💙 Project Blue Tent – Week 3
Blue Waffle F1 – Pheno A (Folder 13A)
Welcome back everyone to another week inside Project Blue Tent!
For anyone joining us for the first time, this project is all about exploring the incredible Blue Waffle F1 genetics from Zamnesia while putting the complete Zamnesia ecosystem to work. Every plant is grown individually, documented separately, and allowed to express its own personality, even though they all share the exact same environment.
Unlike our 8×8 Adventure, where twelve different genetics share one room, Project Blue Tent is dedicated to learning every detail about these F1 hybrids. Every week we compare their growth, structure, vigor and responses while growing them in Plagron Premium Coco Growbags using the Plagron Hydro nutrient line.
Every diary tells the story of one plant.
Today, the spotlight belongs to Blue Waffle F1 – Plant A.
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🌱 Week Three – Finding Her Rhythm
This week marked a noticeable change in Plant A.
She started the week looking like a healthy young seedling settling into her new home, but by the end of the week she had completely shifted gears and began growing with much more confidence.
The internodal spacing remains compact, her branching is symmetrical, and every day she seems more eager to push fresh growth from the center.
One thing I really appreciate about this phenotype is how organized her structure already looks. Even without heavy training she naturally wants to build a balanced canopy, which is always a pleasure to watch.
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🌡️ The Blue Tent Environment
This entire room is built around the Zamnesia ecosystem, allowing every component to work together.
The Phytonaut LED continues providing an even light spread across the canopy, while the Grow Environment Controller manages ventilation and airflow to keep the conditions stable throughout the day.
This week’s average environmental conditions were:
* 🌡️ Day Temperature: 27°C
* 🌙 Night Temperature: 27°C
* 💧 Relative Humidity: 67%
* ⚗️ pH: 5.8
* ⚡ EC: 1.61 mS/cm
* 💨 CO₂: approximately 450 ppm
* 💡 Light Schedule: 18/6
* ☀️ PPFD: approximately 350
* 🌈 PAR levels remain ideal for this stage of vegetative development.
The plants continue receiving gentle but sufficient light, encouraging compact growth without unnecessary stretching.
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🥥 Feeding Update
Coming from many years of growing in living soil, switching to coco is definitely teaching me a few new lessons.
One thing I noticed this week was that the plants were beginning to ask for a little more nutrition. Their colour shifted slightly toward a lighter green—not anything alarming, but enough to tell me they were ready for a stronger feed.
Instead of chasing deficiencies after they appear, I prefer listening to what the plants are telling me.
Because of that, I increased the base nutrition.
The feeding schedule is now:
* Plagron Hydro A — 1.6 ml/L
* Plagron Hydro B — 1.6 ml/L
* Plagron Hydro Roots — maintained at the previous dosage
This adjustment raised the EC slightly and should provide enough nitrogen and overall nutrition to bring that rich healthy green back over the coming days.
Growing in coco is all about making small corrections instead of large ones, and that’s exactly the approach I’m taking.
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🚿 A Little Adventure… The Flood
Well…
Every grow has at least one story.
This week’s story involved water.
I’ve always joked that irrigation systems make me nervous because they work perfectly… until they don’t.
This week proved my point.
After activating the irrigation system, one small mistake turned into a flooded tent.
Fortunately, it was nothing catastrophic.
We immediately shut everything down, soaked up the water using plenty of towels, cleaned the tent thoroughly, checked every connection, and got everything back under control.
Thankfully, this happened in coco, not soil.
One of the great advantages of coco is its excellent drainage and oxygen retention. Even after receiving more water than intended, the medium remains highly aerated, allowing the roots to continue breathing. Had this happened in heavy soil, recovery would have been considerably more stressful.
The plants never showed signs of distress, and after allowing the medium to dry slightly we simply resumed the irrigation schedule as normal.
Problems happen.
The important part is solving them.
We’re already working on a better solution for the irrigation system, and once the new equipment arrives I’ll be sharing everything in the upcoming weekly reports.
Mistakes are part of learning, and I think documenting them honestly is just as valuable as showing perfect results.
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🌿 Plant A Herself
This lady continues to impress me.
Her structure is compact.
Her leaves are broad and healthy.
The stem is already developing beautiful thickness with subtle purple pigmentation beginning to appear.
Most importantly, every day she seems to accelerate.
The newest growth is noticeably more vigorous than it was only a few days ago, which tells me she’s becoming fully established inside her root zone.
She’s looking like a plant that’s preparing to explode with growth over the coming weeks.
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👀 Looking Ahead
Next week should be an exciting one.
With the feeding adjusted and the roots now well established throughout the coco, I expect significantly faster vegetative growth.
We’ll continue monitoring colour, internodal spacing and overall vigor while preparing these ladies for the next stages of training.
If Plant A keeps following this trajectory, she may very well become one of the stars of Project Blue Tent.
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💙 Thank You
A huge thank you goes out to Zamnesia for making this entire project possible—from these beautiful Blue Waffle F1 genetics to the complete ecosystem surrounding this grow.
A massive thank you as well to Plagron for providing the Premium Coco Growbags and the Hydro nutrient line that is feeding these ladies every single day.
Thank you to GrowDiaries for giving growers from all around the world a place to document, learn and share our journeys together.
And finally…
Thank you to every single person reading these updates.
Whether you’ve been following since day one, recently joined the adventure, leave comments every week, simply stop by to look at the photos, or even quietly disagree with my methods—you all contribute to making this community what it is.
I genuinely appreciate every view, every conversation, every piece of advice, every question, every like, every criticism, and every bit of support.
I hope you’re all having an amazing week, and I can’t wait to show you how these beautiful ladies evolve in the next update.
Until then…
Growers Love, happy growing, and I’ll see you all next week. 🌱💙
P.S. One final shout-out has to go to the Zamnesia ecosystem itself. As messy as the irrigation mishap looked, the Zamnesia tent tray proved exactly why it’s part of the setup. Every drop of water was safely contained inside the tent, with absolutely nothing leaking onto the floor. What could have become a much bigger problem ended up being nothing more than grabbing a few towels, drying everything up, and carrying on with the grow. Sometimes you only discover how valuable a piece of equipment is when something goes wrong—and this week, the tray passed that test with flying colours. Huge thanks to Zamnesia for designing an ecosystem that’s ready for real-world growing, not just the perfect days. 💙🌱