'Space Cookies' by Paradise

Howdy and welcome to the slow go, week 1, w/ Space Cookies. The deets: **Breeder Notes** THC: 18-22% CBD: <0.1% Indica/Sativa Ratio: -60% Indica / 40% Sativa Indoor Flowering Time: -From 63 Days to 65 Days Effect/Buzz: -Long lasting high Smell/Taste: -Sweet, Pine Yield(s): -Outdoor (GR/PP) 1000 Grams (35.7 ounce) -Indoor (gr/m2) 550 Grams (19.6 ounce) Notes of the Week: -Space Cookies is behind all the other girls in terms of time, but she seems to be picking up in growth and catching up to her counterparts. -Made quite a few mistakes when starting out all these girls. All the newbie stuff we're told not to do and basic principles I didn't follow...super job👌. Over-watered, wrong seeding medium, heat/light stress and low RH are just a few of parameters I didn't have in place during germination. Really shot myself in the foot and put these girls on a tough go from the get go. -Everything seems to be moving along, even though PSK is in a little disrepair at the moment. Added a top layer of amended soil to hopefully wash down some nitro into the existing soil. I have also applied a very small dose of micro-gro-bloom w/ Humic acid to help replenish the soil of nutrients I'm positive are not there. That an the girls seemed to have already used up their nutrient reserve and are slow as all hell, w/ faint signs of nitro deficiency starting (this is after a dry out from over-watering. These symptoms are not feed related. There's something amiss with this soil and I know that for a fact. Just working out how to work this out (May look to do an emergency transplant into 3 gallon fabric w/ the correct soil, but we will see if there is progress first, in the coming days). -No concrete plans on methods and training I'll be using on Space Cookies, but she will be held short. I know that I will be using GHE series on her and finishing up the remaining product I have left w/ them. If I run out, I will substitute with Green Planets Trio and Humic/Fulvic acid additive. -This will be slow folks. Until I figure out some things and implement the new schedule I worked out, I really don't know what or where these girls will be in the next couple weeks. Completely touch and go at the moment. I have faith that it'll be alright....just losing time and lots of it. They're not dead, so there's that!😃 Equipment Listings as follows: Germination and Seedling Set-up equipment: -"Mammoth" standard 35x24x24" propagation tent (90x60x60cm) -x1, 10x20 inch tray and dome set -x2, square tray elevators -x2, low draw computer fans (No name, clearance from Staples) -x1, "Sunblaster", 18 inch, 32 Watt Florescent, T5Ho, full spectrum lamp -x1, "Sunblaster", 18 inch, 16 Watt LED, full spectrum lamp -Misc. items. include light ratchets, tye wires, wicking matt and temperature gauges (covered in Vegetation set-up) Vegetation and Flowering Set-up: -"Mammoth Pro-120", 47x47x79" propagation tent (120x120x200cm) -"Can-lite" 6x24", 600 CFM Carbon Filter -"Hurricane" 6 inch inline exhaust, 435 CFM w/ black lined, 6" ducting -"Vivosun" 6 inch inline intake, 390 CFM w/ black lined 6" ducting -x2 variable, inline motor speed controllers by "Active Air" (For use on squirrel cage, brushed motors only. Brushless motors will not operate with these) -x6 outlet, 15 amp surge protection power bar (Any kind with warranty and rigidity rated for no less then 1200W) -x5 outlet, 15 amp power bar, slaved off the surge protected power bar. -x1 "Zephyr-5" inline temperature controller with probe -x1 "Ink-Bird IHC-200" 2 stage, inline Humidity and temperature gauge controller with probe -x1 "Hysure" 2 liter de-humidifier (DO NOT BUY! Bad purchase!) -x1 "Hurricane" Clip on fan -x1, 12 inch oscillating fan (under-canopy circulation) -x1, 36 inch oscillating fan (under/over canopy circulation) -x1, "Accutemp" indoor/outdoor humidistat and temperature reader -x4, "No-Name" humidistats placed throughout tent at different heights and locations to assess averages. -Misc. items and devices such as ratchet straps, 18 awg wire, hemp twine, paper clips, tye wire, bamboo, sticky traps, etc... are also within the unit. Lighting and Specs in Vegetation Tent: - x2 "Spider Farmer-2000" Quantum Board LED. SPECS: ✔️DB: 0dB ✔️Veg Footprint: 3 x 4 ft ✔️Flower Footprint: 2 x 4 ft ✔️Max Yield: 2.2g/watt ✔️Humidity ≤90% ✔️Lifespan: ≥50000 hours ✔️View Angle of LED: 90°-120° ✔️Spectrum: 660nm,3000K,5000K and IR 760nm ✔️Replace other red and blue light: 2000W ✔️Frequency: 50-60HZ ✔️Input Voltage: AC100-277V ✔️Lumen:34500Lm±5%@AC120V, 34460Lm±5%@AC240V, 34530Lm±5%@AC277V ✔️Amp: 1.67A @AC120V, 0.84A @AC240V, 0.73A @AC277V ✔️Draw Power: 202.3W±5% @AC120V, 196.7W±5% @AC240V, 196.6W±5% @AC277V Work Temperature：-4°F ~115°F (-20°C ~ 46°C) -"Phlizon 1200" Blurple Dual Switch Series LED SPECS: (Blurple was decommissioned July 6th, 2020 and replaced with second SF-2000) ✔️241 Watt, true wattage ✔️972.5 umol/m(squared) s ✔️Core Coverage Veg 3x3, Flower 2x2' ✔️120 piece, 10 watt, high capacity diodes, full spectrum (79pcs 630-660nm, 34pcs 460nm, 4pcs cool white 6500K, 1pcs UV 380-390nm, 2pcs IR 740nm ✔️Input: AC100-240V, 50-60Hz ✔️Lifespan: ≥ 50,000hours ✔️Material: UV protection and fire-proof PC Cover + metal frame Staging Area Set-up (Nutrient dosing, mixing and testing area): -x8, 5ml syringes. One syringe per supplement to eliminate cross contamination -1000 and 1400ppm Calibration fluid by "Grotek". (2 ranges for proper calibration) -7.0 pH calibration liquid by "BlueLabs" or "Grotek" (prefer Grotek if available. Cheaper solution with the same purpose) -x3, 60ml "Master-Measure" syringes w/ additional tubing -x2, 100ml "Master-Measure" syringes w/ additional tubing -Multiple pipettes (1ml) for micro dosing or high concentration supplements -"Milwaukee" pH pen (High quality, mid range price) -Manual "GHE" pH, "Liquid and Vial" test kit (Used in conjunction with pH pen to ensure accurate readings) -x2 TDS meters. One no name and one by "Realgoal" brand TDS. (Used in conjunction to ensure accurate readings) -x2, 5 gallon buckets (One for mixing & one for RO waste. Kept separate at all times) -250, 500 and 900ml measuring cups w/ two sets of measuring spoons (metal and plastic) for dosing, testing and sanitizing. -Roll of water proof, counter cover, White. (Keeps nutrient dies and stains from surfaces. Dollar store. Very cheap) Nutrients: -Green Planet GP3 Vegetation and Bloom Kit (M-G-B and 4 additives) -GHE RapidStart Root stimulator -Emerald Harvest's King Kola (PK Booster) -Emerald Harvest's Sturdy Stock (Potassium Silicate for plant cell wall structure and strength) -Botanicare's Cal/Mag Plus 0-0-2 (Base Cal/Mag supplementation) -Advanced Nutrients Flawless Finish (Flushing agent) -Future Harvest's pH down and pH up (Much cheaper solution with higher concentration, larger amount and half the price) -Gaia Green's Bone Meal 2-16-0 supplement (Phosphorous and Cal, acting as a natural soil pH buffer) -Root Stim #1 for soft-wood applications (Used only in transplants, sparingly so) Medium: -Pro-Mix Mycorrhizae, 50% (peat substrate) -Dutch Treat Potting Soil 50% (Base soil with better retention) -Dutch Treat Perlite conditioner. Ratio of 1:10 in soil mix. So ya! In my other entry I explained I'm a little spacey lately and haven't been keeping up with my growmies projects. It's not you, it's me. Working some things out in my day to day routines to help w/ the stir crazy feelings I've been having lately. Prioritizing mental health, essentially. Trying to stay busy and get the hell out of the house (and go where I'm allowed too, lol). I'll be semi-absent but I'll be back to update my entries and catch up with all of you within the next two weeks. Much love and take care out there, everyone. I know we all know how effed up the world is right now, but I'm positive things will smooth out in time. Stay safe all. Cheers👊😊

Howdy all and welcome to Week 2, Veg with Space Cookies. Had a lot of problems this week but we're back at er' and Cookies is recovering and moving very well. In Week 2 of PSK and GDPxBruce is the layout of the happenings and why these girls have struggled so much. We won't get into that here, as the issues have been rectified and I'm happy to say this project is far from a scrap. All is well and we're moving forward with all 4 ladies. Also going back to my '"the good, bad and "meh"' style I'm used to when writing these...it's just easier. So! the deets: The Good: -Great news that she was the last to be planted as she spent the least amount of time in the hot seeding soil. She has the least amount of damage and the healthiest sets, over all the other girls. -Moving quickly and doubles in size every 36-48 hrs. New sets have great texture and health. -Her first seedling feed went very well and no signs of nutrient burn noticed whatsoever. The opposite occurred and she seems to be in full drive now, 36 hrs after that feeding. -Root system must be healing because I see my stem strength increasing and thickening. -Have the sweet spot for all girls with my lighting, as none are stretching and they're pushing nice tight inter-nodal points👍. (SF-2000 @ 42 inches) The Bad: -There was a lot of bad early week, but I'm pretending that it never happened, lol. I'm also pretending this is "Week 1" so I feel a little better about myself, hahaha. I did lose a week here due to my mistakes and complacency when testing my soils and optimizing my parameters. It is what it is and they're not dead...so victory! -All the other bad that occurred can be found in the aforementioned GDP and PSK diaries. The 'Meh' -Lot's a 'meh's' but I can't really complain... They could easily be dead right now, but they're not. Health isn't exactly perfect, nor is growth rate of stem/root health, but they're recovering nicely and I feel within a week's time they'll be rocking quite well. -Only meh I guess would be that I over-watered a bit, early into the transplant. I haven't gone straight to a large pot before and just start the girls in solo's. But with the move, and being so small, I had a hard time figuring out what was too much or not enough. I'm getting the hang of it and they bounced back quickly from the over-watering. Just a little localized suffocation, not total medium saturation. Cleared up within the day as the SF beat down on them, circulation was pumped up and I dropped humidity to 45-50 % for a small while. Notes of the Week: -We are officially using Green Planet's GP3 line with 4 Additives (will be listed near future). I have chosen the two Paradise Seeds genetics to test the new nutrient line on and it's alllll very straight forward. The doses required are the exact same as GHE, which I'd been using this whole time. Not much of a learning curve, so that's cool👍. Also, a happy surprise I wasn't aware of when I opened the nutrients. LESS DYE. Less hard reds, oranges or blues to stain your equipment, or god forbid your carpet if you have a little spill. Less/No dye is a big deal too me... It shouldn't be in there in the first place. -I'm crediting Gaia Green's Bone Meal (2-16-0) for the expedited recovery of the root system on all the girls. The slow release phosphorous and Cal is proving to do well by them and I'm very surprising how quickly their root, stem and lateral stem health improved, seemingly overnight. It also acts like a dolomite lime to keep pH in check. Something I really need to be aware of after their disastrous start. -As mentioned, NO SCRAPPING! All girls are in and recovering well. I'm pleased to say that I will be propagating these four girls, in full. Keep my wits about me and all will continue to recover and thrive👌. -Trouble acclimating the new tent as I wasn't ready to move to the big show yet. Finally got my VPD to 1.11 and I'm hoping to hold it there. Fingers Crossed. That wasn't too long! Thanks all for dropping by and seeing the re-birth of SC and the others. I look forward to future updates, now, haha. This was really stressful, but again, I learned a tonne from my mistakes. I know I won't be repeating these errors, so that might be worth this little lesson. A friend of mine always says, "You don't learn anything without paying a price. The price might be fiscal, but it can also be a payment in time, through failure/mistakes" and also "If you're going to fail, fail forward. If you don't learn from your mistakes, you're doomed to repeat them. Learn from it and you're still moving forward. Less of a failure and more of a learning curve IF you learn something". OK! that's the end of my ramble. Cheers to you all and I hope you're well out there. Keep care and much love✊😃

Howdy all and welcome to Week 3, Veg w/ Space Cookies. The Deets: The Good: -Cookies is the slowest and runtiest of all the girls, but she is healthy, thick and moving at a decent pace. I feel she will remain the runt (Just like DSD in Grow #2) but I'm positive she'll be a fantastic little specimen to work with. -New growth has picked up, over-watering issues have stopped (I'm controlling my self, haha), no negative symptoms on foliage, root system is strengthening and top side growth is well textured and colored. The Bad: -I'm still happy they're not dead... So, I don't think anything is necessarily 'bad'👍 The 'Meh': -Aforementioned over-watering occurred...again, but I've stopped this obsessive feeding and have backed off. They are doing much better without my interference. -She's very small and behind her counterparts. She's very tight too, so LST will have to wait until she gets a bit taller, where as all the others have already started preliminary training. -I'd hoped to have SC on the same feeding schedule as Dutchy, but that's not going to happen and I see I will need 3 separate schedules for the 4 plants. If she catches up, maybe they will fall back into line with one another. Notes of the Week: -Just watching them grow, really. Still not much to do other then that. Training has been started on 3 of the girls to expose lower nodes to light and air. DD is especially taking well to this and her growth rate/inter-nodal growth is faaaaar faster then the other's, currently. -On Saturday, May 2nd, two of the girls will receive their first feeding with run-off. I feel they have a defined root system to take it and I'm going to test this on 2 of the girls before applying to all of them. Already going against the schedule and tailoring my own feeds to specific needs. -I want the run-offs now, too see what's going on in the soil and if there's anything amiss that I need to rectify before top-side symptoms start to occur. I feel everything is just dandy, but I like numbers and this will validate my thinking. And, if it's effed up I can fix it! -Dutch Dragon is a weird one and I'll cover more of this issue in her update. The long and short of it, though, is I noticed she 'dips out' (sags) on hour 14, everyday, on an 18/ cycle. It's like clockwork and I have the photos and time stamps to prove it😅. I fought with humidity, heat, the light and the parameters to make her happy, but as the days go on and nothing works, I'm starting to accept that this may just BE her and her genetic make up will continue on like this. I have literally tried it all, but no changes to the environment or feeding times/amounts has given positive results.... Just her? -YAH, so I did make the decision to give away the remainder of my GHE micro-gro-bloom nutes, but holding on to Diamond nectar and Floralicious Plus (Lot's left, very expensive, going to use it). Green Planet will be run on all four girls for the entirety of the grow. I have enough of each to carry them through the grow (my estimate...might need more Bloom, according to the doses). Plus, this will make things a lot easier for me. So, thanks all for checking out the little one. I'm positive by next week she'll be a good side and training will be under-way. I really like her! but I do hope she catches up a bit, as the other's are visibly moving a bit faster then her... All good. I hope you all have a good week and enjoy your projects. Much love, stay safe and keep content✊😊

Howdy all and welcome to Week 4, Veg w/ Space Cookies. Decent week. Here's the Deets: The Good: -Had a great growth week and SC took off a bit. Still the runt but visibly thickening up and going to be a firm one. -Went through her first full feed w/ run-off and then cut off her head... Took it surprisingly well and bounced back within a couple hours. Nothing amiss. -Out of all four, she does seem the healthiest w/ the best leaf/blade color and texture. Pretty happy with her and her progress The Bad: -The Bad news is also the good news. The good, I figured out what was causing some of my problems. The bad, I found out what's wrong with my plants and It'll take some time to balance things out. First Run-off reading was a super 5.3pH and 3800ppm. No top side symptoms, but I do have a pH imbalance and I'm going to drop down those ppm's/raise the pH over the next two feedings/watering. The 'Meh': -With the plants drooping out 3 hours before bed, I've gotten a little obsessive in trying to figure out WHAT exactly is going on. I only have theories and apparently, theories are all there are... I'll link the short blog/article I found on Nastic movement's and what these proposed theories are. For the most part, though, I'm not sure if this article even applies to indoor parameters, but it's something I guess. Anywho, I learned a tonne of crap trying to find the answer, but nothing gave me that answer. Haha. I learn! but not learn what I needed to know. Catch 22, for sure. -The drooping will have to just be accepted. It is not hurting anything and has been going on for 2 weeks now. She's growing in spades, no signs of deficiency/toxicity, healthy and perky. It isn't aesthetically pleasing but I really don't see a plant threatening issue anymore. She repeatedly bounces back over night and I've even gone to see what they look like at 4 am when the lights go on....They're' back up even without the light. So, rest after a long day? Normal nastic movements, genetic, my parameters, outdoor weather changes affecting indoor parameter's? I'd like to say I'm going to completely let this go, but that's not how my brain works. I'm going to keep reading, pursue possible solutions and see if this condition can be rectified. I'll reserve my expectations, but I want to see what can, if anything, can be done. Notes of the Week: -Did the first feed with run-off with GDPB and PSK. I didn't feel like I ran enough through them to drop my ppm's and raise my pH enough. I adjusted the feed and watering volume with SC and DD and their numbers came back a little better then their counterparts. I will have to do at least two more flush through's w/ nutes, in order to drop one and raise the other, while replacing the nutes I'm washing out. I feel things may be back to normal in a week or two(?). No expectations on the time frame, but I will get them back to happier reads. -Since nothing I did changed the 7pm droop, I've put back everything the way I know and the way I know works. Plants are much happier and I won't be screwing with their environment (much) anymore. Want them to acclimate after such a long screw around. I have a feeling they don't know what the hell is going on and why things keep changing, hahaha. This'll stop now. -Instead of upping my 'Grow' formula, I added in some Rapid Start from GHE and that'll be my soluble potash boost I'm looking for. Going to abide by the schedule a bit more and stop screwing around with that too. Again, I want to go back to what I know, for a little bit, just to get them back in good form BEFORE I start to play "scientist". -All plants have now been topped b/t the 5th and 6th. All, expect PSK took it really well. PSK dipped out and was giving some serious attitude afterwards and took twice as long for her to come back from the stress I inflicted. -LST is picking up as laterals are punching through all-round. I'm starting to see what I can do with them and even what I feel they should look like by end game. By next weeks update, I'm pretty certain all the girls are going to be twice as big and look like little bubbles (that's the goal, anyway). -Random note about my soil: Water retention of 3 gallons is 2.75L before run-off. Thought it was a decent number and the loamy mix I threw together seems to be holding and dispersing water very well. Thanks all for stopping by, it's greatly appreciated. Even though this grow has been a massive pain from the get-go...I have to admit, I'm learning a tonne. If that's the trade off for these problems, I'm cool with that. Also just picked up another hard copy book that deals with the chemical/medicinal uses/reactions and just a whole bunch of biology that I have zero clue about! I took physics in school. In retrospect, biology/chemistry may have paid off a bit more, Lol. Maybe a correspondence/upgrade course? (Now I'm typing aloud). Cheers everyone! Much love and take care of you and yours! Peace, my friends. **Link for Nastic Movements: https://vanessa-nielsen.com/cannabis-plants-droop/**

Hello, hello everyone. This is Week 5, Veg with Space Cookies. The Deets: The Good: -Very happy with the little one and she's been moving very well, despite her small stature. Still the smallest, but all old growth, new growth, stem/lateral stem health and foliar color is seemingly on par and she's looking good. -The Flush + Feed schedule I performed this week worked way better then I expected. PH maladjustment and PPM spike have been rectified (mostly) and after a couple minimal leeching(s) of one liter per plant @ 6.5pH this should hopefully even the remainder out and they will be back to normalcy. Hitting the reset button on my schedule and this was the new start I needed. The Bad: -No bad at all, really. Just a happy little one😊 The 'Meh': -PH maladjustment still exists, but with the aforementioned leeching, this should bring things back to normalcy and around 6.0-6.1pH and under 1000pp,'s (that's the goal anyway) -When pH was adjusted she did take a bit too much excess and the newest growth slightly burned. Within 24 hrs, however, those burns grew out and new growth is clean and mark free. -Want her to get taller, but I don't think she'll gain much height compared to her counterparts. She will have to be propped up to create an even canopy. The little plant is a tonne like my last grow's Do-si-Dos. Really tight, thick and strong, but hard to train. Is what it is and for the most part, training is going well and her laterals are spreading out into a nice bubbled shape. Notes of the Week: -Lack of progression pictures with Space Cookies this week. Guess I wasn't paying attention and she didn't get any glamour shots, expect for one early week photo. My bad!😮 -Once the temporary leeching is done, I will be following up with a standard flush with all plants to rectify the remaining imbalance. At this time I'm hoping this will be like a 'reset' and I can go back to my schedules in their simplest form, instead of making these convoluted, special feedings. Literally back to basics, again, and will move into late Veg feeding after this has been done. -Tent is blowing up now that I've started heavy training. Already running out of room and it's a treat to observe. Adjustments have to be made 1-2 daily, as laterals are growing quickly/out of their loops. Really good problem to have and it's keeping me busy. I'm projecting a full tent by the end of week 7 (?) with another week up upward growth (8th week) before flipping. All tentative and dependent on my schedule and plant health, but if everything continues growing the way it is, they will need a flip relatively soon. -Tent parameters are actually very good right now and I haven't had to touch anything for awhile. Day/night temps and RH is pretty constant and if I hold these numbers, I'm positive they will continue to take it all in and thrive. -The 7pm droop is getting better! So, if you read last weeks entries, I'm trying to figure out why my plants are drooping out every night @ 7pm, 3hrs before lights off. Found a lot of theories, but none of them really matched my parameters... After the swing adjustment to pH and ppm's, the drooping is postponing until 8-8:30 pm. I have NO idea if it's anything I did, or if the flush had anything to do with this. I'm still confused and would like a solid answer, but that's probably not going to happen. I'll take what I can get, though, and I'm really happy that they're carrying themselves much better at days end, then before. I feel like that's it folks. I hope you all have a good week and are taking care of you and your's. Much love and keep chugging along✊. Cheers and thanks for stopping by👍

Hello all. This is Week 6, Veg with Space Cookies. The Deets: The Good: -Space Cookies is doing quite well right now, or at least better then she was before. I'm overall happy with her growth and she has gotten a lot bigger since last week. I expected her to just to be tiny, but the training out further has given her the ability to pick up her growth game a tiny bit. -New feed schedules were set in motion this week and SC yesterday. The same feeds mentioned in the other diaries/weeks. SC took things really, really well and she was clearly very, very hungry. It has only been about 30hrs (?) since this new feed (the last girl to receive it) and her color is already changing back to normalcy. -Because things went well, I can go ahead and transplant this weekend and move to 'transitions' schedule without worry. Just needs to dry a bit. The Bad: -Staying positive...no bad. Haha😊 The 'Meh': -Notes of the week will have a copy/paste of info b/t SC and Dutch Dragon. Quick run-down of my mistakes, mis-conceptions and bounce back. -PH balance is almost there but a couple more feeds/watering's of 6.5-7.0pH and things should be back on track. Taking the same advice and putting less weight into Run-off numbers. I was given this advice last grow, by the same person, but it seems I had forgot and regressed back to obsessing over numbers, not plant symptoms. Thanks for reminding me👍. Notes of the Week: -Long and short of it, I was way off about my plant symptoms. The process I went through was probably completely unnecessary and/or could have been done in a much easier and faster way. Unfortunately, a lot of things only "click" in retrospect, hahaha. Anywho, under-fed... a lot. Then I heavily flushed them and I couldn't take it back....cool. Last week's aforementioned full feed was applied and all of the girls took it well. Within 24 hrs, symptoms and coloring's were already pulling back. Mainstay/Noticeable deficiencies were Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Magnesium, all of which have improved. Three days since the test feed on Dutch Dragon without any problems, just improvements. I will be moving to transitions feedings on their next go and completing a transplant of all 4 girls from their 3 gallon to 5 gallon final homes. Amending the soil with Gaia Green Bone Meal to condition my pH throughout Bloom. Dolomite lime was suggested and I did look into it (again), but I purchased the bone meal last grow to do about the same job. Not as good as Dolomite lime, but serviceable with a slightly faster release of P/Cal. As for Magnesium, I will find something to help if Cal/Mag supplementation doesn't do the job. -My retrospective thinking is telling me this wasn't necessary because I could have continued the normal schedule at a higher pH and heavier run-off. In time the issues ( I feel ) would have worked themselves out, the ppm's would have dropped and the pH would have aligned. This, or I could have applied a single heavy flush (not two) with Flawless finish, dropped those ppm's in one go and start again. Would have saved several days. Live and learn, even though I wish I would have seen things more clearly from the onset. Ah well. -All but PSK are bushy girls and I've started to defo here and there as they puff out. Doesn't seem any amount of LST is opening them up, anymore. Under-carriage is clean, but slowing working from the bottom up and taken suckers as they pop up. -High Humidity and colder temp issue atm. Meh. Extractions been on 24/7 for a bit and I've been using the ceramic heater again (including the day). Thanks for dropping by y'all. I hope you had a decent week, you and your's are doing well and the girls are happy👍. Cheers and take care all.

Hello, hello! Hope you're all doing well. Welcome to Week 7, Veg w/ Space Cookies. The Deets: The Good: -Space Cookies is moving well. I was able to make her quite a bit bigger by training her out this week. She took the space well and is filling up the new open space quickly. -Full transplant and first transition's feeding went very well and she took every drop. No burns, no dipping out, no attitude. -Strong like Bull. Every week she gets thicker and thicker. During transplant I buried a small portion of her stem to shore her up and it has proven to work very well. Smallest plant but has the thickest laterals and main. I really like this little one and I feel she has been the easiest to work with so far. Haven't faced as many issues with her as I have with the others (so far). Hope she keeps it up👌. -Pistil party! It's a girl! Yay!! So there's pistils. Not heavily pronounced yet, but clear as day. Will add in a picture tomorrow, but a little to shaky to take a proper photo, at the moment. Soon👍 -pH and PPM's are in check. Not too concerned about my ppm reads, as the new soil is warping these run-off numbers, but I'm very pleased to see her Run-off come back at a solid 6.2pH. A long road from the 5.3 I was battling for 1.5-2 weeks. The Bad: -Get atta here with that 'bad' nonsense. She's doing good😊 The 'Meh': -Got her to be a bigger bubble, but she lost some more height. Propped her up on the same ceramic pot that Do-Si-Dos was last grow. Almost a perfect height making an even canopy. -Really bushy. I open her up and it seems she's filled the empty space within 24 hours. Going to do a quick bottom to top defo and prune before moving her to flower. Still trying to learn what to take in Veg that will end up being nothing but LARF in Bloom. I feel I did a little better this time... but I'm positive there will be a lot to take in the early weeks of flower, during the stretch. -Before the transplant, I was running 24/7 extraction due to a weather change in my area. In her shorter 3 gallon pot, she picked up a bit of wind burn on the low end fans. I knew it was being pretty battered around, but I didn't really have a choice. I really needed that air exchange. These fans will be removed in near future if/when she needs/wants to cannibalize them. Notes of the Week: -All transplants were done with a 15mL/Gallon soil of Gaia Green 2-16-0 Bone Meal for slow release P/Cal throughout Bloom. Added bonus of keeping pH in check (somewhat like a dolomite lime). "Stim Root #1" for softwood applications has been used sparingly as well. Allows for zero delay when transplanting. Roots tap into new soil immediately. No stunting, no lost time. -A water feed was given to each girl in the past two days as I am back to my feed-feed-water schedule (and working well). I did include a small dose of GP3 Bloom, Humic acids, molasses and potassium silicate to keep her moving until the next feed (Bloom and Humic halved). Cut the Cal/Mag and pulling my Mag from the Bloom's 1.5%. -Training is pretty much over. PSK has a little work to do, but this week all the training ties will slowly be released and replaced with bracing cables. 5-6, 2 foot sticks of bamboo and 1, 3 foot main bamboo line have been inserted and will be used to pull laterals back inwards, give them strength, and help them carry their flowering weight. All bamboo sticks (except for the 3 foot main) were inserted into the new transplant soil where there would be no roots and no root interference. To reduce root interference on the 3 foot main, I sharpen to a point in order to push roots aside, not bluntly destroying them. -The flip is on the calendar. PSK is even in good shape now. It's time. Either Sunday, May 31st or June 1st these girls will be put into 12/12. I'm really looking forward to this, but as per the usual, I'm a little nervous. It's been a battle with them so far and I'm really, REALLY hoping Bloom goes a tad better then early Veg did. -Oddly enough, these plants are larger in size then grow #2, at the same period of time (49 days). Attributing earlier training and the SF for these changes. Keeping the girls shorter and using more LST has pushed them to move a bit faster. Noted. -Hygrowzyme and King Kola will be introduced into the new Bloom schedule in the coming week (s). I did not use the PK booster as early as recommended last grow and looking to see what changes I will see with proper applications, throughout flower. Hygrozyme will only be used for the first few weeks of Bloom. If anything feels amiss or my gut tells me somethings off, I'll stop it's use and just use what I know. Thank you for stopping by all ya'll. Been a pleasure to share this week and I look forward to sharing Bloom with you. I kept this one pretty short....Yay me! hahaha😅. Cheers everyone. Take care of you and yours, happy trails with the girls and see you on the other side. Peace!😃

**These are the final pictures for Space Cookies in Veg. It's an early entry, but from here on out I can update all diaries every Sunday, instead of splitting them two and two. These Girls finished Veg on Day 52** The Deets. The Good: -Pumping out center shoots like crazy. Going to have to prune some away. All full up. Good health and color, sturdy and thick, fast growing and much larger. -Took heavy pruning of under-canopy (after feed) w/no issues or stress noticed. The 'Meh': -Cheated to get an even canopy😮. She's on a ceramic pot for more even growth/stretch. -No matter how much I defo, she's still so bushy. Happy to run a lower RH (if possible) so she doesn't sweat as much as before -Heat and Humidity swings messing things up...again. Boosted circulation and added another 8 inch clip-on fan. Notes of the Week: -All girls getting second transitions feed w/ first application of King Kola (PK booster) and possible hygrozyme soil conditioner in next two days. -9pm to 9am lights-off cycle is going to be Bloom cycle. Blurple LED is once again in operation and will be over DD and Space Cookies due to their shorter heights. GDPB and PSK will be under the SF to control the stretch, somewhat. -Need to be careful with power use now. The wrong device at the wrong time can trip her. Oof. -Primed soil before next feeding with Cal/Mag/Iron, 2/3rd dose. Cutting out Cal/Mag in feed, though. Micro and Bloom will hopefully carry the two. Thanks for reading everyone. Have a good week and I'll see you with all four girls on Sunday after their first week of Bloom! Cheers all👋✊

Hello, hello and welcome to the first week of Bloom w/ Space Cookies. She's doing pretty good👌. The Deets: The Good: -Space Cookies is currently in the best shape out of all four girls. I hadn't screwed around with her as much as the others and that has seemed to pay off. There are a couple issues to catch up on, but things are coming up millhouse. -She is the thickest girl, for sure. Burying the stem by 1.5 inches during pot-up really shored her up and gave her tonnes of extra strength. She doesn't have much of any training tyes on her, but holds her form very well. -Lite pruning went well and she did not react negatively. She's very bushy, but starting to grow upwards (with feed schedule changes) and forming decently tight node points (About 1-1.5 inches apart) The Bad: -The bad wasn't too bad with her. She was the least affected by my actions. She was symptomatic and showing deficiencies though. These details and symptoms are listed in PSK and GDPB diaries where I go further into my issues and how I plan to help the girls out. The 'Meh': -Upward movement was slow at first, but some schedule and light changes have helped her start to gain height. -She is too bushy at the moment and leaves are bunching together, warping and twisting them. I can't take much of it yet, but will hopefully clean her up as we move along and the stretch continues. -Nutrient schedule and feeding method isn't working for me anymore... I will be moving to daily/semi-daily feeds from here on out. More in 'Notes of the Week' Notes of the Week: -Watering/Feeding method will be changing right away and I have already begun with Dutch Dragon. I will be doing daily or semi-daily feedings for the remainder of this grow. My previous method was not working for me or the girls anymore. I would like to have more control over what they see and when they see it. Only need to wait 1.5-2 days b/t feeds instead of the previous 4-5 days. Far too long a window if I make a mistake. Happy to make the change and refine my feed methods. -Applied a Cal/Mag flush on all plants. 36hrs after, the color IS getting back to normal and my progression pictures throughout the week have shown the shiny/dull coloring of new leaves to be pulling back. Blotching from Mag deficiency is also pulling back and the blotchy-ness of the fans is evening out into solid green (or a hue of green anyway). Dutch Dragon has the most noticeable positive changes, but was also the most affected. She was the first to get the flush and was my tester. Other girls health is catching up in tandem with DD, for the moment. -Upwards movement has been in full swing since the flush. The bunching and close inter-nodal points are becoming longer and they're all getting some room too breath. Took some specific fans blocking any light penetration and opened them up a tiny bit. Also going slower on pruning and defo now. Doing it over a period of time to reduce any stress, instead a mass prune all in one go. -Working slowly back into nutrient feeds and adjusting for what she needs via top-side symptoms. Currently, there is a Nitrogen/zinc/iron/Mag deficiency that I am working on. I have started with daily feeds on DD (today) @ 2750mL (instead of 7600ml...). Only nutrients/additives that will be seeing the soil for awhile, will be the basics. PK booster and other neat little supplements will be held back until health and vigor is achieved. These nutrients will be Micro-Grow-Bloom, Cal/Mag, Humic/fulvic acids and molasses. Thaaaaat's it. Will adjust feeds as needed. Don't know what they will want in a few days and will be playing this by ear. So far so good👍 Anywho! That's the Week w/ SC. I'm pleased with this little one and I'm happy she didn't get the brunt of my poor feeding methods. Silver lining! Thanks all for dropping by😃. I really hope you all have a happy and safe week out there. Take care and I will see you next week. Cheers😀✊

Hey-hey-hey. Welcome to week 2 of Bloom with Space Cookies. The Deets: The Good: -Great week with little Space Cookies. She's growing very well and gaining 1/2-3/4 inches a day. Canopy is opening up and leaves have room to breath. Not over-lapping as much as previous and sweating is all but stopped. -Starting to push her buds and getting nice and furry. It has begun👍 -New feeding schedule and last weeks Cal/Mag flush did the trick and essentially 'reset' the soil. With some patience and time, she's looking great and pushing really well. The Bad: -Hooray! No bad this week, folks. The Meh: -Still needs more defo to open her up and allow her center shoots to break through. In time I will be taking half of the center shoots to focus more attention on 8-10 mains. -No room. Hard to move but no problem. Just need to be a little more careful now. Will be pulling her inwards to make things a little easier for future. Process and New Tentative Feeding Schedule: 1. Flushed w/ Cal/Mag (beginning of recovery) 2. 1/2 dose of recommended feed 3. Water 4. 1/2 dose of recommended feed (completing full feed over three days) 5. Water 6. 1/2 Dose 7.Water 8. *Planned lite nutrient flush to see where she's at. Max of 20% run-off to displace the old and replace with the new* 9. Wait to dry out and repeat 2-7 (intermittent flushes pending on plant condition. Don't know yet) Notes of the Week: -Being very patient has paid off... Despite the symptoms I was seeing, I didn't go pour a bunch of nutes on top and instead, just accepted it and stuck with the plan. Now, the girls (PSK a little effed up still, lol!) are doing very well and seem to be loving daily dosing with a water feed in b/t nutrient feeds @ 1/2 dose. -Moved to Green Planets "Massive Bloom" at 1/2 dose to test the waters. No issues and will be splitting these doses over a three day period as well w/ watering feeds in b/t -Tonnes of Defo and suckers to take on all the girls. Been taking these slowly to reduce any possible stress whereas Grow #2, I did it alllll in one go. Risky and have a better plan to take what's needed when needed. Definitely a non-issue, just going to take time and I'll be taking shoots and fans up to week 4, at which point I'll probably just leave them be and let them free-ball. -Aforementioned lighting change was done today to provide an adequate footprint and light to canopy height. On top of PSK's symptoms, the lamp was too close and did bleach some of her upper leaves. Oops😐. I was trying to control her stretch, but that wasn't happening. She's big and nearing 100% stretch since the flip. Really happy I triggered earlier and trained so low. I'd be hooped right now if I hadn't. -Going to be installing a UPS (un-interrupted power supply) right away here. Power has been going out a lot...again and still! I have no idea what they're doing out there, but it's making me nervous. Happened again this morning and I'm not going to let these dudes risk my project anymore. Sourcing a cheap UPS battery bank as I type. That was short! PSK and GDPB will be updated tomorrow and from here on out I'll be uploading Mondays and Tuesdays (Boo Sundays). Thanks for stopping by all. I'll see you on the flip side. Enjoy the week and the time spent with the girls. Cheers!✊👋

Hello all you happy growers. Here's Week 3 of Bloom w/ Space Cookies (photos taken w/ SF glaring on them. My bad! Adjusted for GDPB and PSK updates). The Deets: The Good: -Really positive week with little Space Cookies. She gained a few more upward inches, but the stretch is noticeably ending as she starts to bulk outwards. Laterals everywhere! -Foliar health is on par, stem and lateral strength is all there (no tyes at all on her) and she is starting to stack up. Seeing her potential now and hoping it continues this way👍 -Did an intermittent flush on her to check out where she's at. Oh boy! Everything came back Millhouse and I feel a lot more comfortable with the new schedule I've been administering. It's working and she's taking what is given without excess. Super👌 The Bad: -Nope!😀 The 'Meh': -Still a little too tight but I've been doing defo everyday to open her up a bit more. It is working, but there is quite a ways to go. She's very thick and I can see myself taking shoots and fans up to Week 4 of Bloom. By then, I'm hoping to just let them go and watch them grow. -Always a space issue. As they're bulking outwards it gets harder and harder to move her (them) without bending or damaging side shoots and fans. It feels like no matter how much I take off of them, it looks like I've done nothing... Because of this I'm already looking to Week 6/7 for next grows flip. It's not that bad, but this could be a lot easier, haha. Notes of the Week: -Flush performed on all girls this week to check out where they're at. Listed below are all the run-off numbers pulled from these flushes. Not putting a lot of weight into these numbers, but the way they came back was nice and constant. They all seem to be in the same place and it's a happy one. -Stretch appears to be at an end as all girls have started to get fuzzy and bulk outwards. I expect a few inches here and there, but it's over and there's still room for some bud growth. -In the feeding schedule portion of these entries I'll be listing the total feed over the week. These numbers were not all in one go and were spread out over three days with a water feed in between. These are all tailored feeds/numbers and don't mirror the GP3 schedule exactly... -Besides defo and some lateral control, these girls are pretty much being left alone to do their thing. I feel they formed well for the most part and there's not much left for me to do then just to feed and let them go to end game. Kind of a paranoid time for me as I'm worried about the dreaded hermies @ week 3/4 of Bloom. I know it's a long shot, but I know this is when it would happen, if at all. Just being extra vigilant right now and going over them everyday with a fine tooth comb. Run-Off's. 2 Gallons run through each girl w/ about 20-25% Run-off: SC: 6.2/6.3pH and 955ppm DD: 6.1/6.2pH and 947ppm GDPB: 6.2/6.3pH and 1028ppm PSK: 6.2pH and 1077ppm **Back too daily feedings w/ nutrients at 1/2 dose over 3 days with water feeds in between** Thank you all for stopping by and reading this weeks entry. Have a stellar week and enjoy your projects! I'll catch you all next week and see where the girls are at. Cheers and play safe👋😀

Hello-hello and welcome to Week 4 of Bloom with Space Cookies. The squat beast! Here's the Deets on a great week: The Good: -Just like Dutchy, Space Cookies is blowing up wonderfully. She is super thick and stacking up far better then I would have expected this early on into Bloom (8-9 week projected bloom). Her potential is there and I see great things in the near future. This little one will put out and her product already looks right up my alley. I can see why people contacted me, telling me this was a great strain. It's been the easiest to grow so far, has given me the least problems and is still the strongest girl in the tent (in my mind). -Daily/Semi-daily feeds are kicking ass. They want for nothing and there has been zero negative reactions since I started this new regiment. Again, it takes me more time and planning, but it's totally worth it as all my previous feeding/nutrient problems have not returned since I've started doing this. Wonderbar!😀 The Bad: -Nope😊 The 'Meh': -Space issues still. Some over lapping fans, but no more sweating. Still working daily to defo small, key fans blocking lower end progression/growth. Had some lime green laterals being blocked out, but with a rotation and a lighting adjustment, those laterals are now moving quick👍 -Dick all else to report! Happy, happy! Notes of the Week: -Huge potential being seen with Space Cookies, Dutchy and PSK. They're bulking up very quickly and their cola stacks are going to be thick. Granddaddy Bruce is still behind in my mind. She's moving well but is clearly being outpaced by her counterparts. Hoping she kicks it up a notch soon here. We shall see. -For consistency sake, I've cut out Flora-licious from GHE and have moved to 'Liquid Weight' by Green Planet. Half doses have started on all girls and they have been taking it very well without issue. Since the first application, they have been moving a tad quicker and I will be applying LW from here on out. (Smells really bad though, lol) -All girls have tapped out now and the stretch is officially over. Have some extra space just in case, but I feel they're done their big push. -Getting smelly! Lots of different terpenes making their presence now and it's a treat. Lot's of Caryophyllene, but PSK is getting fruity (?). Didn't expect it, but I love ocimene, sooooo, bring it on😀 -Curious to see what colors, if any, I can pull out of these girls. It's quite warm in my location now and due to power issues, I can't use an AC unit. At night, I can drop as low as 19 degrees, but that's about it. I love my late Bloom coloring's and I'm hoping I get to see a bit of a show, regardless of the warmer weather. -Looking to finally drop the Blurple light and will be contacting some manufactures to find another SF-2000 or a direct equivalent (or as close as possible). I want to complete my footprint with quantum's and also save myself a couple Watts. Soon, I may be receiving a second 4x4x6'7" Mammoth unit from a friend who is moving and doesn't know if he will be able to grow in his new location (bylaws and such). IF this happens, I can FINALLY expand my operation and get into more projects. Want to do an auto run, an SOG run, a 1-2 plant SCROG run and on and on and on... I have 5 years worth of plans in my head, it's now time to start executing them. The unit I may be able to purchase off of him will be an HPS/MH, 600-800W system and I think it would be nice to grow the "old" fashion way for the first time👍. Another short entry (for me). What's going on! Haha. Things are going great and I don't have much to do but feed them and watch them grow. Kinda boring, but very happy to see them doing so well. This is the THIRD week in a row I haven't had issues with the girls and I couldn't be happier. Thanks all for stopping by and seeing this little Hulk of a girl. I wish you the best with your projects and I hope you have a stellar week. Much love and cheers to you all. See you around!👋✊

Howdy all and welcome to Week 5 of Bloom w/ little/big Space Cookies (The second squat beast). The Deets: The Good: -Great week again with this little one w/ massive gains in cola and bud stacking. Everything seems kosher and she's moving along just fine. -Foliar, stem and lateral health are starting to harden and shore up a little better, especially after going back to Sturdy Stock by Emerald Harvest (Potassium Silicate, liquid form). There are still no tye wires on here and she holds her own very well. She keeps moving outwards, pumping new laterals and bud sites, so I may have to do a little work in the near future. For now, she's good and taking it all in. Inner canopy is exposed and lower laterals are getting more then adequate light and air in order to flourish. -Starting to get to the point where her bud mass is starting to show. Pistil dev is still in full swing, shedding trichs like crazy, but she is noticeable starting to put on some mass, firming up and getting dense. Super😀 The Bad: -4 Week Streak! No bad. The 'Meh': -Just like with Dutch Dragon, there are some seemingly early brown pistils occurring, but not near as much as DD. I'm not very paranoid with her as the brown is only on about 5% of the plant. I'll take this as a natural occurrence instead of an issue. But... still going through her and the rest of the girls twice a day to make sure I'm not missing anything. If there is a hermie, I need to be ready to get her outta there as soon as possible. -Same as DD, slightly under-fed from pussy footing a little bit, trying to find the sweet spot for my new feeding schedule. Definitely not a big deal and nutrient dosing has been adjusted to match her needs. Unlike DD, she isn't showing any real deficiencies, but I know for a fact my lower ec feeds may not be enough and she would have/could have taken more in nutrient feeds. Now moving to full dose feeds of micro-grow-bloom and humic acids, while keeping my half dose Massive and Liquid Weight feedings that will be completed in full, over a three day period. I want to up my feeds but not swing too far the other way. Going to ease them into a higher EC (PPM) and so far there has been no issue except for a couple burnt tips that have already started to grow out. Notes of the Week: -Even with the changes, the "Nutrient" portion will still show the entire EC given over a 4-5 day period. -There is slightly browning pistils on all girls now, but the more I look, the more I feel it's natural and it's just time. Moving into week 6...I should be okay, ya? I don't mind a couple seeds if that happens, I'm just paranoid that I'll open up the tent and see a full seeded hermie. Fingers crossed. -Besides GDPB (who is starting to pick up her pace) all the girls are moving very quick and putting on weight. Besides some early browning of some pistils (15%-ish) they're bulking up and I'm pretty happy with the potential I'm seeing. -Humidity and heat are a battle but I'm just accepting it and doing what I can to mitigate both. Tent is essentially open all day long w/ full extraction to mitigate heat and I pulled a big-ass dehumidifier from a separate CCT on an extension cord, into the room the tent presides. This has been buying me -5-10% RH in the tent and it's about the best I can do for the moment. -Looking to do a full dose flush right away here. It's been three weeks since the last and I'd like to see how my feeding schedules are working for them. Too much, not enough? I'll find this out in a couple days. Won't be running much through them, just enough to pull a run-off sample. 10-15% run-off will be taken, max. That's her! Let me know what you see and if there is an issue in your mind w/ the brown pistils on DD and SC. It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much😀. Cheers and much love folks! Have a great week😊. Below are two special notes/updates **Note #1: After weighing all my options and taking suggestions from all you lovely people, I did end up pulling the trigger and ordering a second SF-2000 for consistency sake. I know it's more expensive then other lamps and I could have saved a couple bucks by going through Alibaba or other wholesalers, but I love the SF and I know it works for me and my needs. In future I will mitigate my costs with quantum board equivalents, but for now I feel a second SF-2000 was the right call and will complete my flowering footprint. This lamp should arrive by Friday and I will be able to have it in operation by June 11th, before end of Week 6 (as planned). Again, I appreciate all the responses and advice I got. I genuinely looked into allllll of it and didn't ignore a single suggestion. The SF-2000 is just what I kept migrating back too and hence why I made the move** **Note #2: So @HighRoller909 sent me a user link on GD's platform and I feel I have a duty to plug this fella. He/She doesn't know I'm doing this, but I feel deep down that they deserve some attention, as they are highly, highly competent and they're turning out absolutely beautiful specimens with nothing but the most stellar bud. From beginning to end, this person doesn't screw around. Also, and most importantly, the information and detail in his/her entries is out of this world. I've been running through their diaries and there is soooo much solid and pertinent information to digest. Please go check these grows out, you won't regret it. Absolutely stunning work, no half measures, only passion and ambition. This person is! @DeFharo. Please go show some love for this green thumb grower. It's out of this world! A master, my friends. Have fun over there!** Hey! Have a gooder! I'll talk at you all very soon. Sorry for being a bit behind your updates! Busy week!😵 See-ya folks👋👍

Howdy folks. Here's Week 6 of Bloom w/ lil Space Cookies. The Deets: The Good: -What can I say. Great friggin week with SC. She is one frosty girl and I really wasn't expecting her to be so trich heavy. Definitely a very happy surprise. -Colas are stacking very well and she is putting on her weight. Her buds already look like they will be very dense and break up big. Not a fluffy one, that's for sure. -Pistil color and slight foliar color changes are coming into play and she looks pretty😊. This will be a good week, me thinks. The Bad: -5 Week Streak. No Bad The 'Meh': -Besides environmental issues, everything is dandy. Extraction is still on 24/7 which is solving most my problems, but the swings in hot/cold are seemingly endless. What a poopy summer, so far. Notes of the Week: -SF Friggin 2000 came in! Tested and installed, all is good. So happy to be rid of the blurple for now! This tent set-up is complete folks and it's a good feeling. Took a year to get all the pieces together, but here we are😃. As soon as I installed er and took out the blurple, the first thing I thought was "time to get another tent and build it up"😅. So that's what I'm doing. I may not have the power needed to run a second unit where I currently live, but I'm going to start building and piecing out my next set-up in prep for my inevitable expansion. Fun times man!😀 -Some leaf changes occurring on a couple ladies now. Slow moving, but I feel it's time for them to start turning in and looks like Dutchy will be putting on a show. Already starting to see some amber coloring's on some of her top fans (not brown/burn). -Trich production felt really slow at first (with all but one girl) but that has changed this week and their development and trich production is through the roof. Happy to see them get caked up in prep for the big bud up. -Coming into the last 3-4 weeks here and all girls are getting thick. I feel this will be a good week in showing me what potential they harness and will surely get much fatter as time progresses. Felt PSK and GDPB were a little behind Paradise genetics, but that seems to have changed and they are moving at a much faster rate. -Did my light nutrient flush-through of all girls this week and below is SC's old and new reads. Unlike DD, she's in a good place and won't be treated the same as DD for the next nutrient/watering Old Run-Off Read (June 18th) : 6.3pH and 955ppm New Run-Off Read (July 10th): 6.0pH and 1287ppm That's the ball game all ya'll. Have a great week and I'll catch you all on the flip side. Stay safe out there home boys and home girls. Cheers👋✊ **Today I'm hoping to direct your attention to another grower that I've been following for a few months. If you haven't heard of them, please go check out this absolutely amazing operation...like holy crap. When I first found him I was pretty envious. What this fella is doing is where I'd like to be one day and will strive to achieve this goal! This wonderful grower is @Compassionate_Gardener. I don't really have to say anything... just check out what he's doing and you'll understand why I respect his projects sooooo much. Not to mention they're very chill, very kind and very supportive. Keep up the fine work Mr. Gardener. Still jealous! Haha😃**

Oof! I'm tired and this will be short. This is Week 7, Bloom w/ Space Cookies. What a great week! The Deets: The Good: -Unbelievable plant man. She is so frigging frosty and it just keeps coming. Fans are sticking together and are just drenched in resin. Thank you cannabis God's! Hot damn!😐 -Seemingly overnight, lil Space's pheno's popped and I'm getting a nice little show. She's the first to start turning in this aggressively, pushing beautiful hues of purple and blue while still holding together very well. I like to try and keep the plants perky up until the end, and so far she's doing just that👌 -Increased ec feedings have gone just fine with her. Moved to a more aggressive schedule for the final 1-2 weeks of feedings before I tapper off and work out my flush schedule (or if I even need one). The Bad: -7 Week streak (?). Zero bad, just cruising. The 'Meh': -Humidity spikes, that's it. Kinda of a non issue, just not perfect is all. Hoping for some consistent weather here, but in reality I don't really expect it too. Just the nature of the area I live in. Happens almost every year. Notes of the Week: -All girls trichs are still transparent (up to 80%) and they still have time to ripen. I'm still very bad at taking trich pics, but I hope they're serviceable for ya'll😃 -SC and DD have been braced inwards (finally) and some relatively heavy defo was performed. They are essentially in shape until harvest and won't be needing much intervention. GPDB and PSK were also braced inwards, but have not been as big an issue as SC and DD. Their height vs width is the issue here. After the bracing, I was able to move the two back girls in and out with ease. -SC looks like she is the first to start turning in and her pheno's have started to pop. Looks like we're going to get some purple and blue! PSK has very dark pheno's, reminiscent of DSD in my second grow. It's a surreal color to watch pop out and it's a really good show. DD is starting to turn in and GDPB seems to still be full green and a tad behind her counterparts in terms of bud development and color changes. -Tentative harvest (very loose) for SC and PSK will be in 2-3 weeks (First week of August) w/ DD and GDPB in 3-4 weeks (Second week of August). Trichs on all girls are still clear and transparent atm, but I'm going for a more narcotic high on all these girls. I'm willing to sacrifice some THC and let them go a week or so past optimal harvest in order to achieve this. I love couch lock smoke that helps me eat and sleep. Even with the 80/20 DD sativa, I plan on letting her go to allow for some THC conversion and a more narcotic, laid back stone👍. I shall see what I'm able to do in these regards. -Second SF-2000 is working out very well. The girls in the back aren't fighting for light anymore and have been praying very nice to their new light source😊. Any cupping occurring is a symptom of the girls starting to turn in on themselves. I friggin love Spider Farmer man. I love this tech👍 -No pictures available of it, but those 4 plants I've been working on for my friend are doing quite well! or at least far better then before😅. At the very least, they aren't visibly dying anymore... Necro and foliar symptoms stopped and they're actually putting on some weight now/pushing small new fans to make up for the previous loss. This is allll from a massive pH imbalance causing a lockout of P/K/Cal/Mag/Zinc/sulfur and probably a few others that were overshadowed by the more serious symptoms. Ran a second regiment on them on Friday w/ both pH rising and ppm's dropping. Still a ways to go, but we are on our way. He's happy, I'm happy and his girls are far happier. Continued luck that I can get his girls to end game w/ some decent bud (quantity won't be there...) Run-off notes: Previous Read (July 14th): 6.1pH and 931ppm New Read (July 18th): 6.0pH and 1344ppm (Small spike, increased feed dosages) That's it, that's all! I swear I'm not lazy, just forgetful. I have forgotten to tag someone in my last GDPB and PSK entries. I'll get er together and spread some love to some fine growers on GD. Stop by in a day or two and I'll have an edit up! Have a fantastic week folks. I wish you the best with your projects and with life in general. Stay safe, take care and I'll see you on the flip side. Peace!👋👊 **Edit** Met this grower very recently and checked out their diaries. They're brand new to the site but already making positive waves. Wonderful plants and pretty colors! If ya'll are interested, please check out @ujekg. I feel you'll like what you see👌. Cheers!

Hello all and welcome to the end of Week 8, Bloom w/ Space Cookies. The Deets: The Good: -Feel like I'm just cruising along with this sweet little plant. She's very robust and doesn't react or stress out when I work on her, nor has she for most of this grow. Even with my multiple mistakes this strain is a tough one to keep down. -Just caked in trichomes. Have to include more natural pictures because the camera flash rebounds off the trichs so hard that it's almost a blur of white. Awesome "problem" to have😀. -Still getting thicker and putting on weight. Each bud, big or little, is very dense w/ a good (but not over-powering) terpene profile developing. Seems pretty run of the mill so far w/ Mercene and Caryo (?). I don't have the best nose, but that's what I'm picking up and it's only getting stronger👍. The Bad: -Notta. The 'Meh': -Love her buds and their alllll gold but there is a lack on her (in my mind). Whether the weight will be there due to their density or if she will just be low yielding, this girl will not put out as much as her counterparts. -Got what I wanted but careful what you wish for. Weather is consistent now... consistently hot AF!😂 Having issues w/ heat and humidity spikes, but it is what it is. I don't have the means to properly control it so I'm just doing what I can to limit any excess heat w/ extraction and circulation. Notes of the Week: -Space Cookies will certainly be the first to get the chop as she is further ahead of the others. Tentatively looking at 2 weeks for SC and 3-4 weeks for the other three girls, pending on their maturity. -Due to the current high heat, I've noticed some fox tailing on the girls tops. Dutchy seems to be the most affected but is also the heaviest sativa...so, genetics a bit? -Move to King Kola over "Massive" has gone very well. All girls took the change without a reaction. Not there should have been, however. -Tent has become a battle of the terpenes again. Each girl fighting to dominate the space. It's getting quite smelly in there! I'm nose blind to all of this now, but when friends come over the first thing they say is "Smells like weed in here!" lol. I think I need to control the odor a little better. It's legal...but I still don't like to advertise for safety and security of my home. That and I live between two very young families with kids. Though I love Cannabis and it's my right to partake and grow, I do respect the noses and sensibilities of my neighbors. I actually just feel it's best to keep it on the down-low, legal or not. Protect yourselves and your homes! -I can't guarantee grow #4 will be this way but chances are it will be too. I see I need to choose my strains a little better to improve my turnover. If SC goes first and the other still have 2 weeks, that's a lot of big tent down time. I also use my propagation tent as my drying tent, so one project can't really start until the last one has ended. Weighing the option of picking up a second propagation tent so I can dry and start grow #4 @ the same time. It's only 2-3 weeks of down time, but that's a dog's age in cannabis! Anywho, hope that wasn't too long!😀 Thanks for popping by and checking out this frosty beast. Have a great week all and I'll catch you on the flip side! Busy times! Cheers and take care peeps👋👊 **Contact Edit** If you haven't heard of @Cariboo_OG yet...where have you been!😀 Dude has one of the best attitudes I've encountered on this platform. Super supportive, passionate and talented. Making really positive waves on here and Instagram, helping others and paying it forward. For the love of God... Please give this grower some love. Someone I don't feel you're going to want to miss! Cheers. And thanks for all the love and support @Cariboo_OG. You're a genuinely awesome fella👍

Hello, hello all you fine folks. This is end of Week 9, Bloom w/ Space Cookies. The Deets: The Good: -This is end game folks! SC is turning in wonderfully and her pheno's are popping up all over the place. It's a great show, full of purple/blue/black hues. She's still holding onto her nasticity and form very well, despite being cannibalized😀. -One final trich push is ocurring, even though she was already caked in goodness. Can hardly see the bud under all those trichs. Awesome👍 -I'm very impressed with this plant. As mentioned before, she doesn't/won't have a heavy yield, but from what I see, each nugget, big or small, is absolute gold. Can't wait to try her out....patience! The Bad: -Absolutely no bad. This is end game baby! We made it!😀 The 'Meh': -Besides a heat wave (that I can't control) and some fox tailing, everything is just fine... I don't have "meh's" either. Happy, happy👍 Notes of the Week: -Space Cookies will be coming down this Saturday, August 8th. Prepped the dry tent and we're ready to go. DD will come shortly after and GDPB and PSK will be last (according to trich pictures and color). -Feeds on all girls have been tapered downwards w/ SC on straight water w/ Liquid Weight, a touch of PK and some humic acid. They are all turning in accordingly and will all be ready for the chop in no time -Fox tailing did occur on all! girls due to very high, consistent heat in my area. I'm not upset at all. Nature is nature and the girls are just fine despite a couple tails here and there. Besides being less aesthetically pleasing, there's nothing wrong with them at all. -I was going to go out and buy another 2x2x3 propagation tent but was thankfully stopped by someone who gave me a better idea. Why not just buy another 4x4x6... I will be expanding soon here and have been weighing my options, so going with a big unit makes sense... for 40 bucks more I purchased a 4x4x6 unit with a separate 2x1 propagation chamber w/ racking and a divider wall. May not use the propagation part of the unit, but I felt it was good to have options. Maybe I want to grow some micro greens? Done! -Looking for a location as we speak, to expand my projects. I talk about it a lot, but after some very informative and positive conversations/affirmations, I'm actively contacting and looking for a location that I can exercise my ambitions/passions. It's really tough... Anywho, I have faith I'll find something, write up a contract to cover my ass, and then move on to bigger and better things. Don't know if this will be a live in situation or a proxy location. When I know this part, I can finally pull my ACMPR licence and go bigger👌 -I won't name name's, but I wanted to thank the couple fella's I've been speaking too lately (you know who you are😉). These types of dudes are the reason I'm here in the first place. They have supported me endlessly and given me ambition to move forward. I've always had a pretty low level of self-esteem, but these two gentlemen are changing that (I don't think they even know...). I'm starting to see the value in what I do and have faith in myself in what I can accomplish, if I want it. As long as I keep my humility, stay humble and withhold expectations, I feel great things are on the horizon. **Story Time**(You don't have to read this) Here's a story, spurred by one of the conversations I have had recently. The topic was people who ask tonnes of questions but neglect to accept any advice....and just how much of a piss off that is when we spend time answering these questions. I have that buddy of mine that I mentioned a couple weeks ago, the one with the garbage plants that were dying right before your eyes. Over the span of two weeks and three procedures, I managed to bring the girls back to relatively decent health...they weren't dying anymore and that was a victory. They started to actually bud up and put on some mass too. I was quite happy with my efforts and though it wasn't perfect, I felt they would at least make it to end game. Not pretty, but complete. Anywho, this fella wasn't interested in a single thing I was doing... I tried to talk to him about what was going on, what I was seeing and how we start the process to get out of this mess. Complete disinterest. He wanted the job done for him, he had no intention of learning a thing or understanding how and where he went wrong. When the plants started to look better, he essentially kicked me out... "I'll take it from here, I know what I'm doing" (literal quote). Well, if you knew what you were doing or listened to a GD word that I've said, you wouldn't have been in this mess in the first place... And by my word, I mean everything I've learned from 100's of growers. Proven success and method... Anywho, he wanted to know what to do next (even though he "knew" what he was doing). I wasn't happy with him, but I wrote him a schedule anyways because I wanted to see the girls survive. It was far less about him at this point and far more about the girls. I felt sick watching them suffer😟. Fast forward a couple days, I call him and ask how the schedule went. "I didn't do it" he says. "The girls aren't looking to good now, can you come by and take a look?". SNAP! NO, Ahh, no. All that time and effort put in just for you to say screw it??? All of that for nothing!?! Super👍 Quick conclusion, and this may come off harsh, but it's the damned truth. Please don't ask questions or ask for help if you do not care to hear the answer or understand the process. . Really hard to give advice to people who push back and argue the answer to the question they asked. Anywho, no more of that. There are a crap tonne of new growers out more receptive to available information. Tonnes that have the ambition to learn and grow (literally and figuratively). These growers are worth the time and effort because they listen and care to expand their knowledge base. While I type this, I'm aware it may come off as elitist or self-centered, but please understand where this is coming from, and I'm 100% positive many other growers have faced the same "type" of grower. Just, don't waste your time. This incident with my friend has left our relationship in tatters....all over some plants. It's far better to leave these people to their own devices and failures, then to try and interject or help. At the end of the day, they won't listen and you're time and efforts are of far better use elsewhere. Pay it forward! But honestly folks, screw these people... That was a ramble that I needed to get off my chest. It's been weighing on my for two weeks (last I saw him was two weeks ago when I walked away). People like the idea of growing weed but have no intention of actually learning?.. Just not worth it. Move on and help someone that wants to learn. Most importantly, don't please don't become jaded by these non-growers (I did briefly😓). Just focus that attention on someone wanting and receptive to new information. Someone that wants it... That is all😕** That was this week everyone! I look forward to popping by next week when SC is complete and chopped down! Thanks for stopping by and I hope you alllll have a great week w/ the girls, your family and friends. Take care all you happy growers. Cheers✊👋

Howdy all and welcome to the last update w/ Space Cookies. End of Week 10 (Day 70) is the same day she came down. These are her final pictures and base harvest. Harvest notes and updates will come down in a week or so when she's all said and done. The Deets: The Good: -What's not good? She's done and I'm more then pleased with her performance. Holding her weighty buds in my hand got me all excited for a taste. At the time of writing, they have been drying for 24 hours and though the water weight is dispersing, these nuggets are TIGHT! and very, very dense. Looks like absolute gold to me😀 -Trich dev picked up in the final days over and above the mass she was already pushing. Super sticky and resiness with red hairs pumping out all over. The bud is aesthetically pleasing and well shaped too.... just all round happy with her and pleased to have made it to end game👍. The Bad: -Ha! Nope! Happy camper! The 'Meh': -Projecting only 2.5-3 ounces of whole bud for this girl. Under what I had initially anticipated but more then I thought coming into her final days. As per the usual, quality over quanitity, but a little more of this fine bud wouldn't hurt... If she's up my alley I may grow her again and try to up these numbers. Notes of the Week: -While Space Cookies is drying, I will be running down GDPB and PSK for their eventual chop in the coming week (Maybe 15th/16th). They're still holding on to quite a bit of color and their trichs aren't exactly where I'd like them to be, so I'll just have to be patient and help them wrap up. Dutch Dragon harvest was moved from today to Thursday (August 13th) to allow for an adequate dry out and for more amber trichs. -Perfect timing with the weather as temps and RH have both dropped in the last few days and should hold like this for another week (if the weather people are speaking the truth😯). The lower temps at night have allowed for GDPB to actually show some color and the RH is a decent 45-50%. Far better then the +29 degrees and +60% RH I was seeing for the past three weeks. -All girls fox-tailed somewhat, but it seems to have halted. The remaining girls have gone back to pushing outward mass instead of building thin columns. -I have seeds out the butt hole now... Just received 24 more seeds from Canuk when they had a flash sale I couldn't pass up. 6 bucks a seed? Yes please! Probably won't get to these for awhile but already have a plan lined up to do a "Fast Version" genetic grow for Grow #5. Grow #4 will consist of x1 Glookies, x1 Gorilla Zkittles and x1 Violator Kush by Barney's and x1 Banana Krumble via GHSC. Took a long time to choose this line but I'm pretty confident this run will be right up my alley👍. -New 4x3x6' tent has been assembled and I'm currently working out the logistics of running two tents and more plants or the same amount of plants but with a longer veg and more outward training. I haven't made up my mind yet but I have a month or so to figure it out, before the new girls will have their permanent home. -After 3 grows, the carbon filter is finally failing and there is some noticeable odors when coming into the house😬. Sourcing some activated carbon pellets and going to replace the old with the new before we get into next grow's bloom period. So! That's her folks, she made it! I look forward to sharing the final harvest notes with ya'll and I trust everything will be just dandy👌. Thanks all for stopping by and checking out her final day and chop. I'll speak further on it in the harvest entry, but wanted to say here and now, you people's are the best. Thank you for supporting me... Your positive affirmations keep me going and make me want to go further. Though there are jerks anywhere on the internet, I'd much rather (and am) focusing on the love I receive, not the BS. Thank you for carrying the message of cannabis culture and paying it forward my friends. You are all my muse and as I've said before, I'm not going anywhere. I wouldn't have come this far without you....so, just a big pre-preemptive thank you to all you fine folks. Seriously, much love😍. Take care out there, have fun, stay safe and I shall see you on the flip side. Cheers✊👋 **Any Canadian growers know a well priced source of activated carbon pellets for replacement? Can I use the aquarium pellets? Same thing? I'm just not sure... If you know, please drop me a line! Would be greatly appreciated😀**

Ooooh Boy. Welcome one and all to Space Cookies Harvest. What a friggin treat she is! Here we go😉 Where do I even start... Mmmk, grow this strain, haha! It might look like I'm very generous with my reviews, but with my other harvest reviews coming soon, you'll see that this isn't true😂. This 10/10 is legit. All those that came out of the woodwork's to tell me how great it was, were not wrong and it has quickly become my go-to smoke for the past week. Below I'm just going to power point the positive traits and characteristics of SC and the 'Meh's' I saw with her and then jump right into bud quality, weights and final notes. The Positives: -Very easy to grow with high versatility. With the mistakes made in veg, she did stunt a bit, but showed the greatest health and bounce back out of all the girls -Stem and lateral strength were by far the best of all four girls. She did not require any bracing throughout propagation, even though I put bamboo in in prep to do so. -She was the runt out of the four girls, but still had great vigor. She ate less too, but still kept up with her counterparts. Propped her up in Bloom for an even canopy, but other then that I didn't have to do anything to her/with her. -Coming into bloom I saw that she was going to be pretty and pretty dense too boot. With the help of the SF-2000, tight internode spacing and bud development were present throughout the stretch and bloom. She formed great stacks and her buds met up very well. -Trichome production was ridiculous with her. She started shedding early and did not let up until the bitter end. Easily the frostiest girl in the tent when I felt she would be the least...happy surprises! -Beauty dense bud formations and great bud break up. A nugget of SC next to a nugget of Dutchy will/is twice the weight. Heavvvy.😀 The 'Meh': -I would have loved to have gotten a larger yield out of her. I'm positive some of my mistakes kept her from reaching full potential, but I did feel there was still a lack of bud development, especially when looking at the other girls and online pictures of other Space Cookies. This is probably my bad though and I don't blame the genetics whatsoever. -Maybe a little too short, limited bud production and bud sites. Again, this was probably do to my issues and some stunting in Veg. Still don't see this as a genetic issue but a "Me" one instead. Strain and Product Review: -Very dense buds. When trimming I noticed there was little to no give on them and they had a great form -I don't have these tested in lab, but I can ball-park the potency to be roughly 20-21%. Right in my wheel house and my happy place. -Though she only clocks in at 20-21%, this girl has an amazing kick to her. Hits hard in the eyes and slowly cascades into the chest and lower body. Withing ten minutes, SC is in her full affect and her longevity is a good 2 hours. -A very! happy and functional stone... I don't get giggly on weed anymore, but this did! I was on top of the world man. It hits all the key buttons for me and I'm amazed at how well it's helped my anxiety issues. -Taste is beautiful. There's a lot going on and her profile becomes more and more defined with time. With samples given out, I've heard everything from citrus to hash plant flavorings. Personally, I get woody/pine and citrus as the mainstay terps. The Numbers (Popcorn and LARF numbers are halved in the "Outcome" portion of this entry. I do not personally count these as whole bud and just cut the product yield in half. The numbers below are higher then the outcome, but is the total product recorded from Space Cookies): Jar #1- Whole Bud: 34 Grams (1.21 ounce) Jar #2- Whole Bud: 35 Grams (1.25 ounce) Jar #3- Popcorn/LARF: 23 Grams (.82 Ounce) Total Product Pulled: 92 Grams (3.28 ounce) Numbers weren't through the roof, but who cares... This is the highest quality cannabis I've grown so far and a little less quantity over quality is well worth it. I had assumed I'd only receive a max of 2.5 ounces in total product, so over 3 is a happy surprise. Zero complaints👌 Grow #2 vs Grow #3: -Used Green Planet nutrient line and dropped GHE (except for Diamond Nectar and Rapid Start) -Inclusion of a second SF-2000 at the beginning of Bloom and decommissioning of the Phlizon 1200 Blurple -More soil aeration by conditioning with more perlite and peat moss substrate. -More circulation added into the unit to keep things moving and breathing. -Better bracing in place and planned further ahead of time. -Even with big Veg mistakes, I cut a full week off of veg. The SF and advanced nutrient schedule are to thank for that. Looking for a 6 week flip near future. Final Thoughts: This is a winner folks. If you're an indy or indy Dom fan, this will do the job and you won't regret giving her a go. I love everything about her, from the growing to the smoking. She was a special specimen and out performed all my expectations. This plant was a one off... just threw her in to replace a non-viable Black Widow. 18 weeks later and I feel like it was meant to be... This girl was made for me and my needs. If you have the opportunity and space to get your hands on one to grow, please do. It's a great show with beauty bud to boot. Go. For. It👌 It probably goes without saying by now, but thank you to all that have followed along and supported me through this grow. It was a hairy ride for awhile, and if it weren't for some key people my problems would have only gotten worse. I was pulled out of the fire on multiple occasions this round and I don't know where I or the girls would have been without you. Thank you so, so much for paying it forward and for having my back when I made mistakes😬. You folks are the reason I keep going and the reason why I'm expanding. For the positive forces and people behind this grow, cheers👊. Keep on being great frigging people please! Cannabis Culture needs you. Much love folks. Catch you on the flip side😀