PsyCLown

I have a set of QB's and drivers to go with the QB's. No spare drivers unfortunately. 

2 hours ago, iGrowDagga said:

Hows this going! 

Locally in KZN theres virtually no mushrooms on the shelves anymore. 

Also read an article tuning Dennys or someone closed down so our mushroom producers seem to be struggling? 

I believe they are struggling due to the loadshedding. 

Not sure whether Dennys has closed down or if production has just been reduced?

Bit of a concern, very limited supply of mushrooms and then what's going to be in low supply next? 

So let's bump this thread and see what's happened since we've been in stage 6 and talks of stage 9 and greater coming. 

What is everyone doing? I'm going to assume the loadshedding has lead to some no longer growing indoors? 

12 hours ago, Dookie69 said:

You going to love them. It’s still a good idea tho to give each pot a quick weight test every other day. I had a few instances where my pipes got blocked (yes I never cleaned them properly after the last grow) which resulted in the pots running dry, only discovered by droopy leaves after a few days!
I also had frikkin fungus gnats for the first time, presumably because I tried using my coco for a second run, and also probably overdid the top watering while waiting for the Autopot start date. I nailed this little bastards with a spray, they didn’t like that mootie one little bit.
Oh and genetics genetics genetics. I planted what were meant to be auto’s. Turns out these spindly plants were photo’s, by the time I realised this they were already 6 foot tall and growing. I had to top all of them since they were hitting the top of the tent. Then I changed to 12-12 and they started to flower. One of the 3 plants was covered in seeds, everywhere. Kak’ed myself and chopped it down. Still don’t know how that happened, must have hermied Cos no others did this. If these things were outdoors they would be 10ft tall.
On a lighter note genetics genetics genetics. Last batch was for Ethos and looking excellent.

So I've not put the covers on so I can easily monitor the water level in the trays.

I went with the Easy2grow setup, so 2 pots per tray. Also using the smaller pots, so far the top of the coco has remained wet... Maybe because they're still small clones or maybe because it's a shorter pot? 

So I am unable to easily raise the height of my 100L flexitank for my autopots, however it does not seem to be an issue and almost empties my flexitank despite everything being on ground level.

Autopots are still very new to me, busy with my first grow with them still so will continue to monitor it and see how it goes - so far loving the fact that I do not need to water manually and can simply topup the res without any further adjustments.

I thought it would be worth a conversation. @PsyCLown made a good point and said that they don’t actually mention the diodes anywhere. Seems like a risk too big for me. 

Delicious Monsters 
Absolute beauty's @PsyCLown
Well done. Grow on,  bud
 

Harvested.
 

Looking beautiful!! Going to out up the clones tonight and get them vegged.

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1 hour ago, Golden-Goose said:

That critical banana looks really tasty.

I'll be able to confirm in a few weeks and as promised I will bring a sample through for you too  

So this diary has kinda come to an end.

I harvested most of the plants last night, both Critical Banana look really nice. Will sample and inspect further once dry and trimmed and decide which pheno I will be keeping however so far I am very keen to run the Critical Banana again.

The GG Wedding Mints improved a bit towards the end, I took some quick pics of each pheno.

Will run them again and hopefully get better results, if they are not better than I will probably drop them from my rotation. I expected more from them.

The In House Strains came out looking amazing and beautiful! Both the Bananium & Platinum Punch, such a rewarding strain to grow as the trim is easy and the buds sparkle nicely. Nice dense nugs.

The one Zweet Inzanity ended up hermieing quite badly and pushing balls. The Citradelic Sunset came out alright, big, heavy bud with decent frost. This is a strain I have since dropped though.

The one Crescendo was lacking frost and very unhappy, the other one is still in the tent as she went into flower 7 days after the others.

The Banizzle and Pineapple Chem are also both in the tent still, giving them a but more time to mature. The Pineapple Chem actually split her stem while I was in the tent, the one cola flopped over. So I had to do some surgery with electrical tape. Yield looks as if it will be really good and frost does not look terrible, nowhere near the level of frost from the In House Genetics plants but a reasonable amount.

I will try post some bud pics once some of the bud is dried and trimmed, especially of the GG Wedding Mints & Critical Banana.

They were the 2 I was most excited for, perhaps more excited for the GG Wedding Mints but turns out the Critical Banana seemed to be the better plant this time around - although neither of mine had the nice colouring of the pheno I posted earlier in this thread.

On 4/15/2022 at 6:28 AM, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

test it out yourself. get a clone put it under 5000K 50w LED at 40cm see how she does, then put a clone under a 3000K 50w CFL at 20cm, problem will look similar to what you have here. wrong kind of light.

I need to disagree with you here. If they are decent diodes, such as the Samsung LM301B/H then 3000K for vegging a plant is not a problem at all.

I have done it many times before, used both 3000K and 3500K with excellent results. The amount of blue light a cannabis plant requires is not all that much and 3000K full spectrum still gives enough blue. You can certainly flower with 3000K and 3500K.

As soon as one starts to go 4000K upwards then the light starts to become a bit too specific IMO and leaning more towards a light I'd only want to use for veg. 3000 to 3500K I feel is the perfect combination for veg & flower, also keeping in mind plants are in veg for a fraction of the time they are in flower for (generally speaking, depends on how one runs their grow though).

The kelvin of HID lights might work as you described, although for decent LED diodes 3000K for veg is fine.  

Mhhh i can tell you once all tents run at the new spot  unit price goes up the more you buy. The last week of the month is the most frustrating  i took the 20.5% Eskom price hike in those 10k... was on 8.3k before, since the 2 ACs are powered down, life is better, Jan and Feb were nasty hot this year. 

16 hours ago, Prom said:

My 2.4x2.4 sets me down 10k a month (summer). 

Yikes, a single 2.4 x 2.4 tent with an aircon and R10k on electricity? How much do you pay per unit?

21 minutes ago, Deano86 said:

Where would the cheapest place be to source their products ?

In normal consumer quantities, most online stores have the same pricing on BioBizz.

https://myhydrostore.co.za

https://gthydro.co.za

https://www.futurama.co.za

https://hydroponic.co.za

To name a few

A single portable aircon in that sized space with HID lights is not going to cut it, especially in summer when heatwaves hit.

You can simply change the bulb from HPS to MH and then change back when it is flower time.

Best to have the lights on an 18/6 cycle and then change to 12/12 when it is time to flower. Do not rotate having some lights on and then others on - if you have plants under the lights then have those lights on, according to the timer.

So a brief update. Some pictures I took yesterday.

GG Wedding Mints #4

GG Wedding Mints #1

Critical Banana #3

Critical Banana #2

Pineapple Chem

Crescendo - both plants are from Canna Clone, not sure if one is just less happy or if these are two different strains?

Zweet Inzanity

Bananium:

Platinum Punch:

All plants are 6.5 weeks into flower now.

The GG Wedding Mints seem to be adding on a bit of weight at least, hopefully they continue to do so up until harvest!  

Week 5 and 3 days, just two bud shots.
 

This is such a good mix! Listened to it a few times.

Fuuuck... 50g is a lot of merewena 

Busy with the blog and placements. Also looking for any content about the cup to share and tag.
Ja, let's do a Joburg Cup. Maybe with a concentrates/hash category too this time. Was thinking September/October.
It will need to be 50g per flower entry this time. Jars ran a bit dry with only 25g.
Gonna start looking for entrants, venue and sponsors.

I'm all for that JHB cup!!

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