Okay, she’s still stretching (and she loves techno music as you can see 👅), but she definitely slowed down. Of course she’s not gonna fill all the grid, as I expected. What a pity! Now I just want her to grow a little more, especially those colas at grid level. If they don’t grow a little, I’ll get the worst colas ever! I’ve just bought a 600W COB panel with 6 Cree CXB3590 (3500K). It should be delivered next week! Can’t wait to try it, and finally give this princess the real power she deserves: DOUBLE SUN POWER!!!! 🤯 What do you think about this pheno? Do you think it will be that “strange” one? I love those stretching colas! 🤩 Day 70: Watering with 8L of tap water. Day 72: Feed @ 1ml/L, 6L of tap water in total. It’s very strange I’m using full strenght nutes with Dr. Grinspoon. I’m still alternating one watering with nutes and one without. Leaves are ok and pointing up to the sky, tips are perfect and colors too, so she should be just very hungry. This week I switched Biomassa with Florastimo. Florastimo increases the synthesis of natural hormones of plants, the metabolism and assimilation of nutrients, the production of essential oils and resins, and maximizes the production of flowers and fruits. Day 75: Watering with 8L of tap water. Runoff PPM is 700.

Nothing much to say. She'd reasy! She has a fantastic aroma and some beautiful colas. The leaves are becoming purple so in few days I will harvest her. I'm very excited because I think she is the most beautiful of the all plants I have.

Unfortunately ive managed to overwater my young plants when experimenting with a new substrate. They looked really droopy with grey edges and yellowing already, so i decided to restart this post for a second try germinating directly into my living soil, like im used to do it. 📆 [23rd of August] Ive put the 2 remaining seeds directly into my homemade living soil. Exactly 72 hours later, on the 26th, one has popped up and showed their germination leafs. I am planning to repot the plants into their "real" home after about 14 days of vegetation. That is gonna consist of 2 substrate levels in a 40l container. The bottom 2/3 is going to be a mix of peat, pumice, sand & vermiculite, the top third is gonna be a layer of my homemade living soil, which is made of 1/3 peat, 1/3 compost and 1/3 pumice 4-12mm & Spelt Husk 50%/50% (measured by volume) amended with kelp meal, sproutet bean meal, basalt rock dust, microbial mushroom biomass (chitin), oyster grit, gypsum, charcoal, bentonite and tiny amounts of bone meal & horn meal. It is my first time growing in a (partly) nutrient poor substrate. I want to do some kind of Experiment this time, as i have not seen many growers use "hydroponic" /nutrient poor substrate paired with the "living soil" approach & organic feeding. I'm trying to boost the growth by providing plenty of oxygen and water like hydroponics does, without needing to use those mineral salt based fertilizers or frequently having to discard "old" substrate. In my mind this idea would work similar to an "Autopot" system, where you prodive water and oxygen mainly in the bottom with some small amounts of nutrients, but feed mainly from the top by amending. Ive seen this in the "Build a soil" youtube channel. I've set their homes up already a couple weeks ago and moistened it to let it cook together, so the living organisms could colonize the bottom subtrate before transplanting. (Edit: Change of plans, those "homes" are gonna go to my Red Hot Cookies instead, ive just transplanted her right into an 8l pot to become a mother. Its made the same way, without the cooking together in prior part.) The plants are going to be fed purely organic/natural material by top dressing with different amendments like fish hydrolysate, basalt, kelp, gypsum, guano and this "living soil - grow" fertilizer i've showed in the pictures. Furthermore i am going to be using homemade nutrient ferments on cannabis for the first time. Ive already tested those on roses, tomatoes and some houseplants. (made from fish, insect, kelp, aloe vera, guano, kitchen scraps, plants etc). My goal is to additionally boost the plant growth by watering these quickly available nutrients. It should contain all the essential minerals plants need, as well as phytohormones, amino acids, vitamins, humic and fulvic acid, beneficial bacteria and fungi. Stay hyped with me! [Edit Week 4] I am not as happy with the results as ive expected it. The plants are looking pretty fine and growing nicely, but i dont see any benefit compared to pure living soil yet. It almost seems like the plant is growing a little bit slower than usual and just needs to be fed more with this method, i dont see any "hydro like" boost happening... Maybe i needed to fertigate her more often and topdress more, i didnt want to try out too much though as i want to keep this plant as a mother. I dont have much time to do experiments with clones, so im probably just going to go for it as planned and hope that they will like the system in the big 40l pots. Probably going to amend the soil heavier then by topdressing more and fertilize with every watering later in veg - until mid/late flower.

We got the grow tent setup this week. Pretty impressed with the quality. At this point the 2nd plant had died and it was down to just the 2.I was out and about at Canadian tire and decided to check there plant foods. I found some future harvest easy grow +. I decided to buy it so I had some food before I managed to get out to a local store I was recommended to. I gave them the aggressive feeding of 1tbsp per gallon. I gave about 3L between the 2 plants. The next couple of days were amazing. They had grown more in 2-3 days then they had there entire life! I had the dimmer at 50% and figured that was fine for now. It was about 18 inches away. At this point I started realizing I was having a bit of humidity problems so I ordered a humidifier and that’s another week away. I got the humidity up to 45 after that picture and it has been between 43-45 since.

First week of flower is in the books. All 3 plants stretched about 6" and grew tons of new branched. Really starting to thicken out. Been battling a more problem with sns217 sprayed at beginning of night cycle. 1 confirmed female while it's still to early for the other 2 although they look female. Only problem now is I'm starting to run out of height so hopefully they don't have too much more stretch in them. From here on I will be doing individual weekly updates on each plant they will be labeled AH1, AH2, and AH3 AH1 30" topped once biggest and strongest plant Female AH2 26" Kind of a boring one 1 main stem not much other growth AH3 22" The mutant! Probably On of the craziest plants I've grown. Has 3 main colas and a bunch of strange leaves with no training. Bushiest of the group Had a 4th AH that was only about 18" and struggling confirmed male and chopped 10 days into flower

expected flowering: 7-8 weeks Germination method: cotton disc with tap water with 4ml/l root juice and 1ml/l acti-vera Tent: BlackBox Silver 90x60x180cm (3'x2'x6') Extractor: 220 m³/h Soil: Biobizz All-Mix SF-2000 @85cm @50% germination: 10/11 They took a little longer than usual to open up, all but one seem to grow vigorously enough afterward. sprout: 9/10 ; 9 transplanted in soil at first then another one transplanted 36H later i may transplant the last one if the root finally start to grow. First two are showing 20h after transplant. 35h after transplant 7 are showing. 42H after transplant 9 are showing and seem to form their first set of true leaves normally. Last one showed a little later but doesn't seem to form it's first true set of leaves.

Day 28- Both plants growing well and getting bigger everyday. This week both plants received small side steams trim and LST to spread the plant horizontal.

Fast and easy harvesting. I let it dry before trimming to make this part easier. We did earlier defoliation and gentle lollipoping so there wasn't too much work left after that. I would have liked to give it a few more weeks of ripening but it started to get too hot. Very pleased with the result and I think it can be given even more potential!

De momento todo va bien, he añadido un sistema de co2 casero, no se si hará algo por que no tengo medidor, le he echado 500 gramos de azúcar disuelto en agua templada, media pastilla de levadura de unos 12 gramos... Y una uvas trituradas, godzilla Cookies Auto se le están poniendo las hojas más viejas amarillas y se están cayendo, no se si será por deficiencia de algún nutriente o el ciclo natural de la planta.

# ❄️ The Frozen Archive #3 | Ghost Train Haze ## Sometimes the Greatest Yield Is the Lesson Hello GrowDiaries family! 👋❄️🌱 Welcome back to The Frozen Archive. For anyone joining us for the first time, this series follows our exploration of fresh frozen material, ice & water extraction, solventless concentrates, curing methods, and the many lessons hidden between harvest and the final product. If you would like a complete breakdown of the Bubbleator machine, fresh frozen preparation, ice & water extraction methodology, and collection techniques, please check out The Frozen Archive #1 and #2 where the process is explained in much greater detail. This entry focuses on a cultivar that many of you may already know well: 🚂 Ghost Train Haze. And what a journey she has been. For those curious about her complete cultivation story, the full seed-to-harvest diary remains available on my profile. It was one of my favorite plants to grow and one of the most memorable cultivars of the run. Today we pick up where that story ended. Fresh frozen material. Ice. Water. Curiosity. And a lesson waiting to be learned. --- ## Wash Number Four This extraction represents my fourth overall wash using the Bubbleator machine. By now the process felt familiar. The machine was prepared exactly as before. Ice was added. Fresh frozen Ghost Train Haze flowers were loaded into a properly secured 220-micron wash bag. Additional ice was placed on top. Cold water filled the machine. Temperatures were maintained as close as possible to 0°C (32°F). The methodology remained unchanged. The equipment remained unchanged. The enthusiasm remained unchanged. Only one thing was different. The genetic. --- ## Everything Looked Perfect The wash itself was beautiful. The room filled with incredible aromas. The fresh frozen material smelled amazing. The machine performed flawlessly. The water remained ice cold. The collection process went exactly as planned. At every stage I found myself increasingly excited to see what Ghost Train Haze would produce. After all, if the flower was this impressive, surely the resin would follow. At least that was the theory. Nature, however, always has her own plans. --- ## The Lesson One of the reasons I created The Frozen Archive is to document reality. Not just successes. Not just giant returns. Not just perfect results. Reality. And reality is that not every incredible flower becomes an incredible washing cultivar. Ghost Train Haze taught me exactly that. The returns were significantly lower than what I had experienced during previous washes. Much lower than expected. At first I questioned myself. Did I miss something? Did I make a mistake? Did I wash incorrectly? Was the temperature wrong? Was the timing wrong? But after reviewing the process and comparing observations with experienced hash makers, a different picture emerged. Many haze-dominant and sativa-leaning cultivars have a reputation for being difficult washers. Not because they are poor plants. Not because they lack quality. Simply because they often do not release resin in the same way as many hash-oriented cultivars. And Ghost Train Haze appears to fall into that category. --- ## Was It Worth It? Absolutely. Because what little resin was collected was exceptional. The quantity may have been modest. The quality certainly was not. The resulting material displayed beautiful characteristics. Excellent melt. Wonderful flavor. A rich aromatic profile. And a texture that immediately reminded me why I fell in love with this plant in the first place. In many ways, the resin reflected the flower itself. Unique. Expressive. Memorable. Just not particularly generous. --- ## Looking Back If I am completely honest, part of me wishes I had kept more of this material as flower. Ghost Train Haze was simply that enjoyable. The flowers were outstanding. The smoke was outstanding. And looking back, I probably would have enjoyed preserving more of her in that form. But I do not regret the wash. Because now I know. And knowledge is exactly why this archive exists. --- ## Freeze Drying & Storage The collected resin followed the same path as previous entries. After collection, the material was dried carefully until it reached the desired condition. Once properly dried, it was broken down and prepared for storage. Unlike some previous entries, this report focuses less on quantity and more on observation. The material was transferred into glass storage where it can continue developing while preserving everything it has to offer. Even in small amounts, quality deserves patience. --- ## What Ghost Train Haze Taught Me This entry may not contain the largest yield of the archive. It may not contain the biggest temple ball. It may not contain the most impressive collection photos. But it contains something equally valuable. A lesson. Not every cultivar is destined for every purpose. Some plants become legendary flowers. Some become legendary hash. Some become both. Ghost Train Haze reminded me that understanding the difference is part of becoming a better grower and a better extractor. And honestly? I am grateful for the lesson. --- ## Looking Ahead Will I wash another haze in the future? Probably. Because I am the type of person who likes to test things for myself. One experience teaches a lesson. Multiple experiences create understanding. For now, however, Ghost Train Haze has earned even more of my respect. Not because she produced the biggest return. But because she reminded me that cultivation is still full of surprises. And those surprises are exactly what keeps this journey exciting. --- ## P.S. A huge thank you to Zamnesia for the Ghost Train Haze genetics and for supporting these projects. A special thank you as well to Plagron, whose nutrient lineup accompanied this plant throughout its journey from seed to harvest, fresh frozen preservation, and ultimately extraction. The plant may not have become the highest-yielding wash of the archive. But she remains one of my favorite cultivars I have had the pleasure of growing. And that, sometimes, is worth far more than a number on a scale. Grower's Love everyone. 🌱💚

Flower at 26/10

Same old same old mamacita

Hallo zusammen 🤙. Sie wächst sehr schön und macht keine Probleme.

Day 85. Couple weeks to go.

Esta semana fue bastante positiva,se recupero del transplante y de las podas. En breve comenzare a quitarle horas de luz para que comience la etapa de floración. La rama que se rompio logró recuperarse,espero que a futuro resista el peso del cogollo.🤞🤞😁😁

December 16 2018 day 84 from seed LOOKS GREAT

week 5 when the thrips first showed themselves. I noticed them cuz some silver stains started appearing on some leaves. you can see them better under LED light. So, I sprayed Neem Oil all over the plant. I could notice that if you don't do it well, spraying and rubbing the leaves with a piece of cloth, the oil will also create some stains. 2nd topping. killed some thrips this week, they're cute and didn't seem to harm the plant seriously. Neem oil worked fine to control them. No other pests that I could notice + Defoliation + LST Flowermind (4ml + 0.5g)