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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@Avengergreen
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LSD-25 Auto (Fast Buds)
Dark tones starting to show on lower buds, early pistils forming nicely. Structure is open, responding well to LST. Smell getting sweeter day by day.
Gorilla Zkittlez Auto (Fast Buds)
Compact and strong, stacking well. Tight internodes and vibrant green leaves, no signs of stress. Preparing for heavier feeding next watering.
Titan F1 Auto (Royal Queen Seeds)
Tallest plant in the tent, already showing solid top colas. Very stable genetics – healthy leaves, thick stem. Responded perfectly to Boom Boom Spray.
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@Earthling37
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77 Days have passed.
Heatwave in my country, so im just relaxing and enjoying life.
- I hope you do too!
Did a heavy defoliation, gonna be making some nutritious fruit smoothies with that.
- 2 week ish before i switch to flower.
---1st time growing with FLO - Florian Living Organics.---
They claim that there is no need to pH when watering and that their living fertilizer is the only thing that i will need throughout the whole grow so i only need to mix with soil and just water with plain water.
If this stuff works then it can simplify my future grows ALOT!
Happy growing. 😎
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@MeaCulpa
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Hey everyone,
my ladies are still too yellow for me.
But they don't seem to mind.
They all stick and smell like hell but "Iris" hardly has buds larger than my thumbnail.
I really like all the others.
I have no idea how long. But think 2-3 weeks.
...and I now manage to keep my RH in the tent easily lower than in the space around it. Yihaaaa
Nice weekend @all
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@Green_Mountains
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Another good week!! I defoliated the smaller of the 2 plants mid-week... I think she is doing very fine.
A small hiccup with the feed that same night. Only a few leaves are showing any sign on nutrient burn. I went ahead and fed them again today.
I plan on watering them in a day or two... they were very thirsty this afternoon!! So, I definitely need to up the watering. I've still been feeding 3 quarts twice a week.
Otherwise, all seems to be going well!!
They are frosting up very nicely!! So exciting!!
Peace!!
Update for grow question: @The8thChevron thanks!!! I pulled them and will hope for the best for now. So close to the finish line. If I see more trouble brewing I will pull the plant. I don't know how to answer directly to you on the grow question.... Thanks again!!
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@Boomdrawfyah
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Dia 76 desde la germinación y 48 dias después del trasplante se empieza a notar la robustez de las plantas ya miden bastante alto casi 2 M , y estan bastante ensanchadas, lo único que se puede notar la 1051 , sus ramas crecen muy rectas hacia arriba ,la white noise crece con las hojas un poco onduladas aunque no afecta a la planta. Pronto las amarraremos y ataremos con una estructura para que esten más cogidas y distribuidas las ramas y mas seguras contra viento y lluvias que empiezarán en septiembre
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@Naujas
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112 days!!!! This week was very difficult for the girl, because it rained a lot, but from today the weather forecast promises only good weather, I hope it will be so, next Saturday, I'm going on a long vacation, the girl will be without me for 3 weeks, so I won't be able to hide her from bad weather, I will leave the automatic watering which I will control via wifi, once a week I will ask a person to come to water with nutrients and take photos, :) so there will be weekly updates, but with fewer photos:) good luck to everyone :)
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@diamondtrichomes
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Snuck in a few extra snaps for you this week. Getting excited over here! I love the white puff ball stage of flowering. Here soon the weight will be packing!
I’ve had all three strains in these photos thus far. I’m going to start keeping better track of what’s what now that they are almost halfway through flower. Cheers!
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@MassEric
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Well shit..... Here is a reminder for everyone out there, calibrate your pH monitoring equipment on its recommended schedule! Of all the things to forget about. Sigh. My pH has been out of whack, looks like it was far to low and I have been effectively starving the plants of phosphorus. At least is what the leaves are starting to show, a definite deficiency.
It was hard to see on the right plant at first as the purple hit the spots rather well. They just started turning necrotic in places. It really jumped out on the left plant and was easier to spot.
It was reading 6.1 but was more like 5.2
Lesson learned, stay on top of that pH. I think it is time to retire these old Milwaukee MC120's in favor of some newer models. I could just replace the probes and double down on the calibration but I've had these things for nearly ten years now. I think sitting in that moderately humid environment has taken its toll on the internals. They aren't exactly made well.
Oh well, these won't end up looking perfectly pretty in the end I guess. Given that I already wasn't to happy with the pheno, I'm not expecting much from these plants now.
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@IamCy
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Rolling into week 7. Time to dial down the nutes and start my UVB regiment. I use Reptisun 10.0 bulbs due to LED UV's giving far less than optimal performance. Reptisun 5.0 bulbs work 2. I only run them from week 7 to flush and for only 3 hours a day within the current light cycle.
Update day 45: After doing a trichome check, it finished EARLY!! Time to do a quick flush then harvest. I was going to add the nutes to the fresh water today 😂😂
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@DrGL_Thumb
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Dropped the 3 seeds in water bath with a little HESI rooting mix, little mycorrhizae.
On a heat mat, covered for complete darkness. 24 Hr soak -
then seeds moved into own Seed Germinator - Karl’s Bubatz Popper 😂
24 hrs after 22 degrees and 90-95% humidity seeds developed long enough roots to hit the soil. To avoid any chance of damage the cotton pads hit the soil too.
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@Silverback_Guerilla
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9/10:
Coming along nicely...the big Amnesiac is the biggest seedling in the garden.
9/11:
I waited to long to transplant them and they have root problems to some degree or another...too wet for too long.
I transplanted all but the smaller Amnesiac and Lemon Cream Kush into 3 gallon pots, and those two went into 2.30 gallon pots. About 50% brownish roots on all but the smaller ones. 😕
I powdered the planting holes with myco, tricho, and other goodness.
I added two Mars Hydro 150w lights, and a 60w 6500k LED panel light since they are all spread out now. The average CCT is still a little over 4800k, even though the Mars are a little warmer color temp than the Viparspectras.
9/12:
Between the root problems and the transplant, they looked horrible, so I sprayed them with BoomBoom Spray today and will do a good root drench tomorrow with BushDoctor Boomerang.
They looked better by the end of day, but still have a ways to go to get back on track.
9/17:
I fed them boomerang only twice this week, and also fed them kangaroots yesterday. They are all looking strong, and branching well. The big Amnesiac is impressive. Great structure and amazing vigor.
The LCK is finally starting to look like she belongs in the same crop.
I'll prolly flip to 13/11 with emerson effect in the next couple of days.
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@MrSpooky882
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Das Blatt Blüte Verhältnis war sehr sehr gut! 👌
Ich habe die Pflanzen dieses Mal nicht komplett getrimmt, sondern mit Zucker Blätter aufgehangen um ein schonenderen trocken prozess zu bekommen und ich Maniküre die Pflanze dieses Mal erst wenn sie trocken ist das verhindert Verletzungen der Pflanze die ein zu schnelles austrocknen zu Folge haben!
Es ist mehr Arbeit weil man die Pflanzen Doppelt und dreifach in der Hand hat aber es lohnt sich, ich habe die komplette ernte fertig getrimmt in ein Cvault 21L für 2 Wochen Fermentiert mit einem 62 Prozent boveda, ich habe jeden Tag gelüftet und jeden zweiten Tag muss man es wenden vorsichtig! 👌 😊 Und raus kam richtig Premium gras ♥️♥️♥️😁
The leaf to flower ratio was very, very good! 👌
This time I didn't trim the plants completely, but instead hung leaves with sugar to get a gentler drying process and this time I only manicure the plant when it is dry, which prevents injuries to the plant that would result in it drying out too quickly!
It's more work because you have the plants twice or three times in your hand but it's worth it, I finished trimming the entire harvest in a Cvault 21L for 2 weeks. Fermented with a 62 percent boveda, I aired it every day and every other day you have to turn it carefully! 👌 😊 And out came really premium grass ♥️♥️♥️😁
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@blazin_skywalker
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I guess I can't put it off any longer.... This plant officially needs some yoyos. She can no longer hold herself up, and I have too many colas leaning against the wall.
These buds are exquisite! The contrast of the trichomes against the purple bud is stunning! I want to make it my mission to grow all the purple FastBuds strains! They're just breathtaking!
The smell in this tent is phenomenal. If only I could upload the smell! 🍇🍇🍇
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@Tropicannibis_Todd
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💩Alrighty then Growmies We Are Back At it 💩
Well folks we just finished up the last run and so we are back to do it all over again 😁
So what do you say we have some fun 👈And what we got here folks is a Strawberry Blast 🍓 🍓 🍓 🍓
Strawberry 🍓 Gorilla , Strawberry 🍓 Banana 🍌 and there new release 🍓 Ztrawberriez 🍓 from FastBuds
And we also got Strawberry 🍓 Cola from Exotic Seeds
👉 Well we are doing great so far for day 14 i have begun to pull them over and do some LST on all 4 plants 😮
So it's been another great week so far 👌 👉 just watered 👈
FC4800 from MarsHydro Lights being readjusted and chart updated .........👍I've added a RU45 to the mix 👍
www.marshydro.ca
👉I used NutriNPK for nutrients for my grows and welcome anyone to give them a try .👈
👉 www.nutrinpk.com 👈
NutriNPK Cal MAG 14-0-14
NutriNPK Grow 28-14-14
NutriNPK Bloom 8-20-30
NutriNPK Bloom Booster 0-52-34
I GOT MULTIPLE DIARIES ON THE GO 😱 please check them out 😎
👉THANKS FOR TAKING THE TIME TO GO OVER MY DIARIES 👈
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@High_Hustler
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This week was really good. No compost tea, just top dress and watering ferments, Fish Sh!t, Recharge, Silica, and Sweet N Sticky. I did comfrey, dandelion, hemp, fish sh!t, and Silica once a week on Wed and insect frass, alfalfa, peach, Silica, and Recharge on Saturday. Any watering in between is plain water.
PAR/PPFD; 1000 at the top and 800 at the lower parts of the canopee
VPD-1.3 - 1.5
Tod dressed;
Fish bone meal- 5 tsp
Crab meal- 5 tsp
Azomite- 3 tsp
Greensand- 3 tsp
Langbanite- 5 tsp
Gypsum- 5 tsp
Bokashi-~5 tsp
Insect frass- 3 tsp
Worm castings- 2 cups
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@DeepRootsGrowTrees
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CHERRY 🍒 COLA by FASTBUDS
Week #9 Overall
Week #4 Flower
This week she's had to deal with all the elements from the heat to pests she's done a great job for a plant in late flower to be in the intense heat she's got some good 👍 genetics!! She's stinky for a little plant smells great!!
Stay Growing!!
FASTBUDS
CHERRY 🍒 COLA
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@Grandillustrator
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Having to constantly move the ties as each branch keeps pulling in closer together , keeping on top of defoliation starting to get a weak smell when opening the tent overall plants healthy
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@ErreTheGrower_IT4
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That’s the baby after 48 hour of completely dark.
And now start to dry. :)
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@RDWCGrowing
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I had a lot of fun with this strain and it was grown against 400 growers so let me say PHENO hunting is a true thing. Overall the Bud was a nice dense structure and the smoke on it was smooth and the high nice and even.
