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  1. 12 minutes ago, Chris Jay said:

    hey @Totemic
     

    Great post, seems like we all getting hooked on these seeds. Wanted to ask, I see how you germinate several seeds in one pot. Do you see a stagnation in growth when transplanting? Do you think germinating in rockwool and then transplanting in FF soil is a good option? 

    I do notice a slight difference in size of the seedlings, but i dont transplant them. The males show really early at 3 weeks so they get pulled, leaving the females to carry on in the pot. 

    The fems i planted alone in a pot since i know they are supposed to be fems. 

    Not sure about the Rockwool. I plant direct. Autos send out a really dominant taproot with almost no side roots for those first 3 odd weeks

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  2. Ive also only just started growing autos...

    They respond well to LST if you start early, between day 14 and 21.

    They dont like as much water at all, so i let the pot really really dry out and get light before watering. 

    They might not tolerate as much N as photos, but dont make your soil to light. I use reammended FF premium, with no need to feed the soil for the first month. 

    Plant 2 or 3 autos in a 40l if you want to maximize yield for that volume. Mine are in 15l and they are a pretty decent size, between 60-100cm.

    Otherwise im still on that same learning curve right now

     

     

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  3. 2 hours ago, MrE said:

    Crazy Haze (flower day 7) doing...a bit better, I think. I'm leaning towards overwatering and/or pH having been too low, ..bit of underfeeding maybe, not exactly sure. I'll take slightly healthier to the bank though.

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    I defoliated again after taking these pics. I think I need to work on my impulse control for the next grow. 

    FF green bag users: Anyone else feed at 5.5pH as per their instructions? Thinking about trying closer to 6.0, though the other plants haven't really had any major problems.

    You pH your feeds on the FF premium? 

    I have never pHed my organics to be honest, and let the microherd manage the pH. This is with the Biobizz range

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  4. So spring has sprung, and while it was an uneventful winter for me on the growing front, i decided to start a few autos. I have very limited experience with them, and want to change that. Especially since I only have a veg area now, plus i get to squeeze in a harvest or 2 before Christmas. 

    Thanks to @SkunkPharm and@Bay Seeds I have plenty to test out, and have been staggering planting weekly since last week of July, so they are between 1 and 6 weeks. 

    They are outdoors on sunny days and under lights at night and in rainy weather.

    Ill probably be making a few seeds from 1 or 2 plants, but just to make more seeds for myself. 

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  5. 1 hour ago, The_StonedTrooper said:

    You name a chemovar Hitler, or Crack, to make it sound bad, and dangerous, as if the cannabis hits hard.

    This to try and catch the eye or ear of others for its name, with regards to the history of that name.

    That's all...

    Naughty, you must take it easy fam, I love everyone and you bro.

    Totemic, could really go for attention, and call your cannabis line, Apartheid...I dont think so🙈

    Interesting though,  the word apartheid doesnt offend me either or stir any of the irrational emotion that currently subsists. Its a relic of the past that was abolished when i was still a child.  We are almost 2 generations past that, and it sickens me to see all the south africans born after '94 still use the the rhetoric to shift blame and justify their current circumstance, often violently. 

    But thats another story far off the threads intent though. 

    Point im making is inline with the thread. Words shouldnt trigger,  and if they do trigger you,  its not the word,  its you... 

    I would name a cannabis line the apartheid line without blinking,  and anyone who would associate it with that time in this countries past,  really still has serious cognitive dissonance which tharapy may help free them from

    :-2cents

     

     

     

     

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  6. This thread though 😂

    I can very clearly see why naming the strain 'hitler' is a great marketing tactic.  I mean,  have you ever seen a thread give a strain like cookies the kind of air time? 

    If Hitler offends, Stalin, Khan, Nero, and other most evil characters for their time should offend. 

    Hell maybe i should bring a line of strictly offensive genetics... Thats a good name too haha

    Life is too short to be offended by our history and characters from it. Im far more offended by our present world leaders anyway,  as its tangible, present, and has an actual effect on my life now. Still i dont really even entertain those feelings,  since all these feelings really have nothing to do with our real world.

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  7. 1 hour ago, ORGANinc. said:

    Seeing stuff like that always makes me want to google the genetics and see what these buds look like. and 9 times out of 10, I say to myself, it looks like weed, maybe more frosty, maybe cool ass colours, and for that price tag it will also get you high. 

    Weed is always looking cooler and cooler as the days go by, but its always strikes you when you see it on a screen and not upfront and personal. Everything is looking better than it is, and therefore selling for higher than it should. 

    Its a modern day trick photography marketing scheme, I remember people trying to justify this shit lol. Ya, ya ya... People will only get taken advantage of for soooo long. In the meanwhile, there's money to be made 🤪 @Totemic We gotta relook at the pricing. 

    I have no rational grasp that a single regular seed can retail for 2k. Perhaps im just aiming elsewhere entirely... A R20k seed investment fills hectares in my circles... :poke

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  8. Woman fired from Barloworld for using dagga was not unfair discrimination, court rules

    The Labour Court has upheld the dismissal of an employee for repeatedly testing positive for cannabis.

    The court ruled that the decriminalisation of cannabis has not given protection to those who breach a company’s policy.

    The company had a "zero tolerance" policy and it was irrelevant whether the employee’s performance was impaired or not.

    A long-serving employee who was fired after repeatedly testing positive for cannabis, in breach of the company’s rules, has failed in her bid to be reinstated.

    Bernadette Enever, who had been employed in an office position at Barloworld Equipment since 2007, said she used cannabis oil for medicinal reasons and smoked it recreationally for "spiritual" reasons".

    She wanted the labour court to declare her dismissal in April 2020 to be grounded in "unfair discrimination" and automatically an unfair dismissal.

    But Johannesburg Labour Court Acting Judge Makosho Ntsoane has dismissed her application, saying the company treated all employees the same. If Enever needed to use cannabis for medicinal purposes, she should have presented evidence of that. Instead she had only made the claim as an "afterthought", after she had been caught out.

    In a summary of evidence, the judge said Enever had an unblemished disciplinary record when she first tested positive in January 2020.

    Enever told of how at one stage, due to various ailments, she was taking up to ten prescription drugs a day. Following the decriminalisation of cannabis for personal use by the Constitutional Court, she had weaned herself off the pills using cannabis oil. She also smoked rolled cannabis every evening to assist with insomnia and anxiety which had improved her "bodily health, outlook and spirituality".

    The judge said the company had a zero tolerance policy towards alcohol and drugs and required employees to undergo regular tests.

    When Enever had first tested positive, she was placed on seven-day "cleaning up" leave, a process which entailed that the test would be repeated weekly until she tested negative.

    It was common cause, the judge said, that when she tested positive, she was not "stoned" or unable to perform her usual desk duties. She was also not in possession of cannabis.

    Enever continued to fail the weekly tests for a month and she was charged with breaching the company’s Alcohol and Substance Abuse Policy.

    Following a hearing, she was fired, the chairperson indicating that there was no point in giving her a final written warning because she had "unequivocally refused to give up consumption of the cannabis".

    Enever, in her case before the Labour Court, claimed the policy was unfair and discriminatory.

    Judge Ntsoane said the unchallenged evidence was that she was at all times aware of the policy. The company had led evidence that it had been applied consistently to all employees.

    "Indeed, everyone is entitled to use cannabis in their own space and for recreational purposes. Similarly everyone is entitled to consume alcohol in their own private space and time. This however does not mean that if an employee who consumed alcohol the previous night happens to test positive, the (company) would have to take cognisance of the fact that such alcohol was consumed in the employee’s private space and time.

    "It also does not matter that (Enever) was not impaired when she tested positive. She has to comply with the rules."

    He said in light of the dangerous environment, the company was entitled to its zero tolerance policy and the Constitutional Court judgment did not offer any protection to employees against disciplinary action should they breach company policies.

    He said Enever had argued that the company "should understand " that cannabis and alcohol were different in that alcohol could clear out of someone’s system quickly, while cannabis can stay for days or weeks.

    But, he said, she had been treated the same way as other employees and if she were treated differently "it would be seen to be creating a precedent" and would place an unfair burden on the company.

    On the issue of her medical condition, the judge said there had been no "persuasive evidence" of this, and prior to testing positive she had not volunteered this information to the company but only sought to raise this as a defence "after she was caught".

    "Even if I were to accept the medicinal argument, which I don’t, then why would I accept the recreational drug consumption when either or both will in any event lead to positive tests?"

    Regarding the sanction of dismissal, Judge Ntsoane said Enever had indicated that she would not stop using cannabis and the hearing chairperson had correctly found that a final written warning would serve no purpose.

    He dismissed her claims of discrimination and automatically unfair dismissal, but made no order as to costs.

     

    https://www.news24.com/fin24/companies/woman-fired-from-barloworld-for-using-dagga-was-not-unfair-discrimination-court-rules-20220628?dicbo=v2-59dea29d3c45c6f8221b1c30a1690ec8

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  9. On 5/24/2022 at 6:09 PM, Bay Seeds said:

    @TotemicI bet you're just going away for a bit while you breed something insanely strong.

     

    I wish it were the case. The reality is that over the last 3 years I've been scaling down my space bit by bit, and now don't have any indoor space... Not even to keep keeper clones. 

    It isn't possible for me to keep the quality standard necessary for market seeds without that indoor space. 

    Perhaps I'll find employment somewhere in the industry where I can apply my skills. Perhaps not... 

     

     

     

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  10. It's a bitter sweet ending, and standing at that cross roads having to decide which direction is going to best serve the next decade of my life... 
    Totemic was really never meant to become a brand, but kind of gravitated that way.

    It's always been about actively opposing those laws that would criminalize me for growing, breeding, and sharing that with the community. 

    My genetics is out there in practically every corner of the country, serving their purpose beautifully, and will echo in other strains they inspire. 

    It really has been an awesome journey, and while I move onto other things, I'll always be growing. 

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  11. My house is allowed to by law smell of cannabis, and in fact always does. That doesn't in my opinion give saps the right to enter. I would in reasonable circumstances also allow saps in to my house since according to me I'm within my rights, and I have nothing to hide... But saps isn't the idealistic police force we would imagine a police force to be as a child. It's rotting at the core for the most part. 

    Allowing them in it seems, gives them the scope to write the story of what's going on there on the fly as they find 'evidence' to support a narrative. That's speculation, and won't survive a trial without other evidence of an actual crime, which the article has failed to communicate. Where is the victim? What crime has happened? 

     

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  12. I suppose one needs to distinguish between breeders and seed banks. These further split into seed producers or selective breeders, and seedbanks that either stock genuine breeder stock or bulk white label Spanish gear. Plus so many nuances inbetween as the industry starts taking a solid form. 

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  13. Do you have 4 x 600w covering an entire 16m2?

    1 600w in my mind is good to veg upto 1.5m2, and for flower upto 1.2m2, but more ideally only 1m2

    You probably could get away with it for veg. 

    What height are those bulbs from the top of the plants? 

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  14. 3 minutes ago, Bay Seeds said:

    Im supposed to send stock tomorrow. Hope its still operating. He bought like 9k worth of autos from me a few monthes ago and never listed them. Hope everything is ok with cannabist.

     

    200 tiny plants. Aiming for this size lol really. Then reveg.

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    Well my whole summer drop is also with him... He never listed them, and summer is over. So it's like that drop never happened. No replies to me since end of January. I have seeds I need to send him, but is there a him to send them too? So I've just kept them in my vault. 

    Either way, head down and hard at work on my spring drop that I'll be dropping personally this time round. Got a lekker winter test season up with hopefully some nice winter fade for the photoshoots

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