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DotMinatrix Holding myself back on watering like I did on previous attempts, and that seems to be paying off. Still getting the light dialed in, currently got it about 30" above the plants at 40%ish power. Humidity is lower than I like at around 48% - I'll be able to get that raised significantly soon when I get their geriatric sister out of the tent. Strawberry Nuggets x Pink Panama : beast of the tent so far. Not too tall, not too short, huge leaves. Forgotten Strawberries: Middling growth. Looks a little light and stressed around the edges. Adjusted light height. Gorilla cookies: the tallest in my tent, with praying leaves. AK: Healthy, trucking on. One significantly bigger than the other but both respectable. Blackberry: Smallest in the tent, but healthy looking. Can kinda see the darker shading in its leaves vs the others.

DotMinatrix Still waiting on new exhaust system, hope to be hooking it up and getting all my wires and cables squared away tomorrow. The girls had their first proper ish watering of .5l for the 2gals and .75 for the 5gals at day 21, just silica and fish shit yet. Reckon I might start pushing a little something when they're dry again. Blackberries - smallest of tent. #1 suffered some slight nute or light burn but seems to be recovering. #2 healthy looking but very small. AKs - quite a size disparity but both looking healthy. #1 showed stigmas at day 21. Gorilla Cookies - large and hearty. GC1 easily bigger than everyone else, so became my volunteer for topping and lst testing. Both popped stigma day 21. Strawberry Nuggets x Pink Panama - enthusiastic about everything about this plant. Very lush frilly leaves, really thick cabled stem. Stigma at day 21. Forgotten Strawberries - what burn? Shrugging off the damage and coming up strong.

DotMinatrix Lots going on, finally got my delivery and upgraded my cheap old 4" to the aci t6. Frankie the CDLC has come down and made space to stretch out, and speaking of stretch, all have popped stigmas now (last was FS at day 24) and are going for it. I really love this week of growing. AKs - left to grow naturally. One much larger, both pretty healthy. Blackberries - starting to catch up. Still rather thin, but far from sad. Gorilla Cookies - I get the hype. Both are hearty and hale, and my gc1 seems to be enjoying the lsting as much as I am. Super gratifying. Was tempted to bend GC2 as well since 1 is doing so grand, but I really want to keep a side by side comparison. Forgotten Strawberries - I've abandoned any worry I had about her. The FIM looks a little convoluted, but I'm guessing I'll be getting 5-7 new tips from it. Took two huge fans that were covering a lot, but otherwise just tying branches to the side to get light. Really impressed with these will to thrive genetics. Aaaaand Strawberry Nuggets x Pink Panama - what can I say? I'm in love. She's fucking huge like wow. Thick cabled stem, lots of pistils, frilly meaty leaves like some Amazon rainforest shit. I hope these become a purchasable strain (freebie cross currently) soon, she's an immediate favorite and I can't wait to try some new skills on her once I have her felt out. The deal with the 4loko in the corner is being logged in a separate diary since she's 4 weeks behind everyone else - Atlas GMO auto tiny grow.

DotMinatrix Massive explosion in growth from mostly all plants. Getting thirstier, pushing nutes harder. Everything solidly into flower. Strawberry Nuggets x Pink Panama - took off 8 huge fans and opened her up. No further nanners. Reigning champ. Forgotten Strawberries - Really coming along. Cleaned out a few leaves and some bottom bud sites. Also popped nanners along lower nodes on day 35 (I'm positive they weren't there on day 34). Cleaned them off, monitoring. Gorilla Cookies - I really think this strain might actually benefit from manipulations. The naturally growing one looks ok, and the topped/bent one looks awesome IMHO. Greener leaves, bigger bud sites. AKs - AKing. The big one is getting splotches on the lower leaves. The smaller one is prettier, just much smaller. Blackberries - #1 continues to persevere through looking vaguely sickly, but has some pretty neat looking variegated leaves. #2 is catching up like a real fighter, now one of the tallest plants in my tent and quite happier looking.

DotMinatrix Huge growth in all plants, no confusion amongst any of the ladies as to which stage we're all in. Forgotten Strawberries - no further nanners, FIM has resulted in three tops plus allowed the lower two to catch up. Great node spacing and leaf/bud ratio. I think her top view looks like an owl face so I named this one Blodeuwydd, shout out to our Welsh growmies. Gorilla Cookies - both coming along great. #1 the natural looks a bit hungrier, with bigger blooms and pretty heavy frost for this stage. #2 could have been lst'ed more but I don't want to fuck with her at this stage. Darker, full and happy looking. Blackberries - real dark horses. Both have shot up, with just a few more variegated leaves popping up on #1 and #2, that shrimpy fucker, shot up from being the second shortest to being the tallest in the tent in one week. AKs - quite the example of phenotypic variance, with #1 quite standard (afaict, she looks like a better-cared-for Mags) and #2 much shorter, much darker, and positively needly with thin 3 and 5 fingered leaves but is infested with small, dense bud starts. Strawberry Nuggets x Pink Panama - tanking right into flower. Everything about this plant is jumbo sized. Fatass stalk, hairy hairy top colas traveling down all tops. She's far from tall at only about 20", but she's the biggest by far. She's a hungry hungry girl, I've been feeding them every other day for the past three waterings but they keep demanding more. Determined not to let them lack for anything I can prevent this go round. Upping to full strength next feed.

DotMinatrix Big week, lots of progress and seeing what's gonna finish first. Descriptions under construction, I just don't want to lose all my pics. Comment to be edited and updated soon.

DotMinatrix My mental health has taken a hit recently and I've had a lot of stress, so I haven't let something I love become a stress. Trying to make detailed notes on 8 plants while living with adhd can be a lot lol. They are doing really great though and I'll keep notes as I can. Strawberry Nuggets x Pink Panama - champ right to the end, I'm thinking she's 2 weeks away and intend to start tapering her feeding. I'm not sure if I mentioned previously, but I've switched from ff trio stuff to TPS Base A and B every feed with their bloom boost weekly. Still using the fish shit, just stopped the silica because I ran out. Half dose cal mag every water, ph'ed to 6.3. Really heavy buds, main cola looks like a cleric's mace. Considering whether it will be possible to dry intact. Smells medium strong like Big League shredded bubblegum and instant coffee - a very particular instant coffee lol. The kind of instant coffee a certain huge coffee chain puts in their cold blended beverages, called frap roast. Worked there years, I know that smell very well. It's uncanny. Current trichs mostly milky. Forgotten Strawberries - really taken off and showing those fabulous genetics. The FIM resulted in three tops, one of which is a double. So two and two halves? Fade coming in strong, with the start of pink stripes on upper leaves on day 61. Smells medium light of....sour strawberries and body odor. Honestly, it reminds me of strawberry scented deodorant in a girl's gym locker room. She smells like teen spirit. :D Gorilla Cookies - a really stupendous strain. Was remarking to a friend how some of my very favorite plants were all freebies - definitely getting more of these asap. Great structure, really encouraging plant, just super good natured all the way. Fat buds on both, the natural one seems a little faster to mature buds-wise but the lst'ed one is putting out some gorgeous dark purple streaks on her leaves. Medium strong smell, both the same. Earthy sweet, and I catch that "cookie" note but to me it smells like slightest ribbon of salty toffee. Blackberries- fat, happy, I'm really impressed with how they both pulled through after the awkward starts. The runt of the tent pulls ahead to be the tallest queen of the tent, of course. Medium strong smells, both the same. Very sweet, slightly earthy, berry and loam. The smell of kneeling in the earth to get the bottom berries, really lovely. No sign of the dramatic purple I was hoping for, but my area is going through a wicked heat wave so I really can't get night temps below 73 or so right now and that's a serious effort. AKs - AK one is standard. About the same size my first auto grow was (see diary AK auto, Miss Maggie) though this pot is half the size. Getting some bright fade on her, and crisping of fan leaf extremities, but none of the crunchy blotching Mags got so I'm gonna go ahead and believe I'm getting better at these. Smells just like I remember, bright pine and mango mixed. AK2 is a fucking mutant and I absolutely adore her, I feel like I've been blessed for coming back to do right by this strain. Dark bristly three and five fingered leaves, extremely tight dense bud structure. Stigma are remarkably thick and curly as soon as they started emerging. Every cola is a tight perfect cone, a replica of the main plant. But her most astonishing expression is definitely her smell. She's thick, heavy sticky sweet mango and nothing but. Zero pine, no citrus.... she seriously barely smells identifiable as weed. If you can imagine just pouring mango raspa syrup all over your tent, cranking the heat up to 90F and letting it sit for an hour... that's what she smells like. Better believe I'm keeping every bit of this baby for myself lol.