🌱 Blue Waffle F1 – Photoperiod – Phenotype B
Week 2 – A New Home, Strong Roots, Endless Potential
Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another update from Project Blue Tent! 💚
Today we’re checking in on Blue Waffle F1 – Photoperiod – Phenotype B, one of the beautiful ladies growing under a traditional 18 hours of light and 6 hours of darkness. This week was a major milestone in her journey as she officially moved into her permanent home inside a Plagron Premium Coco Grow Bag.
The seedling stage is now behind her, and from this point forward she’ll begin building the root system and structure that will support everything to come. Judging by her response so far, she’s loving every moment of it.
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🏡 Transplant Day
After spending the last week preparing the grow bags, the coco was fully hydrated before transplant day arrived.
Rather than digging an oversized hole, I used the original nursery pot to create a perfectly sized cavity inside the hydrated coco. This simple technique allows the root ball to slide directly into place while maintaining maximum contact between the soil and the surrounding coco.
Once everything was ready, I gently removed the plant from her starter pot.
One careful movement…
One healthy root ball…
One happy grower.
The transplant went exactly as planned.
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🌱 Healthy Roots Tell the Whole Story
Before placing her into the new home, I always like taking a look at the roots.
They weren’t massive…
They didn’t need to be.
Instead, they were exactly what I hoped to see.
Bright white roots wrapped beautifully around the entire root ball, with plenty of fine feeder roots actively searching for more space.
There were no signs of root binding, discoloration or stress.
The roots held the soil together perfectly while still looking young and incredibly active.
Healthy roots are one of the best indicators that a plant is ready for transplant, and Phenotype B certainly passed that test with flying colours.
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🥥 The Move Into Coco
With the transplant complete, Blue Waffle F1 Phenotype B officially begins the next stage of her life inside Plagron Premium Coco.
Over the following days she showed virtually no signs of transplant stress.
No drooping.
No yellowing.
No slowing down.
Instead, fresh growth continued almost immediately, proving the roots adapted quickly to their new environment.
That smooth transition is exactly what every grower hopes for.
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🌿 Vegetative Growth
Phenotype B is developing into a compact, symmetrical young plant with excellent structure.
Her internodal spacing remains tight, giving her a sturdy appearance, while the stem continues becoming thicker every day.
The newest growth is vibrant and healthy, with the slightly lighter green colour that naturally accompanies rapidly developing tissue.
Leaf posture remains relaxed, indicating she’s comfortable with both the environment and her feeding schedule.
At this stage, she’s building the foundation that will eventually support an abundant canopy later in the grow.
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💧 Feeding Program
Now that she’s established inside the coco, feeding continues using the Plagron Hydro line.
Current nutrient solution:
• Plagron Hydro A
• Plagron Hydro B
• Plagron Hydro Roots
The goal during this early vegetative stage is simple:
Build roots first.
Everything else follows.
Hydro Roots continues stimulating vigorous root development while Hydro A & B provide the balanced nutrition required for steady, healthy vegetative growth.
Sometimes simplicity really is the best strategy.
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📊 Feeding Parameters
Current nutrient solution:
• EC: 1.26 mS/cm
• pH: 5.83
• Solution Temperature: 23.1°C
These values place the nutrient solution right where I like it for young plants growing in coco.
The EC provides enough nutrition to encourage strong growth without overwhelming the developing root system, while the pH sits comfortably inside the optimal uptake range.
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🌡️ Environmental Conditions
The grow room remained very stable throughout the week.
Current conditions:
• Temperature: 29°C
• Relative Humidity: 68%
Although temperatures are slightly warm, maintaining a higher relative humidity helps young plants stay comfortable by reducing unnecessary transpiration while the roots establish themselves inside the larger growing medium.
Consistency remains one of the most important ingredients for healthy development.
Happy plants love stable environments.
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🚀 Looking Ahead
With the transplant now complete, the focus shifts toward root expansion.
Over the coming week I expect the roots to rapidly colonize the surrounding coco, allowing nutrient uptake to increase and vegetative growth to accelerate.
As the plant continues developing under the 18/6 light schedule, she’ll begin building the strong framework that will eventually support training and, later on, a productive flowering phase.
Everything is progressing exactly as planned, and I’m excited to watch her personality continue to unfold.
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💚 Final Thoughts
Every great harvest starts with a healthy beginning.
Strong roots create strong stems.
Strong stems support strong branches.
And strong branches eventually produce beautiful flowers.
Blue Waffle F1 Phenotype B has settled beautifully into her new home, and all the signs point toward a vigorous, healthy plant with plenty of potential still to reveal.
The journey is only getting started, and I can’t wait to see what she has in store over the coming weeks.
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🙏 Thank You
A huge thank you to everyone following this journey and sharing the passion for growing.
Special thanks to Zamnesia for the incredible Blue Waffle F1 genetics and the ecosystem.
Thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Coco Grow Bags together with the outstanding Hydro nutrient line that’s powering this grow from the very beginning.
And finally, thank you to every company, every sponsor, every member of this amazing community, and every grower who stops by to leave a comment, share advice, or simply follow along.
Your support means more than you know.
Until next week…
Happy growing, and take care! 🌱💚