The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@Juschiln420
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They are still not too happy with me... Not liking the nutrient strength I choose again.. So after 24hrs of just ph water and 1/4 strength hydroguard. No change I thought they would appreciate just water and a root stimulate. But no change in root or plant mass. Looking like they are very stunted from nutrient burn.
So moving forward I went with same strength as the 1st feeding that they liked. But I did it in a hurry before work and realized after the fact that I put that same amount I put before but didn't account for lowering the water level to 3.5 gal from 4gal. So end up being slightly stronger then before. I did add 0.5ml of hydroguard to each bucket. Also added 0.5 of bud candy to each bucket. But hoping they work with me fingers crossed.
4/12/2023 5.8/72°F/221(Left rear) 5.8/72°F/227(Middle front) 5.8/72°F/214(right rear)
No sign of transitioning to flower yet.
4/14/23 Colorado Cookies recovered and jumped like a inch looking alot better! Overall Height 3.5"
And I noticed that there was some growth in the root zone. But noticed there is something going on with the upper leafs.
Runtz Seems to be recovering but still a little rough. Overall Height 2" But I did notice the roots mass did not change and they still appear to have the brown tint and seems to have gotten slightly worse toward the bottom of 6"net basket. I believe that's contributing to the slow recovery. Still looking alot better tho.
Banana Purple Punch seems to have bearly changed at all. There's very slight growth in center. No change to root mass at all. Overall Height 1.5"
Found some very helpful information on measuring EC instead of ppm and how to monitor EC and Ph. So will be doing this moving forward. I'm going to redo Banana's bucket to exactly what I gave the 1st time she was happy but this time accounting for the .5 gal change in water level. I'm also looking into if I can use the hydroguard at full strength on nutrient burned autos since its not a nutrient for the plant. But I need to fight the brown roots in runtz tonight. See if I can't get all three happy! And save this grow to a more acceptable outcome.
Stats 4/14/2023 6.25Ph/72°F/222ppm(runtz) 6.33Ph/72°F/218ppm(banana) 6.28Ph/72°F/215ppm Cookies
I added 1ml total hydroguard to all and added .05 total calmag to all and ph to 5.8
4/15 I changed the water on all buckets. raised the water level back to 4 gal on Banana since it has the smallest root mass. And put full strength hydroguard and full strength rapid start in all buckets amd ph to 5.8 and left it for 24 hrs. I made a floral spray of armor si at 0.33ml to full spray bottle. Wet em down good. Twice today.
4/16 I noticed Banana's leaf tips began to droup a little. So lowered water back to 3.5 gal and mixed the nutrients for 3 gal to be safe and leave ppm for cal mag and bud candy without nutrient burn. Added 0.5 cal mag and 0.5 bud candy. I trimmed all the burned leaf tips off, so I can see if and when it burns again. And since it was the best my test has looked yet I took a video and some pictures. But still need to figure out whats going on with Colorado cookies. Has spotty yellowing. Thought maybe light burn. So checked and raised like a inch or so. But there leafs below that are almost fully yellow. Like nutrient deficiency. Trying to read her but not getting it yet. gavw them a spray of armor si.
4/17 ph to 5.8 bucket stats. Sprayed with armor si
6.1/74°F/200ppm/425uscm/0.85EC(Runtz) 6.3/72°F/207ppm/440uscm/0.88EC(Banana) 6.0/74°F/210ppm/446uscm/0.89EC(cookies)
Thinking about LST cookies and pull top down. But want to address the yellowing 1st.
4/18 I changed the water in buckets to just water with 50ml hydrogen peroxide 3% to 3.5 gal water and left it for 3 hrs. During this 3 hrs I turned both fans off and made a foliar spray with 0.30 ml gh flora trio and 0.25 cal mag and sprayed them down and turned the light off for 3 hrs.
So after the 3 hrs peroxide treatment. I changed water out with fresh water and did my nutrient differently.
I got the EC of my tap water whixh was between 0.19 and 0.23 between the buckets. Then I added cal mag to 0.5EC
And added nutrients base and additions to a EC of 1.0. Then I added 4ml hydroguard to 3.5gal. And ph to 5.8
Banana
0.19EC
3.5ml cal mag
3ml GH Flora Trio
1.5ml Bud Candy
1.5ml Rapid Start
0.25ml GH Flora Macro
4ml Hydroguard
7.4ph
242ppm 517uscm 1.0 EC
Cookies
0.23 EC
3.1ml cal mag
3.1ml GH Flora Trio
1.5ml Bud Candy
1.5ml Rapid Start
0.40ml GH Flora Macro
0.42ml GH Flora Gro
0.25ml GH Bloom
4ml Hydroguard
Ph 7.3
235ppm 500uscm 1.0EC
Runtz
0.22EC
3.2ml Cal mag
3ml GH Flora Trio
1.5ml Bud Candy
1.5ml Rapid Start
0.25ml GH Flora Macro
0.40ml GH Flora Gro
0.25ml GH Flora Bloom
4ml Hydroguard
7.4ph
235ppm 500uscm
Ph all to 5.8
That was last night at 11:30pm
This morning at 5:20am stats
4/19/2023 5.9/74°F/238ppm/506uscm/1.0 EC(Runtz) 5.9/73°F/232ppm/493uscm/0.98 EC(Banana) 6.0/74°F/232ppm/493uscm/0.98EC(Cookies)
Ph To 5.8
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@Herbz_Unkraut
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dense, sweet, creamy flavored buds, great taste, pleasant high! good stuff!
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@Silverback_Guerilla
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2/26:
I harvested her on the night of the 26th. She was live trimmed, chopped and washed, and hung to dry.
3/2:
Still drying in the closet...smells very strongly of elderberries and gasoline.
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@BioBuds
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What a beautiful strain Orange Hill Special is, nice and bushy, great internodal spacing, sturdy and healthy. Happier and happier with how this grow is going.
The less beautiful parts on top are my doing, my blind as a bat FIM destroyed half the top of the plant. More patience next time...
The super soil is still performing great and I´m pushing up the dimmer to get the ladies used to more light, very carefully because leaves are folding every time.
Some of you might be happy to find my European recipe/shopping list for super soil. I tried to make it with widely offered products throughout Europe.
Feel free to use it and elaborate on it.
If one product is not available in your country, please check the brands at the bottom, which might be available in your country, and substitute.
The only thing one could add to the recipe (which I did but forgot in the shopping list) is some Epsom salt.
Fed them again with my permaculture tea, all seem to flourish and smells are starting to come from the plant, with that same distinct dankiness I had in earlier grows with this tea.
See the germination page and other diaries for more info on my Perma tea.
Now they were big enough, some might even say too big, to start the real training. I always love to give them a little bend the week before, to get used to the idea.
With some sterilized bamboo sticks I pushed the plants down to expose their sexy undersides. Let them become forests of buddy bush.
Thats it for this week! Thanks for following and happy growing!!
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So it’s the end of Week 5, Day 35 for the Sweet Seeds Gorilla Girl XL auto flowering grow. I have come to the conclusion that these four plants are not going to be XL after their pre-flower stretch. Overall the plants are healthy but the prolonged low humidity and temperatures have robbed them of the vigorous growth documented in my previous Sweet Seeds diary (Cream Mandarine XL Autos). I am disappointed that this will most likely be an XS harvest but a tiny quantity of quality bud is better than nothing. I gave them their first feeding of GHE FloraNova Grow fertilizer at a rate of 1.25 ml/gallon and this is 1/4 of a full dose that would be given to a photosensitive strain. I am still watering every fourth day at a rate of 2.8 litres per plant or 0.7 of a litre per plant per day. I will only be using the fertilizer every other watering or every eight days. That’s about it for this update and on to…
Mom’s Tip for Week #5- To Tuck or Take? The when, where, why and how to defoliate Autoflowers successfully…. Lets start with some basic Biology- Photosynthesis is the process by which green plants take in sunlight, water and Carbon Dioxide and transform it into energy in the form of sugars that feed the plant and make it grow. So essentially, every fan leaf on your plant is a solar panel collecting light and therefore valuable in it’s own right. I always try to tuck my leaves if possible before considering removal as my plants need all the energy they can get to power through until harvest. But sometimes tucking isn’t enough or just isn’t an option anymore so here are my suggestions for taking the fan leaves from your Cannabis plants if needed.
When- defoliating Autos can be done anytime throughout the grow although it’s generally not done within the first 3-4 weeks. The plants are usually quite small and those early weeks are valuable growing time that these plants simply can’t afford to miss. This is when I find leaf tucking to be most valuable, allowing the plants to keep what few solar panels they have while also allowing the grower to position the leaves so that they are out of the way. I personally find that I defoliate my plants the most over the final 3-4 weeks of the grow as foliage is dying off on it’s own by that point and a few less leaves at harvest time is always a good thing! Of course anytime you see dead/dying or diseased foliage, it should be removed as needed throughout the grow.
Where- defoliating Autos is a delicate balance due to their small size and short lifespan. If my plants are healthy, thriving and tucking is no longer an option, I will only remove fan leaves if they are covering/blocking new growth or potential bud sites. As the plants age and the foliage begins to die off naturally, I tend to remove the oldest, lowest growth first working my way up the plant as needed until harvest.
Why- defoliating Autos is done for a few basic reasons but only as an extreme in my garden when all else fails. Removing certain large leaves will allow more light into the lower portion of the plant’s canopy reaching young branches or potential bud sites. As the plants age, it also helps with increasing airflow around your swelling buds thus reducing your risks for mold and fungi in humid grow environments. Removing any and all dead/dying or diseased foliage is absolutely necessary in keeping your plants healthy and the grow room clean and pest free.
How- defoliating Autos is simple if you keep it simple. Only remove what you absolutely have to and use a sterilized set of sharp pruners for a clean, controlled cut. As the plants age and the foliage begins to die off naturally, just wait. What doesn’t fall off on it’s own will snap off with a simple twist of the leaf’s stem. If the leaves don’t come off with ease, they’re just not quite ready yet so be patient.
Be mindful that removing the solar panels from your Cannabis plants is always risky business but Autoflowers are even more challenging in their own way. Smaller plants with a lower leaf to bud ratio and a short lifespan means less room for error so paying close attention to the when, where, why and how is crucial for successfully defoliating Autoflowers. Tuck if you can, only take what you absolutely have to and of course- never take more than 25% of your plant’s overall foliage at one time as this can be devastating or deadly to even the healthiest of plants. Allow your plants to take the lead and they will show you which leaves are ready to go- at what time, all on their own just as nature intended.
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@Piorkeed
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Seventh week of flowering started.
I've changed the water into the pots and the nutrients ratio (more bloom and micro, less grow). The fan is turned three hours on, one off. Inkbird parameters are unchanged (20° -3° H +2°C). Plants are healthy and started to be bushy and taller. Light power @ 100%. Extractor @ 100%.
D42: changed the water into the pots. Added 15 ml grow, 30ml micro and 40ml bloom. pH@6 EC 1.5
D44: added 1.5 liters of water to each pot. The plants are growing a lot, much more than I expected. Hydroponics is getting me astonished
D46: added 2 liters of water to each pot.
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@Rangaku
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Soaked seed for 18 hours and then planted into pots , 24 hours later and she’s broke ground . I’ll run high humidity and give her water for a few days then ease her into nutes .
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@apmcfly76
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Very satisfied and impressed lasted a little bit longer than I expected in vegetation. Enjoying the process and learning
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@Staffedition
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Привет друзья.
Хочу познакомить вас с новым сортом автоцветущих растений от Smail_Seeds сорт ORIGINAL AUTO CHEMZKITTLEZ F1 reg.
Сегодня растению 15 дней.
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#Smail_Seeds
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@MadeInGermany
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Flowering day 52
since time change
to 12 / 12 h
Hey guys :-)
All ladies look very healthy and delicious :-)
We're slowly getting closer to the end.
This week it was poured 3 times with 1.2 l each (sewing materials see table above)
At the next watering there is a very light rinse with Clean Fruits so that the last nutrients can be slowly used up.
The trichomes are now checked every day.
I'm looking for my microscope with an app so I can take pictures of it 👍.
I wish you a lot of fun with the update and stay healthy 💚🙏🏻
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Water 💧 💧💧
Osmosis water mixed with normal water (24 hours stale that the chlorine evaporates) to 0.2 EC. Add Cal / Mag to 0.4 Ec Ph with Organic Ph - to 5.8 - 6.5
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@AsNoriu
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Day 63. She is going down, my fastest ever big healthy plant. Looking at first waves 3 numbers, I think it's not even 2 ounces plant, it's f@cking THREE !!! ;))))))))))))
Day 71. One to jars another for trim jail. Busy day ...
Day 72. After small delay, she went down ;)
Day 82. Straight to vacuum sacs, but she was really great !
Happy Growing !!!
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@matias_scrog
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LAS NIÑAS VAN GENIAL, EN UNA SEMANA MAS O MENOS LES COLOCAMOS LA MALLA SCROG Y LAS MANDAMOS A FLORA
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@603grower
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During this whole grow I would say she was my favorite. She has the fruit funk flora nose and just beautiful bag appeal. Her coals were a lot smaller than the other girls but she was bigger and yeild was similar. I got about 3 zips off of her. I would definitely recommend her
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@MrJoint
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✂️ Defoliation one more time and LST adjustment.
🥦We stay training.
✌️🎃Thank you for checking my cultivation.
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@GreenthumbJacobs
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Heute geerntet und wow! Tag 83 und sie riecht so fruchtig ! Die trichome haben eine schöne gelbliche ,milchige Farbe.
Sie hat nass 352g auf die wasge
Heute den groben Trimm gemacht und gewogen. 105g und sie riecht so brutal gut und voller trichome