The Grow Awards 2026 🏆
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@RosQuare
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Some light mania has me itching for projects. I have tiny pots, a bunch of free seeds and no space. Could I grow them by the window under a desk lamp? I might be able to tuck them into the tent if they actually grow for me. I want to try out some LST for cute bonsai-style trees. I’m not confident that I will have much success but this is purely a learning experiment. Let’s see how much I can abuse these autos 😅 - Sept 22 AM: Popped 3 Cookie Dog autoflower seeds into a glass of bottled spring water for a pre-soak of 14 hours. - Sept 22 PM: Put the seeds into folded paper towel, ceramic plate, more bottled spring water, uncovered in warm room. - Sept 23 AM: One seed has started to pop after only 10 hours! - Sept 23 PM: The seeds have all cracked but haven’t grown tap roots yet. I planted the 3 seeds into various small pots to finish germinating in seeding mix instead so I would stop checking on them in the paper 🙃 - Sept 24: nothing happening above ground. They are in the tent with lights 24/0 so I covered them with larger pots to give some darkness. Placed pots on a heating mat. - Sept 25 AM: the 2 seeds in the smallest pots have emerged! The were touching the plastic wrap when I checked on them so I hope they are ok. - Sept 27 PM: 1st seedling doing good, 2nd seedling still has her seed leaves closed so I’m misting her, and 3rd.. I accidentally flipped her pot over. She’s gone. First Impressions: Seeds germinated in soil after 36 hours, 72 hours from when I first left them to pre-soak and let the seeds crack in paper towel 24 hours.. that was 24-48 hours faster than the other test groups that used paper towel method until tap root formed and waiting for the germinated seed to emerge.. I might skip waiting for a tap root in paper towel going forward but I do like knowing the seed is viable before putting in soil so I know if it doesn’t grow it was something I did wrong. End of week thoughts.. Well.. I fucked around with these seeds too much, exposed the roots to light, let them almost dry out, dropped them, had the temps too low, the heating mat too hot, kicked out over.. 😅😅 I didn’t really give them a chance and yet still somehow I got 2 contenders in pint sized pots 🤷‍♀️the experiment continues..
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Gonna be leaving the plants to the auto feeder for a week probably starting this weekend, here’s hoping they make it through that relying on just the water stakes and hempy res. Flowering has definitely started, for the Amnesia especially so, but all the plants are getting along just fine and giving me a nice sea of colas over my grow area. Cheers and best wishes for yall’s croptober!
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2 weeks to flower in main tent. Red Hot May have had a little nute burn. Lighting is at 628 on Par meter. 78deg avg. Malt was accidentally super cropped. Healing from splitting her branch. Oozecake aka Judy is my prize now. She fought through some mold 1st week. Transplanted her with only 1 node. Then her 2nd transplant to 1 gallon she was stunted for a week.
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Somehow I counted weeks in a silly way, so I thought this was week 8 but it's still week 7. LoL. Plant is doing great anyway, She's big, exceeding 70 cm diameter, With so many colas at canopy level I expect her to yeld very big fo an Autoflowering strain, The training succesfully shaped her resulting in 10 branch reaching the top canopoy level. To me the key to a good training is timing, much more than continuous adjustment. This plant was bent just one time on main stem and one another time little later the branches. We had rainy days so I used a dehumidifier for a day or two, now it's dry again outside so no need for it anymore. She's still thirsty like a bitch as she drinks 5 liters of water every two day. Maybe I'll make a drip sistem for my next grow, watering has been boring lately. I'm not giving her anything to the end now, she's doing fine like this. The humus coupled with slow release fertilizer is doing a great job. She has some nitrogen excess to me, but she's the only plant to show it in a batch of 6. The issue seems very small to me anyway. Day 48 checked trichomes, some is turning milky already, can't wait for the buds to ripen :) Ciao Bottanico
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As December is near the growth is slower than would like but is still thriving with more stretching happening for the side branches and the mini side branches start to stretch as well one side branch I recently topped is recovering and can see development at a decent rate hoping for some start of pre flowering signs within the week or 2 she’s really been stretching outwards I lollipop some of the weaker underdeveloped branches so can focus more energy on the healthier parts of the plant
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Oooooo baby !!! This is starting to come together very nicely . So everything is looking green and mean !! I would say that they are gonna need to have a boost in feeding . The leaves are looking just a little bit lime . Nothing to be too worried about . I'll be sitting on my hands to keep them from plucking these ones crazy I'm definitely going to leave it till week 3 just to see how it works out usually I would definitely pretty much every week but let's just see what happens on this one. So more notes as the week go on , stay tuned . If anyone has any ideas of how to get a better S.o.g picture please hit me up. So I finally said " Let's do this" took the girls out of the room to get some good shots of them !!! So at the end of this week we are start to get a bit of stretch going on, still staying bushy plants, I am so excited to pluck these motherfudgers! Find these world calss genetics at : https://www.exoticseed.eu/ Or https://www.seedsman.com/eu_en/cannabis-seed-breeders/exotic-seeds If you want to know more about the nutrients that fuel this grow
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Here we gooooo! We are headed i to weel seven going strong! This plant here is definitely taking her time to flower, starting to produce thriclomes! Im not too sure if I stunned her in week 5. How ever this is a Sativa dominant hybrid. I've learned that sativas have a bit longer of a flowering time! Im thinking we have 3 to 4 more weeks of flower to go! Still keeping my main focus on keeping the plant healthy and fed! With a great flowering environment, vpd, humidity. I did have a few colder days last week so I was a bit worried about the fluxation in heat, but shes doing well! Much love and happy growing! Im excited for the weeks to come! ✨️✨️✨️✨️ Lets Go GUAVA SLUSHY
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coming along nicely, this one did not like the low temps. I found 1 bud with some rot on it, cut that out. NO PWM thanks to the foliar sprays of Si. Buds did not grow much from last week to this one due to cold temps. This is an indoor strain here or its going to need to be crossed with something that likes the cooler fall temps.
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TH 1Q2025 - Week 2 - Seedling 
(ON Haze X Original Haze) X Northern Lights #2 “Todd’s Haze” Objective - 8 Female Plants, Topped ONCE @ Flip, 12” when topped - Modified Sea of Green Seeds Wet: 1139PM, 28.2.2025 Germinated: 2.3.2025 Flip: 21.3.2025 Harvest: 77 Days, DATE: 6.6.2025 _________________________________________ __ Fri Mar 14, 2025 TH 1Q25 15:V:2:1 __ Sat Mar 15, 2025 TH 1Q25 16:V:2:2 - Moderate Fertigation, Root Biased, Reducing Container Moisture Levels - LightIntensity: [ 414, µMol/m2/s] SIDE NOTE: We’re Still 14% Moisture Content on Orange Gasm #1 AM Watering with PCAL1660, Kelpak, CalMag Fuel, Lush Green - Starting with 1L PCAL1660 (@ 1g/gal) - Add 1 ml Kelpak/L - Cal Mag Fuel: 3.4 ml/L - Lush Green: 1.7 ml/L - EC: 0.9 (Delivered) Sex Tests Returned, Selected 8 for grow, w/ Priority to - Sex - Root Development - Seedling Size Final Selection: 3,4,7,6,8,9,11,12   __ Sun Mar 16, 2025 TH 1Q25 17:V:2:3 Pots Hefty - #4 looking, meh. (Reduce Light from 75 - 67%) Disassembled airpots for culled plants. Notes: - Overall - HIGHER Moisture than ideal - I’ll say it’s evidenced by sparse root development (Roots White, Top to Bottom - Roots throughout, but SPARSE - Action: Need to keep OVERALL moisture content at a lower level - Perhaps aided by REDUCED PEAT PARTICLES in coco - Fine Peat leads to Coco clumping. When it Clumps, it’s time to be washed,. Mix 1 Liter PCAL1660: [ 0.35, g] CalMag Fuel: [ 4, ml] Lush Green: [ 1, ml]  __ Mon Mar 17, 2025 TH 1Q25 18:V:2:4   Girls are displaying the funk of SMALL container = BUT - We just need some air . . . Evening Foliar, 1 Pt - [x] Solar Rain: [ 2.5, ml] - [x] Silica Skin: [ 2.5, ml] Drowned Rats   __ Tue Mar 18, 2025 TH 1Q25 19:V:2:5 With Grow room doors closed last night, we hit max Temp and lost ability to hold RH, Resulting in VPD: 0.96 - 1.27. Opened doors ~0900, reduced max to 82, humidity back up, VPD back down. We’re at the “I NEED NEW SHOES” stage - SOP - Prep 1L Propagation Cells - Assemble PCells - Load with FRESHLY PREPARED Coco (Fresh, Unused) [NO FINE PEAT] - Assure Sides are Taughtly packed, not Tightly packed Evening: - Fertigate Balance of EC: 1.0 PCAL, KelPak, Cal Mag Fuel, Lush Green, PSP, Quillaja 60 Powder Fertigation Periphery, 1 pt PCAL 1660: [ 0.25, g] KelPak: [ 1, ml] CalMag Fuel: [ 3.4, ml] Lush Green: [ 1.7, ml] __ Wed Mar 19, 2025 TH 1Q25 20:V:2:6  Girls need to look happy, even colored, lifted leaves, BEFORE Transplant and Flip. Starting Standard Feed Regime at EC: 1.0 mS/cm __ Thu Mar 20, 2025 TH 1Q25 21:V:2:7 We’ll water to runoff this morning - 8:6:4:5:4
Bumping CaMg, Bumping N Watered entire Liter over 8 Plants, ~ 125 ml/plant With LOWER Light, Girls are MUCH HAPPIER. ALL PCells display ROOT MATS at bottom of airpot. We need to BALANCE THE GREEN across the plants, before Transplant. A day or two, or three of a more relaxed environment should better prepare us for transplant.  We’re gonna need more water than we’ve harvested. - [x] 8 Gallons of Distilled Water For Transplant Consider P/K ≥ 2.5 (Root BIAS)
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Second run with this soil so hopefully its even better than b4. Charged the 3 lbs. biochar with dr earth flower power, mother earth flower girl, one shot, coconut and aloe water for a month. Added a bag of ocean forest and a bag or organic promix to the reuse dirt from my pots with cover crop...added 4 pounds insect frass, 4 pounds marine cuisine, 2 lbs bokashi (plus weekly juice ffrom bucket for teas). 12 lbs One Shot, 2 lbs azomite, and 6lbs lime. Cooked for 6 weeks. Cover crop and mulch to top it off. Used OregonismXl sprinkled on roots and in hole at transplant Will brew teas of reharge, aloe and coconut water powder, insect frass, homemade l.a.b.s, oregonismXL, and worm castings. 100 gal res and blumats for irrigation. Im still workin on organic/dry ammendment style growing so any tips would b appreciated Strains are :wedding cake (3), memberberry (2) The D (3), gelato (1), gorilla blue (1), blackberry moonrock (1) ( hopefully), purple punch (1), a leftover do si do (1) and girl scout cookie (1) (thin mint). My fav 5 will go outside and in the greenhouse.
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Die Dame wurde erst komplett entlaupt und dann zerlegt. Jetzt liegen sie im Kräuternetz, verpackt in Dryferm Beutel und ich muss geduldig warten.
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Apr 6 - I'm adjusting ph on watering days - was using straight rain water, but it's ph is too high ~7.0. LST Northern Lights, reacted really well to it. Adjusted 04/07. Pink berry really kicking it up - 9 hrs into lights on, big difference from lights on. Bubblegum is a real beast. Just takes my mistakes. Apr 10 - Between apr 8 and 10th, there was a big boost in growth. Well ph'd water goes a long way. Pink berry is a beast, bubblegum phenomenal looking. Northern Lights doing good - you can tell I fucked it up in comparison.
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All the girls looking good all have bud forming on their tops this strain has been really with no problems at all. All except one has staid short and bushy the one topped stretched up and fanned out real nice
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Hi! Here’s my 300W led session for tropicanna banana and dos si dos 33 to compare with my 315CMH box ! They are at day 28 and everything is ok! I had a little nitrogen deficiency on two plants but It’s ok now !
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2/10: I watered today with about 3/4 gallon each, plus cal-mag, signal, bembe, armor si, a little open sesame, and their final dose of endoboost. I took photos today, but forgot to snap a shot of the Soooperrunt. She's as tall as the short one now, just not as bushy. I think she'll make a fair amount of bud despite her sloooow start, smaller stature, and smaller pot. The tall one is keeping pace with the biggest plants in the garden. 2/11: Wife home sick today....postponing construction project to raise the lights....kinda scary....about 10"-12" from the tops now.. 2/12: I woke up to find the tallest of these bitches stretched another few inches and within 9 inches of the lights!!! I quickly drug everybody out of the closet and undertook the project. In addition to that project, I installed and hooked up my new AC Infinity 6" intake fan. It's pulling in fresh air from the soffit vent on the eave of the attic, and currently feeding the garden with 46f fresh air. I'm able to easily maintain daytime temps in the lower 70f's now. I am able to drive the nighttime temps as low as I want. The only issue is that the outdoor RH varies quite a bit, so I ordered a 30-pint dehumidifier to put in the top of the closet. It will battle with the evaporative cooler while the lights are on to keep it at 45% RH, but after the lights go off, it will lower the RH to 35% unti morning. After another couple of weeks, I'll kill the evap cooler altogether and try to maintain 35% RH 24/7. I'm optimistic that it will be the difference-maker in maintaining lower RH while I'm flushing all the plants during the last couple of weeks. That's usually such a challenge...especially with a bunch of 5 gallon pots. I also sprayed everybody with boomboom spray to try and mitigate the light burn damage that is likely to ensue. 2/13: Still stretching... about 12" from the lights again. I will wait to raise the lights until tomorrow when I feed them. I'm seeing calcium deficiency on a few plants, including a #9. Will up the dose tomorrow when I feed. 2/14: I fed them today with about 3/4 gallon each including grow big, big bloom, tiger bloom, cal-mag, signal, bembe, humic acid, and I switched over from Open Sesame to Beastie Bloomz. Raised the lights another couple of inches. I did some training on them and defo'd a little bit. 2/15: Installed the new dehumidifier and rigged the continuous drain on it...works great. 2/16: I rotated the edge plants and removed some old leaves. I added another 22w 3000k 4' bar light under the canopy. 2/17: I rearranged the garden and defoliated a little bit. That's it for week 8-