Good morning from Hicksville, Sth East QLD ......

[BigRobbo]

I agree with porks comment re: pics

 

[elsooto]

Complete with the customs t-shirt..

 

[BigRobbo]

Complete with the customs t-shirt..

Fk youve got very good eyes Sooto or a suspicious paranoid mind! Both good things by the way

 

[Indy]

Fk youve got very good eyes Sooto or a suspicious paranoid mind! Both good things by the way

He is good. He nailed it the other day with a bloke from Adelaide.

 

[Sun Ra]

Fk yeah! Thats a mad barra Ra mate.. Was it a lure capture or bait/livey? They are a pretty rare capture down my way, Im very envious.. Havnt caught a barra in donkeys years since I last visited mossman the little cane town north of cairns.. Im a non practicing fishaholic at the moment though due to a fkd back but Id struggle thru the pain if there were barra on offer thats for sure haha..

Live mullet under a float from the bank. Mary river.

 

[Sun Ra]

Fucking nice fish and I'm definitely no fisherman!!
What's the weight of something that size?
Although ya might want to delete ya face from the pics mate considering its in ya grow thread 1 post below ya plants!!

Dunno - 25kg ? at a guess. The cunt was 115 cm. Biggest fish I have ever caught by some way.
I'm chopping those plants today so I really don't give a fuck.

 

[QLD guy]

Good work poacher...Nice big female in the middle of breeding season......

https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/business...hing-rules/closed-seasons-waters/tidal-waters

 

[BigRobbo]

Good work poacher...Nice big female in the middle of breeding season......

https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/business...hing-rules/closed-seasons-waters/tidal-waters

Ya not sposed to grow or smoke pot either.... apparently.. Cant believe somebody from here would do either of those.. 🖐

 

[Sun Ra]

Good work poacher...Nice big female in the middle of breeding season......

https://www.daf.qld.gov.au/business...hing-rules/closed-seasons-waters/tidal-waters

Fair point. BUT - there was a croc hanging around who would have grabbed it for sure and the fish was totally fucked by the time I landed it. I wasn't about to get into the water with it to swim it around and revive it. No roe in the fish either.

 

[Indy]

No roe in the fish either.

Yeah, first thing i noticed with the pic. She looked a bit thin on..

 

[QLD guy]

Fair point. BUT - there was a croc hanging around who would have grabbed it for sure and the fish was totally fucked by the time I landed it. I wasn't about to get into the water with it to swim it around and revive it. No roe in the fish either.

Probably best not to target them in closed season if you need to make excuses why she couldnt be released....just saying mate..those big breeders are pretty special and crucial for continued barra stocks...dream fish though..I can see why you are stoked....I'll lay off you now...

 

[Sun Ra]

Probably best not to target them in closed season if you need to make excuses why she couldnt be released....just saying mate..those big breeders are pretty special and crucial for continued barra stocks...dream fish though..I can see why you are stoked....I'll lay off you now...

I wasn't targeting barramundi at all mate - I was targeting threadfin salmon. Totally agree with what you are saying though.

 

[QLD guy]

I wasn't targeting barramundi at all mate - I was targeting threadfin salmon.

ah sorry mate...saw the live mullet reference and made a wrong assumption.....I may have pursued the same course of action in your situation if the croc was hanging around and the fish in bad shape......if I did I just wouldnt plaster a photo of my big mug on the internet though..

 

[Indy]

With a 6" livies (or better) combo. You could be targeting anything of decent size in a river system. Mangrove Jacks, Flathead, Mulloway (Jewfish), Large Bream, just to name a couple more..

 

[OZIOZIAUTO]

Weekly update:
8 weeks now since flip. Chiquita Banana fems from WSE. Starting to bulk up a bit. Flowers not that big but lots of them and they are getting very hard and dense. Can't seem to do much about the yellowing of leaves. It's worse in the 2 x 3 gallon pots in the centre. Still feeding doesn't seem to have much effect. I'm thinking 2 weeks to go. Any opinions on that ?

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Start flushing imo

 

[OZIOZIAUTO]

I've got one coming in the mail, ordered from eBay before xmas.

I found this on abay
I can check every bud thoroughly and DAILY

 

[OZIOZIAUTO]

in soil , yellowing is almost always water issues , often because pots are too small
inconsistent water causes PH problems & in turn nutrient lockouts

the biggest problem though is loss &/or charge of biology , the little critters in the soil that feed & protect your plant will die , go dormant or POQ

the loss of chlorophyll in leaves will play havoc with photosynthesis causing plants to take forever to finish & the longer they take to finish without the soil biology in place to protect the plant the more susceptible to pest & pathogen attack

there is no quick fix for this although over watered pots can be left to dry out but with over watering you've already promoted the pathogenic organisms from the lack of air in the media so damage can already be done

for under watered pots in a peat based media the top soil can be hard & dry & usually pulls in from the side of the pot or shrinks because the peat has become hydrophobic making it hard for the media to except water

some ways people have attempted to fix under watering especially in fabric pots is to transplant the complete fabric pot into a bigger fabric pot with more of the same fresh soil , not always done because like you it's always late in the game & growers can't justify the expense

the other is to water really really slowly , the idea here is to put a very small amount of water on the dry soil surface which should pool & sit trying to re hydrate the peat , if you put too much water on the surface the weight of the water will just run through the pot to the bottom & re hydrate nothing along the way , once the surface water has disappeared leave it for 15 / 20 min then repeat

keep going until you get minimal runoff , keeping in mind if you put too much water on the surface it will run through the pot & show runoff , start by feeling the weight of the pot , it should feel lite if it's been under watered , what you want to feel is weight without runoff so you know the water is staying in the pot & re hydrating the media

yellow leaves will never recover back to green so what your looking at is the green leaves staying green to know your solving the problem but this late in the game you'll run out of leaves before the plant gets to finishing in most cases is my guess & you'll be forced to harvest early

shit happens mate we've all been there , just move on to the next grow

@itchybro
Nice easy read
Cheers

 

[OZIOZIAUTO]

I wasn't targeting barramundi at all mate - I was targeting threadfin salmon. Totally agree with what you are saying though.

Nice fishing up that wayi worked in Karumba for Raptis on a trawler and spent 2 years up the Staten river for Barra and croks
Nice looking catch my freind
Peace

 

[Sun Ra]

Belated week 11 since flip report.

Chopped on Monday which was 71 days since flip. Probs a week early. Still had one in very good nick that probs had 3 weeks to go and had similar sized flowers to the others, was tempted to keep her on my balcony for a week or two but ended up taking her too in the end just to do a test between the diff smokes. Time issues, anyways.

 

[Sun Ra]

Will move to grow diaries from here on. Promise. Thanks for putting up with me posing here.