A Taste of Africa from Malawi

[SolarLogos]

3weeks old mal fem clone, topped once week after rooting, topped second time week later. some cropping to sides few days ago.

winter sucks, very dry air. 20-30% humidity. seems to grow tho. strong smell already. reading this thread made me do it! thanks for input everyone.

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They look healthy at 3 weeks, doing great. Malawi is very resilient in cold, my best one's were harvested last year around January in the greenhouse. I didn't have a heater in there at the time and it regularly got down into the 30's, but they didn't seem to mind much.
Best of luck

 

[captainrelief]

Malawi is very resilient in cold, my best one's were harvested last year around January in the greenhouse. I didn't have a heater in there at the time and it regularly got down into the 30's, but they didn't seem to mind much.
Best of luck

oh thats surprising, i would have guessed that a strain from south-east africa have no experience what "cold is". let alone have resistance against it. i would have guessed it has a resistance against heat. blindy assuming its warm down there all year long, night and day.

 

[SolarLogos]

oh thats surprising, i would have guessed that a strain from south-east africa have no experience what "cold is". let alone have resistance against it. i would have guessed it has a resistance against heat. blindy assuming its warm down there all year long, night and day.

I keep a heater and dehumidifyer in my GH now, but didn't last year when I grew my winter Malawi. The RH would get up to 90-98% at night but drop to 10% during the day. I kept a fan moving at night and never had mold. Temps at night would get down to 34F but back up to 80-85 during the day. Plants always looked happy and I thought the quality was much better that the summer grow. Same with the Golden Tiger I grew along side the Malawi. Compared to flowering indoors, the cooler temps seemed to add another week onto flower, not too bad.

 

[gladysvjubb]

Malawi Fem arriving today. I am going to try a few in with my Zamaldelica's and my Jack Herrer's. Have to wait a bit as I am jammed for room. The waiting is the hardest part. Come on Zammies' give me some space. I want to zone out.

 

[tobedetermined]

Malawi fem. Day 59 from bean. 4 weeks since flip. It is 39" high (1 metre).

 

[captainrelief]

I keep a heater and dehumidifyer in my GH now, but didn't last year when I grew my winter Malawi. The RH would get up to 90-98% at night but drop to 10% during the day. I kept a fan moving at night and never had mold. Temps at night would get down to 34F but back up to 80-85 during the day. Plants always looked happy and I thought the quality was much better that the summer grow. Same with the Golden Tiger I grew along side the Malawi. Compared to flowering indoors, the cooler temps seemed to add another week onto flower, not too bad.

nice! this is good to hear. i have option for 2x 600w for the flowering, but in order to that work tempwise, it basicly mean direct lines to outside air, with two motors. in and out. directly. so lots depends on the outside night temps during the spring. but too early to plan those things now.

tobedetermined: nice! red leaf stems there as well.. seems to be a normal issue, lots of the pics here has them..otherwise looking perky! i like.

how about these stripes in the main stems tho? i havent seen them anywere in mylife with previous plants i have done nor my friends, seems to be issue after forced to use ro water in new location (dwc skills out of the window)...some macro nut shit? something to loose sleep about?

 

[gladysvjubb]

Switch over to LED. Heat will be a non issue and your electric bill will go DOWN. You will get superior growth. It is a win-win.

 

[SolarLogos]

nice! this is good to hear. i have option for 2x 600w for the flowering, but in order to that work tempwise, it basicly mean direct lines to outside air, with two motors. in and out. directly. so lots depends on the outside night temps during the spring. but too early to plan those things now.

tobedetermined: nice! red leaf stems there as well.. seems to be a normal issue, lots of the pics here has them..otherwise looking perky! i like.

how about these stripes in the main stems tho? i havent seen them anywere in mylife with previous plants i have done nor my friends, seems to be issue after forced to use ro water in new location (dwc skills out of the window)...some macro nut shit? something to loose sleep about?


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Your plants look healthy, good job. One of the parents was a purple Malawi I believe, Dubi can tell you more. It's quite common to get some degree of purple in these. The purple on top of the petiole and in the stems is quite common and will also show up when you outcross Malawi.
You will see this often when one of the parents is purple; Purple Satellite is another one that gets varying degrees of purple/stripes in the stems.

 

[captainrelief]

thanks for the kind words. and hey you stepped over 1000 msg mark! grz! the reason i suspected ro is bcoz the last dwc try was with it (my first ever with ro) and the plant showed em too. different strain...it was the only plant i managed to finish. it got big and gave me half a k of popcorn. from bottom to top. chasing macro defs all around 24/7. 4 previous grows before that were with tap and there is absolutely nothing to tell about em. stunned growth from the begining. at size of the european football... all autumn colors already. have been banging my head to the wall for 15months now. at somepoint i got sentimental and recalled my only sativa grow from the past...well it was 80/20 hybrid, y griega (kalimist+amnesia) 12weeks of flowering. one plant 400g of rocks. was really good dope, kept me happy for two months no matter how much i smoked. right down to the last yar... found myself looking at this thread and zanddars reults and words "no need to make the grow harder than it is" and i figured to go for "quality organics"... here we are. (dunno if atami is counted as quality) so forgive me for beeing a noob. needless to say... i really want this thing to work.

 

[captainrelief]

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[TheForgotten]

If you don't have R/O setup captain, what about a small still and distill some water daily?

 

[captainrelief]

i do have one now, since the last dwc grow i was talking about... sorry if my story telling skill aint the most streight forward and clear with this language these kind of problems are pretty nonexistent in this country, they do pop up in the natural forums here and there, but are usually limited to people not in the urban area, using well waters etc. generally tap is high q all over the country and work just fine. i just managed to score the pipes that make ecseption to the rule.

 

[captainrelief]

**natural forums - national forums

 

[dubi]

Hi captainrelief,

Thanks for your interest in giving a try to our Malawi, the clone looks very healthy and it has reacted very well to the pruning.

Reddish petioles are common within Malawi line and its hybrids.
Let us know if you have any doubt during its development.
Best wishes!

3weeks old mal fem clone, topped once week after rooting, topped second time week later. some cropping to sides few days ago.

winter sucks, very dry air. 20-30% humidity. seems to grow tho. strong smell already. reading this thread made me do it! thanks for input everyone.

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[dubi]

Sorry to hear it Ur Humbl Nr8tor,

This Malawi line is indeed a bit sensitive against powder mildew.
Try to fix the problem before the flowering stage by disinfecting the growing area with bleach and spraying sulfur to the plants,
otherwise the powder mildew problems can easily arise again later during flowering, when it's much more difficult to solve it by using organic and non systemic fungicides.

I just noticed what looked like the beginning of PM on the Malawi S1. I plucked a few leaves. My indoor space is not dialed in as it’s been years. Not enough ventilation and although we’ve had some dry weeks recently, it’s maybe not good enough. Try to get some of that taken care of as the Malawi seems sensitive.

 

[dubi]

Thanks for sharing your Malawi in early flowering, tobedetermined

Looks healthy and ready to face the most interesting stage for our beloved plants.

Malawi fem. Day 59 from bean. 4 weeks since flip. It is 39" high (1 metre).

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[dubi]

P3 New Killer Malawi recent cannabinoid analysis

P3 New Killer Malawi recent cannabinoid analysis

A more recent cannabinoid analysis performed to our P3 New Killer Malawi parental plant, showing higher THC contents this time due to it was much better grown thanks to the fine work of a colleague, which i consider the best indoor organic grower i know of.

THC: 26.021 %
CBD: 0.08 %
CBG: 0.403 %

 

[captainrelief]

Hi captainrelief,

Thanks for your interest in giving a try to our Malawi, the clone looks very healthy and it has reacted very well to the pruning.

Reddish petioles are common within Malawi line and its hybrids.
Let us know if you have any doubt during its development.
Best wishes!

No dubi, thank you. for your choice of profession and the customer service you are giving. if its not top tear, i dont know what is.

Yes, im really happy how the plant looks(leaf textures,and their feel between index and thumb), by far absolutely the most promising start i have had in that location. growing is really a lovely hobby when it aint all watching suffering young plants with death wish right from the beginning.

unfortunately things took a little twist and as it is, i dont have all the time in the world to take care of it anymore, which i found really ironic at the moment when i finally have something interesting going on.

ill be away for next two weeks+ and left the burdens on a friends shoulders.. he'll by my eyes and arms till i get back.

gave him a brief instructions to watering routines and to watch out the distance between top shoots and bulb.

hopefully i didnt already fuck it up by leaving him with premade 10l bucket of ro water spiced with 3ml of growth-c and 3ml alga-c (more info on those below) resulting a shy EC of 0.3 and ph 6.5. I HAVE no experience with these kind of nutes and how they evolve if they sit in the water for the next 1.5 weeks and are being poured in a Liter at a time on a 4day intervals as the routine has been so far, with pure ro by my own doings. i just told him to mix it up really well before taking the liter out bucket sits in the dark and rather cool place than warm.

bcuz allmix soil it sits in atm, says do not add anything for 2weeks, and we are past that already. so i made a little mix.

what will i found when i get back...we will see...SO ALOT depend on whats happening now, if there is something to work further...i have only weekends time to do it. for next 2 months

and thats were the real doubts begin.

sorry for me flooding my thoughts out in this manner. shall the time come that ill be there for the limited timeframe, its better be well informed when making the adjustments needed to support maximal growth. so here we go:

first,

the soil:
https://onlinetopgarden.com/en/substrates/b-cuzz-bio-growmix-50ltr

and the starterkit nutpack:
https://onlinetopgarden.com/en/nutr...rterpacks/atami-ata-nrg-bi-bloombastic-1m2-en

should have "all" the plant needs in theory when using RO?

was planning on getting big enough bucket to use the whole 50LITERs. something small in height and big in width. to safe vertical space. grow the thing to a net vertically best i can.

naturarelly this will take some time, which will push the operations timeframe over summer months badly(goodbye cold nights). if i am to go with 2x 600w, only way to do it is with seperate cooltube line straight to outside. sucking ambient air outside the tent from the room and moving it directly to outside. leaves my scrubber line with thermomotor as its now, and should enable me to have stable conditions. other option is 1 x 600w ...

i have a 600w MH and SPNA bulbs atm. and hopefully ill get thru with those. yes i know ill loose lumens since they aint both spna(specially if they both were new spna). but maybe its not wise to always aim for perfection? current bulbs are 1year old.

and about the schedule.... do i recall correctly that at somepoint you stated some along lines "nutes and boosters are for first 5weeks of the flowering" ?

if so there is pretty big conflict (there for doubt for me) with atami is suggesting me to do with their kit.

uhh, this is getting sic long. maybe better stop to here. flooding aint sexy. but hopefully you can understand my situation even a tiny bit.

and no, i aint expecting strict detailed "how to" its more like point me a way to start walking to, situation

AND EVERYONEs opinion are greeted with JOY.

im sure ill find a way with "my own tweaks" anyway how to go with the path. shall i ever get to there.

there is no hurry with feedback, like i said, its over 2weeks till i get back and start to plan for repotting to bigger one. if its still standing

how delusional am i with my plan? miss-steps in my dwc-experienced logic?

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND EVERYONE.

 

[Ur Humbl Nr8tor]

Sorry to hear it Ur Humbl Nr8tor,

This Malawi line is indeed a bit sensitive against powder mildew.
Try to fix the problem before the flowering stage by disinfecting the growing area with bleach and spraying sulfur to the plants,
otherwise the powder mildew problems can easily arise again later during flowering, when it's much more difficult to solve it by using organic and non systemic fungicides.

No worries, dubi. I’ve read enough from the descriptions to know the Malawi is a bit finicky. Being an S1, maybe even more so. I gave her a good spray with ‘green cure’. OMRI listed. The plan is to just clone and then decide where to grow. Probably indoors once I get the ventilation sorted. Most places I’d consider outdoors get a fair amount of marine layer and this one doesn’t seem to like being moist at all. Having said that, the purple striation up and down the stem at nearly 24/7 light surely makes me think she could be a beauty in flower. Let’s see if she pans out in a proper home.

 

[gladysvjubb]

6 Malawi just popped on me. have 5 in jiffy 7's. The journey is on.