The gap between where you are and where you want to be is measured in decisions, not dreams. Dopamine release is not the pursuit of happiness; it's the happiness of the pursuit. "Mens Dei" Cannabis buds can expand or swell in warmer conditions, but this is not necessarily a desirable effect. High temperatures can cause the buds to become airy and loose, reducing their density and potentially impacting potency and aroma. First 4 weeks flower, blazing hot expansion of buds, 4 weeks after cool off? Why?? What can be made to expand, airy and loose, can also be made to contract, dense and tight. Why? Trichomes do not discriminate, although we like to think of trichomes' primary purpose as being to get us high; they are there to provide photoprotection (sunscreen). Trichomes apply themselves based on area dimensions; the more area = the more trichomes in order to protect. Different from density: Trichomes, the resinous glands on plants, are often produced in response to stress, including high light intensity. This increased production can lead to denser trichome coverage on the plant, stress, stress, stress, stress is the signal. There is a certain beauty in watching the large water-filled buds once swollen to the brim slowly shrink during drying, as the surface areas contract, the trichomes just cluster up to form denser and denser coatings, already dense from high light intensities, UVB exposure, and IPS, and every other stressor I could tweak. Trichomes, the resinous glands on cannabis plants, are often produced in response to various forms of stress. These stresses can be environmental, like excess light(HIL) or UV-B radiation, temperature fluctuations, or drought, or mechanical, such as wind, pruning, or even the weight of the plant's own buds. The plant reacts to these stressors by increasing trichome production as a defensive mechanism to protect itself and its valuable compounds like THC and CBD. In essence, cannabis plants perceive stress as a threat and respond by producing more trichomes as a way to protect themselves and their valuable compounds. Several studies have shown this. Not so much a "master" grower as a master of stress. Psssst. Tip. Trichomes fill with "antioxidants," including THC. Ant"ox"idants, The production of antioxidants in plants is intricately linked to their oxidative apparatus. The plant has limited oxidative capacity/apparatus. During daytime photosynthesis, a large percentage of that oxidative capacity is tied up in protecting the plant. During the night, plants alter their metabolic pathways. This leads to a far more focused production of specific antioxidants, like THC. Plants also produce antioxidants during the day. Excess light, for example, can trigger the production of excess antioxidants as part of their defense mechanisms against reactive oxygen species (ROS). The differential ROS production by blue and IR light can have significant biological consequences. For example, high levels of ROS induced by blue light can lead to cell damage and death, while lower levels of ROS produced by IR light may be involved in beneficial cellular signaling pathways. Long nights under the IR (very low ROS), the boost in cellular respiration, and the boost in energy production. In a perfect world, I'd give the plant a shock treatment of 60DLI in 4 hours and give her the other 20 hours to perform cellular respiration under IR. The stress of those 4 hours would be rigorous and full of stress abound, 1800-2000ppm CO2 is easy for a couple of hours during daylight, it's maintaining it that's hard, but 4 hours is very doable with nothing but a little extra "carbon sugar" in your medium every other night during the first 4 weeks of flower. In my opinion, you only need to jack CO2 for those first 4 weeks of flower to see maximal output, after that it's all about trichome preservation, everything else comes second. Without the temps to assist with metabolism, CO2 is reduced to normal levels along with temps 4-5th week of flower. Buds are primarily composed of water. Developing flower buds, like other plant tissues, require a significant amount of water for growth and turgor pressure, which helps maintain their structure and firmness. Turgor pressure in plant cells is primarily generated by osmosis, but transpiration plays a crucial role in maintaining it. The optimal internal leaf surface temperature for photosynthesis at 1800-2000ppm CO2 is likely in the upper range of 97°F, meaning ambient would need to sit at 102°F-ish or thereabout for full metabolic utilization. That's putting your transpirational pulling force x5 x6 maybe x7 of what it would be if she were cruising at 68F. "My buds won't fatten, what can I do!!" Crank that bitch. If your purpose was to blow up a balloon as fast as you can, as much as you can, would you use 2x force or x5 Force to do so? Bad analogy, but you get the idea. Kiss. Optimize photosynthesis & VPD by day, cellular respiration by night. TECHNICALLY: "While transpiration and cellular respiration are both ongoing plant processes, they are not neatly separated into day and night. Both processes occur both day and night, though at different rates and with different emphasis. Transpiration, the release of water vapor from plant surfaces, is primarily driven by sunlight and photosynthesis during the day, but it also continues at a lower rate at night. Cellular respiration, which provides energy for the plant, occurs continuously, both day and night. " BUT Only 10% ATP can be processed through photosynthesis and carbon capture. 90% of ATP is processed when the plant's oxidative capacity becomes available (NIGHTTIME). Cellular respiration relies on the process of oxidation to generate energy. Specifically, the final stage of cellular respiration, called oxidative phosphorylation, utilizes oxygen as the final electron acceptor to produce a substantial amount of ATP, the cell's primary energy currency. Several environmental factors can hinder cellular respiration in plants. These include low oxygen levels, temperature extremes (both too high and too low), humidity, water stress, and the presence of toxins. These factors can impair the function of enzymes involved in respiration, disrupt the availability of substrates, or directly damage plant tissues, thus reducing the rate of cellular respiration. Factors such as oxygen concentration, glucose availability and temperature will all impact the amount of aerobic respiration an organism will perform. See you next grow, *twiddles thumbs* Signum Magnum. Signum magnum Appáruit in caelo Múlier amícta sole Et luna sub pédibus ejus Et in cápite ejus Coróna stellárum duódecim Cantáte dómino cánticum novum Quia mirabília fecit Gloria pátri, et filio, et spirítui sáncto Sicut érat in princípio, et nunc, et semper Et in saécula saeculórum, amen Signum magnum Appáruit in caelo Múlier amícta sole Et luna sub pédibus ejus Et in cápite ejus Coróna stellárum duódecim Cantáte dómino cánticum novum Quia mirabília fecit Gloria pátri, et filio, et spirítui sáncto Sicut érat in princípio, et nunc, et semper Et in saécula saeculórum, amen Signum magnum Appáruit in caelo Múlier amícta sole Et luna sub pédibus ejus Et in cápite ejus Coróna stellárum duódecim Cantáte dómino cánticum novum Quia mirabília fecit Gloria pátri, et filio, et spirítui sáncto Sicut érat in princípio, et nunc, et semper Et in saécula saeculórum, amen Signum magnum Appáruit in caelo Múlier amícta sole Et luna sub pédibus ejus Et in cápite ejus Coróna stellárum duódecim

Flush time.

Finally some decent growth after i bought another lamp (150w hps) and lollipopping the plant, today is the day i switch to 12-12 ! Wish me luck hahah

💚 ORION F1 ORGANIC DRY AMENDMENTS 💚 The plant has well exceeded my 💚 ORION F1 LIQUID NUTRIENTS

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What's up Growmies 🤟🏽. Today marks the start of week 7 overall and week 2 flowering (week 1 flowering for Caramelicious). I love indoor growing during the winter because the humidity is easy to maintain at optimal levels. My babies are thriving and all are very healthy, I am keeping an eye on Caramelicious making sure she doesn't Hermie on me and pollinate my entire tent ( it happened before). I switched to a 12 light schedule about 10 days ago and she is just now starting to preflower. I am feeding them just 1 liter of water every 3 days and they seem to do well with that schedule. Every 3rd watering I feed them plain water and give them about 1-1/2 liters (or until I see run off) I notice how the first 2 to 3 hours after watering the leaves all droop and kind of claw, I believe it's due to the plant being saturated with water and sucking up the water so it can breath o2 again. I am giving them all the "bloom and riping" mix of General Hydroponics which calls for 1/2/3 mil/gallon mixture. I mix the recommended dosage into a 3 gallon sprayer so like always they are getting 1/3 of the manufacturer's recommended dosage. I have never lollipopped any of my grows, hell I don't even defoliate, I use the tuck method and remove fan leaves as the plant matures and sucks the nutrients out of them. However just for experience and experimentation I am going to defoliate the bottom 3rd set of leaves, and get rid of some of the lower bud sites of one of my white LSD plants. Since I have 2 growing I figured I really have nothing to loose. All in all everything is going very well🤞🏽it is getting so crowded that it is difficult to take the type of pictures I want, however that is a good thing in my eyes. That is all for this week, nothing really new or exciting going on, just business as usual. I hope everyone is having a stress free grow this week, and like always, may the plant goddesses bless you all with a bountiful harvest 💪🏾

Hello, fellow growers I thank you for having dedicated your attention to my garden and I hope that the contents are to your liking and help for your growth.

Over all it was a hell of a ride, but a good one. My first grow ever learned so much and still learning. Started with 4 plants ended with 3. One of them was mutated or something during veg so decided to pull. This strain grew strong and thrived the whole time. I learned a lot about ph and air flow and VPD still learning and trying to find that sweet spot! I loved getting to know these girls it’s crazy how plants talk to you! Also watching these girls flower and bloom! Into some sweet sticky dank yummy nuggs was amazing such a good feeling! Emm Over all I’m happy with 3 oz ready to keep on growing more and learn to get a better yeild! Super thankful and happy growing

My girls are going perfect no stress at all I hope for big collas Ty for coming to my post Love <3 Wating 3 days with nutrients and 4 days clean wateer Ph always 6.5 Rhino and Sensi cal mag x every day about 0.20 ml per day at this momment i water about 800ml to 1 l water every day per plant :D

Her second week in flower and she’s doing great. Waiting for the stretch, she’s so short and bushy! Lol. She’s a fantastic plant and brings me joy for sure.

This plant was a pleasure to grow, with cola buds dense and encrusted, and a problem free first grow. Seem to have gotten an OG dominant pheno with nice gelato hints of flavor and color; the citrus zest may or may not come out in the finished product, for me it is faint. Hope to grow this strain again in the future, definitely head-stash potential so my remaining steeds will be going in the vault. I let it hang dry a bit too long, but they’re currently a week into the cure at about 59% RH. My next grow will probably be the same set up, but improving on it with the experience I’ve gained through this process. I hit my 10 Oz total yield goal I’m pretty satisfied with my techniques and strain choice. Get this strain if you want an easy, high potency indica with impressive yields and good flavor. I’ll also be dry sifting the (tons of) sugar covered trim from both of the plants to press into resin, so I encourage y’all to take advantage of all that the plant provides. Cheers

Have her a big defoliating to allow light to the bud sites and to reduce humidity in the tent , she took it well and is growing really fast still. The smell is very old school skunk type smell at this point

This is just for the gorilla zkittlez so far I will probably try to put all 5 on here but started 2 about 45 days apart from each other and the 5th seed about 3 weeks after the 2nd round. The 5th seed died from transplant shock (won’t be transplanting autos anymore) but the 2nd round of 2 plants just started flowering. I got 85 grams from the zkittlez and 60 grams from the afghan kush after drying. Not great but I’m happy it’s smokeable and smells/ tastes good. starting 2 bloody skunk today (5/11) because the gorilla cookies never germinated unfortunately :( . all out of seeds now so i will be maknig an order this week. still have 2 more strains to figure out when flowering kicks in more tho so that will be my fun for the next 1-2 months lol

Bewässerung: 1500 ml jeden 2 Tag in der Siebten Woche pH-Wert: 6.2 EC-Wert: 1,4 mS/cm Temperatur: 23ºC Luftfeuchtigkeit: 45% Schädlingsbekämpfung: wir werden die Gelben Aufkleber gegen Thripsen und Trauermücken verwenden. Dann kommen noch 1 Beutel Raubmilben an jede Pflanze und Nematoden in den Boden. PPFD: 800 µmol/m²/s DLI: 34 mol/m²/Tag Düngemittel: Diese Woche bekommen sie von unserem Mineralischen NPK(3,5-6-6) Dünger + einen Boost von Canna PK 13/14, etwas Plagron Green Sensation und natürlich weiter etwas CalMag von BioBizz zu Prävention Besonderheiten: ab Dieser woche wird nur noch entlaubt das LST ist Abgeschlossen und sie Stretchen sich. Zur Steuerung der Ventilatoren und Lampen Benutzen wir GHome Smart Steckdosen diese lassen sich über eine Handy app Programmieren. Die Ventilatoren laufen 1 stunde und dann pausieren sie 1 stunde und so den ganzen Tag im Wechsel. -Tag 51 Beide sind nun richtig in der Blüte, man kann aber jetzt schon klar erkennen das die Runtz #2 kompaktere Budds bildet als die Runtz #1, aber die Runtz #1 wird sicher mehr ertrag geben. Sehen aber soweit beide Gesund aus und bekommen Heute wieder eine gute Portion Dünger :) In ca 4-5 Wochen wird voraussichtlich geerntet. -Tag 53 Heute haben wir wieder beide etwas entlaubt damit die unteren Buds mehr licht bekommen und etwas wachsen, Es wurde auch wieder Dünger gegeben und wir haben die Dosis etwas erhöht. -Tag 55 die Buds werden immer besser und Grösser, beide sehe sehr toll aus. Sie wurden beide wieder etwas entlaubt damit sie mehr licht bekommen :) Heute wurde wieder eine Kontrolle gemacht um zu schauen ob es anzeichen von Männlichen Blüten gibt oder mann sonst ein Defizit erkennen kann.

Cette semaine diminution des nutriments, la semaine à venir c'est le rinçage. La récolte dans moins.d'une semaine. J'enlève les feuilles jaune au fur et à mesure.

Girls are looking a little better now they are settling into flower , Exodus cheese seems fast and smelly. Blackberry gum is really stacking on weight , the double kush cake seems a little slower.