Kwazulu, Rooibaard grow diary (journal) week20 by FoxWorm420

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@@Ssomeguy, it's all good guy, I understand. If you figure in the time it took to soak the seeds, pop and get the seedlings goings, and the fact that the plants I harvested were started indoors under 24hr lights then moved outdoors slowly to climatize to the 30 deg ave heat here. I am sure my timeline is wack as I wasn't planning on documenting my grows for any reason but my own reference. I wanted to include my first 3 grows to track my progress. I am not experienced no but I have been smoking most of my life and have many grower friends who mentored me before I even attempted dropping a seed into soil. The trichomes were checked under a microscope before harvest and the were all milky with some amber, but they were harvested 2 weeks too early because our rain season started here with 7 days none stop torrential downpours and my plants got a bad case of powdery mildew, so I decided to harvest before it spread to my flowers. The humidity here was about 93% during the time I harvested so they were just snipped at the base of the plant and hung up with leaves and all. After about a week I removed the fan leaves and hung them for a further week inside my shower...they pretty much stayed wet lol. After that they were trimmed and put into masson jars that I burped a lot. They are still curing and smelling fantastic and covered in frost. I prefer my flowers with less amber anyway because I hate being couch locked or stupid stoned. Tried the flowers yesterday and it was a good smoke, should get better too. My current Kwazulu, Durban Poison and Swazi are all running into the 20 week mark now with only one in early flower...I never claimed to be a pro grower, I just wanted to share my experience so far, thanks for the input though and be sure to check out my latest entries as they will be more geared towards grow diaries and more accurate. Have a nice day Peace and Love

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Ssomeguycommentedweek 205 years ago

Dude, I don't mean to be an ass, but you know the swazi/dp type sativas and hybrids grow for like 25-40 months right? I'm not sure your plants produced that much THC or CBN (relevant to DP especially) at the sort of age you harvested some of them. I would recommend you try to cure them VERY slowly, but disregard this stuff if you're experienced.

Ssomeguycommented5 years ago

@FoxWorm420, Yeah I can understand that stuff (dealt with similar shit before, the weather predictions the past year almost drove me insane with how inaccurate they were/are), I just figured mentioning that if you perhaps didn't know, coz I've seen people harvest stuff like a week after they start flowering. Good to hear that you did basically slow cure it, though. About those trichomes, I dunno, something here on the highveld must be different, like the uranium levels, coz the spot where some of my plants grew got up to >60c ambient air temps (45c on a 23c max day, for instance, and we had many days around 35c max), the plants all grew for longer than 25 weeks and still I couldn't find many amber trichomes (or they were hidden under new growth). My one plant (must've been a sort of swazi lemon haze I guess or colombian gold type plant, in similar international terms) was STILL producing new shit in flowering, after like 42 weeks...but at that point the low humidity (as you might know, winter here is exceptionally dry, <10% RH at times) and some neglect really messed it up. Btw, if you want weaker weed than say...DP, just get some autoflower/ruderalis influenced stuff, it's guaranteed to be far less potent. That's a joke btw, don't ever grow ruderalis garbage, at least, not by choice. We gotta repropagate the more local/landrace stuff to undo some of the damage industry and governments have done, so I'm glad to see the sort of stuff you're (likely) growing. Take care dude, happy growing and best of luck!

FoxWorm420commented5 years ago

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Ssomeguycommentedweek 135 years ago

Well, about the rooibaard, good luck finding reference, first of all. They are actually extremely rare since the american government decided to basically bomb swaziland from ~2000-2005. The pink/red/purple hues could be anything from anthocyanin/phosphor imbalance to aluminium, titanium and iron uptake indcators. To be fair though, I've had MANY plants with red/pink/purple stigmas from older seeds and I've thought some of them to be rooibaard (or panama red) hybrids or influenced. That plant (4) looks a lot like classic swazi to me, so it might actually be less indica influenced rooibaard. Though, often that sort of discolouration is a sign of imbalanced nutrients, general stress, conditions (light, temps, pests). To me, these plants most people think are "beautiful" because they go yellow and purple easily just mean they're genetically degenerated or stressed about 90% of the time, I've had many of them, I've seen the causes/results. From my experience,. the best plants are/stay mostly bright....white/green/gold//greyish (at worst). To be fair though, possibly my best plant-type has a tendency to have very red stigmas (I think it's panama red or rooibaard influenced). Mine does seem to have quite a bit of indica influence though (very very dense/fat buds, large wide leaves, fairly high node spacing), but I haven't actually been able to test or determine if the red is a sign of efficiency to a degree, OR lack of phosphor uptake (meaning it possibly has ridiculously high phosphor tolerance/capacity).

Ssomeguycommented5 years ago

@FoxWorm420, I'm in District 9. Yeah I'm pretty experienced with our local weed. Rooibaard doesn't actually come from the northern province, as far as I know, though it's all so close to each other that it likely doesn't matter, but I do know that Rooibaard availability almost vanished here about 20 years ago. Yeah from "local" you don't get much indica, though some hybrids at times. Check it, they used shit like chlorpyrfiros to wipe out crops: https://youtu.be/ujpCWMiQDWM?t=1081

FoxWorm420commented5 years ago

@@Ssomeguy, Hey where you from? I live in Kwazulu Natal, which borders Swaziland...we smoke Rooibaard, DP, and Swazi as our cheap weed here...its all you get locally. Haven't heard about the Swaziland USA bombings? Could you give me a year as reference so I could go read up on that...love knowing more about the country and area I was born and raised in. I do know about petrol bombings and botched bombing attacks back in 2005 and again 2014, but it wasn't enough to kill a entire strain of cannabis bad, it barely made local news. Rooibaard comes from South Africa's Northern Provence, and more specifically where my father stayed, Pieterburg or now called Polokwane. My first couple of years smoking was only Rooibaard and it has a distinctive earthy pungent and strong taste. We believe the colour comes from the red earth and lava hot conditions there...gets brutally hot with nearly no moisture in the air and little rain... but you could be 100% right. I will be getting a ppm meter, ph meter, light meter and all other meters required soon to get my ph and ppm on point. I struggle to find indica strains here from just buying stock...but I have a couple of seeds arriving in the mail soon from a grower in Cape Town that I will be documenting and 6 CBD dominant seeds I bought from a local seed bank. Thanks for the advice and I will look into it asap. Have a good day

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DoDrugs420commentedweek 203 years ago

My lawrd is this the heavens?!

DoDrugs420commentedweek 203 years ago

Sooo lit.

Epokwancommentedweek 205 years ago

Greetings from SA! Lovely looking plants, all the best for your grow :)

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