The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@Salokin
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Hey Growmies!
I'm buzzing with excitement to share my latest project: two top-notch grow environments. Each tent is a lush green oasis, accommodating 9 plants, all conveniently set on plant rollers. We're employing a smart mix of Scrog (Screen of Green) and Sog (Sea of Green) techniques here. Imagine this: each plant enjoys its individual Scr.o.G., connected right to its air-pot, allowing for effortless mobility and care within the tent. Sounds cool, doesn’t it?
Positioned in a cooler room, I've strategically installed a Solea infrared heater, seamlessly controlled by an Inkbird ITC-308 temperature controller, to maintain a cozy climate. For ideal humidity, each tent is equipped with a Spider Farmer Cool Mist humidifier. Originally, I aimed to have identical setups in both tents, but as all cultivators know, adaptation is key. I ran into an automation snag with the UR45 lights due to their single plug and UV/IR switches. This meant I couldn't run IR in the mornings and evenings and UV during the day without manual intervention. Thus, in Tent 1, I’ve opted for two UR45 lights: one always on IR and the other on UV, each managed by a Meross smart plug.
The Mars Hydro app is at the helm of the light and in-line fan controls, although it's got its limitations. The ITC-308 oversees the infrared heater, and the humidifier self-regulates. Overall, I'm loving the setup, yet I'm already contemplating an upgrade to a single grow controller for all devices in the future.
This grow season is extra special as I’m collaborating with Anesia Seeds and Ganja Farmer Seeds. They've sponsored some amazing strains for this venture. In Tent #1, I'm growing ‘Epic Buzz’, ‘Red Banana Pudding’, and ‘Pink Matcha Slush’ from Anesia Seeds, starting with three seeds of each. Tent #2 will feature ‘Caramel’, ‘GMO’, and ‘Bruce Banner x White Russian’ from Ganja Farmer Seeds, also with three plants each. I will meticulously document their growth journeys in individual grow diaries. Dive into each strain's story through these links:
1. Anesia Seeds - Epic Buzz (https://growdiaries.com/diaries/189991-anesia-seeds-epic-buzz-grow-journal-by-salokin)
2. Anesia Seeds - Red Banana Pudding (https://growdiaries.com/diaries/189995-anesia-seeds-red-banana-pudding-grow-journal-by-salokin)
3. Anesia Seeds - Pink Matcha Slush (https://growdiaries.com/diaries/189993-anesia-seeds-pink-matcha-slush-grow-journal-by-salokin)
4. Ganja Farmer Seeds - Caramel (https://growdiaries.com/diaries/190093-ganja-farmer-seeds-caramel-grow-journal-by-salokin)
5. Ganja Farmer Seeds - GMO (https://growdiaries.com/diaries/190089-ganja-farmer-seeds-gmo-grow-journal-by-salokin)
6. Ganja Farmer Seeds - Bruce Banner x White Russian (https://growdiaries.com/diaries/190091-ganja-farmer-seeds-bruce-banner-x-white-russian-grow-journal-by-salokin)
For the enthusiasts interested in the details or seeking setup inspiration, here's a detailed equipment list for each tent:
Equipment List for Tent 1:
- Mars Hydro 120x120x200cm Grow Tent Dark Room
- Mars Hydro Smart FC 4800 Samsung LED Grow Light – 480W
- 2 x Mars Hydro UR45 IR & UV LED Grow Lights
- Mars Hydro iFresh 6-Inch Smart Inline Duct Fan
- Spider Farmer 6L Cool Mist Humidifier for Plants
- Solea Infrared Heater 500W
- Inkbird ITC-308 Digital Temp-Controller
- 3 x Meross Smart Plugs (for power consumption tracking and UV/IR light timing)
- 9 x 12.5L Airpots
- 9 x 30cm Plant Rollers
- 9 x 36cm Plant Saucers
Equipment List for Tent 2:
- Mars Hydro 120x120x200cm Grow Tent Dark Room
- Mars Hydro Smart FC 4800 Samsung LED Grow Light – 480W
- Mars Hydro iFresh 6-Inch Smart Inline Duct Fan
- Spider Farmer 6L Cool Mist Humidifier for Plants
- Solea Infrared Heater 500W
- Inkbird ITC-308 Digital Temp-Controller
- 1 x Meross Smart Plug with Consumption Measurement (to track electricity consumption of the tent)
- 9 x 12.5L Airpots
- 9 x 30cm Plant Rollers
- 9 x 36 cm Plant Saucers
I'm eager to hear any tips or suggestions from fellow growers. If there's anything on your mind about the gear or just want to talk shop, I'm all ears!
I can't wait to update you all as these tents transform into thriving jungles of green. Here's to a bountiful season and some top-tier strains!
Stay Lifted,
Salokin
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@MMSC16
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Oct 30 - Milky and clear Trichomes on mature plant, I suspect she's very close to harvest. The other plant is a little behind, with mainly Clear and Cloudy Trichomes. Continued to defoliate dead leaves as they're found. Senescence is starting to resume with colder temps.
Oct 30 - Watered Mature plant at 7.30PM. Checked Trichomes, they seem pretty close. However some calyx' aren't pumping in volume + Stigma/Pistil colour whilst others are full with brown / orange coverage 50%.
Oct 31 - Defoliated and Watered younger plant at 9PM.
Nov 1 - Watered mature plant at Noon, purple starting to present on more colas.
Nov 2 - Watered younger plant at 10AM. Trichomes on younger plant are mainly clear with one or two amber on calyx.
Nov 3 - 8AM Watered mature plant, checked trichomes - more amber appearing in calyx - although clear trichomes still very present. Day 83, I suspect Day 90 will be chop day. I'll put both plants in 50 hours darkness on Day 87. She's Oily, when defoliating, My knuckles were slimy.
Nov 4 - Amber Trichomes definitely present on calyx' Lower budsites are slightly behind, I might be chopping earlier - In fact, I'll put them in 48 hours of darkness starting tonight. If the younger plant is not ready, which I suspect the case - I'll resume regular lighting for another week or two.
Nov 5 - After getting feedback, I'm surprised to see I have another 2 weeks. The purple plant is definitely putting on size. I suspect the weight of buds will be too much to stand freely.
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@Algar
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Wanted to keep her growing until the end of the month but, mother nature had other plans. Woke up this morning and the buds where almost touching the ground. Still have 1/2 the plant left, will cut fown later today if more rain. Don’t have room to cure all at one time. Normally I cure outside, for now they’re in my bathroom and dressing room.😬Don’t know the wet weight for now since only cut 1/2 of the plant, but probably a good 4 or more kilos!😳
Finally, the sun has returned. Not hot though, but nice and sunny. Moved curing to outside for now. Last night we stayed high just from the aroma in the house. More to come when she dries.😍 Last plant totalled 2,005grams. 3 plant total 3,340 grams 😎
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@BrownsBuds
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Was away this week but plants seem to be fine slight yellowing on the tips of the zkittles new leaves. Soil is very dry as they haven’t been watered in 5 days. Only slight drooping in some of the leaves though. Will be watering after this post. The buds seem to be developing nicely.
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Week 3 Day 1: whew! I feel like we catching our stride! Last week was a battle with the numbers. The AC infinity Vegetative recipe had my devices all over the place (like my lights refused to come on and go off on schedule as they had been).
Thennnn once I got the schedule together the humidity starting rising like a MFer! I think the rain last week contributed to it and of course it’s summer so that doesn’t help. I broke and got a dehumidifier on Facebook marketplace and now the humidity is under control, but the temps are up to 85 during the day sometimes! I opened two vents, so I’m hoping this balances it all out. Will start LST, and feeding later this week.. early next week!
Week 3 Day 5: Well, well, well.. things are looking manageable and for that I am grateful. Humidity is still higher than desired.. humidifier is working.. but it’s not pumping the water out into my drain hole. I’m on vacation for the weekend, and washed clothes before I left and it jumped up again. So I’m hoping it continues to drop, because we did notice some powdery mildew. We think it’s due to the large number of plants in this 3x3 tent.. but we cut that off and spread them out and moved the fans and are hoping for the best. Plants have been topped and are ready to get started with low stress training and will be moved up to 5 gallon pots. That’s all folks, signing off.. almost one month in!
Big ole buds
PS - Big shout out to Good Hope Hydroponics for supporting me all throughout my grow! I wouldn’t have nearly as much confidence in the information I’ve got so far without them. Thanks as well for the Microbial Mass Pro!! We will figure out how we want to incorporate this into our grow for some testing soon!!
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@TerpTurtle
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15 Day dry then trimmed using the Trim Bin.
Curing with Grove bags, first harvest filled 3, 1/4lb grove bags.
*Updating with clone pictures of this pheno in late flower labeled in diary as you look through, If I pop a new seed of this strain Ill start another diary
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@adam_pawloski87
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What another great week it’s been , today is Day 39 from seed an the lil ladies have jumped into preflower 😍! Yesterday gave em the trim up of the unders , kinda popsicled you can say to each one, cause we want to focus on them colas ! This week we should see some more great progress, let them caps start stacking ! Can’t wait to see what we do next week ! Hope you all enjoy an have an amazing productive day! Peace love an positive vibes to y’all Cheers 😶🌫️💨💨💨💨💨🤙🏻
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@PapaNugs
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A busy week here in the tents. The fated week of defoliation and lollipopping. Took off a large amount and got them ready for the next six weeks. I'll only be watering and defoliating from here on our so the girl should be on autopilot. She started the frost here in week three. ❄️
Thanks for stopping by!
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@Mr_nugs_lover_David
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Absolutely beautiful flowrs, ashamed that I had to flip her to flexor after a long time in veg period, I wish I had made her achieved a bigger size considering she's in a 25l pot, very sweet haze, you can really feel the blueberries in her flowrs, very special haze, I'm excited to taste her buds, killer seed, I'm gonna grow my last 2 beans as well which you'll be able to see here in my page, hope yo grow her many more times! Stay tuned to see how this flowrs develop on this 4th week! 👨🌾😋🍉🍍
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GORILLA MELON / 420FASTBUDS
Week #7 OVERALL
Week #6 VEG
This week she's looking good 👍 she's growing at a good rate she's responded to the training she's been under with fresh growth!! Stay Growing!!!
Thank you for stopping by and taking a look it's much appreciated!!
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GORILLA MELON / 420FASTBUDS
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@Bloom_Room_By_Jared
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4/17: More of the same as usual.......l can only imagine what she would’ve been doing with the needed light instead of 12/12
4/18: For the remaining time until I harvest her in like a week or 2 I’m going to take her out the tent during light off period so she can receive much more needed light
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@inversi0n
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A little increase nutrients. Now I feed
1 time pH Perfect (Micro, Grow, Bloom) in double amounts, B52, CalMags, Sensizym and bacterias.
2 time Flora(Micro, Grow, Bloom, BigBud )in double amounts, B52, CalMags, Sensizym and bacterias.
By the end of the week i ran out of BigBud and Flora Grow. Don't know if need to buy more of it or not.
Despite I had lower humidity, it looks like she's still drinking less water. To be honest, it's first time, when i see my plant drink that small at this stage.
I defoliated a lot this week, dozens of leaves every day. Although this time, I cut not only big fan leaves, but also small ones in the lower center of a plant. I also cut down some lower buds to lollypop the plant a bit. But since most of the lower buds are still even not developed to the size, when it may be cut down easelly, I think i will continue doing it in the next week.
Lightning is also not perfet for the grow. Lamp has enough power to maintain the plant, but it's shape leaves much to be desired, it's too concentrated it the center with very small light at the sides.
It allows me understand, that i have mainlained too much, I should've stopped with 4 colas. I was afraid i wouldn't have enough space, but the problem is not with the space, but with lights now.
It's funny and weird how the buds are looking now. Some of them are pretty big already, some are just formed. And all of which are located in the top of the plant, they can't even receive equals amount of light even there.
Smell is becoming from 'just bud smell' to 'very sweety buds' now. It remind me the smell of Zkittles a lot.
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@babyoda
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Overdrive day!! Before start i make some good picture of this girls. We will compare after 2 weeks how buds are looks like. :)
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@CaptainKurryKush
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Hello everyone, how is growing?
The plants recover well since I did the topping on them, they are looking very healthy and vigorous, with such beautiful leaves, nice shades of green without any sigh of any kind of food deficiency or disease. I will not defoliate them this week, only training them.
Day 30 - Plants were watered with 1L, I spotted with dark brown mushrooms on both after water them, I'll be checking more about and keep watching them close. I did introduce some basil seeds on them as well just for a trial, they already sprouted.
Day 31 - Training Day on them, the Plant 1 had a slow growth rate in on of the stems, however, it seems to being catching up okay. The plant two on the other hand had shown an amazing symmetric grow.
Both of them already starting to show slowly some sights of changing for the flowering stage, however, I'll keep the same light schedule for another week. Overall, I'm pretty happy with the results of the topping, the new ramification are strong and get even more exposed to the light.
Day 32 - I moved the fun leaves under the other stems, instead of defoliant them, so the stems can get more light.
Day 34 - The plants were watered with Bio Grow, Top Max and Bio Bloom
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@WorldPeas
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This last week has been great. Buds are coming to the end maturing . Trichomes are approximately 80% - 90% milky with 10% Amber. Inside the tent the smell has increased a lot. I hope the foxtailing hasn't ruined the bag quality by much but should be potent as 👌
