highchome

@Stinger96 interesting thanks. Fortunately I was able to harvest before there was any damage. I did a quick wash of the buds and will now burn the remaining mites

If it happens again I'll consider that though, thanks

On 1/24/2020 at 7:39 AM, Oolong83 said:

@highchome wouldn't the high humidity fuck with bud quality? Not gonna be so dense. 

Let me know if it works and you get rid of them. Im struggling like a bitch to get rid of mine. 

And the kak part is, my flowering section is never empty. I rotate my plants, so if 2-4 come out, then 2-4 goes in from vegging. I can hold 8-10 plants in my flower section, so there’s that dilemma too. 

@Oolong83 I'm not sure about humidity during flower, I did not know about that. I was a bit worried about mold if anything. But I think its a lesser of two evils situation, so I would have tried the humidity either way.

However its seems like I have been exceedingly lucky. With extra air flow and misting daily they have not done any damage so far, and I'm ready to start a flush today. Very very lucky indeed. So after the flush I'll bleach the whole room and try treat my young clones somehow too...

Let us know how yours go? How much damage did they do?

20 hours ago, CreX said:

Alternatively you can move premises, preferably intercontinentally 

Thanks @CreX. I'll check how close to flowering I am again. If its more than a week I will try the CO2 route. I still have a CO2 bottle from my aquarium plant days

13 hours ago, Mambawana said:

Last step of defence is to drop the temperature in the grow room with an aircon light ON and OFF. Spidermites thrive in warm dry conditions and by changing that you are increasing the amount of time spidermites require to lay eggs and the time it takes eggs to hatch.

Thanks @Mambawana. I've increased airflow and I'm heavily misting with water for now to increase humidity.

Hopefully I can limp through to harvest time and then nuke the grow room.

@Oolong83 I just saw this, I've also suddenly gotten spiter mites. I guess they must be traveling around our area at the moment  

Hi all,

I've not been active here lately, also it seems I've not been paying enough attention to my plants. I'm in late flower with a four plants and I think I have about 2 - 4 weeks before harvest, I have amber pistils but not too many amber trichomes yet. 

Yesterday I noticed that one of the flowers was covered in web, so spider mites are having a ball . 

What are my options in late flower?

• Pyrol? I think thats a bad idea in late flower right?
• H2O2? What percentage to how much water if so?
• Anything else?

For now I've increased the airflow and sprayed the undersides of as many leaves as a can. I'll get a bigger spray bottle today and keep doing that.

Thanks for any help

LOL, my air pump was not working and I needed to make some clones. So I put the cuttings in ~5 cm of coco in a perforated ice cream container with a upside down container as a humidity dome. And I've had 100% success with the clones. Very easy indeed

4 hours ago, Dank said:

Pretty big layout, but will save up slowly for some solar and perhaps a small windturbine.

I'm late to the conversation here. But you also need to check the type of battery (probably lead-acid deep-cycle), how many cycles you will get and how to avoid running it flat (deep discharge). Some people don't let their batteries go below 40% to prolong their lifespan (no idea if that is a valid plan) and that would mean even more capacity required if you do the same. I've seen a few people talking about setting up systems for their houses and it does seems like you need to be careful you are not misled as @PsyCLown was saying.

I don't understand how this is legal? I wonder how the CCMA would rule in a case like this. If you are allowed to use cannabis according to the high court then its not possible for a business/contract to remove that right? 

12 hours ago, biometrics said:

Do I need to remove the boveda pack before freezing?

I'm not sure about the other questions :P, but yes definitely remove the boveda packs. They will at best do nothing in the freezer and worst case could break/leak (in theory) when you defrost them. 

I saw an extreme DIY vacuum pump made using a brake bleeder. I've got no idea how effective this is, but it should at least be cheap  

oic. My wife makes seedling pots out of newspaper. Biodegradable but... I'm guessing that wont work for 20l pots  lol

@Bakstein420 yeah the prices are a little crazy. But you can DIY it, e.g. see https://www.420sa.co.za/topic/2174-fabric-grow-bags/

I've seen easier versions two where they just use a cable tie to hold the bottom together :) 

25 minutes ago, WannabeGrower said:

I think the coco perlite route is it.

Nice. I just finished my first indoor grow with coco/perlite and it has been great. 

There are different trade offs between soil and coco/perlite. I think to be a good soil grower you need to care about the soil, microbes etc. Take a look on the forum for the discussions the soil guys have about teas and composts etc. That was not really what I was after at this point so coco was an easy choice for me. The trade off is that its a bit more hands on and there is a bit to read about up front. But again in my opinion I think it is quite a bit simpler overall than soil. Its easy to correct mistakes and impossible to over water (yay!).

You'll need a pH meter and an EC meter. EC meters are better than TDS ones, but TDS can work if you have to use one. There are many nutrient lines you can try, I used hortimix + silicone from hydroponics.co.za and have had good results. The one big change I want to make with my next grow is to test the run off EC more often. Thats good to see overall plant health and to check if I'm watering too little or too much (i.e. too much = wasting water). 

There is a lot of info around but I've found https://www.cocoforcannabis.com to be the best place to find very high quality information all in one place. Some good articles there, podcasts too if you are into that.

Good luck, looking forward to seeing how it goes

31 minutes ago, WannabeGrower said:

I am not sure how to proceed.

Hi and welcome :)

Where are you based? It may be worth trying a few cheap / bag seeds first until you are a bit more confident. But as its been said, there are many helpful people around here who will make help keep everything alive :) 

That's terrible. Good luck, please let us know what happens?

I'm very low on space so I only kept four of the seedlings. One did not make it, and one of the remaining three stretched like mad. I've moved them closer to the light now so that should get it under control. Other than that all going well.

(kak photo, sorry)

2 hours ago, Mr.Kaneh said:

I want to move to a slow release type of grow... i tend to neglect every now and then

Right, yeah, coco/perlite is not the best option for that then . I think you can occasionally push it to three or so day without watering but thats about it. The advantage of pure coco/perlite is that you have more control and can change/fix things faster. The cost is that you need to be more hands on, at least once a day watering, EC checks etc. For me the benefits outweigh the downsides, actually I like fiddling so there is no downside , but it does not sound like it will work for you

2 hours ago, Mr.Kaneh said:

Atm Im flowering out using coco/perlite/hydroclay pebbles and some compost. Also a DIY mix.. 

Ah, right. So the theory with coco/perlite is that 30-50% perlite with good washed coco (peat/fine bits removed is that that mix holds just the right amount of water but also oxygen. If you add other things to the mix then you are no longer in that sweet spot and all bets are off. But as above it did not sound like a good fit anyway

Please let us know what you do decide on and how it goes? Its always interesting to see all the different techniques and I'm sure I'll try a different style sometime

22 hours ago, Dank said:

The beans are 2017/2018 stock and they do seem to take a bit longer to pop.

I gave the seeds a good scratching yesterday (sandpaper & scissors). Three of the five have already popped and have a ~2mm root and one more that has just started to show.

I don't usually scratch seeds this much, but it certainly seemed to work!

I went with pure coco/perlite and am very happy.

I'd say do pure coco/perlite, once you start adding other things to it you are moving towards an soil + additives grow. I.e. coco/perlite has the ideal water to air retention you don't really want to mess with that. If you want to do soil + coco etc, then you should treat that as a soil grow IMO.

If that is what you are interested in then take a look at the articles (podcasts too) at: https://www.cocoforcannabis.com/toc/#growing-cannabis 

I'm no expert, just about to finish my first coco grow. But I'm happy to try help / point you in the right direction if you need any help

On 10/6/2019 at 9:15 PM, Dank said:

Will follow along

https://www.420sa.co.za/topic/2826-danks-kush-cookies-highchome/

@Dank diary started . Thanks again for the seeds

Starting  

Germination was a bit slow, probably thanks to colder weather that I was expecting so I did not keep the seeds warm. Two have germinated and have been moved to jiffys and I've put five more back into kitchen paper after scuffing them a bit more.

Hi and welcome

Start a grow diary when you do get started. There are lots of very knowledgeable people here who will help.

18 hours ago, MrB said:

To be honest I'm not expecting amazing results, but will use the experience gained to produce better results next time. 

I'm also impatiently waiting for mine to be ready. From what I've seen people seem to mostly say wait for the amber trichomes before starting the flush.

I'm planning to listen to these two podcasts that may have more info

• http://growcastpodcast.libsyn.com/harvest-science-trichomes-and-more-with-dr-coco
• http://growcastpodcast.libsyn.com/drying-and-curing-cannabis-with-dr-coco

And there are quite a few vids on youtube that are not too bad

4 hours ago, PsyCLown said:

I wouldn't really advise that, but give it a go.

Sorry, don't want to hijack the thread. Just wanted to say, I want to try that for two reasons. Firstly just to see how it turns out  and secondly to see quickly determine the gender so I can clone the females.

@Dank ok change of plan. I've put three of the Kush Cookies seeds into water last night. I'm planning to try going into flower with them with almost no veg time. I think it will be interesting to see how they do.

I'll start a grow diary as soon as I know they have germinated