Grape Milchshake × Bannana punch Gastown

der_mycologe I planted this plant about 4 months ago and it has been on quite a journey, but it has recovered well, thanks to Gastown.

der_mycologe I watered her today without any nutrients, she sometimes reacts to too much fertilizer with drooping leaves. To avoid that, I didn't fertilize her today, but she was very hydrophobic, so I placed her in a tub with her watering water and let her soak it up herself. However, you shouldn't do this too often with mineral fertilizers, as the salts can accumulate on top of the soil...

der_mycologe She's literally exploding out of the plant; with extreme humidity, it has turned into a super beautiful grape milkshake, and she's bursting with vitality again. Once the drain masters are here, I'll untie her again; she's gotten bigger, but by tying her down, she hasn't really gained much height. She's responding well to light and nutrients, no over-fertilization, and I can see the first mini pistils.

der_mycologe The grape is amazing, it's already building such heavy buds during the stretch and it had some resin on the sugar leaves by day 19. It responds well to 100% Hesi nutrients and 100% light. It has nearly doubled in size during the stretch. I defoliated and lollipopped it on day 21.

der_mycologe The grape is so far along, it's already getting really resinous and has become super bushy. I put a layer of clay balls on the soil to lower the humidity a bit, and I also installed a Vivosun irrigation system to reduce the peaks when watering. Since the climate is perfect, it's producing some hefty buds.

der_mycologe We are in week 6 of the flowering phase and my Grape Milkshake x Banana Punch from Gegenetix is completely going wild. I am absolutely blown away by the development in the last few days. • The strain: Grape Milkshake x Banana Punch (Gegenetix) • Current phase: Flowering week 6 (mid/end of the swelling phase) 🍇 Smell & Terpenes The scent that greets you when opening the tent is indescribable. No trace left of subtle greenery – the lady smells extremely of dark, heavy grapes. A really deep, sweet-spicy aroma that makes you crave more. The Banana Punch genetics in the background gives it a really awesome, creamy note. 💎 Buds & Resin Content What this genetics delivers here is abnormal. The buds have a brutal resin content – the trichomes are already deep on the sugar leaves. But the best part: The buds are already rock hard! When you squeeze them lightly, you immediately notice what an enormous density and quality is developing here. These will be absolute knockout buds. 🍼 Feeding & Plan Because she is now fully in the prime time of flower production and is really hungry, I am starting the finale today: I am now starting with Phosphor Plus to give the buds the final, big boost. With the hunger she is showing, she will perfectly convert that into even more mass and resin. I will keep you updated – this will be a legendary run! 🔥

der_mycologe Sorte: Grape Milkshake (Finale Woche) 📅 Phase: Blütewoche 8 (Das große Finale) Das große Spül-Finale für die Grape Milkshake ist eröffnet! 🍇🥤🏆 Auch für diese absolute Traum-Genetik ist heute offiziell die achte und letzte Blütewoche angebrochen. Nach der unbestechlichen Trichom-Kontrolle heute Morgen unter dem Mikroskop steht fest: Die Harzköpfe sind vollständig milchig und das maximale THC-Plateau ist erreicht. Zeit, die Pflanze komplett reinzuwäschen! 🔬💎 Nach dem gestrigen kPa-Ausrutscher, bei dem die Blätter als Reaktion auf die Hitze sachte die Ohren hängen ließen, gab es heute Morgen die erlösende Sturzflut. Die Erde wurde mit reichlich Wasser geflutet, das mit BioBizz pH-Down präzise auf einen optimalen Bereich von ca. 6,2 bis 6,5 pH reguliert wurde. Ein satter Drain von über einem Liter hat die verbliebenen Hesi-Restsalze sauber über den Drain Master aus dem 11-Liter-Schuh geschwemmt. Das Gewebe baut im Rekordtempo wieder vollen Zellinnendruck auf und die Blätter richten sich bereits wieder stramm nach oben auf! 🌊 💡 Licht- & Klimastrategie: Um den kühlen, harzfördernden Herbst zu simulieren, läuft die 360W Spider King diese Woche starr auf 50 % gedrosselt (sparsame 146 Watt Gesamtaufnahme an der Steckdose inklusive aller Lüfter!). Die Grape steht jetzt perfekt positioniert außen herum am Rand unseres 1,20 m x 1,20 m Zelts. Dort ist sie vor direkter Strahlungshitze geschützt und reift bei absolut schonenden 300 PPFD stressfrei aus, während die Nachzüglerinnen in der Mitte bei 500 PPFD weitergemästet werden. ♟️❄️ Das Zelt bleibt im strikten Lockdown bei stabilen 26 °C. Dank der knallhart kontrollierten, staubtrockenen 46 % bis 49 % RLF schnurrt der VPD-Wert perfekt bei 1,51 bis 1,55 kPa. Absolute Schimmelsperre für diese extrem kompakten, schweren Blütenstände! 🏔️🛡️ 🍇 Optik & Terpene: Die Grape Milkshake sieht einfach nur mörderisch gut aus! Die Blütenstruktur ist steinharter Gewebe-Beton, komplett überzogen von einer glitzernden, klebrigen Trichomschicht. Die Blattstiele zeigen ein tiefes, wunderschönes Violett. Der Geruch, der beim Öffnen des Zelts herausströmt, ist der absolute Wahnsinn: Ein unnormal lauter, cremig-süßer Duft nach künstlicher Traube und cremigem Milkshake, der sich extrem intensiv in der Nase festsetzt! 🍇🍦🔥 Der Nährstoffhahn ist zugedreht. In den verbleibenden Tagen zwingen wir die Pflanze, ihr restliches Chlorophyll aufzuzehren, um den Geschmack maximal zu verfeinern. Nächsten Sonntag fällt der Hammer und die Schere wird angesetzt. Die totale Unabhängigkeit ist zum Greifen nah! ?👑

der_mycologe GRAPE MILKSHAKE x BANANA PUNCH – HARVEST UPDATE! ✂️🍇🍌💥 It’s done! The beautiful Grape Milkshake x Banana Punch has been successfully harvested and is now hanging in the drying tent! What an absolutely insane plant—this stuff turned out seriously amazing! 🤯🍇 The smell when I cut her down was absolutely crazy and incredibly intense. The genetics live up to their name, putting out a super sticky, sweet grape-and-banana fruit bomb that instantly filled the whole room. The resin really takes center stage here: the buds are completely coated in a silvery-white carpet of trichomes and feel insanely dense! 💎❄️ I don’t have a specific wet weight for her this time, because I went with the absolute pro method for this lady: Whole Plant Hang Dry! I hung the entire Grape plant upside down, including all the large fan leaves [INDEX]. The leaves are now wrapping around the dense buds like protective fingers, allowing the remaining water to evaporate extremely slowly and gently. This perfectly protects the delicate, volatile terpenes and prevents any hay smell. So the final weight on the scales will have to wait until next week, when it’s time for the dry trim and the buds are ready for the Grove Bags! ⚖️📦 Meanwhile, conditions in the drying tent are absolutely perfect: Thanks to my cool lung room, the system is running at a perfect 18.9 °C and a safe 58–60% RH on manual speed 1 of the AC Infinity S4 Pro [INDEX]. You can’t ripen premium weed any better or more gently in November! Thanks everyone for following this grow— the big weigh-in for the first batch is coming next weekend. Let those scissors fly, Growmies! 🌱🚀