Totemic

4 minutes ago, Dr. Green said:

I use Freedom Farm classic with biobizz. My plants get a few weeks of water only ph at 6.2 then I ad biobizz at only 1ml per liter. More than 1ml per liter and I get nitrogen toxicity 

At what dodage are you feeding the biobizz? 

Great combination of soil and nutrients. My current config too. I dont use more than 1ml of the grow and/ or 1ml of the bloom for the whole grow. Feed every watering/every day, works well and gives great results.

42 minutes ago, ORGANinc. said:

Such a nice bright colour to them.  ☝

Yeah I love the different vibrant greens of veg.

For reference so you can see what I see when I say the gelato structure pulling though: This structure was selected for on my chocolope NL F3s and is carrying this in every cross since then.

I do. Cant see your pics though 

53 minutes ago, ORGANinc. said:

Gelato pulls through strong, and growth is great for 4 weeks right? 

Yeah, at 4 weeks they are pushing the 9th node. Vigorous growth. They are short now, but are going to be about 1m+ ish at peak flower.

First 4 weeks done. Planning on vegging for another 4 weeks or so. The gelato lines structure is starting to become evident.

Outdoor babies are doing their thing. One of the 10 stunted after germination.

I dont do any running. I can't. But I make up for with mostly physical labour to keep fit. 

It's not that cannabis gives me energy. It's more of a whole body motivation that gets me very focused and charging through a task. 

15 minutes ago, Golden-Goose said:

I think maybe that same cat gave me some DNA genetics gear around 2013 as well. I assume you were also on weed.co.za forum back in the day?

I was on that forum too 

3 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

What is your aim when you create new seeds / strains? 

 

My primary aim has always been to preserve the genetics. Creating new strains is experimental to me. Giving the genome space to evolve in a controlled environment while I watch and learn.

15 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

What is it that you like to look for in a plants when breeding them and deciding what is a keeper and what is not?

There are many things I take into consideration. THC is strangely not one of them since most of the strains I Work with all fall within the same THC range, and dont really vary from it. Most of the female phenos I select either from my own stock or from the clones I receive, are the standout plants of that run. I decide on the keepers based on the outcome quality of the offspring. 

I do spend more time selecting my males as opposed to females. 

27 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

When do you determine that it is time to change things up a bit and add some new strains into your mix of breeding material? I recall you recently started some breeding with Slurricane for example.

For every years grows I plan and collect various genetics. And every year I select 4 or 5 new lines and cross in some of my older crosses. I also focus on finding one pollen donor for that run so males get thinned until one remains. For 2019, my focus was on my bubbleberry line for the pollen. This year it has been the choc gelato line(my standout line from 2018), and next year is still in planning. Generally the best performer from those runs are my keepers that I'll work on again in future. My 2019 Bubbleberry Glue is my keeper from that year for example. The next few months will tell what the 2020 keeper will be.

Looking at Slurricane specifically, it has been a standout strain this year. It is also being bred by a micro breeder that is constantly changing his gear up. So they are kind of limited edition. It fits into my mission of preserving the genetics as those seeds will soon not be available. 

1 minute ago, SkunkPharm said:

When can we see a fem seed run again? Not asking for myself but other guys growing fem seeds.

I am busy with a feminized seed run right now, and will be releasing feminized versions of this years regulars from mid January 2021

This last year or two has been challenging and interesting. I have been the topic of both good and bad conversations. Realizing that it is because people generally don't know who I am, is why it has been such a multi polar experience.

I started growing 10 years ago, fumbled around with bags seeds for a year or two, before gaining access to other imported genetics. What started me on my breeding journey was when I was given the Chocolope seeds from DNA genetics by another well known growmie back in 2013, who has undoubtedly touched all your lives in some way or another. I have since bred a few strains over the years, and established a rythem within the micro-breeding sector.

The state of Cannabis back then was still rough, and most of my work had to be low key, and there are a few of the OG's on here that have been following what I have been doing. Even now I keep a lot of what I do low key, and within the reasonable limits that prevail.

I am a father to two teenage boys, husband to a beautiful wife, and earn my living in the property maintenance sector. Cannabis is my passion though, and where all the extra time in my life pours into, and over the last 2 years I have been gravitating toward a full-time commitment. Sharing this through my seeds, my activism, is part of my drive to free the plant.

Doing this has inadvertently thrust me into the public. A place I'm not yet used to or comfortable in as I'm generally a private person. However, I thought it a good place to treat this thread as a Q&A about my breeding. Here are a few that have have already recently popped up:

Q: Where do you get your seeds?

A: I do all my own pollination, and produce my own seeds. The plants I breed with are selected cuts from the original breeders seed stock and my own seed stock.

Q: How do you manage to pheno hunt with so few plants?

A: My pheno hunting spans across many growers tents, gardens and farm spaces, besides my own space.

Q: Do you sell other peoples work/gear and pass it off as your own?

A: No. I see myself as an ethical breeder. I am transparent about the genetics I work with, and credit the original breeder and their work.

Q: Do you have any autos?

A: No. Although there is a demand for them, to protect the photoperiod genetics I work with, I will not be working with autos at all into the foreseeable future. EDIT: I have since this actually started working on a few autoflower crosses, since making major changes to my setup. 

Q: Why are your prices so low?

A: We are at an automatic disadvantage with our poor exchange rate when importing seeds. This makes it inaccessible to many more than you think. Part of my mission is to make good quality genetics available at prices everyone can afford. 

So, what do you want to know?

Another week. More progress. In another week and I should have the beginings of a green canopy.

I had to do something with the extra seeds I soaked, so have 10 going outdoors. 

So far I'm seeing consistant growth among the outdoors and the indoors, albeit they all germinated in their own time.

Awesome man. Great that you posting this up. Keen to follow on other local micro breeding projects. 

Day 26 of flower. Girls are looking good and the gelato pollen donor is doing her thing.

Pics are mixed bud shots of the spumoni, slurricane, Blunicorn, chocolate gelato

2 weeks up for 4, 1 week, for the other 4. Zurple Punch clone bottom right.

The only category that ticks every single box is medicinal herb.

I have never pushed an EC higher than 2.4 in peak flowering, which is 1600 odd ppm, so you are there already.

Less is more, and when you are fertigating your plant daily you can get away with much lower doses, and have a happier plant that isnt straining under chemical pressure 

3 minutes ago, Batista said:

Hi Bud

Thanks for this, I've had great results in veg, but I was a bit unsure about flower.Interesting enough I emailed them and they said this : 

'Part B contains plenty of Nitrogen, whereas Part A contains much less, and part A also contains other macro and trace elements which will be good for flowering, so definitely rather use part A in flowering, and not part B. You can check the labels of both to compare the Nitrogen's content in g/kg. Part B will be fine until about week 3-4 of flowering as it contains Calcium, which is important, just don't use too much. Little goes a long way.'

 - which kinda goes against your method and also what they say to do in the sheets,Im very confused lol

Look the plants are doing fine, actually suffering from to much N atm so I thought let me recheck my nutes configuration, because this is the first time in using this, which lead me here.

Yeah, it's difficult with hortimix, as their chart suits veggies and will wreck your grow the moment you go into flowering following it.

So my approach evolved around what my plants were telling me. I found that I've never had deficiency or toxicity issues with micro elements, Its always the macros, so running with and tweaking my input on part B and MKP I have found to work for me. 

They recommend part B since the calcium is essential to buffer the phosphates in the MKP. Calcium sulphate would have been a much better calcium source, but its insoluble in water, so calcium nitrate is the only option really.

When I use hortimix, my ratios are 1:1 on part A and B in veg, and shifts to 1:1:1(A,B,Mkp) early flowering and later 1:2(B,mkp) ratio of part B and MKP in peak flower, moving to using only MKP in the last ripening phase, allowing the plant to metabolize the N and fade. 

1 hour ago, PsyCLown said:

Wait and see how it unfolds, very likely it is a CC although maybe he did register it as a private company.

Since 2008, new CC's cant be registered. It was phased out. Both companies are private companies.

While directors may be buffered from civil actions penetrating their personal lives to a small extent, it is entirely different when there are criminal actions by a possibly delinquent director. The article makes mention that a 500k bank account was flattened. If the powers that be follow the money, and that money went home.....

15 hours ago, PsyCLown said:

Hmm, wonder how much truth there is to this. Progrow opening up a new company and reselling their "soil" as Just Cannabis.

Sadly, it does seem a full blown mission.

The owner of Just Cannabis, Gerhard, commented on a FB post distancing himself from Progrow, claiming that Just Cannabis was simply a client of Progrow. 

However, Gerhard is clearly listed as a director of both companies at CIPC.

This begs more questions...and while I couldn't even begin to contemplate the real story, what we know so far from the article, doesn't seem far off the mark.

8 up. 9 if you count the 2 that came up in one pot. Soil is a bit hot for them, but they are soldiering through it.

4 of the 9 are up. One damped off. I have other seeds soaking in case the remaining 4 dont come up. The seeds are fresh and should be chilling out a bit for the inhibitors to wear off, but I'm too curious about this cross too wait. 

9 minutes ago, StonerZN said:

None of the Dark Rides on the go at the moment sir? Abandoned or shelved?

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Definitely not abandoned.  Each cross will get their own grow as space opens up. The slurricane mother has been my favorite this year so kicking off with them first.

They all got a neem spray today as part of my routine pest management. They get one more in a week from now as the last spray before peak flowering.

Is this a bit better @CreX ? Lol

16 minutes ago, CreX said:

LOL you have a lekker night my bru? have a bit too much dop or something hahaha?? your camera skills are normally superb boizee 

Phone camera and the screen covered with fingerprints man. It happens lol how are your eyes?