Sugar Bomb Punch - Maria & Juanita

Day 8 - Ladies seem to be growing normal. Stopped stretching for the light, tested at 10K-11K LUX at plant level. That should be more than enough for this stage. Switched on fan to increase circulation and strengthen those stems. Misting very regularly to keep humidity up as tent RH reading is always hovering around 40% Day 9 - Watered ladies with around 50ml of water. Day 10 - Lowered lamp a bit more to start getting the ladies accustomed to the intensity. Still misting regularly to keep humidity up. Maria started her vegetative growth showing increased vigour. Juanita is tagging along nicely. Seems to have responded to the support rod and a bit more soil around the base nicely as stem has straightened up and is holding its own weight. Day 13 - Watered both ladies with around 50ml of water each. Still misting regularly to keep humidity up. Day 14 - First set of side branches appeared on the stem within the first node with true leaves on both ladies. Misting regularly to keep humidity up.

Day 15 - Watered them ladies with around 50ml of water. Reduced misting frequency as plants seem to have settled in the tent. Stems have hardened with the addition of an oscillating fan blowing air away from the plants. They seem to be growing normally, pushing a node out every day from their main stem. Side branching is starting to appear on both ladies. Maria has a darker green colour and has a slightly longer internodal distance. Leaves feel thicker and rougher. Already smells sweet when touched. Juanita has a slightly lighter colour to her growth with shorter internodal spacing. Also smells slightly sweet when touched. Day 18 - Watered both ladies with around 50ml of water Day 19 - Found both ladies quite wilted. Finding it quite difficult to keep parameters in check. High temperatures and low humidity are a very big problem where I'm at right now. Watered them and they both perked back up after half an hour. Switched off one lamp to check if it makes any difference in temperatures. Day 20 - Both ladies are yellowing a bit. Watered them again as soil was dry. Will have to re-pot soon. Too much hassle with these small pots.

Day 22 - Cleaned all lower growth from both ladies to start preparing for mainlining. Doing things gradually so as not to stress plants. Planning to transplant and top them for the first time this week. Day 23 - Watered ladies with around 60ml of water. New growth is all green and lush. Day 26 - Transplanted both ladies in bigger pots and put Bio-Tabs Mychorrizae to minimize transplant shock. Watered until soil was fully saturated with nutrients listed above.

Day 29 - Topped both ladies at the fifth node and removed any growth below. Growth exploded since transplant and first dose of nutrients. Day 30 - Watered both ladies with around 100ml of water. They recovered from the topping and look as healthy as can be. Very happy with progress. Day 32 - Misted both ladies. Day 33 - Watered both ladies with around 250ml each. Increased dosage slightly from last feed to see how they take it. Day 35 - Misted both ladies to keep them hydrated. Maria is doing well, showing vigorous growth. Planning to top her again next week and remove any growth below the topped nodes. Juanita has fallen behind, new growth points seem to be growing sideways. Keeping an eye on her progress, hopefully she turns out ok. Not planning to top her again until normal growth resumes, do not want to stress her out.

Day 36 - Both plants growing normally. Maria had her first set of side nodes on both main growth tips. Reason being they would have been removed later on so might as well use energy where it's actually needed. Growing vigorously as you can see from the photos. Day 38 - Watered both ladies with about 250ml of water as their pots felt light and I could notice a slight droop on some leaves. Still battling with low humidity. Hopefully things will start looking up soon as the weather cools down. Spent some time actually looking at these ladies today. Noticed some slight differences. Maria took the topping at the fifth node like champ. Recovered very fast from the training. From 7 bladed leaves she went back to 3 bladed leaves then up to 5 bladed leaves again the next node up and back to 7 the node after. Internodal distance is stable and not too long. Planning to top her again in a couple of days when I have enough space between the nodes to actually make the cut. Juanita doesn't seem to have liked the topping. She started growing wonky then straightened up, loosing valuable time in the process. Meaning the other 3 plants growing with her outgrew ber by quite a bit. Now she stretched a bit as if to show that she can keep up height-wise. From 7 bladed leaves she went back to 5 bladed leaves after the topping. Still waiting on the next set to open. She is growing slow, but never the less, she's still beautiful in my eyes! 🙂 Day 40 - Topped both ladies again and removed any side shoots under the topped node. Leaving leaves on so as to maximise photosynthesis and push those main growth tips. Watered both about 250ml of water with feeding noted above. Growth is still lush and green. Upped feedings as they seem to be taking it like champs. Feeding only once a week with plain waterings in between feedings. Day 42 - Both ladies still growing. Maria has 1 lower leaf that turned slightly yellow. All other growth is green and lush. Juanita seems to be a taller pheno as internodal distance is longer than her sister's.

Day 45 - Both ladies still growing. Maria is looking great colour-wise but leaves look slightly wrinkled. Other than that she's growing normally. Juanita is growing strong. But her internodal distance is quite long. Day 47 - Defoliated lower parts of both ladies, increasing airflow as finally humidity is going up after the first rain. Day 49 - Did not feed both ladies this week, just gave them water when they needed. Was told by fellow growers that I was overfeeding my plants and locking out nutrients. Will start feeding slowly again when they recover fully. They are both still growing strong, just some discoloration on lower fan leaves. Jessy looks like she needs some nitrogen. Will give her a very light dose of BioBizz BioGrow with her next watering. Other than that she is growing nice and compact. Bessy is a stretchy pheno. Today saw first sign of pre-flower on her. She's a confirmed girl. She still has a long ways to go in veg though before she will be flipped to flower.

Day 51- Fed both ladies 500ml of water each with nutrients listed above. They have been receiving only water for over a week to flush any excess nutrients in the soil. New growth does not seem to have any deficiency so I'm assuming that we are out of that nutrient lockout. Day 52 - Both ladies are praying. They are loving it. Growth exploded from yesterday's feeding and new growth is looking very lush. No more signs of deficiency for now. Will start training them again in a couple of days, topping them again and removing any side growth from underneath the topped node. Leaving as much leaves as possible to promote more photosynthesis. Mychorrizae appeared again on the top soil after yesterday's watering so soil is still alive. Chia cover crop has started to sprout under both ladies. Day 54 - Watered both ladies with around 500ml of plain water each. Topped them again. Each plant has 8 main growth tips. Left side branches underneath the topped node for now to see how they grow and fill out.

Day 57 - Transplanted both ladies in 3 gallon pots. Used only BioBizz AllMix and some Bio-Tabs Mychorrizae to reduce transplant shock. Both plants do not seem 100% happy, they are showing slight yellowing (or light green) growth throughout. Will be giving only water until things settle down. There should be enough nutrients in the new soil to sustain growth. Hopefully things get better. Other than the slight discoloration, both plants are still growing, pushing out new growth daily. Day 60 - Maria has recovered from whatever deficiency/lockout she had. Transplanting seems to have done the trick. Foliage turned green again and growth is vigorous again. Juanita on the other hand does not look very happy. Leaves are still a light shade of green and stems are turning purple. New growth is very slow compared to her sister's. Day 62 - Fed both ladies with 1 litre each with nutrients listed above. Day 63 - Maria still growing normally. Short internodes and bushy growth. Will defoliate her slightly these coming days to increase airflow through her and expose lower growth to more direct light. Juanita is still not looking how she needs to look. New growth seems better. Very long internodes. Leaves still discoloured and slight tip burn appeared this morning. Stems and leaf veins still purple.

Day 65 - Maria got some needed defoliation to expose lower nodes to light and increase air circulation through the canopy. She is growing bushy with short internodes. Juanita's new growth looks slightly better, even though growth has slowed down and is very stretchy. Thinking of putting her soul to rest, she's turning out to be a headache in the current tent situation. Day 66 - Maria's growth exploded after yesterday's defoliation. Both plants showed pre-flowers and are both confirmed ladies. 🙂 Day 70 - Both ladies got 1 litre each of plain water. Maria got her lower skirt lollipopped. Also defoliated her from top to expose lower growth to more light. She is still growing very dense. Juanita is showing signs of recovery, new growth is green and purple stems are slowly turning green again I don't like the way she is growing though, internodes are too long. Will have to see what to do with her.

Day 71 - Both girls not showing any signs of stress after yesterday's lollipop and defoliation. All seems well for now... Day 76 - Flushed both ladies thoroughly in the shower to remove any buildups in the soil. Maria got some slight defoliation through the canopy. Juanita got a major trim as she is a stretchier pheno and things were getting a bit unbalanced with her and another tall plant at the back with her. Cut back around 6 stems, trying to create an as-even-as-possible lower canopy. Day 77 - Both ladies look hungry (mostly Juanita), will feed them next watering

Day 80 - Light round of defoliation on both ladies, mostly on Maria. Day 81 - Watered both ladies, each with 1 litre of water including nutrients listed above. They are going to love this feeding after quite some time without and a soil flush last week. Both growing vigorously. Day 84 - Watered both ladies with 0.5 litres of plain water. Started using tap water left to air out for 48 hours.

Day 86 - Major training session on both ladies today. Things were getting too crowded with 4 photos (80+ days veg) and 2 autoflowers that both seem to have around a month left in them. Topped all upper branches and stripped most of the undergrowth, leaving only 2-3 nodes on every branch. Took me over an hour to do all four plants but in the end tings look much better in the tent. Now onto a hopefully short recovery on all plants. Day 89 - Maria is showing signs of recovery from last training session. All new growth is lush and green. She takes training very well and always recovered relatively fast from anything done on her. Loving this pheno. Juanita is a complete different story. She does not like topping, she does not like leaf stripping, she does not like node stripping. Pushing new growth but not as nice as I would like her to be...

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Day 100 - Officially 100 days of vegetative growth. Plants are in need of a transplant but due to my current tent situation, I cannot transplant for now. They were also getting too much light throughout the whole of last week. Got super busy at work and kind of neglected the garden a bit. Lights went up and ladies were watered 1 litre of water each with nutrients listed above. Maria was the least affected from the extra light intensity. Maybe because she was not getting as much light as all the other plants, maybe because she can actually tolerate more intense light.

Day 108 - Plants got neglected these couple of weeks as I was occupied with other personal matters. I ran into some issues. Plants got slightly burned by being too close to the lights and some Cal-Mag deficiencies which where left unattended for some time. Started giving CalMag with every feeding now and things are starting to get better. Both plants are turning green again with new growth being nice and lush. Will not train them anymore for now unless they need some minor defoliation. Today I harvested an autoflower that was growing in the same tent and moved the plants around so they have more space and air circulation in and between them. Both plants are begging to be flipped to flower, but there's the last auto to be harvested. Planning to harvest her in about two weeks. Then SCROG net and flip all four photoperiod ladies to flower. Going to be an exciting one!!!

Day 125 - After a short hiatus from posting updates on my diaries I should be back to posting regularly. Both plants are still recovering from phosphorus deficiency and/or nutrient lockout they went through. My bets are on wrong PH but I cannot confirm until I get a proper meter. Put lights up again to see if maybe they are getting too much intensity but PPFD meter would suggest otherwise. SCROG net will be installed in a couple of weeks and both plants trained under it with another 2 plants. Tent will be flipped when sufficient SCROG coverage is achieved but I'm guessing it's not going to be long. They will be transplanted in 7 gallon fabric pots with living soil for the final stretch of their lives. Hopefully these small problems will be solved by then to go into flower with full force.

Day 128 - Increased watering to 2 litres per plant every 3-4 days and noticed healthier growth on all ladies. They will be getting a well deserved transplant in 2 days when I finally harvest the last auto standing!

Day 130 - Transplanted ladies in 30 litre fabric pots with a home blended living soil. Added mycorrhizal spores around root mass. Watered immediately with 5 litres of plain water to saturate soil and activate spores. Day 132 - Growth exploded, growth is finally back to lush green after a very long growth period. Juanita was moved to a homie's tent as space was definitely going to be an issue in my tent. On her own she filled a 120x60 grow tent with some LST and a SCROG net. Day 135 - Flipping them very soon. Will put a SCROG net in 2 days as I will finally have time to set everything up properly. Cleaning the whole tent before setting everything back up to start flowering in a clean setting. Maria will be easy to train under the net for sure due to the way she grew and where I'm planning to set the net. Day 136 - Removed everything from the tent and gave a proper clean-up. Sanitised everything with sanitiser spray. Set up SCROG net and put plants underneath it. Bent any branches that needed to and let them be. Day 138 - Lollipopped all ladies as best as I could and started arranging tops in position under the net. Took me around 3 hours of very uncomfortable work tucked in between plants in awkward positions to lollipop everything on 3 ladies. Collected 7gallon pot worth of leaves and stems. Day 139 - Plants started recovering from the training session. New growth is lush and green and SCROG net filling nicely. Will flip on the 4th of January as I will be on holiday and want to be present during flower to keep an eye on RH.

Day 141 - Plants filling out the SCROG net nicely. All side nodes that were covered by upper growth are now getting more direct light, thus growing faster. Moving tips that are growing faster to the next square up to always leave an even canopy as possible. Maria is growing beautifully with big fan leaves and stacked growth on all stalks. She really wants to flower now. Removing the bigger fan leaves that would be covering lover growth. Day 142 - Watered each plant with the following: 4 litres water including 8ml BioBizz BioGrow 4ml BioBizz Fish-Mix 4ml BioBizz TopMax 4ml BioBizz CalMag 1.5 litres water to achieve some run-off but none noticed. Decided to stop watering. Dumping 16 litres of water in the room at one go should be enough. 🙂 Growth is lush and the now-exposed side nodes are filling all the central SCROG squares nicely. Should be filled up nicely in about a week, just in time with the planned flip to flower. Day 144 - Round of defoliation and moving heads around today to keep canopy as even as possible. Day 145 - Watered with 5.5 litres of plain water each to prevent any build-ups before flipping to flower in 5 days and starting bloom nutrients. Moved some more growth tips around to maximize canopy coverage. Main growth tips have reached their final square as there is nowhere to move them around now. Just some more playing around in the central part in the coming days before the flip. Day 146 - Plants growing nicely 😊

Flower Day 1 - Stripped all ladies nice and proper to focus all their energy to bud sites with actual potential. Cleared everything under the screen and some stuff from above as well. Took around 3 hours of back breaking work crouched between plants under the screen. Note to self: DO NOT VEG PLANTS FOR THIS LONG AND IN THIS WAY! Watered each lady with the following: 4l water including: 8ml Bio-Bizz BioGrow 4ml Bio-Bizz BioBloom 4ml Bio-Bizz FishMix 4ml Bio-Bizz CalMag 4ml Bio-Bizz TopMax 1.5l plain water to try to induce some run off but still none. Stopped watering so as not to raise humidity too much. Flipped light schedule to 12-12 to induce flowering. Now onto the stretch phase. Another SCROG screen is going to be set up plus I have 2 elastic SCROG nets that can be quickly set up just in case they are needed. Let the fun times start! Flower Day 2 - All three ladies seem to have started stretching. Most growth tips are praying, signalling that the plants are very happy in their environment! 🙂 Flower Day 4 - Watered each lady with the following: 6l water including: 12ml Bio-Bizz BioGrow 7ml Bio-Bizz BioBloom 7ml Bio-Bizz CalMag 7ml Bio-Bizz TopMax

Flower Day 6 - Plants continue stretching slowly. Till now they stretched on average 15cm since the flip to 12-12. New growth is nice and healthy finally I "dialled in" my feeding schedule. Installing second SCROG screen this week.

Flower Day 13 - Started final defoliation a bit early as things where getting a bit too crammed for my and the ladies' likings. Ladies are all looking happy ☺️ Flower Day 15 - Watered each lady with the following: 6l water 12ml BioBizz BioGrow 15ml BioBizz BioBloom 8ml BioBizz FishMix 8ml BioBizz TopMax 8ml BioBizz CalMag Flower Day 17 - All ladies are praying, humidity settled at 60% for now I'm happy with it, will keep reducing it slowly slowly the longer we go into flower. Flower Day 18 - Watered each lady with the following: 7l water 15ml BioBizz BioGrow 15ml BioBizz BioBloom 8ml BioBizz TopMax 8ml BioBizz CalMag 150g fresh blended Aloe Vera leaf Still stretching slowly. Having to move heads around everyday through the second SCROG net.

Flowering day 22 - Gave each lady the following: 6l water 13.3ml BioBizz BioGrow 20ml BioBizz BioBloom 6.7ml BioBizz FishMix 6.7ml BioBizz CalMag 6.7ml BioBizz TopMax 16.7ml Blackstrap molasses Ladies doing fine, she was praying 30 minutes after they were watered and fed. Room is starting to smell now and I love what I'm smelling. All ladies smell slightly different and I'm really liking the leaf structure on these plants during flower. What would be needed for sure is more light as the far ends lack the proper light intensity. Flowering Day 25 - This lady smells of old school sweet hash. Her leaves are starting to get a coat of trichomes already. Her sister Juanita flowering at my friend's house is only 5 days ahead of her in flowering but looks to be 2-3 weeks ahead. We don't know how and why. See video attached for reference 🙂 Flowering day 26 - Gave each lady the following: 6l water 13.3ml BioBizz BioGrow 20ml BioBizz BioBloom 6.7ml BioBizz CalMag 6.7ml BioBizz TopMax 16.7ml Blackstrap molasses Put lights up a bit as top colas were getting 1.5k PPFD and I got a bit scared 😳

Flowering Day 31 - Watered Maria with 5l of plain water. Flowering Day 35 - Gave Maria the following: 6.5l water 13.3ml BioBizz BioGrow 26.7ml BioBizz BioBloom 6.7ml BioBizz CalMag 6.7ml BioBizz TopMax She started packing weight, calyxes started swelling. Bud sites are covered in trichomes, some fan leaves included. She deserves her name as you can see from the photos. She smells sweet and slightly earthy, reminds me of old school imported North African hash we used to love locally in the 2000s 😊

Flowering Day 39 - Maria is packing on weight and trichomes. Calyxes swelling and Pistils started to turn amber slowly. She smells fruity and earthy, not so sweet anymore. Will feed her tomorrow as soil is not as dry as I would want it to be before I water my ladies. Flowering Day 40 - Gave Maria the following: 7l water 7ml BioBizz BioGrow 28ml BioBizz BioBloom 7ml BioBizz CalMag 7ml BioBizz TopMax 17.5ml Blackstrap molasses

Flowering Day 44 - Watered both ladies with the following: 5l water including 5ml BioBizz BioGrow 5ml BioBizz CalMag 20ml BioBizz BioBloom 20ml BioBizz TopMax 12.5ml Blackstrap molasses 25ml blended fresh Aloe Vera Flowering Day 48 - Watered her with the following: 6l water including 6ml BioBizz BioGrow 6ml BioBizz CalMag 24ml BioBizz BioBloom 24ml BioBizz TopMax

Flowering Day 53 - Watered her with 6 litres of water including nutrients listed above. Flowering Day 54 - She is beautiful! Some foxtailing action happening. Could be genetics, could also (most probably) be too much light as she stands at around 6-8" from the LEDs. Unfortunately I cannot do anything about that due to my light situation. If I put the lights up my other plants will suffer from insufficient light! 😂 Hopefully this situation will be fixed by next grow. Trichomes mostly cloudy with some clear ones still visible. Saw some ember trichomes but on sugar leaves not on actual calyxes. Giving her last week of feed then we start flushing.

Flowering Day 58 - Gave last feed before starting flush. She got: 6l water 6ml BioBizz CalMag 24ml BioBizz BioBloom 24ml BioBizz TopMax Trichomes are mostly cloudy. Some still clear, some turning ember. Will flush her once or twice these next 7 days and most probably harvest.

Beautiful strain to work with. Started with two phenos but had to re-home one of them due to space issues. The one I kept grew into a beautiful bushy plant and flowered into nice long chunky colas. Some foxtails where developed, not sure if due to genetics or due to excess light. Buds covered in trichomes heads and man when I say heads! Biggest ones I ever saw on plants that I grew! Cannot wait to taste her! Planning to let her dry for as long as possible. Only removed some fan leaves to try prolong drying process.