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Training main stems down to expose second ones looking good week 8 they are in 10 gallon now watering 2 cups or more if needed every 2-3 days
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🌿 Lava Cake – Week 6 (2nd Week Flower) | Morphing Into Bloom 🌿 The Lava Cakes are officially stepping deeper into flower mode. Stretch is slowing down, morphology is shifting, the leaves, the stance, the energy of the plants are clearly moving toward bloom. Even without a huge photo set this week, the video walkthrough tells the full story: happy, thriving plants under carefully tuned conditions. ⸻ 📖 A Quick Recap – From Seed to Here • Seedling Stage: Strong germination, started in solo cups with Aptus support, rooting fast. • Veg Growth: Transplanted into fabric pots, lush branching, topped and trained with ease. • Environment Setup: TrolMaster ecosystem dialed in step by step — exhausts, intakes, carbon filters, sensors. • Lighting Evolution: Black Series 600 → Future of Grow LEDs → ThinkGrow Model 1 → now with a Lumatek Zeus Compact Pro 465W and the ThinkGrow ICL-300 added to the lineup. The room is a galaxy of light. • Nutrition Journey: From Aptus start boosters to super soil base, steadily adapted feeding. Now, the recipe grows richer for flowering. Each step has built the foundation for what’s happening now, the Lava Cakes standing strong in early flower. ⸻ 🍽️ This Week’s Feeding Recipe We swapped Start Booster for Top Booster and layered in a new experiment: Plagron trio support. Current Mix (per L water): • Aptus Regulator – 0.15 ml • Aptus CalMag Boost – 0.25 ml • Aptus Top Booster – 0.25 ml • Plagron Power Buds – 1 ml • Plagron Sugar Royal – 1 ml • Plagron Green Sensation – 1 ml The Aptus All-in-One Liquid is on pause for now, pellets in the soil still provide baseline nutrition. This new combo is about flower initiation + terpene support + bio-stimulants. It’s partly science, partly intuition — but that’s how discoveries are made. ⸻ 🌡️ Environment This Week • Room Temp: Up to 34°C (AC unit coming soon to stabilize) • Humidity: 60–70% at times • VPD: ~1.89 kPa • Soil Moisture: Watered when dry-down hits 19–20% • Monitoring: TrolMaster WCS Substrate Sensor → reading EC, moisture %, and soil temp straight to Tent-X brain Conditions aren’t perfect, but the girls are handling it gracefully. Warmth makes them thirsty, and with careful irrigation + sensor data, they’re drinking daily and staying strong. ⸻ 💡 Lights of the Garden • Future of Grow LED • ThinkGrow Model 1 and ICL-300 • Lumatek Zeus Compact Pro 465W All tied into the TrolMaster network. The room is now a layered ecosystem of precision — light spread, airflow, and CO₂ distribution tuned for a canopy that can handle big flower production ahead. ⸻ 🐝 A Note for Nature – The Bees Alongside all this controlled technology, we can’t forget the real farmers of the world: bees. A photo this week shows a bee at work, pollinating. Without bees, there would be no flowers, not in the garden, not in the fields, not in the orchards. They are nature’s TrolMaster, carrying genetics forward, balancing ecosystems, ensuring that plants fulfill their destiny. In our indoor rooms, we simulate everything: light, water, air, food. But bees remind us of the real story outside, a world built on quiet pollination, day by day. A fairytale where the smallest wings sustain the biggest cycles of life. So this week, the Lava Cakes bloom under LEDs, and the bees bloom under the sun. 🌞🐝 ⸻ 🚀 Looking Ahead • AC will stabilize the room climate and drop stress levels. • Flowers will set fully, with pistils stacking over the next 7–10 days. • Plagron trio will show its effects, watching closely for flavor, resin, and density changes. • More light power may be added as the canopy demands. ⸻ ✨ Closing Thought: Even on a busy week, even with just a video instead of many photos, the story of these Lava Cakes is alive. They’re moving into flower with strength, under lights, with data guiding them — but always with love as the main ingredient. 📲 Don’t forget to Subscribe and follow me on Instagram and YouTube @DogDoctorOfficial for exclusive content, real-time updates, and behind-the-scenes magic. We’ve got so much more coming, including transplanting and all the amazing techniques that go along with it. You won’t want to miss it. • GrowDiaries Journal: https://growdiaries.com/grower/dogdoctorofficial • Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dogdoctorofficial/ • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dogdoctorofficial ⸻ Explore the Gear that Powers My Grow If you’re curious about the tech I’m using, check out these links: • Genetics, gear, nutrients, and more – Zamnesia: https://www.zamnesia.com/ • Environmental control & automation – TrolMaster: https://www.trolmaster.eu/ • Advanced LED lighting – Future of Grow: https://www.futureofgrow.com/ • Root and growth nutrition – Aptus Holland: https://aptus-holland.com/ • Nutrient systems & boosters – Plagron: https://plagron.com/en/ • Soil & substrate excellence – PRO-MIX BX: https://www.pthorticulture.com/en-us/products/pro-mix-bx-mycorrhizae • Curing and storage – Grove Bags: https://grovebags.com/ ⸻ We’ve got much more coming as we move through the grow cycles. Trust me, you won’t want to miss the next steps, let’s push the boundaries of indoor horticulture together! As always, this is shared for educational purposes, aiming to spread understanding and appreciation for this plant. Let’s celebrate it responsibly and continue to learn and grow together. With true love comes happiness. Always believe in yourself, and always do things expecting nothing and with an open heart. Be a giver, and the universe will give back in ways you could never imagine. 💚 Growers love to all 💚
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Kaiydaan started showing signs of Flowering early last week. A few stigmas, Pre-Flowering, but still more Vegetative. So I decided to consider this week "Flowering". She was popping stigmas before 21 days. So far these WeedSeedsExpress genetics have shown to be exceptional. I will be slowly reducing her Veg feedings and slowly working in Bloom nutrients. I feed very sparingly as the soil has been amended with all the good stuff, organically. I think my light may have been too close, so I raised it a couple of inches to 20". I'm not 100% sure it was too close, but it's better to be safe than sorry. July 1, 2021 Little calyxes have started showing all over Kaiydaan. Kaiydaan has really breezed into Flowering without any hiccups *knock on wood. July 2, 2021 I did some tucking-of-the-leaves and some mild LST on the entire crop. I had to tuck one of Kaiydaan's taller tops. I snapped one of her other tops, but quickly got her into 🚑Urgent Care and she's as right as rain. July 3, 2021 That main top, I tucked on Kaiydaan, has turned right back up and has put on some height. Trichomes are starting to pop and the leaves are sticky. She still has no smell or none that I've noticed. July 5, 2021 I'm still dialing back the Veg nutrients on Kaiydaan and Freeman. J is still vegging strong, very light defoliation as she is ALL tops. We're only 1 month away until My Freeman's birthday! July 6, 2021 I just watered the girls, they're not big drinkers yet, a liter every 3 days. J seems to be a different Pheno from the rest. Her leaves have more texture and she appears to be all tops (likely due to the FIM'ing she underwent) and she is over a week behind Kaiydaan and Freeman.
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This ladies got pretty big for real, hands down the biggest autos I've ever had grown in 7l pots, excellent performance, and the flowers start to stink really strong, there is one pheno which is more developed than the other 2 phenos but the 3 have developed really good and they are producing a lot of sticky and stinky trichomes! Let's see how this will end up! Can't wait 🤤
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mmmm ... she was planted directly to her final pot ... and only grew a little ... always looking for new seed banks to discard for me the best geneticas I defraud sweer seeds ... and also fighting with her the white fly and mushrooms that came back ... bad everything ..
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Flowers are coming along nice. Im happy with my new light. Just changed my fertilizer from pre bloom to blooming. Thinking about getting big bud and bud candy.
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10th Week Last week of vegetation. Vanilla Ice is ready :) Conditions: Sub: Atami cocos Box: 80x80x100 Light: CLF 6100K 125W veg, CLF 2700K 85W flowering Airflow: 1 10W PC cooler inside box to cool CFL, 1 20W airflow fan to get air in Day time: 18h day / 6h night veg, 12h day / 12h night flowering Main nutrients: wooden ash, ATAMI, GREEN HOUSE POWER FEEDING, homemade special for flowering Feeding: first 12 days every 3rd day, next every 4th day, in flowering after switch 20 days every 4th day, next every 3 days Water: 0,3-0,6l per watering, every time it is on place = if sub is OK to water or with nutrients Training technic: harsh training for plant resistance and performance Genetics Skunk x Northern Lights x Afghani THC 17% Flowering time +/- 55 days Type Indica dominant Height indoor 60 - 90cm Height outdoor 170 - 200cm Yield indoor g/m² 550 - 600g Yield outdoor g/plant 450 - 550g
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Dear Growers , Welcome to Flower Week 4-5 Day 28-35 from Flowering , we’re excited to share a very special project with you: NARCOS SEEDS Kingping Kush . With dedication, knowledge, and hands-on practice, we’ll guide you step by step through the journey—watch with us as growth, development, and small wonders unfold before your eyes. Whether you're a beginner or an expert, you are warmly invited to join, ask questions, and share your own experiences along the way! Project Setup & Conditions: • Brand/Manufacturer: Narcos Seeds • Tent: 222cmx150cmx150cm • Light: 2x 720 Watt Full Spectrum • Humidity: 40% • Soil: Narcos Organix Mix • Nutrients: Narcos Products • pH Value: 5.6 A Special Thanks To Narcos Seeds for the amazing collaboration, trust, and generous support in making this project possible. Your contribution is truly appreciated! Congratulations on Your Own Projects! We celebrate your growth, your creativity, and the passion you bring to the table. It’s truly inspiring to witness at Each visit . Stay curious and keep up Growing —we look forward to welcoming you back for the next chapter soon!
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1️⃣2️⃣ Final Week Flower : 11/05 - 16/05 💡 Light schedule: 24 hours 📏 Lamp To Plant Distance: 60cm ⚡ Dimming: 100% 🌡️ Average temperature: 23,5° ☔ Average humidity: 60% ------------------------------------------------------------- Finally, we’ve reached the final week, and I think they'll be ready by May 16th. The remaining 14 days are reserved for drying. I decided to do one last defoliation, removing all the leaves that were too damaged and allowing the light to penetrate more deeply. There’s a mix of photos showing them before and after the defoliation. Speaking of light, last week I changed the cycle, and until the 16th, they'll be on 24/24 light—first time I'm trying this method instead of the usual 2 days of darkness. On the 16th, I'll take them out of the tent and snap the final photos. It hasn’t been an easy journey... Right at the start, during germination, while handling the pots, I dropped the light on top of them. I had to germinate a new seed, which became R03. Later, during the vegetative stage, I dropped the R02's pot, affecting her so much that she's now on the balcony and half the size of the others (to be fair, R01 and R03 grew so much that they completely took over the tent 😅). Then there was my excitement when preparing the soil, which ended up being a bit too hot with nutrients, causing both plants to yellow earlier than expected. I tried to correct this by watering without nutrients for a while; it didn’t help much, but I believe if I hadn’t done that, things would’ve been worse. Even with all that, they turned out to be big girls, with plenty of bud sites, and they’re now entering that final phase of fattening up.! Let’s see what they can do in these last 5 days! 💚 ----------------------------------------------------------------- #13/05/2025 I can already see some final improvements, hehe. I watered them one last time with 3.5L of plain water each, because on May 16th, or at the latest the 17th, it's time to cut and put them to dry for the remaining days of the contest. Everything is super tight around here, but we’re going to make it! 💪🏻 I'm thinking of doing a wet trimming when I cut the plants and put them to dry. This way, I can speed up the drying process and gain an extra day or two with them in the tent. 👨🏻‍🌾 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 16/05/25 I'm going to leave them for one more night, from the 16th to the 17th. Tomorrow they'll be chopped, and I'll create a week for the final photos before the harvest weeks with the dried buds! So, it took 12 weeks from seed to harvest. See you tomorrow 🤛🏻💚
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Flushed and using fresh water from here out :) starting to really smell strong, very sweet smelling. had to setup the carbon filter lol. Definitely looking forward to harvest time ;) Will add more pictures as the week continues.
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On week 5 of actual flowering the plants are coming along nicely and HSC GSC is looking the best so far but its still early :) WW is slow to start flowering just small amount of pistils so far small buds looks more like week 3 or 4 as far as flowering progression.
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LemonWalker #1 chelated for week 11 might got 11-1/2 30g wet so about a 1/4 dry should press a nice gram of rosin for me to sample her let her dry 4-5 days shooting for 68-72% to press!! Flavor mellowing a bit starting to smell more like Key Lime!!
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Clones con 14 días, ya todos enraizados, de las 3 variedades Medical Mass CBD de Royal Queen fue la que colonizo mas rápido, seguida por Medikit de Budhaseed y por ultimo Tangie de BSF, a pesar de que fue la ultima en colonizar la cantidad de raíces en la Tangie era mucho mayor y con gran carga radicular. Raíces de Medical Mass CBD mucho mas grandes y con gran cantidad de radículas. Promete!!
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Week twenty-two is officially done on the Pineapple Upside Down Cake. This week is a turning point, marking the end of vegetative growth and the start of the flowering transition. I decided to switch the light cycle to twelve-twelve. Initially, the plan was to wait for a stronger recovery, but the reality is simple: it wasn’t happening. The plant was given roughly three full weeks to acclimate after stress, and the response stayed limited. Rather than staying stuck in an endless waiting phase, I chose to move forward. This means accepting that flowering may not be extremely vigorous or high-energy. That’s fine. This run is also about observation, learning, and adapting. Flowering was initiated gently, at around three hundred PPFD, to avoid adding more stress. At the same time, I switched the nutrient program to Athena bloom and adjusted the recipe accordingly. The plant has now been under flowering conditions for about twenty-four to forty-eight hours. Over the coming week, I expect to see the first signs of stretch. It’s a bit frustrating, because structurally the plant was doing really well. The LST work created a clean, balanced canopy, and the potential was clearly there. Now the focus is simple. No rushing. No over-correction. Just letting the plant transition naturally into flower and observing how she reacts. Next week will officially mark the first true week of flowering. From there, we’ll reassess posture, stretch, and overall vitality. For now, the plant is left alone to settle into its new rhythm. That’s it for week twenty-two. See you next week.
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Hello everyone week 5 of flower has passed for this Cinderella Jack auto 👸🏼 For the feeding schedule i stopped feeding Power Roots and Pure Zym and started feeding Green Sensation 0,5/l Mars hydro SP-6500 power 75% have a great day and wish you all happy growing 😎👨‍🌾🏻
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Week 4 - 01/22 to 01/28 2021 Pictures from Days 25 + 26 TRANSPLANTED! Might have waited too long but hopefully the transplant and LST stress might slow the plant down since i think it's already flipping to flower like the Red Poison & Purple Lemonade in my other diaries 😱 Ended up more 50/50 ratio of Destiny Organic's Dark Matter Living Soil + ProMixHP since I had to make the Destiny last. Apparently they went out of business just after I decided it was my favourite/new soil :( Would rather stay away from Ocean Floor since I haven't had the best experiences with it (bugs/rust fungus etc) Feel free to drop some recommendations other than Fox Farms below 👍 The Dark Devil Auto is otherwise healthy and starting show hints of colour in the stems 😈 I raised the @ViparSpectraLED P1500 another eight inches after transplant and started basic LST. I really wanted to get these four under a ScrOG but if 3/4 are already flipping and the LSD is still runty I might have to wait it out again. It already has a solid skunky/hash plant smell on the fingers after adjusting them and it looks like it might actually be a tripod mute with three flower sites per node. Hopefully I can stretch it out and take advantage of the extra bud potential 🙏 I have the @MarsHydroLED TSL2000 set up and ready to go once the girls settle into their new pots. Have the new surge protector/heavy duty power cords/power tool grade timers as mentioned in Week 3. Some of it shown in the pictures. Threw some videos in this week as well with some Queen's Radio GaGa, Beastie Boys' Brass Monkey, and a little hint of Arkells ....COME TO LIGHT on the short @ViparSpectraLED ..GET IT.. 😓 -- Thanks for checking in! Throw down a like and/or follow so I can return the favour 🙌 Check out my Diary of the Year 2020 Entry for my Original Auto Sour Diesel: https://growdiaries.com/diaries/54258-fastbuds-original-auto-sour-diesel-grow-journal-by-glazedgrow IG: @GlazedGrow CannaBuzz: @GlazedGrow
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Vegetacion (Tiempo estimado 28 dias) Segunda Semana de Vegetacion 14/12/2023 - 5:00hrs y 22hrs: Se Hace cambio de solucion nutritiva y se limpia el recipiente, se verifican parametros basicos del agua, mantener cuidados especificos, el Ec y PPm Varean por los aditivos. Agua de osmosis: Ph 6.0, PPm 650-800, Ec 1.3-1.6, Temperatura 22°C - 26°C, Humedad 65% Ambiente: Temperatura 22 °C, Humedad 65%, Ventilacion 15%, 18 hrs de luz , 6 hrs de obscuridad. 15/12/2023 - 5:00hrs y 22hrs: Se verifican parametros basicos del agua, mantener cuidados especificos. Agua de osmosis: Ph 6.0, PPm 650-800, Ec 1.3-1.6, Temperatura 22°C - 26°C, Humedad 65% Ambiente: Temperatura 22 °C, Humedad 65%, Ventilacion 15%, 18 hrs de luz , 6 hrs de obscuridad. 16/12/2023 - 5:00hrs y 22hrs: Se verifican parametros basicos del agua, mantener cuidados especificos. Agua de osmosis: Ph 6.0, PPm 650-800, Ec 1.3-1.6, Temperatura 22°C - 26°C, Humedad 65% Ambiente: Temperatura 22 °C, Humedad 65%, Ventilacion 15%, 18 hrs de luz , 6 hrs de obscuridad. 17/12/2023 - 5:00hrs y 22hrs: Se verifican parametros basicos del agua, mantener cuidados especificos. Agua de osmosis: Ph 6.0, PPm 650-800, Ec 1.3-1.6, Temperatura 22°C - 26°C, Humedad 65% Ambiente: Temperatura 22 °C, Humedad 65%, Ventilacion 15%, 18 hrs de luz , 6 hrs de obscuridad. 18/12/2023 - 5:00hrs y 22hrs: Se verifican parametros basicos del agua, mantener cuidados especificos. Agua de osmosis: Ph 6.0, PPm 650-800, Ec 1.3-1.6, Temperatura 22°C - 26°C, Humedad 65% Ambiente: Temperatura 22 °C, Humedad 65%, Ventilacion 15%, 18 hrs de luz , 6 hrs de obscuridad. 19/12/2023 - 5:00hrs y 22hrs: Se verifican parametros basicos del agua, mantener cuidados especificos. Agua de osmosis: Ph 6.0, PPm 650-800, Ec 1.3-1.6, Temperatura 22°C - 26°C, Humedad 65% Ambiente: Temperatura 22 °C, Humedad 65%, Ventilacion 15%, 18 hrs de luz , 6 hrs de obscuridad. 20/12/2023 - 5:00hrs y 22hrs: Se verifican parametros basicos del agua, mantener cuidados especificos. Agua de osmosis: Ph 6.0, PPm 650-800, Ec 1.3-1.6, Temperatura 22°C - 26°C, Humedad 65% Ambiente: Temperatura 22 °C, Humedad 65%, Ventilacion 15%, 18 hrs de luz , 6 hrs de obscuridad.