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Well - with Dube-Ncube , it is not going to be easy. lol I am all for a CDC in SA Problem is you hef to be blek to get anything from this local zulu gubment. IF they do not get their cut, you haf no bisiness doing bisiness Look after yoself first. Be safe and be insignificant. Then get a club or co-op going. Here where I live, da council voted to build a Maize milling plant and 'ordered' one. They have yet to produce a bag of mazampan with their 3 yr old plant. They have now asked da boere to donate maize. WTF!?! A small co-op amongst growers will do it. I am setting up as an extractor contractor. Washplant bought to batch wet green.

@PsyCLown that has been generally the rule for me two - hahahaha

Sativa is all I know. Been in the woods 4eva, but bought some seed and trying this northern culture this year. Lotsa trouble for less effect - has to be a reason folks break ass over indica lol

Hahaha @Smelly Joe - again you make me larf (again) You are so right. I am here to learn, and MAN - it can get confusing. Just stick to basics For me - do not buy feminised seedz if your green at the gills - they don't like outside grows much. Save your cash and buy DP! We need a South African mainstay landrace!

It's human nature. Try stop me from doing something I really want to do? Ya right. Then lie to me about what I dearly love and know, because I practice my passion and like and see positive results. Time for class action suits are coming. Should we not be discussing how really these laws should be written? How we get them established and accepted by all? Maybe they saw the results of continued denial, and the people got a reprieve to grow a few at home. The science is on our side. Tic Toc.

Those blasting tubes are great, also not to difficult to make one. A vac pump is a soft material vane pump in an oil bath. Fridge pumps have pistons that also pump inside a chamber filled with lube oil, but not quite as effective as the Vacpump design. Guess one could rig the fridge pump to work air, but don't a sufficient vacuum will be available. Bought a chamber and a pump (I think I did supply my source previously) but it is expensive. Like 5 to 7K Problem was keeping a moderate temperature (<40C) on the purge cycle (2-24hrs.) Heating mats are the solution, but again expensive. (Got my built in heating coil chamber yesterday, and it costs.) You can cycle the purge if you have a pump and chamber, with short manual reheats and repurges. (I found my quantities and issue, hence the choice to upscale.) If you were close, would gladly purge for you Time is an option also - leave the extract in thin film and store it for a few days to self purge, but it is imprecise and taste remains the issue. Those hand pumps work ok, @highchome but small volumes only.

Been doing extraction with bho for ages - I can't smoke... cost effective butane is the way to get ahead if volumes are bigger - or get a contract extractor to help - I am investigating doing just that (ie becoming a contract extractor)

@Nimzowitsch Sorry to have made comments on your thread - we are noobs here and learn as we go. Good luck with the new planting of seeds - now is the time to plant for out door results. I personally decided to add new genetics to my landrace pool, as I grow for medicinal puroposes. So the males inherited from the buy I did were welcome.

Ya - talk is cheap - unfortunately ignorance is also bliss - when they do not have alternatives

I concur with your view @PsyCLown Autoflower is a new game to me. Blessed are the ignorant, till we learn. Thank you, and thanks to Venessa for putting this on the table... Nature of things

Ya - we can all baste in the glory of being innocent. We can all gloat over the damning evidence of poor systems to control quality. Maybe even join another pissing party that celebrates the identification of the culprit. One could at least acknowledge that as "facilitators", the ice has been broken by Canapax (as some here have). An attempt has been made on the "Structure" that has been a hedonis controlling ignorant and fascist system of control by 'the Establishment'. Is so freakin easy to bitch. But patience is called for to have a new system established. Some ou's got impatient. I do tip my cap to them, at least. Pushing the system takes balls. Let us be encouraged that the system has been given notice - "Get your friggin Act together and give us the field of play!" All the waiting is letting the beer get warm.

This is breaking news and hot off the presses.... VAPI - Vapor Induced Pulmonary Injury - the mystery that was killing vapers in USA, cause been found. Tocopheryl-acetate, also known as vitamin E oil https://www.leafly.com/news/health/toxic-vaping-vapi-evali-lung-injury-rise-and-fall-of-vitamin-e-oil-honey-cut

Hahaha you should plant outside then. I plant in the missus's best flower gardens. She always complains the garden clubbers will moan about the canna, but all they do is oohaahh, or pull a high brow.

Same happened with my first experience with buying seedz? Had like a 70% mail turnout and then 60 % of the females were all flowering After node 5? I am growing in an out door nursery with 30% shade cloth. I woz real disapointed but put it down to too many cloudy days here in kzn, where I dropped pips middle October. Like a freak out of an experience with the value invested, but it IS my first venture away from landrace.

Lol - its the next best thing @Mambawana - we have a private club we can do some serious local support in on the board. I will send you an invite. Also new here (last few months...) and learning all this new data to up my own genetics and efforts of growing. Seems we two have a similar passion, as I would really like to steam up some old strains that made Durban famous in the world. I grow my own sort of "landrace" strain here for the last 15 years now, but I am convinced that the genetics can be improved. Long story.... Them little spider mites also have a remedy. I am glad to be free of them here for now. Practice best hygiene when I can. Outdoors is more forgiving I guess.

Welcome NotACop, lots to learn here and we keen to know your experiences also. You try some honey oil for that discomfort yet?

Welcome to 420saland dude. Sounds like you can teach some of us noobz here a few things. I am an old outside organic grower and will look forward seeing you over at the kzbclub also.

Has anyone tested the facility offered by Fields of Green as a shop test route?

That is an astute effort - well done!

Today - everybody is thinking about the runoff source!! Dis darem moerse warm sonder reën!

What a beauty Dank - well done

Dag Sê mense - I am grateful for the membership here. It is a new experience to have all this detail and experiential knowledge available to learn from Thanks! I am involved to learn and see what can be managed from my spot in the berg. Bought seed for the first time in my life this year - so growing some ladies that are completely new to me - already the experience is makin my hair curl! I have a goodish landrace line I have been doing ok out of, but the new breeds are mind boggling.

Welcome home brother. Don't mind the circus here - the complainers are usually those who do not know how to work for a comfortable life style! You are welcome to share a cold one on my veranda anytime! All I can say - you musta have had brass nuts to last 12 years Respect.

This is a little golden nugget on the board!