Smelly Joe

I have read about that soil mix and been wanting to recreate it aswell, but as you so beautifully put it, its poes expensive yes. But once you create a living soil, I figured its set for a long time??? 

Your plants must be loving that mix. Sounda awesome and definitely got that microbe action going on there. 

My Lactobacillus Serum should be done in a week or 2. If my selection is made the serum should be done then I'll start introducing some microbes of my own as well... 

Will surely pop in to your thread. Its just crazy how time consuming the prep work is for the ladies... But its all worth it

I finished my soil mix and also added 2 new ingredients to my mix. Bloodmeal and Bonemeal

My soil mux consists of the following :

50/50 Coco - Perlite 

70/30 Coco - Perlite

Potting Soil

Compost

Bonemeal

Bloodmeal

Rock Phosphate 

Mycoroot upon transplanting 

I made the drainage holes bigger and added some more for better drainage with a 20mm paddle bit. Then I washed them and hung them out to dry

The Potting Soil was quite wet and clumpy so I whipped out some black plastic and layed it out and let it dry out a bit while I was busy mixing the soil

I also started up the airpump to get the water Declorinenated for when I'm done. I finished the mix, topped it of with a nice mulch layer of compost and watered in all down. Now its just waiting to see who sexes female and then transplant... 

So thats it for now, have a great evening and chat again soon... 

@Batista, thanx for that tip on the EWC top dress. I also gave them a feeding of Seagro and they are looking much better. Here is a few pics of the best looking ones...

1 hour ago, Batista said:

I would try top dress with worm castings and then water throughly. Been having some great success with my outdoor tortoni they also they loose alot of water in this wind, the soil looks a little dry.
 

The bottom of some of the pots still feels cold and wettish, but tomorrow I will give them all a topping of EWC. Its as if you knew I had some spare castings laying around. I also think I added to much Potting Soil to the mix and reason for heavy feel to the pots. Thanx for the feedback @Batista...

1 hour ago, Weskush said:

They look pretty good hey. The leaf cupping and slight drooping is heat related i think. The topsoil also looks a bit on the dry side like @Batista mentioned. Otherwise ayoba

@Weskush, The wind has been crazy past few days and the only good day was Sunday but thanx for the input. The top soil was loosened to get the soil to dry out quicker. But will water them tomorrow. 

On another note, I found a grow shop in Paarl called Green Houston. They are reasonably priced and stock Mycoroot and Blood Meal. If any of you are in the area, pop in. Their Mineral Feeding area is realy small because they are much more focused on organic growing... And on the plus side, they give free samples of Humid & Fulvic Acid with purchases. 

So I transplanted and things just dont seem cool. I planted more seeds as backup but I'm not sure about some of them. The other look better and it could be due to the cold nights and that hectic wind that's been blowing lately. But anyway, I'm heading out to get some ammendments for my soil mix. 

Update pic of the young ones. Soon they will go into bigger pots for sexing. Im pretty sure the Pineapple Chunk will give mostly female, I hope. Really hoping for Bruce Banner fems. Havent had a single female from the whole batch. 

Just for record, the Chocolate Gelato has their own thread due to them being testers for cannabist. So if you are interested in maybe getting that strain in the future, pop in there and check it out. 

Here is some info I have on those seedlings I do have ready for the season. These are my own personal description of what I experienced :

PINEAPPLE CHUNK :

Originally got Pineapple Chunk from Paradise Seeds and one pollinated due to a little stress, I guess. The result so far has been pretty good. The buds is hard, compact and trichome covered. After 2 weeks of curing it does smell like pineapple and after grinding it up as well. It gets me pretty goofed after 2 or 3 pipes and taste decent, smooth and citrussy... 

Blue Kush Berry:

Regular Seeds was purchased from Sannies Seeds more than 5 years ago.Might be 8.  Got a male and female and tried my hand at breeding. They were bred under cfl's and the plants was small due to stealth. The seeds were very small and about half the size of regular seeds. Cant remember the profile but stay tuned to find out. 

Girl Scout Cookies x Bruce Banner#3: 

GSC - BC Bud 

BB#3 - Dark Horse Genetics

Was given seeds by another forum friend/hobbiest grower/plant guru to test and holy shit, I was blown away. Frosty, hard and sticky Sativa dominant lady. Buds was easy to trim seeing that had a golfball type bud and the bud to leaf ratio was little. Easy to trim and a pleasure to smoke. 

Gets me through a day of pain. Takes away a lot of tension and gets me lekker stoned. A great night time smoke after a heavy and kak day... 

Bruce Banner #3 

Dark Horse Genetics

In hopes of getting a female from this one. Haven't grown it out yet but hoping to this year... 

Royal Banner:

Royal Gorilla - RQS

BB - Dark Horse Genetics 

One of my favorite strains to date. Smells sweet with deep aroma. Upon exhaling I get a pleasant cheese aftertaste. Even though all my strains get me high, this one just knocks me from the 1st inhale and when I keep the hash for last,..... Phew . 

Slurricane Cheese :

Was given as a present from a friend next door. Let try and see what happens 

1st time growing this one. Also not sure if its male or female

So that's it for now. Have a great Saturday and enjoy the rest of this weekend

Now thats what I want to hear. More Indica..... Mmmmmmm. 

Thanx for the replyand and info. As soon as they arw bigger then I will do more updates. 

So I was browsing the Internet last season, more or less end of season, and in the process startes browsing local seedbanks to see whats out there. So I noticed a "free seeds" section and of course I checked it out and saw Chocolate Gelato on test a testers needed base, i guess and did a fake checkout to see what I needed to buy to get this deal. I did not complete the checkout cause I just figured lets leave it cause I don't have cash now anyhow. 

Couple days later I received an envelope with feminized seeds, some rolling papers ans a sticker. All they asked was to do a test grow here. So here we go.... 

@Cannabist, @Totemic

I received 5 x seeds and planted 3 for this season. 2 popped and is alive. The 3rd one did not make it sue to human error. 

I'm not sure what the Sativa/Indica ratio is and the genetics either and I am hoping for Totemic for that answer and maybe a few tips.. 

They have been watered and fed with Humigro yesterday morning and they are responding well to it. Soon they should go to their bigger pots homes in the garden.. 

7 hours ago, itchylemon said:

Seems so! I had initially bought a different growing medium, but exchanged for FF after browsing through this forum 

That was a good choice. I used iy many times and got back great results. And with that bio range you can't go wrong... 

You seem to be on your way to happy growing. Freedom Farm soils is a great way to grow. 

I thought it was gonna be a shriveled up lost case but, nah bruh. You good

Holy Fuck, that Sugarcane looks crazy with all that trichomes. Wow. 

Hat off to the other ones. Especially that Twisted Helix... 

Ok thanx for that anyway. I will take a couple of samples and drop it in one grow hole and see what happens... 

So here they are. The competitors for the 2021 Outdoor Grow. 3 x still needs to pop up from the soil. Their soil layer has risen so they will be out within a day. 

Even on this rainy day they are kept warm and snug with a lovely 23C 

The Slurrican Cheese is also starting to grow into a beautiful little plant. "She" will be big if all goes to plan

I will also report back with the Lactobacillus Serum stage. Tomorrow is 7 days but hopefully i can start today... 

@GGG, thanks for the input. I think so aswell. I will take some of it and work it into my soil mix alongside Rock Phosphate... 

@PsyCLown, I hope you can help me or know somwone that can help or answer this question.

This is a piece of pine that i placed in my garden to hopefully create an environment where I can get some free mycillium. Is this the type of mycillium we want or is it different???. 

I should start mixing my soil mix a f few weeks so I just want to make sure... 

So far, so good. It seems as if the succes rate is better than expected. I see all 5 x Pineapple Chunks is alive. Both Chocolate Gelato's alao came up which means their journey will start on a separate thread soon.. There is life with Bruce Banners ans I am super surprised about the Blue Kush Berry that is alive. I bred them myself a long time ago. Grew some out once and they were quite a yield. 

17 out of the 22 seeds cracked and shot taproot. 3 x Bruce Banner 1 x GSC and 1 x BKB is still in the paper towel room. I will add 2 more Bruce Banner seeds to germinate if i dont see anything by Sunday. 

I finished digging the 40L holes for each plant.  Still need to get stakes to brace them for that heavy winds 

Thanx. Saw a recipe that looks stupid easy. Gonna try and fly

I want to test making choco puff edibles, but it seems so damn easy. I never tried making it before and seeing that I was blessed with a good harvest I really want to try it out. The misses dont like smoking but edibles she will do. 

So my question is:

Do i decard my weed 

Make cannanbutter

Add it to the recipe

Do the rest of making choco puffs

Eat and watch the misses drift into our world??? 

Im listening to the Tomorrowland set of Boris Brejcha.... 

@SAgrower, thanx for that tip, BUT I always go shopping with my card, because I don't like to carry cash on me. Sooooooo.......it might be a good or bad thing. 

I checked my seeds this morning and same as last year the Pineapple Chunk doesn't waste any time. 5 /5 popped within 24 hours after they sank. Not only are they in a hurry to grow, but the nugs on them is mindblowing. Big and toight... LoL. 

So i planted them into those plastic 6 pack pots you get from buying 6 pack Marigolds, which i cut out to make handling and labeling easier... I used a 50/50 Coco Perlite Seedling starter mix. I had left over from last season. @SAgrower, I only needed starter soil for 3 seeds. And I walked away with a 15L seedling starter bag

I labeled them and put them into the germination station to await there beautiful green smiles...

Thanks man. That info is really appreciated. I will pop in there over the weekend because yesterday was shopping and today is work. 

But thanx again for the help 

So I went shopping today. Rolled a beautiful and tasty GSC x BB joint, took the wife to work and missioned off to the best adult store in my opinion. The guys over at the Hydro store in Brackenfell was friendly and helpful as always. I grabbed 3 bags of the 50/50 Coco Perlite blend. I was looking for some Amino Acid and micorizza, but unfortunately they did not stock. I cant seem to find at the other stores as well, the ones in my vacinity that is.

After that I got back into the car, heades home but not after lighting the rest of that joint. I also stopped by the Nursery in my town and bought 5 bags of potting soil to mix mix the coco perlite mix. I will get some compost in anothet small town that has crushed egg shells in it. I used it last season and that extra calcium seemed to have helped. 

Before I left i dropped the seeds in water and by 19:00 all of them has sunk to the bottom. So I took them and placed them in their birthplace. So here goes season 2021!!! 

The Slurricane Cheese that I got from a grower is looking good with fattish leaves. I havent grown out this strain and have little knowledge about it except what I read. But then again, is it a true Slurricane Cheese or just a name and a unknown, maybe, could be that strain seed.??? I guess only time will tell. 

My next post should be with an update on the seeds. The Chocolate Gelato will also have her own thread seeing that it is a tester. I am only popping 2 this round cause i tried germinating one last season and I messed up. So the last 2 are the for back up...