The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@Finniegrow
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NOTES:
Keeping the pH between 5,8-6,0 and EC at around 1,4-1,6 depending on system. EC at 1,5 seems to be optimal and my measurements are staying pretty steady at that level. Humidity is lowered to around 50% if I can.
The tops are now at around 45-60cm height from the soil.
Continuing the last heavier defoliation/pruning process that I started yesterday at the end of 2nd flowering week. I saw no signs of mold or any other issues as I went through the plants.
After this week I'm going to change the nutrient solutions on the tanks and fill them with fresh nutrients with minor changes: Dropping the amount of Grow from 1,5ml to 0,5ml and increasing the amount of Bloom from 1,5ml to 2,5ml. After the change I'm only going to refill the tanks without adding any Grow and will instead increase the amount of Bloom to 3ml. Propably a one more change of fresh nutrients until flushing with Final Solution prior harvesting.
Day64 (19.12.)
Some more defoliation focusing on the upper growth revealing bud sites below them and keeping off the moisture. Already got a trash bag almost full of leaves since they've been pretty bushy plants on average.
Day65 (20.12.)
Continuing the last defoliation process.
Day66 (21.12.)
Continuing the last defoliation process, pretty satisfied with the results so far. Light penetration and airflow have increased greatly so I don't have to worry that much about humidity or possible mold any longer.
Each strain has started flowering, all plants are females and buds have started to develop. Defoliating didn't seem to stress the plants as much as I thought it would.
Day67 (22.12.)
Day68 (23.12.)
Refilled and added some nutrients with a stronger Bloom/Grow -ratio (~4:1) and left my girls to enjoy the Christmas Holidays as I did. I'll be gone for around three days, after that I'll change to new fresh nutrients as I mentioned before.
One Ayahuasca Purple seems to be ahead of others, and a few other ones have clearly started to develop some buds too, rest of the plants are following closely behind. Each strain has some truly astonishing individuals, and I think Ayahuasca's have shown most variety between different plants. Overall everything looks pretty good I think. Hopefully can say the same after a couple of days as I come back.
Happy holidays everyone!
Day69 (24.12.)
Day70 (25.12.)
I added another Led light to my tent just before the lights turned off. Everything looks amazing!
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@Shizzlemanizzle
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Been away couple of days
Day 74
Came back and the lady’s exploded. Dropped down the nutrients since day 60 and started flushing on day 68. I’m waiting for the plants to get brown trichomes. But all in all I’m happy if I don’t fuck it up somehow
Day 77
Flushed yesterday the last time. Ppm was 400. Will chop them on day 84, if nothing special happens this is the last Post until before chopping them.
THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIPpS AND YOUR OPINION YOU GUYS ARE GREAT!!!! Happy Growing to everyone !
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@SooSan
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Dans l'ordre:
1) Afghan Peach x Blue Monkey
2) Gelato Cake
3) Fast Critical Poison
4) Tropical Fuel
5) Hindu Kush
6) (Blueberry x Black Domina) X (Kosher Kush x Mk-Ultra)
7) Blueberry
8) Herz OG
9) (Blueberry x Black Domina) X (Kosher Kush x Mk-Ultra)
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@LAShugars
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She is beautiful and I know her bud is going to be fire!!! But good goodness she stinks!! Kind of like fruity garbage, rotting fruit. Her buds are huge and already pretty heavy ❤️❤️
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@Herbie
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*Edit: dry weight and pic added 41.6g on the scales, plus a healthy 15g..... erm... product testing.... ahem!
I''ll call it 2oz dry all in. I'm happy with that.*
My second Purple haze auto from sensible seeds and again very happy with the plant. I have so many more strains to try, so I may never grow one again, but if I could only grow one strain again, from my short experience this girl would be the one for me.
I could have harvested this girl a few weeks ago but I thought I would risk a few more weeks to see how her buds developed.
I certainly made the right choice in doing so as these buds just got fatter and fatter.
I trained her with a mixture of lst and the now traditional for me super cropping.
I have had a shape her due to limited space in the grow cupboard to a more rectangular shape maximise the canopy size for the light. I have shown this in a video on my Bruce Banner #3 diary as Mrs B is being shaped.
My biggest buds to date without a doubt. Hitting 200g wet with stems my fingers were aching holding the stems while trimming so they were very bud heavy.
probably 50cm tall max from soil to top bud and a canopy space of around 60cm x 40cm available to her.
Grown under 3 x £1 / €1 / $1 Standard shop bought LED bulbs (cool white and warm) around 10w each converted.....
...Sorry light companies...
I think this a good yield and a proud growing moment personally.
I do often say that I will update when I have a dry weight but I don't honestly think I have yet.
I will still make the claim don't hold your breath.....
*Added root pictures
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@Unpluggy
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Hi there,
She is doing good so far. Topped her today at day 12.
Exited to see if my pheno will be a purple one :)
Have a nice day!
Adding Progress pictures the next days.
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@Elguacho420
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Buenas a tod@s... Seguramente ya estamos en la ante última semana... Están espectaculares todos los frutos, tanto de esta variedad como las otras, muy muy pretos como rocas, delicioso aroma y muy grandes, han crecido una exageración en una semana, se nota que comieron bien, no hay queja de mi parte hacia este cultivo, este riego con nutrientes será el último, el próximo ya es de limpieza de raíces y lo de más ya sabemos...😉 En el próximo cultivo se vienen cosas nuevas... Mientras tanto... A disfrutar está última etapa... Siempre se disfruta haciendo esto q nos gusta, con dedicación, esfuerzo y trabajando duro siempre... A seguir creciendo 🧠😎🙌🏻.
Buenos humos para tod@s nos vemos la semana q viene... 😎💀🇦🇷🤝🏻🇪🇦
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@GERGrowDesigns
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Dear Growers, Welcome to my Dutch Passion Diaries Competition 2025 entry!
For this competition, I’ve chosen the Indoor Feminized strain: Orange Bud 2.0
Media from Week 18 or Flower week 7-8 After Moving into the New Tent for the flower weeks. Stage.
Here’s what I’m working with for the Final Tent :
• 🌱 Tent: 220x150x150
• 🧑🌾 Breeder Company: Dutch Passion
• 💧 Humidity Range: 50
• ⏳ Flowering Time: 8W-10W
• Strain Info: 20-25%THC, Sativa
• 🌡️ Temperature: 26
• 🍵 Pot Size: 0.5l
• Nutrient Brand: Narcos
• ⚡ Lights : 720W x 2
Dimmed to 400w Each at the Moment. Because of Heatwave ⭐
A huge thank you to Dutch Passion for allowing me to be a part of this amazing competition and for supporting the grower community worldwide! Your genetics and passion speak for themselves!
Curious to try these strains for yourself?
You can check them out and support me at the same time through my personal link:
https://dutch-passion.com/?a_aid=GGD
I would truly appreciate every bit of feedback, help, questions, or discussions – and of course, your likes and interactions mean the world to me as I try to stand out in this exciting competition!
Let’s grow together – and don’t forget to stop by again to see the latest updates!
Happy growing!
Stay lifted and stay curious!
Peace & Buds!
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@blazin_skywalker
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I guess I can't put it off any longer.... This plant officially needs some yoyos. She can no longer hold herself up, and I have too many colas leaning against the wall.
These buds are exquisite! The contrast of the trichomes against the purple bud is stunning! I want to make it my mission to grow all the purple FastBuds strains! They're just breathtaking!
The smell in this tent is phenomenal. If only I could upload the smell! 🍇🍇🍇
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@Bread_n_Buds
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We really like to test the great new products that Zamensia prepares for our growers, this time we have a great plant that we conventionally call Test #3, it is doing well both in the topping version and in the straight version that I will show you in a few days.
We have just done the last topping that brings her 16 tops on almost all the plants after which we grow a few more days and off we go.
During the topping the use of nitrogen is a very delicate subject. The topping cuts slow down the plant and the leaves tend to grow bigger going a bit in over, it happened to her then you cut off and it tends to discharge now we are at the moment that we are starting to give nitrogen again to then go into flowering. It is a process that must be nuanced very delicately. Ideally it is to start by preparing the soil with fertilizer and add if necessary. I went a bit in excess with the plants but it is something that I have always managed very well once I got to flowering. Next time we will add something to the fertilizer soil with this technique is very suitable.
Wait the uncle BreadandBuds....
We are always using soil, feeding and all the recommended additives from Plagron 100% organic, we have only lowered the amount of grow in this topping phase for the reasons mentioned above.
---- Decide on the right soil and calculate your fertilizer sheet based on the soil on the official website.
-- www.plagron.com
Try a seed of this strain that drives us crazy..
-------- Strain Coming Soon! Try another Zamnesia Masterpiece instead
Zamnesia Description // Strain Coming Soon! Stay Tuned!
All the best that mother nature can offer is on ---- www.zamnesia.com
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@Dmars
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7/1 Day 92 from sprout, day 37 of flower. Worth mentioning I started counting day 1 of flower from the day I switched the lights to 12/12. I guess some people count days of flower differently than that, but that’s mine. Buds have been packing on the frost over the past few days and slowly getting fatter. I know I won’t be getting any massive buds just because I topped multiple times and have a good amount of lower bud sites growing but that’s perfectly fine with me. Generally it looks like I’ll be getting golf ball sized buds all around. I also noticed I had 1 top bud site that was getting a lot more light than the others. Well I happen to be able to move that bar around away from that bud site in order to better disperse the light and even out the PAR map a bit. So I slid that over which allowed me to safely stay under 1000 PAR at that top while increasing my light up to 75%. This should result in more light for the lower parts while staying essentially the same up top.
7/5 Day 96 from sprout, day 41 of flower. I gave the light a small nudge past 75% yesterday and I haven’t seen any light stress yet. I’ll keep nudging it higher until I see something, but I gotta be near the limit. Most of my top sites are sitting around 900 PAR, but I have two sites that spike up to around 1050 PAR. I do have two CO2 bags resting on top of my light but it’s impossible to know how much that helps, if at all. Growth has been great though; buds remain frosty and are slowly getting bigger still. The top half of the buds will be of respectable size, no monsters but good solid bud. I’ll still have some larf way down in the lower half though, an unfortunate consequence of the insane stretch and being unsure how much to hack off in that scenario. I debated trimming them all off now but I’m thinking at this point in flower I should just leave her alone and grow.
7/6 It’s possible I found my upper limit on light intensity. I started to see some faint yellow areas appear on some leaves and there’s an increase of dry crispy leaf tips. So at least for this grow I think I’ve established that 75% power is the max I can do. For now I’ve backed off the lights to the last hash mark before 75%, which has most tops sitting at around 750 PAR and a few others at 850 PAR for a max DLI of 36.7. I’ll probably go back up to 75% next week.
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@PrairieFrostGrow
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This was the first run of a FastBuds strain and I appeared to have picked a strain that works well with my grow style. She had nice wide indica leaves at the start of her growth and by two weeks over the sides of the pot. 3 gal seems to be a good pot size given her life span and her size. She flipped to flower as expected in week 4. From there she steadily gained weight in flower and was a struggle to keep her tied down with LST. Removing the lower bud sites on the side branches would also have helped to fill in her top colas so don’t be worried that she won’t fill in and you talk yourself into leaving them......cut them off😃👍She sets into a nice yellow fade on the leaves and the edges take on a purple colour. Add in red and orange hairs with everything covered in trichomes and she is a beautiful girl🤩🤩 Flush was over two weeks so expect a smooth smoke 🤞
Will follow up with more as she progresses through drying. In the box with temp at 62 to 66 degrees and humidity at 60%. Branches are not that long so I am expecting dry should be around 7 to 10 days.
*******Updated Mar 7/20*********
Dry went okay and she was in there for 9 day dry, Feb 25 to Mar 5th. Will be waiting until she has roughly a three week cure before I sample anymore. Did a little for not just to test her out.
Further notes from dry and trim........
Should have fed her another week for increased density. Smoke is smooth so far, I don’t mind sacrificing weight for smooth smoke but not sure it was a needed trade off with this girl. Find out next run of her, which will be very soon😀👍
Her high is nice and strong. Not much sampled so far........rather say more to come in a few weeks......sweet and impressive so far!!!!
Again a real pleasure to grow and I see more opportunity to do better with this girl😃 Very excited to go again and will definitely be in the next auto run again. Love how she grew and looked!
Already ordered more FastBuds genetics and will see Girl Scout Cookies with another Zkittlez for sure!!!
More to come in a few more weeks..........cheers fellow growmies and much grower love to you all!!
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@Maple
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Overall, everything seems to be going very well at the moment. The plants are growing faster than ever and the space on the sides is getting cramped. We still have plenty of space for them to stretch, but the upcoming week will probably be the last one in veg before we'll switch to 12/12. The roots of the plants already reached the bottom of their fabric pots.
Topping:
We decided to top the three largest plants (2x PCK, 1x Gelato). This was only done because we wanted the smaller gelato (top left) to catch up a little. I'm curious how that will work out.
If all the plants had been the same size, we probably wouldn't have done it, because the space at the sides is already tight.
Lamp distance:
As the plants grew, we forgot to adjust the lamp distance until the distance was slightly below 30 cm. The upper leafs are currently looking a little stressed as a result, but it is not too bad. Right now the distance to the lamp is 50cm.
Fungus Gnats:
We added some sf-nematodes to the soil to get rid of fungus gnats. It is unclear where the gnats came from and it could be completely unrelated to the grow. However, we gave the nematodes to all plants so it does not become a bigger problem.
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@Roberts
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Grape Octane is doing good. She is finishing up. I changed her to just water yesterday. She is on her flush, and fade time now. Next update will be the harvest. Thank you again Medic Grow, and ILGM. 🤜🏻🤛🏻🌱❄️
Thank you grow diaries community for the 👇likes👇, follows, comments, and subscriptions on my YouTube channel👇.
❄️🌱🍻 Happy Growing 🌱🌱🌱
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