Hey! Welcome to week 8! Karen is mid way through her flowering stretch. Please check back to last week as I update daily so the week is now complete. I count about 20 colas now. Day 51: Have reconfigured the tent, see video. Karen is now 36cm and still stretching. Karen has more light now. Smell is still there hits you when you open the tent. Fertigated 2l. Day 52: Height: 39cm. Karen's scent is heavenly. I have reconfigured again and installed some upgrades. Better reflector. Much bigger carbon filter. Increased airflow. Better config. More efficient pot layout. Karen is lovely. I am grateful to her and for her, so I wrote her a little poem, I hope she liked it. "Karen! Oh Karen! The phoenix of flowers, Three lowly weeks she struggled in vain, Shadowed and starved for five hundred hours, He slowly wept to witness her pain. Karen! Oh Karen! I P-H'd your showers, and in the fourth week you started to gain, Hallowed and hard you survived as you cowered, I thought you meek, I was wrong once again. Karen! Oh Karen! Forgave me my howlers. She set a pace, a pace she maintained, Now shes a girl at the peak of her powers, And so I'm a geek, with buds on the brain." Day 53: Approx 48h into a simulated dry spell. Alright I think it is time for Karen to get her first MAJOR defoliation. I will update shortly with photos and info. I will also be doing some gentle LST to separate the colas a bit. Day 53.5: Defoliation and LST. Finally got chance to photograph that bunda. Enjoy! Day 53.75: Bit of a fail. Messed up the timer and the lights ended up being off for about 3 or 4 hours. Because I was cooling the room (open window) to keep temperature in the tent down, without any light the temperatures absolutely plummeted as it is sub-zero outside. By the time I realised and turned the lights on, the temp in the main tent had dropped to 14 degrees celsius. Whoops! How is that for mistreating your girl? Defoliated about 80% of her leaves, 4 nodes, significant LST, then stuck her in the cold and dark for 1/6 of a day. Not to mention she is now almost 3 days into a "dry spell". There do not seem to be ill effects, and Karen has already begun to respond to the LST; all the colas that had been changed in angle are now upright again. The dry spell I keep mentioning, there is a method behind my madness, I have spotted one or two small flies and I think they may be fungus gnats. I am starting to suspect that the 2nd seedling in the Purple OG Punch Auto grow was actually beheaded by fungus gnat larvae. So I am drying out the mediums as much as I dare. I am closely monitoring the plants, so far the only one I have had to break the drought for is Enigma; all the girls in big pots haven't even noticed it's dry yet. How far am I going to push it? Well I will judge it on a plant by plant basis, but quite honestly I am hoping to see physical signs of thirst before I breakdrought. Of all the plants the two I think will respond most strongly to this will be Karen and Bertha, because of where they are. Karen here is actually probably 4 weeks into flowering rather than two, so about now is a good time to give her a little hydration stress. I do not think I will push it past 5 days, as RH is 34%. By now all the plants will be compensating for the lack of moisture and the high temperatures and low humidity. They will be taking more and more moisture out of the coco, and as the coco dries further and further down, those plants that have space will start desperately growing roots to find moisture. Mark my words, 24 hours after I end this drought, every plant in the tent will throw out crazy growth. Day 54: Ended drought and fertigated 6l, no run off, I will re-fertigate tomorrow. Karen is still stretching her height post LST is now 37cm. The two tallest colas seem to have stopped but the other colas are still stretching. Day 55: Alright so it has been 5 hours since lights on, and Karen is looking in good shape, all her drooping leaves have perked back up and she has added quite a bit of foliar growth. The colas are all still rising, except perhaps the two tallest. This girl is absolutely loaded with pistils, I'm starting to see trichomes on the sugar leaves, but trich production hasn't started in earnest yet. She has a least 20 colas, and 6 of them are thicker/taller than the primary cola at her tip. Every one of her nodes has reinforced itself with a bulbous growth and these cola branches are swelling rapidly. I am increasingly of the opinion that, all being well, this girl is going to surprise us all with her yield. My first grow, which was just mucking about really, I got 60-70g of the two main plants, and they were just bare sticks with 2 colas. Although her height is less than theirs was, 2/3 of their height was bare stick... whereas every mm of her is befoliaged and living. So in terms of the height of the actual cola I think they were about comparable in usable space on a per cola basis. The main difference being that Karen has 20+ colas whereas they had 2 primary and 2 lower. I know that it is probably unrealistic to expect more than 70g from a single auto grown indoors. Nevertheless my gut tells me this baby could achieve at least 100g, perhaps as much as 150g. The next few weeks will determine that, but given where we were in week 3 I will be grateful for any yield of quality bud. I have dropped the lights down to 18/6 from 'tonight' onwards. I really have no idea how long we have left for Karen. According the the "brochure" she flowers for 7-8 weeks, with a total crop time of 9 weeks. The problem is I don't know what a total crop time is? Does that mean from seed to finish? If so Karen is clearly not going to be anywhere near that timescale.I am going to go ahead an assume that, for my plant anyway, the first 4 weeks were veg weeks. I think it is fair to count week 5 and 6 as flowering because pistils were popping out very early in week 5 if not before. So that makes this week four of flowering. I am going to assume 8 weeks rather than 7, so I think we have another 4 full weeks give or take a week. On that basis I am expect harvest week to be around week 12 or so. I am not fixed on this though, I am determined not to harvest this girl early. Day 55: Photos taken 00:00 9/3/23 Strong 24h of veg growth as predicted. Day 56: Existing leaves continue to swell. Stretch appears to be slowing. I've taken so many media this week that I cannot scroll down far enough to select a recent thumbnail. Probably Karen's biggest week in terms of changes. She is looking like she is going to impress. Height 39cm.

Hi all back with another week all goin good hopefully. flushed both plants with small nutrients dose on advice as tips getting a bit yellow plus new growth .it looked like nutrient burn 🔥.plus when did runoff ec was 1.6 so dropped it all back and with a bit of look i caught it early but to be honest they look amazing and loving life so fingers crossed all going good. as it my first time ever tho seen them in flesh. they could be in a bad state and need chopping down and me thinking I'm doin a alright job 🤣🤣🤣that's why I put it up on here is well just incase im a cabbage wasting me time on 2 apple trees or something haha main reason is ta get as much help as I can.love this site any free time going through all your grows amazing 👏 plus to all that have help me so far honestly it well appreciated and if yous see anything or find anything I'm doin stupid from now please let me Day 42:defoliated and gave a little hair cut ✂️ like lst hadn't a clue what i was doin and that work well I think so fingers crossed. Marshydro ts1000 on 75 percent at 50 cm.move to 80 percent in few days see how they react.Good luck all and Keep growing and blazing till we stoned

Stardog room it is looking pretty good and is thriving. Hopefully get the results we asking for. Aya room up to now is giving pretty impressive results and it looks like they like the enviroment even tho its not fully equiped. After adding the c4 neet to celan the insides a little bit more and see how it will react.

Day 30 - We are officially in flower now! So I'm upping the Bio-Bloom and Top-Max while making sure not to burn her. Day 32 - Stretching out nicely now. Buds site are starting to form and you can see a little bit of the purple color coming through, very exciting stuff. Leaves are perfect, she is happy and loving life.

2 phenos are making an amazing sea of colas. Just stacked to the tits. The other stretched its rows of branches. So I supercropped atleast 6 limbs. Response was great to the hst. Structure is really coming along and the trichomes are really coming on now. Bloom is in full swing. I reduced the nitrogen dose again. I also stopped giving them vigorous. Its a pure bloom mix now as these ladies are booming with flowers. Until next update. Happy growing and stay lit fam.

Got some phat girls up in here! Everyone is looking pretty good. A few of the plants are starting to ripen up while some others have at least a few weeks to go. Just filling the reservoir and letting them drink it. These girls show that simplicity isn't always a bad thing. I pulled the slurricane 7 from the system and started flushing it with plain tap water. It got a heavy 10 gallon flush today and I will give it 5 gallons a day for about a week. Just going to keep pumping the juice to the rest of them.

I was flushing all the plants since August 9. You can see in the videos with de microscope ( I really try my best, but it was pretty difficult) the trichomes looks cloudy and some of them looks amber. Maybe in the videos you can't see it because my hand was really shaky. August 17: all the plants were in dark. August 18: i cleaned all the plants, buds, leafs, everything..., spraying water to remove the rests of potasic soap. Today august 18, during the nigth, i'm going to harvest all the ladies. In the past 3 days i didn't watering the plants and the smell was stronger. August 19: Before dry -Critical Kush: 150g -Red dwarf: 60g -Syrup (2 plants): 270g -Lemon (4 plants): 570g

first day after a 12h night cycle, still have a big gnat problem. gonna go buy new bacteria, stickies and DT Earth. the grow shop just let me know that they got it back in stock but i haven't been able to find nematóides. doesn't seem to be a common practice here. i haven't watered them in a few days. the top soil is bone dry but the plants don't look like they're requesting water just yet so i think it's a good time to lay down the new dt earth and new yellow traps to see if we can kill the remainder. gonna grab some flowering ferts too while I'm at it. Update: got a bigger pot and some supergrow soil, only had time to transplant one of them today. but I decided to after them one more cycle before i do the DT earth. update: dt earth added, seems to be alright but not quite dry enough

we're almost there to harvest 👹

La semana 7 fue la penúltima antes de la floración. Una vez que termine la semana 8, el 11 de agosto, comenzaré con el horario de floración. También empezaré a usar los nutrientes de Advanced Nutrients específicos para esta etapa. Las plantas no han mostrado signos de estrés y han empezado a absorber mucha más agua. Por eso, en el próximo riego les aplicaré alrededor de 5 a 6 litros, ya que la demanda de agua ha aumentado considerablemente y las macetas se están secando rápido. Week 7 was the penultimate week before flowering. Once week 8 is completed, on August 11th, I will start the flowering schedule. I will also begin using Advanced Nutrients formulations designed for this stage. The plants have not shown any signs of stress and have started taking up much more water. Therefore, in the next watering, I plan to give them around 5 to 6 liters, since their water demand has increased significantly and the pots are drying out quickly.

Venga familia que ya viene la cosecha de estas Cereal Milk de RoyalQueenSeeds, que ganas que tenia ya de darles machetazo. No veas que pinta que tienen estas plantas. Las flores aparte de prietas se ven bien resinosas, con 70 dias de floración. a sido una genética con la que disfruté mucho cultivarla, es resistente , y no es para nada complicado cultivarla por lo menos en interior. Agrobeta: https://www.agrobeta.com/agrobetatiendaonline/36-abonos-canamo Mars hydro: Code discount: EL420 https://www.mars-hydro.com/ Hasta aquí es todo , espero que lo disfrutéis, buenos humos 💨💨.

Top strain, very easy 2 grow with amazing results in the end. Smoked it many times, one of my favourite old school strains. Again loads of rock solid buds, wich is our main target apart from beautiful pics of course ✌️ 💚 So final results are 580gr of quality solid buds🤩✔️ that's not include the bottom trim and small buds. Total harvest weight of 54 trees is 5kg of quality solid buds and around 2kg of bottom small buds

👨‍🚀👋 Depuis quelques temps je ne vois pas beaucoup ma culture car je me trouve loin d'elles Je passe la voir uniquement pour l'arroser, un peu + d'une fois par semaine. J'ajoute du Bioenhancer une fois sur 2. Les plantes m'ont l'air d'être en bonne forme. Pourvu que ça dure !🤞🌠 Intensité de la FC3000: 90% Ventilation : Extracteur mars hydro 6 pouces avec filtre à charbon puissance : 4/10 (24h/24h) + 3 ventilateurs à l'intérieur ( ON 8/24h). ils s'activent à un horaire différent. 🌺👨‍🚀💃👨‍🚀💃👨‍🚀💃🌺 Venez me voir sur instagram 👌: https://www.instagram.com/hou_stone420/

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I made a mistake with my last two waterings: the pH was at 7 instead of 6 / 6.2… My Bluelab pH pen was reading 6.2, and the classic pH drop test was hard to read because of the added nutrients. The plants clearly went into lockout. I watered at 6.2 yesterday and they already showed signs of improvement; I’ll post a before/after photo. They’ll make it to the end 💪🌱 The two SM&Q2 already have nicely milky trichomes and a few amber ones — the harvest will be small but high quality ✨ The two Sour B are slower, but they smell insanely good — fruity candy vibes 🍬🍭

Warunki raczej stabilne temperatura w dzień ca. 24-26C w nocy 17-19C wilgotność ok.50% Lampa 75% ,60cm od szczytów. Podlewane w cyklu woda-woda-odzywki... Zastanawiam się czy nie dołożyć lampy UV (mantis od grow the jungle) na 1 godzinę dziennie. Pozdrawiam oglądających.

Somebody opened a bag of berry jolly rancher gummies? 🤣

Week 1 Chronicles: Cherry Cola Auto Unleashed! Greetings, fellow cultivators of green magic! The time has come to unravel the mysteries of the first week in the life of our beloved Cherry Cola Auto from the illustrious @Fast_Buds . Buckle up, my friends, because this is not just a report; it's a journey into the heart of cannabis cultivation. Let the green adventure begin! Week 1 Highlights: Our Cherry Cola Auto has emerged from its cozy soil cradle, and boy, is it making a statement! In just one short week, this little botanical marvel has spread its leafy wings and is reaching for the stars. The cotyledons have given way to the first set of true leaves, each one a testament to the genetic artistry crafted by Fast Buds Seeds. The leaves are a vibrant shade of green, like nature's own canvas painted with the promise of potency and flavor. It's like watching an artist create a masterpiece, stroke by stroke, with each leaf contributing to the symphony of growth. A round of applause goes to Aptus Holland, our trusted sponsor, for providing the nutritional symphony that fuels this botanical performance. The Cherry Cola Auto is sipping on Aptus nutrients like a connoisseur enjoying the finest wine. It's a harmonious dance of elements, ensuring our plant gets the love it deserves. Shout-outs: Before we get lost in the lush foliage of our Cherry Cola Auto, let's extend our gratitude to those who make this journey possible. Once again, Fast Buds, you've outdone yourselves. The vigor and vitality of the Cherry Cola Auto are a testament to your dedication to cannabis excellence. Bravo! A tip of the hat to my sponsor, Aptus Holland, for providing the nutrient wizardry that propels my plant to new heights. Your support is the secret ingredient in this green alchemy. To our fellow green thumbs on Grow Diaries, your support and camaraderie fuel our passion. Sharing the highs and lows of our horticultural adventures makes this journey even more exhilarating. Conclusion: As we wrap up this first-week report, it's clear that the Cherry Cola Auto is not just a plant; it's a botanical symphony in the making. Fast Buds Seeds, Aptus Holland, and the Grow Diaries community, you're all part of this green opera, and we're grateful for your contributions. Here's to the weeks ahead, where we'll witness the crescendo of buds, the aroma of success, and the sweet taste of horticultural triumph. Until then, keep growing, keep smiling, and may your gardens be forever green! 🌿🌟💚 Genetics Cherry Cola Auto @Fast_Buds @fastbuds_genetics_official @fastbuds_official @fastbuds_espana Nutrition: @aptusholland @aptus_world @aptus_ Love, Care, and Attention: @dogdoctorofficial As always, thank you all for joining me on this journey, for your love, and for it all. My horticultural odyssey would never be the same without you. Your love and support are cherished, and I feel both honored and blessed to have you in my life <3 <3 <3 #aptus #aptusplanttech #aptusgang #aptusfamily #aptustrueplantscience #inbalancewithnature #trueplantscience #dogdoctorofficial #growerslove #fastbuds #specialplants #homegrown #fastbuds #cherrypie #CultivatingBeauty #NatureArtistry #HomegrownMagic #GreenPassion #JourneyWithPlants With true love comes happiness. Always believe in yourself and always do things expecting nothing in return, with an open heart. Be a giver, and the universe will respond in ways you can't even dream off. Friendly reminder: all you see here is pure research and for educational purposes only. Growers Love to you all <3 <3 <3