Bos

Congrats on a working soil mix, those buds look delicious.

Takes time, effort and knowledge to build a good living soil, but the rewards at the end of the day make it worthwhile.

You got a Proverbial Forest going there....

Congrats guys.

Should be an f1.

1 hour ago, Bay Seeds said:

I would buy any seeds from this mother if she got pollinated. Thats a beauty.

This is a Pineapple Express that was accidently pollinated by a Purple Haze male in an indoor setup. It was pure chance that she ended up with me. Planning to run the f1's this winter.

Aweh 

The time is upon us.

The flowers are doing lekker.

1-2.Purple Stilton fading nicely. Colours are good, 2 days to the chop. 

3-4. Fruitpunch f4, she's bulked up well fade kicking in, looks like autum in the forest. 

5. Another Fruitpunch, the more sativa'ish pheno, still has a ways to go. 

6. One of the Bubblegum twins. Strain is slow to flower and develop, but they were worth the wait last round.

7. Purple Pineapple cut that is slowly getting good.

1 hour ago, Keegan said:

Oh I also have two worm farms, is it recommended to use the tea that they produce on Cannabis trees? I wasn't sure on its NPK ratio and when it should be used.

Worm tea can definately be used on cannabis. The NPK ratio will depend on what the worms are fed, so will vary greatly. As per the interweb the general NPK seems to be 1-0-0, its true value is as micro innoculant.

I normally use my tea as a general plant tonic and microbial innoculant at 50/50 dilution with water. It contains many macro/micro nutrients, humic and vulvic acids-all round its great for your plants.

Fert wise, Biobizz range is good-Grow, Bloom and Fishmix.

Seagrow and Ecobuz multigrow also good and available from Builders and most nurseries. 

Aweh, from the photo those white marks look like thrip damage to me. There is also some sign of leaf borer but they are ok in small numbers.

What have you got for pest management?

Pyrol or neem will work for the thrips.

I'd chop it. If you have any other plants in flower, you risk pollinating them and any other female plants around you. Even the seeds would be useless as they'll carry the hermie trait.

1st pic. You can see pistils and male pollen sac's which would identify the plant as a hermaphrodite.

2nd pic is too blurry.

Pls post more pics, but clearer.

If it is a hermie, it would be best to chop it.

Kudo's for getting back up man.

You learn a lot about yourself when shit happens.

Welcome back.

15 minutes ago, John Stonedwell said:

Hi @Bos

I initially started with the wet trim but we live in Gauteng and tend to struggle with relatively low RH during summer and winter. So in order to prolong the drying period I moved over to a dry trim.

One of the draw downs with wet trim is the excessive amount of resin sticking to the scissor when compared to dry trim. But to be honest I would love to try the bud misting wet trim once though.

I also find that the dry trim allows for better curing while drying as there is more plant matter to systematically release moisture till you reach the perfect moisture content. 

And once you are in the groove of removing dried sugar leaves trimming turns out quite easy.

Hoping this batch will do me justice but only time will tell...

Ok, yeah understand your point. We are in opposite worlds hahaha.

We have high RH here by the coast, takes 7 days easy....drying wet trimmed bud with 40w server fan for indirect ventilation.

Like to trim and hang the whole tree, helps to dry the buds gradually all the way through.

Baby Blue Cheese clones.

Pushing new leaves showing positive growth.

On 1/15/2021 at 3:52 AM, MrE said:

Some solid flowers you have there, looks almost top heavy.

Looking very yummy. Any reason you prefer to dry trim?

Tried it before and it was a pita. Prefer to wet trim and we also mist the buds with water before to prevent scissor hashing.

Eishh....You need to be real carefull when buying online as indicated in above posts by @Bay Seeds Many of these so called growlights advertised wattages are terribly overstated on the websites, especially the chinese cheapy lights. 

Another question...Is 45w enough? Wouldnt you need more watts/light/ppfd for 8 plants? 

My cloning dome smd strips are 45w. The vegging clones are using 200w (1×100w led flood and 2x50w blurples ) and I dont believe it will be enough to veg them all the way.

Aweh @EvenSteven

No not as far as I've seen, must be a trick of the light as I took the pics early in the morning, colour seems a bit off.

3rd pic is a Purple Stilton, they do discolour but I doubt our Northcoast temps are low enough for that currently.

4th pic is one of my Fruitpunch f4 girls, this line hasnt shown any purpling yet. So its not expected.

5th pic is a (Purple) Pineapple Express (Pineapple Express x Purple Haze), last years girls did go very dark with the cold snaps. Hopefully they do the same this year as I'm phenohunting this cross. It would be the cherry on top so to speak.

Last years P.P.E.

Some nice colas there bruh, what you feeding to fatten them up?

Aweh 

Flower time is upon us.

Good things to come.

With the girls in flower in the greenhouse, I run the oscillating fan 24/7 on the low setting.

 Just be carefull that the wind doesnt damage the plants.

More indirect ventilation than blasting straight onto the plants.

Welcome. Enjoy the forum.

Looking good. That is our type of jungle. 

Reminds me of a GnR song....

Evening gentlemen.

I'll put the cards on the table, here's the background... the clones originated from an indoor mother, the grower is also the owner of one of the local 420 headshops with whom we have a very good relationship as they stock some of the best outdoor and indoor gear locally available.

Yes we got the clones late and yes the clones were very small, but I do enjoy a good challenge. How else to test your knowledge and skill as a grower?

As an outdoor, organic grower I want to try and produce bud, comparable to their indoor version wrt to smoothness, potency and flavour. 

@CreX@TheUltimateNoob  Clones will veg in the tent, repot from the 250ml solo cups to 9lt plastic nursery bags and veg further under the lights to try and get them to 'decent..ishh' flowering size, transplant to final 25lt bags, then move them outside to flower. If we run out of space we will veg outside by extending daylight hours. There will be some costs involved with the lights and the plan might change depending on how the plants progress.

It's a challenge and of course I'm going to try and smack it out the park. 

On 2/19/2021 at 11:33 AM, Fridge said:

Just because she's developing so nicely, I feel I need to share another picture of the lady. She really starts to smell strong now.

Edit: I also feel, I need to support local upcoming businesses. This plant has been grown in "joumasesoil" soil. Check it out on instagram. I believe they'll start selling their soil soon.

Nice sativaishhh.... girl. Hopefully she undresses herself during the fade later on....