🥒 Project Blue Tent – Week 6
Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Pheno B (Folder 14B)
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of Project Blue Tent! 💙🌱
If you're joining the adventure for the first time, welcome!
Project Blue Tent follows four individual plants, each documented in its own dedicated diary from seed to harvest. Every plant grows under the exact same lighting, environment, irrigation schedule, nutrition and care. By keeping every variable consistent, we can truly appreciate how each phenotype develops its own unique character while also seeing the impressive uniformity that modern F1 genetics can offer.
Today we're checking in with Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant B.
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🌱 Week Six – A Sea of Green
This week the Blue Tent has become exactly what I imagined when this project first began.
Instead of four individual plants competing for attention, the canopy is slowly merging into one beautiful sea of green.
One small adjustment changed the appearance of the entire tent.
Although Plant B measured around 66 cm or so in last week's report, I decided to lower and tighten the SCROG net across the whole tent. That means all four ladies are now sitting at approximately 60 cm, allowing every centimetre of new growth to be directed horizontally through the screen instead of vertically.
That's the real objective now.
We're no longer chasing height.
We're building surface area.
Every branch tucked beneath the screen today becomes another future flowering site tomorrow, and every empty square that disappears brings us one step closer to a perfectly even canopy.
Plant B continues embracing this process beautifully.
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🌿 Pickle Lemon Haze F1 – Plant B
This phenotype continues showing the same personality she's displayed since the beginning.
She's wonderfully balanced.
While her sister naturally wants to stretch, Plant B seems perfectly happy expanding outward, producing a dense framework filled with healthy side branches.
The recovery after topping now feels like a distant memory.
Every new shoot is developing with confidence, and the canopy is becoming fuller with each passing day.
The stems continue thickening, the internodal spacing remains compact, and perhaps my favourite observation of all...
The foliage.
The leaves have developed that rich, healthy green colour every grower loves to see.
It's the kind of colour that quietly tells you the plant is comfortable.
Comfortable roots.
Comfortable environment.
Comfortable nutrition.
Sometimes healthy plants don't need dramatic stories.
They simply grow.
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🕸️ The Beauty of SCROG
Every day begins almost the same way.
Open the tent.
Look across the canopy.
Find a few branches reaching above the screen.
Guide them gently into the next empty square.
Done.
It's one of those techniques that rewards patience far more than force.
There are no dramatic bends or stressful training sessions.
Just small daily adjustments that slowly transform individual plants into one unified canopy.
Looking across the Blue Tent now, it's becoming harder to tell where one plant finishes and another begins.
That's exactly what a healthy SCROG should look like.
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🌡️ Blue Tent Environment
The environment continues providing exactly what these ladies need.
Average conditions remained:
• 🌡️ Day Temperature: 30°C
• 🌙 Night Temperature: 25°C
• 💧 Relative Humidity: 58%
• 🥥 Root Zone Temperature: 24°C
• 💦 Nutrient Solution Temperature: 18°C
• ⚗️ pH: 5.8
• ⚡ EC: 1.92 mS/cm
• 💨 CO₂: Approximately 450 ppm
• 💡 Light Schedule: 18/6
• 💧 Irrigation: 1.2 litres per plant per day
Despite the warm weather outside, stable conditions inside the tent continue allowing the plants to recover effortlessly from training while maintaining vigorous vegetative growth.
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🥥 Feeding & Irrigation
One thing I've learned over the years is that consistency often produces better results than constant adjustments.
Since increasing the feeding slightly a couple of weeks ago, the plants have responded exactly as I hoped.
The richer green colour has returned, growth remains vigorous, and there are no signs suggesting the recipe needs changing.
Current feeding schedule:
• Plagron Hydro A — 1.9 ml/L
• Plagron Hydro B — 1.9 ml/L
• Plagron Hydro Roots — 1 ml/L
Each plant continues receiving approximately 1.2 litres of nutrient solution every day through the Mars Hydro automatic drip irrigation system.
The automatic drainage system removes the runoff beneath the grow bags, preventing nutrient buildup around the roots while keeping the growing area remarkably clean.
It's one of those systems that quietly does its job every day while making the entire grow more consistent.
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📸 Looking Closer – Discovering a Different World
One of the greatest joys of documenting these diaries has nothing to do with nutrients or training.
It's photography.
More specifically...
Macro photography.
Most people look at a cannabis plant and see leaves.
A macro lens tells a completely different story.
Suddenly the stems become covered in thousands of tiny protective hairs.
The beautiful purple pigmentation running through the branches begins revealing itself in incredible detail.
Young leaves show delicate textures that are almost impossible to appreciate with the naked eye.
Even the smallest leaf veins become intricate natural patterns.
The more time I spend behind the camera, the more I realise how much beauty exists in places we normally overlook.
Macro photography has changed the way I walk through the grow room.
It slows me down.
Instead of simply checking on the plants, I find myself truly observing them.
Every stem.
Every new leaf.
Every tiny detail nature has quietly been creating all along.
Growing teaches patience.
Macro photography teaches appreciation.
Together they've made me enjoy this hobby even more than I already did.
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🌿 Looking Ahead
The mission for next week remains simple.
Continue filling the SCROG.
Maintain the stable environment.
Trust the process.
The canopy is becoming flatter every day, and with each branch finding its own place beneath the screen, the excitement for flowering continues to grow.
There is still plenty of work ahead.
But there is absolutely no rush.
Healthy plants reward patience.
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💙 Thank You
A huge thank you to Zamnesia for making Project Blue Tent possible, from these outstanding Pickle Lemon Haze F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow.
A heartfelt thank you to Plagron for providing the Premium Growbags together with the Hydro nutrient line that continues producing vigorous growth and beautifully healthy plants week after week.
A special thank you to Phytonaut for the outstanding LED lighting, delivering compact growth, incredible structure and a wonderfully even canopy throughout the Blue Tent.
A sincere thank you to Mars Hydro for the automatic drip irrigation and drainage system that has brought consistency, cleanliness and simplicity to every day inside the grow room.
Thank you to GrowDiaries for providing growers around the world with a place to document their journeys, share knowledge and continue inspiring one another.
And finally...
Thank you to every one of you following Project Blue Tent.
Whether you've been here since germination, recently discovered these diaries, leave comments every week or quietly follow along from the background, your support truly means the world to me.
Every week these plants teach me something new.
I hope, through these diaries, they're teaching a little something to all of us.
Until next week...
Growers Love, happy growing, and I'll see you all soon. 🌱💙