The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@Finniegrow
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Vegetation: To keep temperature and moisture on optimal levels at around 23°C / 65% I'm using two mechanical timers.
- 24/7 on: Fans and water pumps (+Ventilation after 3.11.)
- Timer 1: Lights and Humidifier
18h on / 6h off
- Timer 2 (BROKEN 3.11.): Ventilation
18h (15min on / 15min off) / 6h off
NOTES:
Everything looks good and the roots have appeared from almost every (11/13) rock-wool cube.
From now on I'll mostly water the plants from bottom by adding the wanted amount of nutrient solution on a plate, and then placing the plant on top of for ~15seconds
This week I'm also starting to prepare the hydroponic systems (2x NFT-GT90, and 1x EBB-flow I think) and stronger nutrient solution since my plants are becoming ready to be transferred. Spreader-mat is the base of my plants when I have transferred them in to the hydroponic systems. DO NOT place more than one layer of the spreader-mat as it is not meant to be used like that! As you're cutting the mat for NFT's, be aware to have some extra for your peace to reach nutrient solution below the tray. That way you won't get noise from water dropping when systems are turned on.
Day 15 (1.11.)
Day 16 (2.11.)
First watering with a bit stronger nutrient-solution (~ EC 0,6 / pH 5,9) than before, starting with 50ml/plant and watering once from above. Slowly increasing EC to 0,8.
I cleaned and assembled 2 out of 3 hydroponic-systems which I'm going to use. I'll do the same also to the last system, but it currently has my plants on top of it so I'm going to do it later.
I want to make sure that my plants have built healthy and big enough root system before transplanting to hydroponics. I'm waiting for the rock-wool cubes to be bursting of roots so they won't drown on their first day in hydro. Also, as the plants are bigger before the transplant, I'm able to fill my nutrient-solution tanks full with correct strength nutrient-solution for Mid-Vegetation from the start, therefore no need for that much adjusting later on.
Day 17 (3.11.)
I noticed my other timer which controls the lights had stopped working... The lights were on when they shouldn't have been, I noticed it an hour after they were supposed to turn off. I think I caught up to it early, but it may have been on for maximum of 2 days straight. No worries there since on vegetation-phase the plants don't necessarily need any sleep (Even though you should avoid quick changes like that!).
Roots have appeared from the bottom of every cube and plants are looking pretty healthy. I think they are almost ready for hydroponics.
Day 18 (4.11.)
Few plants are showing symptoms of nutrient deficiences or some sort of sickness, not certain what exactly. I'll be keeping an eye on it. I'll be transferring in to hydroponic systems in maybe a week, so I don't want to stress my plants more than what's necessary.
Increased my solution strength to 0,9 EC with a bit more Cal-Mag than before, and watered the plants for 50-150ml each plant depending on weight and size. I'll be slowly increasing the strength by around 50% during upcoming week. Thanks for tips!
Day 19 (5.11.)
Day 20 (6.11.)
Plants are recovering well from deficiences and I just transferred all of them to hydroponics. I don't have the water pumps on for 24/7 just yet, at this point I water them a couple times a day by keeping the pumps on for somewhere around 15min at a time. Lights are now set to 60% and I also added a tower fan to circulate the air and shake the plants.
Day 21 (7.11.)
Lights are now set to 70% since the Led's and plants are spreaded wider in the tent than before. Distance to plants stays the same at 75cm.
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@DabBod
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Finally finished my last week of veg and sent these girls into flower last night. I tried to continue scrogging the larger pheno and somewhat succeeded, there’s now only a 3-4 inch difference between the 2 plants. There’s some slight discolouration on some of the leaf tips but it isn’t too severe and I’m not seeing any other signs of deficiency or stunted growth.
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@TheBulldozerSicily
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Giovedi 3/11/2022
Cambio acqua, inizio controllo Ec 2200 Ph 5
60 lt demineralizzata 6 lt rubinetto Ec 289
56 Grow 112 Micro 168 Bloom 66 Enizmi 70gr mega bud
Ottenendo Ec 2184 Ph 5.9
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@Minniesturps
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Here we have herbies grandmommy purple , its my third attemt at indoor , so this plant and another plant got put in this after my first ever go at indoor failed so i got new soil cannaterra proffesional and put these in and once they both filled the tent i put this one outside until i got my new tent and swapped the plant over so she started to bud outside as its winter (tail end of it ) and then my new twnt arrived and i put this in here a week ago and she has been loving it , it was very purple from being outside in the cold but its slowing fading away and the other one witch is (grandmommy purple 2) has no couler just green
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@Jungle_James_Grows
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Not really done much last week, they got a bit of light burn from LED. Which I've now move up.
But new growth seems to be doing ok.
Cover crops are coming on fantastic.
26/6 Friday
V) She is the bid sister of the group so I'm going to top her today
29/6
V) Has got 4 new grow tips started where I topped her.
The rest are catching up nicely now. Will start some LST in the next couple of days.
2/7 Done a bit if training on the girls today.
Bent four of them over.
The fifth one that I topped I didn't bend her yet, I just did some leaf tucking and she is coming on fantastic.
3/7 They have all bounced back brilliantly and heading towards the lights.
5/7 End of week 3 and going to do some more LST on them as the have bounced back from the last lot of training.
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@Uneasy
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27.10--> They've grown enough. It's time to change the light pattern to 12-12. I will change the light pattern tomorrow.
31.10--> After 12-12 light patterns they started to grow very quickly.
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@CanadianFillmore
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The final flush begins for LSD. She smells unbelievable, has dense large buds and a ton of frost! That's all for this week, tune in next week when she gets harvested! 👽🌳🔥
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@AutoPotPrime
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I’ll be the first to admit I’m no expert on this and I need some help. It seems some of the flowers according to my information at least, have gone on into the pre-flowering stage because of some of the white pistils. Am I too early or too late? Or is this just how the plan is going to be naturally also if anyone has any budget friendly suggestions on how to increase a yield…please throw us a life line. HAPPY GROWING AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! May you all be blessed and more successful then ever!!!!
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@jmsky
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In veg, it responded well as I learned about how to best train it. In flower, the smell was insane... after the first smell my eyes rolled back. Sweet floral orange citrus with a hint of chemical cleaner smell that comes together to smell like a tropical sunscreen.
When I was trimming the tester, my friend was walking by and stopped in his tracks, "whoa which one is that!?" - this one is loud! The smell is super strong even after drying, and really translates into the smoke. This was the star of the show, and made the best smoke. 10/10 would grow again.
One small issue was that this plant was by far the most susceptible to powdery mildew. It started on this plant, and any time it popped up in the tent, this plant had some. I had to stay on the Dr Zymes and trimming any affected leaves, but it was worth it.
Overall I ended up with just under 40g, but I smoked a bunch while trimming and took a sample cut, so really it was 7-10g more... this one was chopped on day 64. The buds were fat and firm and the trichomes looked ready, with a good mix - probably 5% clear 85% cloudy 10% amber.
I trimmed this plant 2nd and was getting better at it, ended up with some really nice looking nugs... so of course I took a ton of pics!
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@Pjm70
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She has started her bloom. She is growing so well.
This week I took off all her tie downs. Then 2 days later decided to tie her back down.
She has had steady tension on her branches. So when I released her, she tightened back up. With the ties on, there is little reason for defoliation, as of now.
She gained height, but nothing crazy. All her main top branches have always been pulled down to be side branches. Everything else was let to grow that came up the center. Really the side branches are the top of the canopy. Surprised I have not broke a branch.
8/26 2 gallons Fed 8 tablespoons Foxfarm Big Bloom, 15 MLS Tiger bloom and Foxfarm Open sesame 1/2 teaspoon.
8/30 Gallon and a half of tea. Cow and worm poop.
Every year I'm going to grow a photo in a different shape. This year I just wanted to see how many tops I could make.
Looking forward to next year's design. However not as much as I want to see what this voluptuous beauty produces.
Voluptuous seems to be very fitting for her. Love this plant, she has been very fun to grow. She also thought me a lot.
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@OutdoorRookie
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I deliberately sent my 2 ladies into flower 2 months earlier. roughly the 12/12h rule. Sometimes it was 10 hours in the sun, but sometimes 12 hours.
In my region it will soon be rainy and cold. I'm toying with the idea of harvesting them before I catch mold or something else.
The trichomes are all milky. About 15-20% amber colored.
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@AsNoriu
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Added first time molasses during feeding will be doing it for last 3 weeks before flush.
For couple plants with redish leaves stems gave epsom salt. Thinking to give it to all of them.
To me they look too skinny, but its aftermath of strech i quess ...
Would love to have one more hlg 240 ...
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@BLAZED
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Week 16 (Harvest)
1-2 Drying day 1
Temperature: 24.5 to 19.5 degrees
Humidity: 65% to 50%
The girls are ready to be harvested!
Before chopping them down, i took a lot of pictures.
I was able to remove most of the soil from the Biscotti #2 to see the rootball.
I hang the plants as a whole to have a slow dry.
The exhaust fan is on setting 4.
2-2 Drying day 2
Temperature: 19.1 to 17.5 degrees
Humidity: 62% to 57%
I changed the exhaust fan to setting 2 because setting 4 was a bit high in my opinion.
3-2 Drying day 3
Temperature: 19.9 to 18 degrees
Humidity: 62% to 59%
Today i checked up on the drying plants, and i see there are some buds touching other buds, so i chopped the plants in half.
The buds are still to the main stem for a slow dry, but are hanging more spreaded out to prevent any budrot issues.
I changed the exhaust fan to setting 1, as someone told me that it was enough air movement for drying.
4-2 Drying day 4
Temperature: 19.8 to 18.5 degrees
Humidity: 62% to 59%
5-2 Drying day 5
Temperature: 19.9 to 18.8 degrees
Humidity: 62% to 59%
Today i checked on the drying plants and the buds are shrinking a bit, they are getting a little bit crispy on the outside aswell,
I hope they wont dry as fast, and i aim for a 12/14 day dry.
For the next grow i already germinated 2x Chemdog (GreenHouseSeeds) 2x Gorilla Kush (GanjaFarmerSeeds) and 1x Deep Candy CBD (GreenHouseSeeds)
And I have some upgrades planned aswell!
I bought a autopot kit with 4 15L pots, this way the plants will have water and air 24/7 whenever they need it. I have seen alot of great results using autopots so i am very exited to try it out!
And I bought a small camera so i can shoot some weekly timelapses!
Feel free to Follow me if you like to get notified for the upcoming diaries!
Thanks for checking out this diary, peace!
(More harvest updates coming in the next couple of days!)
Huge thank you to Zamnesia for the seeds, and Plagron for the collection of nutrients, and the opportunity to participate in the POWERBUDS contest!
It was a fun and learningful adventure!
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@TheGourmetWeed
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Nice plants
2 totally different phenotypes, as one was already harvested, and the other isn't even half way of flowering after 10 weeks.
Nice trichome production, great fresh and fruity smell, this plant is a pleasure to smoke in the end of the day.
Dried her upside down hanging in a tent I have for the purpose, at 25c, 30%RH -
Only removed fan leaves, no manicuring, been doing that as I smoke, noticed the bud lasts longer and with a better smell and you end up saving loads of time.
Really happy with this smoke, smells like proper weed. Maybe was the best time I dried and cure(ing).
Only problem is that I'm smoking more as it's so tasty ahaha.
Good stuff, thumbs up!
PS - I'll start looking for the "original" Zkittlez to try out and check the differences between them.
Update: 12 April 2021 - Chopped down Plant #2
So, finally Saturday I chopped her down. She looked now ready and delicious, although I only notice yesterday how many seeds she has allover the place. She hermied in front of me without noticing, not good at all and need to start looking much better and in detail into the plants.
Feel like an idiot now.
Anyways, it was a full week!
Emptied the grinder collector and pressed it down a little, makes a very nice smoke, light but pleasant, the kind of stuff it keep you going all day without the dumb effect.
From all trimming made the bubble hash. Got a little too green as the 220micron bag's stitches slightly opened letting some contaminants in the final mix, hence the green color.
This was a hit. in opposition to the grinder stuff, this sent me straight to the moon, really heavy stone effect, even thinking was hard. Reminded me those afghan/ moroccan balls we used to get back in the early 2000's.
The weed itself it's still drying so the smoke report will be updated in there.
715g of fresh cut plant is good, let's see the potency and the seeds. Might turn it all into bubble hash, if I see it'll be an hassle to remove seeds.
On an earlier bud I've cut and dried, smoked it and you can see pure white ashes in the bong. Ain't that a beauty?
