Pheno B Blue Waffle F1 Zamnesia

DogDoctorOfficial Folder 13 — Blue Waffle — Pheno B Week 1 Vegetation — Building Foundations Hello growers, Welcome back to another update from the Zamnesia Tent project. As mentioned in the previous entries, this grow is being documented slightly differently than my usual diaries. Rather than grouping plants together, each phenotype receives its own individual journal. This allows us to follow every plant from seed to harvest and observe how different expressions develop, even when they share the exact same environment, feeding schedule, and care. Today we continue with Blue Waffle Pheno B, another young lady taking her first steps into vegetation. At this stage, the story is not about explosive growth or massive plants. It is about building healthy roots, establishing structure, and creating the foundation that everything else will grow from later. ⸻ The Environment Week 1 focused on consistency. The Zamnesia ecosystem maintained stable conditions throughout the week, providing an ideal environment for young seedlings to establish themselves. Environmental conditions averaged: * Temperature: 26°C * Relative Humidity: 71% Lighting was intentionally introduced at a slightly higher intensity than many seedling schedules typically recommend. The LED fixture was operated at 27% power, drawing approximately 86 watts from the wall and producing a measured PPFD of roughly 250 µmol/m²/s at canopy level. Part of this project is observing how these genetics respond when provided with strong but controlled environmental conditions from the very beginning. Airflow was supplied by: * Zamnesia extraction fan: Level 5 * Circulation fan: Level 4 This provided gentle air movement throughout the tent while maintaining stable temperature and humidity levels. ⸻ Feeding Program This week also marked the beginning of the feeding program. While the seedlings initially received only rainwater during their earliest days, they have now started receiving their first nutrient solution 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 goal is not maximum growth at this stage, but rather creating a healthy root environment and preparing the plants for the transition into coco next week. So far, Blue Waffle Pheno B appears to be responding very positively. ⸻ Preparing For Coco A major part of this week’s work happened behind the scenes. The Plagron Premium Grow Bags were filled and hydrated in preparation for transplanting. Instead of saturating the coco all at once, hydration is being performed gradually using a reservoir-fed drip system. This slow approach allows the coco to absorb water evenly and expand naturally throughout the bag. Only distilled water was used during this preparation process. The seedlings remain in their starter containers for now, but next week they will move into their final coco homes and begin the next stage of development. ⸻ Blue Waffle Pheno B If Pheno A gave the impression of a compact and balanced seedling, Pheno B is proving to be every bit as promising. At this stage the similarities between the sisters are striking. Growth remains compact with very tight internodal spacing, producing a low and sturdy structure. The plant is finishing the week progressing into its third set of true leaves, and overall development appears healthy and symmetrical. Leaf coloration is vibrant and consistent throughout the plant, while new growth emerges clean and vigorous. The stem remains strong relative to its size and is already supporting the developing canopy comfortably. One thing that stands out is how confidently this phenotype is stacking growth despite its young age. Rather than stretching toward the light, the plant is focusing its energy on building a dense and compact structure. For a first week seedling, there is very little to criticize. The overall impression is simply one of health, stability, and potential. Sometimes a plant catches your attention because it is unusual. Sometimes it catches your attention because everything is simply going right. At this stage, Blue Waffle Pheno B belongs firmly in the second category. ⸻ Looking Ahead Next week should bring one of the most important milestones of the early grow. The move into the hydrated Plagron coco grow bags will provide a dramatically larger root zone and mark the beginning of full development inside the new medium. It will be interesting to see whether Pheno B continues to mirror her sister or begins revealing more of her own unique characteristics. For now, everything is moving exactly as planned. Healthy roots. Healthy leaves. Healthy growth. A strong beginning. ⸻ Thank You A huge thank you to everyone following along and supporting these diaries. Special thanks to: * Zamnesia for the genetics, equipment, and support that helped make this project possible. * Plagron for providing the nutrients and growing media used throughout this run. * The GrowDiaries team for offering a platform where growers can document, learn, and share their experiences. * And of course, the incredible growing community whose knowledge, feedback, and encouragement continue to inspire growers around the world. The journey has only just begun. See you next week as Blue Waffle Pheno B takes her first step into coco and continues her adventure. Growers Love and Happy growing 🌱💙🍁

DogDoctorOfficial 🌱 Blue Waffle F1 – Photoperiod – Phenotype B Week 2 – A New Home, Strong Roots, Endless Potential Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another update from Project Blue Tent! 💚 Today we’re checking in on Blue Waffle F1 – Photoperiod – Phenotype B, one of the beautiful ladies growing under a traditional 18 hours of light and 6 hours of darkness. This week was a major milestone in her journey as she officially moved into her permanent home inside a Plagron Premium Coco Grow Bag. The seedling stage is now behind her, and from this point forward she’ll begin building the root system and structure that will support everything to come. Judging by her response so far, she’s loving every moment of it. ⸻ 🏡 Transplant Day After spending the last week preparing the grow bags, the coco was fully hydrated before transplant day arrived. Rather than digging an oversized hole, I used the original nursery pot to create a perfectly sized cavity inside the hydrated coco. This simple technique allows the root ball to slide directly into place while maintaining maximum contact between the soil and the surrounding coco. Once everything was ready, I gently removed the plant from her starter pot. One careful movement… One healthy root ball… One happy grower. The transplant went exactly as planned. ⸻ 🌱 Healthy Roots Tell the Whole Story Before placing her into the new home, I always like taking a look at the roots. They weren’t massive… They didn’t need to be. Instead, they were exactly what I hoped to see. Bright white roots wrapped beautifully around the entire root ball, with plenty of fine feeder roots actively searching for more space. There were no signs of root binding, discoloration or stress. The roots held the soil together perfectly while still looking young and incredibly active. Healthy roots are one of the best indicators that a plant is ready for transplant, and Phenotype B certainly passed that test with flying colours. ⸻ 🥥 The Move Into Coco With the transplant complete, Blue Waffle F1 Phenotype B officially begins the next stage of her life inside Plagron Premium Coco. Over the following days she showed virtually no signs of transplant stress. No drooping. No yellowing. No slowing down. Instead, fresh growth continued almost immediately, proving the roots adapted quickly to their new environment. That smooth transition is exactly what every grower hopes for. ⸻ 🌿 Vegetative Growth Phenotype B is developing into a compact, symmetrical young plant with excellent structure. Her internodal spacing remains tight, giving her a sturdy appearance, while the stem continues becoming thicker every day. The newest growth is vibrant and healthy, with the slightly lighter green colour that naturally accompanies rapidly developing tissue. Leaf posture remains relaxed, indicating she’s comfortable with both the environment and her feeding schedule. At this stage, she’s building the foundation that will eventually support an abundant canopy later in the grow. ⸻ 💧 Feeding Program Now that she’s established inside the coco, feeding continues using the Plagron Hydro line. Current nutrient solution: • Plagron Hydro A • Plagron Hydro B • Plagron Hydro Roots The goal during this early vegetative stage is simple: Build roots first. Everything else follows. Hydro Roots continues stimulating vigorous root development while Hydro A & B provide the balanced nutrition required for steady, healthy vegetative growth. Sometimes simplicity really is the best strategy. ⸻ 📊 Feeding Parameters Current nutrient solution: • EC: 1.26 mS/cm • pH: 5.83 • Solution Temperature: 23.1°C These values place the nutrient solution right where I like it for young plants growing in coco. The EC provides enough nutrition to encourage strong growth without overwhelming the developing root system, while the pH sits comfortably inside the optimal uptake range. ⸻ 🌡️ Environmental Conditions The grow room remained very stable throughout the week. Current conditions: • Temperature: 29°C • Relative Humidity: 68% Although temperatures are slightly warm, maintaining a higher relative humidity helps young plants stay comfortable by reducing unnecessary transpiration while the roots establish themselves inside the larger growing medium. Consistency remains one of the most important ingredients for healthy development. Happy plants love stable environments. ⸻ 🚀 Looking Ahead With the transplant now complete, the focus shifts toward root expansion. Over the coming week I expect the roots to rapidly colonize the surrounding coco, allowing nutrient uptake to increase and vegetative growth to accelerate. As the plant continues developing under the 18/6 light schedule, she’ll begin building the strong framework that will eventually support training and, later on, a productive flowering phase. Everything is progressing exactly as planned, and I’m excited to watch her personality continue to unfold. ⸻ 💚 Final Thoughts Every great harvest starts with a healthy beginning. Strong roots create strong stems. Strong stems support strong branches. And strong branches eventually produce beautiful flowers. Blue Waffle F1 Phenotype B has settled beautifully into her new home, and all the signs point toward a vigorous, healthy plant with plenty of potential still to reveal. The journey is only getting started, and I can’t wait to see what she has in store over the coming weeks. ⸻ 🙏 Thank You A huge thank you to everyone following this journey and sharing the passion for growing. Special thanks to Zamnesia for the incredible Blue Waffle F1 genetics and the ecosystem. Thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Coco Grow Bags together with the outstanding Hydro nutrient line that’s powering this grow from the very beginning. And finally, thank you to every company, every sponsor, every member of this amazing community, and every grower who stops by to leave a comment, share advice, or simply follow along. Your support means more than you know. Until next week… Happy growing, and take care! 🌱💚

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 3 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B (Folder 13B) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another update from Project Blue Tent! For those joining this journey for the first time, this project follows four individual Blue Waffle F1 plants from Zamnesia, each documented in its own diary from seed to harvest. Although they all share the exact same environment, nutrients, and growing conditions, every plant is allowed to tell its own story and reveal its own unique expression. Everything in this tent is built around the Zamnesia ecosystem, while the ladies are growing inside Plagron Premium Coco Growbags and being fed exclusively with the Plagron Hydro nutrient line. Today we’re taking a closer look at Blue Waffle F1 – Plant B. ⸻ 🌱 Week Three – Building Momentum Week three has been another very encouraging one. Plant B has settled beautifully into her coco home and has noticeably increased her pace of growth throughout the week. She began this update as a compact young plant, but over the last several days she’s filled out nicely, producing larger fan leaves and noticeably stronger apical growth. Her structure remains short and sturdy, with tight internodal spacing and excellent symmetry. The side branches are beginning to develop with confidence, giving an early indication that she’ll produce a well-balanced canopy in the weeks ahead. One detail that immediately catches my attention is how vigorous the newest growth appears. Every day the center becomes denser, showing that the roots are now well established and supporting increasingly rapid development. ⸻ 🌡️ Environmental Conditions One of the goals with Project Blue Tent is consistency. The entire ecosystem continues to perform exactly as intended, maintaining a stable environment throughout the week while the Phytonaut LED provides an even light distribution across the canopy. Average conditions this week were: * 🌡️ Day temperature: 27°C * 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C * 💧 Relative humidity: 67% * ⚗️ pH: 5.8 * ⚡ EC: 1.61 mS/cm * 💨 CO₂: approximately 450 ppm * 💡 Light schedule: 18/6 * ☀️ PPFD: approximately 350 At this intensity the plants receive plenty of energy to encourage compact vegetative growth without unnecessary stretching, while the stable environment allows them to focus entirely on developing healthy roots and foliage. ⸻ 🥥 Feeding Adjustments Coming from years of growing almost exclusively in living soil, growing in coco has definitely become an enjoyable learning experience. This week all four plants began showing a slightly lighter shade of green than I normally like to see. Nothing dramatic or concerning, but enough to tell me they were ready for a little more nutrition. Instead of waiting for deficiencies to develop, I prefer making gradual adjustments before the plants begin struggling. For that reason I increased the base feeding schedule. Current nutrition now consists of: * Plagron Hydro A — 1.6 ml/L * Plagron Hydro B — 1.6 ml/L * Plagron Hydro Roots — maintained at the previous dosage This small increase raised the EC slightly and should provide enough additional nitrogen and overall nutrition for the foliage to regain a richer green over the coming week. Every grow teaches something new, and coco rewards small, measured corrections rather than aggressive changes. ⸻ 🚿 The Unexpected Flood No grow is ever completely free of surprises. This week mine arrived in the form of an irrigation mishap. After switching on the irrigation system, one small mistake resulted in the tent flooding far more than planned. Thankfully, it looked much worse than it actually was. The first step was simply shutting everything down, grabbing a pile of towels, cleaning the tent thoroughly and checking that every component was still working correctly. Fortunately, because these plants are growing in coco, the situation remained under control. Coco retains excellent oxygen levels even after heavy watering, making it much more forgiving than traditional soil in situations like this. After allowing everything to dry back slightly, normal irrigation resumed without any visible stress to the plants. Sometimes growing isn’t about avoiding mistakes. It’s about solving them calmly when they happen. We’re already working on a permanent improvement for the irrigation setup, and I’ll happily share that solution once everything is installed in the coming weeks. ⸻ 🌿 Blue Waffle F1 – Plant B This phenotype is developing into a very attractive little plant. She has a sturdy central stem, broad leaves, and compact spacing between nodes, giving her a naturally bushy appearance even without any training. The petioles are beginning to show subtle reddish-purple pigmentation, while the newest leaves emerge with beautiful vigor before gradually maturing into the larger fan leaves. Although her colour is still a touch lighter than my personal preference, her posture tells the real story. Leaves are reaching upward. Growth is continuous. The plant looks happy. Sometimes plants communicate much more through their posture than through their colour alone, and Plant B certainly appears eager to keep growing. ⸻ 🔍 Looking Ahead Next week should be an exciting milestone. With the feeding now adjusted and the roots continuing to colonize the entire growbag, I expect noticeably faster vegetative growth and stronger lateral branching. I’ll continue monitoring leaf colour, growth rate and overall structure while preparing these ladies for the next stage of development. Every week they seem to reveal a little more of their individual personalities, and I’m excited to see exactly where Plant B takes us from here. ⸻ 💙 Thank You A huge thank you goes to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these fantastic Blue Waffle 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 is helping these plants thrive. Thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers around the world a place to document their journeys, exchange ideas, and learn from one another every single day. And finally, thank you to every single person following along. Whether you’ve been here since the very beginning, recently discovered these diaries, leave comments every week, quietly observe from the background, or simply enjoy watching these plants develop, your support is genuinely appreciated. This project is about sharing the complete journey—the successes, the unexpected challenges, 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! 🌱💙 P.S. One final shout-out has to go to the Zamnesia ecosystem itself. As messy as the irrigation mishap looked, the Zamnesia tent tray proved exactly why it’s part of the setup. Every drop of water was safely contained inside the tent, with absolutely nothing leaking onto the floor. What could have become a much bigger problem ended up being nothing more than grabbing a few towels, drying everything up, and carrying on with the grow. Sometimes you only discover how valuable a piece of equipment is when something goes wrong—and this week, the tray passed that test with flying colours. Huge thanks to Zamnesia for designing an ecosystem that’s ready for real-world growing, not just the perfect days. 💙🌱

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 4 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B (Folder 13B) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another update from Project Blue Tent! For anyone joining us for the first time, this project follows four individual Blue Waffle F1 plants from Zamnesia, each documented in its own diary from seed to harvest. Although they all live inside the exact same environment, receive the same nutrition, grow under the same lights and experience the same conditions every single day, every plant is allowed to tell her own story. That's one of the things I love most about growing from seed. We're not simply growing four plants. We're discovering four different personalities. Everything inside this tent is built around the Zamnesia ecosystem, while the ladies are growing in Plagron Premium Coco Growbags and being fed exclusively with the Plagron Hydro nutrient line. Today it's time to spend some quality time with Blue Waffle F1 – Plant B. ⸻ 🌱 Week Four – Small Plant, Big Potential This week felt like another important milestone for Plant B. While she remains slightly more compact than her sister, she's developing exactly the way I hoped she would. Her internodal spacing stays beautifully tight, the side branches continue to stack evenly around the main stem, and the overall structure is incredibly symmetrical. Rather than stretching upwards, she's investing her energy into building a strong foundation first. Personally, I love seeing this type of growth. Plants like these often become a dream to train later on because they're naturally dense, balanced and eager to fill every available space once they're encouraged to branch out. The stem continues to thicken nicely, while subtle purple pigmentation is becoming more noticeable on the petioles and main branches, adding another little touch of personality to this phenotype. ⸻ 🌡️ The Blue Tent Environment One of the biggest goals with Project Blue Tent is maintaining consistency. By keeping every environmental factor as stable as possible, the differences we observe come primarily from the plants themselves rather than changing conditions. This week's average environmental conditions were: • 🌡️ Day Temperature: 27°C • 🌙 Night Temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative Humidity: 67% • ⚗️ pH: 5.8 • ⚡ EC: 1.88 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: approximately 450 ppm • 💡 Light Schedule: 18/6 • ☀️ PPFD: approximately 350 The Zamnesia Phytonaut LED continues providing a beautiful, even light distribution across the entire canopy while the Grow Environment Controller keeps everything running smoothly throughout the day. Stable conditions allow the plants to focus on one thing... Growing. ⸻ 🥥 Feeding Update – Learning Coco One Week at a Time One thing that really caught my attention this week was the overall leaf colour. Just like her sister, Plant B remains incredibly healthy, but she's showing a lighter shade of green than I personally like to see. Fortunately, plants are excellent communicators. Before deficiencies become serious, they often give subtle hints that they're ready for a little more nutrition, and I believe that's exactly what these ladies were telling me. Rather than waiting for problems to develop, I decided to make a gradual adjustment. The feeding schedule is now: • Plagron Hydro A — 1.8 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.8 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L I also introduced a small amount of Plagron pH Min to help keep the reservoir perfectly stable over longer periods. One thing that has genuinely impressed me throughout this grow is just how stable the Plagron Hydro line has been. Once the reservoir is mixed and dialled in, the pH barely moves throughout the entire week. Occasionally it may require the smallest correction, but compared to what I expected when starting coco, the stability has honestly been outstanding. Coming from years of growing in living soil, I'm really enjoying learning how responsive and predictable coco can be when small adjustments are made instead of large corrections. Growing really is one continuous learning experience. ⸻ ✂️ Topping Day – Building Tomorrow's Canopy This week also marked Plant B's first High Stress Training session. She received her very first topping. Unlike Low Stress Training, where branches are gently bent into position, topping intentionally removes the plant's main growing tip to interrupt apical dominance. By doing this, the plant redirects energy into the side branches instead of focusing almost exclusively on one central leader. Many growers choose to top much earlier, sometimes above the second or third node. Personally, I prefer allowing the plant to develop a little longer before making that first cut. Waiting gives me a stronger stem, additional secondary branches and, most importantly, many more growing tips to work with later. My goal isn't simply to create two tops. My goal is to build the framework that will eventually fill an entire SCROG net. Everything we're doing today is preparing these plants for the weeks ahead. Because topping is considered High Stress Training, timing is important. I only perform it on vigorous, actively growing plants that are showing strong health. Although the foliage is still a lighter green than I'd ideally like, Plant B's posture, growth rate and overall vigour clearly showed she was more than ready for the procedure. The cut itself was made using my Zamnesia Pruning Scissors, giving a clean, precise cut with minimal tissue damage. Sometimes the smallest tools make the biggest difference. ⸻ 🌿 Blue Waffle F1 – Plant B The more time I spend watching this phenotype, the more I appreciate her personality. She's compact. She's balanced. She's methodical. Rather than racing upwards, she seems determined to build a solid foundation first. Every branch appears evenly spaced, the stem continues gaining strength, and even after topping she looks completely unfazed. It's always fascinating how two sister plants can respond so similarly while still expressing their own unique character. Plant B feels like the quiet achiever. She's simply getting on with the job. ⸻ 👀 Looking Ahead Next week should be a very exciting one. With the feeding now increased and the topping behind her, I'll be watching closely to see how quickly the two new leaders begin taking over. I'm expecting the canopy to start opening naturally as the side branches accelerate and the overall structure becomes wider. Over the coming weeks we'll continue shaping these ladies, preparing them for the SCROG while allowing each phenotype to reveal more of its own personality. The adventure is only just beginning. ⸻ 💙 Thank You A huge thank you goes to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these fantastic Blue Waffle F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow. A heartfelt thank you as well to Plagron for providing the Premium Coco Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line that continues teaching me something new every single week. Thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers from around the world a place to document their journeys, learn from one another and build such an incredible community. And finally... Thank you to every single person following along. Whether you've been here since day one, recently discovered these diaries, leave comments every week, quietly observe from the background or simply enjoy watching these plants develop, your support truly means a lot. I hope you're all having an amazing week, and I can't wait to show you how these beautiful ladies continue evolving in the next update. Until then... Growers Love, happy growing, and I'll see you all next week. 🌱💙 P.S. One thing I love about documenting every single step is that these diaries become more than simple grow logs. Hopefully someone who has never topped a plant before can look at this week's photos, understand the process, see exactly where the cut was made, and feel a little more confident when the time comes to do it themselves. If these updates help even one grower become more confident with their own garden, then they've already achieved something special. 💙🌱

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 5 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B (Folder 13B) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent. For anyone discovering these diaries for the first time, this project follows four individual Blue Waffle F1 plants from Zamnesia from seed to harvest. Every plant grows inside the exact same environment, under the same lighting, receives the same nutrition and follows the same schedule. The only variable... The genetics. Watching each phenotype develop its own personality while removing as many environmental variables as possible is exactly what makes this project so fascinating. Today we're checking in with Plant B. 🌱 Week Five – Finding Her Rhythm If last week was about recovery after topping, this week was all about momentum. Plant B responded beautifully to the cut, quickly redirecting her energy into the new leading shoots while the lower branches accelerated their own growth. She's still carrying that compact structure I mentioned previously, but she's beginning to spread out much more naturally now. The canopy is becoming wider, the internodal spacing remains wonderfully tight, and every branch seems determined to compete for the top. One thing that continues to impress me is how symmetrical she is becoming. She almost looks like she planned every branch herself. The stem has thickened considerably over the past week, giving me confidence that she'll comfortably support the heavy flowers later in the grow. 🌡️ Blue Tent Environment Consistency continues to be the biggest priority inside the Blue Tent. This week's average conditions were: • 🌡️ Day Temperature: 30°C • 🌙 Night Temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative Humidity: 58% • ⚗️ pH: 5.8 • ⚡ EC: 1.92 mS/cm • 💨 CO₂: 450 ppm • 💡 Light Schedule: 18/6 • 💧 Irrigation: 1.2 litres per plant per day Although daytime temperatures climbed slightly this week, the plants continued growing vigorously with no signs of stress, demonstrating just how resilient healthy plants become when the root zone remains stable. 🥥 Feeding & Irrigation One of the biggest differences between this project and my previous organic soil grows is the irrigation strategy. Because coco doesn't store nutrients the same way soil does, the plants are fed little and often rather than receiving larger irrigations every few days. Each plant now receives approximately 1.2 litres of nutrient solution every day through the automatic Mars Hydro drip irrigation system. A drip irrigation system slowly delivers nutrient solution directly onto the growing medium through small emitters positioned at each plant. Rather than watering by hand, every irrigation is delivered evenly and consistently, ensuring every plant receives exactly the same amount. Once the nutrient solution has travelled through the coco, the excess runoff drains away through the automatic drainage system beneath each grow bag. This is just as important as the irrigation itself. Removing runoff prevents old nutrient solution from accumulating around the roots, helping maintain a healthier and more stable root environment while dramatically reducing the daily workload. As someone who has spent years hand-watering plants, I genuinely appreciate how much time this system saves while improving consistency at the same time. The current feeding schedule is: • Plagron Hydro A — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L The slight increase from last week continues producing exactly the response I was hoping for, with richer colour and strong, healthy new growth. 🕸️ Preparing the SCROG This week also marked another exciting milestone. The SCROG net officially entered the grow. SCROG stands for Screen Of Green. Rather than allowing each branch to grow vertically on its own, a horizontal net is placed above the canopy. As branches grow through the openings they're gently guided sideways, encouraging the plant to spread across the entire growing area. Instead of producing one dominant cola, the plant develops dozens of equally exposed flowering sites. The result is a flatter canopy, more efficient light distribution and, hopefully, a much larger overall harvest. At this stage the net isn't there to hold flowers. It's there to guide the architecture of the plant. Over the coming weeks I'll continue weaving each branch through the net one square at a time, allowing the canopy to fill naturally before flowering begins. Watching this process unfold is honestly one of my favourite parts of growing. 🌿 Blue Waffle F1 – Plant B Plant B continues living up to the personality she's been developing since the beginning. Calm. Balanced. Methodical. She isn't trying to be the tallest plant in the tent.Instead she's quietly building an incredibly organised structure that should become a fantastic SCROG candidate over the next few weeks. Sometimes the plants that grow the slowest early on end up delivering the biggest surprises later. I'm very curious to see whether she's one of them. 👀 Looking Ahead Next week should be all about training. With the SCROG now installed and both new leaders growing strongly after topping, the real canopy shaping begins. From here onwards the objective changes completely. We're no longer trying to grow taller plants. We're trying to grow wider ones. Every branch will now be guided with one simple goal... To create an even canopy capable of making the absolute most of every photon produced by the Zamnesia Phytonaut LED. The adventure is becoming even more exciting. 💙 Thank You A huge thank you goes to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these incredible Blue Waffle F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow. A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Coco Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line that continues making my transition into coco both enjoyable and educational. A special thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system that has become an essential part of this project. Although this isn't a sponsored product, it's one of those pieces of equipment that simply works. It has brought consistency, cleanliness and peace of mind to the grow room while allowing me to spend more time with the plants and less time managing runoff. Thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers from all around the world a place to document their journeys, learn from one another and build such an incredible community. And finally... Thank you to every single person reading these updates. Whether you've been here since the first seed cracked, recently discovered Project Blue Tent, leave comments every week, quietly follow along, or simply enjoy the photographs, every visit, every conversation, every question and every word of encouragement helps make this journey even more rewarding. I hope you're all having an amazing week, and I can't wait to share the next chapter of this adventure with you. Until then... Growers Love, happy growing, and I'll see you all next week. 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 6 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B (Folder 13B) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent. If you're joining the adventure for the first time, welcome! This project follows four individual Blue Waffle F1 plants from Zamnesia, all growing inside exactly the same environment, under the same lighting, receiving the same nutrition and following the same training schedule. Everything is identical. The only difference is the seed itself. That's what makes this project so interesting. Watching genetically stable F1 plants develop their own subtle personalities while removing as many environmental variables as possible allows us to really appreciate both their consistency and their individuality. Today we're checking in with Plant B. ──────────────────────── 🌱 Week Six – Building the Canopy Another fantastic week has passed inside the Blue Tent, and Plant B continues proving why I'm becoming such a fan of these Blue Waffle F1 genetics. After installing the SCROG net last week, the objective has completely changed. We're no longer trying to grow taller plants. Now we're growing sideways. Since tightening the SCROG net, all four plants are sitting at roughly the same height—around 60 cm—as the branches are continuously guided beneath the screen instead of being allowed to grow vertically. Every day I spend a few minutes gently tucking the tallest branches back underneath the net. As soon as one shoot rises above the canopy, it's carefully guided into the next square, allowing another branch to catch up. It's a slow process. But it's also one of the most satisfying parts of growing. The reward comes later, when every flowering site receives nearly identical light intensity across the entire canopy. Plant B has responded beautifully. She's steadily filling her section of the tent and showing exactly the kind of structure I was hoping for. ──────────────────────── 🌿 A Stable F1 Showing Her Strength One thing becoming increasingly obvious is just how stable these F1 genetics really are. Although each plant has its own small personality, all four sisters are developing remarkably similarly. The structure... The vigour... The colour... The response to feeding... Everything is wonderfully consistent. Plant B has maintained her compact, organised architecture while expanding nicely across the screen. The rich green colour has fully returned after increasing the nutrient strength a couple of weeks ago, and the new growth is healthy, vibrant and full of energy. Looking across the tent now, it's honestly difficult not to smile. The girls simply look happy. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ Blue Tent Environment The environment has remained very stable once again despite the summer heat outside. This week's average conditions were: • Day Temperature: 30°C • Night Temperature: 25°C • Relative Humidity: 58% • pH: 5.8 • EC: 1.92 mS/cm • CO₂: approximately 450 ppm • Light Schedule: 18/6 • Irrigation: 1.2 litres per plant per day The warm nights are something I'll be keeping an eye on once flowering begins, as higher night temperatures can encourage a little extra stretch during the first weeks after the flip. That's tomorrow's problem though. Today our only objective is filling every square of that SCROG. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Feeding & Irrigation Nothing changes this week because the plants have given me absolutely no reason to change anything. The feeding schedule remains: • Plagron Hydro A — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro B — 1.9 ml/L • Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L With only small pH adjustments whenever required. Some growers may look at an EC of 1.92 and think it's relatively high. My plants disagree. Their colour is rich. The leaves are praying. Growth is vigorous. The stems continue thickening every day. Plants don't care what feeding chart someone else follows. They care whether their own needs are being met. These girls have made their opinion very clear. ──────────────────────── 💧 Drip Irrigation & Automatic Drainage The Mars Hydro drip irrigation system continues making life wonderfully easy. Each plant receives approximately 1.2 litres of nutrient solution every day, delivered slowly and evenly through individual drippers positioned above each grow bag. Once the nutrient solution has passed through the coco, the runoff is automatically collected and removed by the drainage system installed beneath the pots. Together these two systems create an incredibly consistent root environment while removing much of the daily workload that normally comes with coco growing. Instead of carrying watering cans... I get to spend my time watching plants. That's a trade I'll happily make every day. ──────────────────────── 🐛 The Caterpillar Who Chose The Wrong Plant Every garden eventually reminds us that nature always finds a way. This week, Plant B became the only sister to receive an unexpected visitor. Somehow a tiny caterpillar managed to hitchhike its way from my vegetable garden into the Blue Tent and decided that Plant B's beautiful leaves looked particularly delicious. I have to admit... She must have looked especially healthy if even the caterpillar couldn't resist having a taste! Fortunately, regular daily inspections meant the damage was caught almost immediately. The caterpillar was removed by hand, the affected leaves were carefully trimmed away, and the problem never had an opportunity to develop into anything more serious. It also served as a perfect reminder that no matter how careful we are—and I always shower, change clothes and enter the grow room as clean as possible—nature can still surprise us from time to time. Clean habits reduce risk. Regular observation eliminates it. ──────────────────────── 🛡️ Integrated Pest Management Following the discovery, the entire tent received a thorough IPM (Integrated Pest Management) inspection. IPM isn't about waiting until pests become a problem. It's about combining good hygiene, regular inspections and preventative practices so problems are found while they're still tiny. As an additional precaution, I also used the Future of Grow UVC LED bar. Used correctly, UVC light can help reduce unwanted spores and microorganisms that may have entered the grow room, making it another useful preventative tool within an overall IPM strategy. It's important to mention that UVC should always be handled carefully. Direct exposure can damage both plants and skin, so eye protection and proper safety procedures are essential whenever using this type of equipment. Thankfully... One hungry caterpillar became nothing more than a short interruption to an otherwise fantastic week. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Plant B Herself Plant B continues becoming one of the easiest plants to train inside the tent. Her branches remain flexible, her internodal spacing is excellent and she seems perfectly happy being guided beneath the SCROG every single day. She's not racing ahead. She's building a beautifully organised framework that should become an outstanding flowering canopy once the time comes. Every week she seems a little fuller. Every week she looks a little stronger. And every week these Blue Waffle genetics impress me a little more. ──────────────────────── 👀 Looking Ahead If everything continues progressing at this pace, I expect the screen to be almost completely filled by next week. Once that happens, the next major milestone will be a final clean-up and defoliation before flipping the Blue Tent into flower. Until then the routine stays wonderfully simple. Guide the branches. Maintain the environment. Keep the roots happy. Trust the process. Nature already knows what she's doing. We're simply helping her do it a little more efficiently. ──────────────────────── 💙 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these incredibly stable Blue Waffle F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow. A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Coco Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line that continues producing beautiful, healthy growth week after week. A special thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system that has transformed daily watering into an almost effortless routine. A huge thank you as well to Future of Grow for the UVC LED bar, which has now become another valuable tool in my preventative IPM routine. Thank you to GrowDiaries for providing this amazing platform where growers from around the world can learn from one another, share experiences and document our journeys. And finally... Thank you to every single one of you following Project Blue Tent. Whether you've been here since germination, recently joined the adventure, leave comments every week or simply enjoy looking through the photos, your support genuinely means the world to me. Hopefully next week the screen will be completely filled, we'll perform our final defoliation and begin preparing these beautiful ladies for the next exciting chapter... Flowering. Until next week... Growers Love, happy growing, and I'll see you all soon. 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 7 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B (Folder 13B) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If you're joining us for the first time, welcome aboard. Project Blue Tent follows four individual Blue Waffle F1 plants from Zamnesia, each documented separately from seed all the way through harvest. All four sisters share the same environment, lighting, nutrition, irrigation and training techniques. The idea is simple: Keep the environment as consistent as possible and let the genetics tell the story. And despite all those similarities, each plant still manages to develop her own little personality. Today we're checking in with Blue Waffle F1 – Plant B. And if you've been following her journey... You might remember that this is the girl who had a rather unexpected visitor last week. 🐛 Don't worry. She's absolutely fine. In fact, judging by the way she's growing... She seems to have completely forgotten it ever happened. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Week Seven – The Canopy Is Ready This week feels like the end of one chapter and the beginning of another. For several weeks we've been building the canopy. Topping. Training. Guiding branches. Installing the SCROG. Tucking shoots underneath the net. Slowly filling every available space. And now... We've done it. The canopy is essentially where I want it. Plant B is sitting at approximately 60 cm, just like her sisters, with the SCROG keeping the plants at a remarkably even height. Looking from above, it's becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish one phenotype from another. That's actually one of the most fascinating things about this project. Four individual plants. Four individual diaries. And yet, under identical conditions, they're producing an incredibly uniform overall canopy. Plant B has once again filled her section beautifully. She's healthy, vigorous and absolutely covered in potential flowering sites. So now it's time for the final preparation before we flip. ──────────────────────── 🕸️ The SCROG Mission – Completed The SCROG has been one of the most important pieces of the puzzle during this vegetative cycle. Instead of allowing the plants to develop a few dominant vertical tops, we've spent weeks encouraging the branches to grow horizontally across the screen. Every time a shoot tried to escape upward, we'd gently guide it underneath the net and into the next available square. Slowly... The empty spaces disappeared. And eventually, the screen became one continuous canopy. That's exactly what we wanted. The purpose isn't simply to keep the plants at 60 cm. It's to distribute the growing tips across the available light and create a more uniform structure for flowering. And Plant B has handled the entire process beautifully. Now that the screen is full, however, our priorities are changing. We're no longer trying to add more foliage. We're preparing the foliage we already have. ──────────────────────── ✂️ Defoliation – The Final Vegetative Cleanup This week's main event is defoliation. And this is an important distinction: Defoliation isn't about removing leaves because they look ugly. It's not about trying to make the plant look "clean." And it's certainly not about stripping every leaf from the plant. Leaves are the plant's solar panels. They're valuable. So the objective is selective removal, not destruction. After several weeks of vigorous vegetative growth and SCROG training, the interior of the canopy has become extremely dense. There are leaves overlapping one another. Branches crossing through crowded areas. And sections of the plant where airflow and light penetration can be improved simply by removing some unnecessary foliage. That's what we're addressing now. We're opening the plant. Creating breathing room. Improving visibility. And preparing the structure for the much denser environment that flowering will bring. ──────────────────────── 🌬️ Why Do This Before Flower? This timing is very deliberate. Defoliation is a form of stress. Even when performed correctly, removing a substantial amount of foliage temporarily forces the plant to adjust to a new balance between its leaves, roots and active growing points. So I want that recovery to happen before flowering begins. We're still running an 18/6 vegetative schedule. The plants are actively growing. They have time to recover. And we're not simultaneously asking them to transition into a completely different developmental phase. Once flowering begins, I want the plant's attention moving toward flower development rather than recovering from major structural work. So we're following a very simple sequence: Build the canopy. Fill the screen. Defoliate. Recover. Flip. One step at a time. ──────────────────────── 🧠 What Defoliation Actually Achieves There's a common misconception that removing leaves automatically means more light equals more growth. It's not quite that simple. The reason we're doing this is to improve the overall efficiency of the canopy. We're trying to create a better relationship between: 🌱 Growing sites 💡 Light penetration 🌬️ Air movement 🍃 Leaf density ? Plant structure The upper canopy is already receiving plenty of light. What concerns me more is what happens underneath it. A dense interior can become a maze of overlapping leaves and branches. By selectively removing some of that congestion now, we're creating a more open structure before the flowers begin developing. And that's particularly valuable inside a compact tent where four vigorous plants are sharing the same space. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Plant B – The Girl Who Bounced Back And then there's Plant B. The survivor of the infamous caterpillar incident. 😂🐛 Last week she had a tiny visitor arrive from the outside vegetable garden and apparently decided that one of her leaves would make an excellent snack. Fortunately, the entire event was almost comically uneventful. The caterpillar was found. It was removed. The affected area was cleaned up. The entire tent was inspected. And Plant B simply continued growing. No meaningful setback. No visible stress. No drama. If anything... She seems to have responded by growing even harder. Her foliage is now rich, healthy green from top to bottom. The new growth is vigorous. The branches remain strong and flexible. And the canopy has continued expanding exactly as planned. So I think it's safe to say: Plant B won that battle. The caterpillar got one meal. Plant B got another week of growth. I'd call that a draw. 😂 ──────────────────────── 💧 Drip Irrigation – Doing Its Job The Mars Hydro drip irrigation and automatic drainage system continues to impress me. Each plant is currently receiving approximately 1.2 litres of nutrient solution per 24 hours, delivered consistently through the individual drippers. The runoff is then collected and removed through the automatic drainage system. That consistency has become particularly valuable now that the plants are getting larger and the root systems are becoming increasingly demanding. Instead of manually trying to reproduce the same watering pattern every day, the system gives the plants a predictable routine. And the plants are clearly responding well to it. Healthy foliage. Strong growth. Stable development. It's one of those pieces of equipment that quietly does its job in the background... Which is exactly what I want from an irrigation system. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Feeding Program The nutrient recipe remains completely unchanged this week. There is simply no reason to interfere with something that's 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 For now, I'm keeping the nutrition exactly where it is. The plants are showing excellent colour, vigorous growth and healthy structure. We may increase the nutritional strength next week depending on how they respond after this defoliation and as we move into flowering. But I prefer to make that decision based on the plants rather than simply increasing numbers because the calendar says we should. They'll tell me when they're hungry. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ Blue Tent Environment The environmental conditions remain wonderfully stable. 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 The consistency between the four plants is one of the things I appreciate most about this project. We're trying to remove as many environmental variables as possible so that when differences appear, we can look much more closely at the plants themselves. And right now... The similarities are remarkable. ──────────────────────── 🌱 Four Sisters, One Canopy This is perhaps the strangest part of the project at the moment. When I look across the Blue Tent from above, the four plants almost look like one giant organism. The canopy is extremely uniform. The colour is consistent. The height is consistent. The growth rate is remarkably similar. And the SCROG has done an excellent job of bringing everything together. Of course, if you look closely, you can still see the individual personalities. That's why these separate diaries exist. But from a distance? It's becoming increasingly difficult to tell who is who. And honestly... That's a beautiful result. It means the environment is doing exactly what we wanted it to do. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Plant B's Personality Plant B continues to be one of the more naturally cooperative plants in the tent. She's responsive to training. She's vigorous without becoming unruly. And she has developed an incredibly usable structure beneath the screen. Her branches have thickened nicely, her internodal spacing remains compact, and the new growth continues appearing with that healthy, vibrant colour I've been looking for. And perhaps most importantly... She doesn't seem to hold grudges. We topped her. We bent her. We tucked her. A caterpillar ate her. And now we're defoliating her. And she's still standing there saying: "Is that all you've got?" 😂🌱 That's Plant B. ──────────────────────── 👀 Looking Ahead – Flower Is Coming After today's cleanup, the most important thing we can do is... Nothing. Let her recover. Let the new growth settle. Keep the environment stable. Keep the roots happy. And observe. This is where patience becomes just as important as technique. We've spent weeks building this plant. Now we need to give her the time to respond. If everything continues looking this good, the next major milestone will be the transition into flowering. The screen is full. The excess foliage has been cleaned up. The structure is ready. And the plants are healthy. We're almost there. Vegetative growth is coming to an end. The next chapter is going to be very different. 🌸 Flowering is next. ──────────────────────── 💙 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for providing these fantastic Blue Waffle F1 genetics. A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for the Premium Growbags and Hydro nutrient line, which continue providing the plants with everything they need to maintain this beautiful growth. A special thank you to Mars Hydro for the drip irrigation and automatic drainage system. It has been performing wonderfully throughout this project and has made maintaining consistency inside the tent considerably easier. Thank you as well to Future of Grow for the UVC LED bar, which remains another tool within my preventative IPM routine. And of course, thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers around the world a place to document, learn, exchange ideas and share these journeys. And finally... Thank you. For following. For commenting. For asking questions. For sharing your own experiences. And for simply being here. Plant B has already survived topping, SCROG training and a tiny caterpillar invasion. Now she's clean, healthy and ready for the next chapter. The canopy is full. The room is ready. The plants are ready. And soon... we flip the Blue Tent. 🌸💙 Until next week... Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 8 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B (Folder 13B) Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter inside Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If you're joining us for the first time, welcome aboard. Project Blue Tent follows four individual Blue Waffle F1 plants from Zamnesia, each documented separately from seed all the way through harvest. All four sisters share the same environment, lighting, nutrition, irrigation and training techniques. The idea is simple: Keep as many variables identical as possible... And let the genetics tell the story. And although the four girls continue looking remarkably similar, each one still has her own little personality. Today we're checking in with Blue Waffle F1 – Plant B. And if you've been following her journey... You already know this girl. She's the one who had the little caterpillar adventure earlier in the grow. She's the one who bounced straight back. She's the one who has handled topping, SCROG training and defoliation without complaint. And now... She's officially in flower. 🌸 ──────────────────────── 🌸 Week Eight – Flower Has Arrived Well... The Blue Tent has officially changed gears. After seven weeks of vegetative growth, the lights are now running 12/12, and Plant B has entered the flowering phase. And judging by what she's done over the last week... She was definitely ready. The entire room has been growing incredibly quickly. We're talking about plants gaining close to 30 cm in roughly a week, while at the same time developing flowering sites, producing new growth and generally accelerating in every direction. Plant B is no exception. She's currently sitting at approximately 81 cm, compared with around 60 cm when we finished the vegetative phase. That's a serious jump. And the interesting part is that she's not simply stretching upward. She's continuing to develop. Branches are extending. Nodes are stacking. Flowering sites are becoming increasingly obvious. And the whole plant is moving with an incredible amount of energy. So now the game changes. We're no longer building the vegetative canopy. We're learning how to manage it. ──────────────────────── 🕸️ The Canopy – Still Beautifully Even One of the things I'm happiest about this week is how even the canopy remains. After weeks of topping, low-stress training and SCROG work, Plant B entered flowering with a beautifully distributed structure. There aren't huge dominant towers taking over everything around them. The growth is spread across the available space. And that's exactly what we wanted. The interesting challenge now is keeping it that way. Because these girls are moving fast. Very fast. The screen may have done its job during vegetation, but flowering stretch doesn't exactly ask for permission. It simply happens. So we're going to work with the plants rather than fight them. And that's where this week's additional training comes in. ──────────────────────── 💥 Super Cropping – Managing the Stretch This week I've also started using super cropping to help manage some of the more aggressive vertical growth. The idea is not to randomly damage the plants. It's a deliberate form of high-stress training where selected branches are gently bent and compressed, creating a temporary interruption in the dominant vertical growth pattern. The hope is to achieve a couple of things at the same time. First, it can help reduce the advantage of the tallest shoots and keep the canopy more manageable. Second, the plant responds by reinforcing the affected areas, which can ultimately contribute to stronger branches and more robust nodes. And these girls are giving me quite the demonstration. I'll super crop a branch... Come back later... And somehow she's already standing back up again. 😂 Sometimes it feels like I'm having a conversation with the plant. Me: "Stay down." Plant B: "No." 😂🌱 But that's actually encouraging. It tells me just how much energy these plants have right now. The growth is so vigorous that the branches are recovering incredibly quickly. So we're going to continue carefully managing the taller shoots and see how the plants respond over the coming weeks. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Plant B – Strength Under Pressure Plant B continues looking fantastic. Her structure remains strong, her foliage is healthy, and the colour is exactly where I want it. After everything we've asked from her during vegetation, she has transitioned into flower without showing any meaningful signs of stress. And that's something I really appreciate about this phenotype. She's cooperative. She responds. She recovers. And then she simply keeps growing. The super cropping we're doing now is another opportunity to observe that response. We're deliberately introducing a little controlled stress to encourage a more balanced structure while the plant is stretching. Will it completely stop her from getting taller? Honestly... I doubt it. 😂 These girls have already shown us what they're capable of. But if we can slow down the most aggressive vertical growth, strengthen those important branching points and maintain a reasonably even canopy... I'll consider that a win. ──────────────────────── 💡 Flowering Light – Starting Strong We're also entering flowering under a fairly strong light intensity. The Blue Tent is starting flower at approximately 800 PPFD. That's intentional. These plants have spent seven weeks building a large and healthy canopy, and I want to give them plenty of light from the beginning of the flowering cycle. At the same time, I'm watching carefully for how they respond. The goal is not simply maximum intensity. It's finding the point where the plants can use the available light effectively while maintaining healthy transpiration, structure and development. And because we're already dealing with significant growth and relatively warm nights, the next couple of weeks will tell us a lot. For now... Plant B is loving it. ──────────────────────── 🌡️ Blue Tent – Flowering Conditions The environment remains remarkably consistent across the room. This week's recorded conditions were: • 🌡️ Day Temperature: 27°C • 🌙 Night Temperature: 27°C • 💧 Relative Humidity: 66% • 🥥 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 The temperature situation is particularly interesting. Day and night temperatures are currently almost identical. That's something I'm keeping a close eye on because warmer nights can encourage additional stretching. And we've already seen plenty of evidence that these plants don't need much encouragement to grow. 😂 So for now, we're observing closely and managing what we can. ──────────────────────── 🥥 Feeding – Flowering Has Begun The nutritional program has also moved into the flowering recipe. 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 is approximately: 2.09 mS/cm with the nutrient solution sitting around 19.2°C and pH at approximately 5.81. The change is relatively measured. We're not throwing everything at the plants simply because flowering has started. They're already growing extremely aggressively. So the objective is to support that development without unnecessarily complicating the equation. As always... The plants get the final vote. ──────────────────────── 💧 Drip Irrigation & Automatic Drainage The irrigation system continues proving its value as these plants become larger and more demanding. Plant B is currently receiving approximately 1.4 litres per 24 hours through the automatic drip irrigation system. The drippers deliver the nutrient solution directly into the coco. The solution moves through the substrate, supplying the root zone before exiting as runoff. That runoff is collected in the trays underneath the grow bags. From there, the drainage lines carry it toward the pump, which moves the collected solution back toward the reservoir. So the irrigation and drainage systems are effectively working together as a recirculating setup. Water goes in. The coco does its job. The plant gets access to the nutrients. Runoff is collected. The drainage system removes it. The pump returns it. And the cycle continues. It's a beautifully simple system once everything is working correctly. And right now... It's working wonderfully. The plants are growing aggressively, the water demand is increasing, and the system is keeping up without turning daily irrigation into a chore. That's exactly what I wanted from it. ──────────────────────── 🌿 Seven Weeks of Vegetation – Was It Too Much? This is something I've been thinking about quite a lot this week. Seven weeks of vegetation is longer than I normally keep plants in this stage. Usually, I prefer to flip earlier. But looking at these girls now... I may have left them in vegetation a little too long. 😂 The structure they developed is fantastic. The canopy is full. The branches are strong. The plants are healthy. But they have also accumulated an enormous amount of growth potential. And now that flowering has started, they're showing us exactly how much energy they have stored. Close to 30 cm of growth in roughly a week is no small thing. And they're not finished. That's why I'm particularly interested in the combination of: SCROG + super cropping + strong light + careful environmental management. We're going to see whether those tools can help keep this incredible growth somewhat under control. ──────────────────────── 🌱 Plant B – The Comeback Girl There's something particularly satisfying about looking at Plant B now. A few weeks ago, she had an unexpected little visitor. One hungry caterpillar decided that one of her leaves looked like lunch. The problem was caught quickly. The caterpillar was removed. The affected area was cleaned up. The tent was inspected. And Plant B simply carried on. Now look at her. Approximately 81 cm tall. Healthy. Strong. Flowering. Producing new growth everywhere. If anything, she looks like she's trying to make up for the leaf she lost. 😂 She's definitely earned her place in this project. And I love that this diary gives us the opportunity to follow that entire story individually. ──────────────────────── 💥 Super Cropping – Let's See What Happens The next few weeks will tell us whether this additional training strategy gives us the effect I'm hoping for. The objective isn't to stop growth. That's impossible. The objective is to manage it. If a branch is becoming significantly taller than the rest of the canopy, we can intervene. If a particularly vigorous shoot needs to be brought back into balance, we can work with it. And by creating those controlled bends and reinforced points along the branches, we're hopefully building stronger plants at the same time. The fascinating thing is how quickly Plant B recovers. I'll make an adjustment... And shortly afterward... She's standing up again. It's almost as if the plant didn't get the memo. 😂 So we'll keep watching. We'll keep training where necessary. And we'll let the plant show us whether the technique is doing what we want. ──────────────────────── 🌸 Flowering Has Officially Started There is something special about this point in the project. For seven weeks we've been preparing these plants. Topping. Training. SCROG. Defoliation. Building structure. Balancing the canopy. And now... We're finally seeing the reward for all that preparation beginning to appear. The flowering sites are developing rapidly. The branches are extending. The plants are changing. And suddenly the Blue Tent doesn't look like a vegetative garden anymore. It looks like a flowering room. Plant B has an excellent starting structure. Now we get to find out what she can do with it. ──────────────────────── 👀 Looking Ahead The next couple of weeks should be extremely interesting. The main objective is now managing the stretch while allowing the plants to flower naturally. We'll continue monitoring the canopy. We'll use super cropping where necessary to manage particularly vigorous shoots. We'll keep the irrigation consistent. We'll monitor nutrition. We'll watch the environment closely. And most importantly... We'll observe. Because right now all four sisters are showing just how similar they can be. But as flowering progresses, I expect their individual personalities to become increasingly obvious. Will Plant B remain one of the more balanced girls? Will she stretch aggressively? Will the super cropping help? Will the strong flowering light keep her compact? We'll find out. For now... She's looking absolutely fantastic. ──────────────────────── 💙 Thank You A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible and for giving us the opportunity to explore these beautiful Blue Waffle F1 genetics phenotype by phenotype. A massive thank you to Plagron for the Premium Growbags and Hydro nutrient line supporting these plants throughout the project, and now for helping us move into the flowering phase. A special thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting that helped us build this beautiful canopy and is now providing the strong light these girls are receiving as flowering begins. And a huge thank you to Mars Hydro for the drip irrigation and automatic drainage system. The way the drippers, drainage trays, piping, pump and reservoir work together has made maintaining these four rapidly growing plants considerably easier. Thank you as well to GrowDiaries for providing a place where growers can document these journeys, exchange knowledge and follow projects like this from beginning to end. And finally... Thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. Plant B has come a long way. From seed... To topping. From SCROG... To defoliation. From an unexpected caterpillar visitor... To one of the fastest-growing girls in the tent. And now... Flowering. 🌸💙 The canopy is ready. The plants are healthy. The stretch has begun. And we're doing our best to keep these energetic ladies under control. Whether they listen is another question entirely. 😂 Until next week... Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 9 Keep shining, Plant B. You've already made quite a comeback. Now let's see how beautifully you finish. 💙🌸🌿 Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 10 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B 🌸 Let Her Do Her Thing Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter inside Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 If you've been following this project, you'll know that the last few weeks have been full of action. Long vegetative growth. Aggressive stretching. SCROG training. A second SCROG. Major defoliation. Moving the ventilation system. Raising the LEDs. Improving airflow. Adjusting the nutrition. We certainly haven't been standing around doing nothing. 😂 But this week? We're doing something very different. We're watching. And honestly... when I look at Blue Waffle F1 Pheno B right now, I don't think she needs me doing much else. 🌿 PHENO B – LET HER DO HER THING Pheno B is looking absolutely beautiful. She's sitting at approximately 145 cm and has developed a fantastic flowering structure after the work we carried out over the previous weeks. And this is where I think patience becomes one of the most important tools a grower has. We made the big interventions. We opened the canopy. We removed unnecessary congestion. We added the second SCROG. We created more vertical space. We improved the airflow. We gave the branches additional support. Now the plant needs time to respond. There is no point constantly changing things simply because we feel like we should be doing something. Sometimes... the best intervention is no intervention. 😂💙 So this week, we're letting Pheno B recover, settle into her new structure, and continue putting her energy into flowering. And she's doing a beautiful job of it. 🌸 THE RESULTS OF THE PREVIOUS WEEKS One of the most satisfying things about this week is being able to look back at the work we performed earlier and actually see the results. The heavy defoliation dramatically changed the structure of the plant. At the time, it was a big decision. The canopy had become extremely dense, and we needed to create more space between the branches and flowering sites. But the goal was never simply to remove leaves. The goal was to make the plant more manageable. Now we're seeing the benefit. The structure is much easier to read. The flowering sites are more visible. Air can move through the plant more freely. The branches have room to develop. And Pheno B doesn't look like she's missing the foliage we removed. She's simply continuing forward. That's exactly what we wanted. 🌿 This is one of those moments where you have to trust the work you did several weeks earlier. You can't rush this part. You just watch. 💡 INTRODUCING LUMIFLORA UNDER-CANOPY LIGHTING There is, however, one new addition to the ecosystem this week. The **LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum under-canopy light** is now officially part of the experiment. And with Pheno B's size, I think the timing makes perfect sense. The main LEDs are doing an excellent job illuminating the upper canopy. But these plants have developed so much vertical structure that the lower portions naturally receive considerably less direct light. That's simply the nature of a large, dense flowering plant. So instead of continuing to remove more foliage simply to chase light penetration, we're trying another approach. We're bringing some light to the lower canopy. The LumiFlora is a **150W full-spectrum fixture**, with additional red emphasis, and we're positioning it underneath the canopy as supplemental lighting. The main fixtures remain responsible for the primary light source. The LumiFlora is there to complement them. I'm particularly interested in watching how the lower flowering sites develop now that they're receiving additional supplemental light from underneath. This isn't about replacing the overhead lighting. It's about giving the lower part of this very large plant another opportunity to receive useful light. And now... we watch. 💡🌱🌸 🕸️ THE SECOND SCROG IS DOING ITS JOB The second SCROG is another part of the setup that I'm very happy with. Pheno B has a lot of vertical growth, and as the flowers continue to develop and gain weight, having that additional support becomes increasingly valuable. The first SCROG helped us organize the plant. The second SCROG is now helping support the flowering structure. It's a simple concept, but with plants this size, that additional layer of support makes a huge difference. We're no longer trying to force the plant into a particular shape. We're simply giving the branches somewhere to rest and something to support them as they develop. And that's exactly where I want to be at this stage. 🌬️ AIRFLOW – KEEPING THINGS MOVING The airflow system is also staying exactly where it is. We've got airflow working above and below the canopy, helping keep the entire structure moving. That's particularly important now that we've introduced supplemental lighting underneath the plants. The goal is to keep the lower canopy from becoming stagnant while maintaining good circulation throughout the upper flowering structure. Again... nothing dramatic. Nothing complicated. Just consistent airflow and a stable environment. And that's another reason why I'm not changing much this week. The system is working. So let it work. NUTRITION – NO NEED TO CHASE NUMBERS The feeding program remains consistent as well. The girls are 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 start changing things just for the sake of changing them. They're growing. They're flowering. They're drinking. They're healthy. So we continue. That's the approach now. Consistency. Observation. Adjustment only when the plants actually ask for it. 🌸 THIS WEEK IS ABOUT PATIENCE If I had to describe this week's update in one word, it would probably be: Patience. 😂💙 We've done so much over the previous weeks that it's tempting to keep doing more. But the plants don't necessarily need more intervention. They need time. Time to recover from the defoliation. Time to settle into the second SCROG. Time to continue flowering. Time to respond to the new lighting arrangement. And time to show us what all the previous work has accomplished. That's what we're doing now. We're watching. 🌿 PHENO B IS SHOWING US THE RESULTS Looking at Pheno B today, I can see the results of the entire process. The long vegetative period gave her the structure. The first SCROG organized the growth. The flowering stretch tested the limits of the room. The defoliation opened everything up. The second SCROG gave the branches support. The ventilation changes created more vertical space. The additional fan improved circulation. And now the LumiFlora is providing supplemental light underneath the canopy. It's almost like we're finally reaching the point where all those individual decisions are becoming one complete system. And Pheno B is right in the middle of it. 🌸 She's not asking for another big intervention. She's asking for time. So that's exactly what she's getting. 🌡️ 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: 26°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 🔬 SAME ROOM. DIFFERENT PERSONALITY. This is one of the things I love most about Project Blue Tent. Pheno B is sharing the exact same environment as her sisters. Same room. Same lighting. Same irrigation. Same nutrition. Same environmental targets. Same cultivation philosophy. And yet... she is still Pheno B. She has her own structure. Her own rhythm. Her own way of filling the space. That's exactly why we're documenting these plants individually. We don't just want to know how Blue Waffle F1 performs. We want to see how each individual phenotype expresses herself under the same conditions. And Pheno B is giving us a very interesting chapter. 🌸 FROM GROWING TO FINISHING We're now moving further away from the training phase and deeper into the finishing phase. The structure has been established. The canopy has been managed. The support system is in place. The environment is stable. The nutrition is consistent. The airflow is moving. And now the flowers get to become the main story. That's why I'm deliberately resisting the temptation to keep changing things. We've already done the work. Now it's time to see what the plant does with it. 💡 The LumiFlora gives us one new variable to observe. Everything else? We're keeping steady. Because sometimes the best experiment is knowing when to stop experimenting. 😂💙 🔭 LOOKING AHEAD Over the next few weeks, I'll be watching Pheno B closely. I'm particularly interested in: 🌸 Flower development throughout the canopy 💡 Response of the lower flowering sites to the LumiFlora 🌿 How the plant continues recovering from the defoliation 🕸️ How the second SCROG supports the developing flowers 🌬️ How the airflow performs through the mature canopy How the plants continue responding to the current nutrition But no major interventions are planned. The plant looks happy. The environment is stable. The structure is where we want it. So now... we let her work. 🌸💙🌿 🙏 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 Blue Waffle F1 phenotypes individually. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line and for supporting these girls throughout this vigorous cycle. A massive thank you to Mars Hydro for the irrigation and drainage system that keeps the ecosystem running smoothly. Thank you to LumiFlora for the 150W full-spectrum under-canopy light, which we're now introducing into the experiment and watching closely as the plants enter this important flowering stage. 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. We've spent weeks training these plants. We've managed the stretch. We've opened the canopy. We've added support. We've reorganized the room. We've improved the airflow. And now... we finally get to watch the results. 💙🌸 Pheno B doesn't need us to keep pushing her. She doesn't need another dramatic intervention. She needs time. So that's what we're giving her. Time to recover. Time to flower. Time to develop. And time to show us what she can do. Until next week... More flowers. More observation. Less interference. And hopefully... a whole lot more Blue Waffle F1 magic. 💙🌸🌿 Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 11 💙 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B 🌸 Same Room. Same Conditions. Another Beautiful Expression. Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter inside Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 And once again... I'm looking at these girls and thinking: How can four plants look this similar? 😂💙 If you've been following Project Blue Tent, you'll know that we're documenting four individual plants from seed to harvest, each with her own dedicated diary. All four share the same tent. The same lighting. The same irrigation. The same reservoir. The same nutrition. The same environmental conditions. The same cultivation philosophy. And yet... each one gets her own chapter. Today it's time to give the spotlight to Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B. And honestly? She's looking absolutely beautiful. 🌿 PHENO B – LET HER SHINE Pheno B has reached approximately 145 cm and has developed a fantastic flowering structure. At this stage, there isn't really a lot I want to change. And that's actually a good thing. The big work has already been done. The long vegetative period gave us the structure. The topping and training shaped the plant. The first SCROG organized the canopy. The aggressive flowering stretch forced us to rethink the vertical space. The major defoliation opened the plant. The second SCROG gave the flowering branches additional support. The ventilation system was moved outside the tent. The LEDs were raised. The airflow was improved. And now... we're watching all of those decisions come together. The plant is doing exactly what we wanted her to do. Grow. Flower. Develop. And increasingly... FROST. 😂💙🌸 🌸 THE FROST IS GETTING SERIOUS I have to say this because the photographs really don't need much explanation. The frost levels are beautiful. The flowers are becoming increasingly covered in trichomes, and every week the close-up photographs seem to reveal more. This is the part of the grow where you start looking at the plants differently. Earlier, we were looking at structure. Now we're looking at flowers. And those flowers are beginning to tell us their own story. The density. The development. The resin production. The structure. The way the flowers are forming along the branches. Everything is becoming much more interesting. And Pheno B is absolutely shining. 💙🌸 🌿 THE TOPPING AND STRUCTURE – LOOK AT THAT OPENING Another thing I'm really happy with this week is the structure created by the topping and training. When you look closely at Pheno B, you can really see how the plant opened up. The main structure divided beautifully. The branches spread through the available space. And the flowering sites are now positioned throughout that structure rather than all trying to occupy the exact same vertical point. This is one of those things that can be difficult to appreciate when you're doing the training weeks earlier. At the time, you're making cuts. Moving branches. Supporting growth. Trying to imagine what the plant will eventually become. Then several weeks later... you look at the flowering plant and suddenly understand why you did it. And that's exactly what I'm seeing now. The structure is there. The opening is there. The flowering sites are there. And the plant is filling that framework beautifully. 🕸️ THE X-CROSS – KEEPING THE STRUCTURE WORKING The support system is also doing exactly what we wanted. The second SCROG remains in place, helping organize and support the upper flowering structure. And with the way we've arranged the support through the canopy, we've created that X-cross structure that helps distribute and organize the flowering branches. The idea isn't to keep forcing the plant into a new shape. That stage is behind us. Now the structure simply needs to support what the plant has already built. And looking at Pheno B... I'd say it's doing a damn good job. 😂💙 The branches are supported. The flowers have room. The canopy is organized. And we can actually see through the plant. That's exactly where I want to be at this stage. 💡 UNDER-CANOPY LIGHTING – NOW PART OF THE SYSTEM The LumiFlora under-canopy lighting is also now fully integrated into the room. We're using the 150W full-spectrum LumiFlora fixtures underneath the canopy to provide supplemental light to the lower flowering structure. The main LEDs continue doing the primary work from above. The LumiFlora units are simply giving the lower portions of these very tall plants another source of light. And with plants reaching approximately 145 cm, this makes a lot of sense to me. The canopy is no longer a flat surface. It's a three-dimensional structure. There are upper flowers. Middle flowers. Lower flowers. Interior branches. And naturally, not all of those areas receive the same amount of light from above. So instead of constantly removing more foliage to chase light penetration... we're experimenting with bringing light into the lower part of the plant. And now? We watch. That's the fun part. 😂💡🌸 🌿 TWO LIGHT SOURCES. ONE VERY LARGE CANOPY. The interesting thing about this setup is that we're effectively looking at the plant from both directions. The main fixtures illuminate from above. The LumiFlora fixtures supplement from below. And the plant sits right between those two lighting environments. I'm particularly interested in seeing how the lower flowering sites continue developing as we move deeper into flowering. We're not making any promises about what the additional lighting will achieve. We're documenting it. We're watching. We're comparing. And we're letting the plants tell us what happens. That's the whole point of Project Blue Tent. 🔬 SAME ROOM – SAME CONDITIONS – DIFFERENT DIARY And this brings me to something I've been thinking about a lot during this project. People often use the word "genetics" when talking about individual plants. And obviously, genetics are involved in every plant. But I personally like using the word: "Cultivar." Why? Because we're looking at cultivated plant varieties. We're not simply talking about an abstract collection of genes. We're talking about plants that have been selected, developed and cultivated as a particular variety. And here we're working with Blue Waffle F1 cultivars. So throughout these diaries, when I talk about Pheno A, Pheno B and the other girls as individual cultivars, that's what I'm referring to. And honestly... the uniformity we're seeing makes this distinction particularly interesting. Because look at them. 😂💙 Same environment. Same reservoir. Same feeding. Same irrigation. Same lighting. Same training philosophy. And yet we're getting remarkably similar expressions. That's one of the things that makes these F1 plants so fascinating to observe. And if you already know all of this... beautiful. You know. 😂 If you didn't... hopefully you learned something today. And that's never a bad thing. I love learning. So I don't think there's ever too much useful information. 🌸 F1 UNIFORMITY – THEY REALLY DO LOOK LIKE SISTERS This is probably one of the most impressive things about this whole project. The plants are beginning to look almost like copies of one another. Different individual plants. Different diaries. But under the same conditions... the similarities are incredible. Similar height. Similar flowering structure. Similar development. Similar response to the training. Similar response to the defoliation. And now... similar frost. 😂💙🌸 Of course, we're still documenting them individually because the subtle differences are exactly what become interesting over time. Maybe those differences will become more obvious as flowering progresses. Maybe one will develop a slightly different structure. Maybe one will finish earlier. Maybe one will produce a different flower shape. Maybe the differences will become much more obvious closer to harvest. Or maybe... they'll continue looking like sisters all the way to the end. That's what we're here to discover. 🌬️ AIRFLOW – THE SYSTEM IS WORKING The airflow arrangement remains unchanged. We've got movement above and below the canopy, keeping the air circulating throughout this large flowering structure. And that's particularly important now that the canopy is so developed. The previous defoliation opened the plant. The additional airflow helps take advantage of that space. The lower portion of the plant isn't being ignored. And the under-canopy lighting is working inside that same environment. Everything has a role. Light. Air. Structure. Irrigation. Nutrition. And observation. Nothing needs to be dramatic. It simply needs to work. 💧 THEY'RE DRINKING BEAUTIFULLY Another thing I'm very happy with is how these girls are drinking. They're consuming well. The irrigation is keeping up. And the plants are showing us that they're comfortable with the current setup. The reservoir remains shared. The feeding remains shared. The irrigation remains shared. And yet Pheno B continues developing beautifully. This is exactly why having a consistent system is so valuable for this experiment. When all four plants receive the same inputs, we get a much more interesting opportunity to observe how the individual cultivars respond. ⚗️ SAME RESERVOIR – SAME NUTRITION The nutrition remains unchanged. We're continuing with: 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 No need to start changing things simply because another week has arrived. The plants are happy. They're drinking. They're flowering. They're producing frost. So we continue. Consistency is part of the experiment too. And honestly... when the plants look this good, I'm not interested in fixing something that isn't broken. 😂💙 🌸 THE PREVIOUS DEFOILATION IS NOW A DISTANT MEMORY It's also interesting to look at Pheno B now and remember what she looked like immediately after the major defoliation. At the time, there was a dramatic difference. A lot of foliage had been removed. The structure became much more open. And then we had to wait. That's the difficult part. You make the decision. You do the work. And then... you leave the plant alone. Now we're seeing the result. The plant has continued growing. The flowers have developed. The structure has filled out. And the flowering sites are clearly visible. The plant didn't need us to keep interfering. She simply needed time. 🌿 SOMETIMES DOING NOTHING IS DOING SOMETHING This is probably one of the biggest lessons from this stage of Project Blue Tent. There's a temptation in cultivation to constantly do something. Adjust something. Move something. Change something. Feed something. Cut something. Measure something. 😂 But sometimes... the plants don't need another intervention. They need stability. They need time. They need the environment to remain consistent. And they need us to have enough discipline to leave them alone. That's where we are now. The structure is built. The support is installed. The lighting is established. The airflow is working. The irrigation is working. The nutrition is stable. So... let her do her thing. 🌸 CURRENT GROW 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 💦 Watering: approximately 1.6 L per plant / 24h ? Pot size: 8 L NUTRIENT RECIPE 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 PLAGRON pH Plus — 0.03 ml/L PLAGRON pH Minus — 0.03 ml/L 💡 UNDER-CANOPY LIGHTING 2 × LumiFlora 150W Full Spectrum 🌸 THE FLOWERS ARE TAKING OVER This is where the story becomes really exciting. For weeks, we were talking about the plant. Now we're talking about the flowers. And Pheno B is giving us plenty to talk about. The flowering sites are developing beautifully throughout the structure. The branches are carrying them well. The frost is becoming increasingly obvious. And the entire plant has that unmistakable look of a flowering plant entering a very interesting stage. The close-up photographs really show it. The trichomes are becoming more visible. The flowers are becoming more defined. And the whole plant is starting to sparkle. 💙🌸 🔭 WHAT I'M WATCHING NOW At this point, my list is actually pretty simple. I'm watching the flowers. I'm watching the frost. I'm watching the lower canopy under the LumiFlora lighting. I'm watching the structure. I'm watching how the second SCROG continues supporting the branches. I'm watching how much the plants continue to drink. And I'm watching the four cultivars develop under exactly the same conditions. That's it. No major intervention. No unnecessary changes. Just observation. Because right now... the plants are doing exactly what we want. 🌿 WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? And this is the part where I honestly don't know. We have a beautiful flowering structure. We have impressive uniformity. We have increasing frost. We have healthy development. We have stable environmental conditions. And we have four incredibly interesting F1 cultivars sharing the same environment. But what happens next? That's the exciting part. Will the flowers continue stacking at this rate? Will the frost become even heavier? Will the subtle differences between the cultivars become more obvious? Will the lower flowering sites respond noticeably to the supplemental lighting? And what will Pheno B look like when she reaches maturity? I have no idea. 😂💙 And I absolutely love that. Because if we already knew the ending... what would be the fun of documenting the journey? 💙 FINAL THOUGHTS – SAME ROOM, BEAUTIFUL RESULT So... Week 11. Same tent. Same room. Same reservoir. Same irrigation. Same nutrition. Same lighting from above. Same environmental conditions. And yet... another beautiful individual story. Blue Waffle F1 Pheno B is looking fantastic. She's approximately 145 cm tall. Her structure is beautifully opened from the topping and training. The flowering branches are supported by the second SCROG. The canopy is receiving airflow from above and below. The LumiFlora under-canopy lighting is now helping illuminate the lower flowering structure. She's drinking beautifully. She's flowering beautifully. And the frost... Oh my God. 😂💙🌸 The frost is becoming ridiculous. And that's exactly the kind of problem I like having. 😂 The most interesting part for me, though, is seeing how similar these F1 cultivars are behaving. Four individual plants. One controlled environment. And remarkably consistent results. That doesn't mean every plant will finish identically. It doesn't mean there aren't individual differences. That's exactly why we're documenting them separately. But right now... they're giving us a fascinating look at just how uniform these plants can be under consistent conditions. And that's something I want to keep watching. We're not going to force the story. We're not going to chase numbers. We're not going to keep changing things just so we have something to write about. We're going to let the plants write the next chapter. And Pheno B? She's writing a beautiful one. 💙🌸🌿 The structure is ready. The support is ready. The lighting is ready. The airflow is ready. The irrigation is ready. The nutrition is ready. Now... we wait. We watch. We learn. And we enjoy the show. Let's see what the future has waiting for this beautiful girl. Because if she keeps going like this... I have a feeling we're going to have some very special flowers to photograph. 😂💙🌸 🙏 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 Blue Waffle F1 cultivars individually. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line supporting these girls throughout this vigorous flowering cycle. A massive thank you to Mars Hydro for the irrigation and drainage system that continues keeping this entire ecosystem supplied and running beautifully. Thank you to Zamnesia for the Phytonaut LED lighting, the curved scissors and the clip fans that have become such important parts of this project. And a huge thank you to LumiFlora for the 150W full-spectrum under-canopy lighting that we're now using to explore supplemental lighting throughout this very large flowering structure. And of course... thank you to GrowDiaries for giving us the platform to document every part of this journey. The good. The unexpected. The experiments. The mistakes. The lessons. And now... the frost. 😂💙🌸 Most importantly, thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent. Four individual cultivars. One room. One environment. One reservoir. One cultivation philosophy. And four girls showing us just how beautifully consistent these F1 plants can be. But we're not at the finish line yet. There's still a lot of flower development ahead. There's still a lot of frost to watch. There's still a lot to learn. And Pheno B has plenty more story left to tell. Until next week... Same room. Same conditions. Same beautiful girl. More flowers. More frost. More observation. And hopefully... even more reasons to smile when we open that tent. 💙🌸🌿 Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙

DogDoctorOfficial # 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 12 💙 ## Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B ### 🌸 466 Photos. 600 Photos. One Ridiculously Frosty Girl! ❄️😂 Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter inside Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 And my friends... I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY ANYMORE! 😂❄️ Well, actually, I do. I have plenty to say, because this beautiful girl deserves her own report! Last week, we talked about the incredible uniformity we're seeing throughout this tent. Four plants, two different cultivars, the same environment, the same irrigation system, and the same nutritional program. And this week? Her sister is looking ridiculously beautiful too! But today, we're giving the spotlight to Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B, because even when plants share the same room and the same conditions, each one deserves to have her own story documented. And honestly, what a story she's giving us. The flowers are stacking. The buds are developing. The frost is becoming increasingly impressive, and the whole plant is showing us why I love documenting every stage of a grow. We've made a few small adjustments to the environment, increased the power of the overhead LEDs, and left the nutrient recipe unchanged. No unnecessary interventions. Just a beautiful ecosystem, some seriously frosty flowers, and a grower who's spending far too much time staring at them. 😂💙🌸 Let's get into it! ## 🌿 PHENO B – SAME ROOM, SAME ENVIRONMENT, SAME BEAUTIFUL STORY If you've been following Project Blue Tent, you'll already know how much work went into getting these girls to this point. The long vegetative period gave us the structure. The topping and training helped organize the growth. The SCROG supported the canopy, and the second layer of support helped us manage the flowering structure after the stretch. We also improved the available space inside the tent by moving the extraction equipment outside and raising the main lights. All those decisions helped us establish the environment we're working with today. And now? We're watching the flowers develop within that structure. Blue Waffle F1 Pheno B is approximately 145 cm tall, and the overall framework is already established. We're not looking to reshape the plant every week or make changes just to have something to report. At this stage, I'm much more interested in observing the flowers, following their development, and seeing how the plant responds to the environment. And she's giving us plenty to look at! ## 🌸 THE FLOWERS ARE STACKING BEAUTIFULLY One of the things that really catches my attention this week is the flower development. Look at those close-ups! The flowering sites are becoming increasingly defined, the buds are developing along the branches, and the amount of visible resin in the photographs is absolutely beautiful. The white pistils are still prominent, and the flowers are continuing to develop. This is such an interesting stage because the plant is gradually shifting our attention away from the structure and toward the flowers themselves. Earlier in the project, we were talking about stretch, canopy management, training, defoliation, and support. All of that work established the framework. Now we're looking at what that framework is carrying. And Pheno B is certainly giving us a reason to keep the camera ready. She's stacking. She's budding. She's developing. And she's looking ridiculously frosty! 😂❄️💙 ## ❄️ THE FROST IS REAL, MY FRIENDS! I know I keep saying it. And I know I'm probably going to keep saying it next week too. But LOOK AT HER! 😂😂😂 The close-up photographs show an incredible amount of detail across the developing flowers and surrounding sugar leaves. And that's precisely why I enjoy taking the time to photograph these plants properly. From a distance, you can appreciate the overall structure and the way the flowering sites are distributed. Get closer, though, and there's an entirely different world waiting to be discovered. The trichomes. The pistils. The tiny details across the flowers. It's beautiful to see, and it's even more satisfying when we can document those details and compare them with the previous weeks. And the best part? Her sisters are looking just as impressive. This isn't a story about one plant doing all the work while the others watch. The entire tent is giving us something to appreciate. But today, Pheno B gets the spotlight. And she's absolutely shining! 💙🌸❄️ ## 📸 PHOTO STACKING – 466 PHOTOS AND 600 PHOTOS COMBINED! Now, let's talk about something a little different in this week's report. The photography! For this girl, we managed to create two separate photo stacks. One combines 466 photographs, while the other combines 600 photographs. And yes, my friends, that's a lot of photographs! 😂📸 We weren't able to take this plant out of the tent and move her into the studio setup, so we had to work with the conditions available to us inside the grow room. It's not the same as stacking photographs in the studio, where we have much more control over the environment and the shooting conditions. But we made it work! And honestly, I'm happy with the results. The two stacks give us a closer look at the flowers and allow us to appreciate details that can be difficult to capture in a single photograph. More importantly, they give everyone following this diary a better view of what's happening throughout the flowering structure, including the lower portions of the buds. Because the top of the plant isn't the whole story. There's plenty happening further down, too, and I want to document as much of that development as possible. These photographs are another way of bringing the community closer to the plants. We can't all stand inside the tent together, so let's bring the tent to the community! 😂💙 And if you're interested in photography, this is also a nice opportunity to see what can be achieved through stacking hundreds of images, even when we're not working in a dedicated studio. Are the results identical to studio stacking? No. Am I happy with what we managed to achieve under the circumstances? Absolutely! Two stacks. Hundreds of photographs. One very frosty Pheno B. I'll take that! 📸❄️🌸 ## 🔬 WHY PHOTOGRAPH THE LOWER FLOWERS? This is something I particularly wanted to highlight this week. When we photograph a flowering plant, it's very easy to concentrate on the most accessible tops. They're usually easier to reach, easier to frame, and often the first places our eyes are drawn to. But the plant is a three-dimensional structure. There are flowers at different heights, branches extending in different directions, and flowering sites that don't all sit in the same position relative to the main lights. That's why I wanted to make these stacks available. They help us look more closely at the flowers beyond the most obvious parts of the canopy. And that matters for documentation. We're trying to record the plant as a whole, not simply collect a few attractive photographs of the uppermost flowers. The more detail we can preserve, the better we can appreciate the development we're documenting. The stacks aren't a substitute for observing the whole plant, of course, but they're a fantastic addition to the diary. And personally, I love having the opportunity to show everyone a little more of what's happening inside this beautiful ecosystem. ## 💡 MORE LIGHT FROM ABOVE – A SMALL BUT INTERESTING CHANGE This week, we increased the power of the overhead LEDs. We're now running the main lighting at the highest level we've decided to use in this 1 × 1 metre tent. Notice the wording! We're not necessarily running the equipment at its absolute maximum output. We're using the maximum level we've currently planned for this particular setup. I honestly don't think we need to push everything to 100% just because we can. The goal is to give the plants an appropriate amount of light while maintaining a balanced environment. Light intensity is an important factor in plant development and flower production, but more light doesn't automatically mean more weight. The response depends on how much light actually reaches the canopy, how the plants tolerate it, and whether the surrounding conditions remain suitable. So we're increasing the available light without treating maximum output as the objective in itself. And now we observe. How will the flowers continue developing? How will the plant respond to the additional light? How will the environmental adjustments work alongside the lighting? Those are the questions we're interested in answering as the project progresses. We're not making promises about the outcome. We're documenting the experiment. And that's what makes this interesting! 💡🌿 ## 🌡️ SLIGHTLY LOWER TEMPERATURES AND HUMIDITY Alongside the lighting adjustment, we've also reduced the temperature by approximately one degree and lowered the relative humidity slightly. We're making small adjustments rather than changing the entire environment. The structure is established, the equipment is working, and we're happy with the overall direction of the grow. So there is no reason to introduce unnecessary changes everywhere at once. We want to maintain a comfortable environment while observing the plants as flowering progresses. The increase in lighting power makes it particularly important to keep paying attention to the relationship between light intensity, temperature, humidity, and the plants' overall condition. It's all connected. And this is where I think a well-organized ecosystem really makes a difference. You can adjust one part of the system while keeping the rest as consistent as possible. That gives you a much clearer picture of what you're observing. The temperature has come down a little. The humidity has come down a little. The lights have gone up a little. And the nutrition? Exactly where it was. No need to change everything just because we've adjusted a few settings. ## 🌱 NUTRITION – KEEPING THE RECIPE CONSISTENT The nutrient recipe remains unchanged this week. We're continuing with the PLAGRON Hydro line, and we're keeping the same mixture in the reservoir. Our current recorded recipe is: - PLAGRON Hydro A — 2.2 ml/L - PLAGRON Hydro B — 2.2 ml/L - PLAGRON Power Buds — 1 ml/L - PLAGRON pH Plus — 0.03 ml/L, recorded quantity - PLAGRON pH Minus — 0.03 ml/L, recorded quantity Hydro Roots is not part of the current recipe. We're keeping the nutrition consistent while making the environmental adjustments, which means we're not introducing another variable into the picture. The current recorded pH is 6.01, and the last recorded EC is 2.24 mS/cm. Those readings give us a reference point, but we shouldn't automatically assume they're unchanged without taking fresh measurements. For now, the important point is that the recipe itself remains the same. We're observing the plants, maintaining the system, and recording what happens. Consistency is part of the experiment too! ## 💧 IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE – STILL PART OF THE BIG PICTURE The automatic irrigation and drainage system continues to play an important role in this setup. All four plants share the same reservoir, and the system allows us to maintain a consistent approach across the tent. That's particularly useful for this project because we're documenting the individual plants while keeping the shared inputs as consistent as possible. The irrigation system doesn't need to be the star of every report. When everything is working as expected, that's already a positive result. Our job is to keep an eye on the system, monitor the plants, and make adjustments when there's a reason to do so. And that's the philosophy we're following this week. Keep things running smoothly, avoid unnecessary changes, and let the plants continue developing. 💧🌿 ## 🕸️ THE STRUCTURE IS READY – NOW THE FLOWERS TAKE CENTRE STAGE Remember how much work went into creating this structure? The topping and training. The original SCROG. The management of the flowering stretch. The defoliation. The second SCROG for additional support. The changes to the extraction system and the available vertical space. All those steps helped us reach the stage we're at now. The plant has an established framework, and the support system remains in place. We're not trying to redesign her this week. Instead, we're observing how the flowers develop throughout the existing structure. And this is one of the most satisfying parts of a long grow. You make decisions weeks earlier, sometimes without knowing exactly how everything will look when the plant reaches flowering. Then time passes. The plant develops. And eventually, you can stand back and appreciate the result of all that work. That's what I'm enjoying right now. The structure has done its job. Now the flowers are telling their story. ## 💡 TWO LUMIFLORA FIXTURES – THE LOWER CANOPY MATTERS TOO 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. This is an interesting experiment because the plants have substantial vertical structure, and the light reaching different parts of the plant naturally varies with position. We're interested in observing how the lower flowering sites develop as the plants progress through flowering. We're not assuming that supplemental lighting will automatically produce a particular result. We're watching, documenting, and learning. And this week's photo stacks complement that experiment beautifully. They allow us to inspect the flowers more closely and give the community a better view of the details we're observing. The lights are one part of the experiment. The photographs are another part of the documentation. Together, they help us tell a more complete story of what's happening inside Project Blue Tent. ## F1 UNIFORMITY – THESE SISTERS ARE INCREDIBLE And now we come back to something that continues to amaze me. The similarity between these plants! We have four individual plants sharing the same tent, with two different cultivars represented. Blue Waffle F1 and Pickle Lemon Haze F1. They're sharing the environment, irrigation, reservoir, and general cultivation approach. And when I look across the room, the similarities in their development are genuinely impressive. Similar overall structure. Similar flowering progression. And now, increasingly impressive flowers across the tent. Of course, we're still keeping individual diaries because each plant deserves to be documented separately. Even when two plants look remarkably similar, we shouldn't assume they'll remain identical throughout the entire flowering cycle. The subtle differences are part of what makes these comparisons interesting. But right now? I'm extremely happy with what we're seeing. And I have to say, Blue Waffle F1 Pheno B is absolutely holding her own. Her sister looks incredible too, and so do the other girls. Four plants. Two cultivars. One beautiful ecosystem. What a pleasure it is to document this! 💙🌸 ## 🌿 SOMETIMES THE BEST DECISION IS TO LEAVE THINGS ALONE One of the biggest lessons from this stage of the project is that not every week requires a major intervention. There was a time when we were constantly managing the structure, training branches, opening the canopy, and making room for the stretch. Now, the main structure is established. The support is in place. The irrigation is running. The nutrition remains consistent. And the flowers are developing. So we're making a few deliberate adjustments to the environment, but otherwise, we're allowing the plant to do what she needs to do. There's always a temptation to change something simply because another week has passed. But that isn't a good reason by itself. If the system is working, sometimes consistency is the most valuable thing we can provide. We observe. We record. We learn. And we intervene when there's a genuine reason. That's how I want to approach the rest of this journey. ## 🌸 CURRENT GROW CONDITIONS - Cultivar: Blue Waffle F1 - Phenotype: Pheno B - Flowering: Week 12 - Height: Approximately 145 cm - Light schedule: 12/12 - Day temperature: 27°C, last recorded - Night 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 L - Watering volume: Approximately 1.6 L per plant per 24 hours, recorded value - Main lighting: Increased this week to the maximum planned level for this tent - Under-canopy lighting: 2 × LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum fixtures - Nutrient program: PLAGRON Hydro - Nutrient recipe: Unchanged this week The environmental readings above are the last recorded values shown in the diary. This week's temperature and humidity were reduced slightly, but the new readings have not yet been provided. ## 🔭 WHAT I'M WATCHING NEXT At this stage, my attention is on the details. I'm watching the flowers continue developing. I'm watching the pistils and the way the buds are forming. I'm watching the overall appearance of the plant and the visible resin across the flowers and sugar leaves. I'm interested in how the plants respond to the increased overhead light intensity and the slightly cooler, less humid environment. And I'm particularly interested in continuing to document the lower flowering sites. The two photo stacks have already given us a fantastic opportunity to look more closely at Pheno B. I want to keep building that photographic record as the plant progresses. Because every week adds another piece to the story. And we're not finished yet! ## 💙 FINAL THOUGHTS – SHE'S FROSTY, AND HER SISTERS ARE TOO! My friends, if I had to describe this week in a few words, I'd say: Same room. Same environment. Same beautiful cultivar sisters. And a whole lot of frost! 😂💙❄️ Blue Waffle F1 Pheno B is looking fantastic. The flowers are stacking. The buds are developing. The frost is beautiful. The structure is established. The nutrient recipe remains unchanged. We've slightly reduced the temperature and humidity, increased the overhead LED power, and continued observing the plants without making unnecessary changes. And we also managed to create two photo stacks, combining 466 and 600 photographs, giving us a closer look at the flowers and the lower parts of the buds. I'm genuinely happy with the results. It's not the same as taking the plant into the studio, but it gives us another way to appreciate and document the incredible details we're seeing. And honestly, I think that's what matters. We're working with the conditions available to us, finding ways to improve our documentation, and sharing the results with everyone following the project. I also have to say how much I'm enjoying this entire ecosystem. Four plants. Two cultivars. Shared conditions. Individual diaries. The similarities between these girls are fascinating, and the flowers are becoming more impressive every week. But today, Pheno B gets her moment. And she deserves it. We've done the structural work. We've established the system. We've made a few small environmental adjustments. Now we're watching these beautiful flowers develop. Let's see what the next week brings! More flowers. More photographs. More observations. And hopefully, even more reasons to stand in front of the tent and say... "MAN, SHE'S FROSTY!" 😂💙🌸❄️ ## 🙏 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. A massive thank you to Mars Hydro for the irrigation and drainage system helping us maintain consistency throughout the tent. 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 providing the platform where we can document the entire journey, including the experiments, the photographs, the unexpected moments, and the lessons we learn along the way. And, of course, thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent! Your support makes sharing these individual diaries even more enjoyable. We're continuing to learn, observe, photograph, and appreciate every stage of the journey. Four plants. Two cultivars. One beautiful ecosystem. And four girls giving us plenty of reasons to smile. Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙🌸

DogDoctorOfficial 💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 13 🌿 Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno B 🌱 Same Genetics, Different Expression – A Beautiful Fade into Lighter Greens Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱 My friends, we're back with another individual report, and this time it's all about our beautiful Blue Waffle F1 Pheno B! And honestly, what can I say? These girls are amazing! 😂💙 We've reached another interesting stage of flowering, and while all four plants are sharing the same environment, the same reservoir, the same irrigation system, and the same general cultivation approach, each one continues to show us her own individual characteristics. Last week, we talked about the beautiful development of our Blue Waffle F1 girls and the incredible details we've been capturing through photography and focus stacking. This week, we're continuing that journey. The room is moving towards the final stage of flowering. We're gradually reducing temperatures, lowering the nutrient concentrations, and beginning to decrease the output of the overhead LEDs. The two LumiFlora under-canopy fixtures remain part of the experiment, and the irrigation system continues supporting all four plants. But today, we're not simply repeating the room update. We're looking at what makes this particular girl different. Because even when plants share the same genetics, that doesn't mean they will express themselves in exactly the same way. And Pheno B is giving us a beautiful example of that. Her structure is a little different from her sister's. Her flower development has its own character, and her colours are moving more towards lighter shades of green rather than the more pronounced blues, purples, and reddish tones we've been admiring on Pheno A. She's still compact. She's still beautiful. And the aroma? Absolutely incredible! Let's take a closer look. 💙🌿 🌸 WEEK 13 – MOVING TOWARDS THE FINISH We're now in Week 13 of flowering, and the entire room is gradually moving towards the final stage of the journey. The major structural work has already been completed. The plants have been trained, topped, managed through the stretch, and supported with the SCROG system. The second layer of support remains in place, and the under-canopy lighting experiment continues. At this stage, we're concentrating on maintaining a stable environment and observing how each plant develops. We're not looking to make unnecessary structural changes just because another week has passed. Instead, we're watching the flowers, the changing foliage, the overall structure, and the characteristics each phenotype is expressing. And this is where things become particularly interesting. Pheno A and Pheno B share the same cultivar, but they aren't identical copies of one another. They have their own morphology, their own individual appearance, and their own way of progressing through flowering. Pheno B is now showing us a different side of Blue Waffle F1. And I'm really enjoying seeing those differences develop! 🌿 SAME GENETICS, DIFFERENT MORPHOLOGY One of the most interesting things about documenting individual plants is that it gives us the opportunity to observe differences that might otherwise be overlooked. Our two Blue Waffle F1 plants share the same cultivar, but each comes from a different seed. And although they share the same growing environment, their physical expression isn't identical. Pheno B has a different overall structure from her sister. The way her flowers are developing, the way the plant presents itself, and the colours she's expressing are all slightly different. We're still seeing that compact appearance, but the overall morphology isn't exactly the same. It's a reminder that a cultivar name doesn't guarantee that every individual plant will look identical throughout its life cycle. Genetics provide the potential for particular characteristics, but individual plants can express that potential differently. Environmental conditions can also influence how plants develop, so we shouldn't automatically attribute every difference to genetics alone. And that's precisely why we document these plants separately. We're not trying to force them into the same description. We're observing what each one actually shows us. Pheno A has her own personality. Pheno B has hers. And both deserve their own spotlight! 💙🌱 🌱 A DIFFERENT STRUCTURE, BUT STILL BEAUTIFULLY COMPACT Let's talk about the structure of this girl. Pheno B remains compact and beautifully developed, but when I compare her with Pheno A, I can see differences in the way the plants have expressed themselves. The overall morphology is slightly different, and the flower formation isn't quite the same. It's difficult to say exactly why those differences have developed. It could be down to individual genetic expression, environmental influences, or a combination of factors. Even though the plants share the same tent, they don't necessarily experience every condition in precisely the same way at every point across the canopy. Light distribution, local airflow, and individual plant characteristics can all contribute to differences in development. However, we don't have enough evidence to identify one specific cause here. And that's perfectly fine. We're documenting the observations rather than inventing an explanation. What matters is that Pheno B has developed her own structure, and we're now able to appreciate that individual expression as flowering progresses. She's looking beautiful, and I'm happy with what we're seeing. 🌸 FLOWER FORMATION – HER OWN WAY OF DOING THINGS The flower formation is another area where I notice differences between the sisters. Although both plants remain compact and are progressing through the same general flowering stage, their flowers don't present themselves in exactly the same way. Pheno B has her own pattern of development, and this is something I'm particularly interested in following as we move closer to the finish. Was it something about the environment? Was it simply the individual expression of this plant? Could it be a combination of factors? At this point, I can't give you a definitive answer. And I don't want to pretend otherwise. Sometimes, when we're growing several plants together, we see differences that are easy to observe but much harder to explain with certainty. That's part of the learning process. We record what we see, compare the plants, and continue observing as they mature. The important thing is that Pheno B is developing beautifully, and her individual characteristics are becoming increasingly clear. Her sister might be showing a more colourful expression, but Pheno B has her own charm. And that's exactly why I love keeping separate phenotype diaries. 🌿🌈 THE COLOURS – A DIFFERENT KIND OF BEAUTY Now, this is where Pheno B really separates herself from her sister. While Pheno A has been showing us a more pronounced mixture of blues, purples, reddish tones, and greens, Pheno B is moving towards lighter shades of green. Her fade is different. It's less about those strong contrasting colours and more about the changing green tones we're seeing throughout the plant. And honestly, my friends, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that! 😂💚 Not every plant needs to develop the same colours to be beautiful. Different phenotypes can express different pigmentation patterns, even when they share the same cultivar. Genetics can influence those characteristics, while environmental conditions and the stage of maturity can also play a role. We're seeing Pheno B move towards a lighter, greener appearance as she progresses through flowering. That's what the plant is showing us, and that's what we're documenting. I'm not going to claim that the cooler temperatures alone caused this particular fade, because we can't establish that from our observations. Instead, we'll continue watching her colours develop alongside the other signs of maturity. And I have to say, I really like seeing the contrast between the two sisters. One is showing a more colourful palette. The other is expressing herself through lighter greens. Same cultivar. Same room. Different individual expression. That's what makes this comparison so interesting! 💙🌿 ❄️ COMPACT FLOWERS AND PLENTY OF DETAILS TO OBSERVE Despite the differences in colour and structure, Pheno B remains compact and attractive. The photographs give us a closer look at her flowering sites and the details developing across the plant. And this is another reason I enjoy documenting each phenotype individually. When we look at the whole tent, it's easy to concentrate on the general appearance of the canopy. But once we start looking at individual plants, we can appreciate their particular characteristics much more clearly. The flower structure. The arrangement of the flowering sites. The way the plant presents its foliage. The changing colours. And the small differences that make one phenotype distinct from another. We're continuing to observe the flowers and the developing trichomes as the plant progresses. The pistils are also changing as flowering advances, but their appearance alone doesn't tell us everything about maturity. We'll keep looking at the overall development rather than relying on a single visual indicator. For now, Pheno B is looking beautiful, and I'm excited to continue documenting her progress. 📸 PHOTO STACKING – LOOKING CLOSER AT THE DETAILS Photography remains an important part of Project Blue Tent. This week, we've continued capturing photographs of the plants and documenting the flowering sites through close-ups and focus stacking. As many of you already know, focus stacking combines multiple images captured at different focus distances to create a final photograph with greater depth of field. It's a fantastic technique for showing intricate details that can be difficult to capture in a single frame. The process also takes time. We need to set up the camera, choose the composition, capture the individual frames, and then process the stack. And when we're working inside the grow room rather than in a dedicated studio, we have to work with the conditions available to us. But that's part of the process, too. The aim is to document the plants as accurately and clearly as possible, while giving everyone following the diary a closer look at what we're seeing. For Pheno B, these photographs help us appreciate her individual flower formation and the differences between her and her sister. They're not just pictures for the sake of taking pictures. They're part of the record of this grow. And I genuinely enjoy sharing that process with the community. 📸💙 🌡️ THE SHARED ROOM – LOWER TEMPERATURES FOR THE FINAL STAGE Now let's return to the wider environment, because everything we've been doing in the room applies to Pheno B as well. We're gradually lowering both daytime and nighttime temperatures as we move towards the final stage of flowering. The current daytime air temperature is approximately 25°C. During the night, when the plants are resting, the temperature drops to around 19–20°C. We've also brought the solution temperature and substrate temperature down to approximately 21°C. These adjustments are part of our approach to the finishing stage. We're interested in observing how the plants respond as the environment changes and how their natural characteristics develop over time. Cooler conditions can influence colour expression in some cultivars, but the response depends on the genetics and the overall environment. We're not assuming that every plant will respond in the same way. And Pheno B is a perfect example of why individual observation matters. Despite sharing the same room with Pheno A, she's expressing a different colour pattern. We'll continue watching both plants and documenting what happens as they approach the finish. 💧 HUMIDITY – UNDERSTANDING THE READINGS Our normal relative humidity is approximately 55%. You may notice that some photographs show higher readings, particularly when I'm working inside the tent. When I'm moving around, taking photographs, checking equipment, and breathing inside the room, the humidity can rise temporarily. Even with the air conditioning running, the readings can change while I'm working. That's why it's important to distinguish between a temporary measurement during maintenance and the normal operating conditions we're aiming to maintain. For this report, we're recording approximately 55% relative humidity under normal room conditions. The aim is to keep the environment stable while monitoring the plants throughout this stage. 🌱 NUTRITION – LOWERING HYDRO A AND B We've also started reducing the nutritional concentration as the plants move towards the final stage. The new recorded recipe is: PLAGRON Hydro A – 1.8 ml/L PLAGRON Hydro B – 1.8 ml/L PLAGRON Power Buds – 1 ml/L PLAGRON pH Plus – as required PLAGRON pH Minus – as required The recorded pH is approximately 5.96, while the EC is around 1.86 mS/cm. By reducing Hydro A and Hydro B, we've also reduced the overall nutrient concentration, which is reflected in the lower EC and TDS readings. The pH can also shift as the composition of the solution changes, although its response isn't always predictable. Our target is to keep the pH close to 6, allowing for small variations above or below that point. As long as the reading remains within our intended range, we avoid unnecessary adjustments. We're not chasing a perfectly fixed number every minute. We're observing the solution, keeping the system stable, and making changes when there's a reason to do so. The same nutritional program is being used across the shared reservoir, so Pheno B is receiving the same general solution as her sister and the two Pickle Lemon Haze F1 plants. Keeping this consistent also helps us compare the plants without introducing unnecessary differences in the feeding program. 💡 LIGHTING – REDUCING THE OVERHEAD POWER GRADUALLY The overhead LED output is now approximately 90%. From here, we're planning to reduce the output gradually, by around one or two percentage points per day, as we move closer to the end. We're not switching everything off or making a sudden change. We're taking a gradual approach while observing the plants and maintaining the overall environmental balance. The goal is to keep the lighting appropriate for this stage rather than simply running the equipment at maximum power. Light intensity, temperature, humidity, and plant response all need to be considered together. And that brings us to another interesting part of the project. 💡 TWO LUMIFLORA FIXTURES – LIGHT FROM BELOW The two LumiFlora 150W full-spectrum under-canopy fixtures remain in place beneath the canopy, arranged in an X-cross configuration. We're keeping their output around 90–95% for now, with the possibility of reducing it closer to the finish. The overhead LEDs provide the main lighting, while the under-canopy fixtures supplement the lower portions of the plants. We're interested in observing how the lower flowering sites develop under this arrangement. One of our goals is to see whether this lighting balance helps the flowers across different parts of the plant progress more uniformly. However, we won't assume that the additional lighting automatically produces that result. We'll continue monitoring the plants and documenting what we see. The lighting arrangement is part of the experiment, and the individual phenotype reports allow us to keep track of the differences between the plants as they develop. 💧 IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE – THE SYSTEM CONTINUES WORKING The automatic irrigation and drainage system remains an important part of the Project Blue Tent ecosystem. All four plants share the same reservoir, and the system helps us maintain consistency throughout the room. The recorded watering volume is approximately 1.6 litres per plant per 24 hours. As always, the actual water requirements of an individual plant can depend on its development and the conditions around it, so we continue observing the system rather than assuming that every plant necessarily uses water at exactly the same rate. The aim is to keep everything working smoothly while we concentrate on the plants themselves. And that's one of the advantages of having an established system. When the equipment is operating as expected, we can focus on observing, photographing, and documenting the plants without making unnecessary changes. 🌿 FOUR PLANTS, TWO CULTIVARS, ONE SHARED ENVIRONMENT This is one of the most interesting parts of Project Blue Tent. We have four plants sharing the same room, representing two cultivars: Blue Waffle F1 and Pickle Lemon Haze F1. They share the same general environment, the same reservoir, and the same lighting setup. Yet each plant has her own characteristics. And when we compare Blue Waffle F1 Pheno A with Pheno B, those differences become particularly interesting. Pheno A is showing more pronounced blues, purples, reddish tones, and contrasting colours. Pheno B is moving towards lighter greens. Their structures are also slightly different, and the flower formation isn't identical. At the same time, both remain compact, both are progressing through flowering, and both are producing an aroma that I absolutely love. The similarities are just as interesting as the differences. Their shared genetics provide a starting point for comparison, but they don't mean that every characteristic will be expressed identically. That's why these individual diaries are so valuable. We're not trying to make the plants look the same on paper. We're recording what makes each one unique. And I'm really enjoying seeing these differences emerge as the girls approach the finish. 👃 THE AROMA – INCREDIBLE, AND VERY SIMILAR TO HER SISTER Now, one thing that seems remarkably similar between the two Blue Waffle F1 girls is the aroma. The whole room smells amazing! 😂🌸 Despite their differences in structure and colour, the aroma coming from these plants is very similar, and it's becoming increasingly noticeable as flowering progresses. It's another interesting point of comparison. Their visual expression differs, but the overall aromatic impression is remarkably alike. I'm not going to assign a detailed terpene profile or invent specific aroma notes that we haven't documented. For now, what I can say is that the smell is strong, beautiful, and very similar between the sisters. And honestly, it's one of those things that makes spending time in the room such an enjoyable experience. The photographs can show us their colours and structure. The video can give you a closer look at the garden. But the aroma? You'll have to take my word for it! 😂💙🌿 🔭 WHAT I'M WATCHING NEXT As we continue towards the end of flowering, I'll be paying particular attention to Pheno B's changing colours and overall development. I'm interested in seeing how her lighter green fade progresses. I'll continue observing the flower structure and the developing trichomes, alongside the overall condition of the plant. I'll also keep comparing her with Pheno A, because their differences are becoming an increasingly interesting part of this project. We're maintaining the same general environmental approach across the room, gradually reducing the overhead LED output, keeping the under-canopy fixtures in place, and lowering the nutrient concentrations. Now we give the plants time to respond. There's no need to rush to a conclusion or assume that the sisters will finish in exactly the same way. We'll keep observing, photographing, and documenting their individual journeys. And that's what this project has always been about. 💙 FINAL THOUGHTS – DIFFERENT EXPRESSION, EQUALLY BEAUTIFUL My friends, Blue Waffle F1 Pheno B is looking beautiful. She's compact, she's developing her own flower structure, and she's moving towards a lighter green expression as flowering progresses. Her sister has been showing us more pronounced blues, purples, and reddish tones, while Pheno B is taking a different visual path. And I love that. We have the same cultivar, the same shared environment, and the same general cultivation approach, yet the individual plants aren't expressing themselves identically. It's a great reminder that growing is about observing what actually happens rather than expecting every plant to follow exactly the same pattern. We can make comparisons. We can record measurements. We can photograph the differences. But we should also be honest when we don't know exactly why a particular characteristic has developed. That's part of learning. And it's one of the reasons I enjoy documenting the entire journey, including the weeks when the changes are subtle rather than dramatic. The room is gradually getting cooler. The solution and substrate temperatures are around 21°C. The nutrient concentrations have been reduced. The overhead LED output is now around 90%, with gradual reductions planned. The under-canopy lights remain part of the experiment. And the irrigation system continues supporting all four plants. Meanwhile, Pheno B is showing us her own beautiful expression of Blue Waffle F1. Different structure. Different colours. Very similar aroma. And a beautiful plant continuing towards the finish. I'm genuinely happy with what we're seeing. Let's keep observing, keep learning, and see what the next chapter brings! 🌿💙🌈 💬 COME JOIN THE DOGDOCTOROFFICIAL DISCORD COMMUNITY! Before we wrap things up, I want to invite everyone to join our Discord community. If you're already a member, you know how much fun we have together. And if you're new, you're more than welcome! We have a fantastic community where growers can share experiences, exchange ideas, show their gardens, ask questions, and enjoy the hobby together. No level required. You don't need to be an expert. You don't need the biggest setup. Everyone is welcome. We also organize giveaways and photo championships, with prizes for the winners. It's a wonderful place to meet other growers, learn from one another, share photographs, and become part of a community that feels like family. So come and join us! 💙 DogDoctorOfficial Discord: https://discord.gg/dogdoctorofficial Introduce yourself, share your garden, and say hello. We'd love to see you there! 🙏 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. Thank you to PLAGRON for the Hydro nutrient line supporting the girls throughout this 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 room. 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 the platform to document the journey, share the photographs, compare the plants, and record what we learn along the way. And, of course, thank you to everyone following Project Blue Tent! Your support and your comments make these diaries even more enjoyable to put together. We're continuing to observe, experiment, photograph, and learn, one week at a time. Until next week, my friends... More flowers. More observations. More photographs. More learning. And hopefully, even more beautiful details to share with you. Growers Love, happy growing, and take care everyone! 🌱💙🌸