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@Downunder90
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Week 8 Update: Transition to Flowering 🌸✨
🌟 The Flowering Stage Begins 🌟
Welcome to Week 8! Big changes are happening in the grow room. This week marks the official switch from the vegetative stage to the flowering stage. With the light schedule now adjusted to 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness, the plants are entering the crucial phase where all the hard work of vegetative growth will start to pay off in the form of buds.
🌼 Flowering Transition 🌼
Light Schedule:
The light schedule has been reduced to 12 hours on and 12 hours off, which signals the plants to begin flowering.
I'm aiming to maintain a Daily Light Integral (DLI) of around 40 to optimize bud development.
Greenhouse Super Lemon Haze 🌞
Responding quickly to the light change, with the first signs of pre-flower pistils emerging.
The even canopy from LST will help the plant distribute energy effectively to multiple bud sites.
Humboldt Seed Bubba Kush 🌿
This compact, bushy plant is beginning to show signs of entering the flowering stage.
Its strong structure is set to support what should be a dense, resinous bud formation.
Blueberry Muffin 🥞
Continuing to exhibit robust growth, with the first signs of transition into flowering.
The dense frame developed during veg should result in a productive flowering stage.
🌱 Continuing Care 🌱
As the plants transition, I'll be adjusting their care to support this new phase:
Nutrient Adjustment: Shifting to a flowering-focused nutrient schedule with increased phosphorus and potassium to support bud formation, while gradually reducing nitrogen.
Environmental Control: Monitoring and adjusting temperature and humidity to ideal levels for flowering, ensuring the environment promotes healthy bud development.
Training & Defoliation: Continuing LST and selective defoliation to maintain an even canopy and improve light penetration to lower bud sites.
🌸 Looking Forward 🌸
The plants are now in the flowering stage, and this is where the real magic happens. Over the next few weeks, we'll start to see bud sites develop and eventually swell into full, aromatic flowers. I'll be closely monitoring the plants to ensure they have everything they need for a successful bloom.
Stay tuned for next week's update as we dive deeper into the flowering phase!
Happy growing! 🌸💚
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@mangodalat
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Trichomes have turned opaque. A few have turned brown.
I stopped adding nutrition and just watered.
This week it started to rain again so i am determined to harvest in the next 1-2 weeks.
Thankyou. SEE YOU NEXT WEEK.
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@Alejangrow
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Plants look real healthy. 😊 Nice and bushy. Seems a little behind for its age tho. 🤷♂️🏽
Next week we dial back nutes and the week after that we start the flush. Follow along to see just how these ladies turn out. ✌️🏼😎
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@eldruida_lamota
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Bueno, empezamos por el final familia.
Gorilla girl, me parece una cepa BRU-TAL , ya partiendo de esa base, mi error, creo que e cometido , es poner estos ejemplares en macetas de 5L, que tonto... mínimo recomendado 7L y a ser posible 11L
Otro error fue no dejarlas una semana más. pero, escasez. (intentaremos curarla un par de semanas).
Cepa con flores muy compactas, hay bastante separación entre nudos pero compensa las flores de verdad.
Sabor muy dulzón a mi me recuerda a melón , es un pepino recomendado para amantes de la hierba que llevan tiempo en esto, un colocón muy fuerte, ahora mismo estoy bajo los efectos de esta vaina, aseguro que con cada frase, leo varias veces y detenidamente por que válgame.
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@Grow4ever
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Overall auch ein toller grow mit vielen learnings.
Hab Sie zum Schluss mal 3-4 Tage im Dunkeln und ohne zu gießen stehen lassen, da ich weg war.
Entspchend trocken sieht Sie bei der Ernte aus.
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@Aedaone
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The temperatures, humidity, and watering volume(if measured) in grow conditions are all averaged for the week. The pH is soil pH. Any watering done by me is well water which is 7.6 pH and 50° F. Any listed nutrients are ml/gallon of soil.
Day 1 we had thunderstorms and rain in the morning followed by sunshine.
Day 2 we had rain in the morning followed by sunshine. That might we had severe thunderstorms and the threat of hail. We missed the hail but had heavy wind and rain.
Day 3 we had rain in the morning followed by rain and thunderstorms intermittently into the night.
Day 4 we had rain in the morning then mostly cloudy until the late afternoon.
Day 5 we had sunshine and clear skies until the afternoon. Around 4:00 pm a severe thunderstorm hit. It produced strong winds, heavy rain, and grape sized hail. Fortunately the hail lasted only a few minutes and only damages some leaves.
Day 7 we had rain and thunderstorms through the previous night and into the morning. We had sunshine, clear skies, and temperatures in the upper 70's. That was followed by severe thunderstorms, rain, and a touch of hail from 4p.m. to 6p.m.
The rain hammered this girl this week. It didn't seem to slow her down any. This week was a success
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@iGrowCulture
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Conditions have remained stable...realized I forgot to drop the light after cleaning, so dropped her back down to 28.5”. She has reacted well to every slight adjustment made...
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@MrJones
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The yield this run was just amazing, the VIPARSPECTRA XS-2000 performed very well, they run so cool, it's just crazy, you can set the lights about 10 inches from your plants at 70% without fear of burning them, sweet seed cream mandarin auto al, always yields very well, this harvest was even better, largest amount from any Auto Flowers yet, I know that you folks that grow DWC can push it a bit better but when grown in the soil the terpenes and flavors seem to be a click better in my opinion. If you have not tried these seeds you just have to, you will not be disappointed!
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@eldruida_lamota
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Que hay familia, recta final de estas xupet y haribo de Rkiem seeds, la verdad que los esquejes de mi colega e flipado, Los 8 ejemplares han salido muy bien, tienes unos tonos y aunque no sean muy grandes se ven flores muy prietas y repletas de tricomas, espero se puedan apreciar bien en las fotos y el vídeo.
Ya e practicado un lavado de raíces que era necesario para proceder a seguir regando sólo con agua unos días más.
Sin más dilación , me despido hasta el año que viene 🤣 buenos humos y feliz año 💨💨💨🎉🎊.
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@Melloganja
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For now, everything is going okay. Some nutrients shortage, but they are fixed.
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@Danger90946
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Day 106 12/25/2021 being of a new week and this will be more than likely the last week this lady gets any nutrients thinking Wednesday. After that will start flush with collected rain water. After checking trichomes they were about 85% cloudy about 10% clear and 5% amber which is right where she should be since the end is coming fast.
Day 110 12/29/2021- Started flush today and will continue to just feed rain water until next Wednesday. Will cut her down next Friday 01/07/2022.
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@MrJoint
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🌻 It already starts to smell very well.
✌️🎃Thank you for checking my cultivation.
Processing
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@GrowGuy97
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Finally starting to see little bud sights! Will post more pics soon
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@7circleshg
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5 dias despues de la semana anterior, buen desarrollo de flores aunque preferiria mas engorde. Optima produccion de resina
Se dejo el blossomblaster y empezamos, el viejo y confiable, Monster bloom y heavybud
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@GrimbolTheDruid
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Grow Specs:
Breeder: Mephisto Genetics
Strain: Skywalker F5
Genetic heritage: Skywalker Kush Cut (selected from DNA seeds) x Triangle F3
Indica/Sativa: 35/65
Est. cycle time: 65-70 days from sprout
Medium: Soil, Mephisto Genetics Super Soil, Worm Castings
Light: 1/2 - 132W actual LED
Update schedule: I will try to send out the updates every Saturday or Sunday.
For more frequent updates, add me on Instagram @grimbolthedruid
Grow Schedule to Date:
Sprout: 3/1/17 (Full moon)
Age: Day 25 as of 3/25/18
Updates/Observations:
- Water only for last week and next because the soil is plenty hot. No need to cycle down lots of nutrients right now.
- I water about every 2-3 days.
- Trying to keep the soil always slightly moist and never let it dry completely to keep microbes (and by extension the soil) at optimum health.
- She has a very symmetrical structure and appears very healthy, though she is showing some leaf curl.
- Growing very vigorously.
Cheers!
-G
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@Elguacho420
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Buenas a tod@s... Segunda semana y las nenas de momento van bien, algo de enraizante, muy poco y listo... Eh tenido unos problemas pero todo bien, nada sin solución... Vamos a ver q tal siguen... 💪🏻💪🏻
Buenos humos para tod@s!💨💨 😎💎
🇦🇷🤝🏻🇪🇦
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@FatalFarmer
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Couple days left of week 3, and buds are starting to swell, and trichs are forming. I've removed most of the lower branches at this point (which probably should have been done earlier), I'll hopefully do the last of the defoliation this week too. I'm going to bump up the nutes a little for a while before flushing for at least 2 weeks when they are starting to look ready!
Smell inside the tent is getting stronger, made me sneeze a couple times when I peeked in there the other day 😅
Have a happy new year!
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@BioBuds
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It was finally time to harvest her, what good times we had with her. Amazed with how beautiful this plant is, how easy to manage and train and how rewarding Orange Hill Special is.
So we said our thanks and goodbye, thanked her for all the joy she gave while growing her. I realize more and more how I love growing them even more than the end-product.
It takes my mind of all going on for a while, in my miniature jungle world in the attic.
Im sure all of you just sometimes sit there and watch them, in wonder, dreaming away with a good buzz on, watching them wave in the wind of the fans.
So with a heavy hart I apologize, play them their last music, sit with them and feel them and smell them, watch the glistening of the cristals.
In the end we had 209 gram dried Orange Hill Special, I will know the total of the grow, in a few days, since the final big whopper still has to dry: my XtraKush, be sure to check the harvest of that one *in couple of days) and see a one-dollar seed outperform two 10 dollar seeds.
I probably go over 500 grams for the total grow, which would be 1.6 grams per watt. Big success!
Consider an SP-3000 for your next light, you won't be disappointed! Check www.mars-hydro.com for the latest discounts!
Thank you @MarsHydroLED for letting us try out your light, it made this successful grow possible!
Greetings and all the best! Thank you to our friends here, our followers and the whole Growing Diaries community for just being there.
Big Hug,
Sunshine and BioBuds
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@ButterfliesLittleFarm
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Hello Diary,
The third week of vegetation has ended, which is also the beginning of flowering.
As you can see in the photos, Milky Way has started to form flowers which is normal for automatics after 3 weeks of vegetation.
Milky Way is developing nicely, it grew about 10 cm in a week and got a lot of new leaves.
The bright spots that were on some of the leaves have disappeared, which is good news.
I started to feel a slight smell, which also makes me happy :).
This week I also did minimal defoliation, I removed only the lowest leaves to make it easier to water and improve the air flow through the plant itself.
When it comes to watering, it is not frequent, about every 4 days. This week I added one tablet of Easy Grow Booster.
The conditions on the farm are excellent I would say, the temperature is around 26 degrees while the humidity is around 50%.
Here's how it looked this week.
16/05/2023 - Day 17.
Watering. I prepared 7 liters of water, lowered the pH. to 6.0 and dissolved one Easy Grow tablet and with that amount of water I watered all three plants equally.
19/05/2023 - Day 20.
First, I did a minimal defoliation, removing only the bottom leaves to make watering easier and improve air flow through the plant a bit.
After that I watered all three plants.
20/05/2023 - Day 21.
Measuring the height of the plants and taking photos at the end of the third week.
Milky Way F1 - 27 cm.
That's all for this week, see you soon. Thank you all for your support and comments.
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@SamDo
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Week 2 of vegetative growth for Pineapple Upside Down – Round 2.
The plant is still struggling at this stage. Development is slower than expected for week two, and overall vigor remains below what would normally be considered healthy growth. Reading the plant has been difficult, as no single factor clearly stands out as the root cause.
Several parameters are being questioned: excess humidity, temperature management, light intensity, or nutrient balance. Overfeeding seems unlikely, as the last watering was done with a very light EC, around 0.3 to 0.4. Light levels are also modest, approximately 180–200 PPFD, which should normally be safe for a young plant. The pH was checked and appears to be within an acceptable range.
Because the substrate is already sufficiently moist from previous watering around the plant, no additional irrigation has been done. At this point, adding more water would likely do more harm than good.
A small adjustment was made by slightly opening the dome to improve airflow and reduce excess humidity. This should help the plant breathe better and potentially stabilize its environment. Temperature may also be adjusted if needed, depending on how the plant responds over the coming days.
This second week highlights ongoing difficulties in managing early growth stages. There is clearly room for improvement in the startup protocol, and this phase is being treated as a learning process for future cycles.
For now, the strategy remains simple: minimize interventions, maintain stable conditions, and allow the plant time to recover its natural rhythm. The next update will focus on whether growth resumes normally or if further adjustments are required.