TruTraTri Germination Week - The First Cuts
The Blackwater legacy begins with cuts taken from the previous mother run:
https://growdiaries.com/diaries/317607-grow-journal-by-trutratri
The clones were placed into a DIY aeroponic cloner, where they rooted nicely and proved strong enough to continue 🌱
From that group, three were selected for what was originally meant to become a full outdoor run. Enough space, enough time, and enough freedom to fully unfold.
Pinhead was taken from Zev, the separate mother plant. Chatterer and Deep Throat were taken from Kai, making them sister clones from the same mother line.
At this point, the box was still closed. The plan was simple: root them, choose the strongest, and let the Blackwater bloodline continue outside.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“The box. You opened it. We came.” - Pinhead
“New flesh, new roots, same hunger.” - Chatterer
“Three were chosen. The garden will decide the rest.” - Deep Throat
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Week 1. Vegetation
3d ago
1/3
18 hrs
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20 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
3 l
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TruTraTri Week 1 (Outdoor) - Into the First Vessel
After one week in the small starter pots, the three chosen Blackwater cuts were moved again.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat were transplanted into 3.7 L pots, giving the young Cenobites their first real vessels to spread into 🌱
Nothing dramatic yet. Just roots, soil, and the first quiet step away from the cloner. The box is still closed, but the bloodline has found new ground.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.” - Pinhead
“Fresh soil. Fresh chains. The roots remember.” - Chatterer
“The first vessel is never the final shape.” - Deep Throat
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Week 2. Vegetation
3d ago
18 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
3 l
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TruTraTri Week 2 (Outdoor) - The Silent Frame
The second week brought no suffering worth naming.
The three cuts remained in their 3.7 L vessels, quiet and patient, letting the new soil close around them. No wounds reopened, no chains moved, no clear sign from the box.
Only Pinhead was captured this week. Chatterer and Deep Throat stayed outside the image, as if the record itself had decided to leave two doors unopened.
A quiet chapter. Roots below. Silence above.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“We have such sights to show you.” - Pinhead
“Some faces are heard before they are seen.” - Chatterer
“Two doors stayed shut. The garden continued anyway.” - Deep Throat
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Week 3. Vegetation
3d ago
1/3
18 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
3 l
Pot Size
TruTraTri Week 3 (Outdoor) - The First Incisions
This week, all three were topped.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat each lost their leading crown, not as punishment, but as invitation. One path was cut away so the next ones could open.
The Blackwater line answered the blade quietly. No great event, no spectacle, just the first deliberate incision in the shape they were becoming.
The box does not always open with noise. Sometimes it opens with a clean cut.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“Pain has a face. Allow me to show it to you.” - Pinhead
“The mouth closes. The branches answer.” - Chatterer
“One cut above. Many voices below.” - Deep Throat
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Week 4. Vegetation
3d ago
1/3
18 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
3 l
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TruTraTri Week 4 (Outdoor) - The First Chains
This was supposed to become an outdoor run, so the original idea was simple: little to no training, just let them rise.
But the Blackwater line does not wait politely.
The three were already pushing toward a size that would become a problem later, so the first chains were brought in early. Metal clips were used for LST, pulling Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat down and forcing them into a lower shape.
Not a brutal week. More like the first lesson in restraint.
The bodies wanted height. The box demanded discipline.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“The box is a means to summon us.” - Pinhead
“Held low by metal, taught to spread in silence.” - Chatterer
“They were promised the sky. The chains answered first.” - Deep Throat
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Week 5. Vegetation
3d ago
1/6
18 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
8 l
Pot Size
TruTraTri Week 5 (Outdoor) - The Second Incision
The hooks stayed in place.
From now on, the LST will remain part of the whole ritual. Each top is held down with ground hooks, pulled away from the straight path and forced into a lower design.
This week they were transplanted again, and the timing was on their side. Good weather, fresh space, and the new soil gave them exactly what they wanted 🌱
Maybe a little too much.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat reacted well and started growing fast. Too fast for the plan. So the blade returned, and all three were topped again before they could rise too far.
They asked for more room.
They received room, hooks, and another cut.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“Your suffering will be legendary.” - Pinhead
“The hooks remain. The shape is not forgiven.” - Chatterer
“Fresh earth below. Steel above. Growth between them.” - Deep Throat
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Week 6. Vegetation
3d ago
1/4
18 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
Weak
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
8 l
Pot Size
TruTraTri Week 6 (outdoor) - Final Vessels
The smell from the parent run made one thing clear: these three were no longer safe as an outdoor idea.
The Blackwater bloodline carried too much weight in the air. Too much warning. Too much promise of what would come later.
But bringing them inside also meant control had to become harder. If they were allowed to rise freely, they would become too large for the indoor chamber. So the blade returned once more.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat were topped again, not for beauty, but for containment.
This week they also received their final vessels: 8 L pots for the Autopot system. The last transplant before the real confinement begins.
Fresh pots. Cut crowns. Hooks still waiting.
The shape of the run is no longer natural. It is designed now.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“The box is open.” - Pinhead
“Too much scent for the outside world. Too much hunger for the room.” - Chatterer
“The final vessel was given. The final shape was not.” - Deep Throat
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Week 7. Vegetation
3d ago
1/10
18 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
Weak
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
8 l
Pot Size
TruTraTri Week 7 (outdoor) - Lower Still
The hooks multiplied this week.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat were trained flatter again, each top pulled down further with more ground hooks. No upward confession was allowed to stand for long.
This is no longer a gentle correction. It is the shape of the whole run now: spread low, held open, forced to become wide instead of tall.
The indoor chamber has its limits.
The box has its geometry.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“Explorers in the further regions of experience.” - Pinhead
“Every hook found a new answer in the stem.” - Chatterer
“They reached upward. The floor called them back.” - Deep Throat
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Week 8. Vegetation
3d ago
1/7
18 hrs
Light Schedule
20 °C
Day Air Temp
Weak
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
8 l
Pot Size
TruTraTri Week 8 (outdoor) - The Last Outside Silence
This was the last outdoor week before the switch.
By now, the original plan had already fallen apart. Too much training, too little freedom, too many changes forced onto plants that were meant to become something else.
So this week, nothing more was done.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat were left alone in their final outdoor moment, still held low by their hooks, still carrying the strange shape this run had given them.
No new cuts. No new chains. No correction.
Just the quiet before the chamber closes.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“No more deals, child.” - Pinhead
“The outside path ended without ceremony.” - Chatterer
“They were left untouched, but not unclaimed.” - Deep Throat
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Week 9. Flowering
3d ago
1/3
12 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
8 l
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TruTraTri Week 9 - The Switch
The outside path ended here.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat were brought into the indoor chamber and the light cycle was switched. Whatever they were supposed to become outside was left behind.
The box changed its rhythm.
No more long days. No more open sky. From here on, the run belongs to the room, the hooks, the final vessels, and the Blackwater bloodline trying to flower inside a plan that was never built for it.
The shape is already wrong.
Now we find out what it does with that.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“We’ll tear your soul apart.” - Pinhead
“The chamber closed. The old plan stayed outside.” - Chatterer
“The light changed. The inheritance answered.” - Deep Throat
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Week 10. Flowering
3d ago
1/9
25 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
8 l
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TruTraTri Week 10 - Flesh Removed
This week, the three Cenobites were stripped back.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat were defoliated and lollipopped, clearing away the lower growth and excess foliage so the energy could be pushed toward the tops. The chamber was cleaned of weak offerings, leaving only the parts meant to rise into flower.
By now, the shape of this run is fully unnatural. Held down by hooks, cut back again and again, and now stripped underneath, the Blackwater line is no longer being asked what it wants. It is being told.
Less shadow below.
More focus above.
The box approves.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“No tears, please. It’s a waste of good suffering.” - Pinhead
“What was unnecessary was removed.” - Chatterer
“The lower flesh was sacrificed so the crown could speak.” - Deep Throat
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Week 11. Flowering
3d ago
1/9
35 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
8 l
Pot Size
45 cm
Lamp Distance
TruTraTri Week 11 - The Stretch Falls Silent
The stretch already seems to be mostly over.
A little disappointing, but not really surprising. After all the early cuts, hooks and forced shapes, there was not much freedom left for them to rise.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat are still held close to the ground, the anchors biting into their shape like small chains. Every top that wanted to climb was pulled back down, kept low, kept busy with resistance.
So instead of reaching higher, they suffer in place.
The buds are becoming more visible now, slowly taking over while the plants remain bound to the floor. No new interventions this week. No blade, no correction, no fresh punishment.
Just the old chains doing their work.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“Your suffering will be legendary.” - Pinhead
“The hooks cut in. The body learns its shape.” - Chatterer
“No more height was offered. Only the weight of becoming.” - Deep Throat
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Week 12. Flowering
1d ago
1/9
35 cm
Height
12 hrs
Light Schedule
28 °C
Day Air Temp
No Smell
Smell
65 %
Air Humidity
20 °C
Night Air Temp
8 l
Pot Size
45 cm
Lamp Distance
TruTraTri Think the pots are way too small and/or my soil has not ripened long enough.. 😫 Fingers crossed. Perhaps they are just a bit faster than the mothers.... very mature clones.👻😈
Week 12 - Starving in Chains
Autumn is showing clearly now 🍂
A little faster than I hoped. The small pots and short recycled soil cycle may be taking their payment now.
Pinhead, Chatterer and Deep Throat are still chained down by the anchors, kept low while the lower leaves begin to fade. Hunger below, bloom above.
The tops still look good. Buds are building, crowns are alive, but underneath the bodies are already paying.
Old clones, small pots, heavy training, early switch. Maybe they will finish a little earlier than expected.
Weekend Cenobite Lines:
“Demons to some. Angels to others.” - Pinhead
“The lower flesh fades first. The chains remain.” - Chatterer
“Hunger below. Bloom above.” - Deep Throat