The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@DeepWaterGrower
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Hi guys, just a quick info for whoever read this diary:
I started this run with two plants but during Week 9 (57 days: 49 vegetative + 8 flowering) I had to remove the one on the right due slow growth (issue started after I topped her).
Enjoy the reading.
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Third run begins.
🍪🍦Cookies Gelato by RQS, my first time with photoperiods.
I created this diary at the end of January but due some problem with the new drip system (too ph oscillations), I decided to go back to my first love: the DWC.
This time, however, I decided to build my own DWC, taking into account the negative aspects that I find in the expensive DWC of various brands.
This tank has about 50 liters capacity and on the bottom I have inserted a metal tap that will help me with the solution changes.
The lid is made up of two parts, the upper one on which I made a hole in which I inserted a 2 liter planter full of expanded clay and the two root riot;
the front part of the lid is magnificent because it opens and allows me to do a quick check of PH and EC.
This time I'm going to count the days from the germination date. I'm going to VEG for about 40 days, then switch to 12/12 for about 70 days.
I plan on topping the plants during week 4, then defoliation + SCROG during week 5, switch 12/12 during week 6. Then lollipopping at the end of the stretch.
In this run I will use my new MARS HYDRO TS1000 2022 (already have one with 2021 MOSO driver), bought a few days ago to test the latest model with the proprietary Mars Hydro driver. I'm sure there will be further improvement in my performance 💪.
No sponsor for me yet, what I have is what I bought but I hope someone can help me to bring my crops to the next level. I'm planning to buy a new 90x90 tent and a nice 300/480 watt lamp would be very nice. Crossed fingers! 🤞
🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱GERMINATION STAGE🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
- 20/2/23: seeds in a glass of demineralized water, 2 drops of rootbastic and 3 drops of hydrogen peroxide for 24 hours, then in root riot;
- 21/2/23: seeds under TS1000: 100 cm distance / 33% dimmer = 50 watt;
- 22/2/23: first Cookies Gelato sprouted;
- 23/2/23: second Cookies Gelato sprouted. - Got some gift from RQS, really appreciated.
I'll consider tomorrow as 1° day of veg for all 2 seedlings. I'll switch 'em to 12/12 after 40/45 days of veg.
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@JKent19
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Today is day 74 since planting, so in theory I should have about 2 weeks to go. The taller plant will probably make that, the shorter may take an extra week or so. Overall, pretty boring week, as the buds are at the tail end of fattening up, should be right on the edge of ripening. The bud structures of the plant continue to be completely different, with the taller plant having a more typical sativa appearance while the shorter plant has dense, stocky nugs more like an indica. I'm just excited to see the end in sight. At this point in the grow I just want to harvest and start my next batch, but one of my growing mantras is " let the plant tell you when she's ready to be cut" so I will continue to wait impatiently until a vast majority of the trichomes are milky. Thanks as always for checking out my diary ✌️
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@THCpapa
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Ah, welcome to Week 6 in the comedic garden odyssey of my green darlings! This week, I embarked on a sequel to the botanical blockbuster – "Defoliation: The Reckoning." It's like my plants are starring in their own leafy action movie, and I'm the director, yelling, "Cut those leaves, my green warriors! We need more drama and less foliage!"
So, there I was, with pruning shears in hand, orchestrating the defoliation dance. It's become a routine, like a bi-weekly leafy spa day. The ladies might be secretly plotting to stage a plant intervention, but hey, I'm just trying to keep them on the path to becoming the Gisele Bündchen of the plant world – tall, fabulous, and with the perfect amount of greenery.
And oh, the growth – it's like my plants are on a horticultural steroids regimen. They've been pushing out new leaves faster than a high-speed printing press cranks out newspapers. I can almost hear the plants chanting, "Photosynthesis for the win!"
Now, let's talk about the elephant in the garden – or should I say, the scent in the tent? There's a hint of something in the air, a fragrance that can only be described as "Eau de Cannabis." Yes, my friends, the green aroma of progress is wafting through the tent. It's like my plants are getting ready for a botanical perfume launch, and I'm their unwitting fragrance tester.
As I stand there, surrounded by my leafy divas, I can't help but chuckle at the thought of my garden becoming the talk of the plant town. "Have you heard about THCpapaTHCPAPA's garden? It's the chicest spot in the plant world, darling. You can practically smell the success!"
Week 6 has been a horticultural sitcom filled with defoliation dramas, growth spurts, and the subtle scent of success. Stay tuned for the next episode of "The Green and the Glorious," because in the world of plants, every leaf has its own story to tell. 🌿🍃🎬
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@DeltaEye
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I put the plants into an NFT system couple weeks ago. I could have waited a bit longer for the plants to develop a stronger root system before placing the rockwool cubes into NFT but I was being impatient because of the slow start and wanted to get the plants under proper light. Now two weeks later they are growing well with good root development.
I switched the lights to flowering cycle about a week ago so they should start stretching soon. No preflowers yet.
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@BrigadeDesTerps
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9/11/24 jour 42
Ça commence à bien grandir je pourrais passer en Flo semaine prochaine
Belle croissance de la Beldia qui a activé sa Flo , pleins de branches secondaires apparaissent
C’est cool de les laisser pousser et voir chacun des développement structurel de chaque plant
Les limon Blanco ressemblent à un sapin, les secondaires du bas sont les plus grands et diminue petit à petit , avec une grosse symétrie , belle croissance et bien touffue, elle s’étire pas beaucoup
Les Beldia , une s’est mis à pousser asymétriquement avec une branche par colas
Trait commun, les colas sont serrés pour former une batte avec une ou deux branches qui part vadrouiller dans la tente
Sensible au nutriments mais continue à bien pousser, elle s’étire beaucoup vers la lumière
La Persian Prince a aussi les colas serré mais tous de la même taille , belle étirement et croissance, j’ai beaucoup d’attente sur ce pheno
Les polars gelato on les colas du bas qui sont grand et espacer et ceux du haut petit et serré, première fois que je vois de type de formation ils ont pas tous la même croissance ,ce sont les Dalton
Les Aladdin Skunk ont du mal à reprendre
Lemon pie à bien germé et à l’air de se plaire , elle aura droit à une semaine de croissance en plus
La grand daddy purple pousse relativement bien
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@BB_UK
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Not going to say I expected more as I did but I can also say wow they’re doing amazing and forming big ole buds! And the aromas are crazy coming from all of them! And I have NEWSSSSSS… so mystery revealed! On 2 big ones solo still forming! But bottom left is FASTBUDS purple punch and top left is FASTBUDS forbidden runtz and I’m so glad of it as I wanted them to be the fastbuds to get another finish or a better one on these and it seems I may not with the forbidden runtz but I will with the purple punch! My next run I will hold back as best as I can to do nothing but open them up and not defoliate or trim one set and visa versa on the others back to back to see the difference alongside each other! Be great too as I have more fastbuds to run and new Zamnesia to do on this so will be equal in timing! Plus I get to do some solos so will be a great grow!
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@Mr_Awesome_Badass
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Well pretty big reveal this week. You get to see all the shit & roots.....and corn.
Watering the girl proved to be hard to figure out. I've been watering her everyday because of the root reveal. And all that water goes down the pot. So I was worried I would over water.
Well by now you know. I under watered. But I got it all figured out.
I'm not ready to reveal the custom saucer I made yet. I'm still trying to grow these over the bowl roots but they were not ready for any of the reveal so now the exposed ones are tiny and the under the soil ones are much bigger. It is what it is. I will remove the soil on the side roots in the next couple of days so I can position them where I want them then repack with soil again.
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@alafmalaf
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The plants are stressed AF and after more research from being here I'm seeing the problems. I got another fan and put it on the intake duct so that air was being actively pushed in rather than passively from the other fan which only takes air out. And then I got a photometer app called photone. So I fixed it until it read 100 on the PAR meter which the guys at the grow place told me was good. Now with this hygrometer I can pay attention to this and maybe set up alerts for when the VPD exceeds a certain range.
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@cheetah844
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I tried to move a couple plants over to the smaller tent to get a little more air circulation in there because I had only a passive air intake. With this many plants in this space I didn't think they're getting quite enough fresh air. But upon moving them over to the tent the light even at the highest position slightly started light bleaching the tops of a few plants. So I then moved them back to this bigger grow space and bought an intake fan. The Zkittlez are fighting me the whole way, I don't know if she likes to be cloned or not. Only the Zkittlez often seem to look a little sad even with everything dialed in for them.
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@pzwags420
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Plants are growing well. set up veg tent with new ac infinity tent and fan.
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@CanarianGrow92
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Week 5 already, thats why they call it fastbuds... In no time its harvest time! We had some bugs (trips) running around, i think i took them from outside as i was working on my garden, my outdoor plant is also affected, that happens for being a dirty old man 🤦🤷 but not much we can do now, i tried to clean the leaves a bit and remove some, but i think its better to harvest and clean the room as i dont eant any pesticides on the buds, but for the rest quite ok, we gave aome extra pk and bloom this week so lets see how the plants do next weeks 😁
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@Dysons12
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Day 7 i I transplanted the seedlings in jiffy’s to the DWC basket water level was “just” touching the bottom of the basket which meant there was 1mm- 2mm air gap between the water level and the jiffy’s. The high pressured air in the water to spit when air was released at the top which kept the bottom of the jiffy moist which had minimal roots showing to the exterior of it.
Day 7-13 I originally had 7.5 litres of water that was to the bottom of the basket. I replaced the water on the 13th which meant the water was changed after 6 days at such an early stage I will regularly change the water in the buckets. You can change every 7-14days but I am taking no chances.
I refilled and added nutrients on Day 13 which was yesterday. And the plants are doing really well and are a nice VEG green colour. Hard to tell on the pictures with the light colour but you can see their progress.
When I replaced the water this week I put 6.5L of water in each bucket With nutrients PH’d as close to 5.8 as possible. Some varied from 5.72 - 5.9. I have noted these on each bucket so that I can check if one does better than the others or shows deformities or stress I can amend it to match the others but hopefully not in such a close proximity of 5.8ph with an EC of 700+-
The roots are now showing in every pot with the longest being some 6inches.
The new Wakyme grow light is top notch so far with VEG button on only. Anyone contemplating buying one it cost me £99.00 from amazon and so far is performing just how I would like.
Humidity has been taken care of with a cold air intake fan which is pulled from another area of the building of a cooler environment.
Temperatures are spot on where I want them but I do allow a 2degree +- allowance but it does change back to its original temperature quickly enough.
5 more speed bud germinated and 2peyote critical feminised photoperiod germinated.
Crystal candy XL auto ordered x10
Gorilla glue, Pineapple Express and Cali Kush waiting in the wings. I have these already
If I can be anymore help to anyone let me know. Your diaries are helping me and hopefully I can provide the same to you
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@robotzex
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Growth quickly increased, switched over to main light (xhgrow x6 “1800w” 300w true draw)
Ran into issues with cheap exhaust fan being unbalanced and rattling. Upgraded to AC Infinity Cloudline T4.
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@LockDownGrow
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😫Been a tuff week as my ph pen failed so had signs of defiantly
But that’s now corrected so hope it didn’t set them all back too much
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@Hou_Stone
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My 4 plants are still there, with the banana as a smile 🍌😁
I continue the defoliation, I wonder if I'm not doing a little too much sometimes.. We will soon see the result
🌗Switching to flowering this week, I reduced the length of the day by 1 hour each day until reaching 12 hours night time / 12 hours daylight on the 33rd day!🌞
🌺On the 33rd day I apply a layer of organic nutrients mixed with a little soil that I add to the top of each pot.
I added 35 grams of BioBloom to each of my pots🌺
(Pot of 7 Liters / 2 gallons)
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💧Watering
I water all my pots the same day but with more or less water.
Simply by lifting them;
A light pot is a dry pot and will need more water,
A heavy pot is a wet pot and will need less water.
On average I water each pot with:
Day 29 : 0.5 L
Day 33 : 1 L with 0.8 grams of bio enhancer/L
I use tap water, adjust the ph to around 6 and water
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🔥❄️Temperature of the week :
Day : 19-23°C (Humidity : 65-80%)
Night : 14-17°C (Humidity : 75-85%)
Outside the tent it is around 16°C with 70% humidity
The humidity is a little too high, I hope it will drop a little 🙏
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🚀Equipment of the week ⭐️ :
Light FC3000 Mars hydro. power 95% at 50cm
Extractor 6 inch Mars Hydro. power 1/10. ON 24/24h
2 fans to circulate the air inside the tent. Each on for 30 minutes then off for 1 hour. this rhythm repeats itself in a loop
I'm removing my heat mat this week.
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📜Links :
🌱Banana Krumble seeds : 👇
https://shop.greenhouseseeds.nl/feminised-cannabis-seeds/usa-genetics/banana-krumble/
Mars Hydro : 5% off with my discount code "houstone5" 💪
https://www.mars-hydro.com/?acc=hou-stone
👨🚀My Instagram❤️️:
https://www.instagram.com/hou_stone420/
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Thanks for your visit😀💚
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🍼Greenhouse Feeding BioGrow & Bio Bloom
🌱GARDEN OF GREEN SEEDS
⛺️MARSHYDRO
The ⛺️ has a small door 🚪 on the sides which is useful for mid section groom room work. 🤩
☀️ by VIPARSPECTRA (models: P2000 & XS 2000)
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@eldruida_lamota
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Bueno, empezamos por el final familia.
Gorilla girl, me parece una cepa BRU-TAL , ya partiendo de esa base, mi error, creo que e cometido , es poner estos ejemplares en macetas de 5L, que tonto... mínimo recomendado 7L y a ser posible 11L
Otro error fue no dejarlas una semana más. pero, escasez. (intentaremos curarla un par de semanas).
Cepa con flores muy compactas, hay bastante separación entre nudos pero compensa las flores de verdad.
Sabor muy dulzón a mi me recuerda a melón , es un pepino recomendado para amantes de la hierba que llevan tiempo en esto, un colocón muy fuerte, ahora mismo estoy bajo los efectos de esta vaina, aseguro que con cada frase, leo varias veces y detenidamente por que válgame.