Totemic

2 minutes ago, Stinger96 said:

Morning bud.. Your welcome.. I've never gotten that far yet. Maybe @Chris Jay or @Totemic can advise you better. PM me I have some FF soil available..

Not the type of thing I've been counting. 

I've also never treated them as heavy feeders...

5 hours ago, GreenGrow Garden Route said:

Looks like a hairy experience.. Looking Lekker there Bud..

I'm silently optimistic. This flower, while there have been three females to the cross, is also 5 generations worth of my own male selections. 

Day 13/14

Im very happy with their development the last week. 3 of the 4 are Choc Gelato dominant, and the last is Slurricane dominant, and I've experienced between 15 and 30cm stretch. 

Their next feed in the morning I'll be switching over to a flowering nute schedule. I'm running with the Biobizz range, and been using their Grow and Bloom, but adding Top Max as well this round. 

7 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

@Totemic I totally copied you with the way you hang your lights  

Yeah man, that extra 50cm is worth having. 

Lovely. I'm going to be hunting my F2s in a few months. If you want seeds to join the hunt it's done.

The 33 line I'm running with has Sunset sherbert crossed in, but then I selected from my choco NL F3s onto those. 

Loving what the F1s did, and loving the influence carry as im seeing on my current run of Tortoni. The slurricane pheno is heavy stretchy punch genes.

Tortoni #2 is a pheno like this. You can see the punch genes stuck in the corner.  While, #1,3,4 are choc gelato dominant filling the other 75% 

These are at day 11 now.

PS. Sorry for the thread hijack

Looking like all sorts if lekker there. Interesting to see those gelatos develop. I've got an indica heavy hybrid vibe to my line.

Yeah had the same experience with the gelato males out performing the other males I had at the time.

From whom is the Strawberry cough? 

Adding the cookies genes may reduce SC stretch(if you have a stretchy pheno...most are)

High male ratio from my seeds?

Another week. 

THC Bomb

Bubbleberry 

Then the 4 pots between the 2 are 4 x Strawberry Fields(Crockett Family Farms/DNA Genetics), that I'm expecting above ground tomorrow. A few of us in CT pitched together to get a 12 pack. Really excited to be adding these to the hunt. 

The last few regular and feminized packs of my 2020 season are available online. Once they are gone, they are gone. 

15 minutes ago, Prom said:

we talk exclusive SA genetics from the beginning... african landrace mothers only? If you used euro/american genetics to create something, isnt really SA, or? Not sure what would be special on such a listing... enter it in seedfinder, if worthy... where we get to the point totemic wrote... to much junk gets entered these days. No history, no big effort, just create a entry. I stopped using it... and just follow my gut feel these days.

 

I dont want to spoil other peoples fun, but i think local genetics, reputated ones, can cost a little more as they do now. Is quite some work behind in a game you not always end with a result and wasted 4 months time, just to start over again. 

Is there a local cannabis breeder contest?  winning those usually helps..  

I work exclusively with US and EU genetics. Most of my effort goes into combining those two pools. What makes or will make it local is that it is being bred and selected for these local weather conditions, median gradient from the equator etc. Many EU and US genetics perform way better at our latitude than they do where they are originally selected from.

Then when it comes to our local landraces, my optimism bubble pops. Our landrace genetics is so polluted, and has been completely changed over the decades. Depending on what you are selecting for, our landraces are a poor pool to select from.

That's where projects like my chocolope line come in. I'm busy turning this line into and F10(IBL)...effectively a new landrace. All my selection breeding on this line is outdoors, during all seasons. This is still years away as I'm only going for F5s now,  but the point is, local breeders need to have projects going to create new landraces for the future.

The benefits of such a directory would be vast to local breeders and consumers alike

24 minutes ago, Ill_Evan said:

 

I'm going to be using nets on the next grow in my 2.4x1.2 space. At the end of flower last grow, half the branches were moering all over the place, had to use plenty of yo-yos and twist ties to keep things at the canopy. 

Hoping the net also keeps the canopy more uniform. 

It helps keeping colas where you want them, and if you dont use the net for any flattening training, you will still be able to lift it or lower it and gain deeper access if needed.

Its puts us(SA community) in a position to define criteria for listing.

Minimum F gen. I release F1s, but general rule of thumb should really be F4 as a stable release.

Must have lab test backing, phylos paperwork etc. Just examples  but you get the idea

The options are limitless really

Here's a thought. A local version or similiar directory for exclusively SA genetics. Come now IT guys, here's something...

4 minutes ago, Chris Jay said:

I think it has gone way past users grow journals, but like I said before they are important. You have sites like https://en.seedfinder.eu/ and phylos.bio. They have good references to seeds, names, breeders, lineage etc. Including South African breeders, both here and abroad.  What I would really like to see on seed sale sites is a rough cannabinoid profile of what to expect. One of the reasons is I am looking for high myrcene and THC seeds at the moment, and other reasons is the technology is available for it to be tested, so it can be made available.

The role of laboratory work is more important now than ever.

Seedfinder is a great resource to provide a 'visual' genetic history of the genome. I have noticed recently though that many of the newer breeders, and even the seed producer class of 'breeder' are spamming seedfinder with every single cross they chucked pollen at. That reduces the reliability of the directory imo

35 minutes ago, DamDave said:

Hey bud you well. What exactly is it that one looks for in a grow diary. I try and do diaries to the best of my limited knowledge.
Growdiaries.com have a good set-up but i grow in soil and don't use nutes yet so for me it just becomes a log. Plant, water, photo, harvest.
I'm sure a lot of us have tried to google a diary template, say no more.
As you may have noticed that my hand is always the first to raise in class when a test grow is up for grabs. I've learnt a lot from the forum on the grow front.
Now I need help keeping a diary on our great SA breeder's and strain's.
Need pointers guys.

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Diaries are tough to keep. Life is happening, and quite often diaries derail if something goes wrong and guys loose motivation.

Veg and early flower are for the most part the boring piece, as its foliage and training.

I endeavour to keep updates 7 days apart. A weeks development at a time is a nice snapshot. I also take the same shots from the same angles every time to keep it consistent. But it's part of my routine for a long time now, and happens 'automatically'

3 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

I too need to find a better way to support the plants and large colas, I was thinking of using stakes. In the past I used twist ties and hung the branches to the roof poles in my tent, lol. What a mission it was to do and again when it came time to harvest and undo it.

This is only a 1x1 space, so I can just just reach the back if I let my rib muscles spasm just right  

1.2m + like the space you running, a net just isnt an option. Stakes work best then.

1 minute ago, PsyCLown said:

Nice, looking good - I assume the net is going to be used for when the buds get heavy to help support the branches?

Yeah, I'm not a fan of having to stake and have yoyo hangers all over the place. 

Day 7

South Africa is at that point imo 

As the industry is taking shape(pretty fast too), standards are going up. Many guys that have been breeding quietly for years are coming out now. 

It's time to level up. Even my breeding practices are changing. I currently release untested crosses, with an experimental approach to get feedback other than my own opinion of a cross.

However from this year I'm formalizing completely. Large pheno hunts, testing, and more testing. My next seed release will probably only be next year. This is a hunting year for me.

I've noticed a lot of guys topping out their QBs height in the tent with the light still at the half way mark. 

My solution is to hang my QB differently, and gain 50cm in height.

Hope this helps

What wattage you running your QBs at? 

Loving the new look! 

Awesome lineup man, and those girls are looking super happy with life

5 minutes ago, Stinger96 said:

It's a Mamoth100.. I would like double that though but it will do the trick..

Then you only want to be running the 600w in that space. All those extra ballast spares can be put together for a separate veg area etc.

1m2 is a very workable space, and with some training can get you a more than decent yield.