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Those are lekker looking shorty pots you got there. What literage are they? I have a few 70's from Freedom and they feel too tall for indoors, I 've gone no-till and growing veggies in them outside instead.

On 11/3/2022 at 6:33 AM, SkunkPharm said:

I must say that I never understood the hype about the whole cheese thing, but after getting my hands on the real deal I now understand. The Super Cheese from Dagga Farmacy and the Big Buddha Cheese 2017 Betty Boob club winner is the best cheese I have seen and smelt.

I thought that about the SC from the Farmacy too. Really chill smoke, ticked all the boxes and the smell mellows in the cure beautifully. Just my opinion but it needs to be scrogged, which is no fun indoors. Next time I'll grow it in 3L pots, keep them small so everything gets good light. Did the Big Bhuddha grow the same? Would be nice to grow two strains and still get a proper even canopy.

thanks man it's pretty for sure. and I was going to ditch it in the beginning coz it always looked like it was struggling. Glad I didn't, I dig the wake and bake strains. 

ahhhhh! Much appreciated I never would of thought of that. Will keep an eye out.

tiny bit of this going on...

the glue has been ridiculously light sensitive. Maybe i messed something up in the beginning and it never recovered. Dunno. Couldn't flush coz of the damn scrog net. And unfinished work before it went in.

pineapple 

pics - some from last week some yesterday

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are those homemade sticky traps I see, or store bought? I only ask coz I tried with a few substances on yellow card and every one of them sucked.

what do you do with your custom made soil after the grow? It must be pretty depleted at the end or no?

8 hours ago, Ill_Evan said:

I've disassembled every one I've owned at least once during their individual lifetime in attempts to extend their use. I also find that the motor builds up a lot of fine particles along the drive shaft between the motor and the blades, which increases friction on the motor and eventually wearing it out. I had the wire issue once with a fan, and sorted that out with some new wire and some soldering. 

I then ended up buying into RAM fans and I have found they work as long as you don't use the oscillation function at all...or so I thought! One of them died after maybe 3 months of just stationary work. Luckily all the RAM products come with I think 6 month warranties so I'll just keep getting them replaced until one lasts longer than the warranty 

yeah i got one of those ram fans... of all the things that I've bought it's gotta be the biggest disappointment. Made me very wary of ram products.

if you don't mind me asking, what is a s1 f1 seed?

does this mean you're going to have feminised cheese auto seeds? 

yewwww! lookin' fine fine FINE!

I wasn't sold on the hashplant but thought I'd give it a go anyway. Mandarin cookies grew strong out the gate and stretched a lot - it looks like it could be a high yielder if it was grown with similar plants and not mixed in with shorter strains. Pineapple express was a slow starter but is looking very healthy now... supposed to stretch but I only topped it once, maybe twice and I've barely trained it compared to the others and it's the same height. Time will tell. 

the super cheese has been solid so far.. I think it'll produce nice buds. 

thanks man yah sounds good, as long as it's a balanced output you got it nailed

bonsai mums coming along slowly. Just a learning project this, for if I come accross something special in the future.

Day 14 of flower.

ferts per litre: 1ml grow, 2ml bloom, 7ml fulvates elixir. Next sunday 20ml humates/litre. Overwatered 4L per pot last time, took 4 days till next water so today 3L per pot. 

soil ph: 6.5 to 6.8 

any advice on humates/fulvates in ff classic soil? Looking at what's in the soil I assumed these would be helpful but I don't want to overdo it.

mandarin cookies

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super cheese

Air movement. 

messed about with placement of fans. I'm not sure about these box fans... they blow a lot of wind but they're quite powerful for under the plants. I've got a couple of lithium fans coming to test out. My feeling at the moment is that: a) running just the extractor during loadshedding is not enough, the air won't be circulating in the canopy enough and b) I'd rather have 8 X 5v fans with battery backup than one 40v fan. Cost is obviously an issue but i was blown away (pardon me:-) by how much difference the little fans made in circulating passive intake air under and up through the canopy.

man, getting your environment sorted requires more work and money than I had anticipated. I've now put environment ahead of growing for this cycle... still learning on the grow but these plants have been stressed by a number of things: some understandable mistakes, some stupid mistakes and some inexplicable decisions have been made! One of my favourite things to do is break out the Mighty for a little lift and then do the days grow work so that probably explains a lot. 

My concern now is that I'm pretty sure I've got a case of light stress. Initially the plants reacted really poorly to the light being lowered. I had another go in late veg, dropping them 50-100mm each day. Got the light down to 600mm but that was before a few colas stared to mess up the uniformity of the canopy. I've lifted the light to 650 from the top cola's but eish, I'm not sure if I should lift it more or not. 

@Prom  Will the wattage of that little globe be enough to trick the plants? I think you were talking about much stronger battery lights. Is there a minimum light requirment that you know of? I know you have lots of testing equipment!!!

Just as a side note I see sonoff sell a din switch that recognizes when loadshedding hits and then sets off scenes accordingly for things that are connected to inverters/generators/etc. Handy thing to know about.

Thanks everyone for your replies. I'll go for a major tech then, I also see I have a Toptronic that was connected to an old geyser... probably could've used that but it's over a year old so not worth the risk. Found the isolator switch for the old geyser in the roof so gonna run that down and use it to clean up the electrics now that the setup won't change for a while. A secondary db board is required for it to be properly safe. Will leave the heater to run off a normal house circuit so that old geyser circuit will easy handle everything else, has a trip and can be surge protected at the db. 

@Prom Yah I see those I've found one that is reviewed as actually being trustworthy from a battery point of view and have ordered a couple. here's the link if anyone's interested (UK brand) aurora lithium 

@Naughty.PsychonautAs far as air is concerned, I'm busy installing a little 12v inverter to run the extraction and circulation fans and also the dehumidifier if I need to. I know this is going off topic a bit but I've been measuring the RH under canopy, in canopy, above canopy and at the extraction fan. I am now convinced that a lot of growers try to compensate for poor air circulation by turning their fan up. It's crazy how humidity sits under that canopy. I now have 4 fans in various arrangements to test and it made a huge difference, a massive difference, in evenly distributed humidity. My fan running on about 6 (with filter attached) will empty the air every minute... turning it anything higher than that you're barking up the wrong tree. 

Thanks again everyone

Having said that, I don't have a problem with the name myself. I'm just saying there are people that will freak out and it's entirely understandable if you know where it's coming from. 

On 8/13/2022 at 6:17 AM, Naughty.Psychonaut said:

niiice hahahah yeah it's a good smoke. 

the way I identify it, suuuuper tight rock hard small buds, snowey white/platinum frost cover, almost can't see any green only frost on the surface with the orange hairs poking through, but by far the most noticeable savoury, food-like smell and taste. kinda makes me think of the GMO everyone speaks of, the whole garlic mushrooms and onions smell, but in a pleasant-offensive way. 

will see if I can get a gram or two for a little showcase. 

I know you propbably didn't say these things but the discussion was part of this thread. here is a perfect example of how weed with a "bad" name can still be good weed. people who skip out on strains cause of the name makes no sense to me. the name has nothing to do with the weed. it has more to do with the grower, the plant can't pick its own name. so overlooking strains just cause someone doesn't like the name is like...... not giving the benefit of the doubt to a person cause of the name their parents gave them and just shut them down completely and don't give them a chance cause you don't like the name..... it's probably the most superficial thing someone could ever do. a lot of people have nicknames. imagine I called the weed "supergoodweed" as it's nickname and someone smoked it and loved it, then I tell them the real name is Hitler. What does thay mean? they already liked it, which must mean they support Hitler? lol  

You think like this because you are not German. U know the old saying 'don't mention ze war'? If you've spent any time in europe you will realize that the cut to German people is still super deep. Put yourself in the shoes of a person whose entire nation was hoodwinked into some batshit crazy genocidal madness. Someone who's own family lineage may well have participated in this. It's not a joke to those people because their own attitude is the antithesis of everything that hitler stood for. 

I know the view from here is different because we're removed from it but trust me It's not shallow, peoples pain should be respected on this because it's real pain my man. Crazy but true!

Very nice man, was about to pull the trigger on a few of these netbows so this is a timely post for me. 

so you didn't use the litre per hour drippers and manifolds connected to those, just measured the output and used a timer?