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Since placing the cube with her into Oxypot I am watering the substrate daily with pre-growing solution to motivate spreading the roots. The substrate is a mix of expanded clay and tree bark chips this time. I have sprinkled a bit of Trichoderma and Bacillus subtilis mix over the substrate mid of the week. Water in the solution tank got bubbly a day right after that. End of week we got first sweet little roots out of the substrate, they are looking good and fast! I am still keeping the lamp at high distance and dimmed to 60W only - seems to do an excellent job in getting this baby get higher! No visible pre-flowers in this week.

She has doubled her size, also showing healthy root grow. Roots are covered with dark spots here and there - probably fungus/bacteria colonies from the mix I have added into substrate last week. I am currently dimming the lamp to 90W. By end of this week we got first sweet little pre-flowers, very nice! PS: I was a bit behind of schedule with uploads but the problem is solved now.

Grown from 12 to 27cm in this week. Roots are gaining the mass also very fast. I have fed her with pre-flowering diet and will continue the same in next week. Have lowered the lamp but kept it dimmed to 90W the whole week, only by today set it to max 120W. Hope to trigger flowers soon. Cutting couple of big fan leaves a day. Happy Growing all!

Almost 20cm gain of height and the roots fill as good as whole 15l tank by end of this week, amazing progress! I had to relocate her into my bigger tent - Homebox Q60+ is getting already too small for young lady. There are 2 lamps in big tent, but I had run them dimmed to 50% - going to increase power to its max in following week. She is drinking at least 2l of refill every day, probably more. She isn't showing flowers yet, waiting to see first of them by next week, let's see.

Almost +35cm in height in this week! Roots spread almost whole 15l tank! She drinks up to 5l a day. A very easy girl - big and tender leaves, not too many - defoliate every or every second day. Well, refilling 5l a day is a bit of demanding, but the girl has shown an unleashed progression this week and is doing her job very consistently, I guess her appetite is justified for now. Happy growing friends!

Almost +25cm of height, I guess we are slowing down to stretch. Still drinking 5l per day which is a lot. PH get below 5 the next days after fresh refill, but I keep exchanging whole tank once per week only. It seems to work out for her but I will try to improve and keep a closer eye on that. She is filling up the whole available space of my 0.5m² tent now. Lot of sweet little buds everywhere - there is still a way to go to get them as big as golf balls, hope to see her working on that in next week. She is so sexy, it's electrifying!

Same height, same 5l/day, slowly swelling up those buds! Not sure but I think we are running into a bleaching issue again ("sugar leaves are oh so sweet!" issue, remember my first grow?). Well, I guess she may be a bit sensitive to strong lights - I have increased distance to my lamps and dimmed them to 75%, means she get 180W and not 240W actually. Defoliation goes still very easy - removing couple of fan leaves every second day, no other trainings at all. I had also removed some of very low and small side-side brunches - testers on the way :) She started to smell stronger in the tent - super tasty!

The buds are growing slowly bigger. I gave some support for her highest brunches, personally wouldn't call it LST yet. Bleaching has stopped to spread. I have increased once again distance to lamp but also increased power back to 100% - there are 240W in sum now, she looks to be OK with that. I think I am going to flush the roots for a day and then start to feed her with Ripen solution in next week. Happy Growing all! Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwRnKnKFHQE

Started Ripen diet in this week. My plan is to continue feeding her with Ripen in next week. She drinks approx. 4.5l/day, it is 0.5l less then last week but still a lot! FYI - dehumidifier is working 24/7 and is sucking approx. 100ml/day from the air. The smell is gorgeous and strong! I have installed additional air purifier in the small room where this tent is installed. Microscope pictures are of buds from very bottom of the plant and from beginning of the week.

It is her 2nd week on Ripen diet, leaves are loosing green color fast. Amount of dried hairs increased but she is still producing also new flowers. I wanted to trigger her mature faster this time and it looks like it works. Did a flush, plan to continue feeding her with PH adjusted water only until harvest. Probably another one or two weeks. It is amazing plant! https://youtu.be/CJKAOaLayxI

Feeding her for one week only with PH adjusted water now, detox. Buds, leaves, brunches of this plant are all heavy covered in trichomes, I love this plant. Top buds got sexy purple shine to it. I have dimmed both lamps to 50% of power now, it is getting a bit cooler in the tent. I am planning to provide her another 10l of PH adjusted water (1 can ~ 2-3 days), letting her flow into the dark desert right after that. Harvest next week, I guess. Sugar Leaves Trim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuZ3X5_2p60

Cut the plant and let hanging upside-down for 1,5 weeks by 50-55% RH and 17-21°C. Was very easy to trim - wet as well as dry sugar leaves both goes smoothly and fun. Left dried and trimmed buds burp for another week. Made DME extracts. Tested both weed and extracts, strong pleasure :) It was handy and fun to grow on GD as always - thank you guys! And thank you very much to the community for being there, spreading love and inspiring!