👑 Godfather OG – Pheno B Week 5 | Elegance in Every Stretch Welcome back to another chapter of the 8×8 Adventure! One of the greatest joys of running a true phenotype hunt is discovering how differently each individual plant expresses herself, even when every variable remains exactly the same. Same genetics. Same lighting. Same environment. Same feeding philosophy. Yet every plant tells her own story. Godfather OG Pheno B is proving that perfectly. While some of her sisters are building broader, bushier canopies, this lady has chosen elegance over width, reaching confidently toward the lights with long, graceful branches and beautifully spaced flowering sites. She isn't trying to be the biggest. She's simply becoming herself. And that's exactly what makes phenotype hunting so fascinating. 🌱 The Journey So Far If this is your first visit to this diary, welcome! Every plant in this project is being grown using the 12/12 From Seed technique. Rather than extending the vegetative stage before inducing flowering, every seed has lived under twelve hours of light and twelve hours of darkness from the very first day. That means I never decide when flowering begins. The plants do. Each phenotype follows its own internal clock, revealing its own pace and personality. It's one of the reasons this project has become such an incredible learning experience. Watching sister plants develop into completely different individuals under identical conditions never stops amazing me. 🌸 Week One of Flower This week marks what I consider Week One of Flower. The transition is now unmistakable. Fresh white pistils are emerging across every growing tip, quietly announcing that the plant has shifted her priorities from building stems and leaves to creating flowers. These tiny white hairs may seem insignificant today... …but they are the first chapter of every future cola. Every morning seems to bring another cluster of pistils, another little burst of growth, and another reminder of how quickly this stage evolves. It's one of my favourite moments in the entire cultivation cycle. The excitement is only just beginning. 🌿 A Structure Built for Success Now standing close to 96 cm, Pheno B has become one of the tallest ladies in the room. Rather than producing a dense, compact canopy, she's expressing a wonderfully open architecture. Long internodal spacing. Strong central stem. Healthy side branching. Excellent airflow. Instead of fighting her natural shape, I've simply allowed her to develop the way she wanted. No aggressive training. No heavy defoliation. Just a little leaf tucking here and there to improve light penetration while letting the plant write her own story. Sometimes the best thing a grower can do... ...is simply stay out of the plant's way. The result is an elegant framework where every future flowering site has room to breathe and access to plenty of light. 💧 Hand Watering — Every Plant, Every Decision Unlike some of her sisters growing on AutoPots, Pheno B continues to be hand-watered. There's something incredibly rewarding about this approach. Every watering becomes an opportunity to slow down. To observe. To inspect every leaf. To notice the smallest changes before they become problems. Rather than simply feeding the plant, hand watering encourages a closer relationship with her development. As flowering begins, the nutrition program continues its gradual transition toward bloom production. Bloom nutrients are now taking a larger role while enough nitrogen remains available to support the final stretch before the plant fully dedicates her energy to building flowers. Everything is progressing exactly as planned. 🌡️ Environment — Consistency Creates Confidence The room continues delivering stable conditions that allow every phenotype to perform at her best. Current averages include: • 🌡️ Day temperature: 29°C • 🌙 Night temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative humidity: 60% • ? Root zone: 21°C • 💦 Nutrient solution: 24°C • 🌿 CO₂ concentration: 639 ppm Rather than chasing perfection every day, I focus on maintaining consistency. Healthy plants don't just grow because they're fed well. They thrive because they're never forced to constantly adapt to changing conditions. A stable environment allows the plant to spend her energy growing instead of recovering. 📸 This Week's Gallery This week's photographs capture a plant that's confidently stepping into her flowering journey. Full-length portraits highlight her elegant vertical structure and balanced branching. Close-up images showcase the first clusters of bright white pistils appearing across multiple flowering sites. Several photographs also reveal the open architecture that has naturally developed through gentle guidance rather than heavy intervention. Every branch seems eager to join the race toward becoming a future cola. Watching these subtle changes unfold week after week is one of the most rewarding parts of documenting this project. Sometimes a camera captures progress that our eyes almost miss from one day to the next. 🔮 Looking Ahead Over the coming week I expect the stretch to continue as flowering becomes fully established. More pistils will appear across every branch, while the first true bud clusters begin forming at each flowering site. Training will remain minimal. Only occasional leaf tucking will be carried out whenever necessary to improve light penetration and airflow. At this point, the goal isn't to reshape the plant. It's simply to support the structure she's already chosen for herself. If she continues growing with this same rhythm, I think she's going to produce a canopy filled with long, beautifully stacked colas. She's healthy. She's vigorous. And she's only just getting started. 💚 Thank You Thank you so much for following another chapter of this 8×8 Adventure. Every phenotype teaches something different, and that's exactly why documenting each one individually has become such a rewarding experience. A huge thank you to: 💚 GrowDiaries for providing an incredible platform where growers from around the world can learn, share their experiences, and inspire one another. 🌱 Zamnesia for supplying the outstanding genetics that make this phenotype hunt possible. ? Plagron for providing the nutrients supporting these ladies from seed to harvest. 💡 Future of Grow LED for delivering the light driving every stage of development. 🌿 TrolMaster for helping maintain the stable environment that allows every phenotype to express her full potential. And finally... Thank you to everyone reading these updates, leaving comments, asking questions, sharing knowledge, or simply following along. Your support makes this journey even more enjoyable. I'll see you all next week as Godfather OG Pheno B continues transforming graceful branches into what I hope will become a canopy full of beautiful flowers. Growers Love, and happy growing everyone! 🌱👑💚

Its Been A Ok Transition From Indoors To Outdoors...

8th week, almost 9. Last week I gave them some nutes and looks like they like it. Looking healthy to me. Flowers getting some weight on them. Looking forward for some tasty buds. :)

Jusqu'ici tous va bien !!

Very nice, can’t wait for it to cure fully

Se hace defoliación extrema 5 días antes del corte para intentar hacer madurar la planta de forma mas pareja.✌️👨‍🌾🏻

Rocko’s Runtz Rumble – Tag 77 🌱👊💚 Blütewoche 4 – Blütetag 28 Blütenentwicklung 🌸 Die vierte Blütewoche ist geschafft und ich bin mit der Entwicklung weiterhin sehr zufrieden. Die Blüten legen ordentlich zu und die Unterschiede zwischen den drei Sorten werden immer deutlicher. Pink Banana Runtz entwickelt sich langsam zum kleinen Schwergewicht. Ihre Blüten sind deutlich dicker und kompakter als bei den beiden anderen. Durch die kurzen Internodien sitzen die Blütenansätze schön dicht beieinander. Melonade Runtz zeigt dagegen eine eher offene, längliche und teilweise etwas strubbelige Blütenstruktur. Sie bleibt außerdem meine empfindlichste Kandidatin. Einige Blattspitzen sind beschädigt und vereinzelt zeigen sich kleinere Nekrosen. Blue Zushi überrascht mich mit einer Blütenstruktur, die Melonade ziemlich ähnlich sieht. Auch hier entwickeln sich längliche, teilweise turmartige Blütenansätze, allerdings etwas kompakter. Dazu kommt eine bereits sehr schöne Harzbildung. Bei allen drei Pflanzen konnte ich diese Woche auffällig aufgerichtete Blätter beobachten. Besonders Blue Zushi zeigte richtig schöne Praying Leaves. Das sehe ich natürlich gerne! 😎 Die endgültigen Pflanzenhöhen liegen bei 115 cm für Melonade, 105 cm für Pinky und 131 cm für Blue Zushi. Letztere steht allerdings im kleineren Topf und damit etwas tiefer als die beiden anderen. Klima und Technik 🌡️ Die Entfeuchtung läuft inzwischen über den HYDRONE 5. Mein Ziel ist ein VPD zwischen 1,4 und 1,6 kPa. Ganz so konstant bekomme ich das noch nicht hin, aber auch mit Werten über 1,1 kPa bin ich schon zufrieden. Die Klimaregelung funktioniert grundsätzlich gut, auch wenn es noch einige Schwankungen gibt. Die zusätzlichen Under-Canopy-Bars laufen ebenfalls weiter. Ob die mittlere Blütenzone davon wirklich profitiert, wird sich in den kommenden Wochen zeigen. Bewässerung und Nährstoffe 💧 Inzwischen sind auch die Dripper installiert und ich bin wirklich zufrieden damit! Die Pflanzen bekommen jetzt regelmäßig ihre Grundversorgung mit Leitungswasser und etwas Mono-Magnesium. Das funktioniert erstaunlich gut und ist eine echte Erleichterung. Vor allem läuft die Bewässerung jetzt viel gleichmäßiger. Beim Gießen von Hand trifft man ja doch nicht jeden Tag exakt die gleiche Menge oder den gleichen Zeitpunkt. Die Pflanzen scheinen die regelmäßige Versorgung jedenfalls zu mögen. 😎 Die zusätzliche Düngung läuft über Handgießungen. Dafür lasse ich bei Bedarf einfach ein Bewässerungsintervall aus und gebe stattdessen eine kleine Portion Nährlösung. Die eigentliche Nährstoffversorgung übernehmen nach wie vor die BioTabs und die vorgedüngte Erde. Viel zusätzlich düngen muss ich also gar nicht. Green Bull gibt’s einfach als kleine Unterstützung, damit die Pflanzen mit Stress durch Licht und Klima besser klarkommen und die vorhandenen Nährstoffe möglichst gut verwerten. Natürlich alles schön sparsam dosiert. Pinky und Blue Zushi haben außerdem schon etwas PK-Blütedünger zur Unterstützung der Blütenentwicklung bekommen. Bei Melonade bin ich wegen ihrer empfindlicheren Reaktion weiterhin etwas vorsichtiger. Schädlingsbekämpfung 🐛 Die Thripse beschäftigen mich leider weiterhin. Deshalb habe ich erneut Amblyseius swirskii und Florfliegenlarven ausgebracht. Die kleinen Helfer sollen den Schädlingsdruck weiter reduzieren. Ich hoffe, dass ich die Sache damit biologisch unter Kontrolle halten kann. Fazit 🌱 Insgesamt bin ich mit der vierten Blütewoche sehr zufrieden. Jede Sorte zeigt inzwischen deutlich ihren eigenen Charakter. Pinky setzt auf dicke, kompakte Blüten, Melonade bleibt etwas wilder und empfindlicher, während Blue Zushi mit kräftigem Wachstum und schöner Harzbildung überzeugt. Besonders spannend finde ich die überraschend ähnliche Blütenstruktur von Melonade und Blue Zushi. Mal sehen, wie unterschiedlich die beiden am Ende tatsächlich werden. Alle drei können jetzt entspannt in die nächste Blütewoche cruisen. Ich lehn mich zurück und genieße die Show. 😎👊 Am Ende zählt nur, welche Runtz am härtesten rumblet! 🌱💚

Visto que el agua de base sale con unos valores muy altos he decido obtar por mezclar el agua de riego con agua destilada mitad/mitad. De esta forma le podré aportar mayor cantidad de nutrientes sin que los valores suban excesivamente. Por otro lado también le añadiré ácido cítrico para bajar el PH. Os presento como voy regando, es un inventillo que hace años hice y sigue dando guerra. Va muy bién para repartir el agua y relentiza el riego haciendo que el agua vaya filtrando mejor por el sustrato. El embudo lleva una malla donde se quedan los restos más grandes y así no se atasquen los abujeros. Alguno dirá que pierde agua pero no es así, el agua que cae fuera es por que no tube punteria al llenar el emudo y casi lo tiro todo fuera. No se puede hacer tres cosas a la vez, soy hombre hehehe. no podia rellenar el embudo, regar y filmar con el movil al mismo tiempo. Y a más el video está reducido a cámara rápida por lo que parece que pierda aun más rápido.

The final Week, before harvest! She has some massive towering buds! 2.5 gallons of water is lasting this plant 5-6 days before drying out, and ready for more.. She was harvested instead of being watered!

This is doing good just swelling up. Its gunna have some fat buds it looks like. Some of these never fully recovered from being stunted from the cold. I added some microbe life photosynthesis plus to the mix.

The Sweet Cheese have been building up frost already and we are only in the start of bloom. wicked citrus sour candy smell, i cant wait to taste it! Orange Apricot Glue also starting to become frosty, but is taking is time to go to full bloom, gonna be big, when she for real starts blooming. gave both plants a dose of Calmag, due to some rust spots appearingz

We made it to week 8, all the buds are looking beautiful! I'm excited to finish this grow out strong and start the next one! I'm planning on trying to reveg the Cheri Grenada afterwards to clone and use in a future breeding project. I love the terps on that one soooo much!

Le 98e jour se passe bien. La plante rentre dans sa phase finale et termine sa maturation. Les pistils commencent à devenir ambrés. C'est la première fois que j'ai une plante qui dépasse plus de 100 jours en espérant avoir le succès escompté 🌱🙏 La récolte se passe dans une semaine, laissant la place à d'autres petits et de nouvelles aventures dans un nouveau substrat.

2nd week in the big tent, not overly happy with the progress , some plants are coping better than others, seem to be getting curling/yellowing leafs? hoping that by next week they will be in full swing, one night the heater cut out and the room went down to 13c, don’t suppose that will have helped

Bastante bonita, buen producción a pesar de que le dio botrytis en la copa principal y tuve que cortar por prevención. Un olor muy original, honestamente me gusto mucho, la considero fácil de cultivar con un plan de nutrientes medios.

There is little to say yet. I recommend everyone to try this technique at least once. Maximize your harvest and increase your personal experience. If you want more serious proof of how mainlining works, take a look at the diaries of @Canamatoes, my teacher and mentor. More updates later, stay high🤘😁🦄

Another easy auto to grow looks like she’s gonna come out amazing When dried let’s see how it goes!!!

Week 10 done, gave my girl in the reused soil the chop on Monday, when she’s dried and cured I’ll be back with her weight and how she turned out, as for my girl in fresh soil she’s still going doing well, I’m not surprised she still going as she probably a hybrid/sativa and she was also a week behind her sister, I know for sure the other one is a indica but yeah will start checking the trichomes on her this week