Australia - Domestic Seed Sources (no customs)

Steve, you are doing the gods work! Thanks so much for this mate, much appreciated

 

Cheers mate great, thanks very much for the suggestions. Have been checking out a couple of aus grower subreddits and caveman does get a good write-up! Good to hear about top shelf too. I am considering kangaseeds as well, you say you've had an excellent result, yeah? So many years since I last smoked (think late 90s lol) Im now in the market due to a chronic pain condition so it looks like GYO will have to be the way

 

Yep mate I have been medically approved as well, but for some reason cbd oil doesn't work as well as I'd hoped it would. There was a suggestion my provider might be able to get flowers but the supply was indefinitely delayed...and too right its expensive! I'm on disability as well which makes it more difficult; yes GYO might be a bit exxy to set up but if I can get away with a budget grow that would be great. Thanks for the seed bank heads up, I have got an auto coming from caveman and a feminised from kanga. Will take a while to get together the stuff I need to get it happening like a grow tent or similar, but I figured secure a few seeds while I can - I'm closeish to the city so can't try an outdoor setup - ha wallabies sound crazy! Here its brush turkeys so even if I didn't have to go stealth that would be a bad idea lol

Thanks as well for the info on cffs. if that could work sounds good! How did you go for germinating? Only asking because I've tried germinating morning glories but without success as yet...and I hear you, the prices for seeds you can't afford to fail really can you. Beautiful pics on the diesel and bubblegum, got my fingers crossed for you!

 

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I can totally imagine how difficult it must be if you're remote; sounds like you have a nice collection of seeds there from kanga! Hope the lantana hacking went well...that's pretty much the old school method of concealment, I remember people up north using lantana in the same way back in the 90s

I couldn't afford too many seeds at one time so I really need to get the germination process locked down - and what I've got atm (ie a windowsill with some seedling mix lol) is absolutely not optimal I know...probably why I've had no luck with morning glories yet (a similar even harder seed casing than cannabis so its my 'practice run') If I can ramp up the whole setup a bit so I have lights etc fingers crossed I'll have a bit of success with that before moving onto the "the" seeds. Funny though, I actually did almost accidentally grow a plant back in the mid 90s...when we had a few seeds from what we were just smoking. I dug a bit of dirt out of the front garden (was living in an inner city boarding house at the time) and just sowed one of the fatter looking seeds - they were wonderfully dark with black leopard-like spots - stuck it out on the closed balcony and it pretty much grew itself! Just snipped some alternate leaves as it grew so it became a bit 'bonsai'd'. Turned out to be a lovely female with very nice buds! However it succumbed to a moment of paranoia lol but we still got a good smoke out of it although it wasn't a huge plant. So I've done it at least once before, hey maybe it worked so well because I wasn't really trying

Thanks for the advice; I will try out the shot glass method; I have been soaking the MG seeds but I think maybe it hasn't been warm enough. Plus also have an idea to float the seeds on the surface of the water so they don't get completely waterlogged...will see how that turns out Been able to germinate some daisies at the same time so its obviously possible lol

 

Mate that is a stunning plant! If I could ever grow anything even half as good I would be very, very happy

It's gonna take a while to amass all the equipment etc, and a lot of reading up on teks to do in the meantime.So much info available its hard to know where to start really

 

Yep I saw that too steve...aussiebakedbeans seems to be right out atm. Due to the lockdown caveman is only posting weekly, but my order from kanga is already in transit - doesn't have to come too far, we are both in the same city I notice

 

Hey bit of good news, guys...seeds from kanga turned up fine Both feminised, Ice & northern lights. MUCH smaller than I remember seeds being back in the day but I'm sure that's not a worry. Pretty sure the stuff we smoked back then was from big bush trees

Just trying to sort all the equipment atm, tent etc. Going to need a lot of reading up, but I think coco seems like it might be the go, knowing bugger all atm of course lol. Re your pic wombat, you used a net on that grow, yeah? It looks fantastic.

 

no net , it will need the lower branches tied up at some point probably ,and i will use some thin stakes if it needs more support later. I probably should have cut more of the laterals off before it was flipped , it's abit crowded , it didn't stretch much at all and it's supposed to be a bit stretchy according to the grower's notes.
I've used a net in the past but once you put it on there is minimal access to the back , without a net i can turn it round and trim it properly.
it's in a shower recess so really good drainage but a tight space to work with.

If you have more space all the better , and rooom to have a mother and make cuts.
Coco is easy to work with , i use THC Buffered Coco , no need to add extra calcium , and Budrite nutes + Canna P/K 13/14 during flower.
I ended up forking out for a Bluelab pH pen after doing all the cheap things and it's much better.
In my opinion pH is the Genie in the water , if you get that right everything is easier.
I'm using an HLG 260 3000k, it draws 234 watts at the wall . If I got it now i would include the red and uv diodes .

 

I put the seed in 200ml distilled water + 1 drop of hydrogen peroxide 3% and then in warm dark spot and check to see when the tap root pops , usually 24-48 hours,
old seeds can take longer . I don't think it matters if they sink , some do , some don't.I have also popped them in between wet paper towels .