Naughty.Psychonaut

awee @Weskush these are without a doubt very exceptional little plants! where I used to live in Hermanus I was across the road from the lagoon, we would find millions of these growing along the lagoon beds and river beds when we go walking in the mountains. I think they're just a little sensetive under nursing conditions and if they don't get insects to eat they won't make it anyway, this is why I think people don't use them as pest management. a lot of people grow them in their homes for that reason, but before they can catch 2 flies they usually die. I think growing conditions for these guys and cannabis differ a little too much, these guys don't like intense or any dorect light or wind, they generally grow as "undergrowth" below or within other plants and basically in the shade most of it's life in very very high humidity, you know like areas a lot of insects would naturally be. I have probably had every single carnivorous plant there is out there, now my brother in law is collecting them. I'll show you his collection. at Stellenbosch Botanical Gardens you can see probably the most impressive carnivorous plant display you're ever seen with pitcher plants you can stick your whole arm in! those little droplets that look like trichomes are actual droplets that will stick to your hand when you touch it. this is a "nectar-like" substance that releases a pheromone that attracts the insects and once they get close they can't escape the stickyness and then they curl and fold around the insect. If the plant touches anything or those droplets dry out or somehow rub off the plant also kinda dies because it spends ALL its enery on creating those droplets and they need to replace that by catching a insect. to make it practical to grow these for pest management you would have to grow quite a bunch of them.

I have a th16 and I can view my logs very simple, I click on the icon that gives a list of options and the logs are right there

only a pleasure man, excited to see what you bring

Personally, if I was in any of the investors positions, I wouldn't wana touch Zimbabwe with a 100m stick. Sad to say, but that's just how it is and how it has been, I am not being fooled by empty promises of "this time will be different", they can sing that song to their mothers, but I am with the ex Zim farmers. Only an ass will bump its head twice in the same spot. Looking at how America runs things really isn't going to save them or anyone for that matter and it should be clear as day for all of us. It will bring profits to a certain extent and only to a certain select few, but the last thing it will do is benefit the natives and their country. It really is no ones fault but their own, managent and leadership really is a problem in our part of the world and those central african countries really have a long ways to go before they can start acting like America. I would say start with focussing on population control, then education management which will also help in the health management department, then adequate housing, then overall health care and management and environmental management with proper running water systems, cut ties with major companies sucking the resources out the country for a few packets of peanuts to feed the whole country, start using their own resources to work their lands and start actually getting food to the population, start proper farming and proper living and stop thinking living in shacks and clay houses and dying of hunger and disease is cultural enrichment... making money from growing weed isn't going to satisfy all these needs. it's just gona be another "taking candy from a baby" situation. can smell it from miles away. The whole world knows by now doing business with any African country is not a good choice to make, because of our management problem. For years and years other countries have been sending African countries money, food, water, clothes, medicine, housing, schooling all just because people are too nice and there will always be a bunch of people out to help those in need, yet still there are abandoned children laying in the dirt dying of hunger and the people from these countries are too proud and culturally enriched to change and be like the rest of the world. I hope Zim leaders wake up and realise the more they wana be like America and having to turn to other countries for help the more they will get sucked dry. They have every resource they need to make a thriving country, except leadership, but they can fix that.

Hi there @Autoflow3r Your product sounds pretty interesting! Have you any experience working with any Sonoff gadgets? It seems very similar to what you are planning to make.

your girls turning into ladies and wanting to expose themselves a phase all women go through

Goodmorning, Sir! Looking goooood I think it's not likely for only one part of one leaf to turn purple when cold is the only factor, so I think it's a bit of both here, looks like either deficiency or a ph problem not allowing uptake of a certain nute, the leaf is showing it and now because the leaf is compromised it's more susceptible to environmental factors such as the cold. just keep an eye on her, no stress yet, could be that the rest of the plant still turns purple, then it's the cold, but if growth slows down and odd discolouration continues you might wana ask yourself where it could've been that you either gave too much or too little of something.

This sounds very interesting, I am in Paarl quite often, what place is this?

those plants are looking goood man!

Day 70 I removed the net, the banana is coming down soon, starting to check trichomes now, atleast another 2 to 3 weeks for the rest. Banana Hammock Super Lemon OG Zkittle 1 Zkittle 2 Zkittle 3

it is not just you man!

awesome man!! sounds like you operating in a small slice of heaven, as they say hahah really exciting to see what you guys working with, you gona share some photos with us? well, I am sure I speak on behalf of the whole family when I say you are most welcome here, make yourself at home and ask and share as much as you can!

Welcome!! excited to see what you working with, show us some photos!

There has been a struggle for ages, gouvernment hurting small farmers, because they can't profit off their backs. With all the mountain growers up there in central africa, who has passed down cannabis farming through generations, I wonder how this will impact their livelyhood? I feel the curve of "americanization" also implies treating everything as if it's a product, and I don't feel this is a good thing in every situation.

well you definitely turned up the beet with this one brother holy fuuug those are some beautiful perky ladies!

Welcome All sounds interesting, we all love a good permaculture situation man! 100% agree with the statement about decent soil, have to have life in the soil to have life above the soil, and not only for homo sapiens! and it all starts with microbial activity, mycelium, fungi you guys caring for some fauna too or just flora and fungi?

oh yes, like they say "out of sight, out of mind" happens with root health aswell. removing those white pebbles, less watering, allowing oxygen to the roots. all major factors.

this is what I'm talking about !!!

I am assuming this is the runoff values? You test what whas going in? ph should be fine, although it's 0.2 or so out of range, for a flowering plant in coco the ideal ph is 5.9 to 6.2. Right now it seems your plant might not be uptaking Phosphorus, Boron and Manganese. grabbed a simple chart off the internet, there are much better charts, although this one gives some guidance the ppm, I hope is that low because you been flushing, but for flowering plants the ppm should be around 1000 to 1500ppm. when looking at trichomes to determine ripeness don't look at the trichomes at the tips of buds and not at all on sugar leaves. they tend to change colour way before the buds are ready and we trim those away when harvested. find a nice exposed calyx or somewhere you can really get in there and look at the trichomes on a bud. those should all still be clear. typically a plant goes for longer than the breeders claim, so I would say wait till the estimated time then add another 2 or 3 weeks. I do have to add that those girls are showing some really nice colours right now!

I believe you might have felt discouraged if you bought a nice new light thinking that is the problem, but then plants dont react and still look the same. you would've still had to get air sirculating and get the roots healthy and all that so I think this is a big step forward for your grow space.

hmmm, that actually flips the whole show around, the ff coco mix come washed and buffered in the bag, if I am not mistaken? maybe contact them or try to see on their website if their premix coco bags are washed and buffered? did you do the ph and ppm tests? I also had a wake up on the whole mixing your nutes so long before hand, I assume if the hydro guys can mix their reservoirs once a week you should be fine doing so too, but still would suggest checking ph and ppm very often if you going that route. hahah I had the opposite happen to me, had a bunch of coco sitting around so used that for my first grows, before really taking anything serious, then my lack of knowledge discouraged me, untill I bought a bag of FF along with my first tent and all that. didn't need to know much and had exellent results!

almost you spent a kakhuis full of money for no reason very exciting to see your girls in such good shape!

You did the right thing by not repotting before flipping, I wasn't asking because I was thinking what you did was wrong. just trying to follow your general train of thought on things Let's see the ph and ppm values for interest sake, remember to chek the values of the water you put in, don't make too much runoff. give little bit by little bit water to saturate medium as best possible before collecting first runoff, otherwise if you throw a bunch of water in the top one time and collect fitst runoff you not gona have accurate readings. So coco, coming from a coconut tree that genetally grows on coastlines and close to coastal areas, generally have excessive amounts of Mg in it, because of the salt in the water, soil and air around where it grows. This is why coco needs to be rinsed before use, especially those compacted bricks of coco need to be rinsed thoroughly. If you working with unwashed coco and added more Mg along with the calmag supplement, that might have been causing issues too. about the buffering, this could also be another reason why plant isn't uptaking nutes, most important part about buffering is to help keep ph stable through out the grow, but that's not all the surface of coco naturally has a negative charge (certain compounds will not "bind" or "stick" to it) it has to be introduced to cations which are positive charged ions, which are capable of "holding onto" those compounds. if your coco has no CEC (Cation Exchange Capacity) you will essentially be pouring some nutes right into the trays below the pot. so the washing and buffering and then still having to check ph each and every single time you give water. coco is so much of a headache I am not sure what the mixing of nutes so long before they're used will do to the composition, but I wouldn't suggest it. at least you testing the water each time before giving it? if the ph and ppm is still where it needs to be, it shouldn't do any harm. I see a lot of people growing for CBD these days, are you going to be making extracts? hahah you got a couple nice plants growing and gona yield couple nice buds to smoke on, you're really not that far off. I bet we all still feel far off from where we wana be! I know I do!

aha aha I see, if you where vegging for longer would you have put them into bigger pots or is 10L your biggest? hahahah guess I should first ask before stepping on any toes again, you growing to get bud off your plants, or you also not growing for yield? I mean there is a lot to be said, but if you're just growing, because growing is growing, then you doing 100% showing is your plants and not wanting advice. I had to read back on the thread, I see a lot of talk about adding silica. Have you been doing so? if so, how much and how often? You got a ph and a ppm meter brother? as mentioned before on the thread, silica can cause nasty ph swing. Just for interest sake I would like to see what the readings are on the runoff there? You might have caused ph issues somehow, ph might be just out of range to uptake certain nutes. you working with salt nutes, so I am guessing you're in coco? what ph you giving them? did you wash the coco and are you using some sort of calmag? I also see that you are in week 7/8 of flower already, indicating that growth has slowed down conciderably, but being so late in flower might deminish the possibilities of a full recovery and the plant returning to its normal self. by the time you got the roots fixed the plants will probably be pushing nanners cause of old age. don't wana risk that. I would really like to know the ph and ppm readings, it will help reduce the guessing. I think your best bet is to switch to plain water and finish those girls up, but take note for future grows.

looking good there brother! just a few questions from my side, if I may? what size pots are those and did you let the plants grow into the pot before flipping to flower or did you flip to flower shortly after transplanting? looks like they could've gona a little longer before flipping. another question, what are you feeding them? By the time you smoke the bud you want there to be as little possible active chlorophyll, this is the only reason why people "flush" their plants a week or two before harvest, because if you feed and water them up till harvest day you increasing your chances of smoking chlorophyll, also it helps kick start the drying ans curing process. However in your case it looks like your plant is already using the last of the food it's got in it, sending the "energy" in the leaves to different places to compensate for deficiencies and the plant is fading out, long before it should. if you're still feeding them you might have caused lockout and now it's not taking up more nutes. if you not feeding them you probably should. they look like they have a while still to go before they should be fading.