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1 hour ago, Trichome said:
Thanks yeah that’s more or less what I figured! Main thing is I just don’t want too much N available in flower.
I read about growers transplanting into fresh soil the same as they used for veg and never reported issues but being a synthetic fert guy myself except for two organic soil grows usually I would avoid too much N in flower like the plague especially since this soil I’m guessing is designed fir a fairly lengthy veg time and then flowering with some amendments .Guess I don’t have much choice anyway as I don’t want to go the liquid fert route with this grow unless it’s to correct a deficiency! Appreciate the input!
You could thin the mix out with coco and perlite to reduce the high N initially, but chances are good that you'll conversly have to supplement P, K and possibly micros during flower depending on your soil formulation. It's up to you.
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Aweh fellow florists,
The ladies are putting on their show. Buds are swelling and stinking with goodness, despite the heavy rain and high rh.
Lost a few girls to the "taxman" mentioned in earlier posts, got a new problem with small spiral snails "ring debarking" some plants-tested some vinegar/soap mix to no effect, now dusting with cinnamon. Don't like spraying stuff in flower, hopefully they'll pull through.
Chopped some Bluecheese f1's this morning.
Pics of Charlottes, Gorilla Glue, Bluecheese.
Our climate on the north coast is unforgiving to say the least. Its like the weather wants to kill your plants.....4 days of thunderstorms and rain, high rh and the next day temps touching 50deg. A good test for any genetic abd the reason why you plant double and take extra clones, just in case.
Cheers.
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Depending on the age and stage of the plants in the 2lt bags. If in veg, transplant, give them 2 weeks, then go outdoor. Light hours on the north coast around 13hrs now. If you veg 16/8 or 14/10 technically they should flip to flower as soon as they go outside. I'd go minimum 20lt, the plants will use some of the available N during veg in the new bags, but plants need N throughout, just in different amounts.
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Aweh gromies,
Outdoor flowering time is upon us, our ladies are stretching nicely. They got thinned out around the bottoms and topdressed with mature compost-dropping soil levels. Added powdered eggshell and watered in with AACT last week. Keeping a close eye IPM wise as our RH is high as usual. No serious issues so far.
Allready harvested some early bloomers
F1 Bluecheese (180gr jarred and curing)
Strawberry Vostoks (60gr)
Pics.
1-5. F1 Bluecheese, Charlottes Angels.
6. Fruitpunch, Vanilla Kush.
7. Gorilla Glue.
Cheers
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On 1/9/2024 at 4:33 PM, madgiant said:
Edit 2: Airflow and ventilation is on it's way, for now I ordered 3 100m inline fans that were on sale, they aren't very strong but I think they should help a little bit...
Any greenhouse growers willing to chip in in regards fo humidity control in a small greenhouse
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Aweh @madgiant
We bought a 6x3m tunnel from takealot, similar materials with poly cover. The windows were also low and didn't really help with ventilation/airflow, had to leave the front and back open. Our northcoast summer weather is something else, even with pedestal fans the plants suffered 35-45deg 60-95rh. These conditions also favoured spidermites a little too much, which was pita to manage. Eventually removed the poly cover and recovered with 40% white shadenet 2jrs ago and having much better results.
Every grower has different conditions depending on their location, best is to try an idea and adapt from there.
Good luck.
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Welcome. Some nice trees and frosty flowers.
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Those are some really noice frosty buds.
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Aweh fellow florists,
Compliments of the season.
Summer is off with a bang, ladies are are happy...just have to keep them that way in this heat. Even got some early flower action going....
First round of clones are vegging, 2nd batch acclimating. Topdressed the big girls again last week as they start switching to flower- dropping soil levels.(Compost, coffee grounds, powdered eggshell, wormcast and woodash) Followed with AACT.
This week, mulched thick with grass clippings and watered light (summer storm incoming) so the worms can stay cool/hydrated to continue doing their thing.
Got a few strains going- f1Bluecheese, Gorilla Glue, Fruitpunch, Charlotte's Angel, Strawberry Vostok, Vanilla Kush.
Happy Growing.
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5 hours ago, DesignatedDave said:
Yup, it's completely organic and they even make mention that you need lots of microbes in order to break it down.
Thats key with organics as the microbes do most of the work.
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We grow organic outdoors, I use a lot of different amendments in my soils, which are basically built from scratch. The wormfarms were a game changer, castings for the soilbuilding and topdressing as well as wormtea.
Liquid nutes I prefer Biobizz, with Seagrow and molasses for AACT.
Also use numerous liquid extracts and FPJ's during veg and flower.
So far, so good.
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Aweh fellow florists
Summer is upon us and the growing season is afoot. Hope everyones' got their soils cooking. We've been experiencing a bit of everything, our garden is an example of opposites.
Chopped a few ladies really late, at the "wrong time" of the year.(Not supposed to be havesting in Oct) Flowers looked good.
One big sativa lady busy revegging, topped her twice during veg to push her into flower early, but she wasn't having any of it.
The f1 Bluecheese phenohunt girls doing well in 60lt tubs. Hoping for a decent "cheese" and/or "blueberry" pheno. Backed up some clones, rooted in 14days. Will be planting out into 20lt growbags.
Next round of seedlings in 9lt bags for sexing. Sifted 240lt compost and latest 200lt batch of diy "supersoil" is nearing completion for the grow bags.
So we're off to a bang this season.
Cheers
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On 10/19/2023 at 1:14 PM, Bay Seeds said:
@CannabistHi again, how would you deal with a website that takes thousands of rands in stock and then just doesn't respond to calls ,emails or messages after months or having your stock? Would you assume that website stole your seeds?
Did some good business with them when they started out. But that relationship went south recently, bigtime. Will never use them again.
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Enjoy your grows.
Those flowers look Plump and Frosty.❄
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Peoples' perceptions....
As a home grower you are on the journey down the rabbithole and will learn to know better.
There are better "guys" out there that produce decent stuff and then you get the rest. Genetics as mentioned will play a big role as it usually does.
The "throatcut" or burn from improperly/badly cured cannabis is usually mistaken for "potency". Many blackmarket guys don't have time to fiddle with curing, burping etc... the dry it fast to get the product to market asap.
Teary eyes and hectic coughing equals "good stuff" .....or is it the mould growth from improper storage etc.
Once you've grown decent genetics and properly processed your own cannabis, its difficult to go back to streetweed.
Ignorance is not always bliss.
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Can see spidermite damage on the leaves.
The discolourizatiin could be something related to them.
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Aweh bro.
Sounds like the beginning of a good thing you got going there. Slow and steady, you may enjoy the journey.
Which way the wind is blowing?
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Aweh fellow greenfingers,
Our winter outdoor grow is showing some Irie winter bud with some beautifull shades of colour.
Yields might not be as impressive as summer, but the delicate winter flavours make up for it. The reduced vegetarian pest load is an added bonus, unfortunately the taxman(budrot) still has to be paid no matter the season.
Keep growing....
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We prefer to wet trim due to coastal humidity and then hang untill the "twig snap" stage. Sometimes a fan is used for indirect air movement on muggy/rainy days. Then they go to the jars, leave some headspace - fill to 70%. Monitor your jars RH, don't like exceesing 70%-still too wet, dry some more. Keep an eye out for possible mold growth. If it stays in the low 60's, you should be good. Burp your jars once or twice a day, note the jars' scent as time goes by, it'll go from fresh/grassy to stinky/sweaty and eventually you'll notice fragrant terpenes start developing.
As a rule we jars cure for minimum 30days before we test, some strains can go up to 90days before the good smooth flavours develop.
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I'd be keen take part.
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Unintended consequences
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Didn't actually plan for them to get this big. Mother nature doing her thing...