Blue Cookies ;) Photo.

There appears to be a Blue theme running through my grow tent 😜. Using some new technology this round. The Inkbird controller is managing an oscilating fan and two warm mist humidifiers. My house humidity is only at 20%, so control is needed to get my tent up to 65%, and keep it there when the lights go off, without humidity spikes. I am also employing a Pulse Environmental monitor. The pulse sends temp, humidity, light level, and VPD data right to your smart device. This enables me to chart my tent's conditions day and night. You can also set parameters to monitor, and receive notifications when things are outawhack.👍 ( like when the humidifiers run dry and humidity drops). Using the Gaia Green nutrients again. They worked well for me the first go, and besides, I have two 20Kg bags of it to use up😎. Likely going to ScRog this Blue Cookie along side the Glueberry OG. Have to see if they can play nicely together..lol.

This poor plant is hurting. 😟 I keep overwatering. Hopefully it will recover with less water. Grower's Tip: See photo above. If you want to reuse your plastic plant labels, don't use a sharpee. Scrub the plastic label with a pencil eraser untill the finish is no longer shiney and becomes dull. This allows the graphite from a pencil to stick to the plastic surface. Use a softer grade of pencil, such as 5B, to make your writting darker. Simply erase the label to reuse. I have used this method for many years outdoors in my pepper gardens.😎

Looking a little better after cutting back on the watering. Grew about an inch this week. Cut off the first leaves, they looked poor and were not contributing to the health of the plant. Going to pot her up to her 7 gallon fabric pot home this week. Just had a big hatch out of fungus gnats in the past few days ( damn substrate had eggs in it ). Went from zero flies on the sticky traps to a hundred in a few days 😡. Have to eraticate these little buggers. I put down some diatom powder, but the flies are just having a dance party on it. Need to order some Bt. Man I really hate Efn Fungus Gnats!!!!! GRRRRRrrrrrrr.......

I DECLARE WAR!!!!!! on fungus gnats😡. On Feb.21 (Day 24) I repotted and reset my tent. I started by treating all the drains in my house with bleach, then hydrogen peroxide (3% USP). My plastic Blueberry pots were treated with a layer of landscape fabric to prevent the little buggers coming in through the bottom. Then all the gals were up potted with 3TBSP 4-4-4 and 1 TBSP 2-8-4 per gallon of media. The Blue Cookies and Glueberry OG went into 7 gallon fabric pots. I then mixed in 4 heaping TBSP of diatomaceous earth per pot into the top inch of media, and topped off the pots with an inch of GnatNix barrier. I then watered in slowly with a 4:1 ratio of ph'd dechlorinated tap water and hydrogen peroxide. ( 400mL water plus 100mL hydrogen peroxide to make 500mL of solution). Now...hopefully that will kill any larvae in the media, and slow the adults from relaying eggs. Then it was time to address the adults buzzing around my tent. I made a bunch of homemade sticky traps (See Grow Tip below), and some Apple Cider Vinegar traps. Today's body count on the traps is 29, and has been that for a few days. She seems to like her new home and has grown fast this week. Have some leaf tip burn, my soil is still a little hot for younger plants. I am hopeful she will really take root and go on a growth spurt! Grow Tip - Make your own re-usable sticky traps. Get a plastic file folder ( I found this one at Dollorama). Bright colours that mimick flowers seem to work best. Cut it up to make any size or shape of trap you like. Next I spread a thin layer of a product called tanglefoot ( I found this at my local nursery Terra $16 Cdn) Vasoline petroleum jelly would likely also work (although I have not tried that), onto the plastic trap. You can wipe the trap clean with paper towel, and reapply as needed. I Hope everyone is having a wonderful week! Thanks for stopping by👊. Till next week Arrivederci! DeaneR😎

WINNING! the battle of the Fungus Gnat, I began in last weeks' diary👍. No new gnats and no live adults😊 in the grow room. Still a few flying around my house. Hopefully they don't find anywhere to lay eggs, and they die off. This was just a week of letting her grow. She is starting to finally get well established and is growing fast and putting out new shoots. Likely will top her soon, and get the LST process started. Tues. Feb.26 - D29 Gave her 2Qts of water pH'd to 6.6 with Cal-Mag Plus at 3mL/Gallon. Thanks for stopping in! Till next week Adios! DeaneR😎

Gave her the F.I.M. Mar.5 D36. Not sure if I took enough off the top, as this is my first attempt FIMing. I may have FIM my FIM, haha. Two days later I trimmed off six fan leaves to give the new lower growth the light. So far she is branching as expected. The weather has been mild the past couple days and has driven up my tent temperatures to 86F. Going to continue the veg. cycle a while longer. Thanks for stopping by! Till next week Adios! DeaneR😎

Sarted LST this week. She is growing fast and forming into a nicely shaped plant. I snapped a branch 💩 (photo 2) and am trying to mend her up. Added Voodoo Juice with my watering to add beneficial microbes to the root zone. Also have been foliar feeding with cal/mag. 2 or 3 more weeks of veg. to go!😊. Thanks for stopping by! Peace, DeaneR😎

Busy week in my Tent with the three varities of girls, and a boy (lucky guy, lol..... his days are numbered😑). Mar. 23 - D54 Top dressing amendment day. Added 150 mL of Gaia Bloom 2-8-4, and 50 mL of Gaia 4-4-4 to the 7 gal. bag. Also mixed in 300mL of Gaia worm castings. Good thing for the carbon filter, the tent smells a little💩 ish. To accomplish this I had to vacuum (who spelled this?) out the gnat nix with a wet/dry shop vac....whatta PITA. I then proceeded to bind and trim her. You can see by day 56 she recovered quickly. Also added some nematodes to fend off fungus gnats! In the voice of Yosemite Sam "Oooooooh.... I hates fungus gnats!" Going to continue with LST, and build a ScRog that is attached to the fabric pot so I can take her out of the tent. Last week I thought I would veg her out a few more weeks.........well I changed my mind and she is going to 12/12 along with her tent mate Glueberry OG on March 27!😀 I hope you all are having a glorious week! Thanks for stopping in! Stay tuned, Here comes the BLOOM!!!! Peace, DeaneR😎

Last day of veg. Day 58, March 27, 2019. 😃 Installed ScrOG and Applied a little HST to the main stem (photo 2) to knock her over. Flipped the light to 12/12 cycle on Mar. 27. Mar. 28 day 1 of flower. Spent the week tucking fan leaves and guiding the plant into the scrOG. Defol. on her underside, and some selective fan leaf removal of the light hogs. I plan on adding a second level to the scrOG when it becomes necessary. I devised this scrOG so that I can remove the plants from the tent, for maintenance, and top dressing. The poles are fiberglass and quite flexible. They are used to mark driveways and curbs in winter. Using zip ties I affixed some metal 2x4inch fencing, that I cut to suit. The sharp corners are wrapped with automotive wire protectors, to prevent cuts to myself and the tent. FL Day 6 - Watered with 1 gallon of 6.6pH water with cal-mag, and voodoo from the topside slowly. Then watered from the bottom with 1/2 gallon of plain pHd water. A few pistils here and there so far! and she has stretched a little this week. Time to sit back, let her do her thing, and watch the magic happen😍 Thanks for stopping in! Grow baby, grow! Peace, DeaneR😎

Filling in nicely this week. My upper leaves are showing signs of trouble. I suspect I am light scalding this plant with my electric sky 300W LED. It could also be a nutrients imbalance...grow question to follow. On day 9 of flower I did some mild defoliation, and HST'd the main stem. Day 12 of flower - Added new nutrients to my feeding regimen. Advanced Nutrients Big Bud Organic and Bud Candy. Watered in a gallon pH'd to 6.6 with Cal-Mag plus, Big Bud, and Bud Candy. Small flowers are starting to form, and she's pushing out large fan leaves. That's all for now, Peace, DeaneR😎

Another week of watching her grow😍! Hopefully the new nutrients and the top dressing will help my discolouration of the upper leaves. I posted a grow question last week. Please chime in with your thoughts. Apr. 14 Day 18 of flower - Top dressed with Gaia Green Power Bloom Organic 2-8-4 dry amendment, at a rate of 2 Tablespoons per gallon ( 2TBsp X 7gallons = 210 mL). Mixed into the top layer of Pro-Mix HP Mycorrhizae. Then watered in slowly a gallon top side, and 1/2 a gallon bottom side. Water was dechlorinated tap water pH'd to 6.6 and amended with Cal-Mag Plus (5mL/Gal), Big Bud (8mL/Gal), and Bud Candy (8mL/Gal). Apr. 17 Day 21 of flower - Trim and Defoliation session. Thinned her out and removed some of the larfy buds. I hope everyone's growing well 🙏. Ciao for now my Grow Friends! Peace, DeaneR😎

Wow! She grew this week 😜! The buds are stacking up nicely and the sugar leaves are getting very sticky! She is really getting fragrant, I can't quite describe the smell, other than a bit of a soap smell. On day 22 of flower I broke the main cola, F@ck💩😡. She is still held on by abit of tissue and seems to still be surviving, although I doubt she will ever stand up again. Added B-52 to the nutrient mix this week. Watered on Apr.21 FL 25 and Apr.24 FL 28, with 1/2 gallon (nutrients as listed above) poured slowly topside. Lightly defoliating every other day or so, and tuck away fan leaves. That's about it for now. Not much to do other than feed and water her....and of course watch her bloom😍. Thanks for stopping in! Peace, DeaneR😎

Another week on cruise control. Just letting her grow and bulk up. Buds are stacking nicely, and becoming very sticky and frosty😋. The smell is now strong and smells nice and sweet with a citrus tone. Watered twice this week on Apr. 27 FL31 and Apr. 30 FL34 with a half gallon topside with the nutrients noted above. Dropped my Relative humidity to 48% average this week to bump up my VPD values to those suggested by Pulse Monitors. On Thursday April 25 I had a power outage from 9am to 1Pm. This can be seen in the weekly VPD chart. During this outage my VPD dropped to 0.4, Humidity spiked to 66% and temps dropped to 64 F. Thankfully this outage came shortly after my lights go off😳, and I don't foresee it causing any problems. The Main Cola I broke last week is still growing and starting to turn upwards at the tip. I guess there was just enough tissue still attached to provide a lifeline to the cola. That's about it for now! Have a great week everyone, and grow on! Peace, DeaneR😎

Another week of flowering cruise control. The tent (and my home) is very fragrant now😊. These buds are getting super sticky, and starting to change to a slight pinkish hue on top. Watered with one gallon as noted above on May 4 - FL38. Watered again May 8 - FL 42 with 1/2 gallon amended as listed above. Not much else to report. Hopefully she swells up nice over the next 4 weeks. Thanks for stopping by! Have a Frosty Day😃! Peace, DeaneR😎

Well here we are at the end of week 7, 49 days since the script changed to 12/12. Added Overdrive to the feed schedule this week and dropped out Big Bud. Watering with a half gallon every 3 days. She is getting some fade to yellow in her leaves, and some trichs are turning amber already. This plant smells fantastic😘. It looks like she is going to finish at about 9 weeks. I hope to see her pack on some weight over the next 14 days🙏. Thanks for Viewing! Not much longer till harvest😍! Peace, DeaneR

The end of week 8 of flower. On day 56 of flower this girl had her last meal. 3/4 gallon dosed as above. Plain old pH'd water from here to harvest. I had a fan fail on me today. It blows across the heatsink of my LED. Luckily I had a replacement on hand, and caught the failure about 20 minutes after it happened. Goes to show you the importance of inspecting your grow. Sometimes 💩 happens! This plant is super sticky, and has a strong smell that kisses you at the front door when you return home from work, lol 😁. Smells alot like Lysol lemon scented cleaner. Time to pull out my electronic microscope camera and keep an eye on the trichs. Harvest time approaching...yeeeaaaah some new smoke for the summer😍. Thanks for stopping in! More to come in the following weeks. Peace, DeaneR😎

This was my first Photoperiod growing concurrently with her tent mate GlueBerry OG. I definately made some newb mistakes on this one. Started off overwatering her early in her life. I made the mistake of going from 1/4 gallon pot to a seven gallon fabric pot. In future runs I'll move her to 1 gal, then 3 gal, then seven to make sure her roots are well establish and uptake water and nutes quickly. This should help my tendency to overwater, and help dry out my containers faster. I will likely move to Coco for the next run amended with perlite to increase drainage. I started a war against fungus gnats in week 4, which was a learning experience. F.I.M. 'ed for the first time on day 36. Put her into flower after 8 weeks of veg. In hindsight, I wish I had veg'd her a little longer, and trained her better with more cola sites ( I flipped her because her tent mate was ready), this could have increased my yield significantly. A few weeks into flower she started to show leaf discoloration. I didn't hit the mark with her nutrition in early flower, perhaps a P/K boost was needed then. In week 12 I broke her main cola...enough stem tissue remained to survive, but the growth was stunted. On a plus side, my trellis setup worked like a charm....it's nice being able to remove the girls from the tent. Also the addition of my new tech gear (humidity monitor/ controller, and the Pulse monitor really helped me learn my tent environment and assist dialing in VPD. So after 62 days of flowering and three days in the dark, we arrive at FL 65...HARVEST DAY. I hung this girl whole (stripped of the major fan leaves) in my grow tent for 10 days @ 70F & 50% RH. with only the exhaust/carbon filter fans running on its' lowest setting. I was a little disappointed with 65 grams for 150 watts LED from the wall; however, the smoke is fantastic. I look forward to growing this strain again. I would like to thank all of you who followed along, commented, answered questions, or left likes👍 The Grow Diaries Community is a great place to share our common passion for cannabis! Peace, DeaneR😎