The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@GrimbolTheDruid
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*If anyone read through my GDP diary, this is going to be mostly the same stuff.
So, sad day friends. I got spider mites and had to throw all my plants out. This is what I think happened:
About 2-3 weeks ago I noticed some freckling on the lower leaves. I looked at it and thought it might be a cal/mag issue so I added cal/mag that week and went about my business. I saw it about a week later and it wasn't getting any better so I added more cal/mag. This continued for about 2-3 weeks until I finally took off a leaf and examined it under my microscope. I saw little bugs crawling everywhere and my stomach just dropped. My fiance did some quick research while I was panic ripping leaves off (see pictures) and she correctly diagnosed it as spider mites.
I debated with myself and my close friend and ultimately I decided to throw all the plants in my tent away. I know that there are a lot of people who will say that there are things I could have done to make it to harvest but what it came down to is the people I take care of and personal pride. I consider myself a caregiver and I give away product for free that I am not going to use to my family and close friends. I thought to myself "Would you smoke this?" and when my answer was "ehhh, I don't know", I thought about how it would feel giving it away and immediately made the decision to destroy them. I take an immense amount of pride in my product and this hobby and if I am not going to stand behind it I would rather just start over. I grow from my heart (shout out to the Grow From Your Heart Podcast!) to help people and make sure my family is not getting unsafe product from sketchy people. To spray pesticides in flower that may hurt people and have little bug carcasses in there just goes against that in every way and is just wrong in my opinion if you are giving it away to others. If you are the only one smoking it then it is one thing to take that risk but not with your patients. I want my medicine to help people, not create or exacerbate health issues.
It is also important to note that the mites had moved from my flower tent into my veg space and took over my auto berry as well. Damn things are crafty and fast.
So that is why I made the decision to destroy them all after 3+ months of res changes, pruning, and manifolding on a slow vegging strain. Feel free to chime in with your opinion but I do not regret my decision. I threw out my new clones, mother plant, and auto berry I had on my veg side as well. Shout out to all the other growers out there that do the right thing by their patients. Caregivers > Cash croppers.
For anyone curious, I removed everything from my tent and scrubbed it all with a 20% bleach/water solution. All equipment has been wiped down and stored in the garage away from any organic materials. I will give them until tomorrow (2 days) to air out and dry and then I will wipe it down again with bleach and wait another 2 days. Hopefully that will make sure everything is dead and will not come back next grow. That next grow should start in about a week.
It sucks but sometimes it happens and you gotta be ready for it. Lesson learned. Never bring outdoor plants into your indoor garden even if it is after just a day or two. A bunch of people on here and Reddit warned me and I did not listen. Now I have learned the hard way and it feels like when your parents "told you so" haha.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by along the way. Stay tuned for a new grow coming soon. It is going to be some cool new limited edition Mephisto Illuminautos. I am pretty excited.
Good luck out there and always grow from your heart folks.
-Grim
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@Lilside
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This my last week of 4ml The plants are really starting to bud and they all grew with the own differences and size but it the last couple weeks the small one have really caught up and the biggest seem to slow down a lil
Started this week with 1 ml overdrive starting to get the green back on the biggest def learnt to keep up on watering all in all happy for first grow
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@Grower_Zuko
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Royal Gorilla Automatic:
Checked out some similar grow diaries and came to the conclusion that she's definitely in shock as she's lagging behind quite a bit.
Last week I diagnosed the plant with some deficiencies (mg/mn/calc), possibly caused by the soil's PH being to acidic.
To counter this, I started the week by topdressing the plant with some fresh soil, quite a bit of kelp meal (to raise PH and supply the plant with calcium and magnesium) and some worm compost.
This time I watered the plant without adding lactobacillus.
This seems to have been effective seeing as the plant has restarted growing .
Buds are finally starting to dense up, trichomes are finally forming and the plant is starting to look healthy again.
Still waiting on the smell though.
Added some bone meal at the end of the week to try and get the buds to dense up some more.
Solomatic:
Plant is looking great, showing no signs of nutrient deficiencies.
Her buds are getting quite dense and the trichomes are present and sticky as fuck.
She has a nice haze like smell to her, which I really like.
Although she isn't showing any signs of deficiencies I did add a tiny bit of kelp meal and worm compost at the start of the week, followed by some bone meal at the end of the week.
Normally I wouldn't add fertilizer this close to harvest, but I have a feeling I can get the buds to dense up even more this way.
Will probably give her another week and a flush before I harvest her.
Stress Killer:
The healthiest plant of the bunch, showing absolutely no signs of deficiencies or stress.
The sweet smell is present, yet not (yet) overwhelming.
Her buds are getting really dense and the trichomes are everywhere and super sticky.
Added some fresh soil, some worm compost and a bit of kelp meal at the start of the week, followed by some bone meal at the end of the week.
She should normally grow for about 10-12 weeks, so I'm expecting her to fatten up like crazy now.
Can't wait to smoke this one.
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@Kushizlez
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Day 56-63 (Day 5F-12F)
(Day 6) Water retention is still a big issue in this soil, even with the reduced amendments, loose compaction and added perlite. Pots just aren’t drying out fast enough and I still need to water in enough to reach the bottom. I wish I had some flood trays for this exact reason so I could bottom water instead.
(Day 9) I’m going to try running 2 liters of water through each pot until I see a good amount of runoff on each plant. Maybe the nutrient content of the soil is just too high. If this doesn’t work, I got nothing.
Plants are drooping like crazy but that’s not surprising as I just flooded them. I’m going to turn on the carbon filter to clear out the humidity a lot faster. Over the next few days I’m going to let the filter suck the life out of this tent until it’s bone dry.
If I start seeing deficiencies arise from my minor flush, I will foliar feed some 1-1-1 kelp and some 3-0-0 calmag. I highly doubt I will see any deficiencies but it doesn’t hurt to plan ahead.
(Day 11) Ladies responded well to that heavy watering which is a little surprising honestly. The pots are still soaked and super heavy but they seem to be happy.
(Day 12) I’m really not seeing any well defined bud sites which is not a good sign at this point. I have never grown under HPS and have never flowered a true 10 week strain so it could just take a little longer in early flower. So far I’m unimpressed
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@JeyGanesha
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Eccoci arrivati alla 5°settimana di fioritura..le cime sono belle dure. Sono compatte e dure come una pietra... Spero che in queste ultime 2 settimane alimentino di volume. Non che siano piccole ma sé vengono un poco più grandi serei più contento. Come chiunque penso😂🤣😂🤣😂👍💪
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@refusing3
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day 25:
Trying to keep temperature at 23 C level to create perfect conditions for the formation of trichomes but depending on the time of day it varies from to 21 to 26 C
Watering volume week 9:
day 22 - 28 - 500 ml
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@Ninjabuds
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They already have a really great start. Both of the seedling pushed the seed shell off without any help. Every day that passes these 2 plants are showing there going to be really strong plants already. I'm already getting excited to try the final flower from these plants even thou there seedlings idk what it is about the name blackberry moonrocks just has me seeing stars I think these plants are going to be winners
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@kauilmayel1996
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So nice
Pero me faltó la maya
Looking good
No sé ni que crecí pero es bastante hermosa
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@FrecheOma60
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The plants are looking amazing. Iam happy that all effort i put into these plants got rewarded. The plants are from 2 mother plants some of them got very purpleish / black leafs some very dense buds all have purple touch in the buds. The sugar amount is insane they all look very beautiful altough the buds are not the biggest. Its around 1-2 weeks left till harvest . Today ive watered with clear rainwater to flush.
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@GrownwithLED
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In week 10 I have some plants, which have grown taller than the rest (canopy is appr. 80 cm high now). In order to not have to raise my lamp, I rather correct their height by 'supercropping' them. Supercropping is a technique developed by SOMA from SOMA_seeds and works VERY WELL. Instead of topping your plants (=cutting off the main stem) it is better to take the main stem between your fingers (appr. 15-20 cm form the top) and brake the fibers inside and then bend it downwords. This way the stem will stay intact and heal itself and you dont loose the main buds growing on it later. In the video above I show and explain how I supercrop a plant.
The plants are now getting more and more into flowering and therefore I switch the dimmer on my SANlight EVO4-120 plants to 100% now (see in video above).
The BIO NOVA nutrients are increased as well a little bit, so the plants can build big buds.
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@Theia
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A good week for cheese. No dramas to report which is great.
She has done her stretch for now it seems and the height works for me this run. Feeds are up to 1.4ec alternative feeds if npk and just beneficials.
Not much else to say. I like this girl. Love me some cheese..
Happy growing 🇬🇧💚🌿👍🏼
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@HideAndFly420
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Day 34 this lady is running, I can see flowers getting bigger every day, smell started really really soon this time so I already had to add the Carbon Filter.
I’d like to close the cycle in less then 80 days. It would be great
First flowering fertilisation
Ph 6.2
Ppm 631
Day 37 - 9 of flower 🌸
Started blooming fertilisation, I’m keep Giving all-in one from aptus, i think I lm substitute with super pk and I stop all in one.
Ph 6.2
Ppm 731
As I’m growing an solito in a 9.2 lt pots with all mix nutrients I’m slowing down with all in one and just giving base feedings, I ll decide later if I should give super-pk for the next weeks
Day 40, tomorrow will be feeding days. Sge’s going really well, resin is already showing up on flowers that are several as and colorfull, smell is already there 🤤
Tomorrow update with feedings parameters.
Day 41 feeding day
Aptus regulator 0,15ml/1 lt
Aptus all in one 1,25ml/1lt
Aptus Topbooster 0,3 ml
Aptus enzym + 0,5 ml
Calmag 0,3 ml /L
Ph 6,18
Ppm 756
Let’s see
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@Stonyways
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Back to the Grow
PH was at 7 when the pots were dry and returns to 6.5 after the feeding. I'll let the foliage build one more time so I can transplant into their 7 gal pots for flowering, this will add a tremendous amount of new fresh soil for the roots to thrive in during the early budding stage
lights up to 95w about 60% on the dimmer.
I hope you are having a great holiday season and a very happy grow.
114w after a series of jumps this week. plants reacted well and I'll continue to bring the watts up for the next few weeks so they're ready for fllower
12/29 plants went into their 7 gal pots
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@ThePotFactory
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Added a scrog today, plants looking healthy. Ill be looking foward to see how they react being autoflowers. Bat guano also added to the coco as a top layer and mixed in about an inch. Upped the cannaboost and cannazym. Next week probably be adding PK 13/14
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@AustinRon
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OG 4Q24 Flower Week 10
Orangegasm (Fem) [ IRIE Genetics ]
12/12 @ Bolt (Day 21)
Germination: 20 November 2024
#3A Earliest Harvest Date: 9 February 2025
#3B Latest Harvest Date: 19 February 2025
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Start of Week: [Wed Feb 12, 2024 CR2 4Q24 64:F:9:1]
End of Week: [Tue Feb 18, 2024 CR2 4Q24 70:F:9:7]
OrangeGasm Fertigation:
- MAX: EC: [ 1.6, mS]
- LightIntensity MAX: [ 850, µMol/m2/s]
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Wed Feb 12, 2025
OG 4Q24 64:F:9:1
Refresh Reservoir
- Amount: [ 5, gal]
- EC: [ 1.6, mS]
- Primer A&B: [ 48, ml]
- SLF-100: [ 15, ml]
Reclaim Dehu
- Amount: [ 4, gal]
EC: 1.6
Runoff
- Amount: [ 1.25, gal ]
- EC: [4.3 , mS/cm2]
- EC∆: [ 1.6 , mS/cm2] # Danger!!! (I don’t think so - Happy Plants)
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Thu Feb 13, 2025
OG 4Q24 65:F:9:2
Runoff
- Amount: [ 2, gal ]
- EC: [ 4.6, mS/cm2]
EC: 1.5
Refresh Reservoir
- Amount: [ 2, gal]
- EC: [ 1.5, mS]
- Primer A&B: [ 32, ml]
- SLF-100: [ 10, ml]
Reclaim Dehu
- Amount: [ 2, gal]
If we see the pistils of the last two plants shrink/collapse in the next 3 days, we may be ready Tuesday/Wednesday . . .
I also note we’re about 2 days after from OPTIMAL BUD Structure, Foxtailing is becoming less well formed at largest top and some of the sooner ready buds …
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Fri Feb 14, 2025
OG 4Q24 66:F:9:3
EC: 1.4
1.5 gal dehu
3 gals+ refresh
Reduced Fertigation Time 50% as Tank is at refill after 4+ gal yesterday, again. :-{
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Sat Feb 15, 2025
OG 4Q24 67:F:9:4
Reclaim Dehu
- Amount: [ 2.5, gal]
Refresh Reservoir - 2 Gal
- Primer A&B: [ 17.9, ml]
- Resin Bloom: [ 9, ml]
EC: 1.3
Runoff
- Amount: [ 0.5, gal]
- EC: [ 3.0, mS/cm2]
- EC∆: [ 1.7, mS/cm2]
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Sun Feb 16, 2025
OG 4Q24 68:F:9:5
Refresh Reservoir - 2 Gal
- Primer A&B: [ 16.5, ml]
- Resin Bloom: [ 8.3, ml]
Runoff
- Amount: [ , gal]
- EC: [ , mS/cm2]
- EC∆: [ , mS/cm2]
EC: 1.2
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Mon Feb 17, 2025
OG 4Q24 69:F:9:6
EC: 1.1
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Tue Feb 18, 2025
OG 4Q24 70:H:9:7
1000
- Remove Plants from Tent
- Remove Drip Tray
- Remove Light
- found water unseen in bottom tray - the reason for unreasonable humidity
- Removed Drip Rings
- Dried bottom drip tray
- Resealed Tent - Low RH
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Harvest Log
Max Min Average
Height (in)
40 21.5 29.875
Weight (g)
700 157 385.5
Secondary Stem Count 30 17 21.125
Est Dried Trimmed Wt 140 31.4 616.8
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@Unculti_responsable
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La primer semana se flora vinene muy bien , fertilizamos unas semanas antes con fertis de pre flora , a los 15 días vamos a hacer el último riego foliar con ferstis y un riego con guano de murciélago con melaza para mejores resultados
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@StoneyMelony
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Week 12 day 78 i started the day and found my fan was fell down in my plants, i had some serious damage and i had to repair a few branches with some serious bud. Not all the buds make it and i had to harvest a few because of the damage. Not so nice because she was not ready. Also she is not so pretty anymore. But i'm happy there was no damage to the 2 huge buds their doing ok, and beginning to look better every day. So i started a final PK boost and hope i can finish and flushing after that.
Day 82 i stopped the feeding and start to flush tommorow
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@SidekickGrowie
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Die Pflanze wächst richtig super.
Anhand der Blattfarbe und der Blatthaltung erkennt man dass es der Pflanze richtig gut geht.
Tag 38:
- Einleitung Blüte
- Erste Blütedüngung
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@ChewiesGrow420
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Added Exhale c02 and top dressed in each pot with 1 tablespoon per gallon of growing medium my pots are 3.6. I added 3 tablespoons. It is my hopes that with adding the slow release dry amendments and once the c02 bag sarts growing my plants will finally grow. They are short but have 4 nodes at day 21. What is an exhale c02 bag? “The ExHale bag is a patented strain of mycelium that produces an abundance of CO2 without fruiting. This means that when our bag is activated, the mycelium grows, eating the substrate it comes with, giving off heaps of CO2 straight into your garden, and it does all this for 6 months - guaranteed!”
At day 25 I am not impressed with the size of these girls? Hope they hit a growth spurt soon? Their internodes are stacked very nicely.
At day 28 growth is very slow. Practically none existent since my top dressing at day 23. 2 plants have received a very minimal nutrient burn. As I do not have a soil ph tester? I will be watering with a ph of 6.0 rather than 6.5, hopefully that helps. ONWARD!
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@HUMO_Cultiva
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Update day 10 of transition to bloom this Goofiez 2 it’s soy strong !!
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@Sup3rNov4
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Lost the top two colas due to bud rot after 2 weeks of storms :( apart from that she is a fantastic strain to grow an absolute pleasure
