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Shrimp meal is a great fertilizer for a living soil. It's rich in nitrogen, phosphorous and calcium. Plus it contains chitin. This post sums up chitin pretty well http://www.rollitup.org/t/chitin-chitoson-and-chitinase.604708/ have a read The only problem is that we don't get shrimp or crustacean meal in SA.... no problem though cause it's actually really easy to make at home. You just have to get hold of some prawn shells or crab shells, bake them and then ground them up. Before I go further, let me just warn that you better be prepared for the stench of baking prawn shell to linger in your house a bit... So what I did was use some prawn shells left over from a meal. I had 15 queen prawn shells to work with and my goal was to get at least a cup of shrimp meal I first rinsed off the shells under a warm tap to wash off most of the oils, sauces and and any extra flesh that was left on the shells. I then soaked them in hot water for an hour, drained the water and let them sit for a while I then pre-heated the oven to 200. Put the prawns into an oven dish And baked the shells in the oven for 1h30min Some baked prawn shell anyone? The shells are now very light and crumble very easily and are ready to be ground up into a "meal". I put the shells in a blender and ground them up for about 10 minutes. In the attempt that I made on this post I used a shitty blender which is why my end product didn't come out as finely ground as I would have liked but apparently shrimp meal breaks down rapidly so I should be alright. I'd suggest you use a coffee grinder or something to that effect. Here's what I ended up with, about 3/5 of a cup of shrimp meal. Not what I was gunning for but I got some at least Sprinkle it onto your soil mix and mix it in thoroughly There we go... hopefully as time goes by we can refine this method if it needs it. Try your luck with your local seafood restaurant, they might do you a solid one and keep their prawn or crab shells for you. As you can see you need a lot of shells. I would say at least 30 average sized prawns if possible. If you can get crab shell you might be able to make up the required quantity easier. Give it a go, would love to see someone else's results.

Where do you find glacial dust SS? I can only find basalt(turbo grow) here in SA

yes, have look but I have no experience in electrical wiring and electrical ballast, The area i want grow in is in my house in spare room, I scared of fire What's the size of the area that you wanna grow in? No need to know anything about wiring if you get a digital ballast

Have you looked at using HID lights yet? Will fit your budget and is the best you can get right now. What kinda area do you want to grow in?

Welcome @SoilSamurai What kinda soil mix are you growing with?

Watch the following segments of the show: 1. 15:42 - 26:15 2. 31:54 - 44:42 3. 48:00 - 53:30 4. 1:33:50 - 1:47:15

http://roodepoortrecord.co.za/2017/04/07/light-joint-read/

Try vapestore, they're situated in Kommetjie where you can collect https://vapestore.co.za/accessories/storage/boveda-pack

Out the closet they slowly emerged.... http://www.timeslive.co.za/entertainment/2017/04/05/Freshlygrounds-Zolani-openly-admits-she-is-a-lover-of-weed

As far as I'm aware there are 2 seed banks going locally but use entirely at your own risk http://www.greensmokeroomseeds.com/ and https://www.cannabisseeds.co.za/ I would still suggest bonzaseeds.com though

Welcome B3nji.G Hope you enjoy your time here

Have a look at this question and answer session with a legal attorney regarding your rights after the recent judgement https://www.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/62ybdz/south_african_attorney_here_im_here_until_11_am/

Agreed, swapping/trading seeds instead of buying would be the way to go. Having a well established and trusted trading network would be great, provided the laws permit it. I think we may have to just hold on a bit until we gain clarity on what can be done and what cannot, right now there's still a lot of grey areas. The worst part is that the legislation has to run through parliament :'( I think there's a mass of South Africans out there right now who have planted seeds thinking its a relatively straight forward process. Once they hit the inevitable issues that beginners go through they'll be here. I hope

So how would the seed exchange work?

Dagga use can still land you in jail http://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-courts/dagga-use-can-still-land-you-in-jail-8471646

Cant see why not now! Im away this weekend. Will discuss on Monday

Quite coincidentally with the historical judgement made today, this forum gets a little facelift Clear your cache or press Ctrl + F5 to see the changes

Yip Dagga can be used in the home, Western Cape High Court rules http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/dagga-can-be-used-in-the-home-western-cape-high-court-rules-20170331

Judgement is expected at around 09h30 this morning

Your plants look hungry to me. Definitely not nute burn. Magnesium def more like likely. Lower the PH you feed with to 5.8... also make sure your ph meter is calibrated... I reckon its PH Are you getting runoff when you water and are you drenching your whole medium when you feed? Its important to have runoff so excess salts get "washed" out of the medium. Build up of salts will also cause big PH problems. If you have a ppm meter check the ppm of your runoff. If the runoff ppm is way higher than the ppm you feed with then you have a build up of salts and you'll need to flush

Noticed an issue that seems native to Firefox. If you click on one of the posts on the Latest Topics section or you choose to see the latest post on the thread, it won't jump to the latest post.... perhaps you may have noticed that before

Just a quick question.... who browses this site on Firefox?

It's been confirmed that Judge Davis will be handing down judgement this Friday 31st March!!! I'm not religious but I feel like praying now

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/seed-to-fight-crime-20170326