Variety grow: 6x 7gal

KanOrganics W1 - First True Week The first real week is in the books, and the 4 plants currently in this diary are settling into the 7-gallon containers under the FC-3000 nicely. The remaining 2 spots are still open for whichever of the currently germinating seeds establish themselves first. The difference from the germination photos to today is pretty clear. All four have moved past the fragile sprout stage and into early seedling growth with better leaf development, stronger posture, and more obvious vigor. Color looks good overall, and everyone seems to be settling into the environment without complaint. I ended up transplanting them all on day 7, because I noticed several inch-long roots meandering out of my 1L pots. This usually doesn't happen so fast for me, so I wasn't checking them. We got a little "root curl", but not bound per-se. They are looking happy in their final homes now, though. Current impressions by plant * Candy Bezels Healthy and symmetrical so far. Good color, nice early leaf spread, and a smooth transition from sprout to established young plant. * Skunk Ooze Probably the standout at this point. It looks the most assertive so far in structure and leaf size, and it's making a strong early impression. Since this one is from a regular seed, it may or may not stay in the lineup long term, but for now it's off to a great start. * Auto Fro-yo Looking healthy and steady. It has a slightly leaner early structure right now, but growth is clean and consistent. * Froberry Also doing well, with solid color and good leaf expansion so far. Since this is a cross made from Auto Fro-yo and Blueberry Auto, I'm especially interested to see how it develops as the run progresses. This run will get more interesting later because two of the plants are autos and two are photos. The autos will eventually be sharing space with plants that need a flowering light schedule, so later in life they'll receive less light than an autoflower would normally get under a dedicated auto run. I'm genuinely not sure how much that will matter in practice, but that's part of what makes mixed runs fun to me. Overall, this is the kind of first week I like: no runts or deformities, no major setbacks, no ugly surprises. Just four young plants building momentum and starting to settle into their containers. The root zones should be waking up now, and I’m expecting things to pick up from here. For now the plan is simple: keep conditions steady, avoid doing anything stupid, and let them grow. Update (day 10): The two spots have been filled with: * Seedsman - Black Sugar 2.0 * HUBA Seed Bank - Purple OG They are both 2 days old, so that means they are 8 days behind the other 4 plants. That's not too bad. They will be transplanted next week, though; it's bad to transplant early when they are so fragile and demanding of resources. If the shock doesn't kill them, absorbtion of the small amount of water into areas the roots can't reach might. Been there, done that. It requires helicopter-parenting and minimal water, and still a crap shoot. Too much work. Not this time.

KanOrganics W2: Full Tent, First Weirdness Week 2 is done, and the 6-plant lineup for this tent is now complete. The original four are still moving along, and the two open spots have now been filled by HUBA Seed Bank - Purple OG and Seedsman - Black Sugar 2.0, both of which are only about a week old so far. That gives this run its full roster under the FC-3000 / 6x 7-gallon setup, though Black Sugar 2.0 is still in a 1L pot for the moment and looks like it will want transplanting in about 2 more days. Overall, growth is still solid, but this week came with a little more character than the first two. The biggest change is that the older four are all showing some minor chlorosis. Nothing severe, but definitely enough to notice. This is the first time I've seen that happen in my organic soil, and it also happens to be the first run where I used mushroom compost instead of worm castings, so that swap is automatically suspicious. Too early to declare a verdict, but it's the most obvious variable. Skunk Ooze is still the largest plant in the tent and continues to make the strongest early impression. I topped it around day 10, and it responded exactly how I hoped: the two new apical meristems are already pushing hard and it looks eager to branch out. Since this one came from a regular seed, it may or may not earn a permanent seat later, but for now it's acting like it owns the place. Candy Bezels is also moving along nicely. Healthy structure, good posture, and generally looking like a cooperative participant. It's showing the same slight chlorosis as the other older plants, but nothing dramatic yet. Froberry is staying compact and sturdy, with decent color overall apart from the same mild paling showing up around the edges. No major complaints there either, and I'm still especially curious to see how this one develops since it was my favorite plant I grew outside last year. The real curveball this week was Auto Fro-yo, which started flowering on day 13. That is a new personal speedrun record for me with autos, and not exactly the kind of record I was trying to break. It's interesting, but also a little disappointing, because a plant flipping that early is obviously not going to make much use of all that root space. So now it's less "let's see how big this gets" and more "let’s see what this little overachiever thinks it's doing." The two newer additions are off to a decent start. Purple OG is in one of the final spots now and settling in as one of the younger additions to this family. Black Sugar 2.0 is still hanging out in its 1L container and looks close to ready for its move, but not quite there yet. So this week's summary is basically: the tent is now full, Skunk Ooze is still leading the pack, Auto Fro-yo decided to flower absurdly early, and the whole older group is showing a touch of chlorosis that may or may not trace back to the mushroom compost experiment. Nothing catastrophic, but definitely no longer a completely boring run, which is probably more fun anyway.

KanOrganics W3: Musical Chairs Week 3 is done, and this tent finally had its first real bit of drama. The good news first: the minor chlorosis on the larger plants has completely cleared up in the new growth. At this point I'm leaning toward it just being a case of the compost mix being a little too hot for younger plants, rather than anything more serious. Whatever the cause was, it seems to have mostly worked itself out, and the newer growth looks much happier. This week also brought the first real lineup change. Froberry was removed from the diary after showing intersex traits all over, so out it went. In its place I added Seedsman - Ice Dream Cake Fast, though that one is still only about a week old and remains in a 1L pot for now. The open 7-gallon spot didn't stay empty for long, because Black Sugar 2.0 moved out of its 1L and into the former Froberry pot. So the current cast is now: Candy Bezels, Skunk Ooze, Auto Fro-yo, Purple OG, Black Sugar 2.0, and Ice Dream Cake Fast. Candy Bezels got topped at the start of the week and has already started responding nicely. She's bushing out well and I've started tying down a couple of laterals to get her opened up early. Structure looks good and she seems perfectly willing to cooperate. Skunk Ooze is still the largest plant in the tent and continues to look like the strongest vegetative grower overall. It's no longer the tallest, thanks to the absurdly early flowering auto, but it's still the fullest and most vigorous plant in the group. I've started tying down some laterals on this one too, and it's shaping up into a dense, bushy plant with a lot of potential. Since this one came from a regular seed, it still has to prove itself later, but for now it's acting like it belongs here. Auto Fro-yo continues to be the strange one. After starting flower on day 13 last week, she has now stretched enough to become the tallest plant in the tent. She also has a bit of burn showing on the new apical growth, which is odd considering the tent isn't running hot and the light is nowhere near close enough to be the obvious culprit. This plant is very apically driven, so there isn't a lot of easy lateral training to work with, but I'm still trying to encourage some spread where I can. Purple OG is settling in quietly and looks fine so far. Still young enough that there isn't a huge amount to say yet, but it seems to be establishing itself normally and staying on track. Black Sugar 2.0 has now officially graduated from the 1L and taken over the former Froberry position in one of the 7-gallon pots. So far it looks like it handled the move well and is settling into the larger container without complaint. Ice Dream Cake Fast is now the smallest and youngest of the bunch, only about a week old and still waiting in its 1L pot for its turn. Too early for any grand conclusions there, but it's now part of the run and will be the one to watch next as it catches up. Let's see if it lives up to its "Fast" label. So overall, week 3 was a mix of cleanup and reshuffling: the chlorosis issue is a thing of the past, training has started on the larger plants, Auto Fro-yo is sprinting headfirst into flower like it has somewhere else to be, and Froberry got herself disqualified and replaced. Definitely not a boring tent anymore.

KanOrganics --- W4: The Autos Have Been Voted Off The Island Week 4 is done, and the tent got simplified again. The second auto also ended up showing intersex traits, so that one got removed as well. That means both autos from this run have now disqualified themselves, which is a little annoying, but at least they showed their hand early instead of wasting more time and space before becoming a bigger problem. With that plant gone, Ice Dream Cake Fast was finally old enough to move up and take its place in a 7-gallon pot. So the lineup shifted again, and the tent is now leaning even harder into the photoperiod side of the run. At this point there is still one empty spot left. I’m not fully decided on whether I'll fill it. I do have a clone that could end up going in there, but I'm not in a rush to force it. Depending on how the rest of the canopy develops, leaving that final space open may end up being the smarter move anyway. The tent itself is looking pretty healthy overall right now. The earlier chlorosis issue is behind me, the larger plants have settled into their containers, and the structure is starting to make more sense across the whole space. With the problematic autos gone, the run feels a little less chaotic and a little more coherent. Candy Bezels and Skunk Ooze are still doing the heavy lifting in terms of canopy presence. Both are well established now, with good size and strong lateral development. Skunk Ooze still has that vigorous, bushy energy and was topped a second time this week, while Candy Bezels is shaping up nicely from topping and early tie-downs. Both plants have been spread open with lots of bondage, but hey, they seem to like it rough. Purple OG and Black Sugar 2.0 are also moving along well and filling in their places without much complaint. And... they were also topped this week. Ice Dream Cake Fast is now the youngest plant in a final container, so it has some catching up to do, but at least it's officially in the game now instead of waiting on the sidelines in a 1L. By the way, that seedling in the 1L hiding behind Skunk Ooze is Balkh Hashplant, but won't be part of this diary. Believe it or not, it is 1 day *older* than Skunk Ooze. The thing decided to sprout without any cotelydon whatsoever, so it just sat there for *weeks* doing nothing, including not dying. It is just starting to come around this week, but, it's too small to take the one remaining place when the canopy is already starting to shadow it So just ignore that mutant runt :) So this week was mostly about another cleanup pass. One more intersex plant removed, one more replacement moved into a real pot, and one final spot still undecided. Not the tidy six-plant lineup I originally imagined, but honestly, a run like this always ends up showing its real cast over time anyway.

KanOrganics --- W5: Haircuts & Airflow Week 5 is done, and this tent finally got a proper haircut. The main job this week was defoliation. Early in the week I thinned out two of the bigger plants (Candy Bezels and Skooze), then came back for a larger round of defoliation at the end of the week and removed the ties afterward. The difference is pretty obvious in the photos. Earlier in the week the tent was starting to feel crowded and layered, and by the end it looks much more open, with better light penetration and a cleaner overall structure. A day before the first haircut I tied down Candy Bezels a little too tight and snapped her other apical stem, hence the big hole in the canopy that can be seen after that defoliation. She recovered quickly, though. You can see by the end of the week, she's much more filled out, even after the larger defoliation. I don't stress over mistakes like these, especially since all the light energy is getting put to use elsewhere, and I'd rather better airflow in such a crowded tent, anyway. Better light distribution and airflow was the goal for this week. The larger plants had built up enough mass that the canopy was starting to get a little too dense for comfort, especially in a 3x3 where everyone wants to become roommates whether they like it or not. Opening them up now should make it easier to manage airflow, keep the inner growth from getting buried, and let the smaller plants keep receiving some usable light instead of living under a leaf roof. The nice part is that the tent still looks healthy after the cleanup. Nothing looks stalled or sulky from the work. If anything, the structure makes more sense now. The bigger plants are clearly established and carrying the canopy, while the younger ones are still catching up but at least have a better shot with some of that excess leaf mass out of the way. Removing the ties at the end of the week also makes this feel like a bit of a transition point. The early shaping work did its job, and now the plants are holding a more useful structure on their own instead of being forced into it. It's still the same tent, but it looks a lot less like a green knot and a lot more like an actual managed canopy. Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention. The back-right lanky little girl is the final addition to the lineup: a clone of Blueberry Cupcake, a custom strain of a friend's. This plant is the weirdest plant I have ever seen, and you will be amazed once it starts growing. It does half of its flowering in veg, and finishes actual flowering way before other plants. It's NOT an autoflowering variety, as it will never switch to full flower mode under veg. Cannabis is often a short-day plant, but this variety is almost day-neutral. And once she really starts veging, you'll see very sugary "preflowers", which could almost pass as buds. Then when flipped, she finishes in 5-6 weeks. This should be an interesting demonstration, showing how photoperiodic and autoflowering cultigens are not so binary. So this week was mostly about restraint and space management: take some leaves, remove some hardware, and keep the 3x3 from turning into a botanical traffic jam.

KanOrganics --- W6: Spider Mite Scare and Another Lineup Change Week 6 was the first genuinely stressful week of this run. Three clones I got from a friend arrived looking rough, which I initially wrote off as ordinary clone-rooting stress. A week later I took a closer look at the leaves and the pattern was hard to ignore: tiny chlorotic specks that looked a lot more like feeding damage than transplant sulking. I checked the undersides of the leaves for a while without seeing anything, until I finally caught some tiny specks moving on a few lower leaves. First pest invasion I’ve had, and of course it had to be spider mites. Luckily, two of the clones were isolated in another tent, but the BBCC plant I had recently added to this garden was also looking bad. So out it came. I basically went full emergency mode: untransplanted it, submerged it upside down in a hail-mary dip of water, hydrogen peroxide, citric acid, lactose, and dish soap as a surfactant for 30 minutes. I did the same for the other two clones, drenched their substrate with the same concoction, then moved all three into fresh substrate and fresh pots the next day. After that I sprayed them down again, let them dry, dusted them with diatomaceous earth, and quarantined them in a separate tent until it's warm enough next month for them to go outside. So once again, this diary lost a plant and gained a different one. The open spot is now filled by Balkh Hash Plant, a landrace from a regular seed, which means it could still turn out male. It is also much smaller than even Ice Dream Cake Fast and Black Sugar 2.0, with Skunk Ooze, Candy Bezels, and Purple OG all towering over the rest and sitting at roughly the same height now. The good news is that none of the other plants in the tent appear to show any pest damage at all. Their leaves still look clean and healthy, so I'm feeling cautiously optimistic that I caught the mites early before they had a chance to spread through the whole garden. There was one more good development this week: Skunk Ooze showed sex on day 1 of the week, and it's female. That's a relief, and it means the only questionable sex left in the tent now is the new Balkh Hash Plant. At this point, I’m also becoming realistic about the canopy situation. The three shorter plants are so far behind that I don’t think they're ever truly going to catch up. No amount of defoliation on the bigger plants is giving them enough light to close the gap. So the plan now is basically to stop pretending this is going to be an even race, let the structure be what it is, and hope the stretch plus a mid-flower defoliation gives the smaller plants enough opportunity to finish respectably. This diary has felt chaotic from the beginning, and this week definitely did not improve that reputation. But at least the spider mites seem to have been caught early, the offending plants are out of the room, Skunk Ooze turned out female, and the main tent still looks healthy. I'll take that as a win, even if it was the kind of win that comes with a raised heart rate.

KanOrganics W7: Uneventful Weeks Are Good Weeks Week 7 was refreshingly uneventful. After the chaos of the last few updates, this week was mostly just about letting the tent keep moving without me poking at it too much. I didn't do any training, didn't do any defoliation, and didn't make any lineup changes. At this point, that already feels like a small luxury. The biggest change is simply that Purple OG is now the tallest plant in the tent. It has officially taken the lead vertically, while the rest of the larger plants continue to fill out around it. The canopy overall looks established now, with the main players clearly defining the shape of the room. The structure underneath is also a lot cleaner than it used to be. Between the earlier defoliation and the natural upward push, there's finally some real space under the canopy instead of just a green traffic jam from soil line to ceiling. That should help later with airflow and make the whole tent easier to manage once flower gets further underway. The three smaller plants are still very obviously the shorter tier in this run, and I don't think that's changing. At this point I'm not really expecting them to catch up. The larger plants have too much momentum and too much canopy presence. So the plan is still the same as last week: let the bigger plants do what they're going to do, and hope the smaller ones make decent use of the openings they get. Honestly, there isn't much drama to report this time, and I'm perfectly happy about that. No pests, no new weirdness, no surprise culls, no emergency bucket chemistry. Just a tent full of plants continuing to stack on growth, with Purple OG now standing above the rest. Sometimes 'nothing happened' is exactly the update you want.

KanOrganics --- W8: Survival of the Tallest Week 8 was basically the week I stopped pretending this was still a six-plant tent. I ended up pulling Balkh Hash Plant, Ice Dream Cake Fast, and Black Sugar 2.0. They were just too far behind and too deep under the canopy to recover. Not enough light, too much competition, and they were clearly declining. At a certain point it stops being "maybe they’ll catch up". So out they went. I was hoping the stretch would help, but nope... they just twisted and deformed and wilted, trying to find that precious light. That leaves this diary as a three-plant run now, with the larger plants having fully taken over the space. I honestly did not expect them to get this tall and dominant this quickly, but here we are. The canopy won, hard. The good news is that the three remaining plants are all now in flower. There are visible flowers on all of them, so the tent has officially crossed over from crowded veg problem into let’s see what these three can do with the extra breathing room. I had my fair share of budrot, anyway. This time I'm playing for keeps. At this point the reset actually feels cleaner than sad. The tent looks more coherent now. Instead of three strong plants dragging along three under-lit dwarfs, it's just the plants that actually claimed the space. You definitely don't want extra transpiration humidity at under-canopy height in flower, right where those three were standing. Survival of the tallest, I guess. So this week was mostly about accepting reality and making the cut. I wanted to do it for a week or two now, but at some point you gotta make room for what's growing strong in these types of runs. The 6x 7-gallon diary is now effectively a 3x 7-gallon flowering run, and honestly it makes more sense this way.

KanOrganics --- W9: Purple OG Has Reached The Ceiling Week 9 is in the books, and the tent is moving along nicely as a 3-plant flowering run. At this point the structure of the tent is pretty much set. The three remaining plants have fully claimed the space, the flowers are building, and the whole room has that nice early-to-mid flower look where everything is starting to stack with more intent. The reset from six plants down to three definitely ended up being the right call. It's a much cleaner, more coherent canopy now. The main thing that stands out this week is Purple OG, which has become the clear vertical leader and is now nearly touching the light, even with the fixture raised as high as it will go. That one has fully committed to being the tallest plant in the tent. The other two are also coming along well and filling their space properly. The canopy still feels dense, but now it's a productive kind of dense rather than the old 'too many plants fighting for the same photons' kind. Bud sites are forming nicely across the tops, and the flowers are starting to look more real with each passing week. There's not a lot of drama to report here, which is honestly a relief after how chaotic this diary was earlier on. No major interventions this week, just steady progress.

KanOrganics --- W10: Bloom Week 3 The 3x 7-gallon tent is moving along well with the final three plants. At this point the canopy is full again even without the smaller plants that were removed earlier. Flower sites are established across all three, the buds are starting to stack, and resin production is becoming much more obvious on the sugar leaves. This week was mostly straightforward flower progression. There was no major training or drama, just continued vertical growth, more pistil production, and a noticeable increase in frost. Candy Bezels is building nicely with good flower set and solid top development. Skunk Ooze is also moving well and has a strong structure with good spacing between sites. Purple OG is still making its presence known in the tent and continues to push upward while stacking flowers along the tops. Overall the tent looks healthy and settled into its final shape. The stretch is still finishing up, but the plants are clearly shifting their energy into flower production now. The main job from here is just keeping the environment steady and letting them bulk up.

KanOrganics --- W11: Bloom Week 4 The 3x 7gal is moving along well. All three plants are firmly into flower now, with better stacking this week and noticeably more resin on the tops and sugar leaves. The canopy is still crowded, but the flowers are starting to separate themselves and look more defined instead of just fresh stigmas and leaf. Purple OG is still the tallest and closest to the light, while Candy Bezels and Skunk Ooze are both building nicely and getting frostier by the week. Overall, the tent looks healthy and on schedule, with the buds starting to put on real shape.

KanOrganics --- Bloom Week 5 The 3x 7gal is progressing well. All three tops are putting on more mass, the resin coverage has increased again, and the flowers are starting to look more structured instead of just early clusters of pistils. Candy Bezels is showing the most color, with strong purple coming into the sugar leaves and good frost on the whole top. Purple OG looks a little more classic in structure, with a solid central top and steady stacking. Skunk Ooze is also building well, with a longer spear-shaped top and heavy resin development. Most pistils are still light. I estimate roughly 4 more weeks.

KanOrganics That's it for this one. Spider mites from outdoor clones made it into this late flowering tent.

KanOrganics That's it for this one. Spider mites from outdoor clones made it into this late flowering tent.

KanOrganics That's it for this one. Spider mites from outdoor clones made it into this late flowering tent.