PsyCLown

Welcome! Very awesome and cool setup you have there, amazing setup to start with! Congrats! Although I do have some concerns which I will list below. A single arrow dripper per 20L pot I fear will not be sufficient, it will not saturate the entire medium. Also is this on a timer? The lights do not have proper heatsinks and with the power supply being mounted on there, it will get very hot and reduce the lifespan of the diodes. Remove the power supplies from the top of the lights and make sure to have a fan blowing down directly over the light to keep them cool and help prolong the life of the diodes. 440W / 480W of lighting for that that size tent isn't optimum when it comes to flowering, you will want to look at an additional 2x 240W lights for optimum output. This can be added at a later stage though, perhaps consider lights with some heatsinks when you do get additional lights. Air circulation, a single clip on rotational fan won't sufficient - especially once the plants get bigger. Maybe take a look at my grow diary (links in my signature) to see how I setup my 2.4 x 1.2 tent - I have 2x 30cm box fans which are mounted at the top of the tent and blow down over the lights as well as plants and the lurve helps rotate the airflow direction to really get the air circulating well inside the tent. You want to avoid moisture build up or stale air in certain sections of the tent. With the above being said, nothing to worry about right away especially considering the plants are still quite small. I'd say keep an eye out for an additional fan to add to the tent in the near future, shouldn't cost more than R400 give or take for a decent fan. It does not need to be a clip on fan. As for the lighting, this is expensive - I know. If funds do not allow for additional lighting at the moment, then do not worry and continue with the grow and look at adding the additional lighting once budget allows. The additional lighting can lead to better yields as well if everything else is dialed in with your grow. The additional Arrow drippers should not be difficult or expensive to add so you can have multiple drippers per 20L pots. I'd say you want a minimum of 2 drippers and ideally 4 per pot for a nice even coverage. I have never used that soil, so cannot comment there although for your next grow perhaps consider trying coco instead of soil - with the setup you have it makes sense to move over to coco and you will likely benefit from faster growth as well and you can often get coco for less than the price of soil. If you wanted to, you could also squeeze more pots inside the tent. 10 pots leaves a lot of space in the tent still. Not bad thing, but just know that you can fit more plants inside the tent without issue if you ever wanted to The GHE Tri Part nutrients are awesome! Very simple to use as well. Please do keep us updated with your grow and progress and if you get stuck or have any questions let us know and we will happily assist! Welcome to the forum!

Well, by the time flower comes you will be able to tell. Blunicorn, at least the pheno I have, is very frosty - about as frosty as the slurricane I grew. Above average for sure. I must take some bud pics and post them in my diary sometime. I had some very nice colour come through on mine as well.

Good to know it is not just me and others also experience such effects. I have had itchy skin a few times after working with my plants, but does not seem to be as common or as much of an issue for me. @ORGANinc. that chilli feeling or effect is new, never heard of that or experienced it myself. These side effects / reactions are not going to change the fact that I grow and I will continue to rather pop an allergex or whatever. Have you guys found anything which works well to combat these effects?

Soo, something which I thought of and was curious to get some feedback from everyone else. I suffer from allergies at times, since I have moved over to dry trimming I find that when I trim my body really hates it. I sneeze a lot, runny nose, eyes get a bit iffy too - popping allergex helps but the allergex seems to be rather short lived and only lasts around 2 to 3 hours. I should probably look into an anti-histamine which lasts a bit longer. I guess this makes sense as I normally trim, then hold the bud close to my face to inspect better, then trim some more where needed and with dry bud the trichomes do go all over the place and the leaves if dry enough break into smaller pieces and I guess its the same as dust and pollen and all that other good stuff which my body dislikes. lol Although, I have also heard of people who feel nauseous from the smell of cannabis - be it while growing or dried. Some only with wet / growing cannabis and some only with the dry cannabis. Some get a headache from the smell, or certain cannabis smells. The GF is like this and when I use to wet trim, she could not be in the same room as me. Also I have heard of some people getting a bit of a rash / skin irritation when working with their plants if they have a t-shirt on and perhaps get some sticky trichomes on them or if they are defoliating and are all up in there with the leaves and such. Not sure what would cause this? Perhaps someone knows and could share with us? So just wondering how many of you have similar effects or reactions?

How much longer until you pot the seedling and scrap the others? At least it makes choosing a plant easier.

I do not have a favorite strain just yet, however at this point in time I am leaning towards the Sugarcane cut I have - beautiful pheno.... beautiful plant in general. Super frosty, easy to grow, easy to trim and smoke is decent. Will be growing out some more new strains shortly, then will start to narrow down. I am now finally at the point where I will start running the same strains again and on the odd occasion look at trying some new strains out. Scrap the stuff I do not like or do not enjoy growing.

Eh, these were grown more for the fun of it and to see what some better autos could potentially do. I doubt I'll be growing more autos anytime soon. I prefer my photoperiods and are rather specific with what I'll be growing going forward. Not sure the breeders I want to grow strains from will be keen on just handing out their newer crosses for me to test, especially with me being all the way in sa and space is limited. In the states the testers run way more plants than I'm capable of doing unfortunately. Thanks though. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Pan cyans contain psilocybin... You'd have to grow them yourself and yield is small compared to cubensis. Apparently twice as potent, so 1g can feel like 2g of cubes. A friend and I once were fortune enough to give it a try. After consumption it crept up on us and suddenly we were tripping balls. We both felt it had a different come up for sure compared to the usual cube. The rest being more or less the same, was an amazing experience and the setting worked quite nicely. Had some interesting adventures on that trip. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Hmm, drug testing... I think it depends what they test for. Companies need to embrace the change happening, what people do in their time off shouldn't really concern the company all that much - situation dependent. If people want to party and go ape shit over the weekend and take drugs, so what!? As long as it does not effect their work, why should they care? Cannabis becoming more and more acceptable, shouldn't be a problem as many are using it for medicinal reasons now too. Unfortunately some are still stuck in their own ways and some positions I can understand would require it, but that is the exception I feel and wouldn't apply to majority of people.

I will let you guys know. I have the LSD-25 and the OG Kush to compare as well.

For seedlings turn the first 2 knobs to 100% and leave the last one off (the COBs) and see how the plants do. If you are able to see how much power the light draws from the wall when setup like this, that would help us guide you a bit better as well.

Interesting, I haven't sampled it yet. Just put it into a jar tonight and still gotta trim it. Will let you know once I've sampled some and how it compares to other bud. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

@jordz2203 Interesting light, not your average blurple. Is this the same light? https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4000056097180.html If so, I'd possibly run it as Sun mode without the COBs for seedling and early veg. COB's produce light which is quite focused, so strong intense light in a narrow area - it is not spread out much. So this could cause issues for the seedlings. Does any of the knobs control the COBs - the 6 bigger lenses on the outside?

Welcome! 1000W with 3 knobs, sounds like a blurple light to me but I could be wrong. If it is a blurple light, chances are it is far from 1000W and is probably closer to 120W to 240W and not the most efficient LED light either. Post some pics and then we can confirm and advise further from there. Have your grown before or will this be your first grow? Autoflowers require things to be near perfect, if you stunt the plant your yields will be effected. Photoperiods are a lot more forgiving as you can continue to veg them until they are large enough and then flip to flower and still get a decent yield

Nice! Keen to see how this grow turns out The Jet Fuel is the cutting we have seen grown by others on the forum or is this from seed / your own pheno?

That only makes 1 of us ...

Looking good! I'd recommend adding some MPK to the mix for veg as well, although really up to you. If the nutes have worked well for you as you are doing them, perhaps stick to it for the comp and experiment afterwards.

@DamDave Have any of the seeds sprouted yet?

I have not experienced that, I soak mine and let them get super wet. I like water to remain in the bowl after the pellet has expanded. Although the environment needs to be able to get rid of the water and the pellet needs to be able to dry up slowly, which typically happens in my case and then I spray them to add a bit of water now and then. Gotta have a fine balance between humidity and airflow. Warm, humid environment is perfect for mold and bacteria etc. Add a bit of airflow and it makes a big difference. You could also try adding a bit of trichoderma to help with damping off and some other issues if that is what you are experiencing although I typically only add once I pot my cuttings.

If the branch has not died, I'd say leave it for now. Cannabis is great at recovering, I accidentally pretty much clean took off a branch on my one plant, just had a bit of the side hanging on still and it survived and repaired itself and produced great bud on that cola still. The break does not look bad, will likely fatten up that section and then see some explosive growth afterwards.

I have used them before and will use them again, I use what I have. Jiffy pellets or plugs both work well I find. I actually imported some rapid rooters from Amazon when I first started growing, back then was difficult to find these plugs locally. Jiffies were cheaper obviously. Now the plugs are relatively common luckily.

I can recommend the USB microscopes. I have one and it's fantastic to use! Very nice clear picture of the trichomes. Not terribly expensive either, seen vendors stock them from R400. Not as cheap as a loupe but I struggle to use a loupe. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

Not going to lie, I struggle to see whether those tirchomes are really milky or not with that picture. Although 51 days from seed to milky trichomes in flower is stupidly fast and seems a bit unrealistic I feel. If this is the indoor plant, to me that looks as if the plant still has a while to go but trichomes are the best way to tell. Do you perhaps have a loupe or microscope to get a more clear picture of the trichomes?