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🌿 Week 11: Frosty Heights & Real Talk (Flower Week 6) First off, apologies for the slight delay! Usually, I drop these updates on Monday, but I was out celebrating my 25th birthday yesterday and, well... let’s just say things got a little out of control, haha! But I'm back in the tent now, and the girls didn't seem to mind the extra day of peace. Welcome to Week 11. We are deep in the flowering phase (Week 6), and the tent is looking like a winter wonderland. But let’s keep it real – while the frost is insane, it hasn't been a "perfect" run since it’s my first experience with living soil. Here’s the honest breakdown. 🛠️ The Big Defoliation & Adjustments The canopy got so thick that I had to perform one last major defoliation. I removed a significant amount of the large fan leaves that were shading the lower bud sites. It’s always a tough call this late in the game, but it was absolutely necessary to get that light penetration down to the secondary colas and improve RH. Combined with raising the entire tent to save the tops from light stress, the environment is now much more balanced. If you look closely at some of the upper leaves, you can still see a bit of "tacoing" (curling edges) from the previous light intensity and buds on the top of the sweet spot are not very well bulked because of heat stress by light. I caught it likely and the "scars" remained. 🌱 Organic Struggles & Success The "Autumn Fade" is hitting harder than I expected. The remaining fan leaves are yellowing quite aggressively. In living soil, this usually means the nitrogen is running low what I read as the plant focuses everything on the buds. I’m letting nature take its course, but I’ll keep an eye on it to make sure they have enough gas to reach the finish line. • The Scrog Management: My canopy isn't perfectly level. I have a few "underdogs" getting shadowed by the main colas even after the defoliation. It’s a lesson for next time – I need to be even more aggressive with LST early on to keep everything in one uniform plane. 📊 Stats & Environment: • Genetics: Banana Purple Punch Auto (FastBuds) • Status: Bulking phase. • RH: Dropped to 45%-40% – absolutely critical now to prevent any bud rot in these dense clusters. • Temp: 22-26°C. • Aroma: A heavy mix of tropical fruit sweets and gassy undertones. It’s not a catalog grow, it’s a real grow. The "girls" are finishing strong despite the big hiccups. Thanks for riding along with me growmies, one love! 💜🤜🏼🤛🏻 Wondrej
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So frosty now. And the smelll... so stinky. Citrus and gas.
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Start of week 14 (Day 49) 9/20/25 Fed with water 9/20/25
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Day one of this week entailed me going to the hydro shop, grabbing so blue sky organics super soil, some 1 gal fabric pots and off I went. I always pot my soil then water the pots down and wait 24 hours for everything to acclimate so as to not shock my seeds. I germinate straight into the soil. I will post more pics to beef up this week! I will be planting 2 fastbuds orange sherbet beans, 1 in a 1gal fabric pot and 1 in a 3gal from the bucket company.
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Finally we are done, I spent one 10 months on Durban Poison, this is my best sativa strain and im absolutely in love. So next report will be with some Clones of Durban Poison.
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Pretty solid start for this week, all the plants took just one day to recover from the last session of training and they are showing new vigorous growth already. 1st day fed them with my usual secret mix of organic good stuff Day 32, 4th day of week 5. Babies recover at max speed so I can continue to top and train them to achieve the wanted structure. They already show signs of flowering hormones telling me that when I want to flip, they are ready. Day 35, last defoliation of the week and I think also I will do just another defoliation right before flippin to flower
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Big lady, what a wonderful bush full of sweet and fat black cherry punch flowers I'm growing man, I'm so happy to be able to grow this strain 2 phenos are a little small but very sticky and full of quality, super sweet aroma very fruity, I love this strain, I hope to be able to select some phenos with this genetic in the future, very recomended guys!
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Day 37 - March 18, 2021 Ladies are looking good and healthy. Not much to report today. Just watching them grow Planning to take clones from rest of girls this weekend / over the next week. Watering: 02:00AM-2:30AM ~1 Gallon Water 10:00AM-1030AM ~1 gallon per pot Gave foliar spray (9:00AM): * 1 Gallon RO Water (EC 0.08) * 10ML CalMag+ per Gallon * 0.5ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize * PH 6.0 * EC 1.19 Reservoir 1: * tested 10:18PM * 2.01 EC * 5.5 PH * 70.7F * ~10-11 gallons * No Topping Off * Added 8ML PHup to raise PH from 5.5 to 5.8 Reservoir 2: * tested 9:50PM * 2.06 EC * 5.5 PH * 69.44F * ~10-11 gallons * No Topping Off * Added 8ML PHup to raise PH from 5.5 to 5.8 Lights: * Gavita LEDs On 20-hours (8:00AM - 4:00AM) ** 8:00AM Lights On (100%) ** 9:00AM (reduced intensity from 100% to 50% to give foliar spray) ** 11:00AM (Increased intensity to 65%) ** 12:00PM (Increased intensity to 80%) ** 01:00PM (Increased intensity to 100%) * Gavita LEDs Off 4-hours (4:00AM - 8:00AM) * UV Bars Off 24-hours Air control: 69F-75F (70F AVG) (Lights On) 66F (Lights Off) 45%-60% (56% AVG) humidity (Lights On) 60% RH (Lights Off) ~1181PPM CO2 (Lights On) ~740PPM CO2 (Lights Off) Day 38 - March 19, 2021 Did a little more training with tie downs today (F2,F3,F4,F6,F7,F8). Didn't have time to get to F1 and F5. Water reservoirs drop ~0.1 PH every watering. Considering converting over DTW for quality of life change. Plants have been responding well with current setup, is just starting to require daily adjustments to PH. Watering: 02:00AM-2:30AM ~1 Gallon Water 10:00AM-1030AM ~1 gallon per pot Gave foliar spray (9:00AM): * 1 Gallon RO Water (EC 0.08) * 10ML CalMag+ per Gallon * 0.5ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize * PH 6.0 * EC 1.19 Reservoir 1: * tested 11:30PM * 2.00 EC * 5.6 PH * 69.44F * ~10 gallons * No Topping Off * Added 6ML PHup to raise PH from 5.6 to 5.8 Reservoir 2: * tested 9:50PM * 2.07 EC * 5.6 PH * 69.44F * ~10 gallons * No Topping Off * Added 6ML PHup to raise PH from 5.6 to 5.8 Lights: * Gavita LEDs On 20-hours (8:00AM - 4:00AM) ** 8:00AM Lights On (100%) ** 9:00AM (reduced intensity from 100% to 50% to give foliar spray) ** 11:00AM (Increased intensity to 65%) ** 12:00PM (Increased intensity to 80%) ** 01:00PM (Increased intensity to 100%) * Gavita LEDs Off 4-hours (4:00AM - 8:00AM) * UV Bars Off 24-hours Air control: 69F-75F (71F AVG) (Lights On) 66F (Lights Off) 45%-60% (54% AVG) humidity (Lights On) 60% RH (Lights Off) ~1287PPM CO2 (Lights On) ~780PPM CO2 (Lights Off) Day 39 - March 20, 2021 Didn't do much with the ladies today. Spent most of the time in the room reconfiguring watering system as DTW instead of recirculating. New configuration using a single 20-gallon reservoir for watering and two separate 20-gallon reservoirs to collect runoff. Prepared new reservoir with the following: 20-gallons RO Water (0.08 EC) CalMag+ - 5ML per gallon Mills Nutrients Vitalize - 0.5ML per Gallon Mills Nutrients Basis A - 15ML per Gallon Mills Nutrients Basis B - 15ML per Gallon Mills Nutrients Start-R - 4ML per Gallon H2O2 - 10ML per gallon * Added 25ML PHup to bring PH to 5.8 from 5.1 * EC 2.51 * PH 5.8 Watering: 02:00AM-2:30AM ~1 Gallon Water 10:00AM-1030AM ~1 gallon per pot 11:00PM-11:15PM ~0.5 gallon per pot Gave foliar spray (10:00AM): * 1 Gallon RO Water (EC 0.08) * 10ML CalMag+ per Gallon * 0.5ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize * PH 6.0 * EC 1.19 Reservoir: * tested 10:30PM * 2.51 EC * 5.8 PH * 74.48F (Had water jugs sitting outside so temp is a little high. Temps are gradually falling and expect they'll normalize by morning) * ~20 gallons * No Topping Off (Fresh Reservoir) Lights: * Gavita LEDs On 20-hours (8:00AM - 4:00AM) ** 8:00AM Lights On (100%) ** 10:00AM (reduced intensity from 100% to 50% to give foliar spray) ** 12:00PM (Increased intensity to 65%) ** 1:00PM (Increased intensity to 85%) ** 02:00PM (Increased intensity to 100%) * Gavita LEDs Off 4-hours (4:00AM - 8:00AM) * UV Bars Off 24-hours Air control: 69F-75F (69F AVG) (Lights On) 66F (Lights Off) 45%-60% (55% AVG) humidity (Lights On) 60% RH (Lights Off) ~1227PPM CO2 (Lights On) ~845PPM CO2 (Lights Off) Day 40 - March 21, 2021 Light chores in the garden today. * Light pruning: Cleaned up small leaves at the bottom of the canopy not able to receive any light. Also removed a few large fan leaves smothering nodes at top of canopy. * Topped off reservoir with additional 12-gallons. ** CalMag+ - 5ML per gallon ** Mills Nutrients Vitalize - 0.5ML per Gallon ** Mills Nutrients Basis A - 15ML per Gallon ** Mills Nutrients Basis B - 15ML per Gallon ** Mills Nutrients Start-R - 4ML per Gallon ** H2O2 - 10ML per gallon ** 1.25ML PHup per gallon Watering: 03:00AM-3:10AM ~0.33 gallons per pot 11:00AM-11:10AM ~0.33 gallons per pot 7:00PM-7:10PM ~0.33 gallons per pot Gave foliar spray (9:00AM): * 1 Gallon RO Water (EC 0.08) * 10ML CalMag+ per Gallon * 0.5ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize * PH 6.0 * EC 1.19 Reservoir: * tested 10:00PM * 2.46 EC * 5.8 PH * 69.26F * ~20 gallons * Topped off with 12-gallons Lights: * Gavita LEDs On 20-hours (8:00AM - 4:00AM) ** 8:00AM Lights On (100%) ** 9:00AM (reduced intensity from 100% to 50% to give foliar spray) ** 10:00AM (Increased intensity to 75%) ** 11:00AM (Increased intensity to 100%) * Gavita LEDs Off 4-hours (4:00AM - 8:00AM) * UV Bars Off 24-hours Air control: 69F-75F (70F AVG) (Lights On) 66F (Lights Off) 45%-60% (57% AVG) humidity (Lights On) 60% RH (Lights Off) ~1293PPM CO2 (Lights On) ~800PPM CO2 (Lights Off) Day 41 - March 22, 2021 Just another day of watching the grass grow. Increased CO2 slightly to keep above 1200PPM. Also slightly adjusted A/C schedule to bring temps up to 78F-80F during lights on and 66F lights off. Turned humidity down slightly to keep it closer 50%. * Topped off reservoir to ~20-gallons. ** CalMag+ - 5ML per gallon ** Mills Nutrients Vitalize - 0.5ML per Gallon ** Mills Nutrients Basis A - 15ML per Gallon ** Mills Nutrients Basis B - 15ML per Gallon ** Mills Nutrients Start-R - 4ML per Gallon ** H2O2 - 10ML per gallon ** 1.25ML PHup per gallon Watering: 03:00AM-3:10AM ~0.33 gallons per pot 11:00AM-11:10AM ~0.33 gallons per pot 7:00PM-7:10PM ~0.33 gallons per pot Reservoir: * tested 9:30PM * 2.50 EC * 5.8 PH * 69.26F * ~20 gallons * Topped off to ~20-gallons Lights: * Gavita LEDs On 20-hours (8:00AM - 4:00AM) ** 8:00AM Lights On (100%) * Gavita LEDs Off 4-hours (4:00AM - 8:00AM) * UV Bars Off 24-hours Air control: 69F-75F (75F AVG) (Lights On) 66F (Lights Off) 45%-60% (59% AVG) humidity (Lights On) 60% RH (Lights Off) ~1274PPM CO2 (Lights On) ~680PPM CO2 (Lights Off) Day 42 - March 23, 2021 Yesterday evening modified CO2 and Temperature settings in the room. CO2 has consistently been between 1200-1300 ppm with temps ramping up to 81F during lots on today. (Using scheduler with A/C to gradually increase temps when lights first come on and decrease them last couple hours before lights off). Girls seem to be liking it. Can see signficant difference in growth since yesterday. Last week, before modifying resevoir to DTW config, I noticed what looked like could be Zinc / Iron deficiency mainly in F7 (maybe mag, not 100% sure). It was only impacting newest growth with yellowing in the leaves. Don't believe it has spread to new leaves, but as leaves get larger definitely looks more obvious. Continuing to monitor and watch for any further advancement of issue. Gave foliar spray (9:30AM): * 1 Gallon RO Water (EC 0.08) * 10ML CalMag+ per Gallon * 0.5ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize * PH 6.0 * EC 1.19 Watering: 03:00AM-3:10AM ~0.33 gallons per pot 11:00AM-11:10AM ~0.33 gallons per pot 7:00PM-7:10PM ~0.33 gallons per pot Reservoir: * tested 9:30PM * 2.51 EC * 5.8 PH * 74.1F (with ambient temps being higher, res temp is higher as well) * ~12 gallons remaining * No topping off today Lights: * Gavita LEDs On 20-hours (8:00AM - 4:00AM) ** 8:00AM Lights On (100%) ** 9:30AM (Reduced light intensity to 50% for foliar spray) ** 10:30AM (Increased light intensity to 75%) ** 11:30AM (Inceased light intensity to 100%) * Gavita LEDs Off 4-hours (4:00AM - 8:00AM) * UV Bars Off 24-hours Air control: 69F-81F (75F AVG) (Lights On) 66F (Lights Off) 50%-65% (61% AVG) humidity (Lights On) 60%-70% RH (Lights Off) ~1303PPM CO2 (Lights On) ~780PPM CO2 (Lights Off) Day 43 - March 24, 2021 Gave foliar spray (8:30AM): * 1 Gallon RO Water (EC 0.08) * 10ML CalMag+ per Gallon * 0.5ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize * PH 6.0 * EC 1.19 Watering: 03:00AM-3:10AM ~0.33 gallons per pot 11:00AM-11:10AM ~0.33 gallons per pot 7:00PM-7:10PM ~0.33 gallons per pot Mixed of nutrient solution: ** 20-gallons RO water (0.05 EC) ** 10ML h2o2 per gallon ** 5ML Botanicare Cal-mag+ per gallon (0.54 after Cal-Mag) ** 0.5ML Mills Nutrients Vitalize ** 12ML Mills Nutrients Basis A & B per gallon ** 4ML Mills Nutrients Start-R ** 1.35 pHup (bring PH from 5.1 to 5.8) ** 2.03 EC Reservoir: * Added ~15-gallons of new mix to top off 20-gallons (7:30PM) * tested 8:00PM * 2.19 EC * 5.8 PH * 69.98F Lights: * Gavita LEDs On 20-hours (8:00AM - 4:00AM) ** 8:00AM Lights On (100%) ** 8:30AM (Reduced light intensity to 50% for foliar spray) ** 9:30AM (Increased light intensity to 75%) ** 10:30AM (Inceased light intensity to 100%) * Gavita LEDs Off 4-hours (4:00AM - 8:00AM) * UV Bars Off 24-hours Air control: 69F-82F (79F AVG) (Lights On) 66F (Lights Off) 50%-65% (56% AVG) humidity (Lights On) 60%-70% RH (Lights Off) ~1217PPM CO2 (Lights On) ~810PPM CO2 (Lights Off)
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Legend Timestamp: 📅 EC - pH: ⚗️ Temp - Hum: 🌡️ Water: 🌊 Food: 🍗 pH Correction: 💧 Actions: 💼 Thoughts: 🧠 Events: 🚀 Media: 🎬 D: DAY, G: GERMINATION, V: VEGETATIVE, B: BLOOMING, R: RIPENING, D: DRYING, C: CURING ________________________________ 📅 D105/R01 - 28/02/24 ⚗️ EC: 0.9 pH: 5.2 🌡️ T: 21-25 °C H: 50-65 % 🌊 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 Ripening starts 🚀 🎬 Added timelapse and screenshots and monthly rate of T-H and VPD 📈📈📈 from TrolMaster App Translate ________________________________ 📅 D106/R02 - 29/02/24 ⚗️ EC: 1.2 pH: 6.7 🌡️ T:21-24 °C H: 50-65 % 🌊 🍗 💧 Added pH+ 💼 🧠 If someone who followed the diary from the beginning is asking himself what about mother plant "Mamma Aglio", here I posted some picture of her which demonstrate the difference between a bad and a good grow 🚀 🎬 Added pics of Nicole and pics of "Mamma Aglio" to show the difference between a bad and a good grow with sounds and TrolMaster logo. Added usual timelapse and screenshots. ________________________________ 📅 D107/R03 - 01/03/24 ⚗️ EC: 0.8 pH: 6.4 🌡️ T: 20-24 °C H: 45-65 % 🌊 2L 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse and screenshots. 4 pics added ________________________________ 📅 D108/R04 - 02/03/24 ⚗️ EC: 0.8 pH: 6.7 🌡️ T: 20-25 °C H: 45-70 % 🌊 1L 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 🚀 🎬 Added Timelapse ________________________________ 📅 D109/R05 - 03/03/24 ⚗️ EC: 0.8 pH: 6.7 🌡️ T: 21-25 °C H: 45-65% 🌊 RES Changed 💦💦💦 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 I'm starting the flush, as trichomes look milky and quite ready. In this last week the ripening will be complete and th girl would be ready for harvesting. 🚀 Flush started 🎬Added 8 pics of trichomes, Timelapse and sceenshots. Two pics and two videos of my "garden's pre-harvest magic" 😋😋😋 ________________________________ 📅 D110/R06 - 04/03/24 ⚗️ EC: 0.2 pH: 7.5 🌡️ T: 19-25 °C H: 55-65% 🌊 🍗 Flawless finish 💧 💼 🧠 1 day with pure water and now I added Flawless finish 🚀 Flushing 🎬Added Timelapse and sceenshots ________________________________ 📅 D111/R07 - 05/03/24 ⚗️ EC: 0.2 pH: 7.5 🌡️ T: 20-25 °C H: 55-65% 🌊 🍗 💧 💼 🧠 🚀 Flushing 🎬Added 8 pics. Added timelapse and screenshots. I also prepared a timelapse of the entire week with some music 🎵🎵🎵 and weekly rate of T-H and VPD 📈📈📈
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Week 5 of our Legal Bio Grow is in the past... It is going very nice.. the plant is quite tall but mostly it is very branchy... it already indicates a good yeild... Added a little BioFlores from Canna.. Hope it goes good... fingers crossed👍
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This time it was this girl's turn with a great smell. A very good strain, easy to grow, fast, and without many demands. Besides the controlled environment, it has a sweet citrus scent that makes you want to eat it instead of smoke it, lol. The buds were a good size, very resinous, and sticky. I really liked the result and intend to grow it again ✌️💪🌿🍁
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The temperature is dirty!!!! Cant keep it below thirty what the trich July?, like this it hard to keep em purdy I got the lights cranked down low I got the fan on high, bro But sunny days and constant rays are making me go psycho. Got that chin held hi tho Xs aint gon cry, no Soon my only worry will be: "from which jar of hydro?"
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Welcome to my second grow of the Blue Dream strain. This girl was veg'd for 14 week in a small pot while my first grow of this strain is in the flowering room. She stretched quite a bit compared to the first GG#4 during veg. This strain seems to be long and stretchy by nature. She's looking good after moving her to the big pot and giving her a trim. Thanks for checking out my grows!
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This has been an amazing growth once again and I got to do the compound genetics like been wanting to for a year. This stuff is so decked out
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Started their 48 hour of darkness today, am going to chop Wed. I think they did a great job finishing up over the last week, super excited to see how they turned out. Keeping this week's update short and sweet, the next update will be much more detailed. Will post the final update after I finish drying and trimming.
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Unos días antes de mandar a flora hiciamos las últimas podas de bajos y apicales la dejamos recuperarse unos días y hicimos el último trasplante a 10 litros , con eso ya listo empezamos con los nutrientes de preflora , hicimos unos riegos foliares 15 días antes de mandar a flora , el mismo día q mandamos a flora y lo tenemos que hacer 15 días después de mandar a flora , con esto ya estamos más que bien para las primeras semanas de floración después de la segunda semana vamos a empezar a fertilizar con guano de murciélago y unas cucharaditas de melaza , después ya con el engorde , pero para eso faltan unas semanas , ahora vamos a ir viendo como le va en sus primeras semanas de floración