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Going into week 8 she is looking great. I just added some cha ching and it looks like she doubled in frostyness over night. Its been a little longer than I thought since I last took some close up pics but I still think it shows a difference,

Another steady week of bud development. I haven't really done much with those apart from the occasional removal of yellow leaves and tucking nuisance leaves under the net. The plants are all still growing in line with the previous expectations, with Topping and LST being the biggest, Mainlined next and then LST only in last place. It will be interesting to see the results though. Should only be a few more weeks until harvest, as a large majority of trichomes are already milky.

Week 6 Flower

🌱🍒 Banana Cherry Cookies | Woche 7 Hey Growfreunde! 👋🌿 Woche 7 ist vorbei und die Banana Cherry Cookies haben diese Woche wieder ordentlich gezeigt, was in ihnen steckt! 🚀😍 Im SCROG-Netz konnten die Damen ihr Potenzial jetzt richtig entfalten und haben mittlerweile zu sechst das komplette 120 × 120 cm Zelt ausgefüllt. 😳🌳🌿 Das Blätterdach ist mittlerweile richtig dicht geworden! 🌸 Die ersten Blüten sind inzwischen deutlich zu sehen und langsam nimmt das Ganze richtig Fahrt auf. Die größte Lady ist aktuell schon etwas über 80 cm hoch. 📏🔥 Wenn man sich anschaut, wie klein sie vor ein paar Wochen noch waren, ist das schon eine heftige Entwicklung! 😅 ✂️ Durch das mittlerweile sehr dichte Blätterdach werde ich diese Woche auch ein bisschen beschneiden, damit wieder etwas mehr Licht ins Innere kommt und die unteren Bereiche besser erreicht werden. 💡🍃 💡 Außerdem bekommt das Setup ab heute Unterstützung von einer zweiten Jackson Nemesis mit weiteren 200 Watt. Zum Start werde ich diese erstmal auf 60 % Leistung laufen lassen und schauen, wie die Ladys darauf reagieren. Zwei Lampen über dem inzwischen komplett gefüllten 120er Zelt jetzt wird’s hell! 😂☀️🌱 Beim Füttern gibt es ebenfalls ein kleines Upgrade. Die Banana Cherry Cookies bekommen weiterhin den S&R Organics 5in1 Dünger, mittlerweile mit 7 ml auf 1 Liter Gießwasser. Dazu gibt es von BioBizz Bloom und TopMax jeweils 2 ml auf 1 Liter Gießwasser. 💧🌸 🌡️ Zum Glück haben sich die Temperaturen inzwischen etwas beruhigt. Während der Lichtphase liegen wir aktuell bei angenehmen 22–24 °C. 🙏😎 Nach den heißen Wochen im Dachgeschoss bin ich darüber definitiv froh! Ansonsten machen die Ladys einfach richtig Spaß. ?🏻🌿 Sie wachsen, blühen und füllen das Zelt komplett aus bisher läuft dieser Grow wirklich unglaublich entspannt. ❤️ Jetzt bin ich richtig gespannt auf die kommende Blütephase und darauf, was die Banana Cherry Cookies aus dem voll ausgefüllten Zelt noch rausholen werden. 🍒🌸🔥 Auf in die nächste Woche! 🚀?🏻

Folder 11A – Pink Rozay Auto Week 4 | The Early Bloomer Welcome back to The 8×8 Adventure, where twelve unique cultivars are sharing the same environment, the same feeding schedule and the same lighting, allowing each genetic to reveal its own personality under identical conditions. One of the reasons I decided to document every plant individually is because genetics rarely follow the same script. Even sisters growing side by side can surprise us with different growth patterns, different structures and different flowering speeds. Pink Rozay Auto A is becoming a perfect example of that. While most of the room is only beginning to transition into bloom, she has already decided it’s time to get to work. White pistils are appearing across the entire canopy, flower sites are multiplying every day and she’s beginning to separate herself from the rest of the garden. Whether she’ll stay ahead until harvest or simply had an early start… only time will tell. ⸻ 🌱 A Compact Plant With Big Ambitions Pink Rozay Auto A isn’t the largest lady inside the 8×8 room, but she doesn’t seem interested in competing for height. Instead, she’s investing her energy into building a wide, balanced canopy with excellent branch development. Every branch has its own place, creating an open structure that should allow plenty of light to reach future flowering sites. Sometimes a plant doesn’t need to be the tallest to become one of the most productive. Looking from above, the architecture is becoming increasingly symmetrical, giving every developing cola plenty of space to breathe and grow. ⸻ 🌿 Low Stress Training Doing Exactly What It Should Throughout her vegetative stage I’ve continued working with gentle Low Stress Training, carefully guiding branches outward rather than forcing dramatic bends. Large fan leaves have been tucked away whenever necessary, opening windows for light to reach lower shoots without removing valuable foliage too early. The goal has never been to fight the plant’s natural growth. Instead, it’s simply to encourage a flatter, wider canopy where every branch has an opportunity to become a productive flowering site. So far, Pink Rozay has responded beautifully, maintaining excellent vigour while opening up more every day. ⸻ 🌸 Leading the Race Into Flower This week’s biggest surprise is how quickly she’s embracing the flowering transition. While several plants throughout the room are only beginning to show their first pistils, Pink Rozay Auto A already displays clusters of fresh white hairs across nearly every growing tip. She seems eager to leave vegetation behind and begin building flowers. Whether this means she’ll ultimately finish ahead of the others or whether the rest of the room will soon catch up is one of the questions I’m most excited to answer over the coming weeks. That’s one of my favourite parts of growing multiple cultivars together—every plant writes its own story. ⸻ 🌡️ Environment Despite the warmer summer weather outside, the room continues providing stable conditions for all twelve cultivars. Environment • 🌡️ Day Temperature: 33°C • 🌙 Night Temperature: 25°C • 💧 Relative Humidity: 63% • ? Substrate Temperature: 21°C • 💦 Nutrient Solution Temperature: 26°C • ⚗️ pH: 6.1 • ⚡ EC: 1.35 mS/cm • ☁️ CO₂: 639 ppm • 💧 Water Consumption: 1.1 litres per plant per day Even under these warm daytime temperatures, Pink Rozay continues producing healthy foliage, vibrant new growth and excellent flower initiation without showing signs of stress. ⸻ Feeding Programme As the plant begins transitioning into bloom, the feeding programme remains focused on maintaining healthy vegetative growth while supporting the first stages of flower production. Per litre • Terra Grow — 1.8 ml • Power Roots — 1 ml • Pure Zym — 1 ml • Sugar Royal — 1 ml Adjusted with: • pH Plus — 0.03 ml • Lemon Kick — 0.03 ml The Plagron programme continues delivering a stable root zone, vigorous growth and healthy development while allowing the plant to naturally progress into the flowering phase. ⸻ 💡 Lighting The entire 8×8 Adventure continues thriving beneath the incredible Future of Grow LED fixtures. Uniform light distribution across the room allows every cultivar to receive the same opportunity to perform, making it fascinating to watch how different genetics express themselves under identical conditions. Pink Rozay Auto A is already showing that genetics often dictate timing just as much as environment. ⸻ 👀 Looking Ahead Week four closes with Pink Rozay Auto A looking healthy, balanced and full of promise. She’s still a relatively compact plant, but her canopy has opened beautifully through gentle training, and her early flowering response suggests she may become one of the first cultivars in the room to fully enter bloom. I’m especially curious to see whether she’ll continue leading the race or whether the rest of the garden will soon catch up. Either way, she’s earned the spotlight this week, and I can’t wait to watch the next chapter unfold. ⸻ 🙏 Thank You Thank you, as always, to everyone following The 8×8 Adventure. Your support, comments and shared experiences make this project even more rewarding, and I hope these individual plant diaries help demonstrate just how unique every cultivar can be, even when they’re grown side by side under identical conditions. A huge thank you to Zamnesia for providing the Pink Rozay Auto genetics, to Plagron for the trusted nutrient line and substrates that continue delivering healthy, vigorous growth, and to Future of Grow LED for providing the consistent lighting that allows every phenotype to express its full potential. Finally, thank you to GrowDiaries for creating a community where growers from around the world can learn, inspire one another and celebrate this incredible hobby together. Until next week… Growers Love and let’s see if Pink Rozay keeps wearing the yellow jersey of the 8×8 Adventure. 🌿💚

All time Klassiker Strain. Man muss sagen dass es sich hier aber auch um einen selektierten Phenotyp handelt. Unglaublich intiensive Terps und 29,4% THC

Per ora tutto bene . Haze berry in fiore 👌

Day 40-47 (May 31st- June 7th) (Day 41) For the first time in this grow these plants are looking halfway decent. Smell is ramping up too. I finally feel optimistic about this grow. (Day 42) The two jacks and the chunky blueberry are showing early signs of N/Mg deficiencies. I know it’s late in flower but since I’m experimenting with this tent, I’m going to give them one final feeding of nature’s pride 2-5-5.5 (tbsp) along with a teaspoon of oyster shell flour and some rock dust. Everything else I’m going to give a teaspoon of rock dust and oyster shell. There is no way these amendments will fully break down in time to be used by the plant but they could at least use the pH buffering and trace amounts of minerals after their recent leach. Everything but the BAOGC is covered in pistils that don’t really match their bud size. I hope they fill into their pistils because an over abundance of hairs drops the bag appeal like crazy. Over the last few cycles, indoor and outdoor, I’ve definitely learned that different strains and phenotypes mature at different times. Sometimes really radically too. (Day 43) None of the plants are fading at all but they’re still looking good. Black garlic I know should be fading but remains dark green and toxed. I popped a developing seed out of the main bud too. I wonder if that blueberry herm branch pollinated it at all. It seems like plants don’t really like that Destiny dark matter soil by itself. I find it works better mixed with coco or promix 1:1. (Day 44) I’m starting to think I might be mixing up the TWOG and BAOGC. BAOGC took forever to fatten up last round and the 2 phenos I suspected already look done. I was thrown off by the similar terps. The beauty phenos are definitely TWOG (Day 45) God these Jack Herer’s smell good. Nothing but fruity funk. Almost like a vanilla or blueberry yogurt. I would say this stuff has the most overpowering smell in the tent now. I’ve noticed they’re starting to foxtail like crazy. Blueberry#1 too. I’m watering a final low strength feeding of seaweed extract on everything. (Day 47) Everything really fattened up this week. Even at the beginning of the week I was saying I didn’t think they would fill out. Jack Herer and BAOGC specifically made some big gains and nearly doubled their density and still have quite a way to go on them too! The smell has ramped up and finally, everything is looking happy and healthy.

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Trimming, trimming and more trimming.... finally reached the end of the season's grow.

End of Week 6 of flower All seems ok Would have began flushing this week but not going to, she doesn't look ready for that

Explosión de resina!!! Una genética que no me deja de sorprender un olor brutal a cítricos y su olor a Haze un gustazo pra la vista y el paladar sin duda esperamos impacientemente el dia de degustar este manjar!! Espero que os guste Salut y força al canut Farmers!🍁

Beginning of week.. Both have some gorgeous flowers.. Purples are already coming out on both. Both are flooding with complex aromas.. ETHOS Cookies is doing great.. Mandarin Cookies is gonna make it to harvest, I'm sure.. So excited! Mid week.. I love how they both are giving off nice purples on the calyces already! Both smell so amazing! It makes me tear up with joy! Not sure when I should start flushing! ETHOS says that you count 9 weeks from flip to 12/12.. Not pistils forming.. Cuz you know, you need to factor in the transition time.. 1 - 2 weeks.. Sometimes 3! But I am super excited to harvest these lovely ladies!!! Next day... Ok.. So the runoff issue has gotten worse for the Mandarin Cookies.. Obviously, with all the def. you can see.. At least 3 that I can see right away.. Calcium.. Potassium.. Phosphorous.. Maybe even a slight Magnesium def. in there too.. Kinda hard to pinpoint when there is multiple showing, yet I am feeding PLENTY of all of them.. She should have no issues.. The runoff pH is now coming out at about 4.9 - 5.2, depending on a good or bad day, I guess.. I have just been puttinf it in at 6.3 every time.. Sometimes (alot now) I get a salt build-up between feedings.. I like to feed, water, feed, water.. Now I need to feed, water, water, feed, water, water... It's really bothering the shit outta me lol.. But the ETHOS Cookies is pretty close to peing on point.. Going in: 6.3 pH.. Runoff: 5.8 - 5.7.. Still in a decent range.. No signs of issues on any leaves.. They are both making some gorgeous nugs tho! Stackin calyces and trichomes lile crazy! And now they are really fattening up! I am so ready for this run to be over and let this medium dry out reeeeally good.. And take it out back Ol' Yeller style.. Yup.. That sounds like a plan.. I have PLENTY of NEW coco coir bricks and perlite that I have been hoarding.. Just like I do with my genetics 😄.. But I feel like you can never have enough.. And I plan on growing cannabis in coco coir till someone takes me out back Ol' Yeller style! End of week.. They are both showing about 50% turned pistils.. The ETHOS Cookies is a little further along.. Not by much.. But the trichomes on the Mandarin Cookies seem a little further along.. Word.. They are both going to be epic smokes for sure! So I believe I will just give both of them small feedings just to get them through the week, then I should be good to start flushing.. On to the next week!...

18/05/2023 Day 36 - Today i finally fed her after 1 week without feeding. Kept almost the same feeding from last week, just removed root juice and alg-a-mic and rised MagNifiCal to 1,5 ml/L Day 37 - Today she stretched nicely and i noticed her first pre flowers so preflowering begins, next fedding i´ll add 1ml/L Alga Bloom and Top-Max and will slowly rise up to 4ml/L Day 39 - Today i fed her again, added 1ml/L Alga Bloom and 1ml/L Top-Max and rised MagNifiCal to 1,8 ml/L. Has been hot and dry these days. (for my zone). Day 40 - She´s growing well. This afternoon i sprayed under her leafs with Alg-a-mic. Soon i´ll defoliate her, so i want to give a good dose of vitamin b so she recovers beautifully. Day 41 - This morning sprayed her again before sunrise. I wont defoliate yet. Pot is already kind of light, so tomorrow is feeding day. Day 42 - Today i defoliated, did some LST and fed her. Added 0,5 ml/L Alga Bloom, making 1,5 ml/L in total. 😃

Overall bin ich mit dem Grow sehr zufrieden gewesen, toller Ertrag trotz Schwierigkeiten. Wirkung war stark, richtig gut zum schlafen gehen. Würde den Geschmack als Sourberry beschreiben, hat mir sehr gefallen. Letztes Wochende waren Freunde zu besuch und haben beim ausfahren der Schlafcouch noch ein Nug davon gefunden, haben uns sehr gefreut :)

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Greetings once more, Growmies, As we navigate through week 11, our Epic Buzz lineage continues to flourish with resounding success. The cultivation journey for Epic Buzz #1, #2, and #3 is nearing its zenith, with buds expanding around the colas, a sight that signifies their readiness for the approaching harvest. The magnificence of Epic Buzz #1 is undeniable, with its flowers growing increasingly dense and its trichomes glinting like a constellation of stars. This reflects not only the plant's innate potential but also the nurturing environment we've fostered. Epic Buzz #2 and #3 echo this grandeur, exhibiting a shared trait of excellence that pervades our entire crop. Our commitment to environmental precision is evidenced by the optimal PAR meter reading of 619 PPFD, indicative of the careful calibration of light our plants are basking in. The environmental snapshot, showcasing a temperature steady at 25.3°C and humidity at a comfortable 65.8%, speaks to the ideal conditions we've maintained. These are conditions conducive to thriving growth, as reflected in the stability shown in our environmental graphs, which reveal our continued efforts to uphold this controlled haven. With no CO2 management in place, we've leaned on the natural ambient levels to suffice for our plants' needs, while the light dimming at 55% ensures that our plants are receiving the right amount of energy without any risk of light burn. Our IR and UV lighting regimes have been meticulously scheduled, bolstering growth and encouraging resin production, all the while mimicking the nurturing embrace of natural sunlight. The adjustment to feeding intervals, now set to 1 liter per plant every two days, is met with robust health, showcasing the effectiveness of our nutrient regimen. In this critical stage of flowering, our diligent oversight of the environmental factors is evident in the vibrancy and health of Epic Buzz #1, #2, and #3. They stand not only as bearers of a fruitful harvest but as proof of our balanced approach to cultivation, one that honors the plant's natural needs without overcomplicating the process. As the harvest approaches, our anticipation is matched by a sense of accomplishment for the expertise and attention that has been poured into this grow. Stay lifted, Salokin