The Grow Awards 2026 ๐ 
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@DogDoctorOfficial
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Greetings, fellow cultivators! Week 10 marks the zenith of our incredible journey with the Big Cheese Auto, and it's like witnessing a grand finale in a botanical symphony. A heartfelt salute to Seeds Mafia for the genetics that have led us to this captivating moment.
Our green queen is gracefully fading into the final chapters of her life, akin to the changing seasons. The Autopot system, our faithful companion, has been the guardian throughout this journey, ensuring a nutrient dance that sculpted the masterpiece before us. It's like the closing act of a green odyssey.
As we approach the grand finale, all additional feedings have come to a serene end. Our Big Cheese Auto is now sipping pure water, a gentle transition as she readies herself for the final curtain call. It's like allowing the plant to gracefully bow out, showcasing the culmination of her life's work.
The transformation is mesmerizing! The colors are shifting like the changing leaves of autumn, a poetic reflection of the plant's life cycle. It's like witnessing nature's artwork unfold, with hues of green, purple, and amber blending seamlessly. Each leaf tells a story, a testament to the plant's resilience and the seasons it has weathered.
The trichomes are now a sparkling crown, each one a testament to the plant's potency. Their production, color, and shape are in perfect harmony, signaling the imminent harvest. It's like a field of glistening diamonds, a visual ode to the journey we've embarked upon.
As a prelude to the final act, all feedings have ceased. Our Big Cheese Auto now drinks pure water, allowing her to express her true essence in these concluding moments. It's like letting her compose the last notes of her botanical symphony.
A profound thank you to Seeds Mafia for entrusting us with genetics that have flourished into this spectacular finale. Aptus Holland, your nutrients have been the invisible hand shaping this journey. Grow Diaries and the community, your support has been the heartbeat of this horticultural tale.
As we stand at the threshold of Week 10, the sense of accomplishment is profound. Our Big Cheese Auto, though reaching the end, leaves behind a legacy in vibrant colors and trichome-laden brilliance. It has been an honor to witness and share this remarkable journey with you all.
Let's continue to cultivate greatness together but first lets see how this one ends !
Genetics -Seeds Mafia Big Cheese Automatic
Light - LUMATEK ZEUS 465 COMPACT PRO
โจFood - APTUS HOLLAND โจ
โจAll info and full product details can be find in can find @
https://seedsmafia.com
โจโจhttps://aptus-holland.com/โจ
โจโจhttps://lumatek-lighting.com/
As always, thank you all for joining me on this journey, for your love, and for it all. My horticultural odyssey would never be the same without you. Your love and support are cherished, and I feel both honored and blessed to have you in my life
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@SolitudeCorners
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Last week of flowering (72days from the light switch) Gonna cut soon when the dirt is dry. A quite late harvest. Many buds denser more, and stem canโt longer resist.
This season so satisfy. Thank for all mentor and comment. You all are my inspiration for grows.
Feeding
23/1 Water 13.5L+Flawless 20ml ppm80 ph6.2
MDR 3L 2Lx5
Runoff
MDR 1400 /1155
Zkittle 1600/1300/1150
Pineapp 900/600
Purp 1300 /1200
Sapp 2000/1100
Dozdos 1100/1000
25/1 10.42 6L ppm9 ph6 1L per pot
3L+Flawless6ml ppm116 ph5.9 1.5/1.5 Purp, Zkittle
4.5L+ Flawless7ml ppm119 ph6 1.5/3 Sapp,MDR
Runoff
Purp 1300
Zkittle 1500/1200
Dozdos 1400
Sapp1300
Pineapp850
MDR950
27/1 runoff
Pineapp 500
Purp 900
MDR 600
Zkittle 400
Sapp 300
Dozdos 400
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@sirstickyfingers
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Week 1 of flower!!! im excited and nervous at the same time. I was going to Veg for another week but there were a couple factors that made me want to flip.
Last week I did a final transplant into my 7gal pots, 2 days later I start to see pistils. I am a new grower and was like oh crap did I just force her into flowering and gonna herm them since im still on 18-6 light schedule???
I am in a couple discords that are growing communities so i posted some pics and confirmed they are in fact pistils.
This is my first grow and not only was I excited to start flowering but also scared im going to ruin them if I dont flip so I did. From more research this is called pre flower and I could have stayed in veg from what I have found but flipped anyways and please correct me if im wrong as Im still learning.
The pics you see are day 3 wk1 of flower, I flipped the lights to 12-12 on night 2-29.
The girls are already starting to stretch. IM really hoping that my little sour diesel dwarf stretches to meet the Purp and northern lights canopy or else I am going to need to find something to prop her up to meet them.
As you can see in the pics I added my trellis netting. My plan was to hopefully get these girls to stretch enough and start filling in the squares. My goal is to fill every square with a flower site. It might be a bit ambitious but still gonna try. This is 2 fold, 1 allow spacing to open up the inner canopy and allow light into the depths of these girls to encourage those lower sites to reach the top. 2 support for the flowers as they mature.
Yea they looking alittle bushy and I know I should defoliate but my thought was to wait until the stretch is done then do my full lollipop and remove alot of those fan leaves blocking bud sites and also get better air flow in there.
My plan for nutrients is to top dress with my gaia green 4-4-4. power bloom 2-8-4 and worm castings every 2-3 weeks depending on how they take to it. I just hope this is enough.
So here's to week 1 of flower!!! any tips, advise or suggestions are welcome and thank you for looking!
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@KilgoreTrout
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Defoliated IE lollipopped today. Everything is going really well. I backed off on nutes a bit because I was getting a bit of clawing. Otherwise all is super good no complaints.
I did get a bit of dark cycle light exposure a few days ago because I forgot to close the flaps. How much and for how long I'm not sure but I'm now keeping my eyes out for balls and or hermie traits. Fingers crossed.
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@Maggie_de_Block
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Pistils finally starting to really show, expecting her to really fatten up the coming weeks.
Having some troubles keeping the humidity low, as I have a super budget little dehumidifier. Getting a bigger one would be about 100โฌ but I'm not sure if that's worth it, if anyone knows more please lemme know :)
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@L_Choppa
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i feed with nutes last watering about two days ago my idea is to feed one more time before the two week flush not really sure yet i have at lease a week to figure it out being the end of the plants life cycle is soposed to end in another week idk master growers were yall at?????๐
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@GMSgrows
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Another week in and this girl from Ganja Farmer is just going crazy. Can't get near her to get good pics until harvest time., but you will then see the true size of these flowers. Cycle nutrients are working good. Have been keeping the ongoing feed at 5.8 ph and the ec at 800. Runoff values are at 940 ppm and the ph has maintained itself at 6.2. Cyclo says to keep the ph from 5.5 to 5.8 in bloom, was kind of skeptical but kept it at 5.8 anyways. Guess they were correct.
Thanks for the looks and like to all you growers out there. Grow on, grow strong.
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@StoneyCoconut
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5/4/21. Day 64.
WR is beefing up. Drinking about 12 ounces a day, water only. I'm still seeing some clear trichomes. Not much amber. I'm thinking she'll be done in less than a week. Still hoping she lightens up a bit. I want her to burn up whatever nutes are left before the cut. We shall see, patience is a virtue!
GC is a beast! Still uptaking a half gallon of water daily. I cut back just a bit yesterday and she let me know by pouting (droopy) this morning. I top fed her about 1.5 quarts and bottom fed a half quart or so. Then gave her a few ounces of Reharge water. I use a hand pump sprayer and water a bit at a time to prevent roll off. Thiink of light rain on dry soil. She looks happy and lush now. She'll get full bloom nutes tomorrow plus some top dressing, her roots are growing up and out of the surface of the soil ๐ณ. Details on the the top dress will be noted in my next update.
These two girls were planted on the same day.
5/6 Day 66.
GC came out to play today๐ณ Stll shots just dont do her justice. She's still drinking heavily. Half gallon of 5 part bloom + Cal-mag yesterday morning, this morning dry. I'm gonna botom feed her at night, just a pint or so. I feel bad when she pouts ๐ She's 22 inches at the peak and 22 inches round. Next time I woud choose 5 gallon bags, 2 per this size tent. I LSTed a bit with pipe cleaners to even up spacing. The I gave her another pruning. So much leaf! @Hawkbo on his GC grow for for showing me the way! She also got a top dressing of 1/2 quart of Happy Frog with worn casings, dolomite lime and bone meal. She just eating all these nutes up! The tops are building girth now. Very firm! No oder yet.
WR is ready! I'm drooling, no really. She'll get a nice video too ๐ Might do a selective harvest. They dont always finish evenly. To be continued.
5/9 Day 69.
WR went dark. I'll chop her on day 70, 10 weeks. Trichs are mainly milky. Big and bold! Looking into a scope that connects to the tablet so I can get some shots of these these divine pearls ๐๐ Sorry to report I cant upload the the video I made, corrupted file or some nonsence ๐
GC is chugging along building buds! She's a jungle of bud and leaf. I continue to work the canopy relieving her umbrella leaf and of the scub from underneath. Who wants all that fluff anyway? Still drinking almost a half gallon a day. I'm gonna keep the bloom nutes on the hot side unless she says stop.
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@Cerebro
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Ho effettuato il tiraggio alle piรน alte, defogliazione per tutte. Adesso devo diventare delle belle signore!!
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@Hampoop35
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They really started to bush up this week. I upped the water from 26oz to a half gallon for plant A and B. They all responded to almost twice as much water as usual. I was worried of over watering. So really being able to feel the pot weight is super tricky. No real issues but humidity. Iโm still sticking with LST on plant B and letting plant A ride! Also Iโm staying on the planned NUTE schedule. Stay lifted
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@TAXFR33
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All the late nights and hard work are starting to show signs of paying off. Got high hopes for this grow
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@Naujas
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very similar to the girl's leaves, after receiving a bad ph for a few weeks - they are recovering :) I am really satisfied with the result Ams great home :)
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@DangerMouse
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Day 105. I do not have enough experience to tell if that is a long time to finish for an autoflower.
2 Days ago I added 8 liters of water pH'd at 5.9. I'm also curious of anyone knows if this strain produces amber colored thrichomes. I've read some stuff on the internet that certain strains produce almost none at all. I can't tell of people are telling the truth or I just should have more patience and wait for them to show up. The close-up pictures you see are from day 105.
Almost all her sugar leafs are yellowish or completely yellow btw. I forgot to make recent pics of the cola's. I'll add some of day 103.
On a sidenote, by the looks of it, the buds are still gaining some nice mass and density.
Cheers,
DangerMouse
--------------- Day 107 -------------------
After 10 days of FloraRipen another batch of FloraKleen. I added pics of the trichomes and some buds.
The runoff had an us/cm of 4500... Like I said before, my meter must be broken, right?
After 48 hours of flushing I'll just change the water for pH'd at 5.9.
Does anyone know what kind of bugs are in the runoff? The video is of the water that came out of the bucket. I've seen them before for did not capture them. The look a bit like springtails but does anyone know? There are none on the plant itself, just in the water. Let me know!
Happy growing,
DangerMouse
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@Naujas
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107 days!! Here is another great experience :) The girl has matured, 330 grams of wet, full of sticky, resinous shiny, pleasantly smelling flowers :) I think it will be about 90 dry :) although the girl is definitely not the biggest, but she looks great, the smell is also amazing :) I also got some sugar leaves from which I will make bubble hash, For me personally it is really beautiful and good growth, which I think will definitely be confirmed by the dried and cured flowers :) there will be a smoke review, as well as the total dry weight. good luck to everyone :).
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@DimJesus
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Saludos! ๐ Completando la dรฉcima semana y cuarta semana de floraciรณn๐ป
Esta semana la temperatura cayรณ bastante, estuvo alrededor de 8ยฐ y 15ยฐ por eso el panel led estรก tan bajo como se ve en las fotos. Dentro del grow la temperatura mรกs baja fue 13ยฐ y creo que eso la estรก afectando un poco. Pero estoy feliz que estรก resistiendo bien ๐
Buenos humos ๐
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@Hou_Stone
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Let's remember, in week 6 one of my king's tart had been broken in 2 because of the tension due to my bad LST.
This plant grows much taller than the others. I'm trying to lower his height by doing HST. Currently she does not seem to complain about it.
I preferred to remove my net this week, to more easily access my plants and water them. I hope the branches will hold
I cut a lot of leaf this week. I hear different opinions that say it's beneficial others not... At least it will have the advantage of lowering the humidity.
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- Water: tap water at 300 PPM, I add 0.7G of Hybrid powder and 0.3g of booster PK+ per liter to reach 950PPM and I adjust the PH to 5.8. I watered daily until water drained from the pot (to release nutrients from previous waterings) and I take a 3-4 day watering break to let it dry out before resuming a daily watering schedule.
-Daytime temperature: 22-26ยฐC
-Night temperature: 20-24ยฐC
-Humidity: 50-75% ( Too high but it's hard to lower it... I need advice please contact me if you have :) )
-Lamp: Mars Hydro FC3000. intensity 90% at 35cm from the top leaves
-Room: Mars Hydro 100x100x180cm
-Extractor: Mars hydro 402 CFM Max. power 3/10
-Substrate : 70% coco, 25% perlite, 5% vermiculite.
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@Leeyum
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She was a pleasure to cut. Beautiful trim. So far pure berries and gas. I'll update on the smoke report once she's cured. I had a mini toke sesh earlier and it was definitely LSD. Definitely turning on some different visual/auditory receptors. It was nice and long and happy. She's only going to continue to get better. The buds are kind of fluffy but I find that all the purples I've grown turn out like that. The greens tend to produce much more weight/density. I'm not one to harp on density. I'm more about the flavor/effect.
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@Hologram
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Finally the final chapter of the Big cheese twins chronicles!!
Those twins were not identical at all and they had diff. pots too
I will show you the diff:
5lPot: 151.98G wet harvest 28.42G cuttings and buds for oil.
She was not that big (50 cm) but her buds were fat as fu*k!
did not have big colas with flower but all the buds were fat, shiny and full with trich.๐
i can even use some of the big leaves for oil..๐
i love the smell, only in early stage of flower they were a bit skanky but later on the smell became more flowery
and herby ๐
had a lot of pests and bad weather and did not get a lot of daylight..
But still she couldnt get cheddar than this!๐
you fetta believe it! (๐ณyeah im feeling very cheesy 2day)
11L pot: 75,45G ~75,45G for oil
she was a freak with very strange leaves, i almost wanted to teminate her..but i gave her a chance..๐๐
she grew tall and was foxtailing all the way (very sexy ๐)
So the buds were not so big or fat but very white, filled with trichomes!
so maybe i will make oil with all of this (i made a diary about that if you are interested)
i will see how she dries ๐
Must also not forget they were in my fridge for almost 2 years, waiting...
So thats why im just happy they even wanted to grow! ๐
Thankyou all for following the adventures of the BIG CHIEF-twins
they grew healthy thanks to all of you! ๐
Happy growing for all โ
