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Ventilation in/out never stops.. so is a easy 24/7 calculation. You can reduce the ventilation inside the tent in your Veg tent... not recommended to do that in the flower tent. The Veg tent needs in general less ventilation.. helps to keep humidity high. Tent size... a full tent runs best.. so half a 2.4x2.4 will work but your 'side' plants will get less light as if all sections would run. Can also just start with a 2.4x1.2, is the same access if you would work inside a 2.4x2.4 but side reflection just helps. Light is important Growing indoor is a efficiency game. Also, the tent gets the climate from the room it stands in. Bring the room to the needed temperature and sort the tent over the ventilation. You will notice that as soon as the plants go into night mode, they exhale. Moisture goes up not just by the drop of temperature. Is in general the night times causing PM issues, so ventilation is super important to run all the time. Light phase it removes heat, dark phase it removes moisture. Bad ventilation kills all the fun... Will be a fun project to see what you can do and what is just to much for a heat pump. Would be cool if you could document it, i like tech shit and trust me... your setup will look very different once you got all dialed in. Right now.. with load shedding.. you will learn the hardest way possible.. keep that in mind too. Just read that Eskom wants to setup load shedding schedules up to Stage 16 now.. that means.. 24 hours dark at 16.. that would kill indoor growing once and for all. And a fun number.. for 2023 we had so far 2 days no load shedding at all. Not sure i prepare for worse or to leave.. leave would suck.. but stage 16 would bring monstrous issues. I think I fire up everything and build myself a stash till Eskom goes dark If they announce it, they know it will happen... would take it serious.

The barrier is 26 degrees not 30.. over 30 things just turn out as bad as they can get. You have to include active cooling.. hence A/C.. and your cost just doubled. I recommend to shut down indoor growing in Summer, if you do not have a fully isolated room to work with, cooling cost will drive you nuts otherwise. Cooling is less efficient compared to LED diodes.. so the biggest factor of a perfect setup is the cooling.. and if you want to run 'perfect', A/C is imperative... as you will also run it during winter to keep it at 20... if you run a commercial setup. Is a huge difference to produce yourself some weed to smoke or produce top quality material. What size tents you want to run? I can give you an estimate of your power cost. With the estimate of power consumption you can design the solar setup to bridge your tent(s). You will put a lot more in as the household would need. So once load shedding stops.. you will have a over dimensioned setup. As indicator, a 2.4x2.4 tent will eat about 48-96 kwh a day (no A\C cooling, with A/C double it)... normal house hold uses 10-20 kwh per day, depending if it has a pool and solar geyser. A 288 Quantum Board will set you back 25-30$US.. plus cooler and the driver.. cooler and driver you can use on other boards if you change. 4 QBs 100$.. is not the biggest investment for a test run (1.2x1.2 tent). As said, if you want to go perfect, you don't need a Lux meter.. you need a PAR meter (science doesn't guess.. hard facts or is just toying around anyhow). You want perfect weed, you have to stay below 26 degrees at all time, best 20 dead flat... just to get that dialed in, you will spend 1000's of $ till you have the right A\C setup with the control units handling all automatically. If you plan to go nuts.. I would honestly suggest to also go additional CO2 to get maximum harvests from that expensive setup. So you will run 2 cooling circles. One for the plants and one for the lights. I would in this case also go hydro and not soil, makes your life easier feeding wise.. and at least 4 2.4x2.4 tents to make it run even. What means.. you will have high costs learning to grow the plants. Every fuckup will set you back around 50-100k in cost you have to cover next harvest.. you hopefully get. So if you say.. naa, no A\C.. why bother for the light so much? As said, get a grow light from a known producer. Now you know that your light is a working one.. then learn to grow the plant and get your weed tested. Most growers are shocked to find out.. average potency is 12%... not 20 or 30%... average private grower test results are a lousy 12% You get 20% from a strain able to produce 30%.. then you can say: OK, i know what I do, now lets build a perfect setup and see if I can reach the 30%. And yes.. people reach that.. so the target is set.. reaching it is a totally different story.. and you will practice for years till you get there.. perfect setup or not, at the end it counts how happy you keep your plants, the setup helps you, but you have to make every decision yourself.. your setup will not prevent mistakes you create Is why i said.. don't overthink.. would start with a setup you know works and not a new invented wheel.. also use a known fertilizer brand and proper genetics. You know your tools work, only one to blame for a fuckup is yourself, no excuses. Is like you want to build the perfect F1 race car but never driven a race car in the first place. Light is the engine... not the driver. Best car and a shitty driver will end with bad lap times... hence 12% thc content on average. Not so easy when a new generation diodes comes out. More efficient.. less draw.. so you add diodes to reach same draw for your driver or you have to add a dimmer.. if your driver can't handle a dimmer.. new drivers for your setup. Then, if you add diodes or not, you have to remeasure your hanging scheme with a PAR meter to have em in the right area again (Proper grow lights give you the hanging distance for each stage). If you would hang em just same as before, you would waste your efficiency gain. So only rule.. never ever buy old diodes for a grow light, that is hyper short minded as the 50$ you save on the diodes will get eaten by Eskom in 1-3 months and after that time your 'awesome' deal delivers less light and uses more electricity... for the next years. Why not shot in your leg just for fun? ^^ The interesting part of growing is that in a lot of cases the first run comes out rather nice and the next runs after more as fails, what confuses people. The reluctance of the first run and just follow orders on the fertilizer bottle gets to the right result. Next run people simply start to over-care and things turn sour suddenly. "But i watered more regular"... yup, they never got the dry phase needed.. "But i defoiled much better this time"... no, you defoiled constantly and kept the plant confused. A little change can have nasty results even you don't notice them. That is why i say... use your knowledge and the information you gained in your research and just start. If you never grew indoors, I would start with a smaller size tent.. 1.2x0.6 is a perfect tent to learn the ropes and understand what the plants tell you. You see your plants pray, you know you do things right. Na, is fresh air exchanges, so the capacity going in and out the tent. I would say you need to shift at least the same capacity inside the tent. I combined my intakes with plant ventilation but you need another 4 40cm desk fans at least in a 2.4x2.4.. beside the 2 150mm inline silent fans going in (if you go cheap on inliner's, you will hear your tent room on the other side of the house during night). With 2 going out, 4 total. Mine sounded like a turbine factory till i exchange the cheapos with TD-500 silent inliner's.. ~15k Rand gone just for the new air exchange in and out the tent. But worth it, you can easy talk in the room now. The desk fans make it about 2 years till you have to get new ones. A grow room is a running project, the bigger, the more gear you run which can fail. So cost: Power for lights, air circulation, cooling and gear controlling the setup plus heat mat(s) for cloning box(es). Fertilizers (each run has a certain cost), cloning gear/seeds, air purifiers (carbon filters or ozone generator) and all the side gear like UPs and DOWNs, test kit calibration solutions and grow medium (soil, coco, rock wool, clay pebbles,... endless). Beside the toys you need.. Pen for pH, ppm, EC and the quantum flux PAR meter. If you go for quality.. just those 2 tools can easy set you back 12k Rand... and depending how you grow, they are both simply a must. Go soil with a biological fertilizer, get your lights from a grow shop (no not anything HID related, they love to sell it as it looks cheap, it isn't) and start growing some weed 18 weeks after you started your journey, you know a lot more about everything in regards to growing indoors. You will not reach perfection till your learned the ropes.. is why I say, don't overthink, just start, you put enough thought into light.

Is also no reason to overthink things. You are not going for a moon landing. Putting thoughts in your light is great. If you go with a grow light from a known manufacturer, you will end with a good harvest, if you know how to handle the rest. (If you never grew Cannabis.. might take more than one run to get it figured out. Winter more easy indoor, lights heat reduces humidity.) If you just plan to run a 1.2x0.6 tent, light rather easy to handle and you also have less issues with ventilation and heat. Small tents need less side gear as big tents do. If you get a pure 3000k, 3500k, 4000k or 5000k board, will work. If you add IR, will help, UVa.. some say do, others don't advise it, new stuff hehehe. You do what you learn while growing your plants. I think you have more than enough knowledge to start.. will you build the first setup in a perfect way? Most likely not.. nobody i know has done that (including me) ^^ There is always something to tweak and Winter/Summer setups differ like totally new setups (i change my ducting).. feeding changes (summer needs more pure water feedings, except hydro, that needs more active solution cooling).. hehehe there is no perfect setup working all year long.. except you run a fully climatized indoor environment. And that only pays out if you sell in big numbers.. private people blow way to much into cooling during summer, or best shut down Dec-end Feb. I favor Flower over Veg, reason i went 3000K with IR (660-720nm), no UV. My plants get to size anyhow (worst case they stay a few days longer in the Veg tent, no time limit on Veg), but prefer more red for flower to add the 'umpf' and bud density. 3500-4000 is 'i don't know what i prefer' and 5000k is 'Veg is king, less node spacing' ^^ Flower has a limited time and plants will run out of time.. dying, rot or worse, go into rodelization. If you want to go PERFECT/PERFECT.. you would need dimmers on each kind of diode and change the setup depending on each stage.. i think i would take a pistol and put a funny painting on the wall before going that way keep it simple Would bet that you change your light setup later on ^^ might not be the light temperature and mix with IR and UV (or leave it) but also shape or cooling.. or simple redirect the in-tent ventilation to your light.. add more ventilation to cool the light better, more tent cycles (tent should get at least 6 full air exchanges per minute, PM prevention). And i missed at least 20 things now ^^.. you can over do it at some stage. Would just start.. go and find the light fitting your first impulse and grow some weed Addon: ^^ And when the next generation of diodes gets released.. you start over

How much i smoke.... nothing to brag, is just sad Roll 34 joints at a time and put 0.15g tabacco in each join. 1.15g fit in a king size joint. Lasts 5 days without visits. Batch of day smokes, this time Exodus Cheese. Using a coffee grinder not to get nuts. 150g ready for processing. The fun part comes with blending strains. Slurricane, Ginger Tea, Sour Diesel and Deluxe Sugarcane as blend... just freakin delicious and knocks you out of your socks. 1000 cones in a box... nearly done with this one. The pollen in the coffee grinder lid smells and hits you as good as cheese can. And there is quite a bit wish you all a fun May.

with weed... many ways lead to Rome. When you go to a certain level of detail, you come to the level where the strain even counts. Not all strains are exactly the same and need a little different treatment. PM is no real rocket science.. if you have a crap ventilation you will get PM (spores are simply EVERYWHERE and just wait for the right condition to bloom) or have the super ventilation that gets shut down in 4 hours blocks.. and turned into crappy ventilation. You see more as 68% humidity in your tent, PM is blooming and you can't do anything against it. Also want to point out.. resistance doesn't mean immune If you constantly have issues with PM... you have to put more thought into your ventilation setup.. and look for a backup for the ventilation when Eskom shuts you down. Normal flower tent get shut down for 4 hours and you don't open up the tent, you will have 99% humidity in that tent at the end of that power out. Spores will have gone into bloom... good ventilation just makes their life much harder. Bad ventilation and you will run into a serious PM issue, there are just limits you shouldn't pass at any time. If you get the idea to use filters... you face another challenge, PM spores are 1-3 micron in size. With you working inside the tent.. they will enter. Your ONLY chance is to keep humidity between 30-50% during flower. Germination the plants love and need over 80% humidity, Veg I keep em 60-80%. So yes, there is a high chance that you have PM starting to bloom during Veg.. conditions are just perfect... but Veg you can also unpack potent cleaners like Copper Soap. Spray all your plants top to pot when you put them in Flower and they are squeaky clean for the tent it matters. Your flower tent runs between 30-40%.. you will never have any PM issues... never... The Kushy Amino Acids I highly recommend any grower who as nothing similar. Dirt cheap and brings 10-20% more harvest and potency (tested) just by using it correctly.. wouldn't say helps with PM ^^ or didn't notice anything in that direction. All those 'science' clips you get on Youtube... they are more for the freaks. As a normal grower looking to grow his own stash, go to a grow shop and let the dude tell you what to do. Keep it simple, way easier to find the error. The moment you use 20 products instead of 4-6.. you have also a bigger range to debug your mistake. Honestly, keep it simple I use BioBizz Fish-Mix / Bloom, Kushy Amino Acids, Kelp Extract, Molasses (de-suphurized) and Fulvic/Humic Acids (BB Top Max, 5:2,.. check what your grow shop has) (6 products and rain water). As i grow biological in soil, i do not use any pH UPs or DOWNs. Keep it simple ^^ less debugging stress.

Soooo ^^ was just very busy with work.. and had a proper self induced fuck up The fuck up ^^ Had a friend over, chat and a few drinks... she got hammered and at one stage I put the drunk chick in my bed with a bucket beside her head hehehe Not the first time she did that and just went on changing the buckets. There comes the issue.. used one of my watering buckets and to make the smell less unfriendly, i put a drop of Sunlight Liquid in once emptied and rinsed out.. fresh lemon smell. So once she was sorted and 'empty'. I put the buckets away again. Problem was.. i didn't wash out the Sunlight Liquid from the clean bucket i use for my plants. Few days later I used that bucket to get water from my rain water storage. I remember I asked myself why there is a bit of foam in the 5 Gallon bucket I use to mix my fertilizers. To make it short.. gave my plants a serious burn from the soap. Got all back but took a bit. Dish wash liquid is nothing to feed your plants ^^ Stage 6 weed.. still works just three times the usual work and yeah.. potency will suffer a bit Ginger Tea

If you run into foxtailing with LED lights.. you are seriously low on ventilation inside the tent. Some heat sinks on those LEDs and a light air breeze should be enough that the bud can actually touch the light and not get burned.. is hand warm (i have no dimmer on my boards and run 2 x 120w QBs on a 240w driver).

Look what fits your need and room construction. In SA you have more the issue of what you get local.. importing a tent comes with a hefty transport fee as they are heavy.. and sea delivery takes months. For a starter... keep it cheap. Not said you get a good harvest and most people give up after 2 failures and sell their stuff again in disappointment. Don't buy a Ferrari if you don't have a drivers license yet and your friend just told you they look awesome. But once you sit in your back breaks and they drive in general like junk ^^. Buy a Golf, learn to drive properly and then upgrade to what you like and not your buddy likes. The thing that kills all fun on a grow tent is the zipper... bad zipper sucks donkey dick. Rest you can work around.. the zipper will kill your fun each day.

There are no 100% efficient devices.. we would blow to much energy into keeping supra conductive conditions if we want to run a electric system max efficient. Keep indoor growing simple, the more complicated your setup is, the more issues you have with debugging. Also, just to say it.. if you look for a perfect setup and NOT use a PAR meter ^^ you can't get to the goal anyhow. The question is, how many watts you want to use to grow. I run 480 watts on a 1.44 square meter area. Most prefer more 600 to 1000 watts on 1 square meter. The more light you put in the more light your plants have to play with.. max they can absorb is about 1000-1200 micromole PAR. Over that you need to add CO2 to get gain in production or just heat up more the environment. Problem is the more watts you run the more heat you have to remove again. Goal is to never pass 26 degrees C, over 30 your terpenes burn up and decay high speed. If you want to run things perfect during flower, keep it 20, day and night cycle. Light is important, I agree very much, but is just ONE component to have in perfect range, if you want perfect weed. I use 3000K QBs for Germ, Veg and Flower. Works... then you need fertilizers... best specific for Cannabis growing and use the fertilizer correctly. Can have the best light in the world.. if you don't feed what the plants need.. will not end well. Doesn't matter if you go Soil or Hydro... or can't make up your mind and go Coco. How you handle the plants will give the result. But.. have to learn the method and swapping means starting over again. My 5 cents: Great you look into the matter in high detail. But.. don't get lost in the forest of numbers.. the only number counting is if you are happy with your harvest. First learn the ropes and once you learned the plant, check how "perfect" you get your setup to run. Plants will tell you how they feel.. you just have to observe them and understand what they try to pass on

Ever tried to put a tree into resin to conserve it?

Make the hash and use the freezer to store your new batch If the material has the right moisture content, can also get a big plastic container with fitting lid, best vacuum sealed... if not, use duct tape to seal the lid properly.

Has nothing to do with THCa... like any store selling weed, they are pushing their luck as there is no law to make it legal.. yet. If you piss off the cops.. they will still take you out. Lay low and don't make to much noise ^^ and the cops should leave you alone. Ever tried THCa? ^^ is a proper hit hehehe I would rate it a lot more brain 'humping' as THC.. so would surprise me if that is not regulated in a later stage. We still wait for legalization. 2020 they gave them self till latest 2023 to implement the personal use of canabis law (should have been done 2020 already). And me for my part will sue the ANC end 2023, if they didn't do the job again. I hope others will join me

I gave you one example.. I got myself into programming when i was 14.. didn't even had a computer to start with hehehe other story. But is my go to if I need money.. i code stuff ^^ If you are more into art and creating pictures... totally not my field.. Patreon you can create art and get sponsored by your fans. Sorry to say it.. OnlyFans is also a form of income you can do from anywhere (and no, doesn't has to be porn oriented to make a killing). If you have a passion and can turn it into income, you have a rather good chance to succeed compared to stuff you hate to do. Isn't easy.. but.. the internet is most likely your best chance to create a income you can maintain world wide. Twitch game streamer, Youtuber, sculptor, product tester, traveler... become creative. I do Shibari beside and have a few female friends acting as my models. They do their own thing. ^^ Females have a few more options.. and again.. doesn't need to be pornographic at all. You know best what you like to do and are good at.. see if you can turn that into a service on the internet. The start is always the hard part... and might need a few tries till you hit the bullseye. But if you don't try.. you will never hit the bullseye anyhow. Trying is part and if things don't pan out as planned, learn why, then it wasn't a failure in the first place, and try again. Making a mistake is only bad if you do not learn from it.. and learning is a good thing.. so don't let mistakes take you down, just learn from them. If you want to learn coding, start with the simple Basic. Once you understand how the code flows, you can take on more complex languages.. again slowly.. if you try Assembler after Basic.. you will shoot yourself hehehe You will find similarities in all coding languages out there.. like with all, getting into a new topic is the hard part. Bite through it and is becomes easier with each program you write.. and the code gets also more and more complex.

My suggestion would be to build up a income over the internet. Get yourself fluent in some programming languages and enter yourself in some freelance boards. If you get enough jobs to maintain yourself, you can check where you want to move... all you need is a internet connection to go on with your work, doesn't matter where you sit. Will take a bit of time to get to the point.. but is a working concept.

I know about that one... ANC trying to secure a platform for easy money extraction. And they did... now they can just take and don't have to show. Only solution really is to get off Eskom... or move out. Idea to move my ass to Namibia gets more and more present. So far loved my stay.. but.. Eskom will not get better and i really had a bit enough of load shedding... will get worse and more expensive. This country is terribly sick.. has a nasty form of ANC ^^ Corvid was a joke compared to the damage the ANC did to the country... what they will do if nobody stops them is also easy to predict.. ZAR will get declared to junk status and SA ends with the image of a banana republic. That can't be the goal.... sorry, foreigner ranting. But can't be the goal! In my country of birth they announced last year, that there might be power cuts due to lack of gas. People hit the road before there even was one.. and guess how often the power went out since... zero. If a government wants to solve things.. they can.. they just put somebody with the knowhow in charge. 13 years now you get one douche bag after the other set in place and gets worse and worse. When exactly do you South Africans plan to sort out your country? Just asking

Time to get rid of the ANC... they clearly have zero intentions to fix the problem.

Usually i see those news on the internet. This one i have missed and just noticed you get quite a bit less. They went up 19%.... and is not the last increase. Load shedding and price hikes. I wouldnt mind if the higher price would fix load shedding... but the sad fact is... now just more gets lost to corruption. So yeah your indoor growing got 20% more expensive.

Is a waxy glass tube.. got it from the vapestore.co.za .. 300-400 rand.. can't remember exactly. Icing sif from pnp (20 bugs) or any other stainless steel, and coffee filters.. fitting your size tube. Vapestore also has the none stick plates.. highly recommended ^^ If you work fast.. use a bucket of water beside and dip the glass tube in quickly to warm up. If really cold, you angle the gas can, the glass bit connecting the nozzle of the can can chip off. Gets really really cold. ^^ I also use a kitchen towel wrapped around the glass tube to keep my hand warm.

Should also mention that the v3 generation of diodes overtook the HID world by quality of light. The new diode generation gives better light, more the plants can use.. and got more efficient The next generation diodes should be not far out, we run on v3 for a few years now. It might be tempting to buy HID due to the prices a starter set costs. Eskom will have eaten that advantage within one growth! Plus HID need globe replacement about all 6 month.. and those globes are not cheap.. is like Printers these days. Printer is 250 bugs.. a cartridge is 150 ^^ Go LED, costs less electricity to run, generates less heat and is the better light if you go v3. Is a win/win/win. I use my TS3000 from Mars for 3 years now.. The same in HID globes would have cost me double.. at least.

Is always the same game.. you use crap to start with, you get crap. You use good genetics and not just trim material.. those 600g were nice buds, so the result is rather satisfying ^^ He was also jumping in circles when i gave him the bag hehehehe And no money got exchanged for the washing.. goes so fast. What you charge for 30 mins of your time with a buddy ^^ Result is same as pressing... just way less effort to get things done.

Just had a buddy asking me to wash him some weed. Said he has about 600g he wants washed. He came by today, so I quickly washed it for him. Made a little video and pics.. no sound. I used 9 cans.. told him 8, was 1 off.. but always have some laying around. I forgot to start the cam for the first 2 cans till i saw it. ^^ Age is clearly kickin in ^^ You see in the clip, we smoked a joint right beside the none stick plate. Just a little air flow is enough. (First part runs 1 pic per second and second bit is 5x faster ^^) https://youtu.be/rYBb21nbr4s Bubbled out, easy to notice, nothing moves anymore ^^ This was Blueberry and some cheese.. can't remember what he said exactly. Had a few seeds in.. reason it got washed, he wants to eat it. No risk to blow yourself up And is fun to play with.. just very very sticky Put it in a bag to get taken with. To get it out is very simple, over night in the deep freeze and you can take it out the bag like a candy ^^ Is a bit much , this bag most likely gets cut when frozen to empty it. Result is 72g. If you want to use for edibles, get it tested (uses very little ^^) and then you know how to mix with the cooking oil of your choice to get the desired mg per gram. I prefer brownies over cookies ^^ Was no oven involved, so this needs to get decarbonized.. baking, on a Pizza,.. what ever you want, just needs heat and best not over 150C or you vaporize the resin into the oven On Pizza.. put the oil on AFTER you take the pizza out of the oven. Baking doesn't matter.. is in the dough. Will mix very easy with any cooking oil... this one smells like wild forest berries, very pleasant. All those little sprinkles you see with your magnifiers in a bag.

Thanx ^^ I learned a lesson.. @THCSA hope you do it again next year ^^ can count me in, I bring a flavor bomb next year

3 was bad... really really bad I wouldn't actually mind if the organizers would make a pre selection and it ends with 10 weeds to test. Just the 10 best of the send in. 17 was a bit much, i expected 10-12.

i didn't gave a lot about the "looks". Bud density on a squish to release the terpenes and smell was my first criteria. I do not like fluff buds in the first place ^^ Good bud is dense and should hit your nose. Rolled up is flavors and how harsh it burns or makes me cough. None should happen ^^ Then how even the joint burns down.. shows a bit water content. And finally.. effect.. No1 was the giggle master hehehe the guy on the table beside asked what we just smoked. Also made the mistake that... my bag wasn't enough for a 'joint' so we put for No1 and 2 all in one joint from both bags. Middle of No2 we figured out, we will not reach 17 that way and skipped the king size papers

Had to fetch my card ^^ No6... average over all from bud looks to aroma, was bitter, holy cow. Burn was nice. Didn't ended even in midfield ^^ 3 and 5 i had a puff and knew right away, i don't like. My midfield were 8,9,10,11 and 15. 4, 7 and 12 very close by, rest yuck, wouldn't smoke it daily. But No2 just left a mark in flavor.. I prefer flavor over potency. I rinsed my mouth with water after each joint.. No2 made me drink more Skipped on the free drink or beer..