Another week has flown by! The girls are doing great, cruise control this week as I have just been monitoring RH and temps. Trying to keep them as low as possible, I’ve been getting as low as 74 during the day and 68 at night. I finally took a look a look at the trichomes with my jewellers loop, lots of cloudy, and a few amber around the leaves and top colas, but still lot’s of clear trichomes. I’ve ordered myself a wireless/usb digital microscope to assist with the process, and looks like it will be here just in time to determine harvest day. 😎🎄 I started by eliminating the nutrients at the beginning of the week. I typically allow for 3-4 pure water feeds before I harvest, and at the rate they have been drinking, this should be enough to get through the 7-12 days they have before harvest. I don’t flush, but rather “rinse” with normal water amounts, allowing the plant to use up the remaining nutrients in the soil. This also allows me to recover most of the soil from my grows and reuse ♻️ with other soil mix. There has been great debate and a great deal of bro science out there for many years, but the recent studies suggest there is no difference in end result when it comes to flushing or using nutrients right until the end, if a proper dry and cure is performed. What do you think? What do you prefer to do? Thanks for reading this far, leave me a comment with your preferred method 👊🇨🇦❤️

🌿 Journal de Culture : Mac 1 – "Spirit" (Plante #2) – Compte à Rebours Lancé ​#Dryrocket Date du jour : 29/06/2026 Âge de la plante : J+79 (Semaine 12) Taille actuelle : 136 cm Évolution : L'Alien déploie ses tentacules 👽 ​C’est un grand jour dans le cycle de Spirit. La ligne d'arrivée est officiellement en vue, et la plante continue de muter pour devenir quelque chose d'absolument spectaculaire. ​ Nutrition & Fin de Cycle (Aujourd'hui) ​Dernier repas : Aujourd’hui marque le tout dernier apport en Bio PK 5-8 de Biotabs. C'est le clap de fin pour les nutriments ! ​Objectif Récolte : Le compte à rebours est officiellement déclenché : elle sera coupée dans exactement 14 jours. ​Le rinçage final : À partir de maintenant, c'est diète complète. Place à l'eau claire via l'Autopot pour lui permettre de puiser dans ses dernières réserves, de nettoyer ses tissus et d'exprimer son plein potentiel gustatif. ​👽 Morphologie Terrestre... ou Extraterrestre ? ​Des têtes hors normes : Les fleurs sont devenues gigantesques et débordent d'une quantité impressionnante de trichomes scintillants. J'ai tellement hâte de la récolter pour voir à quoi elle ressemble vraiment une fois manucurée ! ​L'effet tentacules 🦑 : C'est la signature visuelle de cette fin de session. Sous l'effet combiné de la chaleur estivale et de la proximité de la lumière intense, Spirit ne fait plus de simples "queues de renard" (foxtails). Comme on peut le voir en gros plan .les calices s'empilent et s'étirent vers le panneau LED en formant de véritables tentacules de résine. C'est le look alien poussé à son paroxysme ! ​Sénescence amorcée : Le feuillage commence doucement à se teinter de nuances d'automne .. C'est le signal parfait que la plante reçoit le message et se prépare pour la fin. ​⚙️ Rappel Environnemental ​Substrat : Géré automatiquement par le système Autopot qui va maintenant assurer la phase de rinçage à l'eau pure. ​Climat : Malgré la chaleur qui pousse les sommités à s'étirer en tentacules, la ventilation et l'extraction tournent au maximum pour maintenir l'espace sain et éviter tout problème d'humidité stagnante au cœur de ces buds massifs. ​🙏 Remerciements ​Un immense merci à @mia_biotabs et à @Mrs_Larimar pour ce programme de nutrition qui aura nourri ce monstre jusqu'au bout. Et un grand clin d'œil à @Dryrocket : le déshydrateur aarive aujourd'hui normalement et sera prêt, le compte à rebours de 14 jours est lancé, et j'espère que mes stocks de silice tiendront le coup face au volume impressionnant qui s'annonce ! ​Dernière ligne droite pour l'Alien... Le rinçage commence !

End of week 5. Plants have grown a lot. Nice stretch last week. Nice bushy plants, make sure to do defoliation .these will take longer than the other FastBuds strains I have going at the same time. Lights and genetics working great

Smooth growth

Was definitely a pleasure growing,amazing looking plant.Loved seeing the progress and seeing the purple really come through. had the true purple pheno so was very happy about that.In hindsight i shouldve cloned and made a mother etc with this pheno but yeah next time.Like i said earlier watch out for cannabis aphids and PM.Bud is currently in jars curing ,want to leave it for atleast a month before i start toking on it

So the plants survived without light in my garage for 2 days, thank goodness! FBP2 is the best plant by far. She had stacked lots of tight buds, orange pistils coming in nice. Nice bushy structure to her. Super happy with her progress. Royal Critical is doing great, progressed further than all the others so far, lots of orange pistils, curling inwards towards the buds, still white pistils too, so not ready obviously. Not as dense a structure as FBP2, but much better than FBP1 and FBP3, which you can see are way behind both the others. They're looking super straggly. Not sure that they'll improve much at this stage unfortunately. Still I'm pleased overall with this grow, as it's my first and I have learnt a lot about the necessity for LST, and genetics being different from plant to plant. Hopefully we'll be able to harvest the Royal Critical here soon, then FBP2. As for the other 2 plants, I guess I'll have to wait and see.

She's looking super healthy and and strong can't wait to see this beautiful strain in full flowering stage, I'm feeling a very good stretch,shed definitely a big girl,she's eating very well, no deficientes or nutrients burn so far. Let's see how this wonderful organic lady performs. On August 9th I start to see the change from vegetative stage to flowering stage,she looks super healthy and strong,I missed some watering a few days ago,however she is perfectly fine and happy,she's a dream to grow.

------GENERAL COMMENT------ Everything going well, the AK47 is much more vigorous than the BB, let's consider that she was more stressed. So i'm putting up the week timelapse, is a pain to do it but i found the result very interesting will try to put up one weekly. This week was a busy one, opted to a defoliation to be able to even the bud spots introducing a cage, and doing some LST, training to the cage to make a more flat pre flower spots in that way the flowering will be easier to control. So the plants grew in hight but was trained to be more bushy. We have a week to go or something about that then i will switch to 12-12. ------SM.BB COMMENT------ She is more droopy than the AK, a bit less vigorous and picky, no tips even burned with the nutes given, all good in that point of view, topping went ok! She resumed growing the canopy is a bit less even also.

From now i'll give her just water, i don't wanna ruin the taste, the thricomes is strarting look orange (Sorry for my english 🙏🇮🇹)

Lovely 95

Le ragazze 🌱sono entrate in fioritura.🌻..ho fatto una defoliazione per permettere un po di areazione visto che gli internodi sono molto ravvicinati...ora aspettiamo che le ragazze iniziano ad allungare...fatto anche un cambio completo della soluzione nutrienti e aggiunti rurro il necessario per una buona fioritura...

The plant is developing well after pruning. its branches grew well. I removed the first node as they were small.

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3rd week now about to setup filter and extractor fan also will be starting LST in a day or 2. Everything is going well so far for a first grow hope it stays that way. Also added the humidifier at the weekend which has upped the humidity 15-20%

Waiting to knock them down.

Thursday 16th march day 59 Harvested a couple days earlier then planned as my humidity was getting a bit high and worried about risking mold I decided to chop, have to get a good dehumidifier soon, everything looking lovely, nice and dense with very strong fruity potent smell definitely the best looking plants I have grown to date not the biggest buds but they look quality, chopped plants whole gonna do my best to keep the temp and rh% in the dry room as close 60/60 as I can to get a nice slow dry, 🍁😎 I only took the wet weight from 1 plant back left plant was 270g with large fan leaves removed

After dropping my plant last week I thought it was done for. But the new light really seemed to make all the difference for her. Having her in the tent is good because I can control the humidity a little better. But to be honest I'm doing a crap job at it ... Humidity can be anywhere between 50 and 80%. When I went to work on Tuesday the plant jumped up. Amazing how much growth in just a few hours. I was thinking about whether I should top her or not. I don't think I will though because she seems like a nice sturdy little plant At the end of the week I decided she really needed to be repotted.. I thought I was pushing it going early but I got a new light in and was planning to take her off the shelf and move her to the floor so it seemed a good time. Turned out to be a good choice. She's lovely

Well guys it's week 8.. I think lol. I'm 100% certain (Not really) that I took clones from 2 different mothers again... like a real cotton-headed ninny muggins. I'm at a loss when it comes to harvesting early what seems to be done, waiting, and how to do it all with flushing. So any help in that practical aspect would be dope. I'm really excited to be rolling out of this one, to be honest. with all the mothers big and clone ready I can finally just ease back into something more beginner level, shorter, whatever you wanna call it haha. The plants all look healthy though. I don't think I really made any big nutrient mistakes. I used LST to get those big colas away from the light and they seem to be fattening nicely making me wonder if I should just leave everything for 2 or 3 more weeks. I decided to throw a PK booster in there. I read online that most in hydro will use it throughout the flower cycle if needed and I was getting weary about the other plants not fattening up. I just keep hearing these things should yield crazy and I'm not seeing it. Then again it has been a bumpy ride. The nutrient change was done on the 14th and the photos are from today. Stay safe yall