Strawberry AK – Current Status During flowering week 5, I unfortunately made a classic grower mistake. After adjusting the light, I forgot to return the timer to its normal schedule, which resulted in the Strawberry AK receiving approximately 96 hours of continuous light. There are some minor visible effects on the plant, but overall it handled the incident surprisingly well. There are no signs of hermaphroditism, no major stress response, and the buds are continuing to develop normally. 🌿 Overall Impression Despite the lighting mistake, the Strawberry AK remains stable and is still progressing well through flower. At this point, the plan is simply to keep conditions steady and let her finish out the run.

She said, "Where we goin'?" I said, "The moon" We ain't even make it to the room She thought it was the ocean, it's just the pool Feeding 💧 Always foilage with T-rex Shield, MegaKelp+Recharge 25/5 Water 8L+Si 2ml+BioGrow 8ml+TrexGrow 8ml+Calmag 4ml+Whiteroot 4ml ppm530 ph6 27/5 Flush ph6.3 ppm27 29/5 Water 3L+Si 1ml+Calmag 1ml+BioGrow 4ml+TrexGrow 4ml+Recharge1tsp ppm600 ph5.5

1st week generative phase: Pre-flowering and the next problem with the two topped specimens: Yellow leaf tips - too much nitrogen. I just thought: Close your eyes and go for it.... Organic cultivation regulates itself - well, at least in theory.... 🤣 Cannazym works wonders! I love to highly recommend. I work with it from pre-flowering to harvest and gently increase the dose. A word about water quality... 💦 I now use oxygen-enriched reverse osmosis. Since here in Berlin the pH value is basically very hard (very calcareous water) and not all plants can cope with it, I decided to invest there. Not cheap, but incredibly effective.

W5 D29 Aujourd'hui 1er jour de la 5ème semaine de croissance. J'ai rempoté la petite dans son pot définitif 30, 35 L environ. C'est de la terre de récupération, j'y avais mis un peu d orties pour la régénérer mais rien de bien terrible on verra si l arrosage au thé de compost serra encore aussi efficace malgré le temps passé 3j. Je la laisse prendre encore 1 peu de place dans la tente, les racines envahir le substrat et elle partira en flo avec une Tropicanna poison qui est déjà 1peu plus développée et également ds le même type de pot et pour suivre une critical+. Bon le monde à plus tard.

going fine. that tip bleaching is here to stay :) i’m defoliating and lollipopping everyday. couple of leaves here couple of leaves there a growth tip here a side shoot there.. watered yesterday with 3.5l or something. distilled dehum water. caribe transitioned too fast. it didnt give me any stretch which was strange and cannalope as expected hasnt even started transitioning. i think caribe is gonna be overshadowed by the cannalope. dinachem looks lighter in the photos but its not really that light green in color. dinachem x peyote cookies gave me more stretch than i expected but seed runs are always full of surprises haha they both finished stretching atm so they will start filling up in the coming weeks. destroyers are fine too. yeah tip bleached a bit but leaves are very healthy otherwise. they feel soft and firm which is how they should feel. i’m plucking 10-20 leaves daily and it grows back the next day. they may give me a couple days of stretch but its not gonna grow much more than this. its not gonna double from here i mean and the 2nd destroyer is gonna be about 25% smaller than the 1st because as i mentioned not identical clones when transplanted but i’m still expecting exceptional yields and quality from both. ‘till next week!

📆 Semana 11 Cogollos completamente formados, muy densos y en su máxima expresión de engorde, con una estructura firme y estable sin cambios relevantes más allá del acabado final. La resina se presenta muy abundante, con tricomas mayoritariamente lechosos y presencia creciente de ámbar, situándose en el punto óptimo según el efecto buscado. Se mantiene la diferencia entre genotipos, con el más rápido prácticamente en ventana de corte. El perfil aromático está completamente definido, intenso y profundo, mientras se observa consumo de reservas en hojas grandes propio del final del ciclo. Cultivo estable, listo para cosecha. 💪

Day 22: AIW The plant starts to release a very nice odor. Day 23: A secondary topping was made to the 2 shoots coming off the 3rd node. The plant was watered and fed with 3ml fertilizer + 1ml Cal Mag in 1 liter tap water. Day 24: The mature leaves start to show some yellowing. Wondering if there's some deficiency...? The light was raised 5cm. Day 25 The plant was watered and fed with 7ml fertilizer + 1ml Cal Mag in 1 liter tap water. 2 Secondary shoots were topped. Lower fan leaves were trimmed. Day 26: I decided to feed more often, but with lower concentrations. The plant was watered and fed with 3ml fertilizer + 1ml Cal Mag in 1 liter tap water. The 2 main shoots were topped once more. The plants grows about 2cm/day. Day 27: AIW Day 28: AIW The plant was watered with 1 liter tap water. 2 more 150W LEDs are now in use, for a total of REAL 600w. The temperature with lights on reaches 30c The plant is now 22cm tall.

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Nothing interesting to say... I just added some Humic Acid Plus and Growzyme to my More Roots from Green Buzz in my Terra Soil Mix with every watering. 🎼 The plants just woke up into this world, so to celebrate their birth and welcoming them as the princesses they tend to become, I decided to play some Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf & Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake on a Bluetooth speaker during each watering or simple courtesy visit I made. Yet notice that Rossini's Barber of Seville & Vivaldi's Four Seasons was used as a booster during the second part of the week.

Week 6 Light cycle=12/12 Light Power=150w Extractor controller settings High temp= 25c Low temp= c Temp step=0c High Rh= 56% Low Rh= % Rh step=0% Speed max=10 Speed min=2 Smart controller settings (during lights on). Lights on=06.00am Radiator on= below 21.5c Radiator off= above 22.5c Smart controller settings (during lights off). Lights off=00.00am Radiator on= below 18c Radiator off= above 19c VPD aim=0.6-1.4 DLI aim=28-34 EC aim=1.9 PH aim=6.3 Thur 1/2/24 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 Method= automatic Feed=water Neutralise=0.1ml/L Roots=0.2ml/L Easy Ph down=0.ml/L Ec=0.2 PH=6.6/6.6 Time start=12.00pm Finish time=13.45pm (11×5 minute runs with 5 minute gaps) Total flow rate=181ml/min Flow rate per plant=45ml/min. Total volume made=14L Total volume left=4L Total volume used=10L Volume per plant=2.5L (Est) Runoff. Total runoff=1L Ec=2.0 PH=6.1/6.2 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 #2 (Day 36)(Day 4 flower) 📋 H=56cm D=35cm DLI=29.0 Lifted light and increasd power to 196w. H=56cm D=42cm DLI=30.5 Fri 2/2/24 #2 (Day 37)(Day 5 flower) 📋 raised camera, nearly touching the roof. Sat 3/2/24 #2 (Day 38)(Day 6 flower) 📋 Defoliate a lot of lower leaves. Sun 4/2/24 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 Method= automatic Feed=bloom nutes. Neutralise=0.1ml/L Silicon=1.0ml/L Calmag=1.0ml/L Terra Bloom=4.0ml/L Sumo Boost=1.0ml/L Roots=0.2ml/L Easy Ph down=0.115ml/L Ec=1.9 PH=6.1/6.5 Time start=12.00pm Finish time=13.45pm (11×5 minute runs with 5 minute gaps) Total flow rate=190ml/min Flow rate per plant=47ml/min. Total volume made=13L Total volume left=2.5L Total volume used=10.5L Volume per plant=2.62L (Est) Runoff. Total runoff=1.75L Ec=2.4PH=5.9/6.2 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 #2 (Day 39)(Day 7 flower) 📋 Mon 5/2/24 #2 (Day 40)(Day 8 flower) 📋 H=69cm D=29cm DLI=40.1 Tue 6/2/24 #2 (Day 41)(Day 9 flower) 📋 Looks like the weather is turning cold again over the next few days. Wed 7/2/24 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 Method= automatic Feed=water Neutralise=0.1ml/L Roots=0.2ml/L Easy Ph down=0.ml/L Ec=0.2 PH=6.6/6.5 Time start=12.00pm Finish time=13.45pm (11×5 minute runs with 5 minute gaps) Total flow rate=190ml/min Flow rate per plant=47ml/min. Total volume made=13L Total volume left=2.5L Total volume used=10.5L Volume per plant=2.6L (Est) Runoff. Total runoff=1.5L Ec=1.74 PH=6.6/ 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧 #2 (Day 42)(Day 10 flower) 📋 H=77cm D=22cm DLI=50.5 HST 4 colas. She is doing great, the smaller crafted cola has now reached the same hight as the others and has completely mended. Don't want much more Height hence the HST. Back soon. Take it easy.

Week 16 Everybody is on Flower! End of August: daylight 13h20: 7h20/20h40. Day temperature max: 26°C - Night temperature : 17°C Sunny weather - 2/3 rainy days in 2 weeks Enriched the soil with seaweed powder and bat guano. Continue to add flowering nutrients: Grower Master I added some Calmag one time. Watering 2L/plant every 3 days (2 days would be better) With humidity growing and the relatives hot temperatures: the predators are attacking plants. Everything appears so fast: Aphids, caterpillars, leaf miner flies. Did a general defoliation before spray my mixture Garlic + laurel (12cl Garlic juice + 5cl laurel infusion + 1L distilled water: beware PH!!). I sprinkled diatomaceous earth on top of soil to protect and minimize the infestation. Brake Pad Breath: still deep green and bushy. Flowering since 4 weeks. The most advanced, pretty good flowers with long pistils are growing. Spared until now: the plant is victim of Aphids, miner leaf flies and caterpillars in a « reasonable way »….try to eradicate the problem without shocking the plant at this stage. Flash Back#2: around 2 weeks flowering, stretched a few centimeters more, well developed plants with lot of blooming sites. Relatively spared by pests, just some aphids. GMO X Zombie Kush: some difficulties to recover….just engaged the flowering process, not to bad if she resist to the second pest’s wave. Royal Moby: uncertain destiny….recovering good, sativa style: 155cm, just starting the flowering stage…super late! Harvested a pretty auto flower: White Russian by Serious Seeds. Well developed plant, a little bit long to be ready but resinous and meaty buds.

Super easy growing, almost no maintenance, she just needs love and attention, and she will shine for you

Day 70 as of January 25th. Buds are getting thick and frosty. Using CropSalt CAKE for the last two week and colors are changing. 😍 Smells like citrus and rubber and fuel.

The plant grows Gorilla Soil pour only water. Let’s see what comes out 🍀🙏🏻

*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

I tried defoliating two days ago but just the leaves that are underneath and started to bend toward the soil, 1-2 leaves per plant not that serious defoliating because its an autoflower and I won’t stress it to much. I did another defoliating an hour ago, 1 leaf per plant again just those trap inside the bottom part. Low stress training still on going but no new tie, i’ll try to leave it like that until the end i’ll just tuck the leaves blocking the developing pistils. I noticed that out of 3 plants, 1 is taller and bushier than the rest. Looks like the other two stunned their growth or just slow in growth. Seriously I don’t have an idea same nutrient and care are given to all plants. I feed them twice a week every 3-4 days, no negative reactions or whatnot. Nutrients adjusted in this week. Same temperature and humidity level as last week, keeping an eye daily to adjust if its not in desire level.

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