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Introduction - Week 13 Summary -
Ensign's log, stardate 17529.7,
Ooo yea! Summer is definitely here! Been a hot and humid week! But wow growth has been thriving and vibing in the garden!
Feels like the tropics in the lung room, but the higher humidity seems to be perfect for vegging plants!
By the end of the week, the canopy is almost full, so decided to flip to flower in 7 days! To prep for flower, slightly increased the VPD levels which are also helping to lower the humidity down a bit.
Defoliated both ladies and been tucking and training the top growth. To preserve these genetics, started the cloning process and took cuttings. By the end of the week, the cuttings were transplanted into Coco Coins for rooting!
Topped and defoliated all mother plants in the veg tent which lowered the canopy by a good 5-6 inches. But by the end of the week, the canopy is stretching upwards again and growth is looking beautiful!
For this grow cycle, instead of a top dress, been researching about fungal dominant compost teas and plan to stew and brew up my first batch soon which will probably be in a week or so.
Anyways, one more week until the big flip to flower! Let’s go!
Onwards to next week Ensign!
[START OF WEEK 13]
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---------- [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] ----------
Heady OG BX1 #1 [Round4 ~Wk6] - WEEK 13 - Full Veg
TKO [Round2 ~Wk11] - WEEK 13 - Full Veg
----------- [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ------------
Garlic Budder OG#1 - WEEK 05 - Full Veg
Garlic Budder OG#2 - WEEK 05 - Full Veg
Gorilla Goat #1 - WEEK 05 - Full Veg
Gorilla Goat #2 - WEEK 05 - Full Veg
07/14/25 → 07/20/25
This Week's Estimated Goals
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DLI: ~19 mol/m²/d
PPFD: ~300 μmol/m²/s
VPD: ~1.0 kPa
This Week's Meter Readings & Averages
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Light On/Off: 16:00 - 10:00 | Wattage: ~326.5W [LV04]
Distance From Canopy: ~31”, 31”
DLI: ~23.39 mol/m²/d
PPFD: ~361 μmol/m²/s
VPD: ~0.80 kPa
Soil %: [49.6, 37.7, 49.4, 49.6, 42.0, 43.1, 43.0, 43.6]
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Day 01 - Monday - 07/14/25 - Total Days: 092
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Daily Averages ~[+01:00]
- Temps: 85.8°F [29.9°C]
- Humidity: 81.9%
- VPD: 0.77 kPa
- Soil %: [49, 38, 49, 50, 41, 42, 43, 43]
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- [+00:07]: Night check on the 4x4 tent.
--- Ca-Caw! Ahh yea! The garden is filling in nicely!
--- Heady OG (BX1 #1) has pretty much filled in the front right corner already and is raging with new growth!
--- TKO continuing to explode with growth! She has almost filled the back quadrants. Beautiful!
At this rate, will probably be flipping to flower in a week or two. Getting hyped!
- [+00:35]: Tucked and trained the top growth.
--- Flattened and widened the canopy out a bit more.
--- Going to need to work on TKO a bit more. Growth is really dense in the middle of the canopy.
- [+00:37]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data:
------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] ---------------
------ 48% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 38% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 50% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO]
------ 50% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO]
------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ----------------
------ 42% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1]
------ 44% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2]
------ 44% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1]
------ 42% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2]
--------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55%
--------- General: 30% [Dry] «| 45 - 60% [Moist] |» 70% [Wet]
- [+00:41]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent.
--- Looking great in the mother tent!
--- All growth is perky and wow the canopy is already getting close to the grow light.
- [+00:47]: Super-cropped and bend the top growth.
--- Lowered the canopy by a few inches.
--- Pots are looking great and no signs of gnat infestation.
- [+00:57]: Checked the humidifiers.
--- Tanks are still full and no leaks found.
Day 02 - Tuesday - 07/15/25 - Total Days: 093
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Daily Averages ~[+01:00]
- Temps: 84.6°F [29.2°C]
- Humidity: 80.0%
- VPD: 0.81 kPa
- Soil %: [50, 38, 49, 50, 41, 42, 43, 44]
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- [15:55]: Been researching about organic growing and am looking into fungal-dominant compost tea brewing.
--- Also got the 5-gallon bucket kit from TeaLabs (via BuildASoil) and am stoked to start stewing and brewing!
--- Been learning about the soil food web and the information is absolutely fascinating. Shout out to Dr. Elaine Ingham! Her methodology and growing concepts are very similar to that of Masanobu Fukuoka and the concepts I’ve learned about regenerative farming has helped to improve my understanding about healthy soil and compost.
--- These concepts are also applied to brewing good aerobic fungal-dominant compost teas.
--- Plan to feed straight RO this week, but may try brewing my first batch of compost tea in a week or so.
--- Anyways,
- [16:23]: Evening check on the 4x4 tent.
--- Looking beautiful my ladies!
--- Wow Heady OG is healthy and more tops have growth through the scrog netting. Great!
--- TKO is just out of control with top growth!
- [18:46]: Tucked and trained the top growth under the scrog netting.
--- Took my time and focused on TKO. Tucked the larger fan leaves and re-directed growth to fill in the back two quadrants a bit better. Tried to spread out the dense top growth in the middle.
--- Heady OG also got tucked and widened out a bit.
- [18:46]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data:
------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] ---------------
------ 47% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 38% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 46% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO]
------ 50% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO]
------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ----------------
------ 40% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1]
------ 43% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2]
------ 48% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1]
------ 41% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2]
--------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55%
--------- General: 30% [Dry] «| 45 - 60% [Moist] |» 70% [Wet]
- [18:48]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent.
--- All mothers are vegging and looking great! Growth is perky and green!
Day 03 - Wednesday - 07/16/25 - Total Days: 094
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Daily Averages ~[+01:00]
- Temps: 85.7°F [29.8°C]
- Humidity: 81.9%
- VPD: 0.76 kPa
- Soil %: [50, 38, 50, 50, 44, 48, 44, 44]
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- [+00:32]: Night check on the 4x4 tent.
--- Looking great my ladies!
--- Heady OG is filling in the netting and more tops are stretching beyond the netting!
--- TKO is stretching upwards and looking beautiful!
- [+01:07]: Tucked all top growth.
--- Evened out the canopy and everything looks incredible!
- [+01:10]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data:
------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] ---------------
------ 45% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 38% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 47% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO]
------ 50% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO]
------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ----------------
------ 42% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1]
------ 46% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2]
------ 41% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1]
------ 42% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2]
--------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55%
--------- General: 30% [Dry] «| 45 - 60% [Moist] |» 70% [Wet]
- [+01:10]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent.
--- All mothers are raging with growth! Probably could super-crop, but plan to top and defoliate tomorrow.
--- Pots look good and no gnats!
- [+01:14]: Checked the humidifiers.
--- Tanks are still full and no leaks found.
Day 04 - Thursday - 07/17/25 - Total Days: 095
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Daily Averages ~[+01:00]
- Temps: 85.5°F [29.7°C]
- Humidity: 80.4%
- VPD: 0.82 kPa
- Soil %: [50, 38, 49, 50, 41, 42, 42, 43]
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- [17:00]: Evening check on the 4x4 tent.
--- Wow looking beautiful my ganja gals!
--- The garden is looking incredible!
--- Heady OG is filling the canopy beautifully and growth is ramping up
--- TKO has almost completely filled the netting and growth is healthy but really dense.
--- Ca-Caw! Wow Heady OG’s under canopy is bushing out with growth!
--- Okay! Time for a bit of clean up! Let’s go!
- [17:04]: Using my hands and a pair of trimmers,
--- Defoliated Heady OG’s lower growth.
--- Also chopped and dropped the cover crop.
--- Wow! Looking good girl!
--- Could have lollipopped her more, but plan to defoliate again before flipping to flower (18/6 to 12/12).
--- Decided to also start the cloning process.
- [17:57]: Filled a measuring cup with 1.5 cups of RO water.
------ Added 1/8tsp of Horticultural Aloe
--- Mixed the solution and poured it straight into a clean solo cup.
- [17:59]: Time to take the cuttings!
--- Using a pair of trimmers (AC Infinity),
--- Gently cut a healthy clone cutting from each pheno.
--- Trimmed and cleaned most of the nodes leaving the top node or two.
--- Did not cut any leaf tips.
--- Made sure the tip of the stalk had a slanted cut (about 45-degree).
- [18:13]: Placed each cutting into the cup of aloe solution.
--- Also made sure to tag each cutting with the name and number.
- [18:15]: Placed the fresh cuttings into the tent.
--- Have the cup raised off the floor and is placed on top of the 5-gallon mulch bucket.
--- Going to let these cuttings soak for a day before refreshing with straight RO water.
--- Let the two-day soak begin!
- [19:37]: Tucked and trained the top growth under the scrog netting.
--- Also started to defoliate the top growth.
--- To increase air circulation, only removed the larger fan leaves.
--- Also continued to spread the canopy out evenly with nodal growth.
--- TKO is looking a lot better now!
--- Heady OG is also spreading out quite nicely!
--- Pretty have decide to veg for another week before flipping to flower.
--- Getting hyped!
- [19:37]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data:
------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] ---------------
------ 48% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 38% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 54% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO]
------ 50% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO]
------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ----------------
------ 40% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1]
------ 46% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2]
------ 42% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1]
------ 41% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2]
--------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55%
--------- General: 30% [Dry] «| 45 - 60% [Moist] |» 70% [Wet]
- [19:41]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent.
--- Ooo yea! Looking good in the mamma tent!
--- Ladies are raging upwards and the canopy is bushing out!
--- Decide to thin out the canopy and top the upper growth.
- [17:45]: Using a pair of clean trimmers,
--- Topped and removed a good 5-6inches of upper growth.
--- Also defoliated some of the lower growth and removed a few of the larger fan leaves.
- [20:32]: Looking great my girls!
--- Mulched the trimmings.
--- Could have taken clones too, but going to try to veg the current clones (Heady OG and TKO) in solo cups for a bit before up potting.
--- Still hunting for mothers to keep and eventually breed.
--- Anyways,
--- Pots look great and gnat population is still under control. Nice!
- [20:44]: Checked the humidifiers.
--- Tanks are still full and no leaks found.
--- Ooo yea! What a great day in the garden!
--- Getting hyped for flower!
Day 05 - Friday - 07/18/25 - Total Days: 096
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Daily Averages ~[+01:00]
- Temps: 86.4°F [30.2°C]
- Humidity: 81.6%
- VPD: 0.80 kPa
- Soil %: [49, 38, 49, 49, 42, 43, 43, 44]
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- [21:59]: Night check on the 4x4 tent.
--- Wow the garden is looking healthy and growth is green and perky!
--- Ca-Caw! All I see is green! Heady OG is starting to ramp up with growth! The front quadrants of the canopy is almost full!
--- TKO has bushed out again and growth is looking incredible! She’s more than ready to be flipped to flower, but going to continue to wait for Heady to fill in the front area.
--- Clones are looking great too! Both are looking green and healthy!
--- Alright!
- [22:08]: Time to swap the aloe water out!
--- Replaced the solo cup with a clean one filled with fresh RO water (1.5cups).
--- Placed the cup back into the tent.
--- Going to let this soak for another day before transplanting into a Coco Coin for rooting.
- [22:53]: Tucked and trained the top growth under the netting.
--- Canopy is flat and looking great!
--- Surprisingly, the higher humidity levels have been helping with the heat. But going to start increasing VPD levels a bit closer to veg conditions.
- [22:56]: Within the AC Infinity App,
--- For the Main Tent [4x4] controller,
--- Adjusted the 'Vegetative [18/6]' Schedule for the humidifier.
------ Increased the VPD target value from 0.8kPa to 0.9kPa
- [22:59]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data:
------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] ---------------
------ 46% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 38% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 51% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO]
------ 49% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO]
------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ----------------
------ 41% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1]
------ 46% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2]
------ 40% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1]
------ 45% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2]
--------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55%
--------- General: 30% [Dry] «| 45 - 60% [Moist] |» 70% [Wet]
- [23:05]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent.
--- Mothers are looking beautiful! Growth is still recovering, but most of the growth is perking up nicely!
--- Pots are gnat free and looking good!
- [23:10]: Checked the humidifiers.
--- Tanks are still full and no leaks found.
Day 06 - Saturday - 07/19/25 - Total Days: 097
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Daily Averages ~[+01:00]
- Temps: 86.0°F [30.0°C]
- Humidity: 81.3%
- VPD: 0.81 kPa
- Soil %: [49, 37, 50, 49, 43, 43, 43, 43]
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- [08:24]: Ca-Caw! Quick morning check on the 4x4 tent!
--- Looking great my ladies!
--- Heady OG has about 3 more rows to fill in the entire front left quadrant.
--- TKO continues to bounce back day after day! She’s already stretching upwards again and looking beautiful!
--- Both clones also looking incredible and green!
--- The Heady OG clone is a bit droopy, but she’s still green.
- [20:11]: Night check on the 4x4 tent.
--- Looking great my girls! Growth is blowing up and more squares are filling in!
--- Almost want to flip to flower next week. But will still continue to wait a week more.
--- Clones are looking healthy and green!
--- TKO is definitely a lot perkier than
- [20:14]: Okay! Need to start the rooting process! Let’s go!
--- Configured the controller on the AC Infinity Propagation dome.
--- Made sure the settings were correct for vegetative growth:
------ START/END times were set to 04:00PM/10:00AM
------ Light intensity was set to 1 (out of 10).
--- Also made sure the propagation light controller’s time was in sync with the Controller 69 Pro.
- [20:25]: Filled a measuring cup with 1.5 cups of RO water.
------ Added a pinch of Quillaja Saponaria Extract [60]
------ Added 1/64tsp of Horticultural Aloe
------ Added 1/32tsp of Mycrobe Complete
--- Mixed the solution thoroughly.
- [20:32]: Dropped 2 Coco Coins into the measuring cup.
--- The coins immediately started to expand.
--- [~10 minutes later]
--- Took each fully saturated Coco Coin and temporarily placed them in half-cut solo cups.
- [20:58]: Using a squeeze bottle filled with Clonex,
--- Gently filled each pre-made hole with Clonex rooting gel.
- [21:03]: Time to plant the cuttings!
--- Using a pair of clean trimmers, made a final 45° cut.
--- Also stripped and scrapped some of the stem’s outer membrane.
--- To help with planting, gave each Coco Coin a squeeze to loosen the coco.
--- Made sure to insert each stem straight and snug with the tip about a 1/4 inch from the bottom of the Coco Coin.
--- Also secured the stem by pinching and pressing in the top of the coco coin.
--- Once each cutting was planted,
- [21:16]: Placed each pheno into the propagation dome’s tray.
--- Made sure to keep each clone properly tagged.
- [21:19]: Added 1/2 cup of RO water to the bottom of the tray.
--- Placed the side extensions onto the tray.
- [21:21]: Misted the sides of the propagation dome with distilled water.
--- Sprayed the top of the propagation dome before covering the cuttings.
--- Vents are fully closed.
--- As far as PPFD,
--- At the current light intensity, the PPFD is around 108 μmol/m²/s which gives a DLI of 7.00 mol/m²/d
--- Will check back daily to cycle the air under the dome.
- [21:26]: Checked the 3x3 veg canopy.
--- Growth is looking healthy and perkier!
--- All mothers seem to have fully recovered from the intense topping.
--- Pots also look great and gnat population is still low. Also no signs of flooding. Great!
- [21:38]: Ca-Caw! Back to the main 4x4 tent.
--- Time start training!
- [22:47]: Tucked and trained the top growth under the scrog netting.
--- Flattened the canopy and kept spreading out the growth to fill in more squares.
- [22:52]: Quickly checked on the auto-watering system.
--- System is still charged and no leaks or kinks found in the tubing.
- [23:07]: Checked the humidifiers.
--- Tanks are still full and no leaks found.
Day 07 - Sunday - 07/20/25 - Total Days: 098
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Daily Averages ~[+01:00]
- Temps: 85.9°F [29.9°C]
- Humidity: 81.0%
- VPD: 0.81 kPa
- Soil %: [50, 37, 50, 49, 42, 42, 43, 44]
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- [08:07]: Quick morning check on the 4x4 tent.
--- Looking green and healthy in the garden!
--- Both Heady OG and TKO are looking great!
- [08:11]: Checked on the 3x3 veg tent.
--- Mothers are vegging along with healthy growth!
--- Quickly checked on the propagation dome.
--- Looking good! The dome is humid and growth looks green!
--- There’s slight signs of yellowing leaf tips on TKO, but growth looks great!
- [19:08]: Night check on the 4x4 tent.
--- Wow the garden is lush and green with more growth! The canopy is definitely going to be full in a week. Stoked for this flower cycle!
--- Heady OG is healthy and filling in her squares!
--- TKO is ready for flower! She’s looking beautiful and green with tops and crowns everywhere!
--- Time for more training!
- [19:57]: Tucked and trained the top growth under the netting.
--- Wow the canopy is flat and full!
--- Just a few more squares in the back right quadrant and three rows left for the front left quadrant.
- [20:05]: Checked the Ecowitt soil moisture sensor data:
------------------ [ 4x4 MAIN TENT ] ---------------
------ 54% - [CH01 FT » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 37% - [CH02 FB » G30 - Heady OG BX1 #1]
------ 48% - [CH03 BT » G20 - TKO]
------ 49% - [CH04 BB » G20 - TKO]
------------------ [ 3x3 VEG TENT ] ----------------
------ 42% - [CH05 BL » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#1]
------ 44% - [CH06 BR » GR7 - Garlic Budder OG#2]
------ 43% - [CH07 FL » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #1]
------ 46% - [CH08 FR » GR7 - Gorilla Goat #2]
--------- Veg: 38% - 45% | Flower: 45% - 55%
--------- General: 30% [Dry] «| 45 - 60% [Moist] |» 70% [Wet]
- [20:12]: Checked the 3x3 veg tent.
--- Mothers are looking beautiful! Growth is perkier and starting to stretch upwards again!
- [20:13]: Checked propagation dome,
--- To refresh the air, lifted the top off for a bit.
--- Wow growth looks healthy! Both clones are looking great!
--- Heady OG seems droopy, but still green.
--- Using a spray bottle, misted the top growth with RO water.
--- Covered the propagation dome.
--- Checked the pots and no signs of flooding! Gnats are also no
- [22:57]: Oops! Forgot to take the weekly PPFD levels and measurements!
------ All phenos were around 361 μmol/m²/s which gives a DLI of 23.39 mol/m²/d under an 18/6 light cycle (at ~326.5W).
------ All phenos were about 21.5" tall.
------ All phenos were about 31" away from the grow light.
- [23:05]: Checked the humidifiers.
--- Tanks are still full and no leaks found.
--- Another week done and the garden is healthier than ever!
--- Plan to check the clones for roots next week and will transplant into solo cups as soon as roots develop a bit in the tray.
--- Oh yea,
--- One week before the big flip to flower! Ca-Caw! Let’s go!
--- Onwards Ensign to next week!
[END OF WEEK 13]