply with Yes or No. 

Yes - you switched on or before the deadline

No - you will be switching after the deadline

1 hour ago, The_StonedTrooper said:

Cannabis and plastic pots, I feel are no good, especially after seedling stage.

Yip no more plastic pots for me!

1 hour ago, The_StonedTrooper said:

Didnt see a feeding schedule, did you ever do Microbe inoculations?

I dont feed unless I see the plant is lacking, especially in veg. I just use fulvic, humic and innoculate with explogrow every 4th watering.

A quick question for the soil gurus...

What do you reckon happened to my plants in veg? What could have caused that decline? 

Were they left in those pots for too long? Did they get root bound or are there other factors to consider such as not enough available nutes. Should I have fed?

Then there was a clear stretching situation. The internodal spacing was hectic and defs not normal. Was the 400w bulb I switched to buggered? I changed back to the 250W about a week and a half ago and noticed the internodal spacing seemed to return to normal.

Day 56 ( Flower Day 5 )

Alright fellas sorry for my absence! Went away for the weekend to fish for some troots. Was actually meant to update on Friday but it totally slipped my mind while packing and all. My apologies.... and even though I wasn't competing in the first place I have disqualified myself... but am allowed to continue growing and post updates... 

So this soil is evidently still undercooked and even though the plants are recovering to some extent, I'm not seeing the burst of healthy growth I would usually see once the plants go into the super soil. As I say they are improving, but slowly and much behind the pace. Soil PH may not be the best at this point. Hopefully as we progress it will improve. It's at least manageable.

I switched to 12/12 on Friday 2nd of July. They are still in the veg tent under the MH running 12/12 now. Tonight I'm going to clean the flower tent and transfer the plants into there. 

The pic below was taken on Thursday last week (day 51). I will post some updated pics tonight when lights are on.

Updated pics to come tonight

5 minutes ago, 420SA said:

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No need to be such a sour dick about it. Will update now sorry, smoke a phat one and chill

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