The Grow Awards 2026 🏆
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Hey yall! Another week down. A lot has happened. To start, we up-potted from the red solos into my living soil blend that I have been working on for almost a year. It's so full on living creatures and beneficials. I used to have fungus gnats a lot when working with living soil, it's almost impossible to avoid. .. Then enters beneficials; we have black soldier Flys, persimillis predatory mites, definitely earth worms, most likely a mix of night crawlers. No more fungus gnats, I highly recommend using beneficial nematodes, cucumeris and persimillis predatory mites are excellent (swirski predatory mites are expensive). Just look at the Soil Food Web and identify what pest you have, then purchase their predators from a trusted insectary. Anyways I added another 200watt LED and spread out the plants in a 2' X 4' tent. It's extremely dry in my location and having the heat on makes the air even drier. So getting my VPD stable has been an immense challenge. Right now Also we need to be able to add VPD or at least GD needs a built in calculator to help folks with VPD, Vapor Pressure Deficite. As of right now I am sitting at 0.85 VPD, so pretty good for today. I have 4 humidifiers and have had to hang moistened towels on the doors of the room I am growing in. It literally has been a huge challenge to keep the humidity high enough for my VPD to be in range for the young plants I have now. Good thing is my current humidity without running any humidifiers is perfect for the flowering stage, so I can't wait to move this along. As for topping and training; like I said I really want to move these ladies into flowering sooner than later. I have several reasons to do limited training so I can limit my veg time, also getting this crop done as fast as possible is best for my set up. Until I can get a larger house 🏠 😩 because we got a baby on the way 👶 so need to make space. I have made compost tea twice this past week, wetting the soil and also spraying the leaves. My sprayer broke so I ended up pouring the tea on the plants gently, I got worm castings on the leaves lol. Gently rubbing that off once they dried. Also I applied the tea at night. My tea recipe: Reverse Osmosis water, 2 to 4 gallons I bubble that with added minerals for a day Add 2-3 cups of Activated worm castings (To activate the castings I added about 3 gallons of high quality castings with what I consider to be nutrient amendments, SO I add = kelp meal, neem cake, organic coconut flour, organic corn meal, organic wheat flour, and organic cold milled flax seeds and let that sit for a week then add about 2 to 3 cups of that mix to the tea) I also add biology from about a cup of 2 different soil mixes I have around my compost bin, just trying to get a more diverse biology by adding those two different soil sources. And mind you the grow beds I took the soil from has been organic for many years and has a large amount of beneficials and tons of excellent biology. Other than that I bubble that for 12 to 24 hours, with as much air as I can get. I use air stones but you really need to clean them off once you are done brewing. I also have an Air Lift with a large air pump that really works great, K.I.S. Organics sells one that works great or you can build one easily with with PVC pipe and a few adapters from any Home Depot or Lowes. Also I do add DynoMyco to my roots when up-potting. They are an amazing brand that has backed up research, I think they have more propagules per gram of two strains they identified to work great with cannabis. Now having said that, each individual phenotype out of each individual and specific strain/cultivar is going to have different bacteria/fungal strains that it prefers and by growing the same strain, hopefully the same exact cut, and grow 3 to 4 cycles before you truly have the mycelium networks built and fully functional. What I am saying is stop throwing out "used" soil and go over 7 gallons, bigger the better for biodiversity. Stop buying "new" soil, amend your previous beds and pots. You will see a huge difference. Hopefully I can show you all of this with my Grow. Anyways please feel free to ask away any questions! This grow is about saving money 💰 🤑 and growing the best clean medicine as possible.
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Mars Hydro TS 3000 Dimensions: 25.3" x 22.8" x 2.7" Weight: 11.3lb Coverage: 4x4 feet Watts Consumed: ~450w Light Intensity: Up to 1150 uMol @ 18" height Spectrum: Full White + Infrared LED Brand: Unbranded LEDs Voltage: 120; 240; 277 Warranty: 3 Years Week 1 3/24/2021-3/30/2021: Day 1 3/24: Played Hip Hop Radio. 71.1-75.7 55%-74% Day 2 3/25: Played Hip Hop Radio. 75.6-78.6 45%-56% Day 3 3/26: Played Reggae Radio. 75.0-79.5 53%-60% Day 4 3/27: Played Hip Hop Radio. Mixed 2 ml Fish Brew to 1 gallon water=38 ppm 6.7 ph 68 f. only drank 0.25 gallons. 75.6-81.0 42%-55% Day 5 3/28: Played Eminem Radio. 66.0-80.1 48%-67% Day 6 3/29: Played Jimmy Hendrix Radio. 65.5-79.2 44%-77% Day 7 3/30: Played Cardi B Radio. Topped above third inter-node then defoliated all lower growth to focus on Main-Lining. Drank 0.25 gallons plain water=25 ppm 6.4 ph 69 f. 65.3-80.1 44%-77% Final Weekly Notes: So far so good no complains or worries. Very excited to have this amazing grow with such amazing products. Big thanks again to Coast Of Maine, Exotic Seed, Fish Brew, and Mars Hydro for this amazing experience. The Mars Hydro is very powerful I had to turn it down because I noticed a little light burn when I had it at 50% 24 inches away down 25% 24 inches away. Feel free to leave a like comment question or even give that follow button a tickle. I am always learning something new everyday. Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my grows. Good luck stay safe happy growing cheers!!!!
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01/26 No pictures this week because I'm doing multiple days of time lapse photos. Next week should have some yummy vids and photos. Plants have been doing well. Topped all of the plants between 01/20-01/23, except Berry, which will get topped tonight. Berry has had a very strong rebound. Still very pale in comparison, but is showing strong vertical growth. Vigorous growth of lateral shoots in most plants except for one of the WW. (iirc, it's WW 3) The tallest WW with the widest node spacing has had extremely poor lateral growth, even at the topping site. Likely another 2-4 weeks before mothers will be a clone-ready, based on observed growth. I prefer DWC and haven't done soil for a very long time. It's shocking how much slower growth rate is in soil. A good thing in the long run, because pruning a mother plant in hydro is a PITA. At the same time, I want these plants to hurry up so I can toss clones into a SOG test. My plan is to take 2 clones of 4 plants and flower them all in one 14-gallon tote. 01/28 I had some issues with the timelapse because I didn't set the intervalometer correctly and it eventually went weird after running for over 36 hours and started taking pics every 5 minutes. Things have been fixed and I have add a video from 01/24. I am going to trim some fan leaves tonight and decided to flower 2 cuttings each from the two Bananas.
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Plant is 6 weeks from seed tomorrow, I have upped nutes to 3ml per litre of both A +B Canna coco nutrients for a couple of waterings but she's soon started showing nute burn again so i've lowered to 2.75ml . Stretch has slowed right down and I'm hoping will stop very soon
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Whats going on ladies and gents !! We on the start of week 2 . Not much to say here shes growing and doubling in size daily shes pushing her second node already and I have a feeling that I may be planting her in her final home by the end of this week or next week . So far I'm loving the way she grows she's looking like shes going to finish strongly . Going to starting the nutrient regime this week to get her going nice and strong ! Thanks to everyone who stops in to the diary !!! A special thank you to all my followers that come in daily and weekly to check out the updates you guys kick ass ! -Happy Growing!
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Day 40 : Watering today community after 3 days. They were too thirsty and drank 2.5L per plant. I added a lot of food to the water. But it finished with 800ppm only. I think Biobizz decreased the density of nutrients. I added 1 co2 tab / 5L as every time. Also made small defoliation to the bottom for all ladies. She have reached 53cm.
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Week 13 (9-9 to 15-9) 9-9 Temps: 18.9 to 27.9 degrees Humidity: 42% to 79% Watering: 2000 ml. Increased the light intensity from 90% to 95% 10-9 Temps: 18.7 to 24.6 degrees Humidity: 49% to 65% 11-9 Temps: 16.5 to 23 degrees Humidity: 45% to 66% The leaves are still praying so i increased the light intensity from 95% to 100% 12-9 Temps: 17.3 to 23.6 degrees Humidity: 45% to 56% 13-9 Temps: 19 to 23.7 degrees Humidity: 47% to 62% Watering: 2000 ml. 14-9 Temps: 18.6 to 24.4 degrees Humidity: 49% to 64% 15-9 Temps: 19.9 to 26.7 degrees Humidity: 50% to 67%
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It was a good week one of my plants went into flowering at the last days of week 5 and she is showing pistils It wasent expected i thoght it vegetaites at least another week or so but we have diffrent phenoes and we should have diffrent expectations the other 2 are still in vegitaition They had a minor nitrogen toxicity i hadent grow automatic plants till now and i was giving them a little too much fertiliser bud i found out soon and flushed them so they are ok now Nothing too do more except doing LST evary day by pushing big branches away to expose the little ones to light and keeping the main stems and the little stems in same hight Thank you for your time and thanks to the growdiaries.com for letting us growers have this great experience together 💚 Keep growing🤘🏽👽
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Switched the light to flower 2 days ago. Did some LST here and there to improve light penetration for the lower branches. I see a lot of new green in between the fan leaves. The light is off from 11pm till 11am and on from 11am till 11pm. Last time I watered her was 10 days ago. The 30Liter pot holds the water pretty good which makes it less stressful for me :) the pot was lighter today so I fed her around 8-10 Liters tap water where I added around 40ml of Bio Bloom (recommended is 50ml/10L). So far there are no signs of flower yet but I mean it’s only the second day after the switch.
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Temps have go a tad higher as the ambient temp outside has increased a little. Should start to see perfect temps again in the next week as temps outside begin to drop beow freezing. According to my previous grow pictures i should start to double and triple the colas in size over the next 2 weeks. Stay tuned!
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Week 15 9/5/2023-9/11/2023: Day 99 9/5: Each drank about 32 ounces of plain filtered water. 68.9 F-84.7 F 31%-65% Day 100 9/6: Nothing today. 68.9 F-86.2 F 23%-65% Day 101 9/7: Pennywise drank 32 ounces, Gorilla Glue and Laughing Buddha drank 16 ounces of plain filtered water. 68.9 F-86.2 F 23%-65% Day 102 9/8: Nothing today. We had a huge storm hit and lost power most of the day. Day 103 9/10: Nothing today. 67.8 F-84.9 F 40%-91% Day 104 9/11: Each drank plain filtered water until runoff. Light is at 100%
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Plant #3 chopped on day 72 Plants #1/2 have a bit longer to go
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Have her a big defoliating to allow light to the bud sites and to reduce humidity in the tent , she took it well and is growing really fast still. The smell is very old school skunk type smell at this point
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I topped both plants once thus far, cleared their lower nodes up to the 3rd node on "nemo" and 4th on "v" names are easier then saying seed 1 and seed 4. added pics and video of day 34/35 for these two. hope y'all can stand the slight off hue from grow light. pics/vids are taken on phone camera thru grow room glasses, when watered the 3 gal pots are heavy and not easy to yank out for a picture.
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Starting out good... going in the tent soon. I still have to buy 2 components for ventilation... the inline fan and charcoal canister to cover what I hope will be smellin earthy and stinky and sweet very very soon. 6am 4/1 - Putting the tent up.. might not fit though.
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suddenly i spotted whats damaging my plants and causing the dots - it is butterfly worms.... Then again i got alot of natural preditors whom i trust to do a great job so i try not to over spray with neem to keep em arround. making sure i kill every maggot i see
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I was away this week so she was being autofed every day for 3 hours which is about 1.5L every day. Notes Day 106 autofeed this weeks Day 107 autofeed this weeks Day 108 autofeed this weeks Day 109 autofeed this weeks Day 110 autofeed this weeks Day 111 autofeed this weeks Day 112 autofeed this weeks also manually water. 636 ppfd 27.5 Dli. Back in a week Take it easy.
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26.03.2024 Continue into week 4 Update firmware on TrolMaster Tent-X (3.6) Replace all filters, remove and clean drain buckets and tubing. Mix new batch with 56ml AN connoisseur AB + 4.5g Big Bud Powder + 7.5ml Silica - total 30l @ 1.34EC. NPK Ratio is 1-2-3 , Cal/Mg ratio is 4-1.5 Target EC for this week is 1.2 start and end week with 1.3. Checking plants will determine timing of strength Donne one pass off long misting (3min) with diluted solution @ 0.84@C Finally have time for managing canopy, pull down taller branches and position all tops to fit under screen without touching. Try to spread them evenly across the net, top per square of net Defoliating all girls, remove all fan leaves and prune lots of smaller branches from middle. Lot of foliage is removed! After stripping humidity drop significantly (41%) , need to install humidifier again to keep RH @ 50-52% Set dehumidifier thermostat to work @ 50% RH. Reduced light intensity for this day, let girls recover from stress PAR map 850max/650min PPFD, VPD -1.2-1.3, DRH 50-54%, NRH 45-49%, NT-20-21c, DT-24/25.5c, Leaf temperature 22-23c, Light distance 45-55cm, CO2 700+ppm HLG Scorpion Diablo @ 65-75% - 45-55cm distance 60s ON time 20min OFF time @ Day Time 60s Off time 30min OFF time @ Night Time NT-Nutrient Tank - PH -5.90-, EC -1.32, Temp-20-21 27-28.03.2024 All girl looking great after defoliation,) Clean benches and floor in box Replace all filters Set dehumidifier thermostat to work @ 47% during night times, 50% @ day. Humidifier is also connected and set @ 49% Day and 45% @ night, if needed Inkbird humidity controller stop executing's automation for day/night settings. Start manually to change day/night values for now Next several days, until weekend, temperatures outside will be high , 29c max. Hope it will not raise temperature in box to much. Light is set on TrolMaster TCS-1 controller to dimmed at 28c AC Infinity fans are set to AUTO mode with height temp set at 26c and high RH set at 54% Top up tank with 25ml AN connoisseur AB + 4.5g Big Bud Powder + 7.5ml Silica - total 75l @ 1.34EC PAR map 980max/650min PPFD, VPD -1.2-1.3, DRH 50-52%, NRH 45-48%, NT-21-22c, DT-24/25.5c, Leaf temperature 22-23c, Light distance 45-55cm, CO2 700+ppm HLG Scorpion Diablo @ 80% - 45-55cm distance 60s ON time 20min OFF time @ Day Time 60s Off time 30min OFF time @ Night Time NT-Nutrient Tank - PH -5.90-, EC -1.32, Temp-21-22 29-30.03.2024 Refilled the tanks with 20l of fresh mixture. 25ml AN connoisseur A+B + 3g Big Bud Powder + 7.5ml Silica - total 20l @ 1.21EC Refilling is done in two passes, one time before light up, and second time early in morning, two houres before night time. This give additional nutrient cooling without running water chillier. Refill soulution is @ 18c Checking EC and PH 2-3 times a day. The electroconductivity values are around 1.24EC. I maintain the strength until it drops or rises. For now, I’ve caught the perfect strength, the liquid is almost static with very small oscillations in electroconductivity and PH. Replaced all filters in the system, replaced on washing… Every other day is enough, during daily cleaning there is no dirt on the filters. The girls are handling the environment well, leaves are raised as they should be, they seem like very happy plants. Formation and enlargement of flowers can be noticed with the naked eye. The wave of warm weather continues all this week. Expected temperatures for the next seven days range from 25-29c. Need to pay attention to that Raise light 10cm, top of canopy now is around 50-55cm PAR map 980max/650min PPFD, VPD -1.2-1.3, DRH 50-52%, NRH 45-48%, NT-21-22c, DT-24/25.5c, Leaf temperature 22-23c, Light distance 45-55cm, CO2 700+ppm HLG Scorpion Diablo @ 80% - 50-55cm distance 60s ON time 20min OFF time @ Day Time 60s Off time 30min OFF time @ Night Time NT-Nutrient Tank - PH -5.95-, EC -1.24, Temp-21-22 31.03.2024 Girls totally recovered from defoliation. Almost all gig leaves grow again on all girls. Tropicana Cookies is joy to grow , its pleasure to watch this girls haw fast and beautiful it is! Tropical condition continue. Temperatures going from 26-29c, night temperatures still colder and stay around 16c Outside temperatures affected water temp in nutrient tank, will se if i need for a water chiller or i will cool with adding cooler nutrient solution. Lower wattage on light , set Diablo @ 75% Replaced all filters in the system, replaced on washing… Refilled the tanks with 15l of fresh mixture. 25ml AN connoisseur A+B + 3g Big Bud Powder + 7.5ml Silica - total 15l @ 1.21EC PAR map 1180max/680min PPFD, VPD -1.2-1.3, DRH 48-52%, NRH 42-48%, NT-22c, DT-25/25.5c, Leaf temperature 22-23c, Light distance 50-55cm, CO2 700+ppm HLG Scorpion Diablo @ 80% - 50-55cm distance 60s ON time 20min OFF time @ Day Time 60s Off time 30min OFF time @ Night Time NT-Nutrient Tank - PH -5.95-, EC -1.21, Temp-22-24 01 04.2024 Outdoor Climate: It’s hotter outside. I’ve set the Diablo at 73% to maintain temperatures in the box within the 25-26°C range. Humidity: After defoliation, the humidity is low, which is great! The dehumidifier hardly worked this week. Misting Routine: I start the day with a 3-minute misting session; this will be the routine for now. Nutrient Solution Temperature: I’m keeping the nutrient solution temperature between 20-23°C. I refill the tank twice a day to cool down the solution. Light Parameters: PAR Map: Maximum PPFD is 1080, minimum PPFD is 650. VPD: Ranges from -1.2 to -1.3. Daytime Temperature (DT): 25-26°C. Nighttime Temperature (NT): 22°C. Leaf Temperature: 22-23°C. Light Distance: 50-55 cm from the plants. CO2 Levels: 700+ ppm. HLG Scorpion Diablo: Set at 73%, positioned at a 50-55 cm distance. Lighting Schedule: Daytime: ON for 60 seconds, followed by 20 minutes OFF. Nighttime: OFF for 60 seconds, followed by 30 minutes OFF. Nutrient Tank (NT): pH: Maintained between 5.9 and 6.1. EC: 1.18. Temperature: 20-23°C. Week 4 off Flowering in Summary 120 litter off RO water, 210ml+210ml AN connoisseur A+B, 18g Big Bud Powder, 45ml Growth Technology Liquid Silica 70kW electricity in total for light, Pumps and AC Infinity Fans. 63kW for Light + 2kW Dehumidification + AC Infinity ventilation Week start @ 1.31EC, nutrient strength., keep strength @ 1.24 till the end of the week Girls look superb all time, Wedding Cheesecake have two pheno, really like buds on one girl Tropicana Cookies fill bud sites this week a lot, Purple Lemonade is going to be tallest from all three stains. Nice bud formation also. PH was stabile and move from 5.90 min to 6.2 max. Light distance for this week - 50-55cm from tallest top , PPFD levels around 1100 in center, trough whole week. Lowest reading 680 @ corner Temperature are from 23c at start off day to 26c max at some points. AC Infinity T6 extracting fan program in AUTO to kick in @ 26c Night temps around 21-23c, dehumidifier work less this week. Outside humidity is low this week Water temperatures in middle off week start to rise, refilling solution is cooled to bring temp back from 23-24 to 20c Defoliate girls on first day off this week, pruning off smaller branches, lots off foliage is removed After defoliation humidity drop immediately in box. Need to bring back humidifier for couple of days. RH was low trough whole week Day RH is moved from 45% to 50% max, at night times drop to 40-45% Next week outside temperatures continue above average for this time of the year. Continue in next week, starting probably with one more light defoliation, bigger fan leaves only