D68 (28/01/2021): First official day of week 6 in bloom and first official day (second in reality) of pre harvest flush. The smell is strong when I open the tent! It does not take long for the whole room to smell dank and even outside the room. - temp: 24-25C light ON ; 20-22C light OFF - no water - RH: 49-52% light ON ; 49-50% light OFF D69 (29/01/2021): I did a first proper flush today by running approximately 2.5 gallons of water trough the medium. There is still a lot of nutrients in the medium. I might do the exact same flush tomorrow. The PH of the run off is high (around PH7-7.1). This is an other reason to flush again tomorrow. I also reduced the light ON schedule by two hours. So now 18h hours ON and 6 hours OFF. I will continue reducing the ON period until they are ready for a complete dark period. I also try to reduce the air temperature. - temp: 24-25C light ON ; 19-20C light OFF - water: PH6.4, 135PPM, 2.5 gallons each - run off: PH7 and 680PPM for Glue Gelato ; PH7.1 and 560PPM for Banana Kush - RH: 47% light ON ; 48-53% light OFF D70 (30/01/2021): I did a second flush since I was not satisfied with run off PPM of yesterday. Today, the run off PPM is under 300 which is what I wanted. The run off PH is still high with 7.1. Banana Kush is ripening with the pistils slowly turning brown. Glue Gelato look sooooo yummy and I can't wait to harvest it. There is a small color change in some leaves but I'm expecting more in the next days. - temp: 23-24C light ON ; 19C light OFF - water: PH6.4, 125PPM, 2.5 gallons each - run off: PH7.1 and 260PPM for Glue Gelato ; PH7.1 and 250PPM for Banana Kush - RH: 46% light ON ; 46-48% light OFF D71 (31/01/2021): Glue Gelato is changing color. I'm checking trichomes everyday on both girls and no amber yet. - temp: 23-24C light ON ; 19C light OFF - no water - RH: 45% light ON ; 49-50% light OFF D72 (01/02/2021): Well well well...the clock is ticking for those girls. Glue Gelato is now having a couple of amber trichomes. Banana Kush don't have any. Overall Banana Kush has less trichomes and fluffier buds. This girls is not ready yet but I will need to chop her down at the same time has the Glue Gelato because my drying space is the tent I'm growing in. I will try to push the Banana Kush to ripen faster by lifting up the lamp at 16 inches from top bud and by reducing of 2 hours the day period for a 16 hours light ON and 8 hours light OFF. But at least all Banana Kush trichomes looks milky. - temp: 23-24C light ON ; 18-19C light OFF - water: PH6.2, 123PPM, less then a gallon each - run off: PH7.4 and 200PPM for Glue Gelato ; PH7.4 and 287PPM for Banana Kush - RH: 45% light ON ; 40-45% light OFF D73 (02/02/2021): I gave water probably for the last time today. Trichomes on Glue Gelato are starting to amber on top buds. Not a lot of amber but you can see that all the trichomes are starting to degrade by curling down slowly. Trichomes on Banana Kush are not amber at all but they all look milky. Glue Gelato is ready to harvest but Banana Kush need more time. It's tough to make a decision to chop or not since they are not at the same stage of growth. I want to place them in a complete 48 hours of darkness before harvest. 1h less light today for a 15h light ON and 9h light OFF. The lamps are now at 20 inches. - temp: 23-24C light ON ; 18-19C light OFF - water: less then a gallon each - RH: 45% light ON ; 40-45% light OFF D74 (03/02/2021): Glue Gelato is ready for 48h of darkness. I will take her out of the tent and place her in an other room without light. I will try to maintain a proper environment in this room and if it smells to strong or if the condition are not good I will replace her in the tent and both will start the 48h darkness. The idea is to give Banana Kush 2 more days to ripe and swoll more. After 48h, I will chop Glue Gelato and place her in the tent to start drying. Banana Kush will then start her 48h darkness. I don't know if this strategy is good but I will monitor everything closely and react if something is wrong. - temp: 22-23C light ON ; 19C light OFF - no water - RH: 47% light ON ; 43-45% light OFF

This week is sunny 🌞 . Started giving Big bud. Watering 2-3 liters per plant.

I would definitely grow this again, I didn’t expect for it to come out this good!

Howdy folks. This week had some turbulent weather, and is really testing the resistances of this strain. The days have either been hot and humid, or raining non-stop. Not exactly what you want late flower, but you get what you get with outdoors! Spotted a few swollen calyxes so there must be pollen floating around. My neighbour just discovered a male plant over his side of the fence. Crossing my fingers that there were no open pollen sacks before he pulled it. Apparently the pods were tiny and hadn't opened yet but I never got to see and verify that. But... this is outdoors, and the area is very outdoorsy/foresty - so there's bound to be loads of stray males in the area. Hoping that these don't turn into seed factories 🤞 What's the latest a flowering plant can get pollinated? Are you ever in the "safe zone"?

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Apolo F1 Mission Diary - Week 2: The Rise of the Green Titan Greetings, fellow growers and botanical enthusiasts! Our Apolo F1 has sprouted into a verdant marvel, standing tall and proud, like a green titan rising from the soil. Join me in this second-week report as we explore the wonders of growth, the magic of transplantation, and the botanical symphony of nutrients. This week marked a significant milestone – the grand migration to an 11L fabric pot, generously provided by the good folks at Royal Queen Seeds. Now, let's talk fabric pots and why they're the VIP treatment for our plant's roots. Fabric pots, oh, they're like the five-star hotels for roots! Unlike their traditional counterparts, fabric pots offer superior aeration. The porous fabric breathes, preventing the soil from becoming waterlogged and ensuring oxygen reaches every nook and cranny of our Apolo F1's root system. It's like giving our plant a breath of fresh air, quite literally. But the benefits don't end there – fabric pots also prevent roots from circling the container, promoting a more extensive and fibrous root system. This, my friends, translates to a happier, healthier plant with increased nutrient uptake and overall vigor. It's like our Apolo F1 is getting a botanical spa day every day! Now, let's dive into the alchemical mix that accompanied this transplantation – my special Aptus Holland super soil blend. Picture this as the magic potion for plant prosperity. First in the concoction is Micromix Soil, a blend of microorganisms and stimulants that's like a botanical feast. These microorganisms act as the unsung heroes of the soil, enhancing nutrient availability and fostering a symbiotic relationship with our green companion. Next up, enter the Substrate Buffer Powder – the pH conditioner extraordinaire. Unstable pH conditions begone! This powder, featuring micronized calcium, acts as the stabilizing force, ensuring our plant enjoys a balanced pH banquet. And let's not forget the All-in-One Pellet – the time-released 100% organic pellet fertilizer. Packed with a compounded NPK fertilizer, magnesium, sulfur, and organically chelated microelements, it's like a gourmet meal for our Apolo F1. The L-amino acids are the chef's kiss, enhancing nutrient absorption and overall plant health. During the transplantation spectacle, I introduced Mycor Mix once again. This blend of endomycorrhizae, fixed on a vegetal carrier, is like the entourage for our Apolo F1, feeding and protecting the fungi that, in turn, support our plant's growth. It's the ultimate teamwork, a botanical Avengers assembling to ensure our green hero thrives. And the best part? Our Apolo F1 is reacting with sheer botanical enthusiasm, reaching for the stars and soaking in the nutrients like a plant on a mission. Before I conclude this week's report, a heartfelt shoutout to Royal Queen Seeds for the royal treatment in the form of fabric pots, to Aptus Holland for being the architects of this nutrient symphony, and to Grow Diaries for being the virtual arena where our horticultural tale unfolds. Stay tuned for the next chapter in our Apolo F1 Mission Diary – where we'll witness the continued ascent of our green titan. As always thank you all for stopping by and for supporting me on this journey, i am super passion about growing and fell blessed to have you all with me on this new journey <3 <3 <3 Genetics - RQS APOLLO F1 Ligth - LUMATEK ZEUS 465 COMPACT PRO 
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So, Nitrogen deficiency SEEMS to have slowed down or stopped (hopefully). I've upped the FloraMicro as well as the frequency of feedings, from once a week to 2-3 times. Next year I will plant in soil as I'm going to fly through nutes, and the Midget that's planted in my flower bed has received nothing but water and has shown ZERO deficiencies. The girls have now also began to show a Calcium deficiency as can be seen in the pics on new growth, as a result I've upped the amount of CaliMagic as well. Weird as I see many people feeding 1/2 the dose as recommended by GHE while i'm feeding the recommended and then some. I'm guessing it may be because the girls are big, not sure. Oh well I ordered a gallon of each of the nutes and a gallon of KoolBloom from WEGROWBUDS.ca Highly Recommended. As soon as my prize comes in from @HumboltSeeds I will be planting 4 girls indoors! And FYI I may break this diary up into the Blue Cookies and White Widow individually, we'll see.

For a couple of runts I think I'll end up with a couple of blunts! Tight little buds. Lots of resin and great scent. I kind if wish I could just keep them going but they are nearing the end.

No nutrients this last watering I did today. Flushing for 2 weeks then harvest time! I've done the last of my defoliating and looking forward to starting a new batch in a few short weeks.

Beautiful progress with this girl. Can't really tell from pics, but some of her fan leaves are turning a purple tint, like her sugar leaves. Been feeding max strength compost tea with every watering, and she really enjoys it so far. Also, a little update on the clones I plucked from her a few weeks back. 6 of them successfully rooted, and now I'm hardening them off in the veg tent. 1 is already progressing onto vegetative growth. So her legacy continues :) Update 01/27/22: Her lower leaves are beginning to yellow and i see a nice mauve color spreading onto the fan leaves. I don't believe the leaves yellowing are a result of a deficiency or anything bad. She drinks at a fast rate, prays upwards first thing in the morning, and continues to stack her buds at a solid pace. And shes getting plenty of phosphorous, potassium and a bit of nitrogen as well. Shes getting fed blackstrap molasses with every feeding, which has a lot of calcium and magnesium. So after considering all of that, I think she'll just chug right along. As it's more likely just how this strain is. I remember my first run having a rather light-toned leaf coloration. Anyways, im starting to get a slight whiff of that infamous "purps" smell when I open the tent. It'll be hard to keep my head out of the tent come week 5, because I remember this strain being such a beauty. And I think I'm doing a better job with this run than my first. So I'm super stoked for the weeks to come. Cheers everyone 👍🏾

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Ladies and gentlemen, here we are getting into the 3rd week of flower, so you know what that means!!! Next week is Plagron Green Sensation 💚 and silica and a little cal mag, if needed... this girl is getting big.She is about two and a half feet wide and has been stretching like crazy.. this is gonna be a great plant and a nice harvest, and I can't wait to see how the Plagron nutrients swelling up those buds .. stick around because if need be I will add more pictures throughout the week .. thank you Zamnesia Seeds and Plagron for the opportunity to grow this beauty 😍.. I hope everyone is doing well on the contest.Since everybody else God bless and happy growing ✌️. Day 56 i just uploaded a video showing what she looks like after a massive defoliation. In lollipopping, we're focusing on the top of the plant.. hopefully the stretch is over and start stacking

She’s all dialed in now transferred her too a 5 gallon fabric pot mixed 2 tsp per Gallon of dirt with 4-4-4 Gia green nutrients watering her when she’s dry about once or twice a day at a ph between 6.3-6.6

Depuis la fin de la semaine 10, j’avais commencé mon rinçage après avoir observé les trichomes à l’aide de différents appareils, microscope de poche vendu dans les Growshops, microscope à fixer sur son smartphone ou encore les lentilles macro de type Apexel lens 2 en 1.... Les lentilles macro m’ont permis de voir de manières assez aisées que ceux-ci étaient pour la plus pars laiteux, j’avais donc pensé que c’était le moment pour moi, d’entreprendre ma période de rinçage. J’avais lu sur différents sites qu’il fallait effectuer 2 semaines de rinçages afin d’éliminé tous trace de nutriments et d’avoir un weed savoureuse. Je pensais donc que le timing était bon et que mes 2 semaines supplémentaires me donneraient les 15 à 20% de trichomes ambrés mais j’arrive à la fin de la première semaine de rinçage et très peu d’ambré. J’ai donc ce weekend redonné un peu d’engrais, car les feuilles sont en pleines sénescences et la maturation des trichomes demande encore un peu de temps. Un peu perdu, pour être honnête, le contrôle de ce jour montre un stress plutôt bénéfique pour les filles qui vont être à nouveaux rincées. Afin de m’aider au mieux, j’ai commandé l’appareil Higrade analyseur de cannabis que je recevrais lundi, je vous donnerais donc plus de détails par la suite mais cet appareil est sensé nous donné de précieuses données quand coupé, taux de THC, carence, maladie bref un gadget qui promet de belle prouesse à voir donc. Cependant après plusieurs recherches, j’ai appris que l’on commençait son rinçage seulement quand les trichomes devenaient ambrés et après 10 jours de rinçages et après on coupe....

Leaves leaves lots of leaves Trim took a while so plan accordingly Growing is easy really easy no issues The strain does seem to be able to grow well on lower nuets than we used, maybe 10-20% less. Bea dry yield 255 grams fixed the video Hero dry yield 271 grams 526 total

# Tical x Zamnesia — Nectar Drip 🍯💧 | Harvest Report This one feels special. Not only because Nectar Drip is a collaboration between Tical and Zamnesia, and not only because this was a limited edition pack that we were lucky enough to get our hands on… but because this entire run had personality from the beginning until the very last cut. And now? Harvest time. Last week, we froze the smallest plant immediately after harvest for future washing and extraction work. We will talk much deeper about that process later on when the time comes, because there is already enough happening in this report alone. For now, she rests quietly in the freezer waiting for her next transformation. This week belongs to the other girls. The remaining plants are now officially harvested. And honestly… wow. Dense. Compact. Heavy. Greasy. Colorful. Beautifully faded. These flowers finished exactly the way we hoped they would. The trichomes are right where I personally love to harvest my medicine: - around 80% cloudy, - a small touch of amber, - a few still transitioning from clear into cloudy. For me, this is the sweet spot. This is where the plant feels the most “alive” in effect and expression. The majority of the trichome heads have matured fully, but the profile still keeps that brightness, complexity, and energy before moving too deeply into degradation. If harvested too early: - many trichomes are still immature, - cannabinoid development is incomplete, - effects can feel unfinished or sharp. If harvested too late: - more cannabinoids begin degrading, - THC slowly converts over time into compounds like CBN, - effects often become heavier, sleepier, and more sedative. And while there is absolutely nothing wrong with harvesting later if that is what someone prefers, this specific window is personally where I feel the flower expresses itself best for my own medicinal and recreational preference. That is the beautiful part of growing: everyone eventually develops their own relationship with harvest timing. There is no single perfect answer. There is only observation, intention, and preference. And these girls were speaking very clearly. The fade across the leaves was incredible this week. Deep yellows, pale greens, dark fading edges, purples, reds hiding in places the camera barely captures properly. You can almost feel the plant redistributing everything it has left into the flowers before the end. Even the structure itself became fascinating near harvest. When we cut into the stems, the inside looked almost like a tiny tree trunk. Huge vascular channels running through the middle, thick supportive tissue, massive water transport systems that carried these flowers through their entire life cycle. You could feel it physically during harvest. This was not like cutting a soft plant anymore. It genuinely felt like cutting small trees. And honestly, the stem thickness explains a lot about the flowers themselves: dense structure, heavy tops, excellent water transport, strong support, healthy development. The genetics clearly had strength behind them. The flowers themselves are absolutely covered. At some points, the sugar leaves are literally curling and twisting under the sheer amount of trichome coverage. Any connoisseur looking at these buds up close immediately understands what they are looking at. Top shelf flower. No hype needed. The plant speaks for herself. The F.O.G. LED setup continues to impress more and more every run too. The flower quality under these lights has been genuinely outstanding. Resin production, density, coloration, structure, frost expression — everything feels elevated. It really does feel like we are watching part of the future of indoor cultivation unfold in real time. Of course, before harvest we had to bring these girls into the studio one final time. And honestly… they were amazing models. 😄 We shot: - dark dramatic portraits, - bright detailed flower shots, - macro closeups, - studio photographs, - behind-the-scenes moments, - live videos, - and a huge amount of focus-stacked macro photography. Some of the photographs became entire projects by themselves. For anyone curious about the “photo stacked” images: those are not single photographs. They are multiple photos merged together at different focus distances to create one final image with extreme detail and depth. Some stacks here used: - 103 photos, - 110 photos, - 171 photos, - 201 photos, - all the way up to 226 merged frames. The process takes patience: shooting, sorting, merging, aligning, correcting, editing, balancing colors, recovering detail, and then refining the final image carefully. But the result is worth it. You start seeing the flower almost like another world: individual trichome heads, resin textures, tiny color transitions, leaf structures, amber glands, frost patterns, details the naked eye simply cannot fully appreciate in real time. And the colors on this Nectar Drip are honestly stunning. Greens. Lime tones. Deep forest shades. Purples. Yellows. Reds. Silver frost. Orange pistils. Some shots leaned into darker cinematic moods, others pushed colorful vibrant expressions. We experimented a little and allowed the flowers to show different personalities depending on light, background, and mood. Now the plants are hanging peacefully. Because of their size and density, we could not hang everything as entire full plants. Instead, we divided them into grouped branches for drying. They now rest in controlled conditions for the next week or two while we monitor: - humidity, - drying speed, - aroma development, - branch flexibility, - and overall curing preparation. No rushing now. Harvest is not the finish line. Drying is part of the grow too. And honestly, sometimes it is one of the most important parts. We also included some video updates because certain things simply cannot be fully captured in photos alone: the way the flowers move, how the colors react in real light, the depth of the frost, the density, the atmosphere around the plant itself. The room felt calm this week. That strange calm after harvest where the work is technically done, but another important phase quietly begins. And next week? Next week will probably be the trimming and smoke review report. That is why we separated the reports into stages instead of forcing everything into one massive update. There are simply too many details, too many moments, too much material, and too much beauty in this run to rush through it carelessly. This harvest deserved time. And before ending this report, as always: Thank you. To Zamnesia. To Tical. To Plagron. To F.O.G. To LumifloraTo the gear. To the platform. To the community. To the longtime followers and OGs. To the new people stopping by out of curiosity. To the supporters. To the skeptics. To the silent viewers. To the haters too honestly 😄 To everyone who spent even a few seconds here with us. If someone stopped scrolling long enough to share this moment with us, then they deserve a little gratitude and a little love in return. This run was beautiful from beginning to end. And somehow… I still feel the story is not fully finished yet. 🌱 📡 DELETED @ 1K Please stay tuned.we never quit https://www.youtube.com/@TheDogDoctorOfficial NEW 🙏 Thank you for your patience and continued support. FOR DISCOUNT CODES AND MORE JUST FOLLOW THE LINK https://website.beacons.ai/dogdoctorofficial 📲 Don’t forget to Subscribe and follow me on Instagram and YouTube @DogDoctorOfficial for exclusive content, real-time updates, and behind-the-scenes magic. 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The Tropicana Cookie is an awesome strain with a great sweet and woody aroma. I had some issues in the beginning with the development and the grow of the plant but she bounced back. She got cut today and put to dry.

This is my first grow getting back into it after a 25 yr absence.