The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@m0use
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welcome everyone to my Strawberry Tent GrowOFF
I will be showcaseing 6 diffrent starberry autoflowers from 6 diffrent breeders, we will see what ones win the superfichal awards of: Best In Tent, Best Smell, Best Buds, Best Yeild, Best Taste, Best Form and Best High. 6 plants and 7 awards, I have a feeling some of the strains may take 2 or 3 of the awards and a few of them may not make it to fruition. The tests will be blind and then matched to a key at the end to find out who is who to avoid as much bias as I can given that I some of my firends will be the sole judges for most of these catagories.
+ [Best In Tent] = Over all best plant in the tent.
+ [Best Smell] = The best smelling plant based of my sences fresh & cured will be raited
+ [Best Buds] = The best looking buds visually, colour, density and frost will be raited
+ [Best Yeild] = The heavyist yeilder of them all, total grams/OZ will be raited
+ [Best Taste] = The tastyist tasteing buds, peronsal prefrence based on the gunipigs I outsouce to smoke/vape the buds.
+ [Best Form] = The best growth pattern and form out of the plants, nothing to strechy or compact.
+ [Best High] = The best feeling buds from getting stoned, peronsal prefrence based on the gunipigs I outsouce to smoke/vape the buds.
I would like to extend a big thank you for all the sponsors of this grow. From Lighting to Nutrients to the Seeds themselfs.
#1 Medic Grow LED Lights, I will be useing 2x 240w MiniSun2's dimmed to aorund 60-80% at peak flower.
https://medicgrow.com/
https://growdiaries.com/grow-lights/medic-grow
#2 Metrop Nutrients, They have sent me a starter pack that I will use to grow these ladies out. https://metrop.net/
https://metrop.store/products/startbox
#3 all the brands who donated to the cause, in no pictular order:
Exotic Seeds, Pure Instinto, Seedsman, Original Sensible Seeds, Fastbuds & *Barneys farm*
**indacate the seed was gifted to me from another grower and the breeder did not choose to partiscapte in this growOFF but are part of it anyway.
https://www.exoticseed.eu/products/strawberry-cola-auto
https://pureinstinto.com/product/strawberry-shortcake-autoflower-cannabis-seeds/
https://www.seedsman.com/us-en/strawberry-cheesecake-auto-feminised-seeds-sman-strchcake-auto-fem
https://originalsensible.com/original-sensible-seeds-strawberry-pie-auto~22096
https://2fast4buds.com/seeds/strawberry-pie-auto
https://www.barneysfarm.com/strawberry-cheesecake-auto-569
I will be growing these in a coir/perlite medium with liquid hydrophonic nutrients.
The pot size will be 2 Gal each for 12Gal total medium in a 2x4 tent under a potentinla maxium of 480W via the 2x Medic Grow Mini Sun 2's LED Lights. Germination methyod will be the same, soaking seeds in water then into the final pots medium.
They will be getting a 18/6 light scheulde from start to finish and a PH of between 6.2-6.5 for the entire grow. I will be useing some root incolulents to help the plants form a strong and healty realnship with the medium. From what I can tell this should go smoothly without many issues. I have a few good friedns on here who only grow in hydro so if I run into any issues I am going to hit them up and learn some new things.
Good Luck to all the brands competeing. I will host a question poll to see who thinks what one will susceed the most. and Maybe open it to eveyone to help rate the best looking buds catgory.
One thing to note is I am mixing all my nutrients into a massive pail that is about 2Gal and I mix it till it hits a desired EC point, so the measurements of ml/l is a bit of a guesstimate. I know its in the ruff ball park area of what I added but it could be off by a bit.
m0use
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@eldruida_lamota
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Vamos familia, actualizamos la cuarta semana de floración de estas Lemon Mandarin de FastBuds.
La temperatura que estuvo entre los 24-26 grados y humedad dentro de los rangos correctos.
En cuanto a las plantas las veo verde sano, estiraron bien y ensancharon bastante también.
Se nota que los nutrientes de la marca Agrobeta cubre todas las necesidades de cada ejemplar.
Las flores empezaron a formarse, por el momento todo correcto, os dejé también alguna novedad y un cambio en la sala, agradecer al equipo de Mars hydro por el nuevo TSW2000. (los últimos 5 años cultive solo con los leds de esta marca)los cuales probé, TS600, TS1000, TS3000, TSL2000.
- os dejo por aquí un CÓDIGO: Eldruida
Descuento para la tienda de MARS HYDRO.
https://www.mars-hydro.com
Hasta aquí todo, Buenos humos 💨💨💨
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@Dendegrow
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Welcome to week six! 🌱 Week five was a complete success – all parameters are perfectly aligned. I’ve increased the water conductivity to a solid 3000 and bumped the CO2 level up to 1200 🌿. Light intensity is now set at 1400 µmol in the center and 1000 at the edges, which will keep the plants strong in their generative state 🌞. I’ll maintain these levels until the end of the third week and then start slowly removing the large fan leaves to ensure the buds get plenty of light 💡✨.
I’m also trying something new to activate the “Emerson effect” 🌄: I’m running the deep red lights for 5 minutes before sunset and for another 5 minutes after the day ends. This should give the plants a final boost in photosynthesis, helping to maximize their growth potential! Everything’s looking fantastic so far! The Black Cherry has rooted well across different experimental setups, and at the end of the grow, I’ll provide a full report on the best care techniques for both strains 🌺👌.
Willkommen in Woche sechs! 🌱 Die fünfte Woche lief perfekt – alle Parameter stimmen. Ich habe die Leitfähigkeit des Wassers auf satte 3000 erhöht und den CO2-Gehalt auf 1200 angehoben 🌿. Die Lichtstärke beträgt jetzt 1400 µmol in der Mitte und 1000 am Rand, was dafür sorgen wird, dass die Pflanzen stark im generativen Zustand bleiben 🌞. Ich werde diese Werte bis Ende der dritten Woche beibehalten und dann langsam damit beginnen, die großen Sonnensegel zu entfernen, damit die Blüten ordentlich Licht abkriegen 💡✨.
Zusätzlich probiere ich etwas Neues aus, um den „Emerson-Effekt“ zu aktivieren 🌄: Ich lasse das tiefrote Licht 5 Minuten vor Sonnenuntergang und 5 Minuten nach dem Ende des Tages weiterlaufen. Das sollte der Photosynthese einen letzten Schub geben und das Wachstum der Pflanzen maximal fördern! Bis jetzt sieht alles fantastisch aus! Die Black Cherry ist in verschiedenen Versuchsreihen gut angewachsen, und am Ende des Grows werde ich einen ausführlichen Bericht darüber abgeben, wie sich die beiden Sorten am besten pflegen lassen 🌺👌.
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@SonomaSungrown
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Booming and blooming.
One pheno is about 25" tall, and the other is over 3' tall.
Not a ton of odor yet, but I continue to be very impressed by the growth rate of these Pride of the Lion genetics.
Sprayed CannControl on Wednesday as a preventive measure.
Aphids are strong in the brussels sprouts right now.
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@PEAKYPLANTERS
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Hi guys, What's up?
Welcome back
I wanted to share with you the growth of this wonderful specimen
With a Formula 1 start, she burned all her roommates on the spot
Smells and colors are starting to take their shapes 😉😋
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@peterfly98
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Day 21: the next watering will be with the full fert cycle starting week 4. Plants are bouncing back from lst.
Day 23: leaf tucking, defoliation and more lst.
Day 25: Very hot week, hitting 29°C but the plants are still growing fine
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@Hawkbo
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The autos are doing better than they were I got a new bottle of calmag cuz the older one was old. I still could use some warmer temps. I've been turning the exhaust fan down to the lowest level but the RH goes way up. I might move them into the tent with the HPS soon which settles around 82°f but that light makes the RH go way down so this whole thing is just a pain in the nuts.
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@Sammuray
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Exelente creciendo y engordando, muy buena altura y producción, con rapidez y aroma a mango muy fuerte, resistente y fácil de cultivar, muy recomendable.
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@Mr_nugs_lover_David
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Very happy with how this lady has performed, amazing quality buds, very sticky and dense flower with a concrete smell that I love so much, which is that kind of fruity sweet flavor that this lady is able to produce, it's been a beautiful journey, I'm gonna enjoy a lot this flowers. Very recomended guys!
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@Tri_Op
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Began flushing her midway through week 8, buds aren't as full as I had liked but have struggled with rising EC levels during the whole grow which I will put down to being caused by an excessive defoliation at week 4 of flower that took too long to recover from.
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@Prototype0181
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This lady is 8 weeks old now, and has been grown with Bio-Bizz nutrients before i transplanted her, to her final 10 gallon home.
This round i'm using the Complete Bio Tabs Line-up for her during late veg & flower🙂 ( this stuff gives a amazing taste to whatever your growing @ home😉 )
Talking about flower😃 i feel the need to switch her to 12/12 real soon.
Stay tuned Growmies👍
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@Bloombuster
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На этой неделе поработал с ветками в неперспективных местах, удалив все лишнее, что могло бы вытягиваться, вместо генерации цветов. За неделю растение выросло на 10 сантиметров. Проверил натяжение, центральный ствол туго натянул шнур растяжки, пытаясь выпрямиться после освобождения всех веток от натяжения. Пока ещё рано отпускать растяжку ствола, сделаю это после остановки вертикального роста. Ещё одна неделя "вытягивания" впереди, но цветы уже довольно быстро набирают массу.
После обрезки неперспективных веток внизу растения, у меня чесалась рука, которую я запускал в гущу листвы. Это словно крапива, жжет, вызывает раздражение и пока не вымоешь руку с мылом в теплой воде, жжение не уходит. Девочка достаточно липкая, чтоб стать в одну линию с уже выращенными девочками и посоревноваться с ними в эффекте и урожае.
Запах изменился до неузнаваемости, теперь она не пахнет кошкой, скунсом.... то, как она пахнет, невозможно описать обычными словами...это похоже на запах разнотравья в одном букете. Кажется что тут смесь запахов: чебрец, мята, мать-и-мачеха, плакун-трава и чертополох. Запах сладкий, медовый, с небольшим пряным горьковатым шлейфом. Внешне цветы начали становиться похожими на молодые одуванчики, слегка подкрасив свои стигмы в желтый цвет.
После обрезки слаборазвитых мест я попил чай, заварив на свежую в кипятке несколько молодых цветов и листьев. Замечательное пойло, очень полезное для внутренних органов, особенно для пищевода, желудка и двенадцатиперстной кишки.
Поднял лампу на 10 сантиметров, сохраняя расстояние между лампой и верхушкой растения - 60 сантиметров.
Чуть поднял мощность лампы - 75%, от растения 60 сантиметров, 35000lux, лампа слегка теплая.
https://www.viparspectra.com/products/xs-series-xs2000
при покупке примени код и получи скидку 😀👌
код: GDVIP
Замечательный опыт, шикарный рост и необыкновенная генетика, подаренная природой!
Спасибо всем за комментарии и оценки, друзья! Пихаем воз дальше, выше, в гору. 👍😁👌
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@AsNoriu
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New week, seems ok for first morning, will do heavy feed on day 52.
I already gave away one plant ( strawberry cough photo ) now one of fast diesels still stucked in pre-flower, would love to return to 18/6 regime, just dont want any reveg or hermie. Still lost.
Fingers crossed ;)
Day 53 Morning, leaves a bit down after night, everything looking not bad, thinking to defoliate two midle babies.
Had a big mistake on day 52, they where down, i stayed for one night out and was late with watering for a day, they looked totaly down, like my mobile, thats why no photos, never seen any plant so bad in my hole life... But they are ok now, quess it was on the verge, but damadge was done 100 %
Day 53 evening. I wouldnt be me if i wont be searching ways to screw up the crop ;)))
After many hesitations i decided to do very light defoliation.
And ..... They hated it. Lets give couple days, but 2 huge stresses in 3 days dont give me and girls joy for sure ....
In that rush forgot to make third Fast diesel photo, but i quess she didnt made mind to flower, took like 5 leaves down and left her for a bit,very annoying , she will be a big delay at the end or very early harvest, both ways waste of time....
Plus had to reduce light to 15.5 of day, maybe those 30 min will force her ...
All 3 Fast Diesels are very mag hungry, fed them with epsom salt extra.
Day 54 . Fast Diesel 3 went to 24 hours darkness prison with a heater ;))) hope that will teach her a lesson !
Others got feed with silicic acid, they drink, thats a good sign tho !
Fast Diesel 3 was a day behind from all, even 5 leaves was too much. But its a good time for me to give last trick i can, before downgrading day hours even more.
Day 54 Evening. Girls are praying again, silica always boost them to hapiness ;)
Day 56. Girls are growing, looks like last Fast Diesel starts to make buds from preflower, but a lot of pistils going brown, so either its heat, which i will check today or its hermie ;)))
Could be wind damage, i will check all options today, returned from work, made short shitty video and thats all ;)
End of week.
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When I look at the leaves I see them yellowing and fading which I thought was natural, however I think it is too early in the plants life cycle to be doing that. From my research online, it looks to me to be nutrient burn. At 1st I was thinking light burn. I'm a relatively new grower so if anyone has any ideas let me know. Thanks.
Reservoir change out today.
I also reduced feeding by half recommended amount.
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@blacknpearl
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oct 5. water ph'ed at 6.3
No nutrients at this point. Maybe next week.oct 14. megacrop 0.6gr/litre ph'ed at 6.24. about 150 ml
oct 19. megacrop 0.6gr/litre ph'ed at 6.24. about 150 ml
oct 23. megacrop 0.6gr/litre ph'ed at 6.24. about 100 ml
oct 26. megacrop 0.6gr/litre ph'ed at 6.24. about 100 ml or less
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@DudeGrowsWeed
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Adding Mephisto Sour Hound to my tent of autos. Really excited about growing some Mephisto Genetics, been hearing amazing things about Mehphisto (I also have a Alien vs Triangle going in a separate diary). This is a free seed I received with my order from Seedsman last fall (BTW Seedsman ROCKS!). This first seed failed to pop so I planted a second and that one popped in 4 days!.
My Perpetual Harvest strategy…. Originally my plan was to start 2 seeds each month, but had some seeds from one breeder that did not germinate early in my rotation. Ultimately, this caused single seeds to pop and messed up my 2 at a time plans. But, that seemed to work out OK, because now I think starting one seed every 3 weeks is a better strategy. This should provide me with 4-5 plants at a time, instead of 6. However… Since I need to shut down over the summer because my tent is currently in the attic, I’m starting 2-3 seeds at at time for the last couple of rounds.
Plants get fed once weekly on weekends. Seedlings get water only. Plants in vegetation get water and Recharge. Flowering plants get water, Recharge or Big Bloom (Fox Farm). Feeding is done using 2 gallon watering can. Any additional waterings during the week are given on an as needed basis per plant. I lift the plants to help determine which plants are more dry (lighter) and provide water any plants via water bottles and watering spikes.
I give each pot a quarter turn every day in an effort to make sure the plants get equal lighting from all sides. I rotate the plant in place by turning the pot 90 degrees (I am not rearranging the layout of the plants in the tent on a daily basis).
The soil is an ‘organic super soil’ I mixed myself using organic top soil, organic potting soil, organic compost, organic peat moss, organic perlite, organic vermiculite, lime, epsom salt, expanded clay pellets and Jobe’s organic fast start. I am also recycling my soil and water with Recharge when using recycled soil.
For plant training I have tried a variety of things, but my plans now are to do LST bending only, no HST anymore. I may decide to go back to HST again in the future, but I’m curious to compare LST training only to see how that goes. Around week 3 I'll do a FIM pinch once there are 4-5 nodes established. And some defoliation around the 3rd week of flowering. I have been doing HST bending and having good results, but think the HST may be causing the plants to take longer to harvest. I hope FIM/defoliation only will help increase harvests while getting me to harvest sooner.
Setup:
1- Grow Tent 24”x48”x72”
2- Viparspectra 300W LED’s (1-V300 & 1-R300)
1- Hanging 100w CFL (26w actual)
1- Carbon Filter w/ 190cfm Fan & 4” ducts
1- 6” clip-on fan
1- 700w electric heater - oil filled radiator (in front of air intake behind tent)
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Hi ... It's been a crazy week and it switched to 12/12 on the 40th day of vegetation.🍃🍃🍃 They are ready for sure there is no more to wait ... 🍃🍃🍃Good luck girls during the flowering stage🍃🍃🍃
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@russrahl
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We’re back! 💨 Finally was able to get some picks and do an update on these girls. Pushed them 11 weeks into flowering and we cut them down. Took 4 days for me to trim it all! She’s drying in my rack now so I will update the harvest info shortly. I pulled 1 of these already about a month ago that I was growing alongside my peyote cookies and it was some decent buds, not spectacular at first but after a few weeks cutting its coming along better. Ended up with about 11 oz off that one girl and we cut her at the 9 week flowering mark and she had about 2 weeks less veg time as well. So we pushed these 2 girls to the extreme the other way(partially because I just didn’t have the time to cut them…lol) and hopefully we will get some more intense highs from it. I kinda just let these girls do their own thing and really only bent them down over my screen once and tucked a little to fill the screen but other then that she was just blowing up all over and I had a hard time actually containing these 2 girls
In my 4’x8’ tent. We also got a good heat wave again that pushed my temps way up in the 10th week of flowering and these girls grew closer to my light then I wanted or could keep from happening. Lol so we got some major foxtails in the center of my tent but we still ended up with some huge buds. Cheers 💨
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@MrLahey
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Flipped ‘em to flower about a week ago. So far to my untrained eyes they’re looking great. I’m watering ever three days and feeding once every other watering. Mixture of fox farms nutrients (disregard amounts in stats above) at like 25-40 percent of full strength. Ppm was 700 and ppfd is 700-800 according to Photone.
Disregard the little fella in the solo cup. I never transplanted it and just kept it in there. Now I’m just keeping it as a bonus plant plus to learn leaf symptoms, etc.
I’m really excited to guide these through the home stretch! They’re already way bigger than my last, and first, harvest.
