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I’ve spent the last six days recalibrating my grow room. It feels more like a lab now because I am doing a lot of experiments with different variables and this week I have learned an awful lot. After pushing the environment to its absolute breaking point, I had to balance what my eyes were seeing against raw data to identify exactly where the Traffic Jam was occurring. I got so excited at the ability to control proteins in a plant with light spectrum I did the usual thing I do I drove them to their limits. Maximum photons (and beyond) in an environment where the plant just works like a suction funnel with a VPD of 1.6 kPa. What I forgot is that in my organic setup, the bottleneck is the speed the microbial life can create immobile nutrients. Under any normal conditions, the Biotabs 'just add water' method is more than capable of keeping up, but I had to be that guy and push them with 950 µmol of whites. By the time my Emerson burst came on, I was hitting them with around 1150 µmol, not counting the drain from the UV-B! This, on ambient, is just too much to ask; the plants used up all the calcium available, and my microbial life was unable to keep up. This is good to know, as if I wish to grow at this rate later, I will know what I need to add to facilitate that. I'm still blown away by spectral steering and the way proteins in a plant cell work. Grows are not normally still this fun at this stage. ________________________________________ 1. The "950 µmol" Mistake & Conclusion • The Error: I was running the main rig at 950 µmol, but with 4 strips of DRFR engaged, I was hitting a total ePAR of 1150 µmol. • The Failure: This intensity, paired with an aggressive 1.6 kPa VPD, outran the plant's metabolic capacity under ambient conditions. • The Result: 'Pistil Frizzle' on the crown of the Triple Cheese—the delicate stigmas literally toasted under the radiant load. 2. The Calcium Benchmark & The "Traffic Jam" • The Action: I noticed rusty, necrotic spots scattered across the leaf surfaces. • The Conclusion: The plants weren't 'low' on Calcium; the Biotabs microbial factory couldn't mine it fast enough to keep up with the 1150 µmol demand. I have officially flagged an image as my 'Calcium Benchmark' to track this in future runs. 3. The attempt to fix • The Adjustment: I have lowered the light ceiling to 800 µmol (targeting a DLI of 31–36) and stabilized VPD between 1.2 and 1.3 kPa. • The Rationale: This matches the 'spending' of the plant to the 'income' of my organic microbes, allowing the nutrient highway to move smoothly without crashing at the leaf tips. 4. Emergency Recovery: Bactrex & Bio PK • The Action: To clear the jam, I introduced a targeted top-feed of Bactrex and Bio PK to the Cheese. • The Goal: Boosting the microbial workforce and providing a direct PK source to support the Week 5 bulk while the Calcium delivery recovers. 5. Rhizosphere & Water Management • New decontamination for my 10L res refills: 10 drops of ExoThrive Neutralise, 5 minutes of violent blending, and an 8-hour air stone session • The Goal: To strip all residual chlorine and chloramines from my London tap water to protect my Bactrex and Mycotrex factory workers. • Future Intent: Researching the Water2 Pod 2.0 with a Fluoride filter to automate this and ensure consistent, medical-grade hydration. 6. Pot Size & Substrate Logic • The Constraint: Bigger pots are not happening • The Solution: To compensate for the smaller volume, I will increase Bactrex frequency and explore high concentrations of Gypsum (20g per 10L) in future mixes to increase mineral density without changing the footprint. Summary: I pushed for maximum push and hit a wall. By respecting the biological limits of a just add water system, I’m moving toward Environmental Harmony where every photon is used rather than wasted as a stressor. Been a great week for learning. Thanks for passing. Grow well ..
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What’s up dudes? Well, 4 weeks since 12/12 light schedule and it’s everything going very well. As you can see I started noting some brownish tips in some leafs what got me a little bit worried but guess it was just a little overfert. Back to using only biobizz nutrients Besides that, not much more to say. Just have to sit back, relax and wait for the lady’s to fat up 😂
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This week we started to give her only water. Very few new pistils are showing and mostly cloudy trichomes. We are in the final stretch now - thinking 4 to 7 days.
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Autoflower dwarf from natural seeds. Also a quick one. We will see what she will make im planning to grow them in 1l pots and keep them small since i dont have space but im really wondering how does it taste, so here is my try 😃
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Blackberry Breath #1 Yield: 57.5 Smell: 9/10 - sweet, grape, berry, gassy, earthy, hashy Bag appeal: 8.5/10 - dense, sparkly buds Crystal coverage: 9/10 - super impressed Ash: 5/10 - flaky, mostly grey/blackish Fire holding: 4/10 - stays lit for 10-30 seconds Smoke: 5/10 - tastes like chalky shit High: 6/10 - indica dom Comment: looks amazing, smells amazing, tastes like shit, burns like shit. 46.5/70 = 66% 👎🗑️ Blackberry Breath #2 Yield: 76.1g Smell: 6/10 - musky, tea, berry, herbal Bag appeal: 8/10 - slightly leafy/stemy Crystal coverage: 7.5/10 - very impressed Ash: 5/10 - flaky, mostly grey/black Fire holding: 4/10 - stays lit for 10-30 seconds Smoke: 5/10 - taste is shit High: 6/10 - indica dom Comment: looks nice, smells shitty, tastes shitty, burns like shit. 41.5/70 = 59% 👎🗑️
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4ème semaine de floraison. Cette dame ce porte a merveille ☠️☠️💀 irrigation tous les 3 jours environ 6L, 12L/Semaine.
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Brocoli buds!🥦 Super sticky & delicious smell its just sweet🤤 When you smell the amnesia Z she seems to be kind but trust me roller coaster effect !🎢
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Mexican Airlines is looking good. I'm doing some LST experimentation on her so far I'm seeing some nice development from the lower nodes, tried spreading those nodes out today. She's front-left in the group pics.
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Justo antes de grabar fueron regadas foliarmente ,con hormonas.
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the strain is really strong , low temperatures resist , 3 weeks around 12/16º graus and steell growing wel nice new colos between week 4/6 in flowering. really good strain to manipulate! 5 stars * * * * *
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Day 89!!!! I came back from vacation and started harvesting right away, so the girl grew really big, but I gave her too little light, and at the end of the growth I didn't remove the leaves :( because I was busy on vacation :( but basically I'm still incredibly happy, her flowers are not very firm, they have a lot of "AIR", but a lot of shiny sticky trichomes, the girl grew really well throughout her growth, next time I will definitely use LST, this growth was with very little LST, there will be an update when the harvest dries up :) good luck to everyone:).
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Sie wird immer größer xD ma gucken ob nach 5 Automatik Versuche auch die fem drauf hab 😅 Wurden vor 2 Wochen von 1L AirPods zu 12,5L umgetopft … mfg
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📅 03.05-21 (Harvest day 1) 📜 cutting all plants, roots looks great. New climat set. I will update the harvest step every day until the end. ⛆58 - 62% 🌡️ 18 - 22°c 📅 06.05-21 (Harvest day 3) 📜 ------- Nothing to say. ⛆ 56,7% - 62% 🌡️ 18°c - 22°c 📅 07.05-21 (Harvest day 4) 📜 Preparing the curing automated system ⛆ 57,6% - 63.3% 🌡️ 17.6°c - 22.8°c 📅 11.05-21 (Harvest curing day 1) 📜 ---- Curing in progress. ⛆ 57,6% - 63.3% 🌡️ 17.6°c - 22.8°c 📅 21.05-21 (Harvest curing day 1) 📜 Making hash with dry ice: 365 Gr harvested _____________________________________________________ 📅 Day - 📜 Note - ⛆ Humidity - 🌡️ temperature Equipment: Idrolab 12 bucks Chiller teco Hy500 weather controler with Co2 : PRO-LEAF BECC-B2 Bavagreen 720w Bavagreen 720w Bavagreen 240w Bavagreen 240w Nutrients and PH controller: PRO-LEAF PHEC-B2 Nutrients: Green House feeding - powder feeding hybrids | Powder feeding boost Extractor: primaklima PK250-A1 PK250-L1 x2 System and roots care: Idrolab Total care
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Cogollos duros como piedra!🍇🍨
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day 70 was harvest day !! really fast strain, 24h light ON really played a big role as well frosty buds and amazing strawberry smell, now lets dry it !!
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@Lazuli
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So this plant just got flushed, Final week and what a dense fat budz and a true blue dream smell she got
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Eccoci qui... Finalmente dopo uno stop per il lavoro torno ad aggiornare il diario con il capitolo finale... Test 1 davvero sorprendente mi ha dato una genetica che è sia veloce che vigorosa vedremmo nei test successivi!!! Grazie a @Xpertnutrients per la collab e a tutti per il supporto🔥🌲❤️ NE VERRANNO DELLE BELLE
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🌸 Pink Rosay Auto by Zamnesia | Pheno A | Week 6 (Flowering) 🌱 Elegance Never Needs to Be Loud Some plants impress with sheer size. Others with explosive growth. Pink Rosay has chosen a different path. She impresses through elegance. Growing under the same 12/12 From Seed experiment as the rest of the 8×8 Adventure, she continues to prove that a plant doesn't need to be the tallest or widest to command attention. Standing at 96 cm, she has developed into a beautifully proportioned autoflower with a naturally balanced structure, excellent symmetry, and a calm confidence that becomes more obvious every week. There isn't a single branch that feels out of place. Everything seems perfectly positioned, as though nature designed her with precision from the very beginning. Sometimes beauty isn't about being dramatic. Sometimes it's simply about getting everything right. ⸻ 🌸 Week 6 – Flowers Taking the Lead This week marks a noticeable change in the plant's priorities. The vertical stretch has begun slowing, allowing more energy to be invested where it matters most—building flowers. Every branch is now crowned with bright white pistils, and the individual flower sites that appeared last week have already started connecting together, giving each branch the first hints of what will eventually become full colas. The canopy feels alive. Every day brings a little more volume, a little more stacking, and a little more character. This is the stage where the plant quietly shifts from growing upward to growing outward, filling every flowering site with new life. And Pink Rosay seems perfectly comfortable making that transition. ⸻ 🌿 Structure & Natural Balance One of my favorite qualities about this phenotype is just how naturally balanced she has become. The gentle Low Stress Training performed during the previous weeks continues paying dividends, creating an open canopy where every branch receives excellent light without feeling overcrowded. Her internodal spacing remains ideal, allowing light and airflow to reach deep into the plant while giving each future cola plenty of room to develop. The central leader remains dominant, but the secondary branches are doing an excellent job keeping pace, creating a wonderfully uniform canopy that should translate into a very satisfying harvest later on. She doesn't need correcting. She simply needs time. ⸻ ? The Language of White Pistils One of the most beautiful sights in any flowering room is the explosion of fresh white pistils. They're delicate. They're bright. And they're the plant's first true declaration that flower production is fully underway. This week, Pink Rosay is absolutely covered in them. Every flowering site seems to wear its own little crown of brilliant white hairs, reaching outward as the calyxes slowly begin stacking beneath them. It's one of those moments every grower enjoys because those tiny white pistils are much more than beautiful—they're the blueprint of the harvest to come. Today they're soft, fresh, and full of energy. Over the coming weeks they'll guide the formation of every cola as the flowers swell, mature, and gradually begin revealing the frosty character hidden inside these genetics. Watching that transformation never gets old. ⸻ 🍃 Plant Health Health continues to be outstanding throughout the entire plant. The foliage maintains a rich, healthy green without excess or deficiency, while the leaves display excellent posture and remain perfectly relaxed under the current environmental conditions. The stems have thickened nicely during the stretch and now provide a solid framework for the flowers that continue developing across the canopy. There are no signs of stress. No unnecessary stretching. No wasted energy. Just a healthy autoflower confidently following her own schedule. ⸻ 💧 Hand Watering & Nutrition Pink Rosay continues to be hand-watered, allowing close observation of both substrate moisture and daily plant response. Current feeding: • Terra Grow — 1.9 ml/L • Terra Bloom — 1.9 ml/L • Pure Zym — 1 ml/L • Sugar Royal — 1 ml/L • Power Buds — 1 ml/L • Green Sensation — 1 ml/L Maintaining: • EC: 1.78 mS/cm • pH: 6.0 The nutrient balance remains right where the plant wants it, supporting the transition from vigorous growth into full flower production while keeping the foliage healthy and vibrant. ⸻ 🌡️ Environment The environment continues providing exactly the consistency these genetics deserve. Current conditions: • Day temperature: 29°C • Night temperature: 25°C • Relative humidity: 60% • Solution temperature: 21°C • Root zone temperature: 21°C • CO₂: approximately 529 ppm Maintaining a stable environment allows each phenotype to express its genetics naturally, and Pink Rosay is taking full advantage of those conditions. Healthy roots. Stable climate. Happy plants. ⸻ 👀 Looking Ahead The coming week should be where the flowers truly begin to gain substance. The framework has been built. Now it's time for the calyxes to start swelling, for the pistils to multiply even further, and for each flowering site to slowly merge into the colas that have been quietly preparing since the stretch began. If she continues on this path, I expect a canopy filled with beautifully shaped, evenly developed flowers from top to bottom. Everything about her suggests she's only just beginning to reveal what she's capable of. ⸻ 🙏 Final Thoughts Pink Rosay continues to remind me that perfection isn't always measured in size. Sometimes it's found in balance. In symmetry. In healthy growth. In the quiet confidence of a plant that simply does everything well. Week after week, she has developed without drama, without setbacks, and with a grace that's difficult to ignore. Watching those brilliant white pistils multiply across such a beautifully structured canopy has easily been one of this week's highlights, and I'm incredibly excited to see how these early flowers transform over the coming weeks. A huge thank you to Zamnesia for these fantastic genetics, Plagron for providing the nutrition that keeps this project thriving, Future of Grow for the incredible lighting, TrolMaster for maintaining such a stable environment, and to everyone following this journey here on GrowDiaries. Your encouragement, questions, and shared passion for growing make this 8×8 Adventure even more rewarding. Until next week... Growers Love and happy growing! 🌱💚