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    This early PM?

    Pm can be quite selective, depending on many factors. No point having airflow but the plants are dense and bushy, they need to be thinned out/defoliated proactively. Don't water from the top if you can help it, especially during flower. Being pro active with your IPM also helps a lot. I know from previous experience what issues are most likely to occur in my grow, so I prepped for those. (Worms, spidermite, aphids, PM) Sometimes PM infects less resistant strains or weak individual plants. We've got outdoor plants next to each other, the Future 1 has no PM, but the Blueberry right next to it had those same PM spots. I had Coppersoap on hand and sorted that out quick as they wern't in flower yet. In flower I'd go 50% mix full cream milk and water or as was mentioned sulphur spray or pot.bicarb depending on your situation.
  2. Aweh fellow florists, The outdoor flowering window is upon us, our ladies are looking awesome. Whole plant pic followed by flower. 1/2/3/4/5/6/11/12.Fruitpunch f5 7/8. Fruitpunch f2 9/10. Lemon Fire f1 Very happy to be able to run multiple plants that were bred by my own hand. The internodal spacing on the f5's are much more compact than the f2's. Possibly a bit more Swazi sativa stretch vs the Mango Kush compactness going hand in hand with the balance between fruity mango sweetness and Swazi citrus tang. Very interesting for me to see the different traits coming through in the different generations. IPM will have to on point with the compact girls, don't want to pay any more taxes than we have to. Leaf discolouration due to hectic UV experienced in our area. Plants looking amazing in comparison to the lawn, which is still trying to recover. Topdressed with some EWC and more organic material, girls got a AACT watering and a Comfrey FPJ. Next round will be another AACT and a Comfrey/Parsley/Banana FPJ. Cheers
  3. It depends on the effect you require, it is quite subjective. We do all of them. Clear to cloudy for gaming and social-energetic effect. Cloudy for movies and chilling around the braai- relaxing effect. Cloudy/Amber for sore muscles and a good sleep- couchlock You can tailor the effect depending on what you require. You could harvest the plant in stages a week or two apart to get multiple effects from the same plant.
  4. The actual "grass" doesn't even want to grow properly in that spot... many feet have compacted the soil around the braai Kudo's to that lil' lady for soldiering on. Does she recieve any nutes at all? Or you going 'au-natural'?
  5. Couple of lekker big outdoor girls you have there, they look healthy and strong. They gonna reward you handsomely with some fris flowers.
  6. Aweh fellow florists, Removed the anti-cyclone netting so the Fruitpunch girls can breathe better, they are a bit bushy. Did a EWC topdress to give the girls a bit of a boost and watered the goodstuff in. Thinking I may need to do some more defoliatiin on the lower regions...
  7. Some solid flowers you got there. Good grow.
  8. Ladies are doing well, all healthy and strong. Was hoping they would'nt get too tall, have to leave space for preflower stretch. Think they going to touch 2.0m. Had a couple of rough days with the weather, even tried prepping for that flippen cyclone-hence the net. After the rains last week, the sunshine was a female dog- hectic UV that even bleached some leaves. IPM wise, they got a biogrow insecticide spray around the bottom and middle and a Margaret roberts for worms around the tops seeing as theyre allready in preflower. Last week, topdressed with some more organic material and capped off with dry straw/grass clippings and finally watered in some tricoderma(fusarium control) Yesterday they got a maintenance dose of calmag as some plants were just starting to show a cal def. Here's to happy flowers.
  9. Eishh... RH on the north coast is between 80-100%, especially with all the rain. Aircon can only reduce RH to 65%. Wet trim as always.
  10. Many moons ago...did the UK working holiday thing with my two brothers, we've always been best mates. Got introduced to hashish, had it every which way you could imagine, from straight joints to hot knives to japanese fontains and then this crazy aussie oke produces this frozen carved rock pipe from the deepfreeze. Later found out its called a chillum. Better be right with your stuff if you want puff on that thing. We traveled and worjed all over. Harvested hops in Canterbury, met up with some awesome ppl from canada, aus, poland and rsa, we were a lekker group. Did a lot of funky stuff together. Ever seen 8 peeps hotboxing a two man tent.... 20years later we still laugh at that one. Most brilliant time spent with awesome individuals. Remember parking on the hill in Edinburgh waiting for Elton John to open at the Edinburgh castle. We munched some bread with cheese and drank wine for dinner, after there was a friss cone going round before we went in. Music was beyond anything.... It was an epic, crazy ass time with some of my best memories.
  11. Must say we were quite critical on the strains that were prepared for our meander, for the exact reason you mentioned. Rather avoid the heavy indica's in this situation, sativa was our choice toke. Mr Dank's Vanilla Kush made for a very memorable experience.
  12. Walking/hiking in the Dlinza forest. The aerial boardwalk and lookout is something to experience. The trails have park benches every few 100m's for the unfit folk. We would just sit and enjoy the peace while having a puff. It was brilliant.
  13. The colours on the Beach Wedding....
  14. Chop him up and gooi him in the compost Then you can get your nutes back by feeding him to the replacement.
  15. You'd need to find out from the batt manufacturer what the specs are on safe discharge limits. 516w÷48v=10.75amps In a perfect world, hypothetically. 200amp/hr÷10.75amps=18.6hr There are losses in these systems so it will not work this perfectly. Resistance and heat loss in the batteries,inverter and cables hence the need for extra capacity. FYI.....With all due respect to ANY diy grower looking at this type of setup/idea.....Please dont mess with DC power unless you know EXACTLY what you are doing. Otherwise get a qualified installer. DC can and will kill you.
  16. Based on a hypothetical grow using 516watts per hour. Battery 100amp/hr available capacity. 516w÷48V = 10.75amps 100amp/hr ÷ 10.75amp= 9.3hr run time If you run the fans during lights off you need to factor that in. On 18/6 schedule you would need minimum 2x batteries and then still it will be touch and go reliability wise. But you need to build surplus into the system otherwise you cant upgrade or add anything to the grow as you'll affect the battery capacity. You'll need 3 or 4 batteries based on this example.
  17. The inverter and panels seem up to the job, but the battery capacity is a bit small. Lithium batteries are usually able to discharge to a lower SOC(state of charge) this is specific to the battery and you'll have to check with manufacturer. That setup can only be run for 2hrs, if you require 18hrs.. you'll need 8x more batteries. Then you'll have to check if your solar panel is able to put back what you take out. Solar panel efficiency is another lot of black magic.... direct sunlight at 90deg angle is most effecient, but the sun moves and panels don't, so not 100% efficient most of the time. Any cloudy or rainy weather and the system won't recharge as fast as needed. If you have no "reserve" built in (extra batteries and panels-above and beyond the 9xbatteries and 2.2kwh panel) on the first cloudy day you will run into problems.
  18. @Furbrain Depending if its a 12v or 24v setup. Battery capacities are a bit of an enigma, but usually you can only use 50% of your battery capacity. Obviously different types have slightly different specs. You can discharge your batteries to a lower state of charge eg:30% but you can also easily damage them. This is a rough calculation, so feel free to add your 2c. 1.Add up all your power consumers watts W. 2.Devide the total watts by the voltage of your battery. 3.That gives you the Amp draw on the system per hour. W÷Volt= Amps 4. Devide 50% of your batteries' rated Ah by the Amps and the answer will tell you how long your system will run. (General rule of thumb, only discharge battery to 50% for safety) 200ah 12v battery with a 516watt setup. 516w/12v=43amp/hr 200ah/2=100amp/hr (use 50% for safety) You have 100amp/hr capacity divided by a draw of 43amp/hr from the equipment. 100/43= 2.3hrs that the setup can run.
  19. Aweh gromies, Did a bit of cleaning up again Fruitpunch ladies are vegging like machines, general defoliation and opening up the insides for ventilation.
  20. FYI.. If you are worried about minor skuffs and wounds on your plants, Efecto steriseal is a good product and has a antifungal additive. Good for sealing most minor injuries.
  21. Fusarium occurs naturally in soil ( where all is in equilibrium, its kept under control naturally ) as it is part of the rhizosphere flora, but under certain circumstances it can become a serious problem. There seem to be some links between high Nitrogen ferts, overwatering and heatstress. Only a few suggested soil treatment methods exist, like solarization, peroxide sprays, fumigation and fungal treatments, all with varying degrees of efficacy and practicallity. Mostly its suggested to discard the soil (for potted grows) as the fungus can remain dormant in your soil for years, the success rates of the different treatment methods are debatable. To be safe, DO NOT compost any infected plant material or soil that hasn't been treated. There is a LOT of literature on the web, as its a serious issue in commercial farming around the world. Culled and burnt many trees last year, it was a sad situation. After a lot of research and consultation with other local growers, trichoderma was suggested as it consumes other fungus. My applications have been done to my soil and growbeds and so far only have one potted plant that seems to show symptoms. Will burn it tomorrow. Strongs.
  22. That is Fusarium sp. or Fusarium wilt. Soilbourne pathogenic fungus, enters the plant mostly via the roots, blocks the xylem channels and symtoms usually appear during flower. Do some googling, its a bad one to have and can spread easily. Cut and burn all affected plants, they will not recover. Been there done this. Soil can be treated with trichoderma beneficial fungus preparations. Ecobuzz rootpro seems to have worked for me.
  23. These ladies got their veg on nicely. Could probably hear them growing...haha. Cleaned up under the skirts and removed the bottom 2 nodes.(got some big clones) Topdressed with Guano pellets and a sprinkling of bonemeal. Noticed some preflower action happening here and there, so the game is afoot. Need to do a follow up biogrow inseticide spray, but the weather looks like rain. Luckily haven't had any serious pest issues yet, but ipm is ipm.
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