The Grow Awards 2026 🏆
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I'm doing an organic soil grow using Purple Cow Organics for the substrate. For germination and seedling phase, I'm using their Seed Starter mix. Once they are ready to focus on vegetative growth, I will transplant them into 5 gallon fabric AutoPots using Purple Cow's Indicanja soil. This is a "water only" soil that I will be attempting to use without feeding much additional nutrients, except for Bloom City Cal-Mag, since I will be using RO water. My tent has CO2 enrichment, so I will be using ~25% higher DLI levels starting at week 2 or 3 than are typical for photoperiod grows. I will adjust as necessary based on how the plants react. #2 and #3 emerged from soil after 2 days (August 22). #1 and 4 took two extra days to be fully emerged with open cotyledons (August 24). During germination, I had VPD set to 0.5 kPa. PPFD was 200 and DLI was around 13, with an 18 hour light cycle. CO2 levels are between 1000-1400 ppm. I included a video showing and explaining my AutoPot and AirDome setup and my general plans for this first grow.
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Day 35 and 12 days into flower and the girls are looking fantastic. One turned out to be a photo so I've removed it and put in my other tent. The are seemingly loving the Advanced Nutrients. I've fed twice at full strength and I'm nothing growth every day. At about day 21bof flower, I will do another and last defoliation of these girls.
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Day 46, plants are slowing down. They'll be one more push, but this will not be like the last week and a half so itsbtime to slow things down. I see some signs that i need to reduce the nutrients. Signs being slight tip burn on a very few the fans with a hook upwards indicating transpiration doesn't balance with light intensity, more noticeable and trustworthy signs are the darker shiney/waxy leaves inside the canopy. I'm not sure if my video uploaded or its quality while I write this, so I will comment on that later. Being only 3 weeks until harvest I've also cut the CO2. If looking close, the upper buds are starting to throw new pistils and elongate indicating that the co2 and heat may cause foxtailing if I push any further. I've reduced co2 from 850 to 650 and light from 1000ppfd, to 850ppfd and then this morning to 700ppfd. End of next week I will reduce even further to around 550ppfd before the last week at 400ppfd during the flush. All this lowers the temperature and slows transpiration. I've reduced the EC from 2 to 1.7EC and turned on my mister as well to maintain humidity to 55% . One less variable to worry about..humidity was fluctuating 47-53% last week. Higher humidity also slowing transpiration of water and nutrients. Hoping these changes have set the girls up to only get just the right amount to finish pretty.. Next week, tomorrow the nutrient mix will have full tilt instead of the bulkyB.
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Всем привет друзья! Был в отпуске, ни до репортов было. Куст мне очень нравится. Я его феминизирую, так как хочу вывести свой сорт с прекрасной генетикой. Всем добра и мира!
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@BudXs
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These 6 monsters are already my favorite specimens in the garden. The growth in the coco/perlite hempy's is astounding, right up there with DWC. Many of these girls have outgrown their mother which resides in 5 gallons of soilless. F11 and all is good. Environment on point, smell in check, and visiting the garden only 3 times a week. Stay tuned for some monster nuggies!!!
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@Kannamar
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06/04/23 Day 50 I'm quite happy despite the beginnings and doubts. For sure I did well to not cut the unexpected plant that germinated within the clay and get out close to the normal place with her sibling! 08/04/2023 I begin to lower the EC to 1.3, 75% light. I started with GHE Ripen.
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@Groweedo
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Bonjour, Aujourd’hui je suis hyper content la croissance explose depuis cette semaine, j’ai coupé l’apex des 4 plantes en début de semaine, une fois celle-ci développé donc ( la semaine prochaine en principe) je lance la floraison. 😎🤘🏽👌🌕
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О, да, прошла неделя, как они подросли. Шли дожди, и я их перед дождями поливал с удобрением. Я не мог их посетить раньше, так как было грязно. Поэтому расхождение в неделях, и днях не правильно, +-2-3 дня. Я их не полил, там много воды, но если днем в течение 4-5 дней будет+27°я поеду их поливать.Я буду просто их поливать . Раз в два недели полив с удобрением. Биогумус жидкий.
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Another quiet week, plants are slowly loosing lower shaded leaves as expected, luckily they aren’t growing any taller anymore. Will be surprised if no foxtails appear as the par is 1300-1400 around some of the taller colas. My lights in total are using 810w, as I have had to dim the light at the front down by 30% a couple weeks ago. DWC really is a breeze during flowering, barely any work to do, kinda miss having a reason to go in there for anything other than observing 😊 Happy growing all ✌️
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@NicoKh
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*From 11/04 till 18/04 Week 3, 12/04: i've made some topping technique to all those still that didnt and i will watering today, with only water and less quantity than last, also made some little defoliation on underparts The taller are at least 20cm. It suppose to arrive my Lumatek Attis 300w on monday and ill plug it on 12/12h already. Update! 16/04: 2 days a go finally arrived my new Lumatek Attis 300, i've also started with terravega 15ml x 5L the same day i've plugged the new light. i've put the dimmable intensity at 100% 60cm above the top of taller plants. Some a them are still little, but the bigger ones are at least 25cm, so next week gonna be 12h schedule. i've made more defoliation before de light time change and after that i'll make lollipoping when the girls gonna be more larger than now
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@BB_UK
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Ever since I turned to mars hydro I have double sometimes nearly quadrupled my yields I first had with eBay lights (meh) I have never looked back since and gained so much respect from the community and the breeders too! And to hold the sponsors I do shows me that I am doing something right and I show appreciation to all who support! And that’s why I take a different effort to be fair and document you all! Even though I’m aware your businesses I just can’t be bias when it comes to the greatest I think you all are! Thank you for choosing me! (No I’m not the only one) just showing the love back as best as I can! 💚💚💚💚💚 thank you
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@Dunk_Junk
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13cm vertical growth! Just waiting for her to explode on a couple of weeks! 😃
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@jaydee702
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Girls are in full bloom and staring to ripen .next week ill start just water flushing before harvsting after week 8 is over they are rock solid nugs makes it a long 2 weeks left lol
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Day 7 - 1 plant is a little behind but all In all everything seems to be going great! Thanks for following & happy growing friends!✌️🏼🌱 Day 8 - All is well! Happy growing friends✌️🏼🌱 Day 9 - Ladies got fed today! Still doing good! Day 10 - Getting bigger🌱🌱 Day 11 - Got water today at 6.5, One is still growing a little slow but overall going great!👍🏼✌️🏼🌱 Day 12- Really hoping the slow one catches up the others are growing quick! Day 13- Got water today at 6.5 PH, will get fed again Monday!
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10/3/2022 is officially 1 week from germination. All three plants are looking good so far. The Orange Bubblegum continues to lag the other two, but it's growing. I just watered 1 liter per plant on 10/2 and the pots are still heavy, so all I've been doing is a slight misting to keep the top soil moist. Waiting for my barley straw to show up, so I can start building a mulch layer. On 10/4/2022 the top of the soil was dry about 1 to 2 inches deep, so I watered about 1 liter across all three plants, so about 1/3 liter per plant. The bags were still fairly heavy, so this was mainly to keep the top soul moist. I've always used bottle nutrients with a dry down period, but from what I've researched, you want to keep the living soil lightly moist. I'm a bit skeptical so we will see how it goes. Using very little water in these early stages to avoid suffocating the roots (hopefully 🤞). On 10/6/2022 the pots started getting lite, so I did a full water of 1 liter per pot, using ThermX 70 and Fish Shit. Everything still looks healthy. On 10/8/2022 I added my barley straw as a mulch layer. Also, add a little less than 1/4 cup ground gnarly barley from Build-a-soil, with some worm castings as a top dress. Lightly watered to moisten the straw and top dress. Hoping the straw will slow the drying of the top inch or two of soil and prevent the light misting I've been doing. Avg. VPD: .8 PPFD: 300 DLI: 20