Batista

Interesting debate.
I personally don't flush now, but I used to when I first started growing because that's what every site says.

My experience with flushing is that you essentially telling the plant to finish regardless of what stage it's at.
This all depends on your setup also, so my issue is that I had exposed plants growing outside, and I learnt from previous years budrot and mielie worm f ups you want your plants to finish before the heavy rains and those caterpillars, but anyways back to the subject.

My new no flush made more sense once I started dialing everything in and using synthetic nutes.
I now feed up to 1500 ppm or slightly more/ less if the plant can handle it, and then do slight taper down to 800 ppm when I harvest.
I use this method for plants in dwc and in coco and found my yield to be better and plants to have more flavor when I keep feeding but slightly taper until harvest.
A large part also depends on the plant genetics, so you need to find something that is adjustable for your gene pool and growing method I guess.
The reason for the taper is that you don't want to starve or limit the plant in any way, without taper you get darkish emerald green leaves at harvest which is surely going to lead to a harsher smoke.

As for the cure, I just dry over 5-7 days and throw it into those black sealable curing bags that self burp.

My weed is delicious, burns pure white ash and I have taken samples off a plant before a traditional flush and samples from the same plant afterwards, dried them the same, cured them in 2 separate bags and I couldn't tell the difference, so that is my experience.

No flush seems like a recent thing and I have embraced it,hell, if I can cut out 3 more steps from growing my own cannabis than I will do it, getting old now!



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thx, but as per my original post, i have tried every possible combo of moisture, mediums, nutrients and rooting hormones with the same result each time.

everywhere ppl are rooting their cuttings by at the max 7 days. If I can do that my clones will be rooted and wont be there to rot by day 10-14 anymore. and since i NEVER had a root on any cutting in less than 3-4 weeks, I am thinking that might be the main problem. if they get roots sooner the rot might not happen.

What is the mom plant growing in medium wise? Are you only watering with plain water?

I would swop out the jiffys for rinsed and buffed coco. Mix up a batch of 0.4 ec nutrient solution and use some cloning gel on those clones too if you are not already doing so.

The jiffys hold too much moisture. You can also add 10% perlite to your coco, this ensures it won't over saturate.

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That bent stem is probably a snail. Use beer traps.

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If you want to make use of the current grow season to grow 6-8 trees and have some awesome dank, I suggest you get photoperiod clones and grow those out, while practicing germination with bagseeds so as not to worry about wasting cash, and also having a somewhat good harvest at the Apr/May 2022 mark.

I would personally say it's too late to germinate seeds but I am talking about photoperiods and not autos going outside for the season. I don't really have experience with autos so can't really talk about them.

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Are you using a dome to keep covered?
How are you maintaining the perfect moisture levels in those jiffys?

I use a bucket with an airstone, holes in the lid, with neoprene collars. I mist once a day with 3g/l MKP spray, and use no dome or covering under an 18/6 Low light schedule. It takes longer yes but it's its a system that works for me.

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Watched it, not as great as the Moroccan or India one. Even in those older episodes the growers were actually growing GHS seeds and there were no landraces to be found, so even back then growers knew that growing landraces couldn't compare to the hybrids bred in labs/ basements.

I miss Franco in the episodes, that guy was really passionate about cannabis, and I don't feel the new teams love for the plant. These are businessmen and it's pretty evident going by the amount of brands that GH seeds now has, (including GH medical at the end of credits) that they are pushing to get their brand out there and be number 1.

End of the day, these episodes only serve to promote their existing seedbank and rightly so, it's a business, I just don't like how they sprinkle medical terms around. Are they focused on medical strains now or just here to cash in on our decriminalization?

Any link to the debates going around?

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Looking fantastic man.

I had to cut my latest grow short because I flowered out my moms that got a bit too tall, and they all buckled down lol

I also added silicone so wondering whether that made the stems more plyable.



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Ah fek, and I just rolled a slurricane j, made my coffee, watered my plants hehe

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ok so, after little investigation, so far nowhere in horticulture does the term or abbreviation FIM get used other than amongst modern cannabis growers. 
 
I understand it might be a new thing, but it really should get a more appropriate name than "fuck I missed" cause that just sounds like some 14 year old kid growing his first ditch weed and trying to sound cool...

No, that's a little more involved. I just tied the branches down a lot and defoliated a bunch. I like to try keep it simple.

Week 5 update. It's growing lol
I think the late defoliation hurt my harvest, there is a distinct period in week 3-4 whereby the plant pushes flowers out and I probably took too much leaves off in an attempt to control mold, which is under control for now,just

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10 minutes ago, PsyCLown said:

Spray, leaves residue on the leaves.

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Shot, so something like this -  Im guessing only in veg stage?

https://www.greenhouston.co.za/products/kumulus-wg-fungicide

I have a fan on the far right, I have a big 8 inch extraction fan running, I also have an aircon. and tons of fresh air coming in from passive in flow and the plants are trimmed now.

Cool,but on the flipside there are some plants that are super resistant -  Im always having issues, will have to invest in new extraction and circulation fans - plus im close to the sea, wonder if that also contributes.

Anyways I have finally found a strain that doesnt get mold,so I will prob just run that inside until I can find another strain.Strain is Critical mass cheese, but I noticed that cheese in general doesnt get mold even when my other plants show.

I have 3 x 1.2m mom plants in a 80cm tent, the cheese refuses to grow mold and the other 2 have spots of mold.

Dig a small hole for a plastic cup, wipe the inside with oil, then fill halfway with beer, bury the cup in the hole so that its sticking out 5cm from the earth.They will climb in, get drunk and drown lol

Wouldn't his environment play a bigger role with a tent packed this full ? I'm sure even with a decent IPM schedule, if the temps/humidity are right for mold it's going to happen ?

Glyphogan will do the job

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Is this strain mold resistant or what is your regimen because it looks packed.Looking like it's gonna be a bumper crop!

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Looking set for something special man, are they still in 10l pots? Would love to purchase seeds when available.

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I was lucky enough to smoke it back then and would gladly pay for a cut, but seems it rare. I agree on the OG kush lineage.

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I’m surprised it doesn’t check its schedule before deciding what to do next….

You can specify the Power on state of the Sonoff, however I don’t know if it will help with lights in terms of timing.
I have a few Sonoffs deployed here and there, on my dehumidifier it is set to “on” state.

My light are also on one, set to return to “off” when power is restored. (But they stay on, here is why) The Sonoff runs a 100w grow light which is powered via an inverter while the other lights in the tent are on mains. So when load shedding hits, at least there is a decent light to carry on while the power is out. Same inverter runs extraction and circulation fans.

So thanks to Eskom the girls are experiencing regular blackouts. This leads to two main problems:

1. Interruptions in lights on cycle being broken due to Eskom.

2.No circulation and extractor fan to combat my mold issues.

3.Sonoff wireless wifi switch not returning to correct previous on off state. Eg if your light cycle is 9pm on 9am off and your power goes out before 9am say 8-10h30 guess what, your light will switch back on at 10h30 because that was its previous state.

As a software dev with over 2 decades exp this only makes me slightly angry lol

Solutions.
1. Cost a backup system for 1 light, 2 circulation fans, no extractor.

2. Use MPK at 3g /l to combat mold and AQSF and weekly leaf stripping.

3. I'm going to just use a old timer and leave the damn light on 24 hours.

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3 week flowering update.

Tortoni growth is slower than the slurricane and banana. I sampled my outdoor tortoni and it's actually stronger then my slurricane! Super stoked about that.

New nursery area added, bye bye fish.

Sorry about lack of pic of tortoni, she is right at the back.

Happy with my new light.

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