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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@Grow_for_Happiness
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Wow week two of flower is done and I am SO happy with how these four girls are doing.
Day 9F/72S they got their first top dressing of Power Bloom at 75ml right before watering, dug into first few inches of soil like usual. I make sure to top dress the Power Bloom every 3 weeks and the other additives every 4 weeks, seems to keep the plants happy.
Day 12F/75S things are looking healthy but quite bushy and I'm seeing some growth on the low parts of branches and below main canopy level so did a good cleanup at lights out. Helps to keep from wasting energy on bud sites that will get very little light and produce small/larfy buds. Also redirects that energy into the tops for bigger yields 🤞. Took off a good amount lots of airflow down there now.
Day 14F/77S. All the girls are looking happy and healthy. Spending their days praying to the light and packing on bud sites! Looking down on the canopy she is just about full, glad I left some space to start! Oh and there was no noticable shock to the plants from the trim on the 12th day so that's good.
Have been keeping the light at 16" from main canopy (aside from 3-4 extra tall branches) and running 100%. Goal is to let them grow another 3" so they are 13" from light and then will raise daily for the last bit of their growth. Should keep it around 750-950umol/s. Still watering 3L per plant every 3 days with just the slightest runoff from each. Tested runoff and is 6.7, usually don't do this but had enough one watering and was curious so figured why not.
Was a great week can't wait to see next week's changes!
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@Cultivate
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Hey everyone,
Decided to flip/turn as I’m running out of room in my tent in terms of height. All the girls are looking really healthy and still all showing female sex🙏🏻🙏🏻
Decided to add abit of Boost. Why not 🤷♂️🏻
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@PrairieFrostGrow
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My first experience with Sweet Seeds was with some Gorilla Girl photo that I took a chance on. My only comment on one of the pheno's I received is WOW!!!!! So it is no real surprise to me that I was so impressed with the resilience of this strain and the buds she grew. She ran 84 days and was worth the wait......almost jumped the gun about 5 or 6 days early. She was strong all the way through and at first was the one I threw in and we will just see what happens.....she was a free seed. In the end she received a lot of my staring and salivating😄😄💪👍🙏
Update April 2020............
The buds have firming up and the curing continues. The citrus has come through much stronger after 4 weeks cure. She was hung on March 1st and dried for 7 days, into jars on March 8th. The piney citrus is very prominent now. She comes on quick for a buzz and is fairly balanced in my opionion and not overly energetic but not lethargic either.A nice balanced all day smoke for myself. Great flavours coming through now......I am a fan of piney smoke😃👍
So the buds have ended up nice and firm, slows down the grinder😁, powerful and lasts over an hour plus I have a high tolerance, nice eye appeal and pungent smell........Love it Sweet Seeds!!!!!! You have done awesome with this Autoflower..........she is a keeper.........but there is the issue with auto flowers👌😃
Sweet Seeds rocked it........if you are looking for a great yielding, resilient, dense bud plant she is worth your consideration! Sweet smokes Apolo!!
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@birdmountain
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It was probably the hottest week of the year with a maximum of 34° C, a lot of water had to be administered, especially the Frisian Dew in the pot. On the other hand, I continue to enjoy the good appearance of the plants, with no pests, caterpillars, aphids or similar to be found so far. Even the slugs are no longer interested in the leaves, there are now so many flowers in the garden that simply taste better. As the flowering that I have read about already begins with the pre-flowering, I can say that all the plants in this report are flowering. Only the Durban Poison is by far the fastest and is already producing buds and seeds. As I had used regular seed for the Durban Poison, I fertilised it with pollen from a remaining male Durban Poison. The seed pods are already visible and look promising. The Durban Poison flowers are purple in depth, at least in my phenotype, and it doesn't need as much water as Frisian Dew and Shaman. The Shaman and Frisian Dew in the garden are showing their best side and continue to grow diligently, they need much less water than the others, probably due to roots that reach deep down. Do Durban Poison, Frisian Dew and Shaman actually have tap roots?
However, I would really like all the plants to start producing flower buds now, as it is already mid-August.
Durban Poison 168 cm
Frisian Dew in Pot 236 cm
Frisian Dew in garden 201 cm
Shaman in pot 160 cm
Shaman in garden 197 cm
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@iLoveGoodWeed
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She is now in early flowering stage.
So far no issues and looking forward to seeing her growing in next few weeks.
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@KingSalomonsWeed
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06.12. Tag 72 Blüte 46.
Hi. Niemals aufgeben, dann gibt es sowas. Erstaunlich.
16 h Licht ab jetzt.
09.12. Na gut, ich gebs zu. Ab jetzt macht es Spaß. Denn da hängt doch mehr drann, und in besserer Qualität als ich dachte.
Lehrreich war der für mich bisher auf jeden Fall. Ich habe viel zu scharf gedüngt zu anfang.
Stellt euch vor, diese weißen Blätter leben noch. Klar wo braun ist nicht. Aber sonst.
11.12. Seht ihre wunderschönen grünen Blätter, eine Pflanze die euch das Wasser im Munde zerfließen lässt.
( Argh ein winziges grünes Blatt. Eines! Ihr dürft gerne selber suchen.)
... ( allerdings, die Riecht guhhht, das ist richtig)
Und stark, also stärker als diese Sorte sonst riecht. Ich kenne sie.
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@Docteur_8
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1st week of grow, wonder how long i will let them veg before switch to bloom.
Didnt precise that seeds from this part of the box are not feminized, I’ll maybe lose some of them during stretch.
Strengh and pleasure to all during this worldwide weird period 🌱💪🏼
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@Mr_und_Ms_Lue_Roots
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Herzlich willkommen an alle Besucher!
Im Moment wächst alles ruhig und schön bei 250 Watt Lichtleistung vor sich hin. Die Pflanzen pflegen einen ausreichenden Abstand von guten 80 cm. Das LST bekommt der Purple wirklich gut.
Wegen zecret sourz kommen wir jetzt ein wenig in die predulie, da sie sich auffallend erholt hat und nach umtopfen würde sie sogar wahrscheinlich im nächsten Lauf mitmachen können (Höhenunterschied sehr wahrscheinlich und ggf. auch ungetoppt.
Der eigentliche Plan bisher, sie zur Mutti zu machen da uns eigentlich 2 fehlen und ein paar Stecklinge von ihr nehmen.
Mal schauen
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@Ukfarmer420
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Hi guys
So here is my 10 plant auto run from fastbuds 420 genetics. I will update weekly on this one. So I'm going to be using 3 gal fabric pots filled with biobizz lightmix soil.
I will be putting into solo cups after the 18 hour soak then transferring them to there for ever pots. Im looking forward to this run and trying to get 20oz + dry and cured out of this 4x4 tent grow.
Part 2 of germination in operation in solo cups with root juice. Hopefully 10 out of 10 pop.
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@Jimmy89
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The the buds were small so it made trimming a nightmare! But it’s done and the end product is worth all the time. I have loads of trim and small popcorn buds that will be dry Ice sifted and pressed into a hash brick. Will update the diary when I have some bcp hash
Weighed up the trim at 588 grams, used my trim bins with dry ice to sift the trim and pressed it into blocks using a rosin pre press, I’ll now jar this and put it to one side. My first time doing this, definitely worth the effort!
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@IQuSX
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Results for the past two weeks:
added white scrog for upper levels;
defoliated;
added 140w yellow+white+red led;
doubled watering, so there was not enough 0.8 l.
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@UrbanFog
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Final week of flower for some and we will start the harvest. Also we flushed the plants at the start of the week. All the plants got flushed and will be given the final weeks as required. All looks good and frosty.
Lemon Z and Peyote Cookies look out of this world. Gorilla cookies look good but plenty of variation in phenos
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@Grower_Of_Persia
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my dry and cure style is this:
4 days of hanging upside down to get water activity lower to around 0.6 in 50% humidity and 26 C temp (i know its a little high but we are in a hot summer right now and i cant get it lower even with air conditioner) and then after 4 days of drying i remove leaves and stalks, trim buds and move them to jar for the rest of their life :D . and in the first 4 days of curing i open the jar door and let hem get some fresh air in the jar for about 5 minutes and close the jar door again, after 4 days of curing like that buds are smokable but they will get better as they getting cured about 1 month.
buds are one of the hardest as fucking rocks type of buds! very dense , compact , sticky , smelly , amazing at every aspect
growing stage was 60 days and flowering stage was 70 days total (harvested tops at day 63th)
the total weight of dry buds was : top buds 174 G + lower buds 55 G = 229 G
my overview of strain with details:
the seeds:
unfortunately i only got 1 seed cracked out of 5 so i will not know how much this genetic can get different but at least i got the chance to grow once of this wonderful strain
the plant :
in every stage you can ensure that you are dealing with a high level plant ,
she will get big so you have to control her height LST and SCROG highly recommended , will grow very well with tick stalks and big fan leaves , has good resistance for stress and will respond very well to stress trainings , she really has gorilla power in herself ,
fresh buds on plant :
buds are very compact and dense even from start , fresh blossoms smells like pineapple and mango , 2 different shades of sweet smells like you hold 2 junks of pineapple and mango in your hand and you smell them together, she is a trichome and resin factory , very very sticky , very oily , strong smell
dried buds:
very compact and dense , hard as rocks , has dark colors with purple hues inside it , it smells sweet
smoke :
very smooth and sweet like lollipop , pineapple , mango like , after 2 minutes it'll kick in and you'll get higher and higher with every breath , has a strange and especial high mind high mostly
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@Siriuz
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Alright so she is coming back to life and with better leaves as you can see, sad but true something happened to her before and I think she was getting too much water a d too little ventilation, now that the problem has been solved and nutes has been added with sprinkle water and sprinkle nutes every so often not everyday tho, good climate around 22/25C top
So she is ready to keep developing good
Also we transplanted her to a verte pot
We think soon she is going to need a bigger one but still we are thankful she is not dead and that she is strong enough to grow better <3
******UPDATED 06/05********
She is finally looking good
Im not sure what happened to her
But I do have an idea
And that is why i transplanted to better
And bigger pot
Now the issue is that after that a tiny drop of fertilizer probably fall into those first leaves that she grew up before but doesn't matter I knew with love and good caring plus good nutes and faith
I knew she was gonna go up
And she is going up thank God
LOVELY
She is growing good and finally getting shape as the others
This is a photoperiod so hopefully we have her in veggie for long time because we want her huge
Now guys please help me here
For how long can you have a photoperiod veggie and for how long and she still be Alive after bloom?
Just wondering if they are like an apple tree or some other tree that you plant outdoors and she lives forever I am wondering
Can someone tell?
Alright that iss for the record
Anyways guys im glad she is here with us
I am glad we are doing good
Thanks for visiting please let me win something help me out haha
Have fun guys love peace and blessings
Always showing love to this cold wolrd
Always real never fake
Siriuz loves y'all take care
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@AUTOBUDDHA
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These Blue dream matic Autos are gonna be some absolute monsters! Here we are at 37 days and were sitting at almost a week into flower, qnd the plants are over 17 inches tall.
Looking at a great yielding strain here! Starting to get a good amount of smell to them! Super healthy plants, and super heavy stalks.
First round of nutrients came at 35 days. They were moved to the hps at 32 days. General hydro, flora trio at 5ml each per gallon.
They EXPLODED overnight.
This week, i will begin some light lst and defoliation.
Also, this week I will be hanging my brand new HLG Diablo 650R. These 5 blue dreams will be moved from the hps to the Diablo.
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@coyote2thick
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I hung dried for three days and then bagged them up in brown paper bags for two days due to the low temps and humidity before jaring them.
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@CRiSPrGrow
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Not bad not bad, by the looks of it she'll be a fatty but i just hope that she'll be ready at the same time as the others. What i want to know is how the bbc can predict when i want my harvest but can't predict when my fucking landlady will break in and faff about it my grow room, long story short 46 makes me 👺 anyways, boucing back from a scare nevermind mind her 46 is my focus lol oh my the things we do... enjoy ! 🚀 Induced resin production by dropping the lightschedule to 10/14 almost immediate effects were smelt, loud and clear : candy shop goodness ! this one is gonna be a sweet one ! 👊
