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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@Lazuli
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This plant just got flushed so all old salts are gone, tommorow i start watering with just finalpart at 3ml/L she will be ready one week later, 10 days max. So next update is harvest.
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@Rap_a_cap
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Very variable weather, summer is at the end, temperature drops quickly, even 60 °F.
I was out for 3 days, on my return I found the three girls who were starting to wither but they were promptly watered. No damage to report. The yellowing of the lower canopy has started. Acceptable weather forecast until 10 September. I bought 5 transparent PCV tarps to protect them extemporaneously from the rain.
Very Indica bud structure, well formed, perfect filling. Plant is suffering now from mild rusty fungus infection probably attached by tomatoes. For now only 3-4 branches are affected and only fan leaves. In any case there's nothing to do at this stage and luckly my Special Kush is resilient and is growing very nice. Outdoors it happens. Expected harvest time September 4th week.
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@SimeonToko
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Turned on the system and the airdomes. Airdomes set to 30gph. Added trellis net.
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@3lementa1
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This is the 8th week. Thursday will be 9 weeks of 12/12. Some trichs are amber. They just added a good bunch of girth over the past few days, but most of the pistils are red now. The rest of them have been dropping leaves consistenly but the canopy remains full so they must be putting out more leaves.
I just flushed to 80% runoff and found out that I had 1200ppm. I just got an ec meter but my last reading said closer to 600 so idk what happened there.
I flushed until I had runoff ppm of about 150. Now they're back in the grow tent. I don't want to keep assaulting them with my microscope. I think they're ready. Just gonna let them settle another day or two to dry out a bit.
I took one small branch off the small Wedding Cake plant on Thursday and I've just been watching it dry on my counter. It's been 5 days and the stem snaps but still leaves a fiber connecting. I put it into a small jar with a 64RH thing. I just want to try it. It already smells amazing.
The leaves on the big CBD Blue Shark plant are going really yellow and some other colours are starting to come out as well.
The buds all fattened up and got more frosty again. I was worried they were foxtailing but they got more calyxes underneath the peaks and have been making more of a pyramid shape. They're really close to peak. Harvest day will be March 17 or 18.
March 17 1023pm chopped and hung after lights off all day. RH was 65% before I chopped and 50% after I closed the window and cut the plants off the saturated pots. I did a wet trim to prevent mold. The buds are sticky af. Gonna hang them to dry for 7-9 days before curing in jars :)
March 18 : checked the RH when I woke up and it's chilling at 45% 😎
March 19 : just checked to see how they were drying. There are seeds in every plant. RIP
I'll update when I put them in jars and again a few weeks later for final review. Overall it was a good grow despite the rocky start and a good introduction to the mainline technique and my new grow space. Next grow I should have everything pretty well dialed in.
March 23
They were hanging for 3 days. Rh was around 45, then spiked to 65 overnight when I forgot to turn the fans back on. Temp was high at around 26.they felt wet after 2 days, and bone dry after 4 days. The stems still didn't snap but I put them in jars anyway. A day later, jar RH was 50%. I burped all the jars and there was a smell from the new jars. I took all the weed out, washed out the jars, and did a dry trim on the weed.
One of the Wedding Cake plants must have gone hermie. I didn't see any bananas and didn't even realize there were seeds until the very end. The seed pods looked just like calyxes while the plants were growing. Many of the nugs are unusable. Under the sugar leaves are just layers and layers of seeds. Some weren't hit that badly. The CBD Blue Shark is much better off but still has some seeds.
I'm trying to stay positive. It's a bit of a shock though. I'm anxious to try the finished product. If the flowers at least taste good and have a good effect, all is not lost.
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@Mr_Bacon
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I'm making a little contest in my grow room
6 ladies + one which will go outside
2 types of nutrients
3 different strains for each nutrient type
2x gorilla glue by fast buds
2x BlackBerry by fast buds
2x white widow auto by RQS +1 outsider (in a month or smth.
It's my first grow ever, waiting for your comments and tips I Want to grow 1 type of each strain with use of green planet nutrients and one with nutrients from RQS just to see if the price of product really corresponds to its quality and is it really worth to pay more and lose so much time for preparing the right solution.
there is 3 days of difference between 3 first ladies (2x GG + BlackBerry) and both White widow's and another 1 day to second BlackBerry and another one day for the WW which will go outside. ;) It means the first ladies already had full 5 days of light before the last girl came to tent :)
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Sky Walker
~~~~~INDOOR~~~~~
DAY 148 Above Dirt
💬SATURDAY 01.20.24 - The girls are starting to hum again after last week's harsh defoliation, today will be using Real Growers Recharge for their weekly Tea Feeding, will be top dressing again next week, and this may carry the girls until the end of thier grow cycle.
💬 MONDAY 01.22.24 - 6 solid weeks into flower and these ladies are starting to fatten up their buds, they are already becoming hard as rocks, I don't think they liked the heavy defoliation I put them through and may have to be content with smaller flowers, or, maybe not, we will see. The smells are amazing with a dank and earthy fragrance also some prominent citrus and fruity notes.
📝 REAL GROWERS RECHARGE -is a mix-and-pour soil microbe superpack. It works like an instant compost tea. The soil microbes in Recharge go out and grab the nutrients in your soil, help break them down, and bring them back to your plant's root zone.
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🌱Sky Walker
👨🌾Sativa Jones
🌤️@Medicgrow420
📝SeedBank Seeds
📝@gaiagreenorganics
📝Bokashi Biochar
📝Real Growers Recharge
📝 ProMix-HP
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📝 Skywalker OG Strain is a top-shelf Indica dominant hybrid. It is a cross of Original Amsterdam Blueberry, OG Kush, and the indica strain Mazar from Afghanistan, and is best known for its super potent effects and sky-high THC levels.
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@nonick123
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Día 9 (10/06) N/A
Día 10 (11/06) N/A
Día 11 (12/06) Llueve mucho. Humedad alta por aquí. Eso les favorece
Día 12 (13/06) Se empiezan a desarrollar las hojas verdaderas a una buena velocidad! Todo en marcha! 💨
Día 13 (14/06) Riego ligero 100 ml sólo H20 EC 0,5 en previsión del trasplante en el día 15 de la planta
Día 14 (15/06) Se nota que estamos en el día 14 desde germinación y la mayoría de las plántulas van viento en popa!
Día 15 (16/06) Hoy procedemos a trasplantar a las chicas a su maceta intermedia de 6,5 litros
Se prepara con 5,5 Litros (85%) de sustrato PRO-MIX HP BACILLUS+MYCORRHIZAE + 1 Litro de Insect Frass (15%) + 65 gramos de Earth Vibes Super Soil (10 g/L substrato)
Se llena la maceta de sustrato con las manos (limpias) y rompiendo los trozos más gruesos, para que el sustrato esté aireado y esponjoso, sin presionar
Se coloca una maceta vacía de 1L para que quede la forma perfecta de la maceta donde están las plántulas (ver fotos)
Se espolvorea la parte proporcional de la probeta de microorganismos sobre el agujero de trasplante
Se saca la plántula de su maceta actual (bonitas raíces 😍) y se coloca en la maceta final
Se riega muy lentamente hasta percolación profunda con H2O EC 0,5 pH 6,5
Se coloca mulch (acolchado) de paja para evitar traspiración excesiva y cuidar a los microorganismos del suelo
A ver como reacciona al trasplante!
💦Nutrients by Lurpe Solutions - www.lurpenaturalsolutions.com
🌱Substrate PRO-MIX HP BACILLUS + MYCORRHIZAE - www.pthorticulture.com/en/products/pro-mix-hp-biostimulant-plus-mycorrhizae
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@Zuppler
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**Week 8 - Third Week of Flower**
Things are getting wild in the Donutz tent! After the insane stretch last week, the plants have turned the space into a full-on jungle. The start of Week 8 called for drastic measures, and the results are setting the stage for explosive bud production.
**Key Updates**:
- **Aggressive Defoliation**: On Day 1 of the third flower week, the plants underwent a *brutal* defoliation. Every bud site that had started to develop its own leaves was stripped of its fan leaves, allowing light to flood the canopy. Even the smallest sites now have excellent exposure, giving them the best chance to mature into chunky nugs in the coming weeks. Despite the intensity of the trim, the plants are resilient and primed to bounce back strong.
- **Boosted Nutrients**: To support the plants after the stress of defoliation, I added another 5-6g of Greenhouse Feeding Bloom per plant. This ensures the soil stays nutrient-rich and gives the plants the resources they need to recover and thrive.
- **Watering**: Still rocking reverse osmosis (RO) water, ensuring clean and efficient hydration without any surprises.
**Observations**:
- The canopy is significantly cleaner and more open, with light now reaching deeper into the lower sections.
- The plants are handling the defoliation well, with no immediate signs of stress or shock.
- Bud sites are already looking promising, with visible development and an even distribution across the canopy.
**Looking Ahead**:
The next few weeks will be all about letting the plants recover and watching the buds stack up. With improved light penetration and a fresh dose of nutrients, everything is lined up for some impressive development.
The Donutz are thriving, and the Florida Gang vibes are at an all-time high — the tent is set to deliver big!
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@userflp
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harvesting due to the beginning of the spring equinox in the southern hemisphere and so the days have more than 12 hours of light. The plant showed signs of revegetation in recent days, the same occurred with two other plants that will make the posts and give continuity to the revegetation diaries of the plants. Att
colheita realizada devido ao ínicio do equinocio de primavera no hemisferio sul e com isso os dias tem mais de 12 horas de luz. A planta apresentava sinais de revegetação nos ultimos dias, o mesmo ocorreu com outras duas plantas que realizarei as postagens e darei continuidade aos diarios de revegetação das plantas. Att
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***update on effect after two weeks of healing;
ironically, even though I had harvested early due to revegetation, after 2 weeks of healing the herb shows strong citrus and herbal taste and smell. about the effects ... The wave is insane, almost completely cerebral, too strong. It was a good choice to keep it in revegetation and not pick up the other copy which I also let revegetate and make a diary. Att
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@eldruida_lamota
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Que pasa familia, vamos con la segunda semana de floración de estas Papayton feminizadas de fastbuds.
Vamos al lío ,se trasplantaron en macetas de 7 litros definitivamente.
El ph se controla en 6.0 , la temperatura la tenemos entre 24/20 grados y la humedad ronda el 50%.
El ciclo de floración puse 12h de luz, el foco está al 50% de potencia.
De momento van creciendo a buen ritmo y tienen un buen color, estaban muy bien enraizadas al realizarle el trasplante se notaba la abundancia radicular.
COMENTAR: que una de las 3 salió macho.
Agradecer a Agrobeta por el kit Gold series que mandaron, siempre os portáis, unos maestros.
- os dejo por aquí un CÓDIGO: Eldruida
Descuento para la tienda de MARS HYDRO.
https://www.mars-hydro.com
Hasta aquí todo, Buenos humos 💨💨💨
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@Tommy716
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Well my lovely ladies grew wonderfully it was my first grow with LED. Definitely a little learning curve still. I ended up with about 700 g out of eight plants not too bad for the size girl over my head. The smoke is amazing smooth with a henna citrus then knock you on your butt I did harvest plants at different time so I do have different outcomes some is a little more of the knock you down while others are a little more energetic. Great girl have lots to learn will continue to post in here love you guys.
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@DogDoctorOfficial
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Day 4 and they are stretching quite fast, at least the Tropicana Poison ones and the Chocolate Skunk number 2 however she’s not drinking as fast as the TP ones.
Day 4 and the CS1 and CS3 are staying behind on the stretching department but still very soon, anything can happens still 😁
Finally my All in one mix arrived and im back to my normal feedings, by this i mean other labels bring up to much the EC in the water, making it harder to had whatever you want to had more 😅😆
Day 7 and I’m already looking at them and thinking they need a air cut 😅 this girls are growing and drinking kind a fast 😆 with is a great signal.
For next week i will start increasing the ppfd , my DLI and i will try and bring temps down so that i can bring humidity down also, if you guys follow me you guys know i go by VPD so if i move one parameter, i have to ove the rest 😝💚😁
PPFD - 526 Umol/m2
DLI - 21.0 mol/m2d
VPD - 1.30 kPa
Little battle between Topicanna Poisen from @sweetseeds vs Chocolate Skunk from @00Seeds (just for fun)
TP = Tropicana Poison
CS = Chocolate Skunk
Light Lumatek Zeus 465W compact pro at 75%
All i grow is medecine for myself, nothing to sell, dont even ask !!!
Stay safe and do it with love for the love ❤️ 🙏
💚Growers Love to you all 💚
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@Aromagurl
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Hey Growmies. 😎This is a back post...sorry took me so long.
Nov 8th (sunday)
She looks nutrient deprived. Little did I know the VPN (low) was so far off after changing my pre-filter that the negative pressure wasn't allowing her to want to pull up nutrients. Has been a problem longer than I realized. I had no idea that my fan was too strong for my tent. Can kill a plant. Live and learn. So, now comes the story of nutrient toxicity because I DX wrong and gave some amendments and nutrients that she didn't need. So sad. . ….
Soil PH is at 6.7 Watered about 3/4 gallon almost 1 gallon
Growers recharge
With soluble kelp
Humic acid
(20ml per gal dilution)
NOV 9th
RH is 52 and temp 72.5deg (RH is dropping due to increased airflow)
She does not appear to be stressed this morning. Growth is still very slow but the new leaves appear to be healthy with no Brown tips. There's still New Growth appearing on the old nodes where fan leaves have been removed due to burning lower down on the stems. I'm hoping there's not much more lateral growth and more of a filling out so that I can flower.(room for the stretch)
I hope the lower humidity is conducive to her growth and not going to cause Mite infestation due to stress and defenses down.
On that note the tanglefoot needs to be reapplied.
On about a 10-minute inspection I see no visible signs canoe leaves or might damage. The wettable sulfur seems to be stove in them off. I'm also doing my best to boost the immune system of the plant. I've been meaning to do a compost tea in order to infuse the soil with more microorganisms including both bacterial and fungi. Still learning about “living soil” and probably making tons of mistakes but am bumbling through.
NOV 10th
Defoliation
NOV 11th
On this day she was still looking so deprived of nutrients. SHE WAS. Only not for reason of them not being in the soil. Environment was off and she was just protecting herself by not taking in the necessary food. I was of the midset to save her with soothing things which are good for “plant stress” and some nutrients.
WRONG I was again.
This is what I gave her that day. (A great combo but not what she needed)
Soil PH 6
Growers recharge
coconut water (30ml per half-gallon)
aloe juice (1/8 cup in half a gallon)
With soluble kelp
Humic acid
(20ml per gal dilution)
NOV 12th
IPM: Foliar spray right after lights out: micronized sulfur- 1/5 tbsp per 1/2 gallon ,Aloe Vera 2 tbsp, yucca extract
NOV 13th
removed some dead leaves
Soil PH 6.5
pot was medium /heavy- leaving it so I can put compost tea on tomorrow evening.
Defoliated any dead growth and any tiny branches that didn't have a lot of nodes on them.
Changed the timer for the FAN to 15on and 15 off. I had upped the heat in the house to 72 deg instead of 71 and things are VERY DRY! Too dry for the temp.
The VPD just way off here. Explains some of the dryness I am feeling on the leaf surfaces, slow growth etc. This climate issue has to be checked.
Also, added back in a second humidifier!
Brewing compost tea........
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@Silverback_Guerilla
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11/9:
I fed them today. Started tapering off the One. Stopped giving Beastie Bloomz and started them on Cha Ching, plus the normal doses of silica, signal, and sweet & sticky.
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@PhinolaGreen
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10. Woche
Wir sind auf der Zielgeraden, 2 Wochen liegen noch vor uns und dann ist Harvest Time, freu mich schon richtig auf meine lieblings Sorte 😊😌
Kleines Update, Green Gelato Auto von RQS Purplet 😍
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@IsseyBukkake
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So we've hit day 49 with the girls!
Everyone seems to be happy.
The 2 little runts are now the biggest in the crop, they're super stretchy and about a week behind in flowering.
I hope to be able to harvest all the plants at once as I plan to dry in my tent, but if I have to do a staggered harvest then, I guess I gotta do it.
Nutes are listed above, everything has been working excellent so far.
(I may be trying different coco nutes next run, as I'm suspecting the H&G set I'm using has contributed to the stretchiness of the girls.)
UPDATE - DAY 51 - 09/01/21
Everything seems to be just fine at this stage in time.
the runts are flowering slowly, so i hope they pick up sometime soon.
1 of the plants(the healthiest since day 1) seems to be a week or so ahead in flower.
I'm still hoping to chop the whole tent down at the same time (Fingers crossed!).
UPDATE - Day 53 - 11/01/21
The girls seem to be happy today.
Pheno type 1 ( plant 1 + 2) - Much more bud production than the rest of the plants.
pheno type 2 (plant 3 + 4) - runts of the litter are now the stretchiest out of the lot
Pheno type 3 (remainder of plants) are inbetween pheno 1 & 2.
I'm still hoping to harvest the majority of the girls at the same time, still have a while to go though :)
Thanks for stopping by!
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@Pot_Portraits
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Another week, she is growing great and its time to clean the bottom part of the plant. I remove leaves and branches to focus the energy to the top and not waste it on the lower branches.
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@I_Identify_As_A_Dan
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Week 9 for Space Panda by Atlasseed,
Was due to transplant both these girls already but still letting the soil cook a little longer, but will have to be soon as i already see growth slowing down on both of these.
