Green Leaf Organics

Just for fun

Looking good , loving the side by side between organic and hydro . That organic plant is looking extremely happy. The organic one has better bud development but smaller ,  Looks like you have a nice indica dominant baby there . How's the watering style change working out for you ?

Veg or flower ?

Try this product as it's amazing for fungus Nats and won't hurt your medium at all , that's where i would start 

2 hours ago, Weskush said:

Just had a look. This is some expensive seeds right there!

Currently going for an average of $10 a seed for High CBG low thc . CBG will overtake CBD in anxiety treatment in the next few years 

CBG is going to be the next big thing , in my opinion it's better than cbd in certain areas and is extreamly under utilized. 

I was lucky enought to be given 150 cherry haze cbg seeds from am overseas contact , 14% cbg . Unfortunately I have not seen any locally available atm. I am planning to fraction off the cbg in a SPD setup and start processing cbg oils for anxiety disorders 

Are you wanting for personal or commercial use?

I would just like to give a shout out to an artist that I think is currently creating the best cannabis strain art in south Africa. 

I have had the privilege to have 4 strains commissioned so far and plan to do a lot more . Here some examples of his work and you can find him on Facebook and IG under Rheecemoonjava.art

Let's so some support for local amazing talent. 

NB please note these images where commissioned for varies cultivators and the imagines remain the property of the cultivators , I have permission so share them as long as it's not for commercial use 

Special order done for a client 400mg each lindt chocolate and cashew with grape diamond terpenes added for flavor 

NB , all cannabis used is the client's cannabis and I only process it as a service and no THC is paid for or sold  . 

Just a few more random extraction pics 

Monster cropped with no training 

12 minutes ago, The_StonedTrooper said:

Awwww

@Green Leaf Organics

how do you find in your experience, after having done the monster cropping / flowering clone, the plant behavior regards to stretch into flower the final time?

I always find it doesn't have any stretch and just will fatten up the stems and make kak solid nugs.

Once again very strain dependent,  flower time I found is generally shorter and stretch is minimal with nice dense fat nugs.  For me the perfect size nugs are between 1-3g anything more and they just not as good . This is where monster cropping comes in , very little training needed so many hours of labour saved and many bud sites which in turn makes the buds smaller and not just a few fat colas.

18 minutes ago, The_StonedTrooper said:

I read it out of context, and my apologies for that, that's why I asked and didnt want to give the wrong impression. 

I am not very good at getting my head explained in text and I appreciate and welcome the conversation and corrections where I think I am saying one thing but people read it as something else . I love stimulating conversations 

I can see how how the library comment could be taken badly , in my head I was just trying to put across the importance of keeping records 

Sorry bud don't mean to come across defensive at all  , I apologize if it came across like that .

You are quite right as there are tons of variables , I ment it to be a guideline and an average. 

10 minutes ago, Ill_Evan said:

 

Whooooow that is nuts, so if you wanted to reveg a clone from a full flowering plant at harvest, say you flowered for 8 weeks, that clone would take 32 weeks to reveg!  

That's 8 months! Holy balls man! 

As a part of your growing method, how long into flower would you start your cloning process? I must assume from the numbers above it would not be right at harvest 

Main issue I have if clones taken at harvest is keeping the plants alive long enough to reveg , they will naturally die before reveg happens . I am not saying it can't be done but it's a long process. That's why the lower underdeveloped buds are the ones left for reveg as they will be a few weeks behind 

I take my clones on day 14 of flower , no later and no earlier . Then by the time the room has finished flowering the clones have revegged and ready to go into the veg room and the veg room is ready to go into the flower room and the cycle continues 

It all depends on genetic age of the strain . I have a original cheese cut that was brought into south africa in 1994 , this strain will not reveg under 18/6 as with many of my stains that are very old genetically.  For best reveg results I always go 24 hours light , 18/6 will slow down reveg or as I say on old genetics it won't even reveg . 

I have strain that you can put outdoors in the middle of summer and they will flower even. 

As for my library I have decades of journals , I fill out a page every day on my observations of rhe day and my plans and goals . They one of my most important tools 

13 minutes ago, The_StonedTrooper said:

2000+ is plenty, you must have a library of logs.

You made this observation on 18/6 I'd guess and not on 24h straight, and if running on 24h would you still say the same amount of time then?

I found it out by keeping written diaries and reveging over 2000+ plants .  my preferred method of growing is monster cropping which involves letting the plants go info flower before taking clones and reveging the clones 

Just a little bit of info.

For every day a plant is in 12/12 flower mode you need 4 days for reveg , so 1 week flower would be a 4 week reveg (roughly) you can boost nitrogen to speed it up a little 

I just use 2 drops of sunlight dishsoap per litre..... 

3 hours ago, donnob said:

Thanks GLO, I normally take her out to water, I have a bucket with a grid and water until I can see runoff coming out of the pot. I haven't been focusing on where I'm watering though, so I'll take your advice and be mindful about trying to saturate all of the medium right through.

You need to saturate the entire medium ,roots won't like spreading to dry soil and dry soil micro life will almost completely stop producing nutrients for your plant. 

It's also good to bare in mind that soil can become hydrophobic if let to dry out to much. This means that when you water you may get runoff but are you actually not saturating the medium and water is just running through your soil. 

What you need to do wet the medium across the entire pot not just around the root ball , only apply enough water to wet the entire top. Then wait 10 min and apply the same amount of water again , wait 5 minutes  and you should get runoff . If at this stage you not getting runoff repeat and take not how much water your medium can optimly hold. 

If you find your plant then wilts its a sign of an underdeveloped root system and the plant is not utilizing the entire pot . The wilting is caused by the water cutting off oxygen supply . In Organics your entire medium needs to stay damp for soil health , dry medium is a dead medium 

I have gone weeks between watering in bigger pots and small plants. This is why the correct ratio of perlite is also required in your soil because perlite is a key to prevent overwatering.  This is also why I hate vermiculite as its the number one cause of beginners killing plants with overwatering 

Hi  bud looking good .

One slight thing I have noticed in your soil pot is that you never seem so saturate the medium . I may be wrong about this but it always seems like you just watering around the base of the plant . By doing this you are limiting root growth . You need to saturate the entire pot and then let the medium cycle through a wet dry cycle.  As I said I may be wrong and I an just going off the pics shared . If you refine your watering in the soil you will have a largely increased yield as the tlroot ball will be much bigger .

Just my 2 cents 

Autos have nothing to do with light cycle , its a genetic code . Once the plants reaches a certain genetic age it will flower .

No plant likes 24/7. plants need to sleep , so even though they will flower under 24/7 light there's no way they plant will ever be able to utilize all that light and go into sleep mode so you really just wasting money running lights for 24/7 . This will invariably induce a small amount of stress , I have always had best results with autos under 18/6

Just my 2 cents 

Don't worry to much about trichome colour , I use to stress about it but rather listen to your plant. I have had some plants never turn amber but turns out to be an amazing smoke . If it's starting to genetics foxtail it's about 7 days from done . You need to not stress so much about numbers and technicalities,  every plant is different and you need to learn to understand and listen to the plant . In a week that plant will be ready to chop no matter the trichome colour . So when you chop it and check the trichomes for a reference.  I always recommend people keep a written diary , there's a lot to writing down your finding and experiences and makes it an interesting read reading back through past experiences . My written diaries have helped me on many occasions to fix issues and count them as an extreanly important part of my grow experience 

Some genetics just foxtail at the end and that bud looks really close to the end 

Don't stress bud , yes they a bit worse for ware but those are not even close to not making it . They will recover fast . Never spray in direct light be it under growlights or sun  , you want the plant to fully dry before being exposed to light again

It's an auto don't mess with trying to separate them , you will stunt them if they survive.  Leaving both one will always out grow the other one so i recommend just cutting the smaller one away and just leave the stronger one