Budtender

16 minutes ago, CreX said:

@Master_Gis right though...

You have signs of magnesium deficiency. 

I would add some magnesium sulphate to your next feed. 

Epsom salts is the stuff you need

Buy a box from pnp for like 20 bucks... And give some to her... 

It's pretty hard to over do it. But I would go in at a level teaspoon and see the difference. 

Repeat this once a week for 2 weeks and then monitor from there. 

 

@CreX  solid advice. A

This is what I got from the corner store. 

Gonna mix it just now and give it to her and keep you guys posted on progress

10 hours ago, StickyD420 said:

Take your time bro, no rush, feel it out and get the hang of the plant, you'll be doing yourself proud very soon.

I hear you brother. Respect

10 hours ago, Burly said:

Hit any of the dudes up on this site for advise and views on LST everyone is so Irie and will to share their knowledge and experience, I agree have fun and have more fun learning as we all do growing. The learning never stops dude. 
 

peace. 

Yeah Burly I agree. Growing has to be fun. Will ask around about LST for sure. The okes on this sites are legend bro. This forum rocks

9 hours ago, Master_G said:

Hey Bro. Looking good. Some small Deficiency in the leaves there. but overall its looking pretty good I have to say  

 

Thanks G! yoh this light is real sunny. I call him Sunnyboy I even got sunburnt! hahaha. It really helps alot to have proper lights wow! 

2 minutes ago, Burly said:

She really is looking good, those lights and gardener must be doing something right I was just wondering if you were going to do some LST to get more bud sites out that lady. It’s a pretty simple process of bending back the top coles and making light available to the lower branches. We could all give our take on the process, it’s just one of those many things each grower might and do do differently but really increases plant health and healed. It might be a tad to late to get the full benefits of LST but I’ve also run a few plants and only started training in the start of flowering, of course trining autos the earlier is always better. Maybe an idea for your next run. 

Good looking out bru. Now that you mention it I do see alot of bigger leaves covering up smaller bud sites. LST is something I'm itching to try on her but I'm still too much of a noob (miaaauw)  It may be too late too start now but next run I'll be going with photo's and work on my training game seen some insane plant training around here man and I'm eager to get in the action

4 hours ago, Burly said:

Well done dude, great start and maximum effort
Your ladies are looking sexy. Love the inventive set up you've put together. 

@Burly thanks bro. Much appreciated. Yeah these are tough times we're living in mate. I reckon the world needs good weed now more than ever lol

3 hours ago, StickyD420 said:

Dont know what you talking about officer

Sweet grow so far brother, and good progress

Smell? what smell Mr Officer??? Hahahaha thanks alot man! My first grow I still have lots to learn bro

Hey howzit guys 

Finally got some action and things are starting to smell Finishing week 6 going into week 7. Passing the halfway mark. 

I got my baby a new home. Previous space was too cold and higher risk of pests chowing her so I went and got a grow cab and modified it slightly. Hooked up some cheap fans to circulate and extract air and she seems happy. 

Otherwise, not much happened during the last few weeks. Still feeding just pH balanced water and keeping up the 18/6 light schedule. I'm seeing new growth looking normal and older leaves showing signs of deficiency or maybe light burn?  Will start feeding nutes soon. Have to get by with EHG nutes in pH balanced water according to lockdown budget.

Shoutout to@Master_G your lights are fire bro!!  Really efficient. Real quality material

Below are some recent pics...

please feel free to comment or question. Any advice welcome Peace

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@Burly yeah thanks man glad this thread could help amd great grow you have there!

This is my first grow and its an auto I'm trying to stick to the basics as much as I can. 

FF soils is the choice of many growers from the grow diaries I read and people I've spoken to. A lot of people say too "hot" for straight planting.

I honestly expected much more burn from the soil but its only those 2 leaves affected so I'm not stressing too much.

Like you I'm also suspecting high Nitrogen but I have only been giving Ph 6.5 water for 3 weeks and the soil should have some nutrients left.

I'm ditching the synthetic nutes and I'm going to start giving Biobizz bloom only for this grow once flowering starts. I will get some  Fish mix as another possible addition for future grows . Wanna see if I can get my hands on some mollasses this week and see what it does. 

Lots of guys around here have had great results with other nutes beside organic one's using FF soil. You can get great results either way but the choice is yours really bro.

Like @Totemic said,  MKP is his go to so thats also an option. I need to read up more on MKP though it seems like a good product to use.

Everyone has their own growing style I guess 

just my 2cents

On 7/11/2020 at 11:52 AM, Totemic said:

 

Howzit la familia

Quick update. 

So far so good. Following through on some solid advice from the more experienced growers around and keeping it simple.

Not much happening.  Still just giving dechlorinated water with Ph of 6.5 once or twice a week. 18

First leaves turning slightly yellow but otherwise she seems quite happy.

Older leaves have this weird curling thing going on. No idea what it might be but as far as I can see it's not affecting her negatively so I'm happy

What she looks like after 3 weeks.

More updates coming soon.

Shabba

@CreX @SkunkPharm @TotemicGreat info gents shot a lot!  Im totally new to the growing game and the guys on this site has really helped me alot. 

Will keep the community posted on this grow.

For now all I can do is sit back and let her do her thing

1 hour ago, SkunkPharm said:

I'm not saying it is wrong to add salts. You could probably do both you must just know what you are doing to the microbes in your soil. But like @CreX is saying molasses will keep them alive. I am currently experimenting with adding wood ash to my water to see if a potassium boost late in flower does anything to the plants. 

next level

2 hours ago, CreX said:

I have had great results with salts in soil. 

But @SkunkPharmis right... The roots will stop producing carbs for your microbe population... But because it's soil, they will still stick around and continue breaking down whatever is left in the soil.

Some mollasses feeds will help keep them happy and busy helping your roots whenever they can

 Makes total sense. Never would have thought about molasses. brilliant idea.  thanks man ! 

1 hour ago, Totemic said:

I run all my plants in organics, and if it's a plant for seeds I keep a full on organic approach. If it's a plant for bud, then I usually supplement MKP at EC not really pushing past 0.8-1.0. From about 4 weeks, And then once again at 6 weeks.

interesting approach you have there. different strokes for different folks. I like that.

1 hour ago, SkunkPharm said:

There is people that grow with salts in soil. But at lower doses than what they recomend. If you do have microbes in your soil and you feed salts the plant will stop producing sugars for them. The plant produces sugars to stimulate certain microbes to increase the size of the microbial colonies. Certain microbes breaks down phosphate ions to chelated phosphorus and others break down ammonia to chelated nitrogen. Only chelated ions can be absorbed by the plant. Once you start feeding already chelated ions (nutient salts) the plant stops regulating these microbial colonies and thus will die off as the do not have food.

So decide which way you want to go.

yo shot for the info bro sounds like feeding inorganic nutrient salts to soil will do more harm than good? I'm trying to keep it as natural as possible so will defs be going organic with this grow I reckon since plants are living , the soil it's in should be as well

2 minutes ago, SkunkPharm said:

There is still plenty of nutrients in that soil. I would not feed it untill it starts flowering. And get some biobuzz bloom. That is all she will need. 

@SkunkPharmGreat stuff. Thanks man. I was originally planning to grow in a hydro bubbler bucket thats when I got the EHG nutrients. Will anything bad happen if a person should use EHG nutes in organic soil? 

Wassup 420 fam.

Started my first indoor grow about 2 weeks ago. Not much happening at the moment...

Strain- Original Orange Bud Auto from Biltong and Buds.

Medium- Freedom Farms Classic

Pot Size- ± 13 L

Grow Space- ± 50x50x 180cm

Lighting-  120w QB from @Master_G

Light schedule- 18/6  

Nutes- EHG Grow, Micro and Bloom

Prayer

Soaked seed for 12 hours then into jiffy pellet. Germination was slow and first true leaves were a bit on the yellow side. Not sure if its due to cold CPT weather or bad genetics. I'm just happy Stella got her groove back. Watering with only dechlorinated tapwater at pH 6 every 2-5 days 

Entering week 3 now and she's coming along nicely. 

Can I start feeding nutrients at this stage or should I wait another week or so? 

...(slow clapping)...

Epic grow.

@Bospatrollie2 take a bow fella!

@Bakstein420 got more or less 60x60 grow area. And thanks for the link that website is very helpful

Was looking at these lights from GrowOpz

https://growopz.com/products/qb-130

https://growopz.com/products/qb288v2-clone-120w

unfortunately sold out till further notice

@Bakstein420 . I have some tools and wires laying around so Im quite keen to go the DIY route

This one caught my eye. This should be enough to grow 1-2 plants right?

@Crex you're probably right man. I should put up around 3k for a decent light. Makes sense that once that aspect is taken care of I can focus on actually raising my ladies.

While searching for a decent light I came across many different brands, models and wattages. To be honest, its all rather confusing at this point in time. 

Does lets say a 1000w light really give you 1000w worth of light or is that just the max capacity of the light?

IYHO, Is there any specific brand and model  I should look out for that can be trusted? 

Im taking your advice and looking at it as an investment rather than an expense. Im going to have to smoke less for the next few weeks but all for a good cause lol

Thanks for the help bro and the epic Goku analogy. ur tops man! its much appreciated. 

Jimmy

@CreX thanks buddy! im not really sure. I want to start with 1 plant. maybe the hydroponic route with coco perlite mix in maybe a 25- 30l pot indoors and hand water? Still trying to figure out which LED light would be best for 1-2 plants though.

budget of around 2k  for a light

will do my best to start growing by next week sometime. What strains would you recommend for first timer like me? 

@SkunkPharm  Hospitality Management china. Was working as bartender travelling alot now I'm  settling down as wannabe budtender and going back to my roots so to speak. lol

Greetings all 

I'm quite chuffed to be part of the 420SA community.  

Been on the forum for a few weeks now. Mostly reading and things before attempting any actual growing.

Much impressed by skill and knowledge of the lads here!

Soon as I start my first grow I will let you guys in.

Back to the books for me happy growing l!