🌱 Week 2 – Purple CousKush Auto | Pheno B | Building the Foundation
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another chapter of my 8×8 Adventure, where every seed gets the opportunity to tell its own story.
This diary follows Purple CousKush Auto – Pheno B, and while her sister surprised me with an unusual mutation during the first weeks of life, this lady has chosen a different path. She is developing with beautiful symmetry, strong vigor, and exactly the kind of structure that makes a grower smile every time the tent opens.
Every phenotype teaches something different, and that’s exactly why I enjoy documenting them individually.
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🌿 Week 2 Development
This week has been all about establishing a strong foundation before explosive vegetative growth begins.
From the very beginning, Purple CousKush B has shown excellent vigor. Her internodal spacing remains tight, the stem is becoming noticeably thicker, and every node is producing healthy new shoots with vibrant green growth.
The leaves are broad, healthy, and reaching confidently toward the light, showing no signs of nutrient deficiencies or environmental stress.
Compared to last week, the increase in biomass is obvious. She has transitioned from a small seedling into a young plant that is now preparing for the next stage of development.
Everything looks balanced.
Everything looks happy.
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🌱 Beginning Low Stress Training
This week also marked the beginning of her first Low Stress Training (LST).
Rather than forcing the plant into shape later, I prefer to begin gently while the stems are still flexible.
The main stem has been carefully bent, encouraging the plant to redistribute auxins away from the dominant top and toward the lower branches. This simple technique allows more growing tips to receive equal light while keeping the canopy flatter for the weeks ahead.
One thing I always appreciate about LST is that it works with the plant rather than against it.
There is no cutting.
No high-stress recovery.
Just gentle guidance.
Even after the initial bending, she responded beautifully. The side branches immediately began reaching upward, showing exactly why this training method has become one of my favorites for autos.
Watching a plant adapt within hours never gets old.
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🌿 Plant Health
Overall health continues to impress.
Thick central stem
Strong lateral branching
Excellent leaf color
Tight internodal spacing
Healthy vigorous new growth
The foliage remains lush without appearing overly dark, suggesting that nutrition is right where it should be.
She’s developing into a compact but powerful little bush that should have no problem supporting a heavy canopy later in flower.
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🌍 Environment
The entire room continues to provide an ideal environment for vigorous vegetative growth.
Temperature, humidity and VPD remain within the target range, creating stable conditions that allow each phenotype to express its genetics without unnecessary stress.
Consistent airflow keeps fresh CO₂ moving throughout the canopy while strengthening stems naturally, and the lighting continues delivering an even PPFD across the entire garden.
Healthy roots create healthy plants, and maintaining environmental stability is just as important as choosing the right nutrients.
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🌱 Nutrition
Purple CousKush Auto is growing in Plagron substrate, receiving the same carefully controlled feeding schedule as the rest of the 8×8 project.
This run is built around the Plagron nutrient line, supplying everything needed for healthy root expansion and vigorous vegetative growth while avoiding unnecessary excesses during these early weeks.
Rather than pushing rapid growth, my goal is to establish a strong root system first. Healthy roots become healthy stems, healthy stems support healthy branches, and healthy branches eventually become beautiful flowers.
As always, balance beats excess.
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📸 This Week’s Observations
One of the things I enjoy most is comparing sisters grown under identical conditions.
Same room.
Same lighting.
Same nutrients.
Same environment.
Yet every plant still develops its own personality.
While Pheno A became the little rebel, Pheno B is showing textbook development, responding perfectly to gentle LST and already building the structure that should carry her through flowering.
Both are beautiful.
Just beautifully different.
That’s the magic hidden inside every seed.
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🌿 Looking Ahead
Over the coming week, I’ll continue adjusting the LST little by little, allowing the secondary branches to rise evenly while maintaining a low, open canopy.
The goal isn’t simply to make the plant shorter.
The goal is to create an even platform where every future cola receives equal access to light and airflow.
For now, there is no need to rush.
She’s exactly where she should be.
Healthy.
Strong.
Growing with confidence.
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Thank you to Plagron for providing the foundation for this grow, Zamnesia for helping make this incredible project possible, and Grow Diaries for giving growers around the world a place to share, learn, and inspire one another.
And thank you for following another week of this 8×8 Adventure. Whether a plant follows the textbook or decides to write its own chapter, every phenotype has something to teach us—and that’s what makes this journey so rewarding.
Growers Love and see you all in Week 3. 🌱💚