oros da boss

Repeal the dagga laws 

Its good to see that my record will be expunged but I still want a personal apology from Ministry.

@CoolJ  the arb numbers are pointless, I agree with that, but this is a Minister's ego at stake. They feel the need to still show power and retain their authority, in some manner.

How is it ever going to be enforced, if it gets passed through and approved? Be nice to your neighbours, don't make enemies and nobody is going to make kak, for you.

Drug driving laws also introduced.

"Driving or occupying driver's seat while under 
the influence of intoxicating liquor[ or], a drug 
having narcotic effect or THC, or with excessive 
amount of alcohol or THC or a drugs having a 
narcotic effect in blood or breath";
 

And some form of blood testing? I read about 100 nano gram THC and didn't bother to read the rest.  

On Thursday, August 06, 2020 at 8:50 PM, Totemic said:

No the stability is not due to a males absence.

@Totemic thanks for putting me right. 

On Thursday, August 06, 2020 at 8:50 PM, Totemic said:

At best the only advantage you are drawing from with fems is that Hybrid vigo

And even this isn't a solid promise. Hybrid vigour would only show in a small percent of that generation. Is that right?

Another thing to consider with these fem seeds that are mass produced and then re-branded is the selection criteria used. Potency, vigour and yield take a back step when you are trying to make enough seed to pay your salary. The plant that you choose to reverse needs to be able to produce lots of viable, non-hermie pollen, so that you can keep the seed banks fully stocked.

29 minutes ago, Totemic said:

For the sake of diversity. Fems are, if you will, finished products. Bred to produce a narrow but stable genetic pool.

Is this refered to as bottle necking? Is it a stable hybrid because there is no male chromosones involved?

3 hours ago, Totemic said:

Its tricky in that I can only be working with one type of pollen over a 6 week period so i dont risk cross contamination.

I would struggle to keep up the strict procedures. Do you store the pollen in the freezer?

1 hour ago, Fridgedoor said:

@oros da bossI also saw the neat design from Hso, but I'm not sure how much additional cost a box like that would bring but I guess it's quite a bit. I personally would also be fine with just the vial though.

Regarding fems, autos oder regs I think it depends a bit what you want to do. I like to germinate my autos along some fems so I can harvest the autos in December/January and the fems in April/Mai. My space is limited even though I grow outdoors so regulars are a bit tricky. For example when I am really Lucky and 10 out of 10 turn out to be female I won't have enough space for all of them.

I don't have the packaging any more. You have to snap the wood in half to get at the beans and then spend the next half an hour on your hands and knees looking for the things. 

I don't have any issues with growing autos and if it means you get a extra crop in then that has to be admired. I am also a fellow outdoor grower with limited space and dealing with males can be tricky, but it can be worked around.

One thing is to try and stress them into showing a pre-flower, before you transplant them into their final home. 

If I ever have too many females then i just farm them out to friends, or neighbours.

@afternoon blazer The main objection for me with autos, is the taste. Every one I have grown has had a particular taste that sort of sits at the back of my tongue and I don't enjoy it. I would politely describe it as woody.

The potency is not quite there, either. The most recent ones I ran were freebies from seedsman and RQS. A diesel, white widow and critical jack.  I wouldn't personally grow them again.

36 minutes ago, Totemic said:

as everything moves at natures slow and steady pace.

go with the flow, man.

38 minutes ago, Totemic said:

Only way to know is to judge the parents by the offspring they produce.

Its obvious, but this is worth repeating.

Can you share your reason why you don't use any feminised genetics in this project? 

Thanks for explaining it. Can it get tricky to keep track of everything? I imagine you have to be organised, keep records and label all the plants. Are there any formulas you can use to predict the odds of a successful outcome? 

@Fridgedoor just the vial, without the tin is good enough for me. Maybe a little label on the vial and away you go. Those things are used in a centrifuge, for lab work, so they should be easy enough to find locally. The tins are very nice though. I like that tamper proof pack from Humboldt seeds. A block of wood that you snap open to release the beans.

Another question is about the fems and autos. There is a bigger demand for those types from newer growers and I scheme thats where the bucks are.  A lot of seedbanks now have dropped regular seeds from their menus. 

I prefer to start off with regular seeds, fems and autos don't really appeal to me, but I wouldn't discourage anyone from planting any type of cannabis. 

@Totemic 

1 hour ago, Totemic said:

just poking the bear to see if there are any other interesting alleles activated.

 poke freely, you never know what might come up. 

1 hour ago, Totemic said:

I might need to back cross (Cube)

Do you back cross to the original parental plants (great great grandparents) or do something else?

The rest makes a lot of sense. A large population to test, keep the best and reject the rest. 

Does it help to eliminate some time and another roll of the dice, when you reverse the females? Speed up the process and reduce some of the guesswork.

Have you ever looked at how other plant breeders produce feminised seeds? Cucumber growers will hybridise until they achieve an all female plant. They call them parthenocarpic seed and when you buy them and open the packet there will be some feminised and some regular seeds in seperate envelopes. They still include the male-bearing  plants, to ensure pollination of the crop.

@Totemic good day, thanks for the reply and lets hope she  turns into a winner. If this mutation is a recessive trait, then is it likely to go back into hiding, in your subsequent generations?

One more question, if you have the time, please. What do you do to maintain your yield and vigour as you move along? Are inbred lines notorious for suffering from inbred depression? 

@Totemic Good evening, this looks like a fun project.

I have a quick question for you about whorled phlotaxy. Why did you choose that particular one for a STS spray reversal? 

I have come across a few of them and they have always stayed stunted in veg and never flowered as well as their sistren.  Whenever I see those 3 way seedlings I kill them now. 

Multi-dimensional grams per litre per metre per month.

Don't ask me to do the sums.

This doesn't really apply to me outdoors. 

There are also some other paramaters for outdoor growers, such as grams per month, if you grow perpetually.

Another one to consider is the volume of soil. Grams per litre.

@Scoobydoob Welcome and all the best with your efforts. Master Kush is a personal favourite of mine too

I admire your optimism@420SA This must be wearing thin on your patience, by now. 

No matter what, he keeps on hooking new fish.  

I was a late bloomer, but caught on quick. My first puff of homegrown swazi was at the age of 24. At a friends braai and he showed me his wardrobe full of drying branches. The smell of that cupboard was something I will never forget. 

He loaded a bong and told me told hold it, for as long as possible. I thought he meant to hold onto the bong.

A soaring high hit me and it was love at first toke. I have never been anywhere near as baked, since that evening. I could hardly drive home from laughing so much and when I got into bed I couldn't sleep either. There were whirling mandala patterns spinning behind the lids of my eyes. 

The next day, i picked out the seed from a branch he gave me, found a big pot and sowed all the seed, in one go. Planted them in July and harvested the following May. 10 months later I had a few spindly buds and it was terrible to smoke, harsh as hell and the effect was non existant

Hi@DamDave  good luck with your growing.

Mr Garden Myths gardens with 3,000 varieties, over 6 acres (I got it wrong). All he puts down on his beds is wood chip mulch. No ferts and no compost.  

My method to prep a bed is to spread a little lime over the grass then I use wet cardboard over the area, with a dry straw mulch to smother the weeds. Leave it a week, or so then I just0 poke holes through and transplant. I cheat a bit and use talbourne pellet ferts, for a extra kick. No digging and turning is ever needed.  Just hoe out the odd weed that manages to grow. 

I will eventually start experimenting with the wood chip method, as the bed needs more mulch. 

Have a good one, enjoy the rain!

Garden centres can be deadly to your wallet. They try it on, here in the W.Cape too.

R180 for 5 kg coco, or R270 for 5 kg coco chips in the garden route nurseries.

I like this website. Before reading this I've already given up buying mycoroot. R175 for a box of gravel with a few dead roots in it is some kind of joke. I don't own a microscope,  but that stuff makes no difference to plant health, or yield.

I spent that money on malted barley, instead. My bottle of biodyne won't be replaced, either. That one was R 220 for half a litre of water + floaty bits.

Mr Pavis is certainly no fool and an excellent gardener. I think he works around 3,000 acres Have any of you read his article on fish fertiliser? 

3 hours ago, Totemic said:

Wonder what adding cooked whole grains such as barley would do ito fodder for the herd

I add quite a lot of the cheapest dog pellets to my soils. Contains 60% plus of maize as filler. Great food source for the phosphorus freeing fungi for flowering.

Good morning all. Personally, I wouldn't put rice or dog food anywhere near my mix. I do use malted barley though. Its packed full of fungi, starch and enzymes such as phosphotase.

Cooked barley won't be as potent as malted barley. The malting process maximises all the enzyme activity at its peak and then germination is halted.

@afternoon blazer hi, its water extracted hash, my friend. You need a big bucket with big chunks of ice, for mixing and then a smaller bucket with the screens to filter it.

1st 3 grades

4th 

On Monday, July 27, 2020 at 6:09 AM, Rob189 said:

Hey guys. 
 

i need to make my own soil mix. Preferably, out of easy to obtain ingredients only. 
 

please drop your recipes, and reason for using each ingredient, in the comments below. 
 

P.S. i have a very big compost heap in the garden, but its full of bugs, beetle larvae etc. should i rather use something a little less alive? Or is there an easy way to remove all them undesirables? 
 

thanks in advance. Speedy replies would be appreciated as im buying all the ingredients this weekend   

 

Hello Rob, you can order all the bits online. 

I would use my own compost, rather than store bought, every time. If you have got a worm bin going then use those castings too.

50 litre coco. Washed and buffered. You must soak and rinse it twice to remove the excess salts

20 litre Biogreen universal potting mix. A blend of composted wood and peat. Use it straight out of the bag.

15 litre leaf mould compost.

10 litre worm casting.

125 ml 3-1-5 talborne vita pellets

25 ml gypsum. Gardener's gold dust

100 ml calcitic lime

250 ml ground kelp

 250ml bone meal

125 ml rock phosphate

 250 ml rock dust

 50 ml malted barley

 50ml coconut powder

It's very interesting and potentially the missing ingredient i needed. You make teas with it, right? Have you sprayed the foliage, or just soil drench?

These pair are my current grow and seed project. On the left we have a male sour blueberry x grape stomper. A little mix up of HSO and Gage Green's offerings.

On the right is a blue cheese, she is just begining to pre-flower and has been outside for the last 5/6 weeks. 

Malted barley and dry fert top dressing. Water straight put the tap inbetween the rains.

My neighbours and i combined all our cured trim together (580 g) and made a decent batch this week.

have a lekker weekend, mense

Great stuff. They look fantastic.

One of the claims made about barley is that plants can finish quicker. Say a 10 weeker, some claim to harvest at 8, or 9. 

Have you noticed any difference?