Welcome to Flower week 4 of Sweet Seeds Mental Rainbow F1 I'm excited to share my grow journey with you from my Sweet Seeds Project . It's going to be an incredible ride, full of learning, growing, and connecting with fellow growers from all around the world! For this Project , I’ve chosen the Feminized Photo strain Mental Rainbow F1 : Here’s what I’m working with: • 🌱 Tent: 120x60x80 • 🧑‍🌾 Breeder Company: Sweet Seeds • 💧 Humidity Range: 50 • ⏳ Flowering Time: 7-8weeks • Strain Info: 22-30%THC • 🌡️ Temperature: 26 • 🍵 Pot Size: 16 • Nutrient Brand: Narcos • ⚡ Lights : 600W x 2 A huge thank you to Sweet Seeds for allowing me to try my Best with this amazing collection from Photo Strains they managed to Sponsore . Big thanks for supporting the grower community worldwide! Your genetics and passion speak for themselves! I would truly appreciate every bit of feedback, help, questions, or discussions – and of course, your likes and interactions mean the world to me as I try to stand out in this exciting competition! Let’s grow together – and don’t forget to stop by again to see the latest updates! Happy growing! Stay lifted and stay curious! Peace & Buds!

Today is the third week since I popped them in water. I have only feed just water at the moment no nutes. I will start with Canna coco a and b and rhizotonic at half strength and see how they react. Also added a humidifier but turned it off because it seems to over water the plants. when I have it on the plants droop not sure why. But all good for now.

The time is finally here to post the harvest. I waited till it was all done and dry before updating the dairy so will add in the dry weights next on the 2nd half of the harvest entry. Had some ups and downs with this plant. mainly the extreme yellowing that was happening. I should have treated this faster with a flush but was super reluctant and I feel this has suffered in the end. The top best looking buds could have been larger and the lower ones could have been thicker. There is some smells with this plant but they are not pronounced. Just smells like mild basic weed, this would be one reason not to grow it, however, the crystals on this plant have been the most I've ever grown before. When trimming them every time the scissors snipped or the brush stroked I saw some falling down onto the tray. This plant would be great for making hash. had a good little ball of finger hash at the end of it and will be giving that to my friends to smoke or make a strong edible with. I don't plan on growing this strain out again, the lack of smells and the fact I'm only trying to grow cbd dominate plants is the main reason. If my friends really like this I have some clones so can always give them some. Speaking of clones they are doing well outside, greened up a lot and showing signs of revegging. Took some photos of the weed hang drying on day 1 in the tent and a week later to show how much they shrink. most of the lower growth is quite larfy but will make good edibles or hash, that will be a fun project to do and may include that in my projects diary. That's about all I can think of if you have any questions just ask. m0use Disclaimers: 1. I have divided the total watts of light in half, 300w(150w) for this diary. It will accurately reflect the g/w ratio as the two plants growing in this tent are listed in two separate diaries. 2. I include any shake/trim in my gross totals as I use them to make edibles. 3. I did not follow any proper ways of listing my nutrients. Some are ml/l of total solution watered, others ml/l of total medium and some are just the total amounts I added, not as a ratio. If you have any questions let me know! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Cost + Time Analysis Of Growing Cannabis. m0use’s Breakdown +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Light Schedule === Veg [Dec 18th 2021 - Mar 11th 2022] 18h on 6h off - 6am-12pm Flower [Mar 12th 2022 - May 10th 2022] 12h on 12h off - 9am-9pm This is extra tricky this harvest as I went through 2 different hydro rates in three different periods, plus a veg and bloom switch between them. Mon-Fri are TOU rates, all weekends are off-peak pricing all day. Off Peak = 7pm-7am + all weekend Mid peak = 11am-5pm On peak = 7am-11am + 5pm-7pm TOU rates: Dec 18th 2021-Jan 17th 2022 Cost of kwh with on-peak "17.0c", mid-peak "11.3c" and off-peak "8.2c". Jan 18th 2022 - Feb 7th 2022 Cost of kwh with on-peak "8.2c", mid-peak "8.2c" and off-peak "8.2c". Feb 8th 2022 - Current Cost of kwh with on-peak "17.0c", mid-peak "11.3c" and off-peak "8.2c". — Dec 18th 2021-Jan 17th 2022 Weekdays “21 days” 6am - 7am -- 1hr @8.2c/kwh off-peak 7am - 11am -- 4hr @17.0c/kwh on-peak 11am - 5pm --6hr @11.3c/kwh mid-peak 5pm - 7pm -- 2hr @17.0c/kwh on-peak 7pm - 12am -- 5hr @8.2c/Kwh off-peak Weekends “10 days” 6am - 12am – 18hr @8.2c/kwh off-peak 6h @17.0c/kwh 6h @11.3c/kwh 6h @8.2c/kwh + [email protected]/kwh weekdays/weekends — Jan 18th 2022 - Feb 7th 2022 Weekdays “15 days” 6am - 7am -- 1hr @8.2c/kwh off-peak 7am - 11am -- 4hr @8.2c/kwh on-peak 11am - 5pm --6hr @8.2c/kwh mid-peak 5pm - 7pm -- 2hr @8.2c/kwh on-peak 7pm - 12am -- 5hr @8.2c/Kwh off-peak Weekends “6 days” 6am - 12am – 18hr @8.2c/kwh off-peak 18h @8.2c/kwh + [email protected]/kwh weekdays/weekends — Feb 8th 2022 - Harvest Veg Feb 8th - March 11th 2022 weekdays “24 days” 6am - 7am -- 1hr @8.2c/kwh off-peak 7am - 11am -- 4hr @17.0c/kwh on-peak 11am - 5pm --6hr @11.3c/kwh mid-peak 5pm - 7pm -- 2hr @17.0c/kwh on-peak 7pm - 12am -- 5hr @8.2c/Kwh off-peak weekends “8 days” 6am - 12am – 18hr @8.2c/kwh off-peak 6h @17.0c/kwh 6h @11.3c/kwh 6h @8.2c/kwh + [email protected]/kwh weekdays/weekends — Flower March 12 - May 10th 2022 weekdays “42 days” 9am - 11am -- 2hr @17.0c/kwh on-peak 11am - 5pm --6hr @11.3c/kwh mid-peak 5pm - 7pm -- 2hr @17.0c/kwh on-peak 7pm - 9am -- 2hr @8.2c/Kwh off-peak weekends “18 days” 9am - 9pm – 18hr @8.2c/kwh off-peak 4h @17.0c/kwh 6h @811.3c/kwh 2h @8.2c/kwh + [email protected]/kwh weekdays/weekends — Total hours in each peak period 126+144+168 = 438h @17.0c/kwh 126+144+252 = 522h @11.3c/kwh 306+378+288+300 = 1,272h @8.2c/kwh Lights === LED’s I use are 48w and 18w, per stick, they are arranged on an array totaling 300w. 6400k 18w*6 = 108w + 3000k 48w*4 = 192 108w+192w=300w | 300w/1000 = 0.3Kw * note I am using 150w as stated in my disclaimers to account for the missing plant in a separate diary.* Using the previous c/kwh numbers above I can find out the total cost of the lamps in the 3 peak periods. I converted the cents into dollar amounts beforehand to avoid dividing by 100. 8.2c/h = 0.082$/h 438h * 0.17c/kwh = $74.46kw * 0.15kw = $11.17 on peak 522h * 0.113c/kwh = $58.99kw *0.15kw = $8.85 mid peak 1,272h * 0.082c/kwh = $104.30kw *0.15kw = $15.65 off peak The "h" hours and "kw" kilowatts cancel out and we are left with a value of $ dollars per peak period, add all the peak periods up and you get your total cost of running the lights in dollars. $11.17 + $8.85 + $15.65 = $35.67 for the grow light only. My light grew for 20 weeks and 4 days, or 144 days. almost 21 weeks total. $35.67 / 144d = 0.2477$/d average of about 25c a day in electricity 337.2kw for the entire grow. Using the regular calculation of grams harvested divided by watts used is not accurate to me, it does not account for all the time the lamps are on, the length of grow to the over all cost. The calculation that makes sense to me is this, harvested dry weight of usable cannabis buds/trim/keif/whatever in grams divided by total kw used. Could also combine it with grams per total single use costs “anything you used only for this grow and wont reuse in the next, or fractions of multi use items like fertilizers if they ½ full” and see how much you’re investing per gram. "kw" ÷ "g" = kw/g "$" ÷ "g" = $/g I have harvested 5.34oz or 151.6g on 337.2kw. 337.2kw ÷151.6g = 2.22 kw/g of usable cannabis. This is not an ideal ratio for me and looks like a lot of energy waste happened from the extended veg period. $35.67 ÷ 151.6g = 0.24c/g It cost 24c/g when comparing total electricity cost to gross yield, almost identical to the comparison of total electrical cost to the number of days in the grow 25c/day. Neat! legend, kwh = kilowatt per hour kw = kilowatt w = watt h = hour c = cents $ = dollars d = day LED= Light Emitting Diode

Overall, a quiet week. Minimal LST and some light defoliation. Will be flipping here soon. Photos/video are day 43 since breaking the soil. Supervisor in last pic!

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Chopped the first GG plant will update after it drys and I trim it. The cheese plant that isn't LST probably has another week or so maybe less. The rest have a few weeks slowly making more room in the tent. Only giving water for the rest of the time maybe some cal-mag to help the plants that at burnt (NL, both cheese).

Buds became a little darker as I wanted, the flavors perfume the air.

May 31st update Clone 1: 9 inches tall. Distinct sativa leaves. Already has 7 pointers and looks like it’s trying to push 9s. Close node spacing Clone 2: 11 inches tall. This one has been growing with the most vigor. Largest node spacing out of all of them. Sturdy stalk. Really happy with this one so far. Clone 3: 5 inches tall. This one has been growing the slowest and least vigor. Doesn’t mean much at this point but going to keep an eye on it Clone 4: 10 inches tall. Close node spacing. Widest out of all the plants. Have a feeling this one will be bushier and squatter All 4 clones: Added red wigglers to both grow boxes, this will help with aeration and compaction. Also transplanted all 4 clones out of their small fabric pots into grow boxes. Top watered boxes but from here on out will only be doing bottom watering. Just wanted to make sure soil was moist as I have been neglecting watering the boxes Parents: I haven’t done anything with the 4 parents this week except water. They are bouncing back from their last topping. I will likely top again in a week or two once they start to take off again Looking forward to this small Pheno hunt. Hoping all 4 are females but we will see! God bless!

I have began flush...so far only twice. Her leaves are changing to beautiful colors. I plan to flush until most or all of her leaves change over. Happy growing!

Day 74 Harvest time! She didn't have the best start at life, lost a major limb/side stem early on (my fault, too aggressive with LST), and got a bit stunted from stress I think. Flushed twice (once was to get her out of being stunted, it worked). Probably could have left it another couple of days as some of the lower buds were still maturing, not many though, and i needed to get her out of there so I could turn the extractor fan down to bring the humidity up for the young plants. I'm really happy with the result, especially after the small disaster that was Zkittlez (which im pretty sure was actually CBD lemon as its not potent at all). Not a big yield, would have been a lot bigger had she not lost a limb. I'm not too worried though, quality over quantity right? im pretty certain this is the best stuff i've grown so far, 5th times the charm huh? Trichomes are about 80-90% milky and 10-20% amber, first plant i've actually let get amber, so yeah, finally grew something right lol. No nutes for about 2-3 weeks before chop, and yeah 2 flushes, so im hoping it'll have a nice taste. Oh, and i didn't water for 3-5 days before harvest, which could explain why she's so light (not a lot of water weight), visually looks similar to the harvest, size-wise, yet a good 60grams lighter, will be interesting to see what the dry weight is. I'm gonna throw out a guess of 38gms. Even though she has a great smell, its not very stinky while drying, nor was it in the tent. you have to touch the buds to get any scent, pretty handy tbh. Currently drying in my wardrobe with a fan blowing underneath (not touching the buds) for airflow. Happy! EDIT: not the best trim job, im not very well at the moment so just wanted to get it done. plenty of trim that im going to use to make pain relief balms/lotions

Que grande es esta variedad, muy contento con El Progreso vegetativo de estos ejemplares. Iremos viendo estas semanas cómo florecen ya que cambiamos el fotoperiodo, la cosa os Aseguro que pinta muy bien.

Just started this one off... Not much to say so far. This is a coco grow. I started off with an amended Coco using Gaia Green 4-4-4 and power bloom 2-8-4.

I had to decrease the light intensity as the tent was cooking my ladies. Some leaves are burned but she is growing frosty small buds.

Hey everyone :-) This week it smells more and more sweet and fruity in the whole room 😍. There is actually not much to report, everyone is now under 12/12 :-). This is the last grow that comes in the entire diary. From now on, each plant will be added to the diary 👍. I wish you all a lot of fun watching, stay healthy 🙏🏻 and let it grow 😎👌

Week 17 for Gelato 41 by seedstockers, All photos were taken on 0.5x because the plant just doesn't fit in the picture frame... She's getting too big😂 I just want her to flower now i don't think i can take her getting any bigger than she currently is. Last week was another hot hot week but we are coming down to the low 30's again for the rest of the upcoming week so think the plants will be happier. Im not sure whether to just leave her be & not defoliate but at this point learning as i go along because ive never grown something so large. 😅

Hey growers! First, I harvested the foxtailing one, its drying now and will be used for making butter or oil. The rest of the plants will get one more week of clean water and, in 4 days, Im turning of the light. They will get 48h of darkness and then I will cut them down. Cant wait, it smells amazing, full of crystals and sticky as f***. Cheers!

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