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52 minutes ago, Gloriosa superba said:

Who have you chosen to grace the "shelves" of your store. There are some real great local breeders who don't get the attention they deserve. 

@Totemic @Bay Seeds gerberthegardener headhoncho_genetics are onboard.

In discussions with motherland genetics.

Please drop names of anyone else you'd recommend.

So happy to announce we will be stocking +3 local breeders. Will confirm when seeds arrive.

Poll closes today so will announce winner and what you getting

Also super stocked for when @1000Hills Nursery drops their line. Been waiting more than a year though they making sure its on top of , with some extra . Going to be an epic year

10 minutes ago, Bay Seeds said:

Absolutely ! Thank you

will drop you a pm here

So have chatted to gerberthegardener and headhoncho_genetics and we will be stocking them  

@Bay Seeds we reached out to you two weeks ago via insta, let us know if you'd like to join. We will be redoing the site to have two sections, one for local stock and one for international.

I changed the post to a poll, @DamDave and @Totemic if you wouldn't mind voting 

For those active on Insta and the community, you might have come across Head Honchos.

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/headhoncho_genetics/

Web: https://www.headhonchogenetics.com/

We would like to know if their genetics are something the community is interesting in? Feedback will be rewarded  Will name the prize tomorrow (Need to go through stock), random post will win a pack of international seeds.

As a seedbank, it's hard because there is no way for us to know what the client did. They could have done "x", non-germ and google after realizing the mistake, then tell us they did the thing they just googled. If the client is knowledgeable and has some social presence where we can see previous grows, we will replace. Maybe a good rule is to have a grow log here of each step..

What is great now is if it's someone's first time, we point them to the "free seed" offering and they get like 5 seeds to start and a super low cost.

45 minutes ago, Gloriosa superba said:

Only 2 options for regs.... Old strains to boot... 

Plenty more coming in

We just got part of our feb drop in, items will be up on the site hopefully by end of tomorrow. Mostly Dutch Passion, FastBuds, GHS and Seedsmans. Have a lot more on the way though will let you guys know when they are in our hands  

We will also be running a special this week, will drop a message on the forum and via our email list.

Banana Blaze Auto Feminised Seeds - 7
Auto Cinderella Jack Feminised Seeds - 7
Critical Orange Punch Auto Feminised Seeds - 7
Critical Orange Punch Feminised Seeds - 5
Blue AutoMazar Feminised Seeds - 3
Charlotte's Angel CBD Auto Feminised Seeds - 7
Charlotte's Angel CBD Feminised Seeds - 5
AutoColorado Cookies Feminised Seeds-7
AutoDaiquiri Lime Feminised Seeds-7
Durban Poison Feminised Seeds - 5
Frisian Dew Feminised Seeds - 5
Auto Glueberry O.G. Feminised Seeds - 7
Glueberry O.G. Feminised Seeds - 5
Sugar Bomb Punch Feminised Seeds - 5
Auto Ultimate Feminised Seeds - 7
Gorilla Cookies Auto Feminised Seeds - 5
Wedding Cheesecake Auto Feminised Seeds - 5
Orange Sherbet Auto Feminised Seeds - 5
Purple Lemonade Auto Feminised Seeds - 5
Pineapple Express Auto Feminised Seeds - 5
LSD - 25 Auto Feminised Seeds - 5
Green Crack Auto Feminised Seeds - 5
Blackberry Auto Feminised Seeds - 5
Cheese Feminised Seeds - 5
Alaskan Purple Auto Feminised Seeds - 10
Alaskan Purple Feminised Seeds - 10
Bruce Banger Feminised Seeds - 10
Cream & Cheese CBD 1:1 Feminised Seeds - 10
Black Sugar Feminised Seeds - 10
Badazz OG Cheese Feminised Seeds - 5
C99 x Blueberry FAST Feminised Seeds - 10
Amnesia Regular Seeds - 10
Blueberry Feminised Seeds - 10
White Widow Auto Feminised Seeds - 10
White Widow Regular Seeds - 10
The White OG Feminised Seeds - 10

On 2/18/2021 at 5:19 PM, southern26 said:

welcome back guys! I am glad you guys are back on the scene, variety is good.

Thanks for the love  Have a few drops arriving over the next coming weeks so will be fully stocked and better selection

On 2/13/2021 at 10:52 AM, Apoche Alypse said:

Really happy you guys are back, Hopefully to the same high standards you set the first few times i bought from you, i was amazed with the service but then i had a very bad experience when i ordered my last batch of beans. when i did get them the stock was swopped and 2 of them were crushed so I'll pop you an email regarding those. 

But really looking forward to buying from you again, you guys give the best freebies.

Please do so we can sort you out!

20 minutes ago, DamDave said:

Thanks@Cannabist for the freebies.
I've always been wary of ordering online, this delivery has changed my mind.

You can add this future customer to your mailing list.

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Thanks for the feedback @DamDave. Only a pleasure.

Awhe brother, welcome! Was that the free seed promo or did you choose them?

So guessing @420SA is a bit hectic atm, we can't see who voted.. bleh, so.. Took all the names and randomly selected.

Congrats @DamDave and @Bakstein420, we have your details @Bakstein420 so yours will go out tomorrow.

@DamDave will drop you a PM and hopefully we can get yours out tomorrow as well.

@PsyCLown If memory serves me correctly, you are using Green House Feeding? I'm using their bio range for the first time though looks like a start of cal deficiency. Just wanted to check if you where supplementing with their cal mag as well?

Yip you read that right. Have been thinking of trying the woolies fabric bags as grow bags, was actually contemplating making up fabric bags as we still have like 4k of the material lying around - we first started off by selling them like two years ago.

Think they cost around R5 a bag and no one is going to beat that, just want to find out if anyone has tried them as a fabric grow bag? 

So most "reacted to" content is a draw between @Totemic (7x Likes, 2x Agree) and @Bakstein420 (8x Likes, 1x Agree) as of 6pm today. Didn't account for a draw TBH so just working something out

Also just chatting to @420SA regarding the poll, just need some help >.< and then will properly announce prizes and ask the guys for their delivery deets via PM

2 hours ago, Chris Jay said:

Not to sure how you set it up, but the API might be less resource intensive than using an iframe? Plus also the iframe would be pulling data from overseas servers. The pdf is perfect, exactly what I was talking about.

We set up a proxy using cloudflare workers and modified the headers to cache the requests on cloudflare so only the initial request had the latency delay, all other "api" requests would be cached and re-fetched when our edge cache ttl expired. This subdirectory cannabist.co.za/seedfinder/* (e.g. https://www.cannabist.co.za/seedfinder/?br=G13_Haze&str=Barneys_Farm) is another cloudflare worker serving up a custom app we wrote to represent the seedfinder info/data in a cleaner way - we just saved the page as pdf and that's the pdf you are referring to. As our site is WordPress/Woocommerce, it was faster to mock up the thing in angular and just embed it on the product pages via iframe.

If that makes sense

We have to write the php side of it as a custom wordpress plugin and then we don't have to use a iframe to inject part of own site into our own site lol - Started the plugin and then we last interest as mentioned, felt like we were just duplicating the seedfinder site. However feels like it might be growing some leaves here  after some of the feedback.

Regarding the landraces, like someone mentioned a few posts ago - imagine if guys in SA could run 1000s and select the best, rinse and repeat and market their progress..  However, what the local guys like @Totemic have achieved with the limitations of our law is outstanding to say the least.

We are so stoked with the feedback, really didnt even think people would discuss and just click the poll so cheers to 420sa community for the epic epic thread.

7 hours ago, 420SA said:

He and a couple mates ventured to Swazi

GSH in swaziland in 2012 picking up some of their strains. Most people have probably seen it but interesting.

Edit: had the wrong vid, skip to 36mins

Had something similar happen with rare darkness from rare darkness, started like that and just kept bushing out. Crossed it with a unknown Sativa Dom male and popping the beans atm. Did stress the plant a bit so might be a funny pheno presented under early stress.

5 minutes ago, Totemic said:

Here's a thought. A local version or similiar directory for exclusively SA genetics. Come now IT guys, here's something...

We have most of the seedfinder strains on a subdirectory of our site as "catalog mode" products, there is around 19000 of them - still work in progress so could filter it by local guys only which would be great because we actually halted the project as we didn't see the value in duplication seedfinder lol, but @Totemic you have added some value to the idea.

Now this is getting exciting!

31 minutes ago, Chris Jay said:

I think it has gone way past users grow journals, but like I said before they are important. You have sites like https://en.seedfinder.eu/ and phylos.bio. They have good references to seeds, names, breeders, lineage etc. Including South African breeders, both here and abroad.  What I would really like to see on seed sale sites is a rough cannabinoid profile of what to expect. One of the reasons is I am looking for high myrcene and THC seeds at the moment, and other reasons is the technology is available for it to be tested, so it can be made available.

We actually built a integration with seedfinder.eu whereby we pull through the info from seedfinder into our listings. Can see an example here: https://www.cannabist.co.za/seedfinder/?br=G13_Haze&str=Barneys_Farm

The goal was to provide as much information as possible, has been on the backlog to complete but its 90% there. Attached a pdf of the result.

For the technical guys, its basically another website we build which was iframed into our store. It impacks performance so we have started to replicate the seedfinder database on our side so we don't have to query their api every time. Eventually we will build it into our store so we dont iframe it.

So what would be awesome is of the local breeder kept their seedfinder up to date and we will always have the latest and and forums. We can chat to their devs who we have worked with to include 420sa into the forum results.

NgCannabistProductMeta.pdf

1 hour ago, DamDave said:

Hey bud you well. What exactly is it that one looks for in a grow diary. I try and do diaries to the best of my limited knowledge.
Growdiaries.com have a good set-up but i grow in soil and don't use nutes yet so for me it just becomes a log. Plant, water, photo, harvest.
I'm sure a lot of us have tried to google a diary template, say no more.
As you may have noticed that my hand is always the first to raise in class when a test grow is up for grabs. I've learnt a lot from the forum on the grow front.
Now I need help keeping a diary on our great SA breeder's and strain's.
Need pointers guys.

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Awesome question IMO as everyone does their own thing, there are key elements that could fit into some kind of template which would ultimately be listed alongside the end product - helping guys understand the pheno traits and what is expected. Almost like a "conclusion" template with the experience of growing, smell, taste etc.

Really didn't expect such great feedback, so we adding in a kicker - the most "reacted to" post will also get a pack of Violator Kush.