The Grow Awards 2026 🏆 
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@TheoRehtisch
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Week 3 - It’s Friday again, and that means a new update!
Today’s update comes a little earlier, at least in terms of time. It’s been an exciting and eventful week in the grow tent, with a lot of progress and key changes taking place.
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Key Growing Parameters
-Humidity: 60%, reduced to 50-55% today
-VPD: Max 1.4
-Airflow: Always active at level 1, auto-adjusts when needed
-Day Temperature: 25-26°C
-Night Temperature: 22°C
-Light Cycle: 20 hours light / 4 hours dark
-Lamp: IONBOARD S24 from AC Infinity (240W)
Watering Schedule:
-Day 14: 600ml
-Day 16: 600ml
-Day 18: 700ml (with full BioBizz nutrient dosage)
-Day 21: 1 liter
-Nutrients are applied with every watering
Light Adjustments:
-Started at 60 cm distance, intensity level 6
-Increased to 75 cm distance, reduced intensity to encourage stretching
-After pre-flowering began, gradually reduced distance and increased intensity:
-70 cm distance, intensity level 7
-65 cm distance, intensity level 8
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Watering and Nutrient Adjustments
On Day 14, I increased the watering amount to 600ml per plant, marking the beginning of more intensive care. Alongside this, I started regulating the water’s pH to 6.5 to ensure the plants were receiving the best conditions for growth. At this stage, I also introduced nutrients into the watering routine, but I began cautiously, using only half of the recommended dosage of BioBizz nutrients to see how the plants would react.
By Day 16, the plants received another 600ml of water, and since they responded well to the first dose of nutrients, I increased the nutrient concentration to 3/4 of the recommended dose. The plants continued to thrive with no signs of stress, and they appeared to be absorbing both water and nutrients efficiently.
On Day 18, I increased the watering amount again, this time to 700ml per plant, while applying the full BioBizz nutrient dosage for the first time. The plants showed no adverse reactions, and the soil remained moist even 48 hours after watering, indicating the plants were getting sufficient hydration without any issues.
As we progressed through the week, I established a pattern of watering the plants 2-3 times per week, depending on how quickly the soil dried out. I’ve continued to use the full nutrient dosage with every watering, as the plants are now in a more advanced stage of growth and require more resources to support their development.
On Day 21, after closely monitoring the moisture levels, I decided to increase the water amount to 1 liter per plant for the first time. This adjustment came at an ideal moment, as the plants are now in the pre-flowering stage and seem to be taking up more water and nutrients.
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Adjusting Light Intensity and Encouraging Stretching
At the end of last week, the light was set at 60 cm distance, but the plants appeared shorter than expected. To encourage vertical growth and stretching, I decided to increase the distance to 75 cm and reduce the light intensity. The goal was to stimulate the plants to reach upwards. This adjustment seemed to work well, as I noticed increased height in the plants as they stretched toward the light.
However, once pre-flowering began around Day 18, I shifted the strategy. I started gradually reducing the light distance and increasing the intensity to optimize conditions for the flowering phase:
After the plants stretched, I reduced the distance from 75 cm to 70 cm and increased the intensity to level 7
Finally, I lowered the light to 65 cm and increased the intensity to level 8
These changes were made over 24-hour intervals to ensure the plants adapted smoothly. They responded positively to the adjustments, with no signs of light stress.
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Signs of Pre-flowering and First Scent
On Day 18, I noticed the first signs of pre-flowering. Several plants have begun to show small pistils, indicating that they are transitioning into the next phase of their life cycle. This timing aligned well with the increase in water and nutrients, ensuring the plants have everything they need to support their upcoming flowering stage.
In addition, over the last 3-4 days, I’ve begun to notice a distinct smell when opening the tent. As a beginner, I’m still not sure if this is the smell of cannabis itself or just the scent of young plants in general. Since this is not only my first time growing cannabis, but also my first real interaction with it, I find myself a bit uncertain and naïve when it comes to identifying the typical smell. So far, I can’t really tell the difference in smell between the Gorilla Cookies and Amnesia Zkittlez plants.
However, I am noticing the first differences in growth behavior. While the Gorilla Cookies had a height advantage at the beginning of the week, the two previously smaller Amnesia Zkittlez plants have now outgrown it. The Gorilla Cookies is growing more bushy and compact, while the Amnesia Zkittlez is starting to spread outward and gain height. It’s interesting to see these early variations between the strains as they move into the pre-flowering stage.
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Personal Reflections and Lessons Learned
It’s fascinating to see how much I’ve learned in just a few weeks of growing. Every adjustment—whether it’s with the light intensity or watering—has a direct impact on the plants, and I’ve become more aware of how sensitive they can be to their environment. As a beginner, it’s exciting to realize how flexible the plants are in adapting to the different conditions I’m testing out. The responses to the light adjustments, in particular, have shown me how much control I can have over the plant’s development, even with small changes.
This journey has been a humbling experience, reminding me that growing plants isn’t just about following steps, but also about observing and learning from the plants themselves. Every day brings new insights and challenges, and it’s incredibly rewarding to see these changes reflected in the health and growth of the plants.
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Looking Ahead
In the next week, I’ll continue to monitor the pre-flowering phase closely. I expect the water and nutrient demands to increase even more as the plants transition into full flowering, so I’m preparing to increase the watering amount to 1.2 liters per plant soon. I’ll also be keeping an eye on the structure of the plants, especially the differences between the Gorilla Cookies and Amnesia Zkittlez. I may begin defoliating some of the lower leaves to give the plants more room to breathe and allow light to penetrate deeper into the canopy.
There’s a lot of excitement ahead as the flowering phase approaches, and I’m eager to see how the plants respond to these new stages of growth. I’ll also be paying attention to how the aroma develops, as this will be another clear sign of progress!
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Conclusion
As I wrap up this week’s update, I’m excited to see how the plants will continue to develop, especially as they enter the flowering stage. With each passing day, I’m learning more about their needs and how small changes in the environment can have a big impact. The next week will be crucial as I adjust the watering and nutrient amounts to match their increased demands. I’m also looking forward to seeing how the differences between the Gorilla Cookies and Amnesia Zkittlez strains evolve in both structure and aroma.
If you have any feedback, suggestions, or questions, feel free to leave a comment—I’m always open to learning from others and improving along the way. Let’s grow together, and I can’t wait to share next week’s progress with you all!
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@LadyGreen
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Transplanted into the 5 gal smart bucket. Branches seem to be growing again. All main branches are tied down now, will take clones from the lower banches this week.
But the red stems are worrying, I think she's stressed from repotting but I will wait and see. But the yellow new growth I will have to keep an eye on and do some reading.
I was considering repotting to a 5 gal smart pot because I have the space but should leave it a while so she can recover.
Thinking about what to do for flowering lights. don't know if low end LEDS might be a better option the cfls I have now.
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@Fibro_Witch
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I finally got them in the garden! It was a trip getting out there, so they don't look the greatest because they're stressed. I made a video explaining almost everything except I forgot to mention that I added about 5-10% Biochar in with the Fox farm potting soil. Also, the row cover will protect them from pests.
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@Frosty_farm
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She's doing pretty well but it seems like her buds are not fattening fast. I added some new advanced nutrients supplements so we'll see how this week go. How will I know
When to do the week flush with plain water? I have no idea, I guess that will be my research for this week. Day 95.... still waiting on my portable microscope, should be here by tomorrow. Praying to the BUD God's for her buds to fatten up. Is it possible to harvest half of a plant? Day 97.....buds are getting a bit fatter. No complains, everything is perfect with this girl
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@Comfrey
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Plant is 21 cm high because of low stress training. The length of the stem is 34 cm.
Day 43
☁️🌧️☁️🌧️⛈️ 14 - 17 degrees, humidity is about 72 %
I prepared some simple comfrey manure for the next weeks of flowering. It‘s rich in silica and tannins and essential minerals. Mostly all fruit vegetables and flowers like it, so Tropicana will have it as a tee or head fertilization, as well as in her water mixed 1:20 and 1:5. Same procedure like with tomatoes or peppers. No watering in the next days. The soil is soaked with rainwater.
The growth is a bit slow in the last cold and rainy days but the flowers look nice.😊
Day 44
☁️☁️🌥️☁️🌥️ 14-20 degrees and humidity is around 64 %
Day 45
⛅️☁️🌧️☁️🌧️ 13-21 degrees and humidity is around 69 %
The flowers started to stack. The soil is too moist but I can‘t change here a lot. Don’t need too water in the neuerer Future and aafe water for late summer. Think when I can drink my next relax tee - take same leafs. Now Tropicana needs all of them for transpiration. Heavy pots. Too wet springtime. 🌧️☔️
Day 46
☁️🌥️⛅️🌤️ 13-19 degrees, humidity is falling. Windy. The flowers are stacking up. 🐞🐞 did their job and left. With them the mites disappeared (hide). But I found some eggs under the leafs off all three of my cannabis plants. So I will have an eye on this… balcony problem! Wait some more days and bring a couple of 🐞 again. Found some magnifying glass and it suits with my camera lens.
Day 47
🌤️☀️🌤️ 11-22 degrees, humidity 89 % and getting even higher this night. Took out two leafs.
Day 48
🌤️🌤️🌤️ 17-23 degrees, humidity 89-43%, falling!
Tropicana got a liquid breakfast this morning made out of two liter rainwater with 20% ready comfrey manure which is rich in silica and tannins and essential minerals. Be careful with liquid manure as you should have experience in giving high doses. Never more then 20% of the watering on moist soil and never give it pure and after the water. It will burn the roots. This is very fresh, only one week old and not too concentrated. Next week I will give maybe 10%. So, we just enjoy a sunny morning with a healthy breakfast and coffee! 😊
Day 49
⛅️☁️🌥️ 10-20 degrees and humidity is 91%. Tropicana got thirsty. She drinks more, 0-5-0,75 liters rainwater. I will never use black pots again, too warm soil on the sunny side and the water evaporates faster. I‘m quit lucky with my new hobby and with my beautiful Tropicana. Time for a relax tee. Took some leafs off plant no. two and three.
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Grow-Report – Blütewoche 1 (Tag 1–7)
Strain: Neon Runtz (Wizard Trees)
Medium: Coco, 15 L Stofftöpfe
Lichtsystem: Spider Farmer G4500 + UV/IR-Supplement Bars
Steuerung: Spider Farmer Controller + Meross WLAN-Steckdosenleiste
Lichtzyklus: 12/12 (18:00 – 06:00 Uhr)
Grow-Philosophie:
• Die ersten 2 Wochen der Blüte werden als Stretch-Phase betrachtet
• Trichomen-Beurteilung ab Woche 10
• Ab Woche 8 kein Dünger mehr bzw. nur noch in minimaler Dosierung
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Düngung
Basisdünger:
• Emerald Harvest Grow/Bloom + Cal-Mag
• Dosierung: +0,25 ml/L über Schema
Zusätze:
• PowerZym (Hesi, enzymatisch): Unterstützt Wurzelhygiene & Substratabbau
Gießverhalten:
• Tägliches Gießen mit ca. 30 % Drain
• pH Gießwasser: 5,8 / Drain: 6,1
• EC Gießwasser: 2,0 / Drain EC: konstant bei 1,3 → sehr gute Aufnahme
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Lichtsteuerung – Supplement Bars
IR-Licht (Spider Farmer Bar):
• Aktiv: täglich 06:00–06:30 Uhr (30 Min nach Hauptlicht-Aus)
• Funktion: End-of-Day-Treatment zur Unterstützung der Phytochrom-Umstellung → gezielter Stretch
• Beobachtung: Erste Anzeichen von Internodienstreckung ab Tag 4, keine Überdehnung
UVB-Licht:
• Aktuell deaktiviert
• Geplanter Einsatz ab Blütewoche 6 zur Steigerung der Trichomenproduktion
• Steuerung erfolgt getrennt über Steckplatz mit Zeitschaltung (z. B. 20:00–22:00 Uhr später)
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Pflanzenzustand & Entwicklung
• Pflanzen zeigen aktives Wachstum, Aufrichtung nach Lichtstart
• Keine Mängel oder Blockaden erkennbar
• Drainwasser ist klar, Wurzeln vital (unterstützt durch PowerZym)
• Geruchsentwicklung gering, aber sichtbar beginnender hormoneller Umschwung
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Ausblick auf Woche 2
• IR-Licht leicht reduziert (z. B. auf 15 Min gegen Ende der Woche)
• Vorblütenentwicklung und Struktur der Seitentriebe im Fokus
• Düngeschema bleibt stabil
• UVB bleibt weiter deaktiviert
• Beginnende Wuchsberuhigung wird beobachtet → Übergang zur generativen Phase
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@eldruida_lamota
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Que pasa familia, hemos vuelto para actualizar las skunk que ya tenemos cosechadas.
Que gran genética, y muy típica entre fumadores de hierba, un crecimiento más indico pero floración lenta bastante lenta, en teoría se supone que es Sativa, 17% thc en la tas con un tamaño medio pequeño pero flores mi compactas y dulces, un cultivo ni fácil ni difícil, sin más, bastante neutral para los cambios climáticos algo sensible con el aspecto alimentación.
La recomendaría en verdad, sobre todo para aquellos amantes del dulce.
Nos vemos en próximos proyectos fumetillas
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@GRow_M8s
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During week 7(bloom) like corona lock down wasn't enough we had major weather change. Temp dropped significantly and humidity levels increased to 70%(outdoors RH).
As far this goes on it is necessary to use a strong dehumidifier inside tent for half an hour every 2 hours as once the lights are off the humidity climbs 65%+ without it.
Feed remained the same.
GG# 1 looks like most of its pistils are orange so in the end of the week I ll have a look with the microscope and might start flushing it.
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@Susquihanna
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I was surprised to see that Miss Mango didn't grow as much as my Gorillas Cookies. However, Zamnesia website says: "This plant stays close to the earth, only reaching 2.5ft indoors and around 3.2ft outdoors. " So, it would make sense as to why Miss Mango is shorter than her peers and very wide.
It is going to rain a lot this week according to the forecaster, so I will have to keep a watch on Miss Mango.
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@ChefSpliff
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Only week 2, so nothing exciting yet but the seedlings obviously are surviving the hardest part lol. I cant wait till these start booming in a week or so. Ive heard they grow fast as hell. Im excited to grow these autos right here. Looking strong. I will be LST right when the first true leaves grow in well to maximize yield as much as possible. Wont be topping it.
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8/29 Knowing I was going to have to yo to the hospital er again this morning with my wife I got up early and watered. We are supposed to get an inch of rain tomorrow but the bags were totally light. If I was going to be around I might've held off watering. Instead I watered everything one gallon and figured the rain will make up for the other 10 percent hopfully that will do it.
8/30 Rained overnight. Plants were soaked. Flowers are swelling. I defoliated a shit ton of yellow leaves the other day. I still don't think I have anything fungal but I'm keeping an eye u e out and am considering doing an application of plant doctor. We are suppised to get an inch of rain tonight and tomorrow I guess. My biddy said i shouod cover my plants because next week is going to be "great growing weather" but with the rain and then the sun it could be a recipe for disaster since I have some large flowers. I got my father's leaf blower running but it was leaking gas. Brought it to the repair shop and a buddy let me borrow his for thus storm. I and hit the plants with it this morning. It is super strong though. I need to be careful not to blow it right out of the bag!!! Or break branches. Of course after u left it started raining lightly. A nice rain that plants like but it's stopped. I'm wondering if I should go over and blast them again to keep them dry but I know it's going to rain off and on and it'd going to rain tonight. I'll check the weather and decide from there. So far things are going good. Still have some yellowing leaves and a few normal pests but that is to be expected.
UPDATE: Stopped raining so I went over
and shook off the plants then put the leaf blower to them. I made sure to get the interiors before I went and had shook things again by hand. Storage us low bur i took a video. Cant upload toll tomorrow. Buds are growing at an insane rate but im losing some fan leaves that just yellow and die. Im sure its senescence but its still wortisome. We are supposed to have a real good week of growing weather coming so I hope that doesn't change. I'll update tomorrow. That leafblower works awesome though.
8/31 Went over to an extremely sunny windy morning. I didn't even need to shake plants or use the leaf blower since I did it after it Rained last night. I'm worried the wind night dry my bags out today so I'll be sure to keep an eye on them. I defoliated a shit ton of leaves but apparently it's just senescence. I need to check the last time I fed. Trich development is going good. The smell was incredible this morning! Each strain has its own unique smell to it. We are supposed to have a real good week for growing so I'm looking forward to it. May do a preventative plant doctor app but I think it will be alright. I'll keep this updated.
UPDATE: Went over around one and plants were bone dry. The wind was RIDICULOUS! I added a few individual stakes and tied a couple loose branches. I got my tarp out and considered covering the cagecto protect from the wind. However I didn't have time to sanitize if and they had already been through it all night and day alwuth no breakages. Plants are strong and supported well. At least I hope. Plus the tarp would block the rest of the direct sun the plants are getting right now. The wind looked like it dud its worst and the trellis and supports held. I did add extra supports higher up the plant to prevent breakages. Found a moth larvae (yellow) and squished him. Also found some aphids but a few lady bugs and three lady bugs larvae so I think I'll be OK. I am really excited for this year. Flowers are really exploding! FORGOT TO PUT THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. WATERED EVERYTHING TWO GALLONS EXCEPT THE 10. WHICH GOT ONE.
9/1 Forgot my phone on the daY I really needed it. It rained last night. The wind was the strongest i've seen in years. I would've tarped the cage but i couldn't find any of the bungee cords or zip ties. Probably good I didn't. No breaks. One plant had dark brown splotches ALL over the leaves! I picked them all off and took pictures and will consult my commercial buddy. I researched and asked a question on here. If it's septoria or something that could ruin my gorgeous garden I'd rather just junk the plant. It's big but it's the furthest behind flowering and I would not be heart broken if I had to get rid of that for the others. This week is supposed to be the best week we've had all summer so I'm expecting major growth. I'll update after conferring with other growers and making a decision. Looking online it seems like it could just be lack of nutes with the co dictionary we've been having. It IS time to feed and I haven't been feeding much. We'll see what he says.
UPDATE: AFTER RESEARCH AND CONSULTING WITH OTHER CONMERCIAL GROWERS I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A NUTRIENT DEFICIENCY. I READ THAT RAPID TEMP FLUCTUATIONS AND HIGH WINDS CAN EFFECT THINGS LIKE THIS. IT DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE SEPTORIA (WHICH I'M EXPERIENCED WITH). I WAS THINKING ABOUT DOING AN APPLICATION OF PLANT DOCTOR BUT SINCE IT WAS SO FEW DAYS DURING THESE CONDITIONS IM GOING TO WAIT AND MONITOR THE PLANT. I DEFOLIATED ANY LEAF THAT WAS SUSPECT. FOUND AND KILLED A BUD WORM. I THINK THEY ARE STILL DIEING FROM THE BT. IT WAS LIKE STRETCHING UP FROM THE TOG OF A BIG NUG LIKE, "HERE I AM COME OUT ME OUT OF MY AGONY." ALSO FOUND LADY BUGS AND BEETLES AND THEIR LARVAE. IVE SEEN TGE VERY LOWER SECONDARY BRANCHES GET STRIPPED ON A COUPLE PLANTS BUT THATS WHY I LEFT THEM THERE. IF THEIR ARE EARWIGS THEY CAN HAVECTHE SHIT THAT I WAS GOING TO LOLLIPOP ANYWAY BECAUSE THATS WHAT THEY USUALLY GO FOR. THEY ARE DEFINATELY STRAIB DEPENDANT TOO. THEY LOVE ANYTHING BLUEBERRY BUT DONT TOUCH THE REST. MAYBE THERE IS JUST A COUPLE IN "THAT BAG". ILL HAVE TO GO AT NIGHT AND CHECK. IM EXCITED. MY FLOWERS ARE EXPLODING IN SIZE AND TRICHOME PRODUCTION. SEEIMG THAT I THINK THIS IS A NUTRIENT ISSUE AND MY FEEDING DAY WAS TODAY I FED EVERYTHING 1.75 PINTS OF NUTRIENT MIX TO EVERYTHING BUT THE 10 GALLON WHICH GOT LIKE 3/4 OF THE POWERADE BOTTLE. PLANTS SEEM HAPPY AFTER I FEED SO MAYBE I SHOULD UP THE FEEDING SCHEDULE. SINCE THE SOIL WAS ALREADY MOIST AND IT RAINED YESTERDAY I FED WITHOUT WATERING. HOPFULLY THAT WILL BE OKAY. I'VE DONE IT BEFORE.
Went back over at six and WOW! After this nice sunny day buds have swollen. Plants seemed to love the nutes. I think the nutes in my soil are fairly depleted so I just needed to adjust my feeding schedule. I didn't notice anymore calcium deficiency looking spots and I had defoliated a lot of leaves. Super excited moving forward. Pistols are changing color on one 10th p phenome and retracting into buds. This is is the fun time. As long as I can avoid the rot.
9/2 Says it didn't rain last night but my plants are dripping wet. If course the leafblower kept dying so I had to shake everything by hand. Hope that's good enough. Gonna be real sunny. Bags still had some heft to them. I'll check them later. Found a few leaves with what looks like the calcium deficiency on the sane plant and I just removed them. I really don't think it's anything to worry about. I'll update later.
UPDATE: Went back around 10 and everything looked good and was dry. Brought the leaf blower to be fixed. Should have it by the end of the day. Found and killed another pillar and some ants. Took a picture of a lady bug/beetle. This sunshine is making my buds explode!! I was thinking about checking again tonight but I think I can wait and water tomorrow. Bags are still fairly heavy. I did take another couple leaves off the plant that lopks like it might have a deficiency or something. The stalks are bigger than the bottom of a baseball bat. A couple almost like the fat end. Some 9f the best plants I've grown. I also took three short videos of a plant of each strain. Maybe if it's short it will upload quicker. Happy growing! UPDATE: I was back and forth today. I did some pruning and defoliation and then I noticed that my canary was light as hell. I waited until night and went back and had a couple starting to droop so i watered everything 2 gallons except the 10 and tub got 1. Everytime I see them it seems like they are bigger
9/3 Used the leaf blower this morning to get the dew off the buds. I shook them by hand before that. I'm noticing like a little army of lady bug larvae so any aphids I have are not going to be a problem. I have adults as well but is the babies that eat 10x what the adults do. I'm hoping they'll wipe put any bud worms. The weather is great this week all sunny. Making the buds explode in size and increasing terp production. This is the strongest smelling cannabis I've grown. Each strain. Has its own unique "funk" to it. Purple punch is really sweet and floral smelling. 10th planet is more gassy. I need to get some yellow sticky traps. I saw a couple fungus gnats on my canary. A late blooming blueberrycheese. It's the one that dries out the fastest but is more sativa leaning and drinks TONS of water. I have two that are that phenome. Losing yellow leaves but exploding with flowers. Noticed a couple more leaves with that calcium deficiency looking leaf. I just defoliated it. I'm really happy where I'm at right now.
9/4 Plants were covered in water this morning and the leaf blower wouldn't start. I shook everything off by hand. Each strain hasits own STRONG unique scent. One tenth planet phenome smells like bubble gum. I think I've got like two weeks and some of the flowers on ONE plant should be done. I'm planning to take the top half and then letting the bottom mature longer of its not whete I want it to be. The weather has been gorgeous. Sunny today. I'll need to water tonight I'm sure. UPDATE: WENT OVER AT 3PM AND PLANTS WERE DRY. WATERED EVERYTHING 2 GALLONS BIT THE 10 AND THE TUB. THEY GOT ONE. FLOWER DEVELOPMENT IS VISIBLE FROM MORNING TO NIGHT. I HAVE A TENTH PLANET THAT I BELIEVE WILL BE READY FOR HARVEST (AT LEAST THE TOPS) WITHIN A COUPLE WEEKS. PISTOLS ARE RETRACTING AND TURNING ORANGE ON THIS PHENOME AND RED ON THE OTHERS. I AM LOVING HOW THIS STRAIN LOOKS GROWING. I HAVE REAL HIGH HOPES FOR IT. I FAILED TOO MANY TIMES UPLOADING THE VIDEO AND PICTURES I TOOK SO ILL DO THAT TOMORROW. I CANT BELIEVE THE SWELKING GOING ON AND THE AROMA! THIS IS SUCH A WONDETFUL YLTIME OF YEAR. STILL FIND8NY SMALL SPOTS OF WHAT LOOKS LIKE CAL DEFICIENCY IN THAT ONE PLANT. IM STILL UNCERYAIN WHWT TO DO WITH THAT ONE.
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Great week. I went back to 24hrs of light to keep the environment steady, because I put a few babies in there. She stretched about 10 inches and has a lot of bud sites. Pretty satisfied with the new nutes all my ladies seem to be soaking it up.
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We successfully completed week 8 and things are starting to get interesting. The buds have grown significantly in size over the last days and the smell has gotten much stronger. I think I also need a new air filter… The leaves did some coloring in the past week which makes this beauty look even more handsome. I optimized the air intake of my tent this week by replacing my one 100mm tube with two 130mm 3d printed light traps so breathing is much easier now and the vent can run a bit less fast.
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Hell guys 👋 ☘️❤️🔥😊
- 1st day of flowering for Lava Cake (26/8)
- Expect Critical all the other flowers show their genders with the first white hairs.
- New pot 10lt for Ak
- Day 24 and LLST (Lazy Low Stress Training)
- No nutrients Biobizz at all so far.
- 1st day of flowering for Frosted Guava (31/8)
Cheers everyone ☘️❤️🔥😊
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So langsam fangen beide Phenos an zu riechen. Pheno#1, die etwas größere Pflanze mit kleineren Buds, riecht leicht nach dem typischen Runtz Geruch und etwas doller als Pheno#2 mit sehr großen Buds. Beide Pflanzen sind schon gut frosty.
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Day 71, 26th of November 2020:
Beautiful isn't she? Purple colour appears.... so nice! The other Kaini the normal does not show any sign of purple colour unfortunately.
Not much to report. The leaves started getting lighter hopefully they ain't gonna just die so quick.
Fertilization is the same like before with exactly the same ratio and mixture above.
The lamp is on 11.15 min and off 12.45 min.
Last week was 15 min longer light cycle....
So every week 15 min shorter light cycle until the 5th week. So far -45 min. It switches on at 6 am and off at 17.15 pm.
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Week 4 (12/12 from seed, veg phase)
Quick clarification before we continue:
Last week, while putting the reports together, I mixed in a few photos that actually belong to this week. That one’s on me — I went with the flow and didn’t double-check the dates as carefully as I should have.
To keep everything clean and accurate, this update resets the timeline properly. From here on, photos and notes will match the correct week so everyone can follow the run clearly and confidently. Thanks for the understanding — now let’s get back to the girls 🌱
Quick recap for newcomers (Week 4 – 12/12 from seed)
Where we are
• Week 4 of vegetative development
• Light schedule: 12/12 from seed
• Plants are still fully in veg behavior (no true flower yet)
What defines this stage
• Structural building phase
• Root mass expanding rapidly
• Branching patterns being set
• Energy focused on framework, not buds
What we’re seeing
• Excellent vigor
• Balanced nutrient uptake
• No visible deficiencies or toxicity
• Genetics expressing clean morphology
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What to expect this week
• Continued vertical and lateral growth
• Slightly faster node stacking
• Plants preparing hormonally for pre-flower
• Leaves staying broad and healthy
• Training responses (if any) remaining gentle and controlled
What not to expect
• No real flower formation yet
• No heavy stretch just yet
• No need for aggressive defoliation
• No panic adjustments — stability is key here
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