JustinHemp420
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Cobs and Quantum boards are available from Makelight or Growopz in Cape Town Nooby, it's where I'm buying mine as I'm a bit impatient and want them immediately as the cash is available lol
Noobymacdooby's 2nd Grow - Cheese & Local Genetics - All The Gear But No Idea
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Yeah I go into contact with them last week, ordered another set of far red leds to initiate the sleep cycle and will be getting some 620 to 650nm reds for the wake cycle too. (at least I think its that range will have to check my notes)
Very helpful chaps and their prices are only a couple of hundred more than rapidled after postage / customs so I'd say go for it. If any components are busted it wont be a mission to replace. And if you dont have frame making skills they sell a decent looking frame, if somewhat overpowered though.
Very helpful chaps and their prices are only a couple of hundred more than rapidled after postage / customs so I'd say go for it. If any components are busted it wont be a mission to replace. And if you dont have frame making skills they sell a decent looking frame, if somewhat overpowered though.
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Ok so question time, I'm having what appears to be some slight cupping from heat / light stress. My temp is a constant 25 celsuis and the humidity is at 70% for the veg stage. I'v tried lowering the temps, lowering the humidity and adjust light heights/brightness but it just wont seem to go away. Its not getting worse but also not getting better. And its only on the new growth
I've eliminated the chances of it being p.h or nutes as the deep water culture and soil show the same issues. I've made changes to the fan blowing on them too. I did read somewhere that it could be related to pests. I had some gnats in the room and some spidermites. Gnats are gone and the spidermites seem to be dying off as there are less and less spots on the leaves.
Some pictures:
Pretty happy though with the DWC setup this is a weeks worth of root growth:
I've eliminated the chances of it being p.h or nutes as the deep water culture and soil show the same issues. I've made changes to the fan blowing on them too. I did read somewhere that it could be related to pests. I had some gnats in the room and some spidermites. Gnats are gone and the spidermites seem to be dying off as there are less and less spots on the leaves.
Some pictures:
Pretty happy though with the DWC setup this is a weeks worth of root growth:
It is most likely mite related unfortunately. Start spraying them again.
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Yeah back on the spray program. Find it a bit tricky when to spray them though, don't want the leaves to burn by spraying with the lights on. I do a foliar spray about an hour and a half before lights go on so when I do a heavy bug spray I have to do it instead of the foliar.
What about spraying before lights out? That's when I do it.
JustinHemp420
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Spider mites fucked me up. Here have a look.
Both are GG and the one on the right is about 2 weeks older than the one on the right.
Left had No spider mites as it wasn't in my box at the time, right had it. It slows down the growth by some.
Both are GG and the one on the right is about 2 weeks older than the one on the right.
Left had No spider mites as it wasn't in my box at the time, right had it. It slows down the growth by some.
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Yeah I setup my "night" so that at 9am I can go in and do the foliar spray. So lights out are at 4 am....might need to adjust that
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Spider mites fucked me up. Here have a look.
Both are GG and the one on the right is about 2 weeks older than the one on the right.
Left had No spider mites as it wasn't in my box at the time, right had it. It slows down the growth by some.
Wow yeah that's quite the impact....do we have like super spider mites or something in SA??
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One of the plants have started showing pre-flowers....coming out the side so could be a boy:
But the previous plant that showed pre-flowers also came more out the side than the middle:
I find it odd though that the plant would show pre-flowers while on an 18 / 6 light schedule. Unless the unknown genetics have some auto flower in them. The kei was once home to some crazy sativa landraces but now its just a mess of genetics.
But the previous plant that showed pre-flowers also came more out the side than the middle:
I find it odd though that the plant would show pre-flowers while on an 18 / 6 light schedule. Unless the unknown genetics have some auto flower in them. The kei was once home to some crazy sativa landraces but now its just a mess of genetics.
JustinHemp420
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How old are they now?
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Almost 2 months from germination - spent about a month in a rockwool cube doing very little growing. So could be at the stage where it shows but thought it would only show under 12/12 light
JustinHemp420
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It's meant to yes, that's really odd man. Yes for those with trained eyes you should be able to sex a plant at 3 weeks. I couldn't.
I suppose you have checked that it's running the full 18 hours?
I suppose you have checked that it's running the full 18 hours?
JustinHemp420
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Let's see what the others have to say. Maybe Hermies
So this is my 2nd go at growing my own smoking stuffs. 1st grow actually managed to finish and got some great smelling and smooth smoking heads out the deal but not much in way of potency. At least it was better than the bag section it came from.
Doing a 2nd run with 1 cheese plant (sex unknown), some bag seed genetics and some seeds from a mate who grew a very healthy plant last summer.
I chose to go for the bag seed now as I'm a nooby and dont want to spend money on fancy seeds only to fck-em up.
SO 2 plants are running in a DWC setup (homemade, taking it through its 1st run) but I'm taking a big gamble with them as I dont know if they will be females. Hoping for the best. Running the EHG nutes in it.
The other plants are all in soil of my own making - coco coir, perlite, organic compost, kelp powder, bone meal, worm castings, myckroroot, rock dust and ocean grow fertilizer. They all have a few centimeters of perlite on the top to help fight fungus gnats.
I started all of these plants outside as I was making changes and installing a pi driven room controller so they got gnats and spidermites on them but I've hopefully killed most of them off.
My room setup (also this is what happens when you have a role of sisalation lying around,you make all the things shiny) :
plants:
DWC:
My lifghts - good ol led cobs:
and my room controller gui:
The pii controller and relays etc. was setup for me by a electrical computer whizz
My goal with this grow is to end with 6 plants - 2 DWC and 4 soil. So I started with waay to many plants but hopefully they'l whittle down once the males show up. Not even sure if my current light setup will be enough for 6 but until I win the lottery I can't afford anymore lights.
Any friends of its is a friend of mine.
Blunt rolled puff puff pass sup hemp..
I hope it cool I tag along for the reading .
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Kingjoe83 - Welcome aboard!
Justin - Yeah they are running the full 18 and hermies could be a thing. In my previous grow one of the really nice looking plants went hermie. Guess its the gamble you take with bag seed genetics
Justin - Yeah they are running the full 18 and hermies could be a thing. In my previous grow one of the really nice looking plants went hermie. Guess its the gamble you take with bag seed genetics
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Repotted the Cheese, don't know it's sex yet but either will be great. Know a guy who is growing some Cheese outdoors and we can pollinate some of that for our own seeds! Would that make me a breeder? lols
JustinHemp420
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Sorry I didn't get it, are you using your own soil? What part of our lovely country do you reside in?
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Yeah using my own soil mix - coco coir, perlite, some fine compost, worm castings, mykroroot, rock dust powder, bonemeal, diatomaceous earth, kelp powder and some added ocean grow organic fertilizer. I'm also using some bottled additives and nutes but very little nutes at the moment if at all. I'm doing a combo of organic and bottled nutes but they're all the bio bizz stuff...you know "organic". I may have spent too much time reading and watching different growers and approaches so my feed program is a bit all over the show at the moment
As for location lets just say in the eastern area of our country. So most of the bag stuff comes from the Transkei. Sadly you don't see much of the old school Transkei Gold anymore. All the travellers spreading seeds down there have muddled the gene pool a bit. But hey sometimes you can get lucky.
As for location lets just say in the eastern area of our country. So most of the bag stuff comes from the Transkei. Sadly you don't see much of the old school Transkei Gold anymore. All the travellers spreading seeds down there have muddled the gene pool a bit. But hey sometimes you can get lucky.
JustinHemp420
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Very nice part of SA man, I'm down here in Slaapstad .
I intend making my own soil one day, but as a noob myself I was looking rather at something that has been put together especially for the plant in mind. There are a few guys out your way on the 420SA site also so come say Hi.
I take it you cooked the soil for a bit?
I intend making my own soil one day, but as a noob myself I was looking rather at something that has been put together especially for the plant in mind. There are a few guys out your way on the 420SA site also so come say Hi.
I take it you cooked the soil for a bit?
