SouthAfricano
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My situation very recently changed (a certain non-approving family member finally moved out) so I could finally start growing my own medical... My climate is very similar to Hawaii's, but with less rain. (Which is sad, cause I'd have some serious guerrilla trees YEARS ago if I was just 20 miles to the other side of the bay.)
If you don't mind I'm going to use the local units of measure whenever I can't remember empirical conversions. (Temps will be in Celsius, but measurements should mostly be in empirical. I've been surfing since a young age and the language for many things I was interested in is empirical so I have some idea.)
Daytime temps are currently around 20-28C, with the odd 30C day, and night time is about 15-20C. Nearing the end of the cycle the night time temps should be around 10-15C, but hopefully not under 10C. If it drops under 10C I may get some purple buds on some of these strains, but it's not actually what I'm after.
In any case before I ramble on here are the details:
I've been collecting seeds from various bud I've been smoking. I'm South African and most weed is grown outdoors, directly in the ground, in really good climates. To ensure constant production the growers don't kill all the males. The weed tends to be seeded, but not overly so, unless you've got a hermie, and it's quality tends to be surprising considering the seeds. None of the strains would be pure either, most will have a certain amount of crossing with the local landrace called Port st. Johns. Port st. Johns is actually not a strain but a place where weed is grown. The landrace they grew here is a 100% Sativa with unique qualities. I find these unique qualities essential for my own personal medicinal use. It's unlike anything else I have come across. If you manage to get Port that was grown by someone who knows what they are doing it can be frighteningly strong. The plants can get 12ft high too. BUT, their buds tend to be thin, and quite airy and almost more leaf than bud. It doesn't LOOK like what you want weed to look like.
I've been planting since the start of December, so my oldest plants are around 6-7 weeks old, and my youngest are yet to pop up.
I have planted a mystery mix of seeds, the strains of which I know are in there:
'White Widow' from a bag of weed that looks like the weed was harvested very very very late. Smoked like weed that was harvested very very very late. The seeds where huge, and the buds where sticky to the touch, but way too dark for widow. White Widow I smoked that came from the same grower, but that I bought a month earlier, fit the bill of the same stuff I smoked when I smoked Widow grown outdoor from seeds from Amsterdam, so I assume this was part of his seeding crop.
Cheese (outdoor grown.) This stuff looked, smelt, and felt just like indoor cheese, and I know all the indoor growers in the area import their seeds so I'm sure it's the real deal. It was just not quite as powerful as the indoor stuff, but I'm chalking it up to the grower's inferior methoods. (Plant straight in native soil, leave a male, etc...)
Port st Johns. (I'm hoping I didn't plant too much of this cause I can way too easily buy it for next to nothing...)
Some Lemon Skunk. These are seeds that I bet came from a hermie, cause it was just plain FULL of seed, but knocked me on my arse anyway. It was some of the prettiest weed I laid eyes upon. It could have been another breeding thing tho... The Lemon Skunk is easy to spot between the other weed.
Some plain ol' skunk.
And whatever else kicked my arse. I chucked any seeds from weed that didn't impress me.
For soil I went with whatever I could get my hands on. Mostly plain old potting soil with some compost. I put too much compost with some of the plants and the soil is tighter than I would have liked, but I can't find perlite anywhere. Some are in 5l (1 3/4 gallonish) bags, some still in pots. Most of the older plants recently got transferred into bigger containers, but are growing quickly and would need even bigger ones soon. I made a big pot for one, took 2 bags of soil to not entirely fill it. I'm estimating it's a good 7-10gallon..
A week or so ago I ran into some pH issues thanks to the municipal water fucking out. Usually with basic stuff like plain ol soil and compost you don't really have to even check pH and I haven't met a grower that actually checks it... Well I saw burn, knew I didn't add any nutes or anything yet, knew the plants where growing fine till now, and wtf? So I checked the water pH. Like 9. wtf?! Started adding lemon juice to my water, testing pH with liquid test thingeys, and flushed the plants with 6ish ph water, and then some more with 6ph water with some nutes added to put that back into the soil (supernature plus, it's a 3
1), oh yea and most of my soil has a good amount of bonemeal... I later wished I didn't put that there and rather used bonemeal tea later in the lifecycle, but what the hell plants don't seem to mind at all...
That stopped the burn from spreading. My rasta friend's plants weren't so lucky. 10 perfectly good 4ft Sativa auto's going from healthy and about to start budding to half dead burn fucked up gone... I managed to stop it from getting worse but the leaves are already burned half way through so I am doubting his harvest is going to be a good smoke, if he gets a harvest at all. Stupid water not sticking at 7...
In any case all the flushing caused a bit of overwatering, but nothing that is too visible on the plants, just small signs on the weaker plants.
In any case right now the sun sets around 8pm, and it comes up at around 5ish, so a good 15 hours of light. My plants get direct sunlight from 8:30-9am to 2-4pm. (Depending which. Seedlings are in a place where it goes from 9-2, and the bigger ones in the 8:30-4pm spot. In the end most will end up in a spot around 9-3.) I'm have to trim a tree to get more light and space, and getting up there is no joke, and I'm a bit injured (hurt my back with overzealous juggling of a 28kg kettlebell after not training for a month due to flue. Not smart lol.) but yea all the plants should be getting around 6-8 hours of direct light throughout their lifecycle.
I'd like to post some pics but the process seems a bit foreign to me. I uploaded them but now it seems I'll have to refresh this page to see them and post them and I really don't wanna do that so I'm going to post them in a reply.
If you don't mind I'm going to use the local units of measure whenever I can't remember empirical conversions. (Temps will be in Celsius, but measurements should mostly be in empirical. I've been surfing since a young age and the language for many things I was interested in is empirical so I have some idea.)
Daytime temps are currently around 20-28C, with the odd 30C day, and night time is about 15-20C. Nearing the end of the cycle the night time temps should be around 10-15C, but hopefully not under 10C. If it drops under 10C I may get some purple buds on some of these strains, but it's not actually what I'm after.
In any case before I ramble on here are the details:
I've been collecting seeds from various bud I've been smoking. I'm South African and most weed is grown outdoors, directly in the ground, in really good climates. To ensure constant production the growers don't kill all the males. The weed tends to be seeded, but not overly so, unless you've got a hermie, and it's quality tends to be surprising considering the seeds. None of the strains would be pure either, most will have a certain amount of crossing with the local landrace called Port st. Johns. Port st. Johns is actually not a strain but a place where weed is grown. The landrace they grew here is a 100% Sativa with unique qualities. I find these unique qualities essential for my own personal medicinal use. It's unlike anything else I have come across. If you manage to get Port that was grown by someone who knows what they are doing it can be frighteningly strong. The plants can get 12ft high too. BUT, their buds tend to be thin, and quite airy and almost more leaf than bud. It doesn't LOOK like what you want weed to look like.
I've been planting since the start of December, so my oldest plants are around 6-7 weeks old, and my youngest are yet to pop up.
I have planted a mystery mix of seeds, the strains of which I know are in there:
'White Widow' from a bag of weed that looks like the weed was harvested very very very late. Smoked like weed that was harvested very very very late. The seeds where huge, and the buds where sticky to the touch, but way too dark for widow. White Widow I smoked that came from the same grower, but that I bought a month earlier, fit the bill of the same stuff I smoked when I smoked Widow grown outdoor from seeds from Amsterdam, so I assume this was part of his seeding crop.
Cheese (outdoor grown.) This stuff looked, smelt, and felt just like indoor cheese, and I know all the indoor growers in the area import their seeds so I'm sure it's the real deal. It was just not quite as powerful as the indoor stuff, but I'm chalking it up to the grower's inferior methoods. (Plant straight in native soil, leave a male, etc...)
Port st Johns. (I'm hoping I didn't plant too much of this cause I can way too easily buy it for next to nothing...)
Some Lemon Skunk. These are seeds that I bet came from a hermie, cause it was just plain FULL of seed, but knocked me on my arse anyway. It was some of the prettiest weed I laid eyes upon. It could have been another breeding thing tho... The Lemon Skunk is easy to spot between the other weed.
Some plain ol' skunk.
And whatever else kicked my arse. I chucked any seeds from weed that didn't impress me.
For soil I went with whatever I could get my hands on. Mostly plain old potting soil with some compost. I put too much compost with some of the plants and the soil is tighter than I would have liked, but I can't find perlite anywhere. Some are in 5l (1 3/4 gallonish) bags, some still in pots. Most of the older plants recently got transferred into bigger containers, but are growing quickly and would need even bigger ones soon. I made a big pot for one, took 2 bags of soil to not entirely fill it. I'm estimating it's a good 7-10gallon..
A week or so ago I ran into some pH issues thanks to the municipal water fucking out. Usually with basic stuff like plain ol soil and compost you don't really have to even check pH and I haven't met a grower that actually checks it... Well I saw burn, knew I didn't add any nutes or anything yet, knew the plants where growing fine till now, and wtf? So I checked the water pH. Like 9. wtf?! Started adding lemon juice to my water, testing pH with liquid test thingeys, and flushed the plants with 6ish ph water, and then some more with 6ph water with some nutes added to put that back into the soil (supernature plus, it's a 3
1), oh yea and most of my soil has a good amount of bonemeal... I later wished I didn't put that there and rather used bonemeal tea later in the lifecycle, but what the hell plants don't seem to mind at all...That stopped the burn from spreading. My rasta friend's plants weren't so lucky. 10 perfectly good 4ft Sativa auto's going from healthy and about to start budding to half dead burn fucked up gone... I managed to stop it from getting worse but the leaves are already burned half way through so I am doubting his harvest is going to be a good smoke, if he gets a harvest at all. Stupid water not sticking at 7...
In any case all the flushing caused a bit of overwatering, but nothing that is too visible on the plants, just small signs on the weaker plants.
In any case right now the sun sets around 8pm, and it comes up at around 5ish, so a good 15 hours of light. My plants get direct sunlight from 8:30-9am to 2-4pm. (Depending which. Seedlings are in a place where it goes from 9-2, and the bigger ones in the 8:30-4pm spot. In the end most will end up in a spot around 9-3.) I'm have to trim a tree to get more light and space, and getting up there is no joke, and I'm a bit injured (hurt my back with overzealous juggling of a 28kg kettlebell after not training for a month due to flue. Not smart lol.) but yea all the plants should be getting around 6-8 hours of direct light throughout their lifecycle.
I'd like to post some pics but the process seems a bit foreign to me. I uploaded them but now it seems I'll have to refresh this page to see them and post them and I really don't wanna do that so I'm going to post them in a reply.
ill smoke a bowl to female plants lol.
