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@HanfConnoisseur
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Week 1: Transition to Flowering
Welcome to the fifth weekly update of our cannabis cultivation journey in Germany! As we transition from the vegetative stage to the flowering stage, our strains—Pulp Friction, Cookies Haze, Eleven Roses, Poddy Mouth, Critical Lemon Kush, and OG Kush—are ready for the next phase of their growth.
Before entering the flowering stage, we took a few important steps to prepare the plants for optimal flowering.
Key Developments:
1. Pre-Flowering Preparation:
- The plants were defoliated to remove excess leaves and improve light penetration and airflow.
- Each plant was repositioned to ensure they have ample space and light exposure.
2. Growing Medium and Setup:
- The plants are grown in a mix of living soil, coco coir, perlite, and clay pebbles.
- The soil mix includes mycorrhizal fungi cultures to support healthy root development.
3. Watering and Nutrient System:
- The plants are watered from the bottom using an AutoPot system, which provides a consistent supply of nutrient solution.
- The pots are equipped with air domes connected to an air pump, delivering oxygen directly to the roots to enhance growth.
Steps Taken:
1. Defoliation and Positioning:
- Carefully removed excess fan leaves to improve light distribution and airflow within the canopy.
- Repositioned the plants to ensure each one has enough space to grow and receive adequate light.
2. Watering and Nutrient Management:
- Set up the AutoPot system to supply a balanced nutrient solution to the plants.
- Ensured the nutrient solution is appropriate for the flowering stage, with a focus on supporting bud development.
3. Air Domes and Oxygenation:
- Connected the air domes to an air pump to deliver oxygen to the root zone.
- Monitored the air pump to ensure consistent oxygen flow to the roots.
Next Steps:
- Monitor the plants closely for signs of flowering and adjust the light cycle to 12 hours on and 12 hours off to initiate and support flowering.
- Continue to observe the plants for any signs of nutrient deficiencies or excesses and adjust the feeding regimen as needed.
- Ensure the AutoPot system and air domes are functioning properly to maintain optimal hydration and oxygenation.
Stay tuned for next week’s update, where we’ll discuss the progress of the first week of flowering and any adjustments made to the care routine. Feel free to ask any questions or share your own experiences in the comments below!
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@Naujas
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well, it's exactly 12 weeks :) and my house is full of lemon aroma :) the girl endured really difficult growth, but she coped with everything perfectly :) who followed the growth, you saw that she grew on the balcony for 10 weeks, and she spent the last 2 in the grow tent :) 500 gr wet weight !!!!:) , before putting it in the ground I expected less than 10 g dry yield :D then this growth turned out super well, if it wasn't for my vacation I would have let it grow for about 2 weeks I think. but everything is still very good, I'll go home, fix it and do a smoke review :).
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@TheMayor4434
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Germinated 20 seeds only 8 seeds popped contacted ice head seeds they sent replacements out within 48 hours. Running these seeds in x2 Wilma 8 pot systems , manually feeding them for the first two weeks while they are young. Also for the first week I will be using a 400w hid light starting at a distance of 1 meter away as to not shock the seedlings while gradually moving the light closer throughout the week until I reach the optimal distance of 24 inches by around day 5. Also I am running the lights on 24/7 for the first week to help accelerate growth Note: advanced nutrients ph perfect is not ph perfect had to manually drop the ph from 7.1 to 5.8 quite disappointing .
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@GrowPassionItalyChris
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Sono arrivate alla ottava settimana di fioritura e le parti apicali delle infiorescenze sono già pronte per essere raccolte tra qualche giorno o settimana. Verranno raccolte in modo graduale e poi le rimanenze trasferite in outdoor per farle rigenerare. Due varietà impeccabili sia la Dutch cheese molto abbondante e resinosa, mentre la mimosa cherry kush ha un profumo molto speciale e fruttato, strutturalmente sono delle varietà ottime, rimangono di dimensioni medie ed i fiori sono di qualità molto raffinata! Sarà una bella raccolta di qualità.
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@Smoking_Joe_Frazier
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Flowering Week 28: Blueberry – The Final Countdown
Update: 25.09.2025 | Day 202
Hey Growmies,
With her African BFF now harvested, the spotlight is fully on Blueberry – and she’s loving the attention. Here’s where we stand as we approach the finish line.
Plant Status & Progress
- She’s still asking for at least one more week, ideally two, to fully ripen.
- Her structure remains gorgeous – long, elegant colas that keep fattening up daily. Compared to Durban’s dense nuggets, Blueberry’s buds are longer and more slender, but don’t let that fool you – they’re packing on weight.
- Mold-free so far, even with all the rain. A true testament to her genetics and maybe a little grower’s luck.
Aroma & Readiness
- The smell is just… wow. Sweet, berry-bubblegum-like, and intensely aromatic even before full maturity.
- My goal is to let most of her go until ~20% amber trichomes, but the weather is doing its best to ruin the plan.
Weather Woens & Harvest Plans
- Rain has been relentless for almost two weeks – nature’s way of balancing out that dry spring.
- I may pre-harvest a few top colas next week to ensure I salvage at least some of this deliciousness if mold appears.
As Mike Tyson said: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.” Well, the weather is throwing haymakers.
Next Steps
- Pray for a dry week (or at least a few sunny days)
- Keep a close eye on trichomes and bud density
- Prepare for a possible staggered harvest
Week 28 Takeaway
Blueberry’s testing my patience in the best way possible. She’s close, but not quite there – and the weather is the final boss. Fingers crossed for a clean finish.
Wish me luck, folks. Catch y’all next week – likely with a harvest report.
– Smoking_Joe_Frazier
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@GANJALORD420
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1st day of week 7 fresh air exchange, deleafed to get more light and airflow then fed.
3rd day of week 7 fed just water (Ran out of feed)
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@Reyden
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Sono soddisfatto per come stanno crescendo le piante di seeds mafia e vedo che crescono alla grande ora che la SF2000 di Spider Farmer è al suo massimo, voglio vedere quanto riesco a fare emergere il loro lato caratteristico, siamo a 1680 ms/cm circa a ph 6.4 (21ºC) ✨💥
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@MaestroBud
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The vigorous branches and typical sativa structure are now embracing the Overdrive effect. In this sixth week, the buds are slowly expanding, in sync with a terpene profile that promises pure tropicality.
✅ The feeding cycle strictly follows the AN Master Recipe, while watering has been increased to 3 cycles/day via drip kit, optimizing distribution in deep substrates.
💡 Full spectrum with:
FD9600 at maximum power
Mars Hydro 100W to favor the lower body
🌬️ The dehumidifier will be activated on Friday evening, without connection to the Inkbird, but will operate automatically at the target humidity to keep the VPD under control.
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@Michijardinero
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Bueno familia hoy damos fin a la 2° semana y damos comienzo a la 3° en esta semana han dado un estirón importante casi 25 cm la punta más alta esta entre 94-95 cm ya están empezando a mostrar sus cogollitos en el siguiente riego empezaré a ponerle big boom para darles más cuerpo e intentar sacar el máximo posible de momento estoy contento por como esta saliendo todo espero seguir así como siempre familia cualquier crítica comentario o Consejo bienvenidos son un abrazo y buenos humos familia paz
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Day 69 (March 6th)
Just gave everyone their last watering. I’m going to harvest and wash everything tomorrow night on day 70. I‘m not going to do that whole 48 hours of darkness thing because I didn’t see a difference last time I did it. In fact, it made my plant under watered before drying which caused it to dry too fast. Slurricane and cheese will be washed with h2o2 and the rest will just be rinsed off in warm RO water and hung up. Before and after washing I’m going to go over each branch with a flashlight and make sure there is no dog hair or debris in or on the buds. I will be drying in my spare bathroom (that no one uses!) from hangers. Aiming to keep it around 60-62F and 50-60 RH. Hoping for that 10-12 day dry. I wanted to do a full plant hang but the tent got pretty dirty and I would feel more comfortable just cutting and rinsing everything off branch by branch. I’m going to try my best to keep the full plant intact. Got my humidifier hooked up and running RO water because with tap water it deposits calcium and lime all over the buds and walls. For air flow I’m just indirectly running a small usb fan. I’m not worried about air flow in the bathroom honestly. It stays nice and breezy down there anyway.
Got the food grade peroxide and RO water to wash up the slurricane and cheese. Everything except for the cheese and garlic#1 is looking more than done. Trichomes all look pretty well done. Some of them have even burst open. Smells are all super ripe and mature too. Can’t wait to smell each individually in jars.
Next week I will recap what went wrong and what I will do differently next time to keep it from happening again.
(Day 70F) Just got everything chopped, washed and hanging. The vast majority of the PM was washed out but I can still see very small amounts. When they dry out I can shake the branches a bit to get the rest off. At very least it’s sterile now. There is no question I lost some potency while washing but the amount is negligible for a much cleaner product.
I could see lots of dirt and other debris float to the surface of the water after being washed. And no those are not trichomes, those sink to the bottom. I could put that nasty water through a bubble bag and wouldn’t get all that much. Although it probably does remove a lot of the actual trichomes heads. I’ll have to check with the microscope.
Everything is rigged up for a nice slow dry. Temp is sitting at 64 and RH is at a nice 60%.
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@LadyGreen
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She growing well, so well in fact I have started to HST the off shoot branches to keep the grow low. They are nice and green still so easy to HST and take to it well.
It's getting ready to flip but waiting on my new tent...so she will just have to keep growing taking over my veg cabinet
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@Bones_1986
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Day 43
Stretching has now stopped and the buds are already swelling nicely. Seriously frosty as you can see.
Feeding 2.5 liters every 2/3 days
Day 45
Slight yellowing and minor deficiencys showing so upping the N and cal-mag and also adding pk boost
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@Speed_Weed
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Day 2: Quite a bit of root growth occurred today, the seedling is doing really well.
Day 3: So far so good. I had a bunch of seeds bomb out before this and I'm glad that things are starting to look up again. 😄
Day 4: I've planted two more seeds into the same pot for the purposes of germination and made a new pot with two other seeds in that one. Starting to try the sea of green.👍
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@WeEdandGrowLover
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The not so little now really is growing well😊.
Had to get it in another box to keep good temperature.
I keep doing some defoliation Time to Time.
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@BB_UK
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Not going to say I expected more as I did but I can also say wow they’re doing amazing and forming big ole buds! And the aromas are crazy coming from all of them! And I have NEWSSSSSS… so mystery revealed! On 2 big ones solo still forming! But bottom left is FASTBUDS purple punch and top left is FASTBUDS forbidden runtz and I’m so glad of it as I wanted them to be the fastbuds to get another finish or a better one on these and it seems I may not with the forbidden runtz but I will with the purple punch! My next run I will hold back as best as I can to do nothing but open them up and not defoliate or trim one set and visa versa on the others back to back to see the difference alongside each other! Be great too as I have more fastbuds to run and new Zamnesia to do on this so will be equal in timing! Plus I get to do some solos so will be a great grow!
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@TheBudWhisperer
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Dec. 13 - start of week 11 and all's well into the flip to flower. Clipped 'er out real good twice but there's no stopping these girls. Probably looking at some serious pruning over the next 2 weeks. We'll keep it light but regular and with luck, it'll be a perfect mix between max photo synth. and energy allocation. We've gone much more aggressive with the nute shed. - gonna jam 'em every feed on a 5:1 ratioof full strength to calmag only and see how they take to it instead of the current 3:1. @quexos was spot non about the defo - shoulda been a little more ruthless but all good - we'll get there homie😉 Thanks again to the usual suspects for the comments and critiques. You folks continue to keep it chill, enlightening and positive - you grow fiends have been awesome and best to all of you this Christmas!👊 Peace, love and all that other stuff.😎
Dec. 16 update - the stretch is on heavy! That said, this girls an NL strain so likely won’t stretch nearly as much as her kush neighbour. May need to prop her up at some point soon🤔. Cheers y’all!👊
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This one is gonna be fimmed out and defo’d as a comparative to its manifolded kush sister. They’ll spend a first week or so under a cfl assembly while the last harvest dries out in the cabinet. This is our 2nd grow of an NL strain and this one should be typical of NL in terms of resilience. That said, she’s a former cup winner so we’re hopeful for supreme quality this time around. 👍 Gonna jack up the nute shed. and supplements heavy throughout the grow in the hopes of really testing the limits of my grow space (approx. 2sq/ft). With the coco medium we’re hoping for that 20% bump in yield as well. THANKS for check'n er out
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@The_Projexx
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Welcome to the start of week 4 !!! These ladies are on the rise to greatness Largatha and Harley-quinn are just growing at great speeds . We already have some side branching taking place so by the end of the week we should see a big change in the ladies . This will also be there last week in the solo cups as I will be x-planting them into their final homes as of next week ! So far no complaints they are just turning up !!
A big thank you to the people who take the time to stop in and check out the diary :) !!
Happy Growing!
-V.G
Day#19V Growing nicely !! Day#2 since watering 1/2 cup . They are such thirsty ladies !!
Day#20V Coming along nicely gaining wind won't be long now till I start training these ladies !! Watered 1/2 Cup each at 500PPM
Day#21V Pictures N/A I'm very excited to see whats going to come in the near future ! They pushing 5 fingers now !! Day#1 Since watering 1/2 Cup at 500PPM
Day#22V Ladies are growing along . Transplanted into 3 gallon . Watered 3/4 Cup each .
Day#23V They are loving their new home ! Suffering from nitrogen def and a tiny bit of over watering . Im going to start using base nutes now . Day#1 Since watering 3/4 Cup each.
Day#24V PIctures N/A. Ladies are starting to pick up the pace ! Going to be looking to train them soon . Day#2 Since watering 3/4 cup each
Day#25V Pictures N/A, Ladies are super thirsty . Watered 1 Cup each at 520PPM ( 1.5ml/l Grow Micro Bloom ) going to reduce to 1ml/l as of next feeding .
Recap : Things really picked up this week for the ladies , I transplanted them into their final homes now Im just awaiting a few more nodes of growth and I will top them and start to train them in the fashion that I like . I started to noticed discolouration on the very bottom leaves that came out (likely due to being over watered) So I've added 1 extra day of dry time in between feedings again to ensure the root zone gets dry enough before adding more water ( from every 2 days to every 3 days ) Other then that these ladies are really picking up I'm excited to see what they going to bring in flower !
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It’s such a good feeling when a plan comes together! Trained these girls all the way through the grow period of the other 6 keeping them down, chopping branches down twice in order to maintain control! They are bursting with flowers! And the aroma already is so lush! They’re technical day of bloom is 22 days as of today! Shows 4 weeks because I transitioned when the WSE purples turned 6 weeks! I’m actually so excited for the end of this one because I upgrade tents through sponsorship and really go to town with the females! Plus I have a few new strains from Zamnesia and also unreleased ones!! That’s autos and photos! So keep a look at! Big things are coming!
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@Tracie67
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All is good. Plant is starting to turn yellow and the trichomes are getting cloudy. I think I have another 2 weeks until time to chop. Very excited with this one.
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@Susquihanna
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Royal Queen Seeds website says that harvest time is 9-10 weeks after sprouting. This is week 11 so I am going ahead and harvesting even though I am not seeing a lot of amber trichomes. If you take a look at my pictures, you can see how big my cola is!! It is sooo packed and dense.
The entire grow is 36.26 grams. I did flush this week before I cut it down.
I am really pleased with this grow. I learned a lot and had a lot of difficult weather to overcome such as 100 degree heat and a hail storm.
Miss Dosido danced her way to the end of the summer with a great cola and dense buds.
Stay tuned for a dry weigh and smoke report.
As always, you comments and likes are appreciated.