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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@Growin_Ish
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Top dressed with 1.5 Tbls of Terp Tea Bloom and Microraza. Watered in with rain water, blended aloe leaf, & Fish Sh!t. 1/2 gallon each, no runoff.
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@Kitties_and_Colas
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Quick update..we're making more changes to the grow room this week.. we got some shots under the glass and the trichome density is great for both Kannabia strains ❤️🌱
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@SkunkyDog
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Hallo zusammen 🤙.
Das war es jetzt für sie wir sehen uns in 3 Wochen für den Erntebericht 🤙
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@Vagicebra
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completamente recomendadas. fáciles de cultivar y resistentes a plagas.
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@BigDaddyK
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keep an eye on ph and EC
i top up approx 2ml of A+B per day
I think she finally stopped stretching , this is when I start to lower the base nutrients , one of them is a little behind the other , she has some wicked buds forming
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@Deli_Weed
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En general me encanto cultivar esta genética, siempre fue la primer genética que quise cultivar desde que empecé en esto y no me decepciono en lo absoluto, de una sola semilla obtuve 106 gramos de flores de gran calidad 😃 increíble para ser mi primer cosecha con semillas de bancos, ya quiero ver que resulta en la próxima cosecha ya con más experiencia y mejor equipo 🤩
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@Dedon
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Hi !
Everything is OK
I switch to 12/12 on friday, and i change the HID to 600W + cooltube + 440m3/h
They are drinking a lot, i add 5L each day during the last week.
I change the whole nutrient solution today, they are ready for stretch ! 💪
See you next week ! 🙏
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@wheedtobeus420
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Day 84. She’s been in the dark flashing and getting the ice treatment for a while. Her for leaves are starting to fade to a nice yellow. She smells to high heaven’s. I’m really excited to see how she will finish. She will be getting cut down in the next couple days. The next journal entry will be her harvest summary. I’m really happy with the way she has turned out her body structures are starting to lean down and she would be needing some help to be picked up. Mephisto never lets us down.
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@CanadianFillmore
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Week 8, the last feed! Defoliated to let more air flow and light penetrate down into the lowers of the plant. Bud's are insanely sticky, plant is covered in frost, the pics don't do it justice.
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@Ju_Bps
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Hello growmies 👩🌾👨🌾🌲🌲,
👋 End is arrived, let's go for harvest 💜✂️✂️🏁
💧 No Water
💡Mars Hydro - FC 3000
50% 26 cm
Mars Hydro Fan kit
Setting 9
Have a good week and see you next week for the harvest ✂️👋
Thanks community for follow, likes, comments, always a pleasure 👩🌾👨🌾❤️🌲
Mars Hydro - Smart FC3000 300W Samsung LM301B LED Grow Light💡💡
https://www.mars-hydro.com/fc-3000-samsung-lm301b-led-grow-light
Mars Hydro - 6 Inch Inline Fan And Carbon Filter Combo With Thermostat Controller 💨💨
https://www.mars-hydro.com/6-inch-inline-duct-fan-and-carbon-filter-combo-with-thermostat-controller
Fast Buds - Tropicana Cookies FF🌲🌲
https://2fast4buds.com/us/seeds/tropicana-cookies-fast-flowering
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@HydroGrowLED
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I took one plant down due to hermie the rest are just going through there final flushes and will be down this week as I need room for my new strains 😜💪🌱
Slowly getting there taken 4 down so far 💪🌱
Will update weights in day or 2
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@Crashoverite
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Week 6
Hi everyone 😀
So far this little grow it's a pure joy for me.
No major issues. One of the girls aka "Nuna" it's a bit late in flowering. She was bit shy from the start and last week defoliation definitely did not helped her but I'm sure she will catch to others. All 3 looking very healthy and growth is still very fast.
Still waiting for better flower development before apply any of the flowering nutrients. I have try this several times years back and results on yield were much better if flowering nutrients are applied later in flowering stage. Hopefully it works the same with autoflowers 🤞
Have a great week eweryone
I will keep updating this week progress every couple of days.
Thanks for stopping by
Peace ✌️
28/08 Day 36
Changed watering time schedule for the morning to keep humidity at night a bit lower level. During the 18h schedule humidity 50-55 at night up to 68.
30/08 Day 38
So far all good. Girls are growing still in rapid speed. I can tell this girl likes grow big leaves. I have just defoliate from the big ones just over a week ago and again back to the forest :)
31/08 Day 39
This morning soil was way too dry and need to poured almost 1 liter to each pot. From tomorrow 500-600ml per 24h.
02/09 Day 41
2 of the girls developing flowers very well and still growing in rapid speed. Noticed that 3rd girl having issues to switch to flowering.
Noticed some nutrients deficiency on 3 leaves. Using spring water for watering and must be to soft on calcium and magnesium. Have little hope that calmag will have this sorted. Started blooming nutrients + fish shit from today
03/09 Day 42
It's seems that slow develop girl started flowering :) not sure but possibly new nutrients and lowered humidity helped. Did some defoliation from bigger leaves on 2 better developed girls.
It's the end of the week 6
Stay tuned for more updates on following week.
Peace ✌️
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@Kirsten
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31.12.24:
I have been readjusting the LST pegs and wire daily. Sometimes, twice a day! (I know, too much time on my hands)! 😆
The plants have responded fantastically! I'm so glad I gave it a go. Some plants have been a bit too tall, and I snapped Do-sì-dos P3, pulling the stem down. Audibly snapped 😬I let it be, though. It seems to have healed mostly, in only 2 days.
I have increased the lighting to 70%. They're getting watered a few times a week, with 1 litre of Dechlorinated water, containing the following nutrients and additives;
1ml of Biobizz Bio-Grow,
1ml Biobizz Top Max,
1ml of Biobizz Bloom,
2ml of cal-mag,
1g of Ecothrive Biosys.
The plants are responding well to this concoction, so it's all good so far. The leaves are looking greener and are getting darker.
Will be monitoring to continue readjusting the LST ties. Also, to monitor the increased lighting level, to make sure they can handle that yet.
1.1.25:
Happy New Year!
I have continued to readjust the LST wire and plant pegs. Several times a day.
Coincidence would have it, I have a 6ft tropical aquarium which was time for cleaning! I always water my Acer tree in the front yard with this water, with beautiful results 😍 👌 🍁 I decided to try it out in my indoor garden. I'll post photos of before and after to see the difference, good or bad 😅
3.1.25:
Plants are doing very well, except for PPP3 I'm quite disappointed in that one, as I feel like it's wasting a space. I guess I'll have to keep it, along with the Do-sì-dos that I snapped twice, which refuses to die 😅
I started to lightly defoliate, which is difficult because I always get carried away with it.
I'm going to water again with the nutrients in description of this week.
4.1.25:
Continuing to defoliate and adjust the LST pegs and wire.
Watered today with 1ltr of dechlorinated water PH'd to 6.0. With the following nutrients;-
2ml Biobizz Bloom,
4ml Biobizz Bio-Grow,
2ml Cal-Mag,
2ml Ecothrive Flourish,
0.2 g/ltr of Ecothrive Biosys.
I've increased the Nitrogen by adding double the amount of Biobizz Bio-Grow. I'm trying to keep them growing for as long as possible! I really want to keep the strength up and keep the leaves nice and lush green! 💚
Will update here with more photos and videos.
Thanks for checking out my diary 🍃 ✌️
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@Lazuli
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The bulk is here and what an amazing plant she has become
I start the overdrive next week and this plant will be harvested at week 14
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@DELTA9_CANNABINOID
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Hello everyone! How are you? Here's an update on my Papaya Zoap. This week I'll only be able to share some photos, as I'm having technical issues, but I promise that next week I'll bring you the best photos I can.
As I mentioned in the Black Muffin and Strawberry Cola diary, I started noticing that my plants had slowed down their development a bit and were showing signs of deficiencies. I discovered that my pH regulator wasn't working properly, but I've already fixed that problem. Most likely there was a root blockage. I've already flushed the plant once with distilled water, and I'll probably do the same on the next watering. I'll fertilize again next week.
You'll have news soon, haha! Hugs machines.💀😍
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@Papablob
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29/12 encore 4 à 5 jour.🤤
01/01 Elle évolue trop bien pour que je la sorte maintenant.🤩 Donc les filles vont ce serrer pour quelques jours. 😀
04/01 Dernier jour. Et mon microscope est en rade..😂 Tout est normal quoi..😋
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@Smokwiri
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This was an easy ride, taste and outcome was very satisfactory, the taste was a bit different than i was used to, i think the chicken fertilizer did something special... the smoke was awesome, very sweet and a bit sugar tasting here and there (i used molasses in the end as sugar booster)0
