Day 67. Today I will be harvesting as I am out of space and other plants have out grown their tents. The mixture of smell as you open the tent is like a kid in adolescent without deodorant, just dank. When you smell them individually the purple haze is a really sweet and fruity smell. As for the ztrawberriez it's difficult to put my finger on it but it have fruits and citrus.

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Day 78. Everything is looking good. I will be adding Potassium in the next weeks since I’m growing with LED and the strains I chose aren’t geneticaly compact buds. Hopefully it will make a heavier yield and more Compact buds. I replaced Terpinator for Rezin from the same company Green Planet. Fed them full, 4 L - 4.5 L ( 200 - 700 ML runoff ) Day 79. Letting them do their thing till the next feeding. Day 80. Buds getting bigger heavier and stickier. Day 81. Fed them full, 4 L - 4.5 L ( 200 - 700 ML runoff ). Had a little problem today and temptures rised yo 35-36 C (usually at 27-30). Fixed it and they showed no sign of damage yet. They smell really good and strong but different between eachother. Day 82. Huge Growth in buds showing, Buds got alot Bigger. Letting them do their thing. thinking of feeding them a PH Water Feeding to flush them out clean. Day 83. Tempatures and humidity are on point. Nice air circulation going on and everything seems good. Fed them full, 4 L - 4.5 L ( 500 ML - 900 ML runoff ) Day 84. Next feeding will be 6.0 Ph water nothing else with 15-20% runoff to flush them out.

This grow will likely last > 30 weeks. Since GD only supports 30 weeks of diaries, this "week" will actually last two weeks. Daytime high 99 102 Nighttime Lows 81 83 8/6/2022 - Day 190 8/7/2022 - Day 191 8/8/2022 - Day 192 8/9/2022 - Day 193 8/10/2022 - Day 194 8/11/2022 - Day 195 8/12/2022 - Day 196 8/13/2022 - Day 197 8/14/2022 - Day 198 8/15/2022 - Day 199 8/16/2022 - Day 200 8/17/2022 - Day 201 8/18/2022 - Day 202 8/19/2022 - Day 203

OK, it is bloomingtime. Everything is fine.... I hope.... but it seems so.

Tall, frosty, loud, fluffy, promising.

The stretch I experienced this week has me questioning what a stretch really is anyway, cause I've never seen one like this 😅 ...starting to get a little worried with the tent size though... again, amazed with the structuring of this plant. Comparing to other growers who are doing different fast buds strains, definitely not the same for them. True test will come later into flowering!

I have finally realised that this experiment is horribly going side ways at the moment, however I wonder if it is due to the Winter season, growing outside or in my makeshift greenhouse, (when I say makeshift I mean, recycled plastic sheets, pallets, etc, I think all that aside, my forth cycle is going to memorable… currently I lack grow lights and fans, luckily I made my greenhouse self ventilate, though I am waiting for August(AwwDust) the windiest time in South Africa, if it remains standing and still self ventilating, I would consider it a victor.) growth would be slower than the warm seasons. To make conditions even harder, I do not have grow lights currently however an obstacle that I’ll correct, going for solar lights and solar fans, electricity tariffs are booming, luckily I use rain water stored in a 1000lt tank, no one is complaining water consumption, I feel like people don’t stress the cost of growing, if you don’t pay the bills and you want to become a grower, look for cheaper methods of growing, like for now… I am going to use the sun as my main light source, will get fans to induce positive stress.

definitely a tough plant because she's had it a little rough. Starting to see a deficiency or maybe excess not sure but Any suggestions appreciated. Probably a little tiger bloom this week. Just ordered cal mag and pH up down. She really streaching this week.

So far so good the girls are thirsty af with 24/7 so im giving about 2.6L every 2 days per Plant

July 27: she’s starting to preflower so I’m going with phyto-forcing using a 730 nm light for a few seconds at dusk each night. This puts plant into dark mode two hours faster so it’s like getting two more hours of darkness making it a 26 h day. Good trick, and super easy. July 30: video showing how I make my lazy compost tea. Best plants in four seasons of outdoor growing so it definitely works. A similar commercial product would be Recharge which has molasses, Humic acids and bacteria. Aug 1: plants always look super healthy after a round of compost tea.

She reached peak maturity in around 65 days. Beautiful plant but the most captivating thing is her terpene profile. It is very very sweet berry aroma almost artificially prominent. I’m truly curious how are these buds going to smell in a few weeks after drying and some curing.

Another hot week and adding pk top to the feed schedule after a few fan leaves getting some slight brown spots middle of leaves. Flowers putting on plenty of weight.

Great after the mold issue during clone. Recovered good and nice yeild 4.4 Oz tops and mids 3.8 g of rosin and a few Oz of trim to process but man is this stuff good

Progress from last week some of the pictures/videos are 2 days apart you should see the difference in them all in all a busy week so short and sweet happy flowering

Growth has slowed after the House sitter issue but I’m just gonna let her take her time. I Think that she’s about a week behind. She was also getting too close to the lights which I believe started to stress her. I rigged them up higher and i'm sure it we will coast right into harvest from here. This strain is awesome, I've seen that it's not considered easy to grow and I can tell shes fussy but she definitely tells me what she needs and what's wrong. She reeks of very pungent lemon with a hint of skunk.

Week 17, week 7 of flowering Using only water, plants started to fade. Pouring a bit more water than usual to start rinsing the pots, will give a good flush at the beginning of the last week. Lemon Cream Kush is reaching the stage of making pineapples buds, from seeds to harvest this strain is definitely amazing. Moon Walker Kush, is shining like a full moon in the night. Just by looking at the frostiness you can definitely tell it is highly potent. Adding a Mars-Hydro FC 6500 in the back. Willing to rebuild the room fully equipped with commercial lighting equipment, smash that Follow button, trust me, next crop is going to be epic 😎