The Grow Awards 2026 🏆
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@Kirsten
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26.12.24: I have noticed light stress on my plants. I had moved the lights further away and increased the light intensity to 70%. Unfortunately that created some issues. Namely severe palour of the leaves. To try and rectify the situation, I've dimmed the lights to about 30%, staying at the same distance, about 30 inches away. I measured the par levels, after I did this. They should a reading of anywhere between 40 and 150, at the canopy of the plants. They are all different sizes. This seems to have improved the colouring on all plants. After this evenings watering, I will monitor recovery and increase lighting intensity again slowly. I am also using the light cycle of 21/3, so the plants have many hours more light to absorb, than for example 12/12 or 18/6. I am pleased with the progress, considering all of my mistakes! 29.12.24: So I finally gave LST a shot, it's probably a bit too late, however I really want to get the most of the triploid pheno, and I went a little crazy and LST'd all plants except 2, as they're too small. I did that late last night, this afternoon I was amazed to see the plants turn their leaves back to the light source. I'm glad I overcame my fear of trying it. I'm very excited to see them adapt and progress! 😁 there are videos above with before and after of my LST process. Thanks for checking out my diary 🍃 ✌️
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@Jaschkoo0
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More growth and one time nutriens the week.
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Fire bud in 11 weeks looking forward to testing this by next week be Curing out in the vault in the end :) simple living soil brand Black Swallow KIS Living soil and their bloom top feed plus Dynomyco mycorrhizae 🔥 Thank you again Fast Buds for Sponsoring this journal experiment. Indoor organic farming keep it simple and get back what you put in thank you :)
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Everybody is looking happy and healthy. Applied cover crop to Glueberry OG and regret not doing the rest now. No signs of stress
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Day 78. Girls are missing food a lot, but i always love to underfeed them, taste ten times better at the end. My QB just burned Mag out of leaves, those branches exposed to most intense light - suffer most. But its not my first rodeo with them, so i am totally calm. Funny, i got some Clover seeds pop out ... when i brought last predators, they were kept between seeds and now i have mini Nitrogen boost ;))) i know that its only couple plants in each pot, i know that soon i won't need N at all, but still funny aftermath. Everything else on cruise control since my air system update i have to water every 30 l pot with 4-5 liters every two days, usually it was four ... They bulk up and looks like it will be high quality bud, let's see ... ! Happy Growing !
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Strain. Purple punch 💜 Breeder. Seedstockers🐿️ light. Mars hydro ts1000💡 soil . biobizz lightmix 👊 nutrients. biobizz grow 🌱 biobizz heaven Growing really well she's been topped and I shall veg her for at least another 2 weeks !! 📢📢 UPGRADED to the MarsHydro ts1000 EFFICIENCY WHITE LED GROW LIGHT: Newest SMD LED technology provides highest PAR/LUMEN output(743umol@18"), designed to replace a single-ended 250watt HPS/MH; MARS HYDRO TS 1000 growing light makes you get 30% higher yield compared OLD blurple led lights, Max 2.0g yield per wattage (power draw). LOWER RUNNING COSTS & HIGHER YIELDS: Actual Power 150W with 342 LEDS! It saves up to 50% energy than other led grow lights. Perfect for 80x80CM, Max Coverage 100x100CM. Over 90% light energy can be absorbed by plants; higher intensity and more even coverage in a MARS HYDRO reflective grow tent, or by crossing over using multiple TS1000. SUNLIGHT FULL SPECTRUM LED GROW LIGHT FOR WHOLE GROWING STAGES: 760nm IR/660nm Red/5000k blue/3000k warm white light. Infinite close to natural sun light, TS1000 suits for all plants whole stages indoor growing, rapid plant response from seed to flower, achieving maximum quantity and high-quality yields . CUSTOMIZED GROWING NEEDS WITH UPGRADED DIMMING DAISY CHAIN: Newest TS series growing lights support multi-lights connection up to 15 lights for your various growing needs and stages; TS1000 light auto sensing power supply works on both 120VAC, 230VAC and 277VAC, suits for Large Rooms and Commercial Setups. HIGH REFLECTIVE & NOISE FREE DESIGN: High reflective hood, noise fanless free TS series grow light. Quickly aluminum heat dispersing material increases light intensity up to 20%, reducing light lost to aisles and walls, allowing your plants receiving more energy without burning your plants in maximum headroom Shes up and running 💚🙏😊 Thanks @marshydroled
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Growing some seeds I won from Diary of the Month here on Grow Diaries!!! I'm so grateful and excited for another learning experience doing what I love! Thank you, FastBuds! 🙏 Seed was germinated directly in Rapid Rooter placed in a seedling tray. I put her in darkness for 48 hours and then in a sunny window. Three days later, the seedling's little head poked up and the next day she showed me her first true leaves - calling this day 1. I kept the seedling tray in a sunny window and brought her outside for lunch on my sunny deck with me for the rest of the week. Given the heatwave we were having here, I got her settled into her net basket sooner rather than later so that she could have a more stable environment. This plant will is being grown indoors in an 2x4x8 Gorilla Grow Tent using an 8 gallon Current Culture Solo Bucket under California Lightworks 550 Solar System LED. For grow media I am using clay pellets and I use the entire Cultured Solutions line of nutrients. I will be showcasing this plant in a grow tutorial over on my YouTube channel and IGTV where I am going to show a detailed walk through of how I grew my original "Budzilla" plant. Unfortunately, I don't have a grow diary for her, but she is featured on my IG account. The technique I use I created after harvesting my first grow. I had used low stress training on an autoflower and achieved beautiful results. I took notes the entire grow and conducted a postmortem. I sincerely advise doing this for EVERY grow - especially when you are learning. It provides you opportunity to figure out what went right, what went wrong, what could have gone better, and what ideas you think you can toss into the mix to try to improve on the places that need revamping. I did this and I came up with the hypothesis of starting my plant off-center in the net basket, and then growing it low and in a spiral around the outside. In my head, I thought something like this could really push the limits of low stress training, especially when used on an autoflower where we have a limited time of vegetative growth. I didn't realize, at the time, JUST how effective the technique would be, but when the grower community on IG exploded over the sight of my plant, I started to get a feeling a did something right. As I was still only growing my second plant in my entire grow career, I was completely oblivious to the fact that I had pushed the normal boundaries of an autoflower.... I had nothing else to really compare it to. Nearly a year later, photos of my Budzilla are still being shared around social media in the grow community and I still get asked regularly about how I grew her. And with that, we start here on the journey to attempt the recreation of my former masterpiece. But I'm taking it one step further and giving you a detailed, step-by-step guide so that even the newest of growers can follow along and learn how to push an autoflower to its beautiful edge. Plus.... It's really freaking cool to bonsai a plant 😎. Anyway, please feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel! The link is in my bio! I am updating as I go along! Thanks for growing with me! ✌️💜🌱🙏
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01/01/2022 Potting up and amending with 5-2-4 to give a little kick before mid flower #6 is first girl to show herself, also got two different males and only difference is that one is lighter green and other darker green (also dark green one seems to drink more than lighter green) 💚. Other than that structure is very similar I wonder which is a better breeding male? I guess I might pollinate and LABEL TWO BRANCHES ON each female one for each male. and find out.🙏🏻 01/06/2022 #3 showed today, reppoted and into flowering closet, along with#6,who showed earlier this week lights at 14-10 see how they respond to that schedule, which should help use up the 5-2-4 going into week 3 should help with her stretch. Which isn't really that much I believe maybe double her current height, which I will check at lights on.Week ,#3 if I think of it I'll give a good fungal dominant tea.
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@Rfulton1
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Started flowering these from seed 1-1/2 weeks after germination. Buds are kind of airy but it is nice quality. Gonna move in a month and start a new grow with purple urkle and walking dead!
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Flowering – First week with focus on compactness Papaya Sunrise, despite the smaller initial size, showed excellent expansion during the last two weeks of growth. Plant indicative of a compact genetics with strong indica dominance. Close internodes, wide leaves and presence of pre-flowers already after 72h from the switch. 📊 Growth setup: Humidity: 58% Average temp.: 26.5°C VPD: 1.0 EC: 1.35 mS/cm Irrigation: 2x/day, digital timer with constant pressure 💧 Nutrition: Full Advanced Nutrients administration in progressive dosage. The plant also received Extreme Garden Myco and humus on the surface, followed by irrigation only water. 🧠 Notes: The general behavior is stable. No signs of excess, living and well colonized substrate. Ideal plant for the development of dense flowers. Partial defoliation has ensured lateral ventilation, and in the next few days additional branches will be placed under the net. 🔧 Next steps: possible insertion of Eco Bio Booster + molasses from day 10, with observation of stretching and general vigor.
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Not much happening when this one just started for fun hehehe.
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well the C1 is coming along very nicely , i managed too bend over the top stem using trainer wire , This week I had too change my lighting too 600 true watts of kingbo dual optical LED range due too the temps getting closer too 30c than I would like , and by doing so I have now got a constant temp of 27c lights on and 18c lights out Update day 5 week 3 Well as you can see from the pics this week has had alot of growth and even showing signs of pre flower and it drinking alittle more than the others Update , Day 6 of week 3 this lady is well into pre flower now the growth tip formation is looking like early flowers and I wouldn't expect her too grow leaves now , Really cannot fault these kingbo led lights they produce large plants in a short space of time and gives nice thick and dense buds ,
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This plant was the first of the 4 to come up, it also basically exploded out of the shell in the germination process. While she was still in water I could already see green leaves lol. She’s really plugging along. This is a cross made by a friend of mine and is the first time it’s being grown.
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Watered 50 Gal fresh plain PHed water, ppm was around 2100 so if the 50 gal doesn’t dilute it enough then I will vac out the remaining water and rinse out the totes to get the salt/sandy particles off the bottom. I noticed the 2 mars 1600 leds are not getting light evenly to all the canopy so for my next crop I will be getting 2-6’ light rails and stagger the lights as they move, at 5-15 watts each they should be more efficient than getting 2 more 630watt leds. Also next crop I will be downsizing my scrog to a 7’ x 7’ giving me a 1’ perimeter for working & admiring 🙏🤤
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Starting to smell very Nice the purple haze looks beautiful really nice to see different bud shapes between different strains
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OSS Cheese XXL 🔹⊱╮🔹╰⊰🔹 GROW Started 03.10.24 INFORMATION 🔹╰⊰´🔹⊱╮🔹 🌞Environment - Maintaining 80F and 65%Humidity 🌾Training - These ladies are Pruned and Defoliated and ready for flower. ⚱️2-Gallon 📊6.2 PH 💧 Feeding - Using Horti Grow 8-11-21, Bloom 5-15-26, Late Bloom 0-24-26, Cal 12-0-0 🌞Medic Grow Smart 8 760 Watts 🕷️ IPM - CannControl from Mammoth and Mosquito Bits as needed 🔹⊱╮🔹╰⊰🔹 GROW Started 03.10.24 INFORMATION 🔹╰⊰´🔹⊱╮🔹 🌞Environment - Maintaining 80F and 65%Humidity 🌾Training - The girls are recovering from last week's Pruning and Defoliation, ⚱️2-Gallon 📊6.2 PH 💧 Feeding - Using Horti Bloom and Horti Cal 12-0-0 🌞Medic Grow Smart 8 760 Watts 🕷️ IPM - CannControl from Mammoth and Mosquito Bits as needed 🔹⊱╮🔹╰⊰🔹 PLANT UPDATES 🔹╰⊰´🔹⊱╮🔹 📝 Notes - On 🗓️05.11.24, This week, we are on Auto-Pilot and just Fertigating as needed; the ladies are stacking up nicely, and the leaves have grown back not sure if it is the genetics or the new nutrients; I would like to see less and will evaluate if more defoliation will be needed. 📝Fertigation injects fertilizers into an irrigation system to supply dissolved nutrients to crops. 🗓️05.11.24 Just feeding daily, sometimes twice; today, fed with Hort-Bloom @ 2.7 GRMS Per Gal and Horti-Cal @ 2.5 GRMS Per Gal. 🗓️05.12.24 Just feeding daily, sometimes twice; today, fed with Hort-Bloom @ 2.7 GRMS Per Gal and Horti-Cal @ 2.5 GRMS Per Gal. 🗓️05.13.24 Just feeding daily, sometimes twice; today, fed with Hort-Bloom @ 2.7 GRMS Per Gal and Horti-Cal @ 2.5 GRMS Per Gal. 🗓️05.14.24 Just feeding daily, sometimes twice; today, fed with Hort-Bloom @ 2.7 GRMS Per Gal and Horti-Cal @ 2.5 GRMS Per Gal. 🗓️05.15.24 Just feeding daily, sometimes twice; today, fed with Hort-Bloom @ 2.7 GRMS Per Gal and Horti-Cal @ 2.5 GRMS Per Gal. 🗓️05.16.24 Just feeding daily, sometimes twice; today, fed with Hort-Bloom @ 2.7 GRMS Per Gal and Horti-Cal @ 2.5 GRMS Per Gal. 🗓️05.17.24 Just feeding daily, sometimes twice; today, fed with Hort-Bloom @ 2.7 GRMS Per Gal and Horti-Cal @ 2.5 GRMS Per Gal. ╰⊰🔹╰⊰´🔹⊱╮🔹╰⊰🔹╰⊰🔹STRAIN INFORMATION🔹⊱╮🔹╰⊰🔹╰⊰🔹╰⊰🔹⊱╮ Cheese XXL cannabis seeds are a unique blend of Afghan Kush x Super Skunk, producing the most pungent dank weed. Cheese XXL is the third commercially available edition released by Original Sensible using and developing these Afghan and Skunk genetics. The first release of these genetics was their Skunk Afghani. The second improved version was Stinkin' Bishop, which had an enhanced and more potent THC content and was more intense in terms of smell. The third and improved release on a similar theme is this Cheese XXL, which has a similar THC content but an enhanced heavier yield. The smoke is incredible, with an outstanding flavor of pungent skunk and spicy, extra strong mature cheese created by the dominant terpene myrcene with its earthy solid scent accompanied by caryophyllene and pinene, which combine to create a peppery acrid cheesy odor. THC levels are exceptionally high in this Cheese strain, and the effect is well-balanced, developing mental and body relaxation with a remarkable alleviation of stress and depression. The intense solid aroma starts early in the flowering period; if you're growing Cheese XXL indoors, you'll need plenty of ventilation to disperse these babies' stinky "road kill" aroma! Cheese XXL is a cheese strain suited to indoor setups and thrives outdoors well. These feminized marijuana seeds are incredibly resistant to mold and disease and produce a substantial harvest that professional and amateur growers can quickly achieve. These Cheese weed seeds are outstanding. Break open the buds ready for use, and you'll see why the stench will make your eyes water! Cheese XXL from Original Sensible Seeds is a great choice to break into the commercial market of growing cannabis, so if you're looking to buy something special with extreme yield, potency, and flavor, Cheese XXL cannabis seeds are simply the best choice.
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Well I accomplished what i had set out to do, I have a IBL "In bread line " S1 feminized pile of seeds and a little bit of feminized pollen to chuck around and make a Frankenstein strain of my own. I really have to start my grows earlier to beat the heat in SoCal at the end it was to hot in the tent I wanted to go an extra week for the seeds to mature but I have more than enough ripe ones. this grow was more of an experiment that a controlled by the numbers operation. but I'm happy I got what I was looking for. cheers GD community Addendum so after a few weeks and more deseeding I took the 150g of popcorn buds and all the shake from the seeded buds about another 150g and made some bubble hash. I used the T check meter and this is on average 10% THCa considering the plant spent most of its energy and resources making seeds I am not surprised by its low THC level. I will hang on to the beans for now and the next round will be some AUTO's maybe at the first of the year when its cooler. total hash in grams 30g the math seems to work out on the return of 300g 10% is 30g there were 2 hash balls no pictured weighing 6g total. 25micron 73 and 120 might press the 120 and the 25 gonna save the 73 for special occasions. be safe all until next time.
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Caught up... things are going well, Bruce stretched like crazy and has evened up its canopy to the others idk if it's that big bud in it or what. Lilac has looked a solid week and half ahead of the others since flower, she looks wicked though, trichromes are starting to build. I've done my last training, I usually go hard on thinning but I'm trying to be conservative and only uncover buds under leaves. Still same feeding routine.. looking forward to the finish line but know this is an important time with terms and trichromes beginning to resonate... I sick at this guy's but I want to get better at chronicling my grows.. so hourly I will improve in the process of Journaling.
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Del 20 al 26 de julio Cambio de sala y todo tira bien (un poco de calor). Ayer quitamos alguna hoja y los brotecillos bajeros más pequeños. Ahora mismo está en un armario de 0.8×0.8 m, 3 tiras led Grow the jungle de 15w, un deshumificador VDL y un ventilador. Tenemos puesto el extractor VRK para la salida y ahora mismo la intraccion es pasiva. En principio la dejaremos ahi una semana más hasta que coja más altura pero bueno, ya se verá. jejeje 21 de julio Realizamos riego en tierra con 1l. 1 vitamax + 2.5 Bud fuel pro + 2 bloom fuel + 0.16 Mammoth P + 0.3 silica power PH : 5.7 Th20 : 24.5°C Ec 1ms 22 de julio A este paso tal vez la semana que viene pasemos a flora, los brotes están entre 10 y 20 cm. Buscamos que el brote más corto este entre los 20 o 25cm para pasar a flora. Las temperaturas siguen bastante altas a pesar de que estamos a unos 28°C de media, esperemos que llueva pronto Jajajaja 23 de julio Riego foliar con tierra de diatomeas como preventivo. 24 de julio Por un lado, se nos han quedado restos blancos de la tierra de diatomeas pero nada grave, la retiramos con un pincel y dejamos que el resto haga su función. Hoy realizamos riego , probamos los pollitos azules Riego con 1,5l aprox de agua + 0,08g de vegetative growth booster de grotek. PH 5,6 EC 0,2ms Th20: 23,5°C Dicen que estos polvos tiran muy bien, veremos que tal. 26 de julio Hoy ponemos el quemador de azufre a funcionar por unas 5h como preventivo. Seguimos en las mismas de siempre, quería pasarla a florecer mañana pero visto lo visto le daremos una ulimta semana para que obtener un buen tamaño. Eliminamos algunos sumideros y hacemos un riego foliar con Delta nueve usando 4,5ml•l. Temperaturas sobre los 27°C y humedades entre 55/65% Hemos visto algunas marcas de carencia de calcio Asique esta semana iremos subiendo los nutrientes.