Ill_Evan

Looking sharp! 

Some training and more topping in the veg tents. One OMG is throwing some thiccc leaves! 

Exactly 4 weeks and halfway through flower for the big tent ZxP. I've cleaned the bottom of the canopy a little bit every now and then and I think it's looking nice for the last half of flower. Good airflow and light penetration. Strong fade already but this has been an unfortunate result of the bad medium in the beginning. We will salvage as best as we can from this one. 

Smaller tent is coming along very well, probably one of the best veg periods I've had in a while just goes to show you can't overlook anything when playing with the big boys. I am waiting for a bit more stretch and then I will throw in a net to start the spread and initial canopy. 

Organic Tent™ has begun the first top and is recovering. The 4 OMG plants have some fat leaves and look good and green. There is a persistent issue with the Wedding Cake, even the mother continuously suffers from what looks like a calcium deficiency but no matter what the adjustment, the mother and clones will grow but they stay faded and almost look to have what seems to be like a mutation to the growth of the leaves. There is a very texture like feel to the leaves, like puffed up sorta. I spoke to a few growers at a get together and we think the cloning line has come to an end. She's tired, boss. So I am going to grow out these last two Wedding Cakes and then look for a replacement to the stable. The comparative growth to the fresh seeds growing alongside is enough justification to me. 

High friends in high places. A friend in need is a friend indeed, a friend with weed is better 

Yikes. Doesn't look like the news has run through the local industry yet. JuicyFields are supposedly presenting the Cannabis Expo this weekend. Doesn't look super hot to those brands associating themselves with them. 

3 hours ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

you guys know about these? 

they got all the variations. 

https://peasysqueegee.com/?product_cat=screens&post_type=product&s=screen

Shot, when I checked them when you first mentioned them in the other thread they were all sold out. Glad they are back in stock now. 

3 hours ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

till I figure my path to setting up commercial cannabis facility this will be my little play area! 

I have been frequenting the Cheeba cannabis college in Rivonia this last little while and from what I can see with regards to setting up a commercial cannabis facility, a nice target number to work with is about R50mil all inclusive from start to finish. 

Yikes. 

My father did accounting for a mushroom farm I think in the KZN area and they coin it big. You might not be disappointed keeping on the mushroom trail until you hit that R50mil.  

2 hours ago, Prom said:

Would love to send you the link.. but the site is funked.. can't login to my account. My sifts are round and fit into each other so you can do all in on shake (40cm diameter).

 

 

System error. Please try again later. [SystemError]

I've actually since just researched the shit out of bubble hash and that process so I might even just go down that route  

@Naughty.Psychonaut let the man do his thing from here. I know you're probably loading up a moerse rebuttal now but as you said before you've had this conversation a hundred times. 

We haven't even gotten a chance to see a grow diary or report yet. Let's look forward to that before going full nuclear. 

I learnt my lesson early with crypto 

14 minutes ago, Bos said:

Congrats on an beautifull result. Keep doing what makes you happy.

In the orchid growing faternity, when growing a single plant in this manner to its max potential, it's called a "Specimen". 

Specimen X 

On 7/8/2022 at 1:55 PM, Prom said:

i ordered mine from China, 25$ per sif. Alibaba... as usual ^^

Chief, I've been looking around and might try out Alibaba. Could you please link the screens you got?

Quick update. Big tent doing it's thing. I grow happier the more flower I see. 

Smaller tent I have transplanted the ladies into the autopots. Going to top feed for about two weeks and then startup the reservoir. 

Organic Tent™ I have transplanted into the 20L fabric pots. I am going to feed just pH'd water for about a week and then begin the BioBizz schedule, although I am going to try less per dose and see what happens. I'd like to point out one of the OMG plants that is looking hellah keen. Don't you just love it when a new strain starts showing great health and potential so soon?

My mans making moves!

Pretty cool!

Hate to admit it but I must acknowledge my slow turnaround to organics and fabric pots. Straight up had some of the best harvests just like that. 

@Naughty.Psychonaut is the hero we thought we didn't need. 

3 hours ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

material pots with hand watering for indoor home growers are the way to go. 

Totally agreed. I think on a case-by-case basis it can really benefit some home growers. Me for example I like it because watering by hand after putting in nets and doing all the training can sometimes become really cumbersome because I can't really open up the tent all the way to reach the pots at the back corners easily. In this regard, the autopots really help. However if I could do the hand watering easily I would stick to fabric pots like I do in my Organic Tent™. I currently have autopots setup in a smaller 1.2x1.2 tent but I do think I will probably hit-up the fabric pots again in there after harvest. 

Autopot have a very specific methodology when it comes to organics within their system. Previously with the old aquavalve it was highly discouraged to use organics but with the new aquavalve5 they developed specifically for organic nutrients. In my opinion I would not use organics with autopots only because I feel like the recommended methodology is quite cumbersome and I got into autopots so I could do less work and not more, but to each their own and if you want to try it out then go for it. 

Here is the link for the autopot methodology:

AutoPot_Growers_Guides_Nutrient_Information.pdf

One week today into flower for the big tent. Preflower pistols starting to show and the plants are looking healthy. More shades of darker green are showing on the top growth. Normal feeding through the autopots is back on track. 

I have already topped the plants in the smaller tent but I haven't transplanted them into the autopots yet. Usually I would transfer first before training but the plants were already ready for the first top but I felt the roots were not yet established enough to transfer, so I elected to top first, let the plants recover and then transplant. I have already flushed this medium well with pH'd water and flashkleen solution to prevent any previous issues with an alkaline medium causing a nutrient lockout. I think another week and the plants will be in the autopots. 

Lastly in the Organic Tent™ the plants continue to develop. I have the pots and soil ready on standby to do the transfer once I feel like the roots are established enough as well. 

Pumping! 

3 minutes ago, Prom said:

Somebody just reminded me that we are load shedding for 12 years now... is that right??

1 hour ago, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

Zero tolerance policies can dictate you get fired on the spot when under the influence of substances, even if they are legal, on company time. not that you don't get drunk over the weekend, cause that would be infringement. Was she high on company time? No. So zero tolerance policy se p**s.

if it was illegal substance I would understand the probation period, but you can't put someone on probation for drinking coffee at home, you couldn't do it with alcohol or cigarettes, so why can you with weed? 

yeah, testing methods need to change.

Truth. When I got caught as a lighty by my mom and got my pee tested, I pissed hot for weed even a month after not smoking anything. I was treated like I had literally sparked up right before going into the bathroom. Good times! 

As much as I'd say we need new testing methodologies, I also feel like not. The less the SAPS have to terrorize me the better. 

Big tent is looking better in terms of health. Think I am past the worst of the recent issues. I'll start adding the next net layer after I start seeing a little preflower push. Only a couple of days into flower. I will probably do one more final small defoliation soon.  

In other news, there is finally some activity happening in the other tents. I have another four ZxP close to being transplanted into some more autopots on standby in the former veg tent. In the Organic Tent™ I have four OMG and two Wedding Cake just getting themselves established still. If my clones/seeds hadn't wrecked during the beginning of Winter I might have been actually pretty close to harvest right now  but it is what it is. Four months from now it will be a pretty jamming time anyways harvest wise, I am looking forward to what the OMG can do. Wedding Cake is a personal favourite so I also look forward to having some of that again. 

I've actually been considering trying to time my next grows so that I do not have anything in deep flower this coming December/January. Not only to avoid what I have found to be the harshest conditions for my setup and strains during the year, but also on costs... and stress. Added bonus is the ability to take a trip for a week without stress if plants are only in veg. 

The big tent should have it's current harvest around the end of August, which leaves three months before the beginning of December to push another harvest through. Can do, I must just get the clones running up to harvest timed right. I think as soon as the mothers have enough off-shoots I will start to get them going already.

I don't think I'll get either of the other tents going for another harvest in time once their respective harvests are completed, so I'll expend as much time as I can in developing some sturdy ladies during veg. 

Company policies are what it is. The tide will change slowly as the older generation starts moving on, or even better this whole work from the office culture goes along with them and the problem sorts itself. Those company policies are probably 20 years old. 

Obviously if you are armed security, operating heavy machinery, or doing a job that clearly doesn't mix with weed, then ja, duh.