Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Zamnesia Pheno A

DogDoctorOfficial Folder 14 — Pickle Lemon Haze — Pheno A Week 1 Vegetation — Small Plant, Big Potential Hello growers, Welcome back to the Zamnesia Tent project. As with the rest of this run, each phenotype is receiving its own individual diary. Even when plants share the same genetics, environment, feeding schedule, and care, they often reveal unique characteristics as they mature. By documenting them separately from seed to harvest, we get a much clearer picture of how each phenotype develops throughout its journey. Today we are looking at Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A, a young seedling that has quietly put together a very promising first week of life. At this stage, the focus remains simple: healthy roots, healthy leaves, and steady development. Everything else comes later. ⸻ The Environment Week 1 was all about providing consistency. The Zamnesia ecosystem maintained stable environmental conditions designed to support strong seedling development while minimizing unnecessary stress. Conditions throughout the tent averaged: * Temperature: 26°C * Relative Humidity: 71% Lighting was introduced at a measured 250 PPFD, which is slightly more aggressive than many traditional seedling schedules but still well within a comfortable range for healthy development. The fixture was operating at: * 27% power * Approximately 86 watts drawn from the wall The goal is to allow the seedlings to establish themselves under meaningful light intensity from the beginning while carefully observing their response. Air movement was provided by: * Zamnesia extraction fan running at Level 5 * Circulation fan running at Level 4 Together they create a stable environment with gentle airflow and excellent air exchange. ⸻ Feeding Program Although the earliest days were supported using collected rainwater, this week marked the beginning of the nutrient program. The seedlings have now received their first feeding consisting of: * Plagron Hydro A * Plagron Hydro B * Plagron Hydro Roots Mixed to: * EC: 1.53 mS/cm * pH: 5.96 * Water temperature: 24.2°C The objective at this stage is not maximum growth, but healthy root development and a smooth transition into the hydroponic-style coco system that awaits next week. So far, Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A appears completely comfortable with the program. ⸻ Preparing The Coco System While the seedlings remain in their starter pots for now, much of this week’s work happened behind the scenes. The Plagron Premium Grow Bags have been filled and hydrated in preparation for next week’s transplant. Rather than flooding the coco all at once, hydration is being performed gradually through a reservoir-fed release system. This allows moisture to spread slowly and evenly through the medium, helping the coco expand naturally and uniformly. Only distilled water has been used during this preparation phase. By the time transplant day arrives, the medium should be fully hydrated and ready to welcome the developing root systems. ⸻ Pickle Lemon Haze — Pheno A For a plant this young, there is already plenty to like. Growth has been compact and controlled throughout the week, with very tight internodal spacing and a sturdy overall structure. The plant is finishing Week 1 pushing confidently into its third set of true leaves while maintaining a balanced and symmetrical shape. One of the first things that stands out is the leaf morphology. Compared to some seedlings that display narrower early growth, this phenotype is producing noticeably broader and rounder leaves. The overall appearance feels dense and compact, giving the plant a strong and healthy look despite its small size. A slight tip burn can be seen on portions of the first true leaves, but this appears to be purely cosmetic and limited to the earliest growth. New development is emerging cleanly, with healthy color, good vigor, and no indication that the plant is being slowed down. In fact, if anything, the newest growth suggests the exact opposite. The plant appears to have shrugged off that minor imperfection and continued forward without hesitation. The stem remains sturdy, the leaf posture is positive, and overall growth is progressing exactly where it should be for this stage. Perhaps the most exciting part is simply how uniform these F1 plants have been so far. While individual personality will undoubtedly emerge later, the early signs point toward strong stability and excellent breeding work. It will be fascinating to see what traits begin separating the phenotypes as they move deeper into vegetation. ⸻ Looking Ahead Next week should be a significant one. The move into the hydrated coco grow bags will dramatically increase available root space and mark the beginning of a new phase in development. With the roots no longer limited by the starter containers, growth should begin accelerating noticeably. For now, however, the objective remains unchanged: Healthy roots. Healthy leaves. Healthy growth. And Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A is checking every box. ⸻ Thank You A huge thank you to everyone following this journey and supporting these diaries. Special thanks to: * Zamnesia for the genetics, equipment, and support that made this project possible. * Plagron for providing the nutrients and growing media used throughout the run. * The GrowDiaries team for providing a platform where growers can document, learn, and share their experiences. * And, as always, the incredible growing community whose knowledge, encouragement, and passion help make this hobby so rewarding. Week 1 is officially complete. The foundations are set. Now the real adventure begins. Growers Love and see you all next week as Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A moves into coco and starts writing the next chapter of her story. 🌱🍋💚

DogDoctorOfficial 🍋 Project Blue Tent – Folder 14 Pickled Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A Week 2 – The Journey Begins Welcome back to Project Blue Tent, my newest adventure focused on exploring Zamnesia Genetics while growing in Plagron Premium Coco Grow Bags using the complete Plagron Hydro feeding program. Every phenotype has its own diary because every plant deserves to tell its own story. Although all plants share the same environment, nutrients, and care, each one develops its own structure, rhythm and personality. This diary follows Pickled Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A from her very first days until harvest. ⸻ 🌱 The Environment This project is being grown under an 18/6 light schedule, allowing the plants to enjoy long, energetic days followed by six hours of uninterrupted darkness to recover and continue building strong root systems. The entire grow takes place inside the Zamnesia ecosystem, creating a stable environment where every variable can be controlled consistently. Current environmental conditions remained very stable throughout the week: • Temperature: 29°C • Relative Humidity: 68% These warm, humid conditions are ideal for encouraging vigorous vegetative growth while helping the young plants establish themselves before accelerating into larger development. ⸻ 🥥 Why We Sink the Pots into the Coco One detail that often raises questions is why the starter pots are placed directly inside the Plagron Premium Coco Grow Bags instead of remaining outside until transplant day. There are several reasons behind this approach. The surrounding coco acts as a natural thermal buffer, helping keep the root zone at a much more stable temperature than a pot exposed directly to the air. It also helps maintain consistent moisture around the root ball, preventing the edges of the starter pot from drying excessively while avoiding large fluctuations between wet and dry cycles. Another advantage is purely practical. Because the pot sits inside the grow bag from the beginning, the final transplant becomes almost effortless. The plant never needs to adapt to a completely new environment, and the root ball slides directly into the cavity already prepared for it. Finally, shaping the cavity around the starter pot creates a perfectly fitted transplant hole. When the moment arrives, the root ball drops into place with almost no disturbance, eliminating air pockets and ensuring immediate root-to-coco contact. It’s a small detail, but one that greatly reduces transplant stress. ⸻ 🌿 Feeding Program The first irrigation after transplant introduced the plants to the Plagron Hydro line. Current nutrient solution: • Plagron Hydro A • Plagron Hydro B • Plagron Hydro Roots Solution parameters: • pH: 5.83 • EC: 1.26 mS/cm • Water temperature: 23.1°C This mild feeding provides everything the young roots need while encouraging rapid colonization of the fresh coco substrate. ⸻ 🌱 Root Development One of my favorite moments this week was checking the root system before transplant. The entire root ball was beautifully colonized with bright white, healthy roots wrapping around every side of the substrate. Exactly what we hope to see. The roots had reached every corner without becoming root-bound, showing excellent vigor and confirming that the timing for transplant was absolutely perfect. Strong roots today build strong flowers tomorrow. ⸻ 🍋 Pickled Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A Even at this early stage, this little lady is already beginning to reveal her personality. Her internodal spacing is compact and symmetrical, producing a balanced structure with broad, healthy leaves reaching confidently toward the light. The stem is thick for her age, showing good structural strength, while new growth is emerging quickly with a vibrant green color that indicates she’s comfortably adapting to her new home. Leaf posture remains open and relaxed throughout the day, another sign that both the environmental conditions and feeding program are right where they should be. Everything about this plant suggests a smooth, stress-free start. ⸻ Looking Ahead Now that the transplant is complete, the focus shifts entirely toward root expansion. Over the coming days, I expect the roots to begin exploring the entire Plagron Premium Coco Grow Bag, setting the foundation for vigorous vegetative growth before training begins later in the cycle. The stronger the underground development today, the stronger the canopy will become in the weeks ahead. ⸻ Final Thoughts Every project starts with small plants and big dreams. Watching a healthy seedling settle into her final home is always one of the most satisfying moments of any grow. It’s the stage where patience matters most, because the work invested now will determine everything that follows. Pickled Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A has made an excellent start, and I’m excited to see how her individual character develops as this journey continues. ⸻ 🙏 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for the incredible genetics and for providing the complete ecosystem that makes this project possible. Special thanks to Plagron for supplying the Premium Coco Grow Bags and the Hydro nutrient line that will feed these ladies from start to finish. And finally, thank you to the amazing GrowDiaries community. Your encouragement, advice, and shared passion make every grow even more rewarding. I hope you’ll enjoy following this journey as much as I enjoy documenting it. Growers Love and see you all in the next update! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 🥒 Project Blue Tent – Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A Week 3 – A Change of Direction Hello everyone, and welcome back to another week of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 This diary follows one individual Pickle Lemon Haze F1 from Zamnesia, grown completely independently from its siblings so we can appreciate each plant’s unique development from seed to harvest. The goal of this project remains the same: growing multiple genetics side by side under identical environmental conditions while documenting how each cultivar expresses itself. Every plant shares the same home, the same feeding schedule, the same lighting, and the same care, allowing genetics to tell their own story. This week certainly kept me busy. Just after the reservoir refill, a small irrigation incident turned into an unexpected flood inside the tent. Thankfully, because everything is built around the Zamnesia ecosystem, the water never escaped the tent itself. The tray contained every drop, preventing what could have become a much bigger disaster. After drying everything thoroughly, checking every dripper, and making sure the substrate was still in perfect condition, it was business as usual. The plants barely seemed to notice anything had happened. But while nature stayed calm… I decided to interfere. This week marked the beginning of this plant’s training journey with its very first topping. ⸻ Environment Conditions remained extremely stable throughout the week. • 🌡️ Day temperature: 27°C • 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative humidity: 67% • 🥥 Root zone temperature: 24°C • 💦 Nutrient solution: 18°C • ⚡ EC: 1.61 mS/cm • pH: 5.8 • 💨 CO₂: Ambient (~450 ppm) • ☀️ Light schedule: 18/6 Nutrient strength was increased slightly to match the plants’ accelerating vegetative growth. The Pickle Lemon Haze accepted the stronger feed without showing any signs of stress or nutrient burn, indicating that the roots are becoming well established inside the Plagron Premium Growbag. ⸻ The Genetics Continue to Impress One thing that immediately stands out with this phenotype is its beautiful structure. Internodal spacing remains compact while side branches continue to develop evenly. The stem has thickened considerably over the last few days, giving the entire plant a sturdy appearance despite its relatively young age. Like its neighbours in the tent, the foliage continues displaying that lighter shade of green I’ve been seeing across all four plants. Since every genetic is showing exactly the same coloration under identical feeding, environment and irrigation, I believe this is simply how these young plants are expressing themselves rather than indicating any nutritional issue. Growth remains vigorous, leaves are standing proudly toward the light, and fresh growth appears every single day. Exactly what we like to see. ⸻ Time to Top This week I made the decision to top this plant. Unlike low-stress training, topping intentionally removes the plant’s primary growing tip. By doing so, apical dominance is interrupted and the plant redirects its energy into the lateral branches. Instead of producing one dominant central cola, the plant now has the opportunity to develop two equally vigorous main leaders, creating a much wider and more balanced canopy later in life. The cut itself was clean, quick, and performed above the selected node, leaving healthy growth tips ready to take over. Now comes the important part. Topping isn’t about what happens immediately after making the cut. It’s about what happens over the following week. Over the next several days I’ll be watching carefully to see how quickly both new tops begin accelerating. If everything continues as expected, those two branches should soon become the new leaders while the lower side branches also receive increased hormonal signals, creating a much bushier structure. For a project like this—where every plant is documented individually—it’s always fascinating to compare topped plants with untouched ones grown under identical conditions. Sometimes the smallest decisions create the biggest differences by harvest day. ⸻ Recovery The best part? The plant barely reacted. Within a short period, fresh growth had already resumed, and the remaining foliage stayed perfectly turgid without drooping or showing signs of stress. Healthy roots, stable environmental conditions, and consistent irrigation make all the difference when performing high-stress techniques like topping. A healthy plant recovers remarkably quickly. ⸻ Looking Ahead Next week should be exciting. I’ll be watching for the formation of the two new dominant tops while continuing gentle canopy management if necessary. As vegetative growth accelerates, the structure created by this topping will begin revealing itself. This is one of my favourite moments in the grow—watching a plant completely change its architecture after a single cut. The foundation is now in place. Everything from here will build upon it. ⸻ Final Thoughts Despite an unexpected flood inside the tent, this week turned into another successful chapter. The environmental parameters remained stable, nutrient uptake continued improving, the plant accepted the stronger feeding schedule without hesitation, and the first topping was completed successfully. Every week these genetics continue giving me more confidence, and I honestly can’t wait to see how this Pickle Lemon Haze F1 develops once both new leaders begin stretching toward the light. The adventure is only getting started. Thank you all so much for following along. Your support, comments, advice, and encouragement make documenting these grows even more rewarding. I truly hope these weekly updates help other growers learn something new while enjoying the journey with me. A huge thank you goes to Zamnesia for the incredible genetics and the complete ecosystem, Plagron for keeping these ladies perfectly fed in coco, and everyone following this diary from around the world. Growers Love and see you all next week! 💚🌱 ⸻ P.S. One final shout-out has to go to the Zamnesia ecosystem itself. As dramatic as the flood looked at first, the Zamnesia tent tray proved exactly why it’s part of the setup. Every drop of water remained safely contained inside the tent, with absolutely nothing leaking onto the floor. What could have turned into a much bigger mess ended up being nothing more than drying the tray, fixing the issue, and carrying on with the grow. Moments like these remind us that great equipment isn’t just about making life easier on the good days—it’s about saving the day when something unexpected happens. Huge thanks to Zamnesia for designing an ecosystem that’s ready for real-world growing. 💙🌱

DogDoctorOfficial 🥒 Project Blue Tent – Week 4 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A (Folder 14A) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another update from Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 For anyone joining this journey for the first time, this project follows four individual plants, each documented in its own diary from seed to harvest. Although every plant shares the exact same environment, nutrients, lighting, and care, each one is given the opportunity to tell its own unique story and reveal how its genetics express themselves. Today we're catching up with Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A. ⸻ 🌱 Week Four – Recovery and New Beginnings Last week marked an important milestone when Plant A received her very first topping. This week, however, was all about patience. After performing a high-stress training technique, I always prefer giving the plant time to recover before asking anything more of her. Rather than continuing with additional training, I simply let nature do its job while carefully observing how she responded. Sometimes, the best thing a grower can do is... nothing. Looking at her now, it's safe to say she appreciated that decision. The recovery has been outstanding. The two new leading shoots have quickly taken over, growth has remained vigorous throughout the entire plant, and the side branches are now pushing with much greater determination than before. The change in architecture is already becoming obvious, with the canopy beginning to widen naturally as the plant redirects its energy away from a single dominant tip. It's always rewarding to watch such a dramatic transformation from one small cut. ⸻ 🌡️ Environmental Conditions Consistency continues to be one of the biggest priorities inside Project Blue Tent. Stable environmental conditions allow the plants to recover quickly from training while encouraging continuous vegetative growth. Average conditions this week were: • 🌡️ Day temperature: 27°C • 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative humidity: 67% • 🥥 Root zone temperature: 24°C • 💦 Nutrient solution: 18°C • ⚗️ pH: 5.8 • ⚡ EC: 1.88 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: approximately 450 ppm • 💡 Light schedule: 18/6 With the Phytonaut LED providing an even spread across the canopy, the plants continue receiving all the energy they need while maintaining compact internodal spacing and healthy vegetative growth. ⸻ 🥥 Feeding Adjustments As mentioned in the previous updates, all four plants developed a slightly lighter shade of green during the last couple of weeks. Although their posture remained excellent and growth never slowed down, I felt they were asking for just a little more nutrition. Rather than waiting for deficiencies to appear, I increased the base feeding slightly. Current nutrition now consists of: • Plagron Hydro A — 1.8 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.8 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L By the end of this week I was already beginning to notice a richer, healthier green returning to the newest foliage across the entire tent, suggesting the adjustment was exactly what the plants were asking for. One of the things I'm really enjoying about growing in coco is how quickly the plants respond to small, measured changes. ⸻ 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A This phenotype continues to impress me every single week. The recovery after topping has been remarkably smooth, and it's already clear that the plant has shifted into a completely different growth pattern. The two new main leaders are developing beautifully, while the lower branches are accelerating as they receive more energy than they would have under normal apical dominance. Instead of growing upward through one dominant stem, the plant is now beginning to spread outward, creating the broad, balanced framework I'm hoping to build before introducing the SCROG later in the grow. The stems continue to thicken nicely, the internodal spacing remains tight, and the foliage has maintained excellent posture throughout the week. Although she's still carrying that slightly lighter shade of green, the improvement in colour over the last few days is already noticeable, and her overall posture tells the real story. Leaves are praying toward the light. Growth is continuous. The plant simply looks happy. ⸻ 🔍 Looking Ahead Next week should be another exciting step forward. With the topping now fully recovered, I expect both new leaders to begin stretching more aggressively while the side branches continue filling out the canopy. For now, I'll continue allowing the plant to develop naturally, avoiding unnecessary stress and simply monitoring her structure as she prepares for the next stage of vegetative growth. Every week these genetics reveal a little more of their personality, and Plant A is becoming exactly the kind of bushy, well-balanced plant I was hoping to create. ⸻ 💙 Thank You A huge thank you goes to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these fantastic Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow. A sincere thank you as well to Plagron for providing the Premium Coco Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line that continues supporting healthy growth every step of the way. Thank you to GrowDiaries for providing a place where growers from around the world can document their journeys, share experiences, and continue learning from one another. And finally, thank you to everyone following along. Whether you've been here since germination, recently discovered these diaries, leave comments every week, quietly follow in the background, or simply enjoy watching these ladies grow, your support genuinely means a lot. Project Blue Tent is about sharing the complete journey—the successes, the lessons, the experiments, and everything in between. I hope you're all having an amazing week, and I look forward to seeing you again in the next update as these beautiful ladies continue their adventure. Until next time... Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 🥒 Project Blue Tent – Week 5 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A (Folder 14A) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another update from Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If this is your first time stopping by, welcome! Project Blue Tent follows four individual plants, each documented in its own dedicated diary from seed all the way to harvest. Every plant receives the exact same environment, nutrients, lighting, irrigation and care, allowing us to observe how each phenotype expresses its own unique personality despite sharing identical conditions. This week marks another exciting milestone for Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A. After recovering beautifully from topping, it was finally time to install one of my favourite training techniques... The SCROG net. 🌿 Week Five – The Canopy Begins This week was less about vertical growth and more about shaping the future. With the plant fully recovered from topping and growing faster than any of the others inside the tent, I decided the timing was perfect to install the SCROG net and begin spreading the canopy. Plant A immediately confirmed my suspicion. She has become the most vigorous plant in the room.While the other ladies settled comfortably beneath the screen, this phenotype almost seemed eager to escape it. Every branch wanted to continue growing upward, so the goal this week became gently guiding that energy sideways instead. One branch at a time.One square at a time. Nothing forced. Nothing rushed. SCROG is very much a daily conversation with the plant rather than a one-time training session. Looking at her today, I already have the feeling she may end up occupying the largest portion of the canopy. Only time will tell, but she's certainly making a strong case for herself. 🕸️ What is a SCROG? SCROG stands for Screen of Green, and despite the name, the net itself doesn't actually support the buds. Its primary purpose is to control the plant's shape. Instead of allowing one dominant top to grow taller than everything else, the branches are gently guided horizontally beneath the screen. As each branch reaches a new opening, it's carefully tucked into the next square, encouraging the plant to spread across the available space rather than simply reaching toward the light. The result is a flatter, more even canopy where many growing tips receive similar light intensity. Instead of producing one large cola and many smaller ones hidden underneath, the plant is encouraged to create dozens of equally productive flowering sites. It's one of the most effective ways to maximize light efficiency inside smaller tents. 🤔 Is SCROG for everyone? Not necessarily. One important thing many new growers don't realize is that once the plant is woven into the screen, moving it becomes extremely difficult. Need to remove the pot? Almost impossible. Want to rotate the plant? Not anymore. Need to carry it somewhere else? Forget about it. The plant essentially becomes part of the tent. For growers who frequently move their plants for maintenance, watering or photography, SCROG can quickly become frustrating. Personally, I don't use it on every grow. But in compact setups like this Project Blue Tent, where every square centimetre matters, I absolutely love working with it. There's something incredibly satisfying about visiting the tent every day, gently guiding a few branches, watching empty spaces slowly disappear, and seeing the canopy become flatter and more uniform with each passing day. It isn't a technique everyone will fall in love with... But it's definitely one I encourage every grower to try at least once. Only by experiencing it can you decide whether it's the right style for your own garden. 🌡️ Environmental Conditions This week the environment remained stable, allowing the plants to focus entirely on recovering from training and continuing vigorous vegetative growth.Average conditions were: • 🌡️ Day temperature: 30°C• 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative humidity: 58% • 🥥 Root zone temperature: 24°C • 💦 Nutrient solution: 18°C • ⚗️ pH: 5.8 • ⚡ EC: 1.92 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: approximately 450 ppm • 💡 Light schedule: 18/6 Even with slightly warmer daytime temperatures this week, the plants have continued to show excellent vigor thanks to stable root temperatures, consistent irrigation and healthy airflow throughout the tent. 🥥 Feeding Update One observation from the previous couple of weeks was the slightly lighter shade of green across all four plants. Although they remained healthy and continued growing without slowing down, I felt they were asking for just a little more food. Rather than waiting for deficiencies to develop, I made a small adjustment to the nutrient solution. Current feeding now consists of:• Plagron Hydro A — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L This small increase has already made a noticeable difference. The fresh growth is returning to a richer shade of green while maintaining the vigorous posture I've been seeing throughout the project. One of the things I continue to appreciate about growing in coco is how quickly plants communicate with you. Small adjustments often produce visible improvements within just a few days, making it much easier to fine-tune nutrition before small issues become bigger ones. 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A This phenotype keeps reinforcing the impression she's given me since the beginning. She's vigorous. Responsive. And full of energy. Even after being bent beneath the SCROG net, every branch seems determined to keep pushing upward, which is exactly the kind of behaviour I was hoping to see before entering the next stage of vegetative growth. The stems continue thickening beautifully, making the training process much easier than it would have been with weaker growth. The internodal spacing remains compact, the foliage is healthy, and the plant has handled every bit of stress I've introduced so far without missing a beat. At this stage she already feels like a plant that's going to demand plenty of room. Whether she ultimately becomes the dominant lady inside Project Blue Tent remains to be seen, but she's certainly making her intentions known. 🔍 Looking Ahead Over the coming week the focus will remain exactly where it should be. No rushing.No unnecessary stress. Simply continuing to tuck new growth beneath the SCROG screen while allowing the canopy to expand naturally across every available square. I'm excited to see how each phenotype responds to this new training style. Some plants naturally embrace SCROG. Others fight it every step of the way. That's one of the reasons I love documenting projects like this. Every week the plants teach us something new. And I have a feeling Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A still has plenty more to reveal. 💙 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these fantastic Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow. A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line, delivering consistent nutrition and allowing these plants to thrive week after week. A sincere thank you as well to Phytonaut for the outstanding LED lighting that continues producing compact growth, excellent structure and an incredibly even canopy across the tent. Thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers around the world a place to document their journeys, exchange knowledge and inspire one another every single day. And finally... Thank you for following along. Whether you've been here since germination, recently joined the adventure, leave comments every week, or quietly follow these updates from the background, your support genuinely means the world to me. Project Blue Tent isn't just about growing great plants. It's about sharing the entire experience—the experiments, the lessons, the successes, the mistakes, and everything we learn together along the way. I hope you're all having an amazing week, and I can't wait to show you how this canopy develops over the next few days. Until next time... Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 🥒 Project Blue Tent – Week 6 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A (Folder 14A) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If this is your first time joining the adventure, welcome! Project Blue Tent follows four individual plants, each documented in its own dedicated diary from seed to harvest. Every plant shares the exact same environment, lighting, irrigation schedule, nutrition and care. By keeping every environmental variable as consistent as possible, we can truly appreciate how each phenotype expresses its own unique personality while also showcasing the remarkable stability of modern F1 genetics. Today we're checking in with Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A. ──────────────────────── 🌱 Week Six – A Canopy Coming Together This week has been all about refinement. Rather than chasing vertical growth, the focus has shifted entirely toward building the widest and most even canopy possible. Every day brings a little more progress as branches continue filling the SCROG net, gradually transforming four individual plants into one uniform sea of green. One small change compared to last week's report is the official canopy height. Although Plant A measured around 66 cm previously, I lowered and tightened the SCROG net across the entire tent. As a result, all four plants are now sitting at approximately 60 cm, with every centimetre of new growth being directed horizontally through the screen instead of upwards. That's exactly the objective at this stage. We're no longer trying to grow taller plants. We're growing a larger canopy. Every branch guided sideways today will become another well-positioned flowering site tomorrow. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A Plant A continues to impress me every single day. She remains the most vigorous plant inside the Blue Tent, responding to every bit of training with explosive new growth. Even after being topped and now spending her days tucked beneath the SCROG net, she simply refuses to slow down. Every branch seems eager to reach for the next opening, making the daily training routine both enjoyable and incredibly rewarding. The internodal spacing remains nice and tight, the stems continue thickening, and her foliage has developed a rich, healthy green colour that tells me she's enjoying everything the environment is providing. One thing I particularly appreciate is how well she's balancing strength with flexibility. The branches are becoming sturdy enough to support future flowers while remaining pliable enough to guide gently beneath the screen without complaint. She's proving herself to be an absolute pleasure to train. ──────────────────────── 🕸️ Working with the SCROG As the canopy develops, the SCROG net is becoming more than just a training tool. It's now helping shape the entire structure of the grow. Every day I spend a few minutes gently guiding branches into empty spaces, allowing the plant to expand naturally instead of allowing individual tops to dominate the canopy. It's a surprisingly relaxing process. No aggressive bending. No rushing. Just small adjustments made consistently over time. Watching those empty squares slowly disappear is one of my favourite parts of vegetative growth, and this week the Blue Tent has really started looking like one unified canopy instead of four separate plants. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ Blue Tent Environment Consistency continues to be one of the biggest advantages inside the Blue Tent. Average conditions throughout the week remained: • 🌡️ Day Temperature: 30°C • 🌙 Night Temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative Humidity: 58% • 🥥 Root Zone Temperature: 24°C • 💦 Nutrient Solution Temperature: 18°C • ⚗️ pH: 5.8 • ⚡ EC: 1.92 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: Approximately 450 ppm • 💡 Light Schedule: 18/6 • 💧 Irrigation: 1.2 litres per plant per day These stable conditions continue allowing the plants to focus entirely on vigorous vegetative growth while recovering effortlessly from training. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Feeding & Irrigation The feeding schedule remains unchanged this week. Sometimes, when everything is working exactly as planned, the best decision is simply to stay consistent. Each plant continues receiving approximately 1.2 litres of nutrient solution every day through the Mars Hydro automatic drip irrigation system. The slow and consistent delivery keeps the coco evenly moist while ensuring the roots always have access to fresh nutrients. Once the solution passes through the substrate, the automatic drainage system removes the runoff beneath the grow bags, preventing old nutrient solution from accumulating around the root zone and helping maintain a clean, stable growing environment. Current feeding schedule: • Plagron Hydro A — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L The rich green colour across the canopy tells me the plants are extremely happy with this feeding regime, and for now I see no reason to make any adjustments. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A Every week this phenotype reinforces the same first impression she gave me shortly after germination. She's energetic. Confident. And incredibly responsive. She doesn't simply recover from training. She seems to thrive because of it. The combination of vigorous branching, compact internodal spacing and healthy foliage is creating exactly the kind of plant I hoped for when starting this project. It's becoming easier every week to imagine how productive she'll be once flowering begins. ──────────────────────── 👀 Looking Ahead The objective for next week remains beautifully simple. Continue filling the SCROG. Maintain the stable environment. Keep guiding each branch into its own space. Patience is the key at this stage. Every small adjustment made now will help create a flatter canopy, better light distribution and, hopefully, an even more productive flowering cycle in the weeks ahead. The Blue Tent continues moving exactly in the direction I was hoping for, and I can't wait to watch these ladies take the next step together. ──────────────────────── 💙 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these incredible Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow. A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line that continues delivering healthy, vigorous growth week after week. A special thank you to Phytonaut for the outstanding LED lighting, producing compact growth, beautiful structure and an incredibly even canopy throughout the Blue Tent. A sincere thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system that has brought consistency, cleanliness and peace of mind to this entire project. Thank you to GrowDiaries for providing growers around the world with a place to document their journeys, exchange knowledge and inspire one another every single day. And finally... Thank you to every one of you following Project Blue Tent. Whether you've been here since the first seed cracked, recently joined the adventure, leave comments every week or quietly follow along in the background, your support genuinely means more than you know. The canopy is getting fuller, the plants are thriving, and the adventure is only becoming more exciting. Until next week... Growers Love, happy growing, and I'll see you all soon. 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 🥒 Project Blue Tent – Week 7 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A (Folder 14A) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If you're discovering this diary for the first time, welcome aboard! Project Blue Tent follows four individual plants, each documented in its own dedicated diary from seed to harvest. All four plants share the same environment, lighting, irrigation system, nutrition and training strategy. By keeping as many variables identical as possible, we can observe something particularly interesting: How much personality can an individual phenotype still show when everything around it remains the same? Every plant has the same opportunity. Every plant receives the same care. Yet somehow... They still manage to tell their own story. Today we're checking in with Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A. And this week marks a pretty important moment in her story. The canopy is full. The structure is ready. And we're preparing for the final step before flowering. ──────────────────────── 🌱 Week Seven – From Building to Preparing For the last several weeks, the entire focus has been on building the canopy. We topped. We trained. We installed the SCROG. We guided branches through the screen. And slowly, square by square, the empty spaces disappeared. Now the Blue Tent has reached the point where the plants have essentially done their job. Looking from above, the canopy is remarkably even. All four sisters are sitting at approximately 60 cm, and because the SCROG net was lowered and tightened earlier in the grow, the majority of the new growth has been directed horizontally rather than vertically. That was the objective. Not taller plants. More usable canopy. And Plant A has done an exceptional job filling her allocated space. Her foliage is rich green, her branches are strong, and the amount of healthy growth packed into that screen is impressive. But there comes a point where adding more foliage isn't necessarily the goal anymore. Now we need to prepare what we've built. ──────────────────────── 🕸️ The SCROG – Mission Accomplished The SCROG has been one of the most important techniques we've used during this vegetative cycle. For anyone unfamiliar with it, SCROG means Screen of Green. Instead of allowing the plant to develop a few dominant vertical branches, we repeatedly guide the growing shoots underneath a horizontal screen. As each branch moves through the screen, we can distribute the future flowering sites across a much larger area. The result we're looking for is a relatively even canopy rather than several tall branches competing with one another. And this isn't something that happens in one afternoon. It's a process. A little tuck here. Another branch redirected there. A few minutes of observation every day. Eventually, the plant does most of the work itself. This week, looking across the Blue Tent, that process has reached its goal. The screen is effectively filled. And that means it's time for the next stage. ──────────────────────── ✂️ Defoliation – Cleaning the Canopy Before Flower This week's main event is defoliation. And because this technique is sometimes misunderstood, I want to explain exactly what we're doing and, perhaps more importantly, what we're not doing. Defoliation is not simply removing leaves because we don't like seeing them. Leaves are essential to the plant. They're responsible for capturing light and supporting photosynthesis, so removing them unnecessarily doesn't automatically make a plant healthier. The objective here is different. After weeks of vigorous vegetative growth and SCROG training, the interior of the canopy has become extremely dense. Leaves overlap. Branches cross through one another. Lower sections become increasingly shaded. Air movement through the middle of the plant becomes more difficult. And some foliage is simply contributing less to the productive upper canopy. So we're performing a deliberate cleanup. Removing selected leaves. Opening congested areas. Improving visibility. Creating more space between branches. And preparing the structure for the very different demands of flowering. The goal isn't: "Remove as many leaves as possible." The goal is: "Remove what isn't helping the structure we're trying to build." ──────────────────────── 🌬️ Why Defoliate Now? The timing is just as important as the technique. A significant defoliation is a form of stress. Even a perfectly healthy plant needs time to respond after losing a meaningful amount of foliage. That's why we're doing this while the plants are still in vegetative growth rather than waiting until we're well into flowering. Right now they're running 18/6. They're actively growing. They're not yet trying to produce flowers. So if the plants need a little time to rebuild their balance after the cleanup, we have that time. The sequence we're following is very intentional: Build the plant. Fill the screen. Clean the canopy. Allow recovery. Then flip. I would much rather have the plants enter flowering already recovered from this work than perform a major cleanup while they're simultaneously dealing with the transition into flower. Once the lights are flipped, the priorities change. The plant will begin redirecting its energy toward reproductive growth, and I want that transition to happen with a clean, well-organised canopy rather than asking her to recover from major training at the same time. ──────────────────────── 🧠 Defoliation Isn't a Magic Trick Another thing worth mentioning is that defoliation isn't some magical technique that automatically produces bigger flowers. It's a canopy-management tool. We're trying to improve the relationship between: 🌱 Growing sites 💡 Light distribution 🌬️ Air movement 🍃 Leaf density ? Plant structure The upper canopy is already receiving strong light. The problem we're addressing is congestion. When four vigorous plants share a 100 × 100 × 200 cm space, the interior can become incredibly dense. By selectively removing some unnecessary foliage, we're opening pathways through that structure. Better airflow. Better visibility. Less congestion. And a cleaner starting point for flowering. It's about managing the environment that exists inside the canopy, not simply making the plants look prettier. Although... I have to admit... They do look pretty spectacular after the cleanup. 😂💙 ──────────────────────── 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A And now, back to our girl. Plant A continues to be exactly the phenotype I thought she might become when she first started showing her personality. Vigorous. Responsive. Confident. She has consistently been one of the most energetic plants in the Blue Tent. Every time we've given her something to work with, she's responded with more growth. Topping? She recovered beautifully. SCROG? She filled it. Daily training? She simply kept producing new shoots. Her internodal spacing remains nicely compact, her stems have thickened substantially, and the foliage has developed that rich green colour we've been looking for. The most impressive part is probably how much growth she's managed to produce while still maintaining a very manageable structure. She's not simply growing wildly. She's growing usefully. And that's exactly what we want at this stage. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Feeding – No Changes Yet The nutrition remains completely unchanged. And honestly... Why change something that is working? Current feeding: • Plagron Hydro A — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L Current EC: 1.92 mS/cm pH: 5.8 The plants are showing excellent colour and vigorous growth, so I'm not interested in increasing the nutrient strength simply because we're approaching flowering. Instead, we'll watch their response to this week's defoliation. If they continue consuming aggressively and maintaining that healthy green colour, we may increase the nutrition next week as flowering begins. But for now... The plants are happy. And happy plants don't need unnecessary changes. ──────────────────────── 💧 The Drip Irrigation Continues to Impress The Mars Hydro automatic drip irrigation and drainage system has also become one of those pieces of equipment that quietly proves its value every day. Each plant is receiving approximately 1.2 litres of nutrient solution per 24 hours, delivered through the individual drip system. The solution passes through the coco and the resulting runoff is automatically collected and removed. That consistency is particularly useful in a project like this. We're trying to keep four plants under almost identical conditions. Manual watering can certainly work, but maintaining exactly the same routine every day becomes increasingly difficult as plants get larger and more demanding. The automated system removes much of that variation. The roots receive a consistent supply. The plants receive the same routine. And I get to spend less time carrying water... And more time observing the plants. That's a pretty good exchange in my book. 😄 ──────────────────────── 🌡️ Blue Tent Environment The environment has remained very stable as we approach the transition into flowering. This week's average conditions were: • 🌡️ Day Temperature: 28°C • 🌙 Night Temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative Humidity: 65% • 🥥 Substrate Temperature: 24°C • 💦 Nutrient Solution: 18°C • ⚗️ pH: 5.8 • ⚡ EC: 1.92 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: approximately 450 ppm • 💡 Light Schedule: 18/6 • 💧 Irrigation: approximately 1.2 L/plant/24h • ? Pot Size: 8 L • 📏 Plant Height: approximately 60 cm At this point, maintaining consistency is more important than constantly chasing numbers. The plants are growing beautifully. The canopy is healthy. The irrigation is performing reliably. And the nutrition is producing exactly the response we're looking for. So for now... We observe. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Four Plants Starting to Look Like One One of my favourite things about this stage of Project Blue Tent is looking at the tent from above. It's becoming genuinely difficult to tell the four plants apart. The canopy is so even that the individual plants almost disappear into one continuous sea of green. And that's actually a fantastic result from the SCROG. We started with four individual plants. Different branches. Different growth patterns. Different personalities. Now we've shaped them into one remarkably uniform canopy. But underneath that uniformity, the individual characteristics are still there. And that's what makes documenting them separately so interesting. Plant A still has her particular way of growing. She's still one of the most vigorous. She's still incredibly responsive to training. And she's still quietly trying to occupy every available centimetre of space. ──────────────────────── 🌬️ Cleaning for the Next Chapter Once the defoliation is complete, the room should immediately feel different. More open. More breathable. Less congested. And that is exactly what we're looking for before the flip. We're not trying to make the plants small. We're not trying to weaken them. We're simply creating a cleaner structure from which the flowering cycle can begin. The canopy has been built. Now we're refining it. Then comes recovery. And after that... Flower. 🌸 ──────────────────────── 👀 Looking Ahead This is one of those weeks where the best thing we can do after the work is simply give the plants some peace. We've spent weeks manipulating their structure. Now they need time to respond. I'll be watching the new growth closely, keeping the environment stable and monitoring how quickly they recover. The nutrient recipe may increase next week depending on what the plants tell us. The irrigation will continue doing its job. And if everything looks as good as it does now... We'll be ready to flip the Blue Tent into flowering. The SCROG is full. The canopy is organised. The plants are healthy. The cleanup is done. Now we let them recover. Then... we turn the page. ──────────────────────── 💙 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for providing these fantastic Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics. A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for the Premium Growbags and Hydro nutrient line that continue supporting this beautiful vegetative growth. A special thank you to Phytonaut for the LED lighting helping us maintain such a consistent and beautifully structured canopy throughout the tent. And a massive thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system, which continues making consistent irrigation so much easier. Thank you to GrowDiaries for providing a place where growers from all over the world can document their journeys, share knowledge and learn from one another. And finally... Thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. Whether you've been here since the beginning, just discovered this diary, leave comments every week or simply enjoy watching these plants develop... I genuinely appreciate you being here. 💙 Four sisters. One environment. One experiment. And four very different little personalities hiding underneath an increasingly uniform canopy. For Plant A, this week is about finishing what we started. The canopy is built. The cleanup is complete. Now she gets to recover. And very soon... 🌸 Flowering begins. Until next time... Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 8 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A (Folder 14A) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If you're discovering this diary for the first time, welcome aboard. Project Blue Tent follows four individual plants from seed to harvest, with each phenotype receiving her own dedicated diary. All four sisters share the same tent, lighting, irrigation, nutrition, environmental conditions and training strategy. The purpose is simple: Keep the variables as consistent as possible... and let the plants tell their own story. And this week, that story is getting very exciting. Because the Blue Tent has officially entered flowering. 🌸 Today we're checking in with Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A. And just like her sisters... She's growing fast. Very fast. ──────────────────────── 🌸 Week Eight – And Suddenly Everything Accelerates There are moments in a grow where you can almost feel the plants changing from one day to the next. This is one of those moments. After seven weeks of vegetative growth, the Blue Tent has finally moved to 12/12. And the girls seem to have taken that as a personal invitation to accelerate. Plant A is now approximately 81 cm tall, compared with roughly 60 cm when we finished vegetation. That's around 20 cm of growth already, and the whole room is behaving similarly. But what's fascinating isn't simply the vertical growth. They're developing everywhere. New flowering sites are becoming increasingly obvious. Branches are extending. Nodes are developing. The plants are changing shape almost by the hour. They're not simply stretching... They're building. And Plant A is right there with them. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant A Plant A has always been one of the girls that catches my attention. She's vigorous. She's responsive. She's incredibly determined. And now that flowering has started, that personality is becoming even more obvious. The canopy remains remarkably even despite the amount of growth happening above it. Her branches are strong, her foliage remains healthy and the developing flowering sites are appearing rapidly throughout the structure we spent weeks building. This is exactly why we documented these plants individually. From a distance, all four sisters can look remarkably similar. But when you spend time with each one... You start noticing the little differences. Plant A has that particular combination of speed, structure and enthusiasm that has been present since the beginning. And right now... She's absolutely flying. ──────────────────────── 💥 Super Cropping – Trying to Keep Up With Her With this amount of growth happening so quickly, we're continuing with super cropping as another way of managing the most vigorous vertical shoots. The objective isn't to stop the plants from growing. At this point, I'm not sure anything could stop them. 😂 It's about trying to influence the structure while they're stretching aggressively. Some of the taller branches are being carefully worked to reduce their dominance and hopefully encourage stronger branching points as the plant continues developing. And the funny part? These girls simply refuse to stay down. I'll work a branch... Give it some time... And she'll be standing back up again like nothing happened. Plant A is particularly impressive in that regard. She seems to have one answer to everything: Grow. 😂🌱 Whether this will ultimately be enough to keep the stretch under control remains to be seen. The temperatures, the seven-week vegetative period and the sheer vigour of these plants are all factors. But for now, the canopy remains beautifully manageable. So we continue observing and adapting. ──────────────────────── 😳 Well... I May Have Broken a Branch And then there's the part of growing that nobody wants to talk about... Sometimes you make a mistake. This week, while working with Plant A, I managed to break a branch. Yep. It happened. I'm not going to pretend it didn't. I'm also not going to turn it into some dramatic disaster. Plants are resilient. Training doesn't always go perfectly. Sometimes a branch moves differently than expected, sometimes there's a little too much pressure, and suddenly you're standing there looking at the plant thinking: "I'm so sorry, my dear." 😂🌱 I immediately tried to support and repair the damaged section, and now we'll simply give her some time and see how she responds. At the moment, there's nothing here that makes me alarmed. It's one branch. The rest of the plant is growing beautifully. And honestly... This is also part of documenting a real grow. Not every training session is perfect. Not every decision goes exactly according to plan. Sometimes you make a mistake. You learn from it. You carry on. And Plant A certainly isn't letting one damaged branch stop her. ──────────────────────── 🌱 A Fast-Developing Flowering Plant What really stands out this week is just how quickly these plants are evolving. The flowering sites aren't sitting there waiting patiently. They're developing rapidly. The structure we created during vegetation is now being populated with new growth, and the difference between the beginning of the week and the end is already noticeable. This is also why I'm glad we spent the time building the canopy properly. The SCROG gave us a much more even starting structure. The defoliation opened up the interior. And now the plants have room to develop into that structure. We're going to see exactly how much they use it. ──────────────────────── 💡 Starting Flower Under Strong Light The Blue Tent is now running 12/12, and we're starting flowering at approximately 800 PPFD. That's a deliberate decision. After seven weeks of vegetation, these plants have a substantial canopy and are showing very high levels of growth activity. Rather than gradually creeping toward flowering intensity, I'm giving them strong light from the beginning and watching their response. The goal is to provide enough usable light to support this rapidly developing canopy while continuing to monitor the environmental side of the equation. And because the girls are already stretching aggressively... The next couple of weeks should be very interesting. I'm curious to see whether the strong light helps keep the canopy relatively compact... Or whether these ladies simply decide: "Thank you for the extra photons. We'll use all of them to grow another 30 centimetres." 😂 We'll see. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ Blue Tent Environment The environment remains remarkably consistent throughout the room. This week's recorded conditions were: • 🌡️ Day Temperature: 27°C • 🌙 Night Temperature: 27°C • 💧 Relative Humidity: 67% • 🥥 Substrate Temperature: 24°C • 💦 Nutrient Solution Temperature: 19.2°C • ⚗️ pH: 5.81 • ⚡ EC: 2.09 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: approximately 666 ppm • 💡 Light Schedule: 12/12 • 💧 Irrigation: approximately 1.4 L/plant/24h • ? Pot Size: 8 L • 📏 Plant Height: approximately 81 cm One thing I'm watching particularly closely is the temperature difference between day and night... Or rather, the lack of one. We're currently sitting around 27°C during both periods. Warmer nights can encourage additional stretch, and these plants certainly don't need much encouragement. 😂 So I'm keeping that in mind while watching how the canopy develops. For now, however, the plants are showing no signs that they're unhappy with the environment. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Feeding – Now in Flowering Mode The nutrition has also moved into the flowering program. Current feeding: • Plagron Hydro A — 2 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 2 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L • Plagron Power Buds — 1 ml/L • pH Plus — 0.03 ml/L • pH Min — 0.03 ml/L Current EC: 2.09 mS/cm pH: 5.81 The change in nutrition is relatively measured. I'm not interested in throwing everything at the plants simply because the calendar says "flower." They're already consuming aggressively and developing incredibly quickly. So for now, the objective is to support that development while continuing to observe how Plant A responds. Her colour remains healthy. Growth remains vigorous. And the flowering sites are developing exactly as we'd hope. That's enough reason to stay consistent. ──────────────────────── 💧 The Drip & Drainage System – Working Together The automatic irrigation and drainage system has become a very important part of this project. Plant A is now receiving approximately 1.4 litres per 24 hours through the drip irrigation system. The process is beautifully straightforward. The drippers deliver the nutrient solution to the coco. The solution passes through the substrate and feeds the root zone. The runoff then enters the collection trays underneath the grow bags. From there, the drainage pipe carries the collected water toward the pump. The pump pulls that water away and returns it toward the reservoir. So the irrigation and drainage systems are working together as one continuous, recirculating setup. Water in. Coco. Roots. Runoff. Collection. Pump. Reservoir. And around we go again. It's almost like having a little circulatory system underneath the plants. And it's working wonderfully. As the plants become larger and their water demand increases, having that consistency becomes even more valuable. I don't have to manually reproduce the same watering and drainage routine every day. The system does it. The plants get their consistent irrigation. The runoff is handled. And I get to spend more time actually looking at the plants. That's exactly what I wanted. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Seven Weeks of Vegetation – Maybe We Overdid It? I'm going to admit something here. Looking at these girls now... I may have kept them in vegetation a little too long. 😂 Seven weeks isn't something I normally do. Usually, I'd be much more inclined to flip earlier. But the extra vegetative time gave us a fantastic canopy. Strong branches. Established roots. A full SCROG. A beautifully even structure. The downside? We now have four incredibly energetic plants with a huge amount of growth potential entering flowering at the same time. And they're showing us exactly what that means. Approximately 20+ cm of growth already. Flowering sites developing rapidly. Branches continuing to extend. Everything accelerating. So... Let's have faith. 😂💙 We've prepared them as well as we can. Now we get to see what happens. ──────────────────────── 🌸 Plant A – Ready for the Show Plant A's flowering transition has been particularly satisfying to watch. The framework we created during vegetation is clearly visible underneath the new growth. Her branches are well distributed. Her canopy remains relatively even. And the developing flowers are appearing throughout the structure rather than being concentrated into just a few dominant tops. That's the advantage of all those weeks of preparation. The plant isn't starting flower from scratch. She's entering it with a structure already designed to support what comes next. Now we just need to manage the incredible amount of growth she's producing. And hopefully... Keep her somewhat compact. No promises. 😂 ──────────────────────── 🧠 Managing Growth Without Fighting the Plant One of the lessons these girls are already teaching me is that there's a difference between managing growth and trying to completely control it. The plants have their own momentum. We can influence structure. We can redistribute growth. We can work with the branches. But ultimately... They're going to grow. And I think that's especially important to remember in a project like this. The goal isn't to force Plant A into exactly the shape I imagined. It's to create the best environment and structure possible, then observe how she expresses herself. Super cropping is one of the tools I'm using to help manage the most vigorous shoots. The strong lighting gives the canopy plenty of energy. The irrigation provides consistency. The nutrition supports the transition into flower. And the environment gives us the foundation. After that... Nature gets the final word. ──────────────────────── 💙 Plant A – Still One of the Stars There is something particularly satisfying about watching Plant A now. She's been through everything this project has thrown at her. Topping. Training. SCROG. Defoliation. The transition into flowering. And now a little accidental branch damage. And through all of it... She keeps growing. That says a lot about her. She's not delicate. She's not hesitant. She's vigorous and remarkably resilient. And although the four sisters continue to look impressively similar, Plant A still has that unmistakable personality we've been watching since the beginning. She wants to grow. So we'll let her grow... Just perhaps with a little guidance along the way. 😂🌱 ──────────────────────── 👀 Looking Ahead The next few weeks are going to be fascinating. The plants are already moving incredibly quickly, and we're only at the beginning of flowering. I'll continue watching the stretch closely. We'll keep using super cropping where necessary to manage particularly vigorous branches. We'll monitor the damaged branch and see how Plant A responds. The irrigation system will continue running its cycle. The flowering nutrition will continue supporting development. And the environment will remain under close observation, especially with those warm nights. For now, however... The canopy is still remarkably even. The flowering sites are developing rapidly. Plant A is healthy. And the whole room is absolutely full of energy. We may have vegged these girls a little longer than usual. We may have created more growth than we intended. But there's no point worrying about that now. The plants are ready. The lights are on 12/12. The flowers are coming. And we're going to enjoy the ride. ──────────────────────── 💙 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for giving us the opportunity to explore these beautiful Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics individually. A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for the Premium Growbags and Hydro nutrient line supporting these girls throughout the project and now helping them enter flowering. A special thank you Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting helping us build such a strong and even canopy and now providing the intensity we're using as flowering begins. And a massive thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system. The way the drippers, coco, collection trays, drainage lines, pump and reservoir work together has made keeping four rapidly growing plants consistently irrigated considerably easier. Thank you as well to GrowDiaries for giving growers around the world a place to document these journeys, share experiences and learn together. And finally... Thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. Plant A has officially entered her next chapter. She's stretched. She's developing flowers. She's surviving my attempts to keep her under control. And yes... I owe her an apology for that broken branch. 😂💙 But she's still standing. Still growing. Still beautiful. And still showing us exactly why following four individual phenotypes under the same conditions is so much fun. The Blue Tent is officially flowering. The stretch is here. The flowers are developing. And Plant A is ready to put on a show. 🌸💙 Until next week... Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 9 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A 🌿 When The Plants Make You Rearrange The Room Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 And... what a week this has been. If you've been following this project from the beginning, you already know that these four Blue Waffle F1 and Pickle Lemon Haze F1 plants have been growing with an incredible amount of energy. This week, however, they finally made one thing very clear: We were running out of room. 😂 The plants had stretched much more than I wanted. The LEDs were getting too close. The combination of the drainage system, pots, substrate and overall height of the plants was eating into our available vertical space. So... we adapted. And Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A was right there in the middle of it all. Growing. Stretching. Flowering. And apparently completely unconcerned about the fact that she was becoming too tall for her own room. 😂💙 So this week wasn't about sitting back and watching. This week was about reorganizing the environment around these girls and giving them the space they need to continue the journey. 🌸 Week Nine – The Stretch Was Real Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A is now approximately 145 cm tall. And that's the plant itself. Add the pot. Add the substrate. Add the drainage system underneath everything. Then look at where the LEDs were sitting... Suddenly those 145 centimetres become a very serious number inside a tent. 😂 I knew we could see significant stretching after seven weeks of vegetation. We discussed it last week. The plants had already gained a considerable amount of height almost immediately after the flip. But honestly? They still managed to surprise me. They didn't just stretch a little. They stretched enough that we had to rethink the physical arrangement of the room. And I think that's one of the most important lessons from this week. Sometimes you don't solve a plant problem by changing the plant. You solve it by changing the room. 💡 Making Room For The Canopy The first major change was moving the carbon filter and extractor outside the tent and onto the top. Previously, that equipment was taking up valuable vertical space inside the grow area. By relocating it, we gained those precious centimetres back. The airflow system now pulls air from inside the tent, through the carbon filter and extractor positioned above, and then exhausts it outside. And that gave us something we desperately needed: room above the plants. Once the equipment was out of the way, we were able to raise the LEDs toward the top of the tent. That immediately gave the canopy more breathing room. And considering some of the tops had already started showing signs of getting too close to the lights... this was very welcome. 🔥 A Few Tops Got Too Close Before we made the changes, we did have a few leaves and tops showing some LED stress. Nothing catastrophic. Nothing that has changed the overall health of the plants. But there were some burned areas where the canopy had simply gotten too close to the light. The important thing is that we caught it. We raised the LEDs. We opened the canopy. We created more space. And now we're watching how the affected areas recover. That's part of running a real grow. You can calculate distances. You can watch environmental numbers. You can plan your canopy. But eventually the plant gives you the final report. And in this case, the report was: "Doctor... the sun is a little too close." 😂☀️ Message received. ✂️ The Big Defoliation Once we had created the additional vertical space, the next job was opening the plants. And we went deep. There was a significant amount of foliage removed from the room. The plants had become incredibly dense, and at this stage that density needed to be managed. The purpose wasn't to remove leaves simply because we had scissors in our hands. The purpose was to reduce unnecessary congestion and expose the flowering structure we've spent so much time building. More visibility. More airflow. More room around the flowering sites. A cleaner canopy. And a better-organized flowering room. Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A came through the process beautifully. And when you look at her now... you can actually see the architecture again. The branches. The flowering sites. The SCROG. The spacing. Everything is much easier to read. 🌿 What Defoliation Is — And What It Isn't I think this is worth explaining because we're showing quite a significant defoliation in the photographs. Defoliation isn't about removing healthy leaves because healthy leaves are somehow undesirable. They're not. The leaves are doing important work. What we're managing here is excessive foliage and congestion inside a very dense flowering room. The plants had built an enormous amount of vegetative material. Now we're transitioning toward a flowering structure. So we're selectively reducing what we don't need in order to make the remaining architecture more functional. And I'm not expecting the defoliation to magically create flowers. That's not the point. The point is simply to give the flowers and remaining canopy a better environment in which to develop. Now we've done the work. And now... we leave the plants to respond. 🕸️ The Second SCROG Is In The other major addition this week is the second SCROG net. The first SCROG helped us build and distribute the canopy during vegetation. It did its job beautifully. But these girls have become much taller than originally anticipated. And now we're thinking about the future weight of those flowering branches. So the second net is primarily about support. We're not trying to turn these plants back into a vegetative canopy. We're preparing the structure to carry what is coming. Because looking at these plants now... I have a feeling some of those branches are going to appreciate having something underneath them later. 😂 It's always better to have support ready before you need it. 🌬️ Two Fans – Creating The Vortex We also added another Zamnesia clip fan, this time underneath the canopy. We now have one fan working higher in the room and another operating lower down. The goal is to create more complete circulation through the growing space. The lower fan pushes air through the lower portion of the plants while the upper airflow continues moving air through the canopy. Together, this creates a kind of vortex-style circulation rather than having air movement concentrated in only one area. That's particularly valuable now. We've opened the canopy. We've created more space. Now we want air moving through that space. Not just across the top. Not just underneath. Through the room. And looking at the tent now... I really like what we've created. The room feels much more organized. ✂️ Clean Tools – Always Another little detail I want to mention is the Zamnesia curved scissors. I really like these. For most of the larger defoliation work, I actually use my fingers. If a leaf can be gently removed without cutting anything else, that's often my preferred method. But there are always those little leaves, delicate areas and awkward positions where scissors are simply the better tool. And whenever we're using scissors around the plants: Clean. Always. Even if they're brand new, I still like to clean them. It's such a small part of the process, but it's one of those habits that makes sense. Clean hands. Clean tools. Gentle work. And only remove what needs removing. 🌸 And Then There's That Broken Branch... Now we need to talk about last week's little accident. 😂 Unfortunately... the branch we broke while training last week did not survive. We tried. We supported it. We gave it time. But sometimes... a branch is simply done. And that's okay. It happens. I'm certainly not going to pretend otherwise. The important thing is what happened to the rest of the plant. And the answer is: Absolutely nothing. She carried on. The plant didn't suddenly collapse. She didn't stop developing. She didn't lose her momentum. She didn't let one branch decide the story of the entire plant. She simply continued flowering. And honestly? That's one of the most reassuring things about growing. Sometimes you make a mistake. Sometimes the plant doesn't recover from that particular injury. But that doesn't mean the whole plant is affected. One branch didn't define Plant A. The rest of her is doing beautifully. 💙 Pickle Lemon Haze A – Still Standing Strong That's actually something I really like about this girl. She's resilient. She has been through topping. Training. SCROG. Defoliation. The flowering transition. A broken branch. And now another deep defoliation. And she's still there looking healthy and vigorous. If anything, the whole plant seems to have taken the attitude of: "Fine. That branch is gone. I'll grow the rest." 😂🌱 And that's exactly what she's doing. The canopy remains strong. The flowering sites continue developing. The remaining branches are healthy. And the loss of that one branch hasn't changed the overall performance we're seeing. So... lesson learned. We move on. 🌿 The Blue Tent Had To Grow Up There's something funny about this week. Last week, I was talking about managing the stretch. This week, the plants basically said: "You'd better manage it." 😂 So we did. The room has changed considerably. The carbon filter and extractor are now outside the tent. The LEDs have been raised. The canopy has been opened deeply. The second SCROG has been installed. The second fan is circulating air below the canopy. And suddenly... we have room again. The plants are still tall. They aren't magically becoming shorter. But they now have somewhere to continue growing and flowering without immediately running into the ceiling. That's a much better situation. 🌸 From Vegetative Structure To Flowering Structure And this is the really exciting part. All that vegetative growth wasn't wasted. The seven weeks of vegetation gave us: Strong branches. A large root system. A filled SCROG. A broad canopy. A lot of flowering sites. Now we're transitioning from building the plant to watching that structure turn into flowers. That's the part I really want to watch now. We've done the major structural work. We've made the room fit the plants. We've made the canopy more manageable. Now... let them flower. 💧 Nutrition – They're Hungry Girls The plants are also telling us something very clearly through their appetite. They're hungry. So the flowering recipe has moved slightly upward. We're now running: Plagron Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L Plagron Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L Plagron Power Buds — 1 ml/L pH adjustment as required This has brought the EC up to approximately 2.49 mS/cm. It's still a measured change. We're not suddenly throwing everything at the plants. We're responding to what they're showing us. They're growing rapidly. They're flowering. They're drinking. And the foliage continues looking healthy. So we move forward carefully and watch the response. 🌡️ Blue Tent – Current Conditions The room remains stable despite all the physical changes we've made. Current recorded conditions are approximately: 🌸 Flowering: Week 9 📏 Height: approximately 145 cm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 ☀️ Day temperature: 27°C 🌙 Night temperature: 27°C 💧 Relative humidity: 67% ⚗️ pH: 6.01 ⚡ EC: approximately 2.49 mS/cm 🌡️ Solution temperature: 25.3°C 🌱 Substrate temperature: 24°C 💨 CO₂: approximately 666 ppm ? Pot size: 8 L 💦 Watering: approximately 1.6 L per plant / 24h And I think the consistency is important. We've changed the physical arrangement of the room quite significantly. But we're keeping the growing environment as stable as possible. The plants already have enough to adapt to. They don't need us changing everything at once. 🌬️ Airflow Is Now A Major Part Of The Equation With the plants this large and the flowering structure developing, airflow becomes increasingly important. The deep defoliation has opened the plants. The second fan gives us additional movement below the canopy. The upper fan continues moving air higher in the room. And moving the extraction equipment outside the tent gave us more usable space. Everything is now working together. That's what I want. Not one single "magic" piece of equipment. A room where the different systems complement each other. Light. Air. Irrigation. Nutrition. Structure. And observation. 🕸️ Supporting The Future Flowers The second SCROG is probably going to become more important with every passing week. Right now, it might look like another piece of equipment in the tent. Later... it could be the thing keeping those branches where we want them. The plants have already developed a substantial framework. Now the flowers are going to start adding weight. So I'm very happy we installed the second net now rather than waiting until the branches were already carrying heavy flowers. We're preparing the room for the next stage. And that's really what this week has been about. Preparation. 🔬 Same Room – Different Strain – Same Incredible Response There's something fascinating about Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A growing alongside the Blue Waffle F1 girls. They're different genetics. Different strains. Different individual diaries. And yet this week... they look remarkably similar. Same incredible stretch. Same environmental conditions. Same physical limitations. Same need to reorganize the room. Same deep defoliation. Same second SCROG. Same additional airflow. Same nutrition increase. And this is actually another beautiful part of the experiment. We're watching genetics express themselves under a shared environment. Sometimes the differences are obvious. Sometimes... the plants simply agree with each other. 😂💙 This week was one of those moments. 🌿 The Canopy After Everything Looking at the room now, I have to say... I love it. The plants are tall. Yes. They are probably taller than I originally wanted. 😂 But they're healthy. They're vigorous. They're flowering. And after the cleanup, the architecture is much easier to see. There is something very satisfying about looking at the room after a major intervention and realizing: Okay. This works. We made the space. We created the support. We improved the circulation. We raised the lights. And now the plants have somewhere to finish. That's a good feeling. 🔭 Looking Ahead – Now We Let Them Work This is where the next phase becomes much simpler. We've done enough. Now I want to watch. I want to see the stretch finally slow down. I want to watch the flowering sites develop. I want to see how the plants respond to the deep defoliation. I want to see how the remaining branches use the space. I want to see how the second SCROG supports them. And of course... I want to see what Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A ultimately becomes. The broken branch is gone. That's part of the story now. But the plant is absolutely fine. And that's the important part. She's still here. Still flowering. Still growing. Still shining. 💙 Final Thoughts – One Branch Less, Not One Bit Less Determined What a week. 😂💙 Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A has officially joined the "we need to rearrange the entire room because the plants got too tall" club. At approximately 145 cm, she's certainly not small. And once you add the pot, substrate and drainage system underneath her, we were getting dangerously close to our vertical limits. So we adapted. The carbon filter and extractor moved outside the tent. The LEDs went higher. The canopy received a deep cleanup. A second SCROG was installed. A second fan was added underneath the canopy. The airflow was improved. The room was reorganized. And those few LED-stressed areas were addressed before they could become something more serious. And then... there's that branch. Unfortunately, the broken branch from last week didn't make it. It happens. I'm disappointed, of course. But I'm not worried. Because look at her. She's still growing. Still flowering. Still healthy. Still vigorous. And the rest of the plant hasn't missed a beat. Sometimes growing teaches you humility. You can train carefully. You can plan. You can prepare. And occasionally... snap. 😂 You learn. You move forward. And you keep growing. That's exactly what Plant A has done. And honestly, that's what I love about documenting a real grow. Not everything is perfect. Not every branch survives. Not every plant stays the height you planned. Not every week goes exactly according to the original design. But that's the reality of cultivation. You observe. You adapt. You make the room work for the plants. And then you let them do what they know how to do. Grow. Flower. Finish. Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A is still doing all three beautifully. And now that we've finally given these girls a little more breathing room... I'm very curious to see what happens next. The room is ready. The lights are higher. The airflow is moving. The second SCROG is in place. The nutrition is supporting them. And the flowering journey is really getting started now. So let's forget about that one lost branch. It had its chapter. The rest of the plant has plenty more story left to tell. 💙🌸🌿 🙏 A Huge Thank You A huge thank you once again to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for giving us the opportunity to explore these beautiful Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics individually. Thank you to Plagron for the Hydro nutrient line supporting these incredibly hungry and vigorous plants as they move deeper into flowering. A massive thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting, the curved scissors and the clip fans that continue playing such important roles inside this project. Thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system that continues keeping these plants consistently supplied despite how quickly they're growing. And thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers a place to document these journeys, share the successes, share the mistakes, and hopefully learn something from both. And finally... thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. This week was definitely one for the books. The plants stretched. We ran out of vertical space. We moved equipment. We raised the lights. We opened the canopy. We installed another SCROG. We added another fan. We lost one branch. And somehow... we ended the week looking at a room that I think looks absolutely beautiful. 😂💙 That's growing. You don't always get the week you planned. Sometimes you get the week the plants give you. And this week, these girls gave us plenty. Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A is still standing. Still healthy. Still flowering. Still vigorous. And now... she has a little more room to finish the journey. Let's see what this beautiful girl does with it. Until next week... One branch may be gone, but Plant A is still here, still shining, and still ready to finish strong. 💙🌸🌿 Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 10 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A 🌸 The Week We Stop Touching And Start Watching Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 And this week... there isn't a huge intervention to report. 😂 And honestly? That's exactly what I wanted. After everything we did during the previous weeks, the girls have reached the point where the best thing we can do is step back and let them work. Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A is looking absolutely beautiful. She's healthy. She's vigorous. She's flowering. And she's showing us the results of all the work we've put into her over the previous weeks. So this week, we're not changing the architecture. We're not performing another major defoliation. We're not moving branches around. We're not trying to force anything. We're watching. And we introduced one new element to the experiment: 💡 LumiFlora 150W Under-Canopy Lighting. 🌿 PHENO A – LETTING HER RECOVER AND DEVELOP Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A is approximately 145 cm tall, and she's carrying a substantial flowering structure after her long vegetative period and aggressive stretch. If you've followed the previous update, you'll remember that this girl went through quite a transformation. The plants stretched far more than expected. The vertical space became limited. The LEDs were getting too close. We moved the carbon filter and extractor outside the tent. We raised the LEDs. We opened the canopy with a major defoliation. We installed a second SCROG. We added additional airflow underneath the canopy. And we adjusted the flowering nutrition. There was a lot happening. But now? It's time to see what all of that work actually accomplished. And looking at Pheno A... I'm very happy. 🌸 She's not asking for another big intervention. She's asking for time. So that's what we're giving her. ✂️ THE DEFOILATION IS NOW TELLING ITS STORY One of the things I'm watching particularly closely this week is the response to the major defoliation we performed previously. When we did it, the plants looked dramatically different. We removed a substantial amount of foliage because the canopy had become extremely dense. But the objective was never simply to remove leaves. The objective was to make the flowering structure more functional. Now we're beginning to see the result. The plant has opened up. The branches are easier to see. The flowering sites have more space around them. Air can move through the structure more freely. And Pheno A continues developing beautifully. That's the part I love about this stage. The work was done weeks ago. Now we're watching the plant respond to it. There's nothing to rush. There's nothing to force. We simply observe. 🌿 And that's actually a very important part of cultivation. Knowing when to act is important. Knowing when NOT to act can be just as important. 💡 INTRODUCING THE LUMIFLORA UNDER-CANOPY LIGHT There is one new addition this week. The **LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum under-canopy light** is now part of the setup. And with plants this large, the reason for introducing supplemental lighting underneath becomes pretty obvious. The main LEDs are providing the primary light from above. But when a plant reaches this size and develops this much structure, the lower portions of the canopy naturally receive less direct light. That's simply how a dense canopy works. So instead of constantly removing more foliage to chase light penetration, we're taking another approach. We're bringing supplemental light to the lower canopy. The LumiFlora is a **150W full-spectrum fixture**, with additional emphasis toward the red portion of the spectrum. We're positioning it underneath the canopy to provide additional usable light to areas that naturally receive less from the main fixtures. The idea isn't to replace the overhead lighting. It's to complement it. The main LEDs continue doing the heavy lifting from above. The LumiFlora gives the lower portion of the plant another source of light. And now... we watch. 💡🌱🌸 I'm particularly interested in seeing how the lower flowering sites respond over the coming weeks. That's the experiment now. 🕸️ THE SECOND SCROG IS STILL DOING ITS JOB The second SCROG that we installed last week is also staying exactly where it is. And that's another reason why we're not doing much this week. It's working. The first SCROG helped us organize the plant during the vegetative phase. The second SCROG is now helping support the flowering branches as they continue developing. With Pheno A being such a tall and vigorous plant, that additional support will become increasingly useful as the flowers gain weight. We're not trying to force her into another shape now. The architecture has already been established. We're simply giving that architecture the support it needs to finish. 🌬️ AIRFLOW – KEEPING THE CANOPY MOVING The airflow arrangement we created last week is also staying in place. We have airflow working above and below the canopy, with the additional Zamnesia clip fan underneath helping move air through the lower portion of the plant. That's especially useful now that we've introduced supplemental lighting underneath the canopy. More light underneath means we want the lower canopy to remain well ventilated as well. So we're keeping the air moving through multiple levels of the plant. Again... nothing dramatic. Nothing complicated. Just a stable environment and consistent airflow. And when everything is working? Don't fix what isn't broken. 😂💙 NUTRITION – KEEPING THE GIRL HAPPY The feeding program also remains consistent. We're continuing with the PLAGRON Hydro program: PLAGRON Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L 🌱 PLAGRON Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L 🌸 PLAGRON Power Buds — 1 ml/L pH adjusted as required The plants are responding beautifully, so there is no reason to make unnecessary changes. They're drinking. They're flowering. They're developing. And they're showing us healthy growth. So we continue. This is another part of the experiment that I really enjoy. Sometimes the best feeding strategy is simply consistency and observation. Don't feed a number. Watch the plant. 💙 🌸 THIS WEEK IS ABOUT PATIENCE If I had to describe this week's update in one word, it would be: Patience. We've already done the big work. Now we're waiting to see the results. Pheno A has had time to recover from the defoliation. She's settling into the second SCROG. The airflow is established. The LEDs have been raised. The vertical space problem has been solved. The nutrition is stable. And now we've introduced supplemental under-canopy lighting. That's enough variables. We don't need to keep adding more. 😂 So this week we're simply watching her flower. 🌿 FROM BUILDING THE PLANT TO BUILDING THE FLOWERS For so many weeks, the story of Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A was about building the plant. Growing. Training. Stretching. Topping. SCROG. Branch development. Canopy management. Defoliation. But now? The structure is there. The framework is established. The support is in place. The environment is stable. And the story is changing. Now I want to see those flowering sites become the main character. 🌸 That's why we're not touching much. We're giving her the opportunity to turn all that structure into flowers. 🔬 SAME ROOM. SAME ENVIRONMENT. HER OWN STORY. One of the most interesting parts of Project Blue Tent is that all four plants are sharing the same ecosystem. Same room. Same lighting. Same irrigation. Same nutrition. Same environmental conditions. Same cultivation philosophy. And yet... each phenotype still tells her own story. Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A has certainly given us one hell of a chapter. 😂💙 She's been vigorous. She's stretched aggressively. She's needed structural management. She's gone through a major defoliation. She even lost one branch during training. And despite all of that... she's still standing beautifully. That's her story. And now we're getting to see what she does with the space we've created for her. 🌸 CURRENT GROW CONDITIONS 🌸 Flowering: Week 10 📏 Height: approximately 145 cm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 ☀️ Day temperature: 27°C 🌙 Night temperature: 27°C 💧 Relative humidity: 61% ⚗️ pH: 6.01 ⚡ EC: approximately 2.49 mS/cm 🌡️ Solution temperature: 24°C 🌱 Substrate temperature: 24°C 🌬️ CO₂: approximately 666 ppm 💦 Watering: approximately 1.6 L per plant / 24h ? Pot size: 8 L 💡 LumiFlora Under-Canopy: 150W Full Spectrum 💙 THE BEST THING WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW Looking at Pheno A this week, I keep coming back to the same thought: Leave her alone. 😂 Not literally, of course. We're still monitoring everything. We're still checking the environment. We're still watching the nutrition. We're still observing the flowers. We're still making sure the airflow is doing its job. But we're not trying to constantly manipulate the plant. We've done the structural work. Now we want the plant to show us the result. And that's a very satisfying stage to reach. 🔭 LOOKING AHEAD Over the next few weeks, I'll be watching several things closely. 🌸 Flower development throughout the canopy. 💡 The response of the lower flowering sites to the LumiFlora. 🌿 How Pheno A continues recovering from the heavy defoliation. 🕸️ How the second SCROG supports the developing branches. 🌬️ How the airflow performs through the mature canopy. How the plants continue responding to the current feeding program. But for now... no major changes. No unnecessary intervention. Just observation. Because Pheno A is looking happy. And when she's happy... I'm happy. 😂💙 🌸 FINAL THOUGHTS – NOW WE WATCH What a difference a few weeks can make. Not long ago, we were looking at this plant and wondering how we were going to fit her into the tent. The stretch was aggressive. The LEDs were getting too close. The canopy was becoming too dense. We had to move equipment. We had to raise the lights. We had to defoliate. We had to install another SCROG. We had to improve the airflow. And now? We're standing back and watching. That's the beauty of this stage. The work has already been done. The plant has been given the structure. The room has been given the space. The branches have been given support. The canopy has been opened. The environment is stable. And now we've added one more tool to the experiment: The LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum under-canopy light. It's not about throwing more and more equipment at the plants. It's about giving the lower canopy an additional source of light now that the plants have become so large. And then... we wait. Because sometimes the best thing a grower can do is recognize when the plant doesn't need another intervention. Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A has already done her part. She's built the structure. She's survived the stretch. She's recovered from the defoliation. She's adapted to the new architecture. She's continued flowering. And now... she gets to finish. 💙🌸🌿 🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU A huge thank you once again to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for giving us the opportunity to explore these beautiful Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics phenotype by phenotype. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line supporting these vigorous girls through their flowering cycle. A massive thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting, curved scissors and clip fans that continue playing such important roles inside this project. Thank you to Mars Hydro for the irrigation and drainage system that keeps these girls consistently supplied and the ecosystem running smoothly. And a special thank you to **LumiFlora** for the 150W full-spectrum under-canopy light, which we're now introducing into the experiment to see how supplemental lower-canopy lighting performs during this stage of flowering. And of course, thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us the platform to document the entire journey. Most importantly... thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. This week wasn't about doing more. It was about seeing what everything we've already done has created. We trained her. We supported her. We opened her up. We gave her room. We improved the airflow. We raised the lights. And now... we watch. Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A is healthy. She's vigorous. She's flowering beautifully. And she's got everything she needs to continue the journey. So this week, we're putting the tools down... taking a step back... and letting this beautiful girl do what she does best. Grow. Flower. Finish. 💙🌸🌿 Until next week... More flowers. More observation. Less interference. And hopefully... a whole lot more Pickle Lemon Haze F1 magic. Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 11 🥒 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A 🌸 When The Best Intervention Is No Intervention Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 And honestly... I think this might be one of my favourite stages of the whole project. Not because we're doing more. Quite the opposite. Because we're finally at the point where we don't need to. 😂 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A is looking absolutely beautiful. The structure is established. The canopy is open. The second SCROG is doing its job. The irrigation is running beautifully. The drainage system is working flawlessly. The nutrition is consistent. The under-canopy lighting is now part of the equation. And the flowers? Oh my God... The frost levels across this tent are something else. 🌸❄️ So this week isn't about another big intervention. It's about observation. It's about appreciating what we've built. And most importantly... it's about letting this beautiful girl do what she knows how to do. Grow. Flower. And shine. 💙🥒🌸 🌸 WEEK 11 – THE GIRL IS JUST DOING HER THING Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A is still sitting at approximately 145 cm. The stretch has settled. The structure is established. And now we're watching the flowers develop across the entire plant. One of the things that continues to impress me is just how even everything looks. The flowering sites are developing remarkably consistently. The canopy is extremely even. The bud formation is happening at very similar stages throughout the plant. And the frost... well... the frost is absolutely beautiful. 😂❄️🌸 This is one of those moments where you walk into the tent and think: "Okay... I really like what I'm seeing." And honestly, that's exactly where I want to be at this stage. The major work has already been done. Now the plant is showing us the result. 💡 THE UNDER-CANOPY LIGHTING GETS SERIOUS Last week we introduced the first LumiFlora under-canopy light into the project. This week, we decided to bring a second one into the game. And looking at the size and density of this room... it just made sense. The main LEDs continue providing the primary light from above. But these plants have developed a very substantial structure. There are flowering sites throughout the middle and lower portions of the canopy that naturally receive less direct light from the fixtures above. So instead of continuing to remove more foliage just to chase light penetration... we're bringing supplemental light to the lower canopy. And I really like what we've created. But we didn't simply place the two bars side by side. That would have been too easy. 😂 Instead, we decided to play a little. The LumiFlora bars are approximately 1.20 metres long, with the central section around one metre, and because of that length we were able to arrange them in an X-cross configuration underneath the canopy. From corner to corner. And honestly? It looks fantastic. 😂💡🌱 It's functional... but it also looks really cool. The two bars cross through the lower portion of the tent, creating a much more interesting distribution of supplemental light underneath the plants. The idea remains simple: Don't replace the overhead lighting. Complement it. Give the lower canopy another source of usable light. And then... watch what happens. 🌿 TWO LIGHTS. ONE EXPERIMENT. This is one of the parts of Project Blue Tent that I really enjoy. We're not simply installing equipment because it looks impressive. We're introducing something because we have a reason for it. The plants have become tall. The canopy has become substantial. The lower portions naturally receive less direct light. So instead of fighting the structure... we adapt the environment around it. That's cultivation. Observe. Adapt. Measure. And then observe again. And now that the second under-canopy light is installed... I'm extremely curious to see what the lower flowering sites do with that additional light over the coming weeks. That's the experiment. And Pheno A gets to be part of it. 🕸️ THE SCROG IS DOING EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT The SCROG structure is also looking fantastic. The first net helped us build and distribute the canopy. The second SCROG is now providing additional support as the flowering branches continue developing. And at this point? We're not really touching it. That's intentional. The structure has been created. The branches are where we want them. The flowering sites are developing. And the support is there. Now we let the plant use it. This is another one of those moments where doing less can actually be doing more. We don't need to constantly move branches. We don't need to keep pulling everything around. We don't need to keep opening something we've already opened. The architecture is there. Let her work. ✂️ DEFOlIATION – NOW WE WATCH THE RECOVERY The major defoliation from the previous weeks has also become part of the story now. When we performed that work, the difference was dramatic. The plants went from extremely dense to much more open. And now we're seeing the result. The flowering sites are much easier to see. Air movement through the plant is much better. The branches are easier to follow. And the plant has had time to recover and redirect her energy toward continued flowering. This is exactly why I don't believe in constantly interfering with a plant. There is a time to train. There is a time to defoliate. There is a time to support. And there is a time to stop touching things. We're at that last one now. 😂 The plant doesn't need us to keep proving that we have scissors. She needs stability. So stability is what she gets. 🌬️ AIRFLOW – TWO LEVELS, ONE HEALTHY CANOPY The airflow setup is also continuing exactly as planned. We have movement through the upper portion of the canopy and additional circulation underneath. With the under-canopy lighting now running through the lower structure, maintaining good air movement down there becomes even more important. The goal isn't to create a hurricane. 😂 It's about avoiding stagnant pockets and keeping air moving through the entire plant structure. The canopy has opened beautifully. The flowers are developing. The lower lighting is now active. And the air is moving. That's exactly what I want to see. 💧 IRRIGATION & DRAINAGE – ZERO COMPLAINTS And I have to give some love to the irrigation and drainage system this week. Because honestly... there is nothing to complain about. 😂 The irrigation is working beautifully. The plants are drinking well. The water distribution is consistent. The drainage system is working absolutely spotless. No drama. No complaints. Just doing its job. And that's exactly what good equipment should do. It should quietly do its job while we concentrate on the plants. The girls are drinking. They're developing. And the system is keeping up with them perfectly. I'm extremely happy with how this part of the project is performing. ⚗️ NUTRITION – SAME RECIPE, DIFFERENT EC Interestingly, despite not changing the reservoir recipe, this week's EC came out slightly lower. And honestly... I don't have a definitive explanation for it. 😂 The recipe itself hasn't changed. We're still running: PLAGRON Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L PLAGRON Power Buds — 1 ml/L pH Plus — 0.03 ml/L pH Min — 0.03 ml/L pH adjusted as required Yet the measured EC came out around 2.24 mS/cm instead of the approximately 2.49 mS/cm we saw previously. My guess? Possibly the rainwater source was simply a little softer this time. But I'm not going to pretend I know exactly why. Sometimes the numbers simply move. 😂 And that's another reason I like documenting everything. We don't have to invent an explanation every time something changes. We record it. We observe the plants. And we continue watching. The important thing is that Pheno A looks happy. She's drinking. She's flowering. She's building. And visually... she's absolutely loving life. ❄️ THE FROST LEVELS ARE INSANE Now let's talk about the obvious. The frost. 😂❄️ Seriously... look at these flowers. The amount of visible trichome development across the tent is absolutely beautiful. And Pheno A is certainly not being shy about showing hers. The flowers are developing with a heavy, frosty appearance, and the sugar leaves are absolutely covered. This is one of those stages where photography becomes dangerous. Because every time I take a close-up... I end up staring at it for five minutes. 😂📸 The flower formation is progressing beautifully. The structure is becoming more defined. And the frost levels are getting better and better. We're still not at the finish line. But we're getting into that really exciting part of the journey where the flowers begin looking less like early flowering sites... and more like proper flowers. And I absolutely love it. 🌿 SAME TENT. SAME CONDITIONS. REMARKABLY SIMILAR PLANTS. This is probably one of the most fascinating parts of the entire experiment. All four girls are sharing the same tent. Same reservoir. Same irrigation. Same lighting. Same environmental conditions. Same nutrition. Same cultivation approach. And when you look at them... it's honestly incredible how similar they are becoming. Very similar canopy development. Very similar flowering stages. Very similar bud formation. Very similar frost levels. And yet... each plant still has her own personality. That is what makes this project so interesting. We're not comparing four completely isolated grows. We're watching different cultivars experience essentially the same environment. And the response is fascinating. A LITTLE CULTIVAR LESSON And since we're documenting this properly, I want to take a little moment to explain something I often mention in these diaries. I like using the word: "Cultivar." You'll sometimes hear people call every plant a "genetic" or simply say "the genetics." And I understand what they mean. But technically, they're not quite the same thing. Genetics refers to the genetic makeup and inherited characteristics of an organism. A cultivar is a plant variety that has been selected and maintained through cultivation for particular characteristics. So when we're talking about these F1 plants in this project, I prefer referring to them as cultivars rather than simply calling them "genetics." And honestly... if you already knew that? Fantastic. If you didn't? Now you do. 😂🌱 There's never too much information when we're talking about cultivation. I love learning. And if something we mention here teaches somebody something new, even better. That's another reason I enjoy documenting these projects. We're growing plants... but we're also learning from them. 🌸 PHENO A – HER OWN PERSONALITY And although the four plants are looking remarkably similar right now, Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A still has her own story. She's been through the stretch. She's been through the major canopy management. She's been through the defoliation. She's been through the SCROG. She's been through the structural adjustments. And now she's simply showing us what all of that work has created. Her canopy is beautifully organized. The flowering sites are developing evenly. The frost is impressive. And the plant is drinking beautifully. She's not asking for another intervention. She's asking for time. So that's what we're giving her. 🌸 THE TOPPING AND CANOPY STRUCTURE Looking closely at Pheno A, one of the things I really enjoy is seeing how well the topping and training have opened the plant. The structure is no longer fighting itself. The branches have space. The flowering sites are exposed. And the canopy has developed into a very even structure. The work we did earlier in the project is now becoming visible in the flowering architecture. This is the part of cultivation that makes all the earlier work worthwhile. You train a plant weeks ago... and then later you stand there looking at the flowering structure and realize: "That's why we did it." 😂🌱 And Pheno A is showing that beautifully. 💙 NO UNNECESSARY INTERVENTION So what are we actually doing this week? Honestly? Not much. 😂 And that's a good thing. We're monitoring. We're checking the environment. We're watching irrigation. We're checking drainage. We're watching the flowers. We're watching the frost. We're observing the response to the under-canopy lighting. We're maintaining the reservoir. And we're letting the plant do the rest. There's a temptation in cultivation to always do something. Change something. Adjust something. Move something. Cut something. Add something. But sometimes the best decision is: Don't. If everything is working... don't fix it. If the plant is healthy... let her be healthy. If the flowers are developing... let them develop. If the irrigation is working... let it work. If the drainage is spotless... leave it alone. 😂💙 Observation is also part of cultivation. 🌡️ CURRENT BLUE TENT CONDITIONS 🌸 Flowering: Week 11 📏 Height: approximately 145 cm 💡 Light schedule: 12/12 ☀️ Day temperature: 28°C 🌙 Night temperature: 27°C 💧 Relative humidity: 63% ⚗️ pH: 6.01 ⚡ EC: approximately 2.24 mS/cm 🌡️ Solution temperature: 24.9°C 🌱 Substrate temperature: 24°C 💨 CO₂: approximately 666 ppm ? Pot size: 8 L 💦 Watering: approximately 1.6 L per plant / 24h 💡 Under-canopy lighting: LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum fixtures 💡 Under-canopy arrangement: X-cross configuration 🔬 SAME VARIABLES. DIFFERENT EXPRESSIONS. One of the things I'm really looking forward to over the coming weeks is seeing whether these similarities continue. Because right now... it's impressive. The plants are developing at remarkably similar stages. The canopy is extremely even. The flowers are forming beautifully. The frost levels are high. And yet, if you look closely enough, each cultivar still gives you little details that make her recognizable. That's exactly what we wanted from Project Blue Tent. A shared environment. A consistent approach. And individual plants telling their own stories. 🔭 LOOKING AHEAD – LET'S SEE WHAT THE FUTURE HAS FOR US At this point, I'm genuinely excited to see where these girls take us. We've built the structure. We've managed the canopy. We've supported the branches. We've established the airflow. We've got the irrigation and drainage working beautifully. The under-canopy lighting is now in place. The nutrition is consistent. And the flowers are developing incredibly well. Now... we wait. How much more will these flowers swell? How much further will the frost develop? How will the lower canopy respond to the supplemental lighting? How much weight will those supported branches eventually carry? And most importantly... what will Pickle Lemon Haze Pheno A ultimately become? Those are questions I don't need to answer today. The plants will answer them for us. And that's the beautiful part. 💙 FINAL THOUGHTS – LET THE PLANT SPEAK Week 11. And what a beautiful week. There were no dramatic interventions. No major restructuring. No big defoliation. No desperate attempts to control the plants. Instead... we watched. We introduced a second LumiFlora under-canopy light. We arranged the two long bars in an X-cross configuration underneath the canopy. We kept the irrigation running. We kept the drainage running. We maintained the same reservoir recipe. We observed the slightly lower EC. We kept the airflow moving. And we admired the flowers. 😂💙 And those flowers deserve some attention. The bud formation is beautiful. The canopy is incredibly even. The frost levels are absolutely insane. And Pheno A is looking healthier and happier by the week. What's perhaps most impressive is how similar these plants are becoming under the same conditions. Different cultivars... same room... same environment... same reservoir... and remarkably similar results. That makes me even more curious about what we're going to see later in flowering. Because if this level of consistency continues... we could be looking at something very special. But we're not going to rush it. We're not going to force it. We're not going to keep changing things simply because we can. We've reached the stage where patience becomes the most important tool in the room. So for now... we watch. We listen. We measure. We maintain. And we let Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A do what she does best. Grow. Flower. Frost up. And shine. 💙🥒❄️🌸 The future is looking very, very interesting. Let's see what this beautiful girl has waiting for us. 🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU A huge thank you once again to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for giving us the opportunity to explore these beautiful Pickle Lemon Haze F1 cultivars individually. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line supporting these vigorous girls throughout their flowering journey. A massive thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting, curved scissors and clip fans that continue playing such important roles inside this project. Thank you to Mars Hydro for the irrigation and drainage system that continues working flawlessly and keeping these girls consistently supplied. And a special thank you to LumiFlora for the under-canopy lighting we're now using as another part of this experiment. We're very curious to see how these supplemental lights influence the lower portions of the canopy as flowering progresses. And of course... thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us this platform to document everything. The successes. The mistakes. The experiments. The surprises. And all the little lessons along the way. And finally... thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. 💙 Four plants. One tent. Shared conditions. Shared reservoir. Shared environment. And somehow... four individual personalities developing right in front of us. Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A is looking absolutely beautiful. The frost is there. The flowers are forming. The canopy is even. The irrigation is working. The drainage is spotless. The lighting is in place. And now... we let her shine. Until next week... Keep growing. Keep learning. Keep observing. And most importantly... keep shining, beautiful girl. 💙🥒🌸❄️ Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial # 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 12 💙 ## 🥒 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno A ### 🌸 Same Tent. Same Ecosystem. Another Ridiculously Frosty Girl! ❄️😂 Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 And here we go again... ANOTHER GIRL LOOKING ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING! 😂❄️ Seriously, my friends, what is happening inside this tent? Every time I think the flowers can't look any frostier, I take another look at the plants, grab the camera, and end up spending far too much time staring at the photographs. And Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A? She's giving us plenty of reasons to do exactly that! Welcome to Week 12 of our journey, where the major structural work is behind us, the ecosystem is running beautifully, and our attention is increasingly focused on the flowers themselves. The plants are stacking. The buds are developing. The trichomes are becoming increasingly visible, and the entire tent is looking absolutely beautiful. This week, we decided to keep the photography more focused rather than taking endless individual pictures. But that doesn't mean we spent less time behind the camera! Quite the opposite. We created three separate photo stacks, combining a total of 1,452 photographs. Yes, you read that correctly. ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY-TWO PHOTOGRAPHS! 😂📸❄️ But we'll get to that in a moment. First, let's give this beautiful girl her own chapter. ## 🌸 WEEK 12 – PICKLE LEMON HAZE IS SHINING Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A is approximately 145 cm tall, and the structure we've worked so hard to establish is now supporting the developing flowers beautifully. The long vegetative period gave us the framework. The topping and training helped us distribute the growth. The first SCROG helped organize the canopy, while the second SCROG provided additional support as the plants progressed through the flowering stretch. We also performed the major defoliation, improved the airflow arrangement, and made room for the under-canopy lighting. All those decisions happened over several weeks. Now we're looking at the result. And honestly, this is one of my favourite stages of the project. Not because we're doing more. Because we finally have the opportunity to step back and appreciate what we've built. The structure is established. The support is in place. The irrigation and drainage systems are working beautifully, and the plants are continuing to develop. So we're not looking for unnecessary interventions. We're watching the flowers, monitoring the environment, and allowing the plants to continue their journey. And Pheno A? She's looking absolutely fantastic! 💙🥒🌸 ## ❄️ THE FROST – I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY ANYMORE! Let's be honest. The photographs speak for themselves. Look at those flowers! The close-ups reveal an incredible amount of detail across the developing buds and surrounding sugar leaves. The trichomes are clearly visible, the pistils remain prominent, and the flowering sites are continuing to develop. This is the stage where the details become increasingly fascinating. From a distance, we can appreciate the overall structure and how evenly the flowers are distributed throughout the canopy. But when we get closer, there's a completely different world waiting for us. Individual trichomes. Delicate pistils. Resin-covered sugar leaves. The intricate structure of the developing flowers. And that's why I love macro photography so much. It allows us to appreciate details that can easily go unnoticed when we're simply looking at the entire plant. And this week, Pheno A gave us some absolutely beautiful subjects to work with. She's frosty. Her sisters are frosty. And honestly, the whole tent is becoming a photographer's dream! 😂💙❄️ ## 📸 THREE PHOTO STACKS – 1,452 PHOTOGRAPHS COMBINED! Now, let's talk about the photography, because this week's report has something special to show. We decided not to take quite as many individual photographs this time. Instead, we concentrated on creating three detailed photo stacks. Here's what we produced: - One photo stack combining 666 photographs. - A second photo stack combining 393 photographs. - A third photo stack combining another 393 photographs. That's a total of 1,452 photographs combined into three final images! And yes, this takes considerably more time than simply taking a few pictures and choosing the best ones. 😂📸 Each stack requires patience, attention, and time behind the camera and at the computer. But I think the results are worth sharing. These stacks allow us to explore the flowers in much greater detail and give everyone following Project Blue Tent a closer look at the development we're documenting. We're not simply trying to produce attractive photographs. We're also trying to preserve a visual record of the plants as they progress through flowering. And when you look at the finished stacks, you can really appreciate the intricate details across the flowers and the surrounding sugar leaves. That's what makes this kind of photography so rewarding. You start with hundreds of individual frames, work through the stacking process, and eventually produce a single image that reveals a remarkable amount of detail. Three stacks. Three opportunities to look closer. And one very photogenic Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A! ## 🔬 WHY PHOTO STACKING IS WORTH THE EXTRA WORK For anyone unfamiliar with the process, focus stacking involves combining multiple photographs taken at different focus distances to produce a final image with a greater depth of field. In macro photography, the depth of field can be extremely shallow. You can have one part of a flower beautifully in focus while another part, only a short distance away, falls outside that narrow focus plane. By combining multiple frames, we can bring more of those details into focus in the final image. Of course, stacking hundreds of photographs takes time, and the result depends on the source images and how well the stacking process handles them. But when everything comes together, it can be a fantastic way to document small details. And that's precisely what we wanted to achieve here. Rather than filling the diary with endless individual pictures, we concentrated on three detailed stacks that allow everyone to appreciate the flowers from a different perspective. I'm genuinely happy with the results. And I hope you enjoy looking at them as much as I enjoyed creating them! 📸💙 ## 🌿 SAME TENT. SAME ECOSYSTEM. SAME CULTIVATION APPROACH. One of the most interesting aspects of Project Blue Tent is that we're documenting individual plants while keeping the shared environment consistent. The plants share the same tent, lighting environment, irrigation system, reservoir, and nutritional program. That gives us an interesting opportunity to observe their development side by side. And when I look at Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A alongside her sisters, I continue to be impressed by the similarities we're seeing. The overall structure is remarkably consistent. The flowering development is progressing beautifully. And the visible frost across the plants is becoming increasingly impressive. Of course, we're still documenting each plant separately because individual differences remain interesting, even when the plants look remarkably similar. The subtle details matter. Flower shape, development, structure, and the way each plant progresses over time are all worth observing. That's the beauty of keeping individual diaries. We can appreciate the similarities without losing sight of each plant's own story. And today, Pheno A gets the spotlight. She's earned it! 💙🥒🌸 ## 💡 UNDER-CANOPY LIGHTING – COMPLEMENTING THE MAIN LIGHTS Our two LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum under-canopy fixtures remain part of the setup. The main LEDs provide the primary lighting from above, while the LumiFlora fixtures supplement the lower portions of the canopy. With plants reaching approximately 145 cm, the canopy has developed into a substantial three-dimensional structure. Naturally, different parts of the plant receive different amounts of light depending on their position. That's why we've been interested in exploring supplemental lighting beneath the canopy. Rather than treating the overhead lights as the only source of illumination, we're experimenting with adding light to the lower portions of the plants. And now we have another interesting question to follow throughout the coming weeks. How will the lower flowering sites continue developing under this arrangement? We're not going to promise a particular result before we have the observations to support it. We're documenting the setup and watching what happens. That's the whole point of this project. Introduce an idea. Keep the other conditions as consistent as possible. Observe the plants. Record the results. And learn something along the way. 💡🌿 ## 🕸️ THE STRUCTURE IS ESTABLISHED – LET HER DO HER THING Remember how much work went into getting these plants to this stage? The topping. The training. The first SCROG. The flowering stretch. The major defoliation. The second SCROG. The airflow adjustments. All those steps helped us establish the structure we see today. And now, we're not trying to reshape the plant every week. The branches are supported, the canopy is established, and the flowering sites are developing throughout the plant. There is always something we could do. We could move something, adjust something, cut something, or change something simply because the opportunity exists. But that doesn't mean we should. At this stage, stability and observation are just as important as the earlier structural work. The plant doesn't need us to keep proving that we own scissors. 😂✂️ Sometimes the best decision is to leave things alone. And that's exactly the approach we're taking with Pheno A this week. ## 🌬️ AIRFLOW – KEEPING THE WHOLE CANOPY IN MIND The airflow arrangement remains part of the established system. With a substantial canopy, we want to maintain air movement throughout the upper, middle, and lower portions of the plants. The earlier defoliation helped open the structure, and the airflow system helps keep air circulating through the available space. This is particularly relevant when we're working with supplemental lighting beneath the canopy. Light is one part of the environment, but it doesn't exist in isolation. Air movement, temperature, humidity, irrigation, and nutrition all contribute to the overall conditions the plants experience. So we continue paying attention to the entire ecosystem rather than focusing on one piece of equipment in isolation. The goal isn't to make constant adjustments. It's to maintain a balanced environment and respond when there's a genuine reason to do so. ## 💧 IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE – KEEPING THE SYSTEM CONSISTENT The irrigation and drainage system continues to be an important part of Project Blue Tent. All four plants share the reservoir, allowing us to maintain a consistent nutritional approach across the tent. The recorded watering volume is approximately 1.6 litres per plant over 24 hours. As always, that figure is a recorded value rather than a guarantee that every plant consumes exactly the same amount under every condition. Plant demand can vary, and our observations remain important. The key point for this week's report is that we're maintaining the established system while observing the plants. No unnecessary changes. No need to complicate something that is already working. Keep monitoring, keep recording, and let the plants show us how they're progressing. 💧🌱 ## ⚗️ NUTRITION – GREEN SENSATION IS PART OF THE RECIPE Now, let's make sure we document the nutrient program correctly. We're continuing with the PLAGRON Hydro line, and **Green Sensation is included in the current recipe**. We are not using Hydro Roots in this recipe. There is also a small documentation correction underway across the earlier Project Blue Tent reports. Some previous entries listed Hydro Roots where Green Sensation should have been recorded. Those reports will be corrected to reflect the actual nutrient program. The exact week Green Sensation was introduced will be checked against the original records rather than guessed. For this week's report, we're recording the current recipe as shown in the diary. ### Current nutrient recipe - PLAGRON Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L - PLAGRON Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L - PLAGRON Power Buds — 1 ml/L - PLAGRON Green Sensation — 1 ml/L - PLAGRON pH Plus — 0.03 ml/L, as recorded - PLAGRON pH Minus — 0.03 ml/L, as recorded The recipe remains unchanged this week. The recorded pH is 6.01, and the recorded EC is 2.24 mS/cm. This also explains why the previous discussion about the EC changing alongside a supposed nutrient substitution was misleading: the report had the wrong product listed. We were already using Green Sensation, not Hydro Roots. That's an important distinction when documenting a grow. The written report needs to reflect what was actually being used, not simply repeat an incorrect entry from the previous week. We'll correct the earlier reports as needed, and from here onward, we'll keep the recipe accurate. Consistency in the reservoir is one thing. Consistency in the documentation is another. Both matter! ## 🌡️ CURRENT BLUE TENT CONDITIONS - Cultivar: Pickle Lemon Haze F1 - Phenotype: Pheno A - Flowering: Week 12 - Height: Approximately 145 cm - Light schedule: 12/12 - Day air temperature: 27°C, last recorded - Night air temperature: 27°C, last recorded - Relative humidity: 59%, last recorded - pH: 6.01, last recorded - EC: 2.24 mS/cm, last recorded - Solution temperature: 25°C, last recorded - Substrate temperature: 24°C, last recorded - CO₂: Approximately 666 ppm, last recorded - Pot size: 8 litres - Watering volume: Approximately 1.6 litres per plant per 24 hours, recorded value - Under-canopy lighting: 2 × LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum fixtures - Nutrient line: PLAGRON Hydro - Green Sensation: 1 ml/L - Hydro Roots: Not included in the current recipe The temperature and humidity were adjusted slightly as part of the ongoing environmental management. The values above are the last recorded readings, so any newer measurements should replace them when available. ## 🔭 WHAT I'M WATCHING NEXT At this stage, my attention is on the flowers and how they continue to develop. I'm watching the bud formation. I'm watching the visible trichomes. I'm watching the lower flowering sites and the areas receiving supplemental light. I'm watching how the plants continue developing under the established environmental conditions. And, of course, I'm looking forward to creating more detailed photographs as the journey progresses. These three stacks have given us a beautiful look at Pheno A, but they're only one moment in a much longer story. There's still plenty to document. And I'm particularly interested in seeing how the flowers change as flowering progresses. We're not going to predict the ending before we get there. We're going to keep observing and let the plants show us what comes next. That's what makes this journey worthwhile. ## 💙 FINAL THOUGHTS – PICKLE LEMON HAZE IS LOOKING OUTSTANDING! My friends, Week 12 has been another beautiful chapter inside Project Blue Tent. Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno A is looking fantastic. The structure is established, the flowers are developing beautifully, and the visible frost is absolutely impressive. The irrigation and drainage system remain part of our consistent setup, the under-canopy lighting continues to supplement the main lights, and the nutrient recipe remains unchanged. We've also put a considerable amount of time into the photography, producing three stacks from a combined 1,452 photographs. And honestly, I'm delighted with the results. The stacks allow us to appreciate details across the flowers that a single photograph might not capture as clearly. That's one of the things I enjoy about documenting these plants. There is always another detail to discover, another photograph to create, or another observation to record. And when I look across this tent, I'm reminded of why we started Project Blue Tent in the first place. Four individual plants. Two cultivars. One shared environment. And a chance to follow their development separately while keeping the growing conditions consistent. The similarities are fascinating, the flowers are beautiful, and Pheno A is giving us plenty of reasons to keep the cameras ready. So, for now, we're keeping things steady. We're observing. We're documenting. We're learning. And we're enjoying the show. Because sometimes the best part of cultivation isn't doing more. It's seeing what happens when you've done the work, established the system, and given the plants the time they need. And this beautiful girl? She's making that wait worthwhile. 💙🥒🌸❄️ ## 🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and giving us the opportunity to document these beautiful Pickle Lemon Haze F1 cultivars individually. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line supporting the project, including Green Sensation as part of our current recipe. Thank you to Mars Hydro for the irrigation and drainage equipment helping us maintain consistency throughout the tent. A massive thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting, curved scissors, and clip fans that have become important parts of this ecosystem. And a special thank you to LumiFlora for the 150W full-spectrum under-canopy fixtures that we're using to explore supplemental lighting beneath the canopy. Thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us a platform to document the journey, share the photographs, and keep a record of the experiments and lessons along the way. And, of course, thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent! Your support makes sharing every individual chapter even more enjoyable. We're still learning. We're still observing. We're still finding new details to appreciate. And Pheno A has given us another beautiful week to document. Until next week... Same tent. Same ecosystem. Another beautiful girl. More flowers, more frost, and more reasons to pick up the camera. Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙🥒❄️

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 13 💙 🥒 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno B 🌸 Same Tent, Different Genetics, One Beautiful Frosty Girl! ❄️💙 Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 My friends, here we go again! Another week, another beautiful girl, and another reason to spend far too much time standing in front of the tent with a camera in my hands! 😂📸 LOOK AT HER! Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno B is looking absolutely beautiful. She's super frosty, the aroma is amazing, and those white pistils are still giving us plenty to look at as she continues towards the finish. But before we get carried away with the photographs, let's take a moment to explain what's happening inside Project Blue Tent this week. We have four plants sharing the same tent, the same general environmental conditions, the same lighting setup, the same irrigation system, and the same reservoir. But we're working with two different cultivars: Blue Waffle F1 and Pickle Lemon Haze F1. Same room. Same ecosystem. Same passion. But two different cultivars, different genetics, and plenty of individual characteristics to appreciate! This week, we're continuing to lower our nutrient concentration, reducing the overhead LED output gradually, and keeping the two LumiFlora under-canopy fixtures running. We've also stopped using PLAGRON Green Sensation, which is an important correction to the nutritional updates I mentioned in the previous reports. Power Buds remains in the recipe for now, while Hydro A and Hydro B have both been reduced. We're moving into the final stage of this journey, and I'm particularly curious to see how the four girls progress from here. Will they finish together, or will some be ready before the others? Will we have half the room ready for harvest first, or will the whole room finish around the same time? I genuinely don't know yet, and that's one of the things I'm looking forward to discovering! But today, we're giving Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno B her own chapter. Let's get into it! 💙🌿 🌸 WEEK 13 – ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL GIRL APPROACHING THE FINISH We're now in Week 13 of flowering, and the entire room is gradually moving towards the final stage. The structural work has already been completed. The plants have been trained, topped, managed through the stretch, and supported with our SCROG setup. The second layer of support remains in place, the airflow system is established, and the under-canopy lighting experiment continues. At this point, we're concentrating on observing the plants, maintaining the environment, and making gradual adjustments where we believe they make sense. We're not trying to change everything at once. Instead, we're lowering the nutrient concentration, reducing the overhead lighting output gradually, and bringing the temperatures down as we progress through this final stage. And meanwhile, the girls are doing what they do best. Developing their flowers, showing us their individual characteristics, and giving us plenty of reasons to keep the cameras ready! Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno B is looking fantastic. She's compact, frosty, and full of character. And the smell? Absolutely amazing! 😂💙 🥒 PICKLE LEMON HAZE F1 PHENO B – HER OWN MOMENT IN THE SPOTLIGHT One of the things I love about keeping separate diaries is that every plant gets her own story. Although Pheno B shares the room with her Blue Waffle F1 sisters and another Pickle Lemon Haze F1 plant, she's still an individual plant with her own development to document. We're not simply copying the same description from one diary to another. We're looking at the individual plant, recording what we see, and following her progress as she moves towards the finish. Her structure is beautifully established, the flowers are looking impressive, and the frost is one of the first things that catches my attention. And then we have those white pistils! They're still very noticeable, giving the flowers a beautiful appearance as the plant continues developing. She's not finished telling us her story just yet. And honestly, I'm happy to let her take her time. We're approaching the final stage, but we'll continue observing the overall development rather than deciding that she's ready based on one characteristic alone. The flowers, the pistils, the trichomes, and the general condition of the plant all form part of the picture. For now, Pheno B is looking outstanding, and I'm enjoying every moment of documenting her journey. ❄️ THE FROST – ANOTHER REASON TO GRAB THE CAMERA You know me by now, my friends. If there's frost to photograph, there's a good chance you'll find me standing in front of the plants for far longer than I originally intended! 😂📸 And Pheno B is giving me plenty of reasons to do exactly that. The close-up photographs reveal the intricate details of the flowers and the surrounding sugar leaves. There's so much to appreciate when we take the time to look closely. From a distance, we can see the overall structure and the way the flowers are distributed throughout the plant. But when we move closer, we start noticing all those little details that make macro photography so enjoyable. The trichomes. The pistils. The developing flower structure. The different textures across the flowers and sugar leaves. And all those details that are easy to overlook when we're simply looking at the entire canopy. That's one of the reasons I enjoy focus stacking so much. It gives us another way to document the plants and share a closer look at what we're seeing inside the tent. And this girl is certainly making the effort worthwhile! She's frosty, she's beautiful, and she's giving us another fantastic subject to photograph. 💙❄️🌸 ? WHITE PISTILS – SHE'S STILL PROGRESSING One of the most noticeable characteristics in this week's photographs is the amount of white pistils still showing across the flowers. And honestly, I love seeing how the plant continues to develop. The pistils remain prominent, even as we're moving further into the flowering cycle. This is a useful observation to record, but it's important to remember that the colour of the pistils alone doesn't tell us exactly how mature a plant is. Different flowers can develop at different rates, and pistils can remain white even as other parts of the plant continue maturing. That's why we're looking at the whole picture rather than relying on one visual sign. We're observing the flowers, following the changes in the trichomes, and keeping an eye on the overall development of the plant. Pheno B is still progressing, and we'll continue documenting her until we have a clearer picture of when she'll be ready. She's an ace, my friends! 😂💙 And I don't want to rush her just because we're excited to see the finish. Good things take time, and we're going to give this beautiful girl the attention she deserves. 📸 PHOTO STACKING – FEWER STACKS FOR THIS GIRL, BUT STILL PLENTY TO SEE Photography continues to be a big part of Project Blue Tent. This week, we've included several photo stacks, along with a video showing a little more of the focus-stacking process. Some of the plants have more stacks than others this time around. That's simply how the photography worked out this week. Every plant presents slightly different opportunities, and the time available for photographing, processing, and stacking the images isn't unlimited. Sometimes we manage to produce several stacks of a particular plant, while another gives us fewer finished images. And that's perfectly fine. The purpose isn't to make every diary identical. It's to document each plant as well as we can and share the results with the community. The video gives you a little glimpse behind the scenes, showing more of the process involved in creating these detailed photographs. Focus stacking takes patience. We capture multiple images at different focus distances and combine them to produce a final image with a greater depth of field. When working with small details, that can make a big difference to how much of the subject we can bring into focus. Of course, the result depends on the source photographs, the conditions during capture, and the stacking process itself. But I really enjoy experimenting with this technique. It gives us another way to appreciate the flowers, and it allows us to share details that a single photograph might not capture as clearly. So, even though Pheno B has fewer stacks than some of the other girls this week, she's still getting her own photographic spotlight. And I'm happy with that! A few beautiful stacks, a look behind the scenes, and another chapter in our growing photographic record. 📸💙🌿 🌿 SAME TENT, SAME ECOSYSTEM – BUT TWO DIFFERENT CULTIVARS This is something worth repeating throughout Project Blue Tent, because it's an important part of what we're documenting. We have four plants sharing the same tent. Two Blue Waffle F1 plants. Two Pickle Lemon Haze F1 plants. They share the same general environment, the same reservoir, the same irrigation system, and the same lighting arrangement. But they belong to two different cultivars. And that's where things become particularly interesting. Although the growing conditions are shared, we shouldn't expect every plant to develop in exactly the same way. Different cultivars can have different growth characteristics, flowering patterns, and expressions. Individual plants can also show their own differences within a cultivar. That's why we're keeping separate reports rather than treating the entire room as one uniform group of plants. Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno B deserves her own observations, her own photographs, and her own record of development. And the same goes for every other girl in this tent. The shared environment gives us a common starting point for comparison. The individual reports allow us to document what actually happens. That's the beauty of this project. Four plants. Two cultivars. One ecosystem. And plenty to learn from every one of them! 💙🌱 🌡️ THE ROOM IS GETTING COOLER – PREPARING FOR THE FINAL STAGE Now let's talk about the room, because the environmental adjustments apply to all four plants. We're gradually lowering both daytime and nighttime temperatures as we move towards the finish. Our current daytime air temperature is approximately 25°C. During the night, when the plants are resting, we're aiming for around 19–20°C. We've also brought both the solution temperature and substrate temperature down to approximately 21°C. These changes form part of our approach to the final stage of the grow. We're interested in maintaining a balanced environment while observing how the plants continue to develop. Cooler conditions can influence colour expression in some cultivars, but the response depends on the individual genetics and the overall environment. We're not assuming that every plant will respond identically. Instead, we're observing each girl separately while keeping the shared room conditions as consistent as possible. That's particularly interesting now that we're approaching the finish. We have two cultivars in the same tent, and I'm curious to see whether their finishing timelines will be similar or whether we'll see a more staggered progression. We'll keep monitoring the plants and let the observations guide us. 💧 HUMIDITY – OUR NORMAL TARGET IS AROUND 55% Our normal relative humidity is approximately 55%. You might notice that some photographs show a higher reading when I'm working inside the tent. That's because the humidity can temporarily rise while I'm moving around, checking the equipment, taking photographs, and breathing inside the room. Even with the air conditioning running, those temporary changes can show up on the controller. For the report, we're using approximately 55% as the normal operating humidity. The goal is to maintain stable conditions while continuing to monitor the plants throughout this stage. As always, the room readings give us a reference point, but we still need to consider the overall environment and the conditions around the canopy. 💡 OVERHEAD LEDS – GRADUALLY REDUCING THE POWER We've now reduced the overhead LED output to approximately 90%. From here, the plan is to continue lowering the power gradually, by around one or two percentage points per day. We're taking a measured approach rather than making a sudden change. The objective is to manage the lighting as the plants approach the finish while keeping the wider environment in mind. We're not chasing maximum output simply because the equipment can deliver it. We've already established the canopy, and now we're adjusting the lighting gradually while observing how the plants progress. Light intensity is only one part of the picture. Temperature, humidity, plant condition, and the overall lighting arrangement all matter too. So we'll continue making gradual adjustments and observing the results rather than assuming that one setting is automatically best for every situation. 💡 TWO LUMIFLORA FIXTURES – THE UNDER-CANOPY EXPERIMENT CONTINUES The two LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum under-canopy fixtures remain part of our setup. They're arranged in an X-cross configuration beneath the canopy, supplementing the primary lighting from above. For now, we're keeping their output around 90–95%. We'll continue with this approach through the remaining stage, potentially lowering the output closer to the end. The reason we're experimenting with supplemental lighting beneath the canopy is to explore how it affects the lower flowering sites and the overall distribution of light throughout the plants. We're particularly interested in observing how the flowers in different positions develop as the plants progress. Could this lighting arrangement help the different parts of the canopy develop more uniformly? That's one of the questions we're exploring. But we're not going to claim a result before we've documented it. We're keeping the setup consistent, observing the plants, and recording what happens. That's what makes this project interesting. It's not simply about adding more equipment. It's about understanding how the different parts of the environment work together and learning from what we observe. 💧 IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE – KEEPING THE SYSTEM RUNNING The automatic irrigation and drainage system continues supporting all four plants. They're sharing the same reservoir, which helps us maintain a consistent nutritional approach across the room. The recorded watering volume is approximately 1.6 litres per plant over 24 hours. That's our recorded figure, while actual water demand can still vary depending on the plant and the conditions. We continue observing the system and making sure everything is operating as expected. At this stage, we don't need to make unnecessary changes to a system that's working well. We want to maintain consistency, monitor the plants, and concentrate on documenting their progress. Sometimes the best thing an irrigation system can do is keep working quietly in the background while we enjoy looking at the flowers! 😂💧🌿 🌱 NUTRITION UPDATE – LOWER EC AND NO MORE GREEN SENSATION Now, this is an important update, and I also want to correct something from the previous reports. We've now stopped using PLAGRON Green Sensation. We've also reduced both Hydro A and Hydro B, bringing the overall nutrient concentration down. The reason for the lower EC is therefore not simply the reduction in Hydro A and B. We've also removed Green Sensation from the current recipe. At this late stage, I've decided that we don't need to continue adding the PK product to the reservoir. Power Buds remains in the recipe for now, while we continue reducing the overall nutrient concentration. The current recorded recipe is: PLAGRON Hydro A – 1.8 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro B – 1.8 ml/L PLAGRON Power Buds – 1 ml/L PLAGRON Green Sensation – discontinued PLAGRON pH Plus and pH Minus – used as required for pH adjustment The pH shown in the current diary screenshot is approximately 5.98, and the EC is around 1.86 mS/cm. Those readings are consistent with the lower nutrient concentration we're now running. Our target is to keep the pH close to 6, allowing for small variations above or below that point. We don't want to spend the entire day chasing a perfectly fixed number when the reading is already within our intended range. We monitor it, make adjustments when necessary, and avoid unnecessary interference. The nutrient changes are being applied across the shared reservoir, so Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno B is receiving the same general solution as the other girls. This is also an important correction to the earlier reports. I mentioned Green Sensation in the previous nutritional descriptions, but we have now stopped using it, and the current recipe needs to reflect that change. From this week onward, the reports will document the updated recipe accurately. Consistency in the grow matters. Accuracy in the diary matters too. And that's exactly what we're aiming for! 💙🌱 🌸 THE HARVEST QUESTION – WILL THEY FINISH TOGETHER? This is something I'm particularly curious about now. We have four plants sharing the same room, but two different cultivars. And even though they're progressing together, there's no guarantee that every plant will be ready at precisely the same time. The differences between the cultivars, along with individual plant development, could mean that we end up with a staggered finish. Perhaps some of the girls will be ready before the others. Perhaps the whole room will progress towards harvest together. At this stage, I genuinely don't know. And that's part of the excitement! I'm looking forward to observing how each plant develops from here, comparing their individual progress, and deciding when each one is actually ready. I'm not going to force the decision simply because one plant appears further along than another. We'll continue looking at the flowers, monitoring the trichomes, and considering the overall maturity of each plant. The aim is to make the decision based on the individual plants rather than the calendar alone. Will we harvest half the room first? Will we have a full-room harvest? Let's see! I'm very curious to find out, and I'm sure the coming weeks will give us plenty to talk about. 💙🌿 🔭 WHAT I'M WATCHING NEXT As we move closer to the finish, I'll be keeping a close eye on several things. I'm watching the development of the flowers and the changing appearance of the pistils. I'm monitoring the trichomes and the overall maturity of the plant. I'm interested in how the flowers continue developing under our gradually reduced overhead lighting and the supplemental under-canopy fixtures. I'm also watching how the plants respond to the cooler temperatures and the lower nutrient concentration. And, of course, I'm comparing the progress of our two Pickle Lemon Haze F1 plants with the two Blue Waffle F1 girls. Will the different cultivars finish at similar times? Will one group be ready before the other? Will individual plants within the same cultivar also show differences in timing? Those are the questions we'll continue exploring. For now, we're keeping the system stable, making gradual adjustments, and giving each plant the time she needs. No unnecessary rushing. No assumptions. Just observation, documentation, and a little excitement about what's coming next! 😂💙 💙 FINAL THOUGHTS – SAME PASSION, SAME LOVE, ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL GIRL My friends, Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno B is looking absolutely outstanding. She's super frosty, she's beautiful, and the aroma is incredible. The white pistils are still very noticeable, and we're continuing to watch her as she progresses towards the final stage. The room is moving into a different phase now. We've lowered Hydro A and Hydro B, stopped using Green Sensation, and kept Power Buds in the recipe for the moment. The EC has come down, the overhead LED output is now around 90%, and we're gradually reducing it further. The two LumiFlora under-canopy fixtures remain part of our experiment, while the temperatures are being lowered for the final stage. The irrigation system continues running, and the four girls are sharing the same general environmental conditions. But even in this shared environment, each plant has her own story. Pickle Lemon Haze F1 Pheno B is giving us plenty of reasons to smile. The flowers are beautiful, the frost is impressive, and the aroma makes spending time in the room an absolute pleasure. And now I'm genuinely curious to see how the harvest timing develops. Will we have half the room ready first, or will all four plants finish together? Only time will tell. We'll continue observing, documenting, and making decisions based on what the plants show us. That's the way I want to finish this project. With the same passion. The same love. The same curiosity. And the same appreciation for every individual plant that has brought us this far. Four plants. Two cultivars. One beautiful ecosystem. And another week closer to discovering how this story ends. Let's keep the cameras ready, my friends! 😂💙🌸❄️ 💬 COME JOIN THE DOGDOCTOROFFICIAL DISCORD COMMUNITY! Before we finish, I want to invite everyone to join our Discord community! If you're already there, you know how much fun we have together. And if you haven't joined yet, you're more than welcome! We've built a beautiful community where growers can share their experiences, exchange ideas, show their gardens, ask questions, and enjoy the hobby together. No level required. No need to be an expert. Everyone is welcome, and we want people to feel comfortable joining the conversation. We also organize giveaways and photo championships, with prizes for the winners! It's a fantastic place to meet other growers, share photographs, learn from one another, and become part of a community that feels like family. So come and say hello! 💙 DogDoctorOfficial Discord: https://discord.gg/dogdoctorofficial Join us, introduce yourself, share your garden, and become part of the fun. Everybody is welcome! 🙏 A HUGE THANK YOU A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and giving us the opportunity to document these beautiful Blue Waffle F1 and Pickle Lemon Haze F1 plants individually. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line supporting this project, including the products we've been using throughout the journey. A massive thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting, curved scissors, and clip fans that have become important parts of this ecosystem. Thank you to Mars Hydro for the irrigation and drainage equipment helping us maintain consistency throughout the tent. And a special thank you to LumiFlora for the 150W full-spectrum under-canopy fixtures that we're using to explore supplemental lighting beneath the canopy. Thank you to GrowDiaries for providing the platform where we can document the plants, share our photographs, record our experiments, and learn from the entire process. And, of course, thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent! Your support makes sharing these individual reports even more enjoyable. We're getting closer to the finish, but there's still plenty to observe, document, and appreciate. Until next week, my friends... More flowers. More frost. More photographs. More observations. And hopefully, a clearer idea of which girls will be ready first! Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙🥒🌸❄️